Washington, April 3 (ANI): In a mice study, a team of UC Davis scientists has found that a product resulting from a metabolized omega-3 fatty acid helps combat cancer by cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients that fuel tumor growth and spread of the disease.
The groundbreaking study was a collaboration among multiple UC Davis laboratories and Harvard University.
Over one million people across the globe have died of Afghan heroin since the start of NATO’s Operation in the war-torn country in 2001, a senior Russian official said today.
Beijing, Apr. 3 (Xinhua-ANI): A total of 156 judges died while on duty from 2008 to 2012, according to a Wednesday statement from the Supreme People”s Court (SPC).
The majority of the judges died due to disease, the statement said.
Since October 2006, the SPC and relevant departments have jointly allocated subsidies to the relatives of judges who die on duty. (Xinhua-ANI)
London, April 3 (ANI): Kesha claims she and Johnny Depp shared an intimate moment at a charity gig – without even touching each other.
She said that she and Johnny Depp had eyeball sex at the benefit concert for Superstorm Sandy in Los Angeles.
The controversial singer says the Hollywood hunk attempted to woo her from the other side of the room by giving her the eyes, the Sun reported.
She added that they never really talked – and just had eyeball sex. (ANI)
Washington, April 3 (ANI): Maintaining emotional balance is crucial to avoiding severe mental health problems in later life, according to a new study led by a UC Irvine psychologist.
Susan Charles, UC Irvine professor of psychology and social behavior, and her colleagues conducted the study in order to answer a long-standing question: Do everyday irritations add up to make the straw that breaks the camel’s back, or do they make us stronger and “inoculate” us against later tribulations?
Questioning Modi’s development agenda, she said if he wants to ensure proper development then he should follow the model of participatory democracy being implemented by her government.
Taking on Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his Delhi counterpart Sheila Dikshit today sought to puncture the development model being followed in the BJP-ruled state and invited him to Delhi to see for himself what “real” participatory democracy means.
Allahabad, Apr. 3 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani on Wednesday said Lok Sabha elections could be held earlier than scheduled, even this year.
Advani said it is quite possible that the Government of India may consider about the Lok Sabha polls in 2013 along with the elections to the five states of the country.
Raking up the issue of misuse of CBI, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav today said fighting with the government is not easy as it can use CBI and put one in jail.
“Sarkar se ladna asan nahi hai. Sarkar ke hazaron haath hote hain. CBI ka upyog kar sakti hai…jail me dal sakti hai” (It’s not easy to fight with the government. It has thousands of hand and can use CBI and put one in jail),” he told reporters here in reply to a question.
Yadav had earlier also attacked Congress-led UPA government blaming misuse of CBI by it.
Lucknow, Apr. 3 (ANI): Taking potshots at the Congress-led UPA Government, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday said fighting with the Centre is not easy as it can use Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and put one in jail.
“No one can fight the Congress because if one does, one is sent to jail or is chased by the CBI,” he said.
Meanwhile, Yadav also praised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Lal Krishna Advani for praising socialist icon Ram Manohar Lohia in Chitrakoot.
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Changes in Pakistani culture “go wide and deep”, a daily said Wednesday while lauding the courage of two women who will contest the upcoming parliamentary election from the country’s restive Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
No woman has ever stood for parliament or a provincial assembly from FATA.
“It will have taken considerable courage on the part of Badam Zari who is from the Bajaur agency and Nusrat Begum from the adjoining Lower Dir district to put their names forward,” said an editorial in the News International Wednesday.
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Two brothers shot dead their two sisters and two men in Pakistan’s Sindh province, a media report said Wednesday in what is believed to be another incident of honour killing in the country.
The killings took place in Nawabshah, Geo News reported.
Mosa and Shaukat Zardari fatally shot Ismail and Yousuf in their field in Gulzar Zardari village and later killed their sisters Qazbano and Shehzadi at home, said police.
The two brothers surrendered to police after the killings.
The US State Department Tuesday confirmed the US nationality of the tourist raped last weekend in a transit van in Rio de Janeiro.
“We can confirm that a US citizen was sexually assaulted in Rio de Janeiro. Our thoughts are with the victim at this difficult time,” spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said at her daily press conference.
According to the tourist’s complaint, the incident occurred early Saturday morning when she and her boyfriend boarded a minibus that was driving through the tourist neighbourhood of Copacabana and was en route to the bohemian and central Lapa neighbourhood.
Washington, April 3 (IANS) A federal grand jury in Seattle has indicted a man in Washington state on a federal hate crime charge relating to a racially motivated assault of a 50-year-old Sikh man.
Jamie W. Larson appeared Tuesday before a US magistrate judge after his arrest by the FBI, where he pleaded not guilty, the Seattle Times reported.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Wednesday said his government would act decisively to boost India’s economic growth and roll out more reforms such as liberalising the foreign direct investment (FDI) regime in the coming months.
“We are reviewing the FDI policy comprehensively to see what more can be done in the coming months,” the prime minister said, addressing industry captains at the CII National Conference and Annual General Meeting in the capital.
Sanjay Dutt has one more supporter in the form of Union Tourism Minister K Chiranjeevi who said that the Bollywood star should be pardoned.
“He has suffered enough trauma all these years and he has agreed his mistake,” Chiranjeevi told reporters here on Wednesday.
Chiranjeevi, the popular star of Tollywood, has expressed his support to Sanjay Dutt who was sentenced to jail term in the Mumbai bomb blast case. There have been divergent opinions on whether Sanjay should be granted pardon or not. Most of the film fraternity has supported his clemency.
A 22-year-old woman was arrested along with her brother for allegedly stealing jewellery from her employer’s residence, police said today.
Jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh was recovered allegedly from Manita and Ranbir (33), who allegedly stole it from from her employer’s house in Ashok Vihar, P Karunakaran, Deputy Commissioner of Police (North-West), said.
Manita was interrogated by the police after her employer Rajni Mittal reported the theft to police.
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For the second time in two weeks, Mulayam Singh Yadav today praised BJP veteran L K Advani who was earlier lauded by the Samajwadi Party supremo as the “tallest leader” of the country.
Mulayam’s praise of Advani on March 23 had triggered speculation he was perhaps cosying up to the BJP with an eye on the Lok Sabha elections.
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Fearing poor results in examinations, a class IX student allegedly committed suicide in her residence here, police said today.
The incident was reported from Narela last evening and the deceased has been identified as Pinki (14).
No suicide note was found and her parents claimed that she was depressed over her exam results.
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A sessions court held Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation driver Santosh Mane guilty today for mowing down nine people and injuring 37 others in January 25 last year.
The judge will pronounce the sentence on the quantum of punishment on April 8.
Rejecting the defence argument that the driver acted in a fit of insanity as he was mentally disturbed, additional sessions judge V K Shevale who pronounced his order in a jampacked court room observed that Mane had committed the crime in a conscious state of mind and he was fully aware of the consequences of his actions.
At least 11 policemen were today injured when some protesters, on way to submit memorandum about a “derogatory” comment on a social networking site against a community, turned violent and pelted stones on police personnel in Nagaur district of Rajasthan.
The crowd was on way to submit memorandum at district administration office in Makrana town when it changed its
route halfway and marched towards the police station and pelted stones, police said.
The stone pelting, which left 11 policemen injured, prompted the police to use force to control the unruly mob.
Suspicion quickly fell on a research assistant who had been working in a scientist’s lab when three vials of a possible cancer-fighting compound disappeared recently from the professor’s desk at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Security video showed Hua Jun Zhao, who studied in China and whose wife lives there, was the only person who entered the professor’s office that day. Investigators later found research results from another professor on Zhao’s computer.
Zhao has been charged in a federal complaint with economic espionage, accused by prosecutors of stealing academic
One-year time span will be given to private schools in Haryana to fulfil prescribed norms to become eligible for recognition, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today.
Such (private) schools will have to submit affidavits that they will fulfil prescribed norms within a year for
becoming eligible for recognition,” he said presiding over a meeting of the Private Schools Welfare Association here.
However, the schools not fulfilling prescribed norms under the Right to Education Act will not be closed and will
continue the admission process, Hooda said.
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, whose indefinite fast against “inflated” power and water bills entered the 12th day, today announced the next course of the Civil Disobedience Movement which will start from April 6.
Kejriwal, who will continue his fast, said his party will restore power and water connections snapped due to non-paying of “inflated” bills.
He said the start of the next course of the movement coincides with the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi completing
his Dandi March.
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Saudi billionaire prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called for parliamentary elections in the absolute
monarchy where the king names members of a toothless Shura consultative council.
Prince Alwaleed, the richest Arab businessman and a nephew of King Abdullah, said in a television interview aired
yesterday the monarch’s January decision to appoint 30 women to the council was “very important” but needed to go further.
For this to become historic, I think two things are essential: first, elections, even if partial, and, more
Traditional working class in Britain is a ‘shrinking breed’ and has been replaced by a whole new ‘elite’ class, according to a new study.
The three main classes in Britain – upper, middle and working class – has become blurred and replaced by at least
seven different classes based on their income, savings, house value and social capital.
One of the largest class-based studies conducted by the BBC, found that the traditional working class is a shrinking breed with a whole new “elite” class emerging at the top-end of the social strata.