A new research from McMaster University has suggested women can remember faces better than men, in part because they spend more time studying features without even knowing it.
This technique, researchers said, can help improve anyone’s memories.
The findings help to answer long-standing questions about why some people can remember faces easily while others quickly forget someone they’ve just met.
Pakistani pace bowling lynchpin Umar Gul has said that he is hopeful that he can come back to international cricket after his injury in a fitter, stronger and a better form.
Gul’s knee injury on the tour of South Africa earlier this year has been a blessing for players for whom the proverbial door has been opened, although his absence would be missed by fans, who will be denied watching one of the finest exponents of death bowling at the ICC Champions Trophy, www.PakPassion.net reports.
Defence Ministers of India and Australia-A K Antony and Stephen Smith have agreed to continue and enhance bilateral defence consultations and cooperation, besides discussing issues concerning the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean regions in bilateral and multilateral fora.
A joint statement issued after the ministers had met in Perth on June 4 and in Canberra on June 5, said both leaders discussed and reviewed progress of strategic and security interests, including maritime security and bilateral defence cooperation.
About 150 former footballers are serving time in prison on charges ranging from crime, addiction to alcohol and gambling.
According to the Professional Footballers’ Association, many of these players have been discarded by lower league clubs, and are depressed and facing financial ruin.
According to the Daily Star, at least 700 football professionals are jobless.
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4. DUA –
CALLING UPON ALLAH IN DUA (Supplication)
Allah the most compassionate says in the Holy Quran:
“Call on Me. I will answer your prayer, but those who are too arrogant to serve me will surely find themselves humiliated in Hell” (40:60).
Allah the Exalted, has said:
“And your Lord says: Pray unto me: and I will hear your prayer” (Quran 40:60),
“Call upon your Lord Humbly and in secret”
(Quran 7:55),
“When My servants question thee concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them): I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me”
Addressing the press conference held by voluntary organization COVA at the conclusion of annual summer training classes, the young students threw light on the activities of summer classes.
Madhuri Dixit, who ruled the hearts of the audience in 80s and 90s, says when she started her career, people tried to pull her down by saying she won’t be able to make her place in Bollywood.
“Being a woman you always go through something or the other. When I made my debut in Bollywood, many people told me I can’t do, it’s not a good place, I can’t make my position in this industry. But that time I had faith in myself and worked and proved everyone what can I do,” Madhuri said at an event here yesterday.
Addressing a meeting of Communist Party of India Greater Hyderabad, former MP Rajya Sabha Mr. Syed Aziz Pasha told that government has failed on all fronts in welfare and prosperity of poor and middle class. He told that frequent rise in petrol, diesel prices are directly affecting poor and middle class.
A criminal case was registered on Tuesday against unknown people who tried to fraudulently claim compensation for 41 people by getting their names added to the list of the dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a police source said.
The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police registered the case almost 10 days after the fraud came to light in a screening committee meeting of the police anti-riot cell and the Delhi government’s revenue department, the source informed.
The foundation stone laying ceremony of Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Srinagar Satellite Campus was held recently at Budgam. Chief minister Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah, Union Ministers Dr. Pallam Raju & Farooq Abdullah and other state ministers and prominent politicians attended the ceremony.
Accusing the Congress-led UPA government of “destroying institutions,”, BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that the cost of its “Modi-phobia” would be paid by the Intelligence Bureau (IB) in the case of the alleged killing of Ishrat Jahan.
In an article on the party’s website on Tuesday, Jaitley said there were news reports that the CBI has been interrogating senior officers of the IB in the case of alleged killing of Jahan.
Jaitley, the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, questioned the evidence in cases instituted against BJP leaders.
The CBI on Tuesday filed chargesheet against six persons, including an MLA and two industrialists, in the horse trading case that forced Election Commission of India to hold Rajya Sabha elections afresh after scraping its original poll notification in 2012.
The chargesheet was filed in the special CBI court here against JMM MLA Sita Soren, her father B Majhi, the then Independent candidates and industrialists R K Agarwal and Pawan Kumar Dhoot and Dhoot’s agent Sunil Kumar Maheswari and one Rajendra Mandal, CBI officer A K Jha said.
Four persons, including a woman, were run over by a local train, in Sealdah-Budge Budge section near Santoshpur station on Tuesday night.
Police sources said as five-six youths and a 65-year old woman were standing on the railway track when the UP Budge-Budge local suddenly appeared.
As they tried to move away, the down train also came on the next line and four of the victims did not have any chance to move away to safety at around 8:30 pm.
Train movement was disrupted for some time till the bodies were removed.
—PTI
Siasat Urdu Daily will soon organize a loan Mela with the cooperation of State Government to arrange loans for unemployed Muslim women to help them establish Small Scale House Hold Industries. A platform will be created for Muslim women to get loans from the Govt. There are plenty of funds for the welfare schemes for women but so far, these funds have not been utilized by properly by anyone. Siasat Urdu Daily will make efforts for the utilization of these funds. An awareness campaign will be organized for Muslim women to guide them for getting loans.
Seeking to enhance India’s military ties with Australia, Defence Minister AK Antony arrived in Perth on Tuesday on a historic visit to co-chair a bilateral security dialogue amid “profound” strategic changes in the Asia-Pacific region.
He is scheduled to attend the Australia-India Defence Ministers’ dialogue with his counterpart Stephen Smith, to be held in the Australian capital Canberra tomorrow.
Sania Mirza and her partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands progressed to the third round of the women’s doubles event with a three-set win over American pair of Lauren Davis and Megan Moulton-Levy here.
Seeded seventh, Sania-Bethanie pair came from a set down to beat the American combination 1-6 6-3 6-0 in one hour and 41 minutes.
The Indo-American duo will next face 11th seeded Rusian-Czech pair of Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova.
For the first time in Mizoram and perhaps in the country, virus of a pandemic disease which causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs has been detected in the samples of sick swines sent to laboratories for testing.
Jamat-e-Islami of India will support Welfare Party of India which is an independent political party established to promote value base politics. Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari, Emir of Jamat-e-Islami of India was addressing a press conference with a selected group of media persons yesterday. He told that Congress Party did not take any step for the development of Muslim but it has a message through the report of Sachar Committee that the Muslims are the most Backward people.
A phone call regarding suspicious movement by two cyclists near a crowded Hanuman temple here today threw the police into a tizzy.
Police swung into action and extensive checking and searches were conducted in the area after a man informed the police control room that he saw a cyclist who hurriedly parked his cycle, with tiffin on its carrier, in the middle of bikes and walked towards the temple in Chandpole.
Govt. of A.P. has given green signal for filling up 33, 738 vacancies through A.P. Public Service Commission, A.P. State Level Police Recruitment Board and District Selection Committee. These vacancies include Group-I, Group-II, Group-IV and Non-Gazetted posts. Govt. of A.P. made recruitments earlier on 52,000 vacancies against 1.20 lakh vacant posts.
A.P. Public Service Commission will fill up 11, 250 vacancies whereas Police Board and District Selection committee will make appointment to the extent of 11, 623 and 10, 865 vacancies.
–Siasat News
Late Candra Rajeshwara Rao was one of the founders of Communist Movement in India. His birth Centenary Celebrations will be organized at 5 p.m. today at Sundaraya Vigyana Kendram at Baghlingampalli. Mr. Guru Das Gupta, former editor Vishal Andhra and Mr. C.Ragwachari will be the guests. Dr. K.Narayana, State Secretary of CPM told that birth Centenary Celebration of Candra Rajeshwara Rao will be celebrated in the entire country throughout the year.
–Siasat News
A consultative meeting of Madarsa Board was held at Khankha-e-Murshada at Husaini Alam under the chairmanship of Maulana Syed Darwesh Mohiuddin Quadri Murtuza Pasha. Mr. Abid Rasool Khan, Chairman, A.P. State Minorities Commission attended the meeting as a special guest. More than 150 directors of various Deeni Madarsas and Schloars participated in the meeting. State Govt. proposes to establish a Madarsa Board which will eradicate the haphazardness of Deeni Madarsa and it will provide an opportunity for their students to get degrees recognize by the Govt.
A US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers is expected to plead guilty in return for escaping the death penalty, when he appears before a military tribunal.
Sergeant Robert Bales faces charges including 16 counts of murder, six of attempted murder and seven of assault over the massacre in southern Afghanistan in March last year.
The 39-year-old will appear at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state to enter his plea over the killings, which further strained already tense US-Afghan ties.
Andhra Pradesh is set to sign an MOU with the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology to tap its vast resources to help give the state’s educational system a face lift, the state’s information technology and communications minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah said here today.
The minister said the finer details are being worked out and the memorandum of understanding (MOU) will be signed within a few months.
A criminal case was registered yesterday against unknown people who tried to fraudulently claim compensation for 41 people by getting their names added to the list of the dead during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, a police source said.
The Economic Offences Wing of Delhi Police registered the case almost 10 days after the fraud came to light in a screening committee meeting of the police anti-riot cell and the Delhi government’s revenue department, the source informed.