College-aged women have negative opinions about sexually promiscuous female peers and consider them as unsuitable for friendship, a new study has suggested.
The study by Cornell University developmental psychologists also found that the participants’ preference for less sexually active women as friends remained even when they personally reported liberal attitudes about casual sex or a high number of lifetime lovers.
In four out of ten cases, women who suffer from long-term have some form of physical complaint, a new study has suggested.
Within the Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy have followed around 1,500 women since the late 1960s.
The latest study within the project, which focuses primarily on stress linked to psychosomatic symptoms, showed that one in five middle-aged women had experienced constant or frequent stress during the last five years.
Washington, June 4 (ANI): Google has said face-recognition apps won”t be allowed on Google Glass anytime soon. The company announced in a Google Plus post that it wouldn”t add facial recognition features to its products without having strong privacy protections in place, reports MySlate.
Shimla/Manali, June 4 (ANI): Himachal Pradesh Police has arrested the three men accused of raping an American tourist in Manali.
Himachal Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) B. Kamal Kumar said that a special investigating team headed by IG Range has begun its probe into the matter.
“Three men have committed this rape. One of them (the accused) is a truck driver. This incident took place in Vashist village, in Manali. They (members of a special investigating team) have already started the investigation. We have also arrested the three accused persons,” Kumar told ANI in Shimla.
Michael Douglas has clarified that he was not talking about himself when he commented that oral sex could be a reason behind throat cancer.
The actor’s comments swept the internet but ‘Behind the Candelbra’ star said issued a statement to clarify his previous remarks, the People magazine reported.
“Michael Douglas did not say cunnilingus was the cause of his cancer. It was discussed that oral sex is a suspected cause of certain oral cancers as doctors in the article point out but he did not say it was the specific cause of his personal cancer,” a representative of the actor said.
Dinesh Karthik smashed an unbeaten 146 and added 211-runs for the sixth wicket with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (91) as India recovered from a precarious position to post a challenging 308 for six in their Champions Trophy warm-up match against Australia here today.
India scored exactly 100 runs in their last 10 overs as Australia failed to turn the screws after polishing off five top Indian wickets for only 55 runs at the Swalec Stadium.
A 35-year-old woman, allegedly locked up in a room by her parents for about four years, was rescued by police from her residence in the city today.
Hemavathi, a graduate in Commerce, was found in a traumatised state when police visited the house after receiving a tip off.
She was lying on the floor looking unkempt and not even properly clothed, police said.
She was later shifted to National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences for treatment.
Looking dazed, Hemavathi told reporters she felt unbearable hunger and got food sometimes.
Pakistan Tuesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner Gopal Baglay in Islamabad following a small road accident involving one of its diplomats in New Delhi, an informed source said.
“The Indian deputy high commissioner has been summoned to register our protest over the incident,” an informed source told IANS.
Zirgham Raza, first secretary (trade) of the Pakistan High Commission, suffered “minor bruises” in a scuffle that followed after his car hit a motorcycle in south Delhi Monday evening.
Karnataka government today said the ban imposed on gutka would stay, rejecting the demand of the opposition BJP which argued that the move would hit arecanut growers in the State.
At the end of a debate on the issue in the state Assembly, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said revoking the May 30 government notification would only benefit the gutka lobby and would not help the cause of curbing cancer cases.
Facing the threat of cancellation of its Rs 3600 crore deal for VVIP choppers, AgustaWestland has asked the Government to release its payments saying withholding it was a ‘breach of contract’.
In a letter written to the ministries of Defence, Finance and External Affairs, the Anglo-Italian firm has said that there were certain ‘contractual difficulties’ with the Defence Ministry and asked for its payments to be released.
Google has said face-recognition apps won’t be allowed on Google Glass anytime soon.
The company announced in a Google Plus post that it wouldn’t add facial recognition features to its products without having strong privacy protections in place, reports MySlate.
Last month a congressional committee on privacy wrote Google an open letter explicitly asking whether Glass would have “facial recognition capabilities.”
A man allegedly killed his mother and younger brother by beating them up after a quarrel broke out between them over a piece of land at Jhamghat in Bihar’s Munger district, a police officer said today.
Anil Yadav beat up his mother Jagdamba Devi (70) and younger brother Surendra Yadav (40) after a heated argument
over the piece of land last night, Deputy Superintendent of Police Vidyasagar said.
The woman and her younger son died on the spot due to multiple injuries, he said, adding the accused is absconding.
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Young actress Jiah Khan allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with police claiming she was heartbroken after a failed relationship with the son of an actor couple which possibly drove her to take the step at her home last night.
The body of Jiah, 25, was found hanging at her ‘Sagar Sangeet’ residence in Juhu at around 11 PM where she lived
with mother and sister who were not present when she ended her life.
Three children, including two girls of a family, drowned today when they accompanied their mother for washing clothes at a check dam over Hadaf river near Limkheda town here, police said.
Vijay Hathila (8) suddenly fell into the water while her mother was washing clothes. In an attempt to save him, two
sisters Kanta (21) and Neeta (15) also jumped into the water,they said.
Some youths, who were nearby, tried to save the trio but did not succeed. Their bodies were fished out from the
water later, police added.
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One of Britain’s leading universities, King’s College London, has opened its first internationalmSummer School in Delhi.
The classes will be held at Miranda House College, Delhi University, and cover courses such as international relations,international political economy and e-business.
A Summer School is a fantastic way to enrich your portfolio of skills and to get a head start in today’s globalised and fast-moving world.
Taking serious view of the high contamination in the Panchganga river, flowing along the borders of Kolhapur, the Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) and the civic body there to initiate action against errant bodies and prevent its further pollution.
In a sensational twist to the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Delhi Police today said that Sreesanth and two players were acting at the “command” of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and Chota Shakeel, among India’s most wanted,as it invoked the stringent MCOCA against 23 accused in the case.
Police claimed it has “concrete” evidence like intercepted telephonic conversations to link Sreesanth and some others with D-company.
Under MCOCA, the accused face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment along with fine of Rs five lakh.
Astronomers at NASA and Pennsylvania State University have used the Swift satellite to create the most detailed ultraviolet light surveys ever of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two closest major galaxies.
“We took thousands of images and assembled them into seamless portraits of the main body of each galaxy, resulting in the highest-resolution surveys of the Magellanic Clouds at ultraviolet wavelengths,” Stefan Immler, who proposed the program and led NASA’s contribution from the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md said.
After his guest appearances in `Om Shanti Om` and `Luck By Chance`, director-producer Karan Johar is all set to play a full-fledged negative role opposite Ranbir Kapoor in Anurag Kashyap`s period drama `Bombay Velvet`.
Johar, who collaborated with Kashyap on anthology film `Bombay Talkies`, said the offer came to him out of the blue.
“It`s true that I`m acting in `Bombay Velvet` and it`s unusual for me. I was blown away by the narrative… Since I`m playing an antagonist, there are shades of grey to my character,” Johar said in a statement.
Delhi Police today claimed to have busted a racket involved in selling duplicate printer toners and drums of a multinational company with the arrest of a person here in this connection.
“Rupesh Dalmia, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested from Mangaldip Enterprises in Daryaganj after we received specific input about sale of duplicate toners and drums of Panasonic company in the area,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Alok Kumar said.
As many as 69 duplicate toners and drums with almost genuine looking Panasonic stickers, logo and packaging from
A case was registered against a clerk for fraudulently withdrawing Rs 9.40 lakh from the MLA Development Fund, police said.
The clerk posted as Assistant Grade-III in the Janpad Panchayat at Seoni, Ramprasad Daheria fraudulently withdrew
Rs 9.40 lakh from Axis Bank’s branch in the name of Balaji Stationary from the MLA Local Area Development Fund.
When the matter came to light a probe was conducted following which an FIR was registered against him in the
Kotwali Police Station under section 409 and 420 of the IPC.
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Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have found that patients with type 2 diabetes have an altered gut microbiota.
Their findings have led to a new model to identify patients at increased risk of developing diabetes.
The human body contains ten times more bacteria than human cells.
Most of these bacteria comprise the normal gut microbiota.
Our bodies thus contain a vast number of bacterial genes in addition to the genes in our own cells, and are collectively known as the metagenome.
Former Rajasthan Home Minister Gulabchand Kataria today appeared before a local court in response to the summons issued by it after the CBI filed a supplementary charge sheet against him in the Soharabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
Besides Kataria, RK marble director Vimal Patni also appeared in the court, while Andhra Pradesh-based IPS officer
N Balasubraminiam and inspector Shrinivas Rao filed an exemption application.
Vegetarian diets have been linked with reductions in risk for several chronic diseases, including hypertension, but a new study has claimed that they are also associated with reduced death rates.
Michael J. Orlich, M.D., of Loma Linda University in California, and colleagues examined all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a group of 73,308 men and women Seventh-day Adventists.
China today said all its 15 operational nuclear power reactors are safe and enhanced efforts are being made to ensure their safety.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) in a report on the status of the reactors said enhanced efforts were made regarding nuclear safety and radiation protection.
Besides the 15 plants, China is constructing 29 nuclear power plants and their construction quality is being well
controlled, state-run Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying.