The fastest thing in the universe – Light, was brought to a halt for a record-breaking minute.
Thomas Krauss at the University of St Andrews, UK said that the feat was indeed a major milestone, as one minute is extremely a long duration for light to come to a pause.
The feat could allow secure quantum communications to work over long distances, according to New Scientist.
A group of drug used to combat low blood pressure can help slow the rate of cognitive decline typical of dementia, a research has suggested.
According to research, these drugs, known as ACE inhibitors, could even boost brain power.
The researchers compared the rates of cognitive decline in 361 patients who had either been diagnosed with Alzheimer”s disease, vascular dementia, or a mix of both.
Eighty five of the patients were already taking ACE inhibitors; the rest were not.
Expelled BJP MP leader Ram Jethmalani today slammed Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s detractors within the party, saying those opposing him are unable to overcome their desire to become the Prime Minister.
“There are many people in BJP who still nurture the desire to become the Prime Minister. These people should have overcome their desire (of becoming the PM) by now but they still have it,” he said, when asked about his reaction on the opposition to Modi within the party.
The crucial meeting of the Congress Core Committee began here on Friday evening amid speculations that it would discuss the Telangana issue.
The meeting, being held at Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s residence, gains significance as it could include Telangana in the agenda for the next meeting of Congress Working Committee, which has been authorised to take a final decision on the statehood issue. The meeting is being attended by the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Ahmed Patel, AK Antony, Sushil Kumar Shinde, P Chidambaram, Digvijay Singh and Ghulam Nabi Azad.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday hit back at Digvijaya Singh, who stirred up a new controversy after calling fellow party leader Meenakshi Natarajan ‘a 100 percent tunch maal’, saying that the Congress general secretary is not in a stable state of mind and needs to be admitted to a hospital urgently.
“Though it is an internal matter of the Congress party I maintain that Digvijaya Singh is not in a stable state of mind. He has become a mental case. He urgently needs to be admitted to a hospital where he can be cured immediately,” said BJP leader Vinay Katiyar.
Indians ought to be all Indian nationalists first and those talking about Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Christian nationalisms were really anti-national, Press Council of India Chairman, Justice (retd) Markandey Katju said
here today.
He also requested the media and citizens to encourage Indian nationalism.
I don’t agree with the remarks by Hindu nationalists as (theirs) is divisive talk and such divisive policies can’t run the nation,” he said in comments apparently aimed at Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, although he mentioned no names.
In a setback to Delhi Police, a court has rejected its plea to issue non-bailable warrant against a suspected active member of Indian Mujahideen alleged to have helped some modules involved in 2008 serial blasts to flee India after Batla House encounter.
The court said it cannot issue NBW against Faizan Ahmed Sultan as he was never named as an accused or a suspect in the charge sheets filed in connection with the September 13, 2008 blasts.
The process of consultation over the Telangana issue is over and the time has come for a decision, Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh said Friday.
“We shall let you know the decision taken,” he said in New Delhi amid hectic activity of the party leadership to take a final decision on the issue of separate statehood to Telangana.
Digvijaya Singh, in-charge of party affairs in Andhra Pradesh, was talking to reporters after holding separate meetings with Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha and state Congress chief Botsa Satyanarayana.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)’s Indian volunteers today staged a protest outside Delhi Zoo.
Two volunteers wore tiger bodysuits and posed inside a cage as part of their “Save the Tiger-Say No to Zoos” campaign.
“If human beings cannot be in a cage for an hour, why are animals caged inside zoos?” one of the volunteers said.
The protest was organised in the wake of deaths of six tigers in the zoo within a span of six months.
“The big cats suffer from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when kept in cages and become depressed.
Twenty-one days after his death in a Karachi jail, the body of a 37-year-old Indian fisherman was flown home to Mumbai, from where it is being brought to his native village in Junagadh district of Gujarat, a state Fisheries official said today.
“The mortal remains of Dudhabhai Naranbhai Makwana, who passed away in Pakistani custody on July 4 following a cardiac arrest, reached Mumbai late last night and was expected to reach Ghatvad village of Kodinar taluka by this evening,” Gujarat Fisheries department official J K Rathod, who received the body, told PTI.
Days after retiring as Chief Justice of India, Altamas Kabir said today that the recent comments attributed to a bench headed by his successor Justice P Sathasivam amounted to his “indictment” but he had been subsequently told that the bench made no such observations.
Kabir, who demitted office on July 18, spoke on controversies surrounding his tenure including the comments attributed to the bench headed by Sathasivam which had purportedly said that the orders in the Jayaprakash Associates case should not have been passed by a bench headed by him.
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s detention was ordered by a court today for questioning over charges of colluding with Palestinian militant group Hamas, even as the Muslim Brotherhood slammed the decision as engineered by a ‘fascist military regime’.
Morsi, already under detention by the army after he was deposed on July 3, will be quizzed on whether he collaborated with Hamas in attacks on police stations and prison breaks in early 2011 during the revolt against former president Hosni Mubarak, MENA news agency reported.
Four students of a primary school fell ill allegedly after consuming mid-day meal, prompting the East Delhi Municipal Corporation to shift the principal and order an inquiry into the incident.
The students fell ill after taking the meal on Wednesday in the school in Sabhapur locality in Sonia Vihar ward, which comes under EDMC. The incident comes days after the Bihar mid-day meal tragedy in which 23 children died after having contaminated food.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s advisor on aviation has decided to step down after it emerged that he has Canadian citizenship and interests in a firm involved in a major aviation project.
Attorney General Munir Malik assured a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry that Shujaat Azeem, adviser to the Prime Minister for aviation, would resign “very soon” to avoid any controversy.
Recognising the adverse impact of e-cigarettes which are a new craze along with hookah joints among tobacco users, India and other countries of South-East Asian region today vowed to take measures to check their use including imposing ban.
Participating in the regional meeting of WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), various nations also were unanimous in admitting that hookah/water pipe is a health hazard and agreed to take appropriate measures to prevent their use, besides also introducing strong legislations and regulations to control the use of smokeless tobacco.
Opener Shikhar Dhawan capitalised on sloppy bowling and fielding by the Zimbabweans to hit his third ODI century as India recovered from early jolts to post a daunting 294 for eight in their second one-dayer here today.
Dhawan, who got at least three lives, struck 116 from 127 balls and shared 167 runs with Dinesh Karthik (69) for the fifth wicket to take India to a big total after they were reduced to 65 for four in the 17th over at the Harare Sports Club.
A Delhi court today issued non-bailable warrants (NBWs) against Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and its spokesperson Shirish Parkar on a complaint about their alleged hate speeches against the people of Bihar.
The court also rejected their plea for exemption from personal appearance in the case.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Devendra Kumar Sharma issued NBWs against Thackeray and Parkar for August 24.
After Congress spokesperson Raj Babbar and Congress leader Rasheed Masood, now Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Friday has said that one can have full meal for Re.1.
“One can eat for Re.1, if desired. It depends on the common man how much they can afford and they have to manage in that only,” Mr. Abdullah said on the ongoing debate on poverty.
Mr. Masood on Thursday claimed that “one can eat well” for Rs.5 in the national capital, a day after Mr. Raj Babbar said that one can have a full meal for Rs.12 in Mumbai.
Former Minister JC Diwakar Reddy on Friday stated that he would prefer Rayala-Telangana if the Centre decides to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh.
Talking to reporters in the Assembly premises, Diwakar Reddy said he was against the division of Andhra Pradesh. However, he said if the Congress High Command decides to bifurcate the State, then he would prefer Rayalaseema to go with Telangana.
In yet another indication of growing proximity between Congress and JD(U), the government today offered to “sympathetically” consider Bihar’s demand for bringing parity between MNREGA wage and minimum wage rates in the state.
“I can perfectly understand Nitish Kumar’s sentiments and concerns. I sympathise with Nitish Kumar, because under the minimum wage act in Bihar, the minimum wage is Rs 162 and the MNREGA wage is Rs 138,” Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said here reacting to Bihar chief minister’s demand.
Goa’s beaches will be patrolled till midnight by a special police division when the tourism season begins in September this year, a minister said here today.
Goa Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar told reporters that the India Reserve Batallion (IRB), which has been guarding Goa’s beaches in the absence of a tourist police, would now maintain vigil till midnight to curb crimes.
In the last tourist season, IRB personnel were stationed at beaches until 9 P.M.
Veteran freedom fighter Vishnu Dayal Gupta died following prolonged illness at a hospital here, family sources said today.
He was 91.
Gupta breathed his last yesterday at Rural Institute of Medical Sciences in Saifai where he had been admitted a couple of days ago, they said.
The deceased, basically a resident of Feelkhana near Kanpur, was living here with with his younger daughter.
He is survived by two sons and three daughters.
Gupta had taken an active part in the freedom movement and was also jailed during the period.
A minor boy died after he was allegedly run over by his school van here today, police said.
The 11-year-old victim, after alighting from the van on reaching the school, came in front of it when the driver without noticing him moved the vehicle, they said.
The boy, a class VI student, sustained serious injuries in the incident and was rushed to Government Hospital where he died during the treatment, police said.
Later, the errant driver was arrested and a case registered against him, they added.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said her government has finalised all the nitty gritties to implement the ambitious food security scheme with an aim to make the city “hunger-free”.
The scheme will be rolled out on August 20, the birth anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi. She said Delhi will be the first state in the country to launch the scheme.
Though the scheme will be launched on August 20, the beneficiaries will start getting entitled food grains from September 1.
The foundation stone laying ceremony for the proposed new headquarters of Delhi Police was marred by a controversy when Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, the Chief Guest of the event, skipped the function citing inadequency in the documentation of the project.
“It (the building) still has not been given its environmental and height clearances, among other.
“Home Ministry officials suggested I should not go there,” he told reporters here minutes after cancelling the visit to the function organised at Jai Singh Marg near Connaught Place.