Military men who face sexual harassment may experience more distress and work performance problems than military women who face the same problem, new research shows.
“Men may be less likely to think they would be sexually harassed. So it is a particularly strong violation of their expectations that could result in stronger negative reactions,” stressed lead author Isis H. Settles from Michigan State University.
The two national parties in Uttar Pradesh — BJP and Congress — have taken up very much different strategies to enter the poll fray.
Congress has struck a fine balance, fielding almost an equal number of Muslims, OBCs, Dalits, Brahmins and Thakurs whereas the BJP list exudes an over-dependence on OBC candidates with one-third seats going to them. Hardly giving a thought to make amends for its pro-Hindu image, BJP has not given even a single symbolic ticket to a Muslim.
A Pakistan court has reportedly sentenced a man to death on account of blasphemy, triggering a riot in Lahore.
The accused, Sawan Masih, was found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, following a conversation with a Muslim friend in the Joseph Colony neighborhood of Lahore in March last year.
According to the Dawn, more than 3000 Muslims stormed through Joseph Colony, torching some 100 Christian homes, after the allegations against Masih emerged.
Facebook is reportedly working on building drones and lasers that could facilitate its goal of providing Internet connectivity to all.
The social networking giant has formed a team, called Facebook Connectivity Lab, which would invent new technologies in-house to deliver affordable Internet access to everyone, irrespective of technical or financial obstacles.
According to Cnet, the revelation about the Internet providing drone project comes amidst Facebook’s decision to bring aboard five aerospace experts from UK-based Ascenta.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has said that Manchester City are still favourites for the Premier League, despite overtaking them in the league table with a 2-1 Sunderland win.
Rodgers said that Liverpool will keep working hard, as it is upto other teams to lose, but added that he is not playing it down because if City win their games, they will win the league title.
According to the BBC, Liverpool overtook City in the league rankings with their recent 2-1 Sunderland win and are now just one point behind leaders Chelsea.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted for a resolution paving the way for an inquiry into rights abuses at the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
The United States and the United Kingdom were among the countries, which sponsored a resolution that is for the first time calling for an international probe.
According to the BBC, Sri Lanka has consistently denied allegations of rights abuses and said it is being unfairly targeted.
A high-ranking Malaysian police official has reportedly insisted that the pilot of the missing Malaysian jet was solely responsible for the plane’s disappearance and presumed crash.
Since the plane’s disappearance on March 8, it has been widely speculated that the pilots of the plane, Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah and Fariq Abdul Hamid were involved in the incident.
President Barack Obama has asked Congress to end National Security Agency’s bulk collection of US phone records.
The proposal requires the government to receive a court order to access telecom companies’ records.
The NSA is understood to collect call records from specific telecom firms daily and to keep them for five years, the BBC reports.
The plan follows widespread anger after leaks revealed the full extent of US surveillance operations.
Under the new proposal, the government will reportedly only seek specific records that telecom companies possess.
Congress party high command has finalised the first list of contestants for 42 assembly constituencies in Telangana region which will be officially announced either today or tomorrow. However the list has no Muslim name.
Australian pacer Mitchell Starc believes that they can still win the tournament despite their early World Twenty20 loss to Pakistan.
Although Starc reportedly admitted that his team was ‘outplayed in all aspects’ by Pakistan as Australia was unable to close out the game from a winning position set up by batsmen Glen Maxwell and Aaron Finch, he said they can definitely bag their first T20 title.
Researchers have revealed that rates of both preterm birth and hospital admissions for asthma were reduced by 10 percent after laws that prohibited smoking in public places were implemented.
Researchers from University of Edinburgh collaborated with researchers from Maastricht University, Hasselt University, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, found that the introduction of new laws that ban smoking in public places in North America and Europe has been followed by a decrease in rates of premature births and hospital visits for asthma attacks in children.
The Congress and the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi are tearing the hopes of the community all over again by fielding only a couple of Muslim candidates in the Telangana region.
According to sources, the Congress which received wholehearted support from the Muslim community in the last two elections in 2004 and 2009, believes that the community has fewer winnable candidates to offer.
Moreover, with the TRS perplexing the pitch for Congress on the bifurcation issue, it would not like to take chances with candidate selection.
An international team of biologists have published an important study of entire food-web dynamics in the deserted tundra environment.
Field studies covering three continents show that temperature has an unexpectedly important effect on food-web structure, while the relationship between predator and prey is crucial for the food-web dynamics and thereby the entire ecosystem.
Niels Martin Schmidt from Aarhus University, Denmark, one of the researchers behind the study, said they gathered data on all animals and plants characterising the arctic tundra in seven different areas.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address poll rallies in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh today.
The Gujarat Chief Minister will address poll rally in Maoist hotbed Bastar in Chhattisgarh as well as Balaghat and Mandla in Madhya Pradesh
The BJP has fielded former Union minister, Faggan Singh Kulaste from Mandla, while the Congress has given its ticket to senior party leader Omkar Markam.
From Maoist-affected Balaghat seat, Bodh Singh Bhagat would contest on a BJP ticket against Hina Kavre of Congress.
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to suspended Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Raj Kumar Pandiyan in connection with the Sohrabuddin Sheikh fake encounter case.
The decision to grant bail came almost four months after the apex court had sought the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI’s) reply on a bail petition forwarded by the suspended and jailed Gujarat IPS officer.
SSC exams have begun across the state. Large scale arrangements were made for the exams. During the first paper 50 students were caught for malpractices. 4 invigilators were suspended from duty on the charges of allowing cheating.
State director public exams told that no report of leak of paper has been received from any place. Effective measures were made by deploying maximum number of flying squads to put a curb on cheating.
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The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Friday criticised the central government for abstaining from voting on a U.S.-sponsored resolution for a probe into war crimes in Sri Lanka at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
The resolution was adopted after 23 countries voted in its favour, while 12 voted against it. Two countries abstained from voting in the 47-member-state forum in Geneva.
DMK lawmaker, T. K. S. Elangovan, said India should have moved the resolution.
The Delhi High Court Friday asked the central government and the Election Commission to take appropriate actions against the Congress and the BJP for taking foreign funds in violation of law.
Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Jayant Nath allowed the plea of an NGO filed by advocate Prashant Bhushan seeking directions for a probe into donations allegedly taken by the parties from subsidiaries of the Britain-based Vedanta group.
The bench said the concerned authority should act within six months in accordance with the law.
esearchers have linked antidepressant medications taken by pregnant women with increased rates of preterm birth.
Lead author Krista Huybrechts, MS PhD, from the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said preterm birth is a major clinical problem throughout the world and rates have been increasing over the past two decades. At the same time, rates of antidepressant use during pregnancy have increased approximately four-fold.
Reports of Aam Aadmi Party workers being harassed on Tuesday and Wednesday have come to the fore. It is said that they were allegedly harassed by Majlis Itehadul Muslimeen workers. The MIM workers attacked 26-year-old, Mohammed Adil Akber, resident of Asman Gadh Coordinator AAP Malakpet constituency leaving him injured. He was attacked near Malakpet fire station when he was going to his residence at 2:30. Meanwhile Majlis workers Zahed Ali Khan and his brother Riyasat Ali Khan allegedly attacked him with sticks.
Networking giant Cisco will start shipping its new video conferencing solution to India and other parts of the world, offering enterprises, especially small and medium sized firms, high quality connectivity and at lower cost of ownership.
The “SX10” is a video conferencing all-in-one unit, which can be used with any flat panel display to convert the television into a telepresence unit.
The device is expected to be available for about US$2,000 through different partners of Cisco.
Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian, who is in judicial custody in connection with the alleged fake encounter killings of Sohrabuddin Sheikh and his wife Kauserbi near Gandhinagar in November 2005.
The apex court passed the order after studying the CBI’s response on the bail plea of Pandian, who has been languishing in jail for seven years.
The IPS officer had moved the apex court after the Bombay High Court on November 20 rejected his bail application.
Ahead of a dialogue with India, the US has said as it implements its strategic rebalance to Asia, it will work with India to address both the challenges and the opportunities across the Indo-Pacific region.
The sixth session of the US-India East Asia Consultations here on Friday will “discuss a variety of issues including maritime security, expanding regional trade opportunities, and increasing our cooperation in multilateral fora,” a State Department announcement said.
In a daring revelation of sorts, Congress leader Renuka Chowdhury today said Telangana Rashtra Samithi Chief K Chandrasekhara Rao was scared of her. How KCR or any other leader can dare to take my seat from Khammam constituency, she asked. Renuka wanted to know who will dare to demand her seat in Khamman Constituency for the general elections.
CPI State secretary Dr K. Narayana has urged the Governor to ensure adequate rehabilitation benefits to Adivasis and others displaced by construction of Polavaram project.