Researchers have found that pigeons have the human-like ability to place everyday things in categories.
According to researchers at the University of Iowa, pigeons can place everyday things in categories and, like people, they can hone in on visual information that is new or important and dismiss what is not.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi filed her nomination papers for the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat Wednesday.
The UPA chairperson arrived to a rousing welcome in Rae Bareli along with her son and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
After a brief ‘havan’ at a party loyalist’s house, she drove to the collector’s office to file her nomination. Sonia Gandhi has represented Rae Bareli in the Lok Sabha since 2004.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today said there are no apprehensions among minorities in the state about Narendra Modi becoming prime minister.
“There are no apprehensions (about Modi becoming PM),” Parrikar told reporters here, four days after senior BJP leader and Goa Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza had said that minorities continue to be “apprehensive” about Modi.
There are certain people who are “trying to create the apprehensions,” Parrikar claimed.
Goa has 27 per cent of Catholic population.
Two blasts occurred Wednesday outside Cairo University, one of Egypt’s most prominent and oldest universities, leaving one person dead and three others injured, a media report said.
The explosions happened in the vicinity of the engineering faculty at Cairo University, Xinhua reported citing state-run Nile-TV, adding it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts.
A security source told Xinhua that crude bombs were used in the explosions.
(IANS)
The NIA and Delhi Police both want the custody of two suspected Indian Mujahideen’s operatives.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) told a court here Wednesday that it wants the custody of suspected IM operatives Tehsin Akhtar alias Monu and Waqas alias Zia-ur-Rehman in the 2013 Dilsukhnagar blasts in Hyderabad.
The NIA argued that since it is a federal unit, it has the right to arrest and interrogate suspects.
A manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was released by the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday .The party promised to provide special benefits to the Muslim by wooing them.
Furthermore, the manifesto mentioned the setting up of a special commission to look at the needs of poor upper caste members. The party promised to concentrate on the development in Purvanchal and Bundelkhand regions and increase agricultural land in the state.
The online sale of tickets for the seventh edition of the IPL, the first half of which has been shifted here due to the general elections in India, will start tomorrow.
The tickets will be available on www.Iplt20.Com and www.Ticketmaster.Ae.
They will also be available at select Lulu Hypermarkets in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah, from April 6 while stadium box-office sales will start on April 10. The first leg of the IPL has been shifted out due to a clash of dates with the general elections scheduled from April 7 to May 12
“Flight 370: The Missing Links”, a one-hour special TV programme, will bring together foremost thinkers in aviation and security to explore key questions surrounding the disappearance of the lost Malaysia Airlines flight.
The show will be aired on Discovery Channel in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide April 21.
The riddle of flight MH370, which vanished mysteriously about an hour after taking off from Kuala Lumpur shortly after midnight March 8, has garnered worldwide attention and generated widespread speculation about how the events unfolded.
Actress Rakhi Sawant, who has jumped into poll fray while claiming to be an “illiterate” person with assets of Rs 15 crore, has outstanding loans worth about Rs 2.5 crore and an additional Rs 72.5 lakh tax liability.
There is also a pending criminal case of ‘breach of trust’ and ‘cheating’ under sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which is being heard by a metropolitan magistrate court here, according to the election affidavit filed by 36-year-old Sawant, a contestant from Mumbai North West seat.
In the demographically colourful and historically significant Chandni Chowk constituency, a blockbuster contest is in the offing among Congress’ Kapil Sibal, BJP’s Harsh Vardhan and AAP’s journalist-turned- politician Ashutosh to win the prestigious seat.
Though traditionally a Congress stronghold- the constituency is expected to witness division of Muslim votes between AAP and Congress that may help Vardhan, who was chief ministerial candidate of the party in the December assembly polls.
Your favourite webmail service Gmail has turned 10. Launched April 1, 2004, Google’s simple, user-friendly inbox today is an undisputed leader in email and related services.
In 2004, Gmail arrived as an invitation-only product on beta platform.
After several design changes, it finally dropped the beta label in 2009.
In Gmail, Microsoft offered a spam-free inbox with integrated search tool and loads of storage capacity that was enough to beat the rivals.
It was Gmail that gave webmail a slick snappiness more akin to a desktop application.
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund is set to beat HDFC Mutual Fund for the top slot on the back of a strong 22 percent growth in its average asset under management in the January-March quarter, according to data released Tuesday by the Association of Mutual Funds in India.
ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund grew its assets by about 22 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of the financial year ended March 31. With this growth, the company has entered into the Rs.1 trillion club.
Politics makes strange bedfellows and that’s what’s happening in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana.
In Punjab, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The bond between the two parties has been over three decades old and both have been running an alliance government in Punjab since 2007 too.
The venomous attacks are growing by the day as the Lok Sabha elections approach. After Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma called Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi a RSS goon (gunda), Beni Prasad also attacked BJP President Rajnath Singh, calling him a slave.
And now, SP leader Azam Khan has trained his guns at Modi, calling it a dog’s relative.
“Modi is the brother of a dog’s son (kutte ke bachche ka bada bhai). We don’t want his or Rajnath Singh’s regrets,” Azam Khan said.
A 50-year old House Wife was killed in road accident after car turn titles in Kukatpally police limits.
According to Kukatpally police, the deceased, M Neelima W/o Narsimha Murthy R/o Kukatpally, On 4 Sept, 2013 deceased was going on car from Hyderabad to Guntur district when they reached near kukatpally cross road, the driver lost his controlled due to which car was turn titles and deceased received multiple injuries Immediately rushed to Gandhi Hospital for treatment where undergoing treatment she died on Monday night hours.
The Congress and Communist Party of India (CPI) on Wednesday finalised the seat sharing agreement.
As per the understanding, the CPI would contest on one Lok Sabha and nine Assembly segments. Besides Khammam Lok Sabha constituency, the CPI will also contest from Kothagudem, Pinapaka, Wyra, Munuguru, Devarakonda, Bellampalli, Station Ghanpur, Maheshwaram and Bahadurpura Assembly segments.
Sources say that CPI State Secretary K Narayana himself will contest from Khammam Lok Sabha segment. (INN)
(IANS) Model-turned-actor Sidharth Malhotra, who is from Delhi, says he will cast his vote if he gets time and urged youngsters to participate in the elections and exercise their voting rights.
The 29-year-old, seen in films “Student of The Year” and “Hasee Toh Phasee”, currently lives in Mumbai to pursue his Bollywood career.
“If I will get the time, I would want to go to Delhi to cast my vote as my voting card is from Delhi,” Sidharth told reporters here Tuesday at the red carpet of the Mijwan Fashion show.
What if your computer can distinguish even expressions for complex or seemingly contradictory emotions such as ‘happily disgusted’ or ‘sadly angry’?
Researchers at Ohio State University have found a way for computers to recognise 21 distinct facial expressions.
“We have gone beyond facial expressions for simple emotions like happy or sad. We found a strong consistency in how people move their facial muscles to express 21 categories of emotions,” said Aleix Martinez, a cognitive scientist and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Ohio State.
When the screams of Muslim men, women and innocent children who were victimized in the Muzaffarnagar riots reached Hyderabad, Siasat editor Mr. Zahed Ali Khan felt worried. At first he released Rs. 10 lakh from Millat Relief Fund for riot victims. At the second phase Siasat established two schools with the name Hyderabad Millat Public School to equip the victims with education and skills. 313 boys and girls are getting education in the schools. Apart from this vocational course was offered for adult men and women and a computer centre was also set up.
A nine-year-old tribal girl slit the throat of her five-year-old brother at Seldouri village in Jagannathpur block of West Singhbhum district.
According to a delayed report received here, the girl, who had consumed hadia (popular rice beer among tribals), in an inebriated state slit the throat of her brother, who was playing in front of the house, Bertinus Kullu, Sub-divisional Police Officer, Jagannathpur, said.
The parents of the siblings were away for work when the incident took place yesterday.
Feminists would take this with a grain of salt as a new study has found that rates of rape, sexual assault and homicide are actually lower in societies with more men than women.
Male-biased sex ratio does not lead to more crime, the study found.
In societies where men outnumber women, the men do not necessarily resort to violent competition for the limited number of mates, said the study.
“Evidence does not support a relationship between violence and a short supply of women,” said Ryan Schacht, a doctoral researcher at University of California, Davis.
AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal Wednesday vowed to defeat BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in Varanasi and denied speculation that he might join the BJP.
Addressing impromptu meetings in east Delhi in support of AAP candidate Rajmohan Gandhi, Kejriwal launched a vicious attack on both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress.
“If my aim was to reach parliament, then I would have fought the Lok Sabha election from a safe seat,” the former Delhi chief minister thundered from atop an open vehicle.
Nearly 90 people, including 63 children, were taken ill after consuming poisonous seeds mistaking them to be almonds in the district, officials said today.
R K Aaseri, principal, medical college, Kota today said that 63 children and 25 women were admitted to hospital last night after complaining of stomach ache, vomiting and dehydration.
The victims had consumed Ratanjot (poisonous fruit) seeds mistaking them to be almonds at a marriage function.
Call it “son stroke” or a generational shift in Karnataka politics; it is all evident in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.
A few old guards are paving the way for their sons to take over. The sons are steering talks, chalking out campaign strategies and setting sights on millions of young voters.
Prashant Deshpande and S S Mallikarjun, sons of Higher Education Minister R V Deshpande and Horticulture Minister Shamanur Shivashankarappa respectively, are making a bid to inherit their fathers’ legacy.
In a major breakthrough, scientists have discovered that the protein that activates hair follicle growth also inhibits fat production, paving way for development of a cream that could make you thinner and prevent hair loss at the same time.
The research confirmed that changes in the hair growth cycle led to fluctuations in the thickness of the underlying fat layer of the skin – meaning that the skin can regulate fat production.