Barack Obama revealed on ABC’s ‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ that neither has he dyed his hair nor neither does he intend to.
Rumors have been swirling aout him having dyed his hair since the White House unveiled Obama’s presidential portrait in 2008, ABC News reported.
First Lady Michelle rubbished the rumours in 2011, saying that if Barack had known that he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, about 10 years ago.
Grandmothers have a significant role in the society. They play an important role in character building of the grandchildren. Grandmothers are like an old shady tree lovingly showering their cool shade to the grandchildren.
Mrs. Ghousia Bi of Gulshan Iqbal Colony Hafez Babanagar has 3 sons and 12 grand children. She is around 100 years old. She has great grandchildren too. She told that she feels more happy on the success of her grandchildren then they themselves do. She says she always prays for the success of their grandchildren.
After weeks of robust gains, India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by a whopping USD 2.268 billion to USD 312.656 billion in the week ended May 23, mainly on account of a massive drop in currency assets.
In the previous week, the total reserves had risen by USD 1.093 billion to USD 314.92 billion.
Foreign currency assets (FCAs), a major constituent of the overall reserves, dropped by USD 2.255 billion to USD 285.560 billion in the period, Reserve Bank said in a statement here.
Mark Zuckerberg’s wife Priscilla Chan in her first-ever television interview to the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie said that there is an unknown side of the Facebook founder which the masses don’t know about.
She said that it was a shame when people are not able to see the funny, thoughtful Zuckerberg that she knows, Us magazine reported.
Chan said that her husband is incredibly sensitive and really cares about what other people need and want and really wants to be able to make someone else’s day, adding that’s the Zuckerburg that she sees.
Sofia Vergara was left embarrassed by former beau Nick Loeb, who reportedly tried to take advantage of the actress’ fame in order to boost his own wealth and reputation, it has been revealed.
A friend told Us magazine that it really embarrassed Vergara.
Loeb reportedly pushed Vergara to promote his Onion Crunch company and even asked her to get him cast in her new movie ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ with co-stars Reese Witherspoon.
The source said that Loeb desperately wanted Vergara to use her star power to launch his acting career and made he look like a fool. (ANI)
Lisa Niemi has revealed that she dreamed about Patrick Swayze about a month before her remarriage.
The American actress asserted that it was like Swayze was giving her his blessings and letting her know it was fine, ABC News reported.
The 58-year-old actress said that it could be hard sometimes to take those steps forward, but it did not change the way they felt about someone and Swayze was letting her know that.
Niemi further said that as she had time to process the change her life was going to take, her doubts became less and she became assured. (ANI)
HRD Minister Smriti Irani today asked Delhi University to “reinstate” five non-teaching staff members, who were suspended for allegedly leaking purported documents relating to her undergraduate admission and admit card following a row over her educational qualifications.
Irani said that in public life one should be open to scrutiny and criticism. “So am I,” the Minister said on microblogging site Twitter.
She said that “since Delhi University is an autonomous institution, I have put forth my personal appeal to the Vice Chancellor to reinstate the officials”.
Two people from California are working on a flying jet-propelled car, which is a sleek cross between a business jet with a luxury automobile.
The GF7 drives on electric motors while on the ground, then can extend wings and use a 3,500-lb thrust jet engine to fly to 38,000 ft (12,000 m) and speeds of 550 mph (885 km/h), Gizmag reported.
The principles behind the project are designer Greg Brown, and engineer Dave Fawcett, who are based in Napa, California. Fawcett, of Airboss Aerospace, has engineered many aircraft, including the Viper, the Maverick and Javelin jets.
Researchers have created a shirt that actually hides a small always-on camera.
The NewViewWar, which is hoping to raise 100,000 dollars on Indiegogo, includes a small camera that fits into a pocket behind a hole in a specially designed shirt, Tech Crunch reported.
You can tap the camera three times to remember something that just happened, or you can just let the thing record all day long, allowing you to review your day in ways heretofore yet unimagined.
The benchmark Sensex on Friday failed to hold to to early gains and ended 17 points lower due to losses in banking and consumer durable shares, logging its worst weekly drop since January.
Profit-booking ahead of GDP data later this evening and RBI monetary policy review next week were among the factors that led to markets closing on a negative note, said brokers.
Researchers have said that a grape enriched diet could help protect your retina’s structure and function, preventing it from deterioration which can cause blindness.
The University of Miami, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute investigated if a diet supplemented with grapes could protect the photoreceptors in mice with retinal degeneration, where the mice were either fed a grape-supplemented diet corresponding to 3 servings of grapes per day for humans or one of two control diets.
Disgraced former US cyclist Lance Armstrong has reportedly been denied an appeal to block a Dallas company’s attempts to recover about 12 million dollars in performance bonuses it paid the cyclist during his career.
SCA Promotions, which has been in a legal dispute with Armstrong over the money for several years, wants its money back now that Armstrong has admitted using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France seven times.
Special Officer Waqf Board Mr. Shaikh Mohammed Iqbal (IPS) told that if governments show interest in protection and development of Waqf properties it will ensure elimination of Muslim poverty and educational and economic development of the community. He convened a meeting of Waqf inspectors and other officials of all districts in connection with the protection of Waqf properties. The meeting which lasted for two days reviewed the current status of Waqf properties on district level.
Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has reiterated his innocence over the match-fixing allegations made against him and branded the accusations as ‘absurd, bizarre and scary’.
Cairns read out a statement at Auckland airport after returning from London, where he was interviewed at his own request by London police, English cricketing authorities and the anti-corruption unit of cricket’s world governing body, the ICC.
Former Pakistani captain Mushtaq Mohammad has proposed that former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Tauqir Zia should helm the affairs at the top of the board again, instead of Najam Sethi and Mohammad Zaka Ashraf.
The younger brother of ‘Little Master’ Hanif Mohammad, Mushtaq, who was an accomplished right-handed batsman of his time, expressed his frustration with the current PCB situation and slammed the lack of consistency at the board, with its constantly changing chairmen.
Researchers have said that stale cigarette smoke that clings to furniture, carpets, walls could lead to cancer, new research suggests.
Dubbed “third-hand smoke”, Cancer Council Queensland said that this happens when second-hand smoke exhaled by the cigarette users reacts with indoor air and clings to things inside your homes, News.com.au reported.
Cancer Council Queensland spokeswoman Katie Clift said that it is important to promote the dangers that third-hand smoke poses to human health on World No Tobacco Day on Saturday.
If you want your daughter to set her sights high, share with your wife domestic duties like doing the dishes or laundry.
Fathers who help with household chores are more likely to raise daughters who aspire to be less traditional and opt for higher paying careers, a study said.
While the mothers’ gender and work equality beliefs were key factors in predicting the kids’ attitudes towards gender, the strongest predictor of daughters’ professional ambitions was their fathers’ approach to household chores.
Prince Harry humorously threatened to “slap” a youngster during a charity rugby game recently.
The 29-year-old royal was playing the sport with children in Ipswich, where 9-year-old George Hill from the Suffolk town was cracking a lot of jokes, the Daily Star reported.
The boy said that the Prince told him to stay behind the ball and joked that he would slap him if he went in front again.
The royal was fully involved in the game as he huddled with his team to make strategies, kneeled down to protect the tiny football goal as a keeper and saved every shot. (ANI)
Postal department will release special postal cover on June 3, at Salarjung Museum, in memory of Qader Ali Baig on the occasion of his 30th death anniversary of late Qader Ali Baig.
Late Qader Ali Baig promoted theatre in Hyderabad during the decade 1970-1980. His dramas such as Sukhram Baindra, Adhe Adhoore, Khamosh, Adalat Jari Hai, and historical dramas Tanasha, Quli Qutub Shah, Mahboob and others mirror the society.
10 years ago his son Mohammed Ali Baig founded Qader Ali Baig Theatre Foundation through which dramas are presented in country and abroad.
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Drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal areas have reduced since December last year after the US military announced its plans to terminate bases from Afghanistan.
Peter Bergen, who has closely studied drone strikes for the new American Foundation, said that drone attacks in Pakistan seem to have ended.
However, the Obama administration has not entirely ruled out drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan but has pushed the responsibility to the US military, not the CIA, to carry out drone attacks.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has inaugurated the world’s highest cable-car system, which began carrying passengers between this capital and the adjacent city of El Alto at an elevation of some 4,000 metres above sea level.
The transport system gives the roughly 440,000 people who travel each day between these two cities in Bolivia’s western highlands a significantly faster alternative.
The $235-million project, executed by the Austrian firm Doppelmayr, consists of 11 stations, 443 10-person cabins and three lines, only one of which is currently in service.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a 15-truck convoy delivered food aid for 30,000 people in opposition-held areas of Syria.
“The convoy also delivered medicine for 15,000 people and essential household items for 10,000 people,” Xinhua quoted a UN spokesman as saying.
“This aid is part of the plan approved last week by the governor of Aleppo to help some half a million people both in opposition-and government-held areas,” the spokesman said Friday.
The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has revealed that there were times when he got so frustrated with his higher-ups, incluidng Jill Abramson, that he punched holes in the newsroom walls.
“It’s true” he told he said NPR’s David Folkenflik.
When asked about the maps that have been strategically placed to hide the damage in the Washington bureau, Baquet said that he does have a “temper,” the New York Post reported.e said that in every case he had become mad at somebody above him in the rank, adding that it’s not an excuse, but a fact.
Imparting technical training has become easier at the Industrial Training Institute(ITI) of Kangan in Kashmir with the installation of a solar power plant that ensures uninterrupted power supply to facilitate practical training to students.
The Government of India has initiated many solar power projects in Kashmir to ensure smooth power supply in different sectors.
Speaking to reporters, on Thursday, the in- charge of the ITI, Gulam Nabi Shah, said that the solar power plant makes practical training of students easier than before.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has shed light on the mystery over why giant elliptical galaxies have few, if any, young stars.
This new evidence highlights the important role that supermassive black holes play in the evolution of their host galaxies.
Because star-forming activity in many giant elliptical galaxies has shut down to very low levels, these galaxies mostly house long-lived stars with low masses and red optical colors. Astronomers have therefore called these galaxies “red and dead.”