If you wish to sell your old laptop online before buying a new tablet, restrain the urge to upload several photos as researchers have found that too many photos can confuse consumers and dent your chances of selling.
Looking at more photos when making product comparisons can ultimately inhibit consumers from noticing what differentiates them in the first place.
Using your brain – particularly during adolescence – may help brain cells survive and could impact how the brain functions after puberty, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that the newborn brain cells in young rats that were successful at learning survived while the same brain cells in animals that did not master the task died quickly.
A man in Odisha was Saturday sentenced to seven years in jail for possessing fake Indian currency notes with a face value Rs.28,000, police said.
The court of the second additional sessions judge in Cuttack, 25 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, also ordered Sanjay Kumar Biswal to pay a fine of Rs.5,000 after pronouncing him guilty, a police official told IANS.
The police crime branch registered a case against Biswal Sep 3, 2012, after he was found in possession of 16 fake notes of Rs.500 denomination and 20 fake notes of Rs.1,000 denomination.
When he made his now infamous comment about the recently elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi being a ‘chai wala’, Congress spokesperson Mani Shankar Aiyar may not have had any inkling that the comment would give an impetus to Indian Americans to launch a ‘chai pe charcha’ movement to help Modi win the prime ministership.
In a bid to highlight the harmful impact of tobacco use, the ministry of health and family welfare along with the World Lung Foundation has unveiled a documentary that shows the effect of tobacco on the lives of Indian citizens.
The documentary named “The Price We Pay”, launched on the eve of World Tobacco day (May 31), features interviews of several victims of tobacco-related diseases. Patients and their families speak about how poverty can inflict a family when the main breadwinner dies due to such diseases.
China and Malaysia Saturday vowed to continue the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 “until it is found”.
“Both sides agreed to continue to work closely together in the sub-surface search operation for the missing flight in the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia,” Xinhua quoted a joint statement issued by the two countries as saying.
The Chinese side welcomes Malaysia’s commitment to continue the search until it is found, the statement said.
A “vintage” sun explorer NASA spacecraft lost in space early in 1980s has now been established contact with by a group of private space science enthusiasts.
“Our team has established two-way communication with the International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3) spacecraft and has begun commanding it to perform specific functions,” scientists associated with the “ISEE-3 Reboot Project” were quoted as saying.
In 1982, the ISEE-3 satellite was pulled away from its solar mission and joined a mini international race to make the first encounter with Halley’s comet.
Do you know that the current rate of extinction of the world’s threatened species – driven primarily by human activity – is roughly 1,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate, an alarming number that is likely to grow.
To stem the loss of the world’s threatened species, the world requires new tools to collect and share information.
“Online databases, smart phone apps, crowd sourcing and new hardware are making it easier to collect data on species,” said lead author of a study, Stuart L. Pimm of Duke University.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed Luxembourg’s former premier Jean-Claude Juncker to become the next European Commission leader, a British daily reported Saturday.
“I will now lead all negotiations in the spirit that Jean-Claude Juncker should become president of the European Commission,” The Guardian quoted Merkel as saying at the National Catholic Congress in Regensburg.
The move has dealt a blow to British Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempts to block Juncker from taking up the role.
BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal today categorically said the party’s stand on Arunachal Pradesh was clear and would work to protect its territorial integrity without any compromise.
“Arunachal Pradesh is an integral part of India and will continue to remain so… The territorial integrity of the state is non-negotiable and we are committed to protect it,” Mittal, who was central election observer said on party’s strategy on the oft repeated China’s claim over the state’s territory during a press conference here.
It is time to run, jog, join the gym, hit the park or just begin walking to tuck in your tummy as losing even a moderate amount of weight can help improve your sex life.
“Excess weight is related to poor circulation and dwindling testosterone, both of which can contribute to erectile dysfunction,” researchers said in a new study.
Obese men who lost just five to 10 percent of their body weight experienced improved desire as a result, said the study which appeared in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
After winning four Lok Sabha seats, Aam Aadmi Party’s national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has decided to focus on Punjab, keeping the assembly election in mind.
Kejriwal will visit the state for a day on Tuesday and will also take stock of party’s performance.
“They will meet volunteers, members, party supporters and take stock of the party’s performance in the state. The party units in the state will also be restructured after consulting the volunteers during his visit,” said an AAP leader.
Kanye West has reportedly banned his wife Kim Kardashian from appearing on ‘ Kourtney and Khloe Take The Hamptons ‘ with her sisters.
According to RadarOnline, the American rapper doesn’t want the 33-year-old reality star to feature in the upcoming ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ spin-off series as he despises her involvement with reality television and he wouldn’t allow the her to appear on those series so soon after the wedding, Contactmusic reported.
Sources revealed that Kris Jenner is “furious” that West is getting involved in their business.
A ruling PML-N legislator and an ISI official were allegedly kidnapped by the Taliban from Pakistan’s Punjab province on Saturday.
Rana Jameel Hasan was going to Islamabad along with his wife when unidentified gunmen intercepted his car and abducted him near Pindi Bhattian, some 150 km from Lahore, police said.
The kidnappers blindfolded the couple and took them away to a deserted area. They freed Hasan’s wife with a message to arrange Rs 5 crore ransom.
They threatened Hasan’s wife with serious consequences in case the payment is not made in two days’ time.
Senior Congress leader GK Vasan on Saturday tried to put to rest the row between loyalists of P Chidambaram and factions pitted against him over “owning responsibility” for party’s poll debacle and asked cadres to desist from going to media on the issue.
“Going to the media will not help the growth of Congress. Constructive ideas should be taken up with the high command,” Vasan said while talking to reporters here.
A new study has revealed how green tea and its extracts might be able to help fight the cancer risks as well as some other diseases.
The study has found that EGCG, the active biologic constituent in green tea, changed the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells by suppressing the expression of an enzyme associated with cancer, LDHA.
Researchers also found that an enzyme inhibitor, oxamate, which is known to reduce LDHA activity, also disrupted the pancreatic cancer cells metabolic system.
Cautioning the TRS government, which would take reins of Telangana on June 2, against adopting a confrontationist attitude towards the Centre, Union Minister for Urban Development, M Venkaiah Naidu today said both governments should work hand-in-hand for the development of the new state.
“The time for politics is over (with the elections). We should now join hands for the development of the new state,” Venkaiah Naidu said addressing workers of the BJP here.
Four persons were killed and 11 others injured today when a speeding lorry hit people, who had alighted from a mini-van after it developed a snag in Tirupur district, police said.
Some 25 persons were returning after attending a condolence meet when the mishap occurred at Vallikkadu, about 80 km from here.
They had got down and were waiting for some other vehicle, when the lorry mowed them down, police said.
The injured have been admitted to a hospital.
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(IANS) Forced by abject poverty, a woman sold her newborn daughter for Rs.13,000 to a childless couple in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, an official said Saturday.
The baby born May 25 has been now rescued and is in the care of the district Child Welfare Committee (CWC).
“The mother is a slum dweller and begs for a living. She sold the newborn – her fourth child – for Rs. 13,000. After we got to know about it, we traced the baby and she is now under the care of CWC,” an official of the district social welfare department told IANS.
Green Beret Bryan Sikes, a member of the United States Army Special Forces slammed Gwyneth Paltrow for her recent comparing online harassment to war, calling her and her friends “mentally weak”.
In a guest column for Clash Daily, a website founded by conservative author Doug Giles, Sikes mocked the 41-year-old star saying that her comparison was a perfect nail hit on the head, and that she should get a medal, Us Magazine reported.
At least nine people were killed and a dozen injured by lightning in different parts of West Bengal Saturday, police said.
According to police, three people were killed in Hariharpara, two in Raghunathganj in Murshidabad district, one each in Khandaghosh and Raniganj in Burdwan district and two in Baghmundi Purulia district after they were struck by lightning.
In West Midnapore district’s Chandrakona, at least 12 people were injured in a lightning strike while they were working in a field.
IANS
After over 60 years of Urdu coming to an end to be a language of higher education at Osmania University (OU), the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu) is in the process of introducing it as a medium for bachelor and masters degrees in technical education.
The Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu) was set up by the Central government in 1996. It was in 1949 that English replaced Urdu as a medium of instruction in Osmania University after about a quarter century.
With just two days left behind for the separate Telangana and (new) Andhra Pradesh states to come into existence, on Friday, the AP government made provisional allocation of several buildings which would house the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Council, and Secretariat to the two successor states.
The A, B, C and D Blocks on the existing Secretariat premises have been allocated for Telangana and J, K, L, H (South) and H (North) blocks for Andhra Pradesh. The AP government also allocated provisionally the office space to the departments of Secretariat of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
The run-outs of Suresh Raina and Brendon McCullum saw Chennai Super Kings lose momentum when chasing the huge target set by Kings XI Punjab in the IPL Qualifier 2, said CSK’s coach Stephen Fleming after his side lost by 24 runs at the Wankhede Stadium.
Veteran Pakistani cricketer Saeed Ajmal, who is widely regarded as the world’s best off-spinner, has reportedly claimed that he declined an offer to become the captain of the team’s national Twenty20 side in order to concentrate on his bowling.
Ajmal claims to have declined captaining the Pakistan national team because he did not want any unnecessary pressure and wanted to focus on his bowling.