Month: October 2014

US health officials were monitoring 50 people for Ebola exposure, 10 of whom are at “high risk” of the disease after close contact with the first diagnosed American patient.

United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified 10 people who had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan, America’s first diagnosed case of Ebola.

CDC made contact with about 100 people that had possible contact with Duncan, and narrowed to 50 the list of people it needs to monitor daily.

Former England captain Andrew Strauss has issued a warning predicting the future of Test Cricket, saying he fears it could ‘fizzle out’.

Strauss made this gloomy anticipation in the paperback edition of his autobiography ‘Driving Ambition’.

In it the former opening batsman, who led England to Ashes victory in both 2009 and again in 2010 and 2011 in Australia, highlighted the revamp of the International Cricket Council and the growth of lucrative Twenty20 tournaments such as the Indian Premier League as the biggest threats to Test matches.

Noted singer K.J. Yesudas is upset in the manner his Thursday’s women dress code remarks are being taken forward, CPI-M politburo member M.A. Baby said Friday.
“I did not speak to Yesudas and if you ask my opinion, it can be seen in two ways — if only his statements are seen, it may not sound good, but then we should look at it in a larger canvas and also see it in contextual terms and in that case, there is no mala fide in his remarks, because he only wanted to give a good advice,” said Baby.

George Clooney’s wife Amal Alamuddin has been labeled as the ‘new Kim Kardashian’ by a website which made the human rights lawyer famous overnight.

Alamuddin topped the ‘Barrister Hottie’ list that was compiled by the website Barrister Boyfriend which also mentioned during the wedding speeches, the Mirror reported.

Natalia Naish, founder of the site, compared the 36-year-old human rights lawyer, to reality TV star Kardashian after posting his views on Clooney’s wedding on her website.

French auto major Renault plans to enter new verticals, including used car business in India next year, besides launching two new models, to make its presence felt in the market which it sees as “the biggest challenge”.

The company, which is targeting a market share of over 5 per cent in India, is also leveraging on its 4,500 strong R&D Centre in Chennai to come up with products which are “right for the country”.

Vendors through e-commerce have starting offering premium smartphone iPhone 6 at price starting from around Rs 56,000 for which official launch date and other details for India are yet to be announced by Apple.

A vendor at EBay is offering iPhone 6 for about Rs 55,954 and promising October 8 as estimated time to deliver the product without any extra shipping cost.

Michelle Obama recently tweeted a wedding photograph and Barack Obama gave a marriage advice to a new bride while at a stop in Princeton, Indiana as the couple celebrated their 22 years of marriage .

US President said that husbands screw up a bunch of times but they eventually learn, although it takes a little longer because they are not very smart, CBS News reported.

President Obama also mentioned that his wife has been very patient with him.

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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has said that he would initiate an inquiry into the alleged multi-crore irrigation scam and probe the “hasty approval” of builder files by former CM Prithviraj Chavan, if his party is voted to power.

“Once they (Cong-NCP) were good friends…now they are leaving no stone unturned to stab each other. One (Ajit Pawar) says he will file RTI queries to get the documents that Chavan signed and the other

It was a sunny Saturday morning here and the Met Office has forecast a clear day ahead.

“The sky will remain clear and the day`s maximum temperature would be around 37 degrees Celsius,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department.

The day`s minimum temperature settled three levels above the season`s average at 24.6 degrees Celsius.

Humidity at 8.30 a.m. was 83 percent.

Charlie Sheen has been reportedly pulled into a lawsuit for committing a physical assault on his dentist, during his recent dental visit.

Margarita Palestino , a dental technician in LA has charged the 49-year-old actor of acting “violently bolting out of the dental chair, and forcefully punching Palestino’s chest”, People magazine reported.

Sheen also grabbed Palestino’s “left breast area” and then grabbed her bra strap when Dr. George Bogen asked her to replace the mask and forcefully pulled it down in an attempt to open or remove her bra.

Strongly condemning the “heinous and cowardly” murder of a British humanitarian aid worker by the Islamic State group, the UN Security Council today stressed that the terror outfit must be defeated.

The 15-nation Council said that the killing of Alan Henning, is a tragic reminder of the increasing dangers volunteer humanitarian personnel face every day in Syria.

It also once again demonstrates the brutality of ISIS or ISIL, which is responsible for thousands of abuses against the Syrian and Iraqi people.

Katrina Kaif says that she neither thinks about the cast nor script while signing a film and adds that her decision is influenced by her thought process at that particular moment.

“I don’t calculate and choose scripts. At that moment of saying yes, I would have something in my mind that this is what I want to do,” she said.

A total of 237 undocumented migrants and three human traffickers were intercepted in the eastern Aegean Sea islands, the Greek coast guard said.

The number of immigrants entering Greece this year is expected to triple in comparison with 2013 to some 30,000 people, Greek Shipping Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis told parliament Friday.

Varvitsiotis attributed the increased flow to the ongoing crisis in Syria and the atrocities of jihadis, Xinhua reported.

France topped the standings in Subdivision 6 of men’s gymnastics qualifications with the best team total score in each of the six apparatus here Saturday.

France, which performed particularly well on parallel bars and rings, earned a total of 343.385 points to rank sixth among the teams that have competed thus far in the qualifications that began Friday, reports Xinhua.

The top eight teams in qualifications will advance to Tuesday’s team final.

Following France in the standings are Australia (324.917), Kazakhstan (313.899) and Denmark (305.908).

Indian wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Bajrang arrived in New Delhi on Saturday after bagging the Gold and Silver medal respectively at the 17th Asian Games held in Incheon in South Korea.

Dutt outshone Tajikistan’s Zalimkhan Yusupov in the men’s 65 kg freestyle wrestling match by 1-0, whereas Bajrang had to settle with a silver medal after losing the men’s freestyle 61kg final match with 1-3 score to Iran’s Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari. His compatriot Narsingh Pancham Yadav settled for a bronze in 74kg freestyle.

Speaking to mediapersons, Dutt expressed his happiness over the win.

Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who co-produced the film “Mary Kom”, says M.C. Mary Kom’s victory of India’s first women’s boxing gold in Asian Games in Incheon, is no surprise, given her “tenacity and passion”.

“She is a true hero. I am not surprised by her victory. I expected her to bring the gold home from the Asian Games. Mary has the tenacity and the passion. These are qualities that prompted us to make a film on her life in the first place,” Bhansali said.

A new research has revealed the neurobiological basis of human-pet relationship, suggesting that women respond to their pets in the same way they do to their babies.

Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigated differences in how important brain structures are activated when women view images of their children and of their own dogs.

Maharashtra’s political scenario has undergone huge changes ahead of the Assembly elections, with many senior politicians switching loyalties and migrating to rival political parties in a bid to stay in power.

Prominent among them is former Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MLA Ram Kadam, who had defeated late Pramod Mahajan’s daughter Poonam Mahajan in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar (West) constituency in the 2009 Assembly polls. He has now joined the BJP, after being apparently denied a ticket by the MNS.

Kadam is now a BJP candidate from the Ghatkopar (West) constituency of Mumbai.

Scientists have recently created a crystal that might make breathing possible underwater, without using Oxygen masks and tanks.

Just 10 litres of the “Aquaman Crystal” could absorb all the oxygen from the room and it could hold three times as much oxygen than oxygen tanks, which would be far smaller and lighter to carry, and could slowly release oxygen when put under a small amount of heat, the Independent reported.

Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama.

Kailath is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s high civilian awards and is a member of major science and engineering academies in India.

He received his BE (telecom) degree from the College of Engineering, Pune before getting his SM and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Former England captain Andrew Strauss has issued a warning predicting the future of Test Cricket, saying he fears it could ‘fizzle out’.

Strauss made this gloomy anticipation in the paperback edition of his autobiography ‘Driving Ambition’.

In it the former opening batsman, who led England to Ashes victory in both 2009 and again in 2010 and 2011 in Australia, highlighted the revamp of the International Cricket Council and the growth of lucrative Twenty20 tournaments such as the Indian Premier League as the biggest threats to Test matches.

Scientists have recently developed World’s first ‘solar battery’ that runs on light and air.

The hybrid device created at the Ohio State University is a mesh solar panel, which allows air to enter the battery, and a special process for transferring electrons between the solar panel and the battery electrode. Inside the device, light and oxygen enable different parts of the chemical reactions that charge the battery.

The indomitable Chennai Super Kings will have the advantage of familiarity with the conditions but the unbeaten Kolkata Knight Riders would still be a tough nut to crack when they clash in the Oppo Champions League T20 final at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.

Both teams had met in the final of the 2012 Indian Premier League, when Kolkata defeated Chennai by five wickets.

London: Dogs may be a great model for understanding the causes of human diseases, especially cancer, scientists say.

Researchers have characterised the dog’s epigenome and transferred the results to human cancer to understand the changes in appearance of tumours.

The bond between humans and dogs is strong and ancient. The relationship between the two species has been studied by psychologists, anthropologists, ethnologists and also by genetic and molecular biologists.

It turns out that most of the British newlyweds don’t have sex on their first night.

According to a recent wedding survey by events company Chillisauce, 67 per cent of Brit couples don’t actually consummate their marriage on their wedding night, Metro.co.uk reported.

Out of the 5,000 people who responded to the survey, almost 80 percent of women who attended a wedding said they’d ‘hooked up’ with someone there, while 25 percent of people claimed to have met their partner at somebody else’s nuptials.