British commuter trains to get closer to can of sardines
INT37International/EconomyBritish commuter trains to get closer to can of sardinesLondon, Oct 16 IANS British commuter trains may soon resemble Mumbai’s overcrowded suburban services, if new passenger capacity rules are any indication.The department of transport has chosen a simple way to increase passenger loads on tracks without adding a single seat. It has raised the limit on standing passengers from the existing 10 for every 100 seats to 30. The department said that its loading standard assumed that each standing passenger would have 0  read more
Posted by IANS on Friday Oct 17
Chinese lamps to welcome Diwali in Kolkata
Kolkata, Oct 15 ANI: Diwali, the festival of lights, is incomplete without the use of earthen oil lamps. But these lamps are facing stiff competition from Chinese dazzling lights, which have flooded the markets.And as part of the greetings, Chinese lamps and lights have flooded the markets in Kolkata. Large numbers of people, irrespective of their religion are thronging the packed markets to buy lights to decorate their houses for the festival.People say the cheap Chinese bulbs are preferred over  read more
Posted by aniin on Friday Oct 17
TB found in 9,000yr-old skeletons may be the earliest diseas
Washington, October 15 ANI: Detailed analyses of the bones excavated from a 9000 year-old Pre-Pottery Neolithic village, submerged off the coast of Haifa in Israel, have provided confirmatory evidence of human tuberculosis TB. Research collaborators from University College London and Tel-Aviv University said that their study suggested that human tuberculosis in bones is about 3,000 years older than previously thought. They said that their findings also confirmed the latest theory that bovine TB evolved later than human TB  read more
Posted by aniin on Friday Oct 17
Movie- Saas Bahu Aur Sensex.
Starring: Tanushree Dutta as Nitya Sen Ankur Khanna  as Ritesh Masumeh Makhija as Kirti Farooq Sheikh as Firoz Setna Kiron Kher as Binita Sen Lilette Dubey. Director- Shona Urvashi Music Composer- Blaaze, Bipin, and Randolph Correa  read more
Posted by subhasis on Thursday Oct 16
Bank turmoil windfall for fraudsters
INT24International/Security/Business/CrimeBank turmoil windfall for fraudstersLondon, Oct 13 IANS The ongoing market carnage has given rise to a huge phishing boom, security experts say.A British banking group has said that phishing attacks are up more than 180 percent in the wake of the ongoing financial crisis.Phishing is a practice of deceiving a person, usually through an e-mail, into surrendering private information such as password, credit card and bank account numbers with the object of fraudulently using them  read more
Posted by IANS on Tuesday Oct 14
Army foils infiltration from Pakistan, militant killed
NAT14National/Kashmir/Indo-pak/DefenceArmy foils infiltration from Pakistan, militant killedJammu, Oct 11 IANS Indian Army troops killed a militant and foiled an infiltration bid from across the Line of Control LOC in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district, officials said Saturday. A group of about four to five militants sneaked into Indian territory from the Pakistani side of the LoC into Sabra gali area in the mountainous Poonch district late Friday night. Army officials said they were sighted about 200 metres inside Indian territory when troops opened fire at them  read more
Posted by IANS on Sunday Oct 12
Diaspora meet in Singapore highlights business opportunities
INT56International/Diaspora/BusinessDiaspora meet in Singapore highlights business opportunities in IndiaBy Nirmala GeorgeSingapore, Oct 11 IANS Overseas Indians from more than 20 countries Saturday ended a three-day meet in Singapore pledging to take advantage of new opportunities in trade and investment offered by a booming Indian economy. Bringing together more than 700 members of the Indian diaspora from all parts of the globe to Singapore at the time of a deep global financial crisis was no mean feat, but the organizers of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas-Singapore pulled it off with aplomb  read more
Posted by IANS on Sunday Oct 12
Shrimps' half a billion year-old dance might be earliest kno
London, October 10 ANI: An analysis of a newly discovered caravan of crustaceans from half a billion years ago suggests that group behaviour evolved not long after animals themselves, say experts. Fossilised chains of up to 20 crustaceans linked head-to-toe were discovered by a team research team palaeontologists, led by Hou Xian-Guang of China-based Yunnan University. The discovery appeared to be the earliest record of any collective animal behaviour, and perhaps an adaptation to a migratory ocean lifestyle  read more
Posted by aniin on Sunday Oct 12
Nature loss bigger issue than current banking crisis
London, Oct 10 ANI: A EU European Union commissioned study has determined that the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis.The study puts the annual cost of forest loss at between 2 trillion dollars and 5 trillion dollars. According to a report by BBC News, the figure comes from adding the value of the various services that forests perform, such as providing clean water and absorbing carbon dioxide. The study, headed by a Deutsche Bank economist, parallels the Stern Review into the economics of climate change  read more
Posted by aniin on Sunday Oct 12
Mini version of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to begin in Singapor
New Delhi, Oct 10 ANI: A mini version of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas PBD will begin in Singapore from today. "PBD Singapore" is the second such convention of Indian Diaspora to be held outside India. The tagline for the event is "Towards a Dynamic Diaspora". ingapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will deliver the keynote address at the inaugural session of the two-day event today. Singapore President S.R. Nathan has consented to be the Guest of Honour at the gala dinner, which will be organised the same evening  read more
Posted by aniin on Sunday Oct 12
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