ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Dec 2, 2009, 6:28 am
H1N1 swine flu symptoms have been found previously in pet pigs, ferrets, birds and cats — and now it has been confirmed in two dogs as well, by the China Agricultural University at the end of Novemb...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 30, 2009, 7:00 am
One of the best-kept literary secrets of the decade has finally been revealed after a 34-year-old British scientist claimed that she was the writer masquerading as call girl Belle de Jour. Dr Brooke ...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 24, 2009, 9:38 pm
Actor Errol Flynn in 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood. Robin Hood is an English folklore hero known for "stealing from the rich and giving to the poor" in medieval times. (Photo via Sky News) A...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 24, 2009, 9:22 pm
The UK team aiming to smash its own land speed record by driving a car beyond 1,000mph (1,610km/h) has settled on a final design for the vehicle. It calls for a major re-configuration of the vehicle&...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 23, 2009, 8:57 pm
The world’s largest seismically isolated building, the new international terminal at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport, is now complete and open for business. Stretching across more than 2 milli...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 21, 2009, 7:01 pm
Peng Shulin, wearing new trainers, works on learning to walk again. Photo via Metro.co.uk A Chinese man, who had half of his body amputated after being run over by a truck, has amazed surgeons with h...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 21, 2009, 6:20 pm
Mussolini's body was hung from a public square in the centre of Milan. (Photo via BBC News) Benito Mussolini's granddaughter demanded a police investigation on Friday after the late Italian d...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 21, 2009, 12:23 pm
Drinking up to a bottle of wine a day cuts the risk of developing heart disease in men by half, controversial new research has found. Read the whole story: Telegraph
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 21, 2009, 11:47 am
The SimplicITy computer has been designed to make it easier for older people and technophobes to get online. SimplicITy looks like a standard PC, with a traditional keyboard and mouse. But instead of...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 17, 2009, 8:35 am
A drug that failed tests as an antidepressant is being hailed as "Viagra for women" after surprising but not unpleasant side effects. In three separate trials, the drug flibanserin did wonders for wo...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 17, 2009, 8:20 am
'Unfriend' has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary, chosen from a list of finalists with a tech-savvy bent. Unfriend was defined as a verb that means to remo...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 17, 2009, 8:13 am
A letter written in Persian by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, to the then governor-general of the East India Company Lord Dalhousie has been discovered in the British Library. The letter found in the ar...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 17, 2009, 8:00 am
Heart disease patients who practise Transcendental Meditation have reduced death rates, US researchers have said. At a meeting of the American Heart Association they said they had randomly assigned 2...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 16, 2009, 12:29 am
Nearly 300 senior BBC managers earn more than £100,000. (Photo credit: Gill Allen, The Times) At least 37 BBC executives earn more than the british Prime Minister, it was revealed Thursday, as the c...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 15, 2009, 7:37 am
NASA's experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced. The space agency smashed a rocket and a probe into a large crater at the lunar south pole...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 15, 2009, 5:07 am
Photo credit: Getty Images \ Colin Anderson via Planet Green Money invested in protecting nature can bring huge financial returns, according to a major investigation into the costs and benefits of th...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 14, 2009, 10:14 am
From IRIN News Research in India has shown a 5-10 times reduction in malaria-related deaths among communities who use traditional medicinal plants like Guduchi (tinospore coeditdia), a local medicinal...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 14, 2009, 9:30 am
From SciDev Net By Munyaradzi Makoni Photo credit: Flickr/Dr. Hemmert South Africa's Agricultural Research Council has appealed against the government's decision to reject a genetically modi...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 4, 2009, 8:17 am
From Daily Mail By Fiona Macrae Forget fancy diets and strict exercise regimes. The key to keeping trim could simply be eating lots of tomatoes. Eating the fruit leaves you feeling satisfied, suppres...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 4, 2009, 7:04 am
From Daily Mail By Jenny Hope Doctors should stop prescribing aspirin to ward off heart attacks in people without heart disease, a leading doctor has said. Giving aspirin to these patients can do mo...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 1, 2009, 7:13 pm
From BBC NEWS Spider webs encased in amber which were discovered on an East Sussex beach have been confirmed by scientists as being the world's oldest on record. The amber, which was found in Be...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Nov 1, 2009, 1:20 pm
From Sify.com A Madhya Pradesh minister believes there is no difference between genetically modified (GM) crops and the East India Co, the British firm that began trading with India in 1600 but subse...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 10:05 am
From BBC NEWS A number of English vineyards have signed up to make use of a satellite imaging service to boost harvests. The satellite measures a vineyard's reflectivity in a number of colours i...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 9:50 am
From BBC NEWS Hundreds of people have attended a wedding in central Somalia between a man who says he is 112 years old, and his teenage wife. Ahmed Muhamed Dore - who already has 13 children by five...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 9:33 am
From BBC NEWS An extract found in the bright yellow curry spice turmeric can kill off cancer cells, scientists have shown. The chemical - curcumin - has long been thought to have healing powers and ...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 9:05 am
From BBC NEWS The family of a US woman who drank so much water in a contest run by a radio station that she died has received $16m (£9.7m) in compensation. A California court found Sacramento radio...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 3:25 am
From The Hindu SEOUL: The non-profit body that oversees Internet addresses approved on Friday the use of Hebrew, Hindi, Korean and other scripts not based on the Latin alphabet in a decision that cou...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 2:48 am
From Times of India Sushruta: The first Plastic Surgeon in 600 B.C.(Courtesy : www.ispub.com) An Indian doctor working in 600 BC might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 2:07 am
From BBC NEWS Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without greater international effort, UN food agencies have warned. The UN's annual report on global food se...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 1:13 am
From abc NEWS By JEFFREY KOFMAN It's where the snowcapped Andes Mountains tumble spectacularly into the sea. Where rivers roar with glacial waters. Where 3,000-year-old Alerce trees strain for the...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 31, 2009, 12:50 am
From USA TODAY By Dan Vergano "Plastics" may have been the Baby Boomer watchword, but "synthetic" rules today. That's "synthetic" as in synthetic biology, the hottest biomedical buzzword, promis...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 27, 2009, 10:08 am
From Daily Mail The fossilised skull of a giant 'sea monster' measuring up to 53ft in length has been discovered on the south coast of England. Weighing up to 12 tonnes, the ferocious pliosa...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 6, 2009, 7:13 am
From BBC NEWS Top spot: Norway is the most desirable place to live, according to a UN list (Photo via Daily Mail) Norway is the best place in the world to live while Niger is the least desirable, ac...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 5, 2009, 7:51 am
From The Independent Looking out of place against the lush Dutch maize fields, a few dozen camels saunter about between twice-daily milking sessions on Europe's only commercial camel dairy farm. ...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 3, 2009, 6:41 am
From Zeenews.com Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, the United Nations has released a stamp of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 140th birth anniversary. United Nations Postal Admini...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Oct 2, 2009, 10:19 am
From BBC NEWS By Jyotsna Singh Geologists in southern India say they have found hundreds of dinosaur egg clusters which could be about 65 million years old. It was a chance find discovered when a te...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 2:27 pm
From Daily Mail By Anastasia Stephens Old remedy: Basil has been used medicinally for centuries If you need a strong anti-inflammatory to ease your aching joints, then try eating basil. Several var...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 1:41 pm
From DD News Photo via The Hindu Her golden voice has enthralled millions and as the grande dame of Indian music turns 80 on Monday, Lata Mangeshkar says her only wish is to continue singing till h...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 12:24 pm
From Telegraph By Rebecca Smith Vaccinations of priority groups is due to start next month in Britain European Medicines Agency has recommended that the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, called Pandemrix, b...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 6:50 am
From Daily Mail A British art historian has created what is believed to be the world's largest and rarest piece of cloth made entirely from golden spider silk. The 11ft hand-woven silk shawl too...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 5:19 am
Rrom BBC NEWS By Catrin Nye Devotees came from around the world for the ceremony with Baba Ramdev Bought by two of his devotees from Glasgow for £2m, the tiny North Ayrshire island of Little Cumbra...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 2:05 am
From Telegraph Fruit grower Ken Morrish was left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle. The fruit's striking colouring is ...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 1:21 am
From Telegraph By Amy Willis Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as 20 years' time through nanotechnology and an increased understanding of how the body works. ...
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ashok pandey posted an article on Desi Editor - Sep 28, 2009, 12:50 am
From Telegraph From Google to Youtube, from Craigslist to Flickr - how some of today's biggest sites looked back in the early days of their existence. Remember the days when the word Google was ...
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