National pride and prestige is at stake when our players play for their country. Our boys might be tired but have to prove that they are tried, tested and trusted! We wish Dhoni and company tons of good wishes for England World Cup beginning June 5. .
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Venus Williams made a shock exit from the French Open. She went down in straight sets to upcoming Hungarian star Agnes Szavay in the third round. The shocked Williams said the defeat had taken her by surprise. .
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Monica Chaudhry, singer Chitra Singh's daughter allegedly committed suicide at her Bandra residence early this Friday. Police has sent the body for medical examination. She was suffering from depression due to marital problems.
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Google had to move the World Intellectual Property Organisation to get the domain name Googblog.com, from 17-year-old Herit Shah, who owned the domain. Google claimed that the word 'Goog' in the domain was it's stock sticker at the NASDAQ.
With the advent of the Internet and the increasing availability of free porn, the Playboy busi-ness has been struggling to remain viable. Playboy remains the top-selling men's magazine in US but sales have dropped to an all-time low. Hence the sale..
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LASER TREATMENTS have become integral to refractive eye surgery procedures although they were not used for ophthalmology initially. It is said that the first laser was developed at Bell Labs in 1958. The researchers were working on microwaves and wanted a way to see the molecules more clearly. The first working laser was demonstrated on 16 May 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories. It used a ruby crystal that generated a red light at 694 nanometers wavelength. Since then, lasers have become a multi-billion dollar industry.
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Barcelona defeated Manchester United and were crowned with a 2-0 victory in Rome on Wednesday (May 27). Goals from star forwards Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi gave the team a deserved victory and denied Man U from becoming the first team..
French open 2009: Scoreboard, shedules and news updates in real time.
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According to reports in UK media, Virgin owner Richard Branson is going to buy America's best selling men's magazine Playboy for $300 million, thrice the market price of the magazine. Official sources have however, refused to comment on the issue.
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Obama is set to change the ages old oil policy of USA. It would lessen the emission of GHG and would witness a fall in the use of fossil fuel. This will marked the beginning of reversal of Bush administration?s environmental and oil policy.
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Latest bomb blast in Lahore city has left seven people dead and over 100 injured. According to latest reports, the blast was carried off by Jamaat-ul-Dawa, a Pakistan based terrorist organisation in an attempt to free their chief from police station.
The names of those who made it to the Lok Sabha 2009 are slowling trickling in and Merinews shares the list of Lok Sabha candidates, who have come out with flying colours in the big electoral test.
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SOME PEOPLE are secretive by nature and wait for the right time. Others may like to keep quiet because of family pressure. Similarly there can be several other reasons, but if you fail to convince your partner of the need to keep a lid on the affair, he/she may take it in a negative context. It’s great to have your partner around, almost eight hours a day. However, it would be better to keep your private life, private, at work.
Reena, a working woman, is going around with one of her colleagues. Though the relationship they share is beautiful, their co-workers make every possible effort to unnerve them. She reveals, “If he doesn’t come for a day, people ask me about his whereabouts. The moment we step out for a smoke, all heads turn towards us. Many times, I have overheard people gossiping about us. At times it irritates me so much that I find it difficult to concentrate on my work.”
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TWO PASSENGERS from Spain and the United States have been quarantined in Pune on the suspicion of carrying Swine Flu virus.
The patients have been kept under observation at the Naidu Hospital in Pune and their blood samples have been sent to National Institute of Virology in the city.
A hospital official said that since the patients were showing symptoms of a viral infection, they have been kept under isolation and being treated with routine drugs.
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THE WORLD is of branding. No, it’s not marketing. Marketing has lost that ‘X-factor’. It’s branding now. Just have a fair glance at our local deities - Aamir Khan is brand perfectionist, Lalu is brand rural India, Shahrukh is brand metrosexual and the Stick Bebo is brand size zero. Everybody is feeding on their own brand, even living on it. Branding is the talk of the town. This trend has only created the demand of the mushrooming advertising agencies and brand promotion organisations.
English artisan Josian Wedgwood was the first to build the modern business brand. Wedgwood was able to develop demand for his tablewares and command premium price over comparable tableware and other products.
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A TEAM of medical experts in Mexico discovered that the country where the deadly H1N1 flu virus originated, could have made India worried.
The experts of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the Mexican medical experts studied the first forty death cases in Mexico. They discovered that those, who have been suffering from asthma, cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and other immunosuppressive illnesses like HIV, diabetes and TB, have more risk of death if infected with H1N1. India tops the list with such patients.
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MA, THAT was the first thing that came to my mind, as I sat there alone at the platform... dad had just left for my hometown... I was in a new place, a new city…A destination that I had chosen for myself… I thought about a hundred things… about my new hostel... about my internship that was going to begin the next day, and I found myself coming back to Ma…
Back at home, I had struggled with her, packing in thing for my stay. In the afternoon, I managed to have a siesta, while my Ma meticulously wrote out a list of things she had packed and what to find where. She had woken me up an hour and a half later, with cookies and a hot cup of tea and we sat down in our garden talking about how fast life moves on. We had then moved over to other things, jumping from topic to topic, talking about a hundred million things.
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IF WE'VE learned anything from the 100 days since US President Barack Obama's inauguration, it's that the man cannot walk on water. He is not divine.
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THE WORLD Health Organisation has declared swine flu a public health emergency. Michael Greger, MD, Public Health and Animal Agriculture for The Humane Society of the United States, issued the following statement in reaction to the swine flu outbreaks:
“Breeding sows confined in crates so narrow they can’t even turn around produce lower levels of antibodies in response to experimental challenges. Measures as simple as providing straw bedding for pigs improves immune function, presumably by eliminating the immunosuppressive stress of lying on bare concrete for virtually their entire lives. This minimal act—providing straw— has been shown to decrease the risk of swine flu infection, which may play a role in the emergence of human influenza pandemics.
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CLASSICAL SWINE fever (CSF), otherwise known as hog cholera (also sometimes called pig plague based on the German word Schweinepest), is a highly contagious disease that comes from pigs and wild boar. It is caused by Pestivirus, which belongs to the family Flaviviridae.
Swine fever causes fever, skinlesions, convulsions particularly in young animals and fatality within 15 days. The disease is endemic in much of Asia, Central and South America and parts of Europe and Africa. According to the reports of the United Kingdom Husbandry, it was eradicated in animals. This statement was also confirmed by the United States Animal Husbandry in 1978. The major symptom of this virus infection in pigs is the pinpoint hemorrhages on the kidneys.
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WHO also said that no case of Swine Flu has been confirmed in the country. To prevent the outbreak of the dreaded flu, the Government meanwhile has taken quick action and surveillance teams have been set up at all major airports to screen incoming passengers.
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At present, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) website reports that there are 64 confirmed cases of swine flu. The states that are affected are Ohio, Texas, California, Kansas, and New York. The most affected area of New York has been New York City with 45 cases being reported.
Thailand, Nepal, the European Union, Russia, China and other countries have introduced measures to contain the growing threat.
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