 Grooms queue up for girl who made in-laws outlaws - Anote for brides-to-be: Courage is fast replacing coyness as a desirable trait in the marriage market. You would think that a woman who conducts a sting operation against her dowry-demanding groom-to-be and her future in-laws would scare other potential matches away....
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MR clean is city’s new commissioner - Mumbais new commissioner of police Sanjeev Dayal, 55, is so low-profile that when he walked in to address his first press briefing as commissioner in his stately new office, most in the waiting media phalanx did not recognise him. A 1977-batch officer, Dayal was elevated on Monday...
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Dignity chief caught for illegal transfer from 89-yr-old’s fund - The head of Dignity Foundation, Sheilu Srinivasan, was released by the police on bail on Monday after allegations that her group fraudulently obtained power of attorney from an 89-year-old resident of Opera House to administer property worth crores of rupees. Srinivasan has...
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Body mix-up piles on the agony for AI crash families - Ten days after they lost their kin in the Mangalore crash, twelve families, including that of flight attendant Sujata Survase, were told on Wednesday that they will not be able to perform last rites on the dead as the bodies had been handed over to other families. Hundred and...
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350-crore bribe for power deal rocks state - Almost a decade after Enron rocked Maharashtra, another power scandal is threatening to break out. Investigative agencies in the United States have sent India the names of nine officials from the state-run MAHAGENCO who last year received Rs 350 crore in kick-backs from California-based CCI ...
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‘Aphrodisiacs do not exist’ - Named after Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty and fertility, aphrodisiacs are substances that supposedly induce or boost sexual desire. For centuries, people have believed their potency, but science says the claims are far from truth. No scientific study, till date, has proved the existence...
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Nutritional care during pregnancy - Dr Sunita Dube shares tips on how to take care of yours and your child’s nutritional needs when you are pregnant...
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Anger motivates you to find solutions say scientists - Getting furious brings us closer to solving problems, according to the investigation lead by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV). “Inducing emotions generates profound changes in the autonomous nervous system, which controls the cardiovascular response, and also in the endocrine...
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Making it work - Things were going great… you finally found the perfect one and now cant wait to get to know him/her better. If your track record has been sketchy with things fizzling out for no perceivable reason, learn from other peoples mistakes and take note of how not to botch things up with the ...
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‘Humour is my weapon’ - The world’s obsessed with weight. Everybody wants to be thin. Fair enough, but why discriminate against those who tilt towards the wrong end of the scale? I have always been on the plumper side and currently weigh about 170 kg. But while I’ve never fretted about it, I can’t say the same about society....
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M3U Dropper - Create music playlists in a jiffy, without ever having to open up a music player! Its as easy as just dragging and dropping MP3 files from your windows folders...
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Phone giant unveils bicycle mobile charger - Amsterdam: Cyclists chatting on the mobile phones are an ubiquitous site in the bike-friendly city of Amsterdam and soon they will be able to charge their mobiles with bike power. Nokia Oyj introduced a bicycle charger on Thursday aimed at developing countries with limited access...
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PC users can now use their machines to test stress levels - Taipei: A new gadget that helps computer users check their stress and mood levels was unveiled Thursday at Computex, Asia’s biggest IT trade fair. The BioDynamic Signature (BDS) technology, unveiled by Israeli high-tech company IDesia, uses a person’s unique heartbeat to tell...
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Burger diet boosts kids’ asthma risk - Eating three or more burgers a week may boost a child’s risk of asthma reveals an international study, published in Thorax. Conversely, a Mediterranean diet, rich in fruit, vegetables, and fish seems to stave off the risk. The research team base their findings on data collected between...
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Humble LED lights way to superfast computers - Superfast quantum computing, one of the holy grails of science, could be a step closer following the invention of a new device capable of producing so-called “entangled” light on demand.
Scientists at Toshiba’s research centre in Cambridge, England, said their...
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