Posts Tagged ‘formation’

Karimnagar (Andhra Pradesh), Apr 7 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh handled the 26/11 Mumbai attack as a strong leader. "The handling of 26/11 Mumbai attack and crisis in Pakistan proved that Prime Minister has provided the nation with a strong leadership," Sonia Gandhi said ... Full story

Patna, Apr.7 (ANI): The Ram Vilas Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) on Tuesday said that it would fight the upcoming general elections on the plank of creating smaller states, as this was the best way to ensure better administration and structured development. "The party believes that for ... Full story

Washington, April 7 (ANI): Researchers at University of Western Ontario have succeeded in growing new blood vessels using stem cells from bone marrow, a medical advance that could be used to treat patients with diseases such as peripheral artery disease. It's one of the severe complications often faced by people who've had diabetes for a long time. Reduced blood flow (ischemia) in their limbs can ... Full story

London, April 7 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that some of the biggest galaxies in the early universe seem to have grown quicker than thought possible and may have bulked up on streams of gas flowing along filaments of dark matter. Monster galaxies have long been thought to take a long time to form, growing slowly by gobbling up smaller galaxies like a ... Full story

The following is a snapshot of recent developments in India's general election campaign. (The sources are mentioned in brackets) * Mayawati, chief of the caste-based Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and a prime ministerial aspirant, has promised to have job quotas for all poor sections of society cutting across caste and religious lines (The Times of India). She told an election rally that jobs, including in the judiciary, ... Full story

Raipur, April 6 (IANS) Booker winner Arundhati Roy Monday slammed the Chhattisgarh government for the continuous detention of Binayak Sen, a doctor-turned-human rights activist, who has been in jail for the last 22 months for his alleged Maoist links. Sen was arrested May 14, 2007 under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA), which Roy said 'has a vague, diffused definition of 'unlawful activity'. 'It (the act) ... Full story

Washington, April 1 (ANI): Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have reached a step closer to developing a new drug to inhibit tumour growth in cancer patients, and potentially help in the healing of wounds. The researchers looked at angiogenesis - the body's formation of new blood vessels from existing blood vessels - and how some blood ... Full story

Lahore, Mar. 30 (ANI): Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has refuted charges that the judges were reinstated under pressure. Rather, he said they were restored at the right time keeping in view public aspirations. "The PPP always upheld the democratic norms and strove for strengthening Pakistan and promoting politics of reconciliation," The News quoted Zardari, as saying. Addressing the parliamentary meeting of the PPP Punjab at the ... Full story

London, Mar 30 (ANI): A British woman, who was using Google's new Street View service to find her friends, found a fleet of UFOs in formation instead. A photograph of the nine silver spheres hovering above a row of shops, including a Coral bookies, was taken by Faye Sharpe, 18, as she viewed her neighbourhood of Wolverley Street in Bethnal Green, East London. "I was checking out ... Full story

Lahore, Mar 29 (ANI): A petition has been moved in the Lahore Registry of the Pakistan Supreme Court to put former President Pervez Musharraf's name on the Exit Control List (ECL). Advocate Akmal Saleemi filed the application in an already pending constitutional petition, seeking action against Musharraf and others for killing of innocent students in a military operation launched against the Lal Masjid. Dr Akmal ... Full story

Washington, March 27 (ANI): Engineers at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), for the first time, have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of fish. The work, conducted using a novel imaging technique, "provides information essential to the conservation of ... Full story

Washington, Mar 27 (ANI): A team of researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the UC Davis Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology has made a breakthrough in understanding how HIV spreads through the human body after capturing the process on camera. Researchers have recorded the transfer of ... Full story

Washington, March 26 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that studying tornado-like rotation in volcanoes can help them to better predict the effects of volcanic eruptions. The research is based on a 200-year-old report by a sea captain and photographs of the 2008 eruption of Mount Chaiten. Scientists involved in the research ... Full story

Washington, March 26 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have determined that as soot particles in the atmosphere age, airborne sulfuric acid may help turn them into condensation nuclei, which enable the formation of clouds. The research was conducted by Alexei F. Khalizov and colleagues from Texas A and M University, who worked alongside researchers from University ... Full story

New Delhi/Hyderabad, Mar 20 (ANI): Congress has said it was deeply hurt by the deal cut out by its old ally, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), by offering only three out of 40 parliamentary seats in Bihar. "There is a deep sense of hurt at offering us a paltry three to four seats. Certainly, we as a ... Full story

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Scientists have moved a step closer to developing a drug that could actually stop the progress of Alzheimer's disease. They have identified a molecule that can form the basis for a new therapy for the neurodegenerative disease. A typical characteristic of the brains of Alzheimer's patients is the presence of amyloid plaques, which are abnormal ... Full story

Munich, March 17 (ANI): The European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) Very Large Telescope has taken the best image ever of a strange and chaotic duo of interwoven galaxies. Known as Arp 261, the pair of galaxies has been imaged in more detail than ever before using the FORS2 instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The image proves to contain several surprises. Arp 261 lies about 70 million light-years distant ... Full story

Washington, March 13 (ANI): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a strong new line of evidence that halos of dark matter are embedded around small galaxies. Looking into the turbulent center of the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster, Hubble discovered a large population of small galaxies that have remained intact while larger galaxies around them are being ripped apart by the gravitational tug of other galaxies. The ... Full story

Pune/Chennai, Mar 13 (ANI): Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has charged the Congress with entering into "patchwork" alliances. "One front, with common programme, with one leader and we suggested the name of Dr. Manmohan Singh. Unfortunately, Congress party has taken a decision that they will make an alignment state-wise and not country as a whole. It should have taken a national level alternative which ... Full story

Bangalore, Mar 12 (ANI): The Left and major regional parties today joined hands to take on the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming general elections by launching the 'Third Force'. Addressing a massive rally here, leaders of these parties announced that ... Full story