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June 2009

India Plans to use ‘Bhut Jolokia’ as weapon

GUWAHATI - ‘Bhut Jolokia’, the world’s hottest chilli could soon become part of India’s defense armoury with scientists trying to develop teargas canisters and hand grenades by mixing the fiery pepper to control riots and combat separatists, officials Saturday said.
A defense spokesperson said scientists at various Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories were [...]

Yemeni plane with 153 on board crashes in Indian Ocean

A Yemeni airliner has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoros, with 153 people on board. The Yemenia Airbus A310 en route to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen’s capital Sanaa crashed off the island nation of Comoros on Tuesday. The cause of the crash is unknown, however news reports [...]

Nanotechnology to help fight drug-resistant Germs

Doctors may get a new arsenal for meningitis treatment and the war on drug-resistant bacteria and fungal infections with novel peptide nanoparticles developed by scientists at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of Singapore and reported in Nature Nanotechnology.
The stable bioengineered nanoparticles devised at IBN effectively seek out and destroy bacteria and fungal cells [...]

Assam Class XI or HS 1st Year Results

Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) (Class XI) or HS 1st year Results 2009 has been announced. You can view the results of Class XI (10+1) online on the official AHSEC web site. To know the result enter the Roll, No and Stream (Science, Arts or Commerce) of the candidate. And to search a new [...]

Assam’s First Swine Flu Victim is from Duliajan

A five-year-old girl from Duliajan is the first victim of deadly Swine Flu virus in Assam. The girl, with her parents, arrived at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata from Australia via Bangkok on Friday, where mandatory medical check-up detected the symptoms of swine flu in the girl. Further tests confirmed the [...]

Two more Indians attacked in Australia

Melbourne - In a fresh case of assault in Australia, two Australian teenagers in Central Sydney reportedly attacked two Indians late on Saturday night. The attack took place on Bathurst Street, after the men got into an argument that escalated into a fight, New South Wales police said. Reportedly beer bottles were used to hit [...]

Police uses teargas against mourners in Iran

Tehran - Police used teargas against thousands of supporters of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Moussavi during a mourning march on Sunday in central Tehran, eyewitnesses said. Eyewitnesses said police used teargas after clashes between them and the demonstrators.
Moussavi’s supporters had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, who was killed [...]

Berlin Gay Parade attracts huge crowd

Berlin - Berlin’s Christopher Street Day, an annual gay pride parade, attracted more than 550,000 people on Saturday. The day began with a shock, when Rudolf Brazda, 96, collapsed and grazed his head and arm during a speech at the national monument to homosexual victims of Nazi persecution. Brazda suffered in Buchenwald concentration camp from [...]

Indonesia confirms Six new Swine Flu cases

Jakarta - Indonesia on Sunday announced six new confirmed cases of deadly Swine Flu after they were tested positive. With this, country’s total confirmed Swine Flu cases increases to eight. Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari identified the six new confirmed cases as three other Australians and three Indonesians - two females and a male - [...]

Jackson’s nanny reveals about Drug and Financial problems

Los Angeles/London - Michael Jackson’s former child minder has spoken of how she regularly had to pump the late pop singer’s stomach to remove the dangerous drug cocktails he took, in an interview published in Britain. Grace Rwaramba, 42, who worked as a nanny to Jackson’s three children until last December, gave a rare insight [...]

What Are The Various Facials Available?

Generally, as entailed by the name itself, facial refers to skin treatments for the face. It involves deep cleaning and unclogging of the pores to draw...

Night Vision CCTV For Home Or Office

Humans have got a lot of excellent characteristics but the ability to see well in the dark is unfortunately somewhat lacking. Human vision is restricted...

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