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Written by Rahul on 07 April 2009
Washington, April 7 (DPA) The US warned Monday of ‘difficult diplomacy’ in finding agreement on a strong, effective international reaction to North Korea’s defiant launching of a missile over the weekend.
‘The issue’s a bit complicated, as you know, and it’s going to take time,’ Robert Wood, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department, told reporters. ‘It’s not something, I would suspect, that we could resolve in the next day or so. It’s going to take time.’
The United Nations Security Council entered its second day of efforts to agree on an answer to North Korea’s violation of a 2006 resolution that banned it from conducting ballistic missile activities.
On Sunday morning (North Korea time), Pyongyang launched what it claimed was a satellite. Others said it was a Taepo-dong 2 missile that Japan says crossed its territory.
The US and Japan say that North Korea did not intend to launch a satellite but rather test a long-range missile as part of its nuclear weapons programme. The US says the missile fell into the ocean, while Pyongyang says it put the satellite into orbit.
China and Russia, two of the security council’s veto-wielding members, have expressed understanding for Japan’s request that the council rule that North Korea violated the resolution.
But the two countries do not agree with the US, Britain and France, the remaining three veto-wielders, that the rocket launch violated the resolutions.
‘It’s complex. We’ve got to make sure that we send a very strong and unified message to the North about this, and to would- be proliferators, those who are out there thinking about either conducting these types of launches or … to proliferate weapons
further,’ Wood said.
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Written by Rahul on 05 April 2009
Islamabad, April 3 (IANS) Pakistani investigators claim to have unearthed plans by a group of 20 Uzbek terrorists to target vital installations in Islamabad, as also Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
The claim, however, seems fanciful as it suggests India’s spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) has tied up with Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud to stage the attacks.
Mehsud has owned responsibility for the March 30 terror assault on the Manawan police academy on Lahore’s outskirts when heavily armed militants held over 400 trainees hostage for over eight hours before Pakistani security forces recaptured the complex.
‘Our agencies have intercepted a RAW plan to hit Rawalpindi and Islamabad by using terrorist elements within Pakistan,’ The News Friday quoted an official as saying.
An intelligence report shared with the newspaper by an interior ministry official ‘reveals’ that Chaudhry’s life ‘is in danger as RAW wants to target him to cause anarchy in Pakistan’, it added.
According to the intelligence report, at least 20 Uzbek terrorists dispatched by Mehsud ‘have already reportedly reached Islamabad’ and ‘would play a key role in this operation’.
They are divided in groups and each group has been assigned a different attack plan, the report said.
‘The terrorists may try to capture important buildings like the Pakistan Secretariat blocks, TV stations, police training centres and foreign chains of schools,’ the intelligence report said.
‘This time, the attacks could be conducted at four or five places simultaneously in various areas of the twin-cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Vigilance is required to counter and curb attacks or terrorist acts planned by the extremists,’ the report added.
Islamabad’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Syed Kalb-e-Abbas confirmed the threats and said that rigorous security measures had been taken to secure the diplomatic enclave, military installations and other sensitive buildings.
Nasir Khan Durrani, the additional IGP of the adjacent garrison town of Rawalpindi, said the police had begun interrogating people who had been associated with terrorist outfits in the past.
‘We are concentrating especially on spontaneous checking in different localities of the city and its outskirts,’ Durrani added.
According to Moeen Masood, the additional IGP of the Special Branch: ‘We take every specific and non-specific threat seriously and maintain high state of alertness.’
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Written by Rahul on 09 March 2009
London, March 8 (ANI): Soccer aces Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo are reportedly angry after being ordered to give a urine sample every day.
The Manchester United stars have allegedly been asked to submit bottles filled with their urine at their Carrington training ground in a bid to discover ways to improve their performance.
And the Premier League leaders, including the two superstars, were said to be annoyed with the new rule.
“During training when the lads get caught short, they use a bush as the main complex is too far away,” News of the World quoted a source as saying.
“But they forget they still have to come in and give a sample, which means it can be a long wait for some of them!
“Afterwards the science boys have all these little bottles to work through. It’s a bizarre sight-some joke they’d fetch a lot on eBay,” the source added.(ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 27 February 2009
Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): Immoral behaviour really does leave a “bad taste in the mouth”, claims a new study, which found that disgust over an unfair social situation is hard-wired into the human body as strongly as the reaction to a foul taste.
The University of Toronto study shows a link between moral disgust and more primitive forms of disgust related to poison and disease.
“Morality is often pointed to as the pinnacle of human evolution and development,” says lead author Hanah Chapman, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology.
However, disgust is an ancient and rather primitive emotion which played a key evolutionary role in survival. Our research shows the involvement of disgust in morality, suggesting that moral judgment may depend as much on simple emotional processes as on complex thought,” the expert added.
The study has been published in Science.
To reach the conclusion, scientists examined facial movements when participants tasted unpleasant liquids and looked at photographs of disgusting objects such as dirty toilets or injuries.
Then they compared these to their facial movements when they were subjected to unfair treatment in a laboratory game. From analysis, the research team found that people make similar facial movements in response to both primitive forms of disgust and moral disgust.
The research employed electromyography, a technique that uses small electrodes placed on the face to detect electrical activation that occurs when the facial muscles contract.
In particular, they focused on movement of the levator labii muscle, which acts to raise the upper lip and wrinkle the nose, movements that are thought to be characteristic of the facial expression of disgust.
“We found that people show activation of this muscle region in all three situations – when tasting something bad, looking at something disgusting and experiencing unfairness,” Chapman added. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 19 February 2009
London, Feb 19 (ANI): Monks in northeast Thailand have built a temple out of one million recycled beer bottles, using them for its walls and roof.
The temple called Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, which is also known as Wat Lan Kuad or ‘the Temple of a Million Bottles’, is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.
Collection of the bottles by the Buddhist monks had begun in 1984, and after they amassed a huge number, they decided to use them as building material.
The monks have created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, and they are encouraging the local authorities to send them more.
“The more bottles we get, the more buildings we make,” the Telegraph quoted Abbot San Kataboonyo as saying.
The complex comprises of the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground, and which serve as the monks’ quarters.
As per the monks, the bottles, which are a mixture of green Heineken bottles and brown Thai beer Chang, do not lose their colour, provide good lighting and are easy to clean.
The building has a concrete core to strengthen it and the eco-friendly monks have created mosaics of Buddha using the recycled beer bottle caps.
The temple has been constructed out of 1.5 million recycled bottles, and the monks intend to use reuse more for the building, which is now on an approved list of eco-friendly sightseeing tours in southeast Asia. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 17 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 17 (ANI): Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela today said that the Government is committed to helping handloom weavers meet the challenges of globalization and modernization.
While laying the foundation stone of the “Handloom Marketing Complex” here, Vaghela said, “Our initiatives cover all aspects of production and raw material supply, design and technical assistance, training and skill up-gradation, marketing and welfare of weavers”.
He said that the Government has introduced five handloom schemes for overall development of the sector and welfare of the weavers in the XIth Plan.
Welcoming the setting up of the complex, Delhi’s Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said that it is a gift to Delhi shoppers because it is completely devoted to weavers to showcase their handloom products.
Addressing the function, the Minister of State for Textiles, E.V.K.S. Elangovan that the Government is striving to provide maximum social security to the weavers and their families.
“Our endeavour is to empower the weaver, in terms of finance, technology, information, marketing support and so on, so that he gets self-sustainable employment,” he said.
“Conducting the “Third Census for Handlooms and Issue of Photo Identity Cards to eligible Handloom Weavers” across the country is one of the major initiatives taken by the Government. The work on third All India Handloom Census is likely to be completed by December 2009. Photo Identity Cards will be issued to all the eligible handloom weavers enumerated during the Census operations,” he added.
The new Marketing Complex, meant exclusively for handloom fabrics, represents various parts of India. It is being set up on 1.779 acres of land at Janpath, New Delhi and the project will cost Rs. 42 crores.
The complex will have a double two bay basement parking space and will start functioning tentatively by October 2010. It will house products from some of the best handloom producing organizations such as Handloom House Co-optex, APCO, CCIC and other reputed organizations.
It will also have space for a Dilli Haat type atmosphere wherein weavers from throughout the country will be invited for a 14 days period to exhibit their fabrics and sell their products. Besides this, there will be a restaurant, conference hall and other facilities.
The handloom sector is the second largest employment generating sector in our country, next only to agriculture, employing about 65 lakh people, out of which about 60 per cent are women.
Therefore, the contribution of handwoven textiles to employment, textile production and export earnings is significant not only from an economic angle but also from a social angle. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 17 February 2009
New Delhi, Feb 17 (ANI): Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela will lay the foundation stone of “Handloom Marketing Complex” here today.
The new marketing complex, exclusively for the handloom fabrics from various parts of India, is being set up on 1.779 acres of land at Janpath, New Delhi.
It will be built at a cost of Rs. 42.00 crores and will have double two bay basement parking space so as to provide a conducive atmosphere for shoppers.
The complex will start functioning tentatively by October 2010.
The complex will house products from some of the best handloom producing organizations such as Handloom House Co-optex, APCO, CCIC and other reputed organizations.
It will also have space for a Dilli Haat type atmosphere wherein weavers from throughout the country will be invited for a 14 days period to exhibit their fabrics and sell their products.
Besides this, there will be a restaurant, conference hall and other facilities.
The handloom sector is the second largest employment generating sector in India, next only to agriculture, employing about 65 lakh people, out of which about 60 per cent are women.
Therefore, the contribution of handwoven textiles to employment, textile production and export earnings is significant not only from an economic angle but also from a social angle. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 15 February 2009
London, Feb 14 (ANI): Your first kiss is not just the first display of passion, but it is also a kind of screening process to discover whether a potential partner is compatible as a mate, according to scientists.
The researchers claim that the touching of lips is a “biological” quality control strategy for “mate assessment” which has evolved over millions of years.issing also triggers certain hormones that reduce stress, increase attachment between a couple, and boosts the sex drive.
According to Helen Fisher, professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, New Jersey, men subconsciously use a kiss to gauge levels of oestrogen and in turn fertility.
On the other hand, women are sizing the man up to assess how strong his immune system and health is, and how well he looks after himself.
And the information is used by both sexes to make a choice before agreeing upon having sex because then the outcome could be too “expensive”.
Fisher said that she believed both men and women used kissing for “mate choice, for sizing someone up, not only socially but chemically”.
She even cited research by Gordon Gallup, of Albany University, and other researchers and said that perspective lovers unconsciously checked the fertility of the mate they were kissing.
In her opinion, men like “sloppier kisses” as they test the saliva to see how fertile their woman is.
“The hypothesis is they’re trying to get small traces of oestrogen to see where the woman is in her menstrual cycle to indicate the state of her fertility,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying.
On the other hand, findings suggested that women used smell as they kissed to deduce some things about the man’s immune system.
“There’s some who suggest by kissing a man a woman is unconsciously able to detect aspects of a particular complex of genes in the immune system…… and that what they’re doing is being turned on my someone with different variations in the system. They’re more attracted to a different immune system,” she said.
“Over 90 per cent of societies around the world kiss and a great many animals.
“These are all devices we use to size up an individual before we do something like have sex with them which is very metabolically expensive and very time consuming.
“It is almost parsimonious to think that kissing would be an adaptive mechanism for assessing the quality of an individual,” she added.
The study was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2009 meeting. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by Rahul on 13 February 2009
London, February 12 (ANI): A study led by researchers from Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute and The Scripps Research Institute in California has for the first time revealed in great detail how enzymes in the cell cooperate to make fat.
These enzymes are integrated into a single molecular complex known as fatty acid synthase, which is regarded as a potential target for developing new anti-obesity and anti-cancer drugs.
“Fatty Acid Synthase is a remarkably complex structure. It contains all of the components needed to convert carbohydrates into fat,” said Dr. Stuart Smith, of Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute.
“We have suspected for some time that the enzyme complex is extremely flexible, which makes it difficult to analyze using X-ray crystallography. Last year the X-ray structure of the complex was solved by a group in Switzerland, but this structure provided only a snapshot of the complex in one of its many poses. We were able to use state-of-the-art electron microscopy to obtain images of the complex in many of its different conformations and assemble these images into a movie that displays the full range of motion of the components of the complex,” the researcher added.
Many drug makers are focusing on inhibitors of fatty acid synthase because they are known to block the conversion of carbohydrates into fat and suppress appetite as well as slow the growth of cancer cells.
The researchers are of the opinion that structural information garnered from X-ray and electron microscope images may aid in the design of more effective inhibitors that could be used therapeutically.
A research article on the study has been published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 27 January 2009
Islamabad, Jan. 27 (ANI): The Government in Pakistan’s Punjab provincehas finally taken over the main headquarters of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa at Muridke.
An administrator has been appointed to oversee all institutions run by the UN-banned JuD. Apart from a regular monitoring of the hospitals, schools and other welfare bodies run by the institution, JuD’s main headquarters at Muridke have finally been taken over, The News reports.
Earlier, LeT’s terror camps were organized in this complex before being moved to Pakistan-administered Kashmir after a 2002 ban on the organization.
Now, a police post has been set up outside the JuD headquarters. Sources claim that the crackdown took some time due to clearance from senior figures.
This move indicates that the Pakistani Government does have some evidence of the LeT’s involvement in the Mumbai attacks. It is assumed that evidences from New Delhi have convinced Islamabad of Lashkar’s hands in the attacks. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 27 January 2009
London, Jan 27 (ANI): A new research has suggested that the Nasca lines in Peru, which are intricate geometric patterns, may have been made by ancient Peruvians for “prayer walking”.
The Nasca lines are a collection of lines, giant trapezoids, and figures of humans, plants and animals in a desert 400 kilometers south of Lima, Peru.
They were created between 400 BC and AD 650 by the removal of reddish oxidised stones from the desert pavement to reveal the lighter sand beneath.
They were long been thought of as messages to the gods, or as markers that tracked celestial objects.
Now, according to a report in New Scientist, new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for “prayer walking”.
Tomasz Gorka of Munich University in Germany analyzed five geoglyph complexes near the city of Palpa, focusing on the large trapezoidal structures that are etched on the plains there.
He measured anomalies in the Earth’s magnetic field caused by changes in soil density at various depths.
The team walked the entire site, an area of about 60 hectares, using hand-held sensors.
“We found other lines, in the interior of the trapezoid structures, which were not visible from the air,” said Gorka.
“The geoglyphs visible today are the most recent stage of a prolonged construction process during which the whole complex of drawings was constantly added to, remodelled, obliterated or changed by use,” he added.
Some of the lines produced stronger magnetic anomalies than others, prompting Gorka and Karsten Lambers of the University of Konstanz in Germany to suggest that the soil beneath was compacted by people walking back and forth during prayer rituals.
“This activity was closely connected to the placing of ceramic vessels along the lines,” perhaps as offerings, said Lambers. (ANI)
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