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Obama is fine, says White House after AP Twitter hack

United States President Barack Obama is fine, a presidential spokesman said on Tuesday after a hacked Associated Press Twitter account sent out fake news about two bomb blasts at the White House......

Dey murder: Scribes on relay hunger strike

Journalists associations in Mumbai began their relay hunger strike on Wednesday to press for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the murder of senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey. On Monday,......

Delhi presses panic button as dengue plagues city

Construction delays, inclement weather, red tape if these were not enough reasons to worry Indian Olympic Association chief Suresh Kalmadi in the run up to the Commonwealth Games, then a possible......

India to press for SAARC anti-terror co-operation

Strengthening of police cooperation will be high on agenda of the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Home Ministers' conference during which India is expected to press for......

Will free AP scribe after punishment: Pak Taliban

Refusing to release the abducted journalist Mohammad Rashid, who is associated with the Associated Press, the North Waziristan Taliban has said that Rashid is being interrogated to ascertain his......

Planes on biofuel? Test flights on

With global aviation bodies like International Air Transport Association pressing for reduction of carbon emissions in the sector, some major airlines have carried out test flights using biofuel......

Proposed oil staff stir on Dec 2 loses steam

Oil Sector Officers Association, which has called for an indefinite strike in oil PSUs from December 2 to press for higher wages, are increasingly getting isolated with executives from IOC, HPCL,......

Travel agents to keep shutters down on Tuesday

Booking an air ticket on Tuesday is likely to be tough, as thousands of travel agents have decided to shut business for a day to protest lack of transparency in airfares. "We demand transparency in......

'Bogus' tweet gives Wall Street a hiccup

An AP tweet, which an AP spokesman says was "bogus," had said there were two explosions at the White House. Stocks turned volatile on Tuesday, sharply cutting gains for a few minutes and then......

Koushik Chatterjee tipped to be Tata Steel's MD

Koushik Chatterjee, the group chief financial officer of Tata Steel, is likely to take over as the next managing director of the company when the current incumbent, H M Nerurkar, retires in......

Meet your Golden Globe winners, 2011

The Golden Globe Awards are out! And sweeping the awards given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the run-up to the Oscars are The Social Network and Glee. In the......

Golden Globes get it mostly right!

Raja Sen raves about the big wins at the 70th Golden Globe awards.Ifeel more than a slight nip in the air around the netherworld today, for as I sit at my desk for the annual task of heaping scorn......

India to host Thomas, Uber Cup finals in 2014

For the first time India will play host to the final rounds of the prestigious Thomas and Uber Cup championship next year after the Badminton World Federation (BWF) officially awarded the hosting......

Guilty Tevez handed community service, ban and fine

ManchesterCity striker Carlos Tevez was handed 250 hours of community service, banned from driving for six months and fined 1,000 pounds for driving offences, the Press Association reported. Tevez,......

Pistorius set to receive snub from major athletic events

The sporting world is set to snub Oscar Pistorius from major events around the world after a court in South Africa allowed the Olympic and Paralympic star to return to international competition. -......

NMC slams BCCI for its continued ban on certain photo agencies

News Media Coalition, comprising some international and domestic news agencies, on Friday criticised the BCCI for its continued refusal to grant accreditation to certain photo agencies, resulting......

News media relations with Obama hit low ebb over golf weekend

Relations between the White House and the correspondents who cover it, always edgy and adversarial, have hit a low ebb in a dispute over whether the press should have access to the president during......

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Q. Honesty May Boost Health, Study FindsPeople who tell fewer lies experience improved health, such as less stress and fewer headaches, according to new research presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Baptist Press reports. "Recent evidence indicates that Americans average about 11 lies per week," said lead author Anita Kelly, professor of psychology at the University of Notre Dame. "We wanted to find out if living more honestly can actually cause better health. We found that the participants could purposefully and dramatically reduce their everyday lies
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Q. The News Agency "Associated Press" is ofA. Indonesia B. AmericaC. Bangladesh D. China
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Q. The Awards conferred by the Hollywood Foreign press Association which is given annually for creditable efforts in film direction, areA. Golden Bear AwardB. Oscar AwardC. Owen Global PrizeD. Golden Globe Award
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Q. Oscar Awards are conferred annually byA. Academy of Motion Pictures, arts and sciences, USAB. Government of United StatesC. Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationD. None of the above
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Two Vidarbha cricketers under scanner

A wider, more vicious bookie-cricketer nexus is emerging from the Delhi police probe into the IPL spot-fixing expose, with the Special Cell... ...

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Medicine-bashing is too much with us

Fluency, felicity and flamboyance in language do not always fit in with finer analysis of facts or rigour. When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney went... ...

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Missing Katni girl's family demands CBI probe

Family of Kalpana Kachhi of Katni, who has been missing since January 15, demanded a CBI inquiry and a fresh DNA test to confirm the identity of... ...

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Reliving bygone Bangalore

Beyond the glass façades of high rise buildings, shopping malls, sanitised campuses of MNCs and all the chaos that come with the job description... ...

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Novartis drug Afinitor significantly extended time without disease progression in women with HER2 positive advanced breast cancer

BOLERO-3 is a Phase III, randomized, double-blind study of everolimus plus trastuzumab and vinorelbine conducted at 159 clinical trial sites... ...

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