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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,......

Srinandan Kasi named Associated Press VP

The Associated Press has named Srinandan Kasi, who has been with the news cooperative since 2004, to be the company's vice president and general counsel."Srinandan's wide-ranging technical, legal......

US lawmakers, businesses demand Indian trade reforms

Next week, US Secretary of State John Kerry travels to India for the fourth annual US-India Strategic Dialogue. A bipartisan group of more than 170 US lawmakers joined with a coalition of US......

Senators urge Kerry to press India on trade during visit

Senate Finance Committee leaders on Friday urged US Secretary of State John Kerry to press India to reverse government actions they said threaten millions of US jobs in pharmaceutical, information......

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......

Arizona nonagenarian sets Weightlifting World Record

A barrel-chested 91-year-old strongman from Arizona shattered the world record for the bench press in his dwindling age group, with a lift of 187.2 pounds - some 50 pounds more than the previous......

Leffler dies after accident in dirt car event

NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident on late Wednesday night at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway, according to Associated Press. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on......

BCCI to discuss Kundra issue on June 10

Rattled by betting charges against Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra, the Board of Control for Cricket in India convened an Emergent Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Monday to discuss......

SLC refutes arm-twisting claims; Bindra stands by them

Sri Lanka Cricket refuted claims by Indian cricket administrator IS Bindra that a BCCI official had arm-twisted them to withdraw a report which mentioned an Indian player allegedly violating the......

Srinivasan steps aside, Dalmiya named interim-president

Bowing to all-round pressure, N Srinivasan agreed to "step aside" as BCCI President under a compromise formula that brought back former Chief Jagmohan Dalmiya as head of a four-member "interim......

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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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Indian actions discriminating against US exports and sales

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