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Steve Gupta on Toronto Univ's Council

Steve Gupta, president and chief executive officer, Easton's Group of Hotels, has been appointed to the University of Toronto Governing Council for a three-year term. He was on the board of UTGC's......

'Teaching Sanskrit through Internet is fun'

Dr Sudhir Kaicker, former professor, computer science, in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, came to Toronto's Sheridan College to continue teaching the same subject. But the move made his......

India's defence secrets are out in the open

A report of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre of University of Toronto, Canada, has claimed that there's 'a vast shadow network of online espionage in China, largely in Chonging and Chongdu' that......

Arunachal tribe helps crack tuberculosis mystery

A small Arunachal sub-tribe has helped US scientists made a major breakthrough in tuberculosis research, giving them new insight on how TB remains a global epidemic causing 1.9 million deaths every......

Indo-Pak 'peace mongering' at global vigil

Amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan, people from both nations settled in the United States came together to spread the message of "peace-mongering" at a 'global peace vigil' where......

University of Toronto honours Nandan Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto. The degree was conferred on him at the Rotman School of Business at the graduation......

'India faces huge digital divide problem'

Don Tapscott, Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, is a consultant and speaker on business strategy and organisational transformation.Having authored and......

RIM faces its day of reckoning with BlackBerry 10 launch

The innovative line of BlackBerry smartphones that Research In Motion Ltd will formally unveil on Wednesday has already succeeded on one crucial count - getting RIM back in the conversation.The new......

Gujarat aims to tap Canadian investors

Canadian investors have been invited to participate in the fifth biennial 'Vibrant Gujarat' summit, a global investors' meet organised by Gujarat, on January 12 and 13 next year. D J Pandian, the......

Canadian scholars pay rich tributes to CK Prahalad

Management scholars from across Canada paid rich tribute to C K Prahalad, the India-born management thinker who passed away on April 17, at their annual conference.The conference was held by the......

Thank you, Mr Ebert, for taking us on this journey

We will always remember Roger Ebert at the movies, says Arthur J Pais, in his tribute to the prolific movie critic, who passed away on April 4.Roger Ebert, the prolific movie critic, author of half......

Coming up, Indian films at the Toronto Film Festival

Here's a look at the line-up at the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival, coming up in September. Two veteran filmmakers of Indian origin and one comparatively new name will have the......

Is this George Clooney's best film?

There is hardly a person in the engaging drama The Descendants, who is without flaws. While that is a universal truth about most human beings, director Alexander Payne(Sideways, About Schmidt and......

Freida Pinto's Immortals dethrones Spielberg's Tintin

The mixed reviewshardly mattered to the nearly 10 million viewers who saw Immortals, Tarsem Singh Dhandwar's action adventure set in ancient Greece. The viewers in 36 world markets including China,......

How Midnight's Children became a movie

As Salman Rushdie and Deepa Mehta unveiled their project at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival this week, everyone was left guessing who the Bollywood diva was that Rushdie said turned......

Dravid's finesse stands out against Tendulkar's figures

Enough with the cheeky question marks. Enough with the half-baked compliments and the cryptic monikers! Be true and call the man what he is - the greatest Indian batsman of all-time. True, he's a......

Wozniacki rocks New Haven after earthquake

An earthquake halted play and forced the evacuation of the New Haven Open on Tuesday but it could not stop world number one Caroline Wozniacki from romping to a 6-3, 6-0 second round win over......

China promises cricket a memorable Asiad debut

China will make its bow in international cricket on Saturday amid high-pitched excitement and huge expectations at the sport's Asian Games debut. A full house will cheer the Chinese women as they......

Two Canadian athletes pull out of CWG

The spate of withdrawals from the Delhi Commonwealth Games continued with Canadian diver Meaghan Benfeito and badminton player Alvin Lau becoming the latest to opt out of the event citing......

Clemens, a fierce competitor with blazing fastball

Roger Clemens was a fierce competitor with a blazing fastball and knee-buckling curve whose long All-Star pitching career seemed to stamp him as a sure-fire member of the Hall of Fame.Given the......

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QNA

Q. Identify Prof. Keith Moore ?
Azam Khan: A. more

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Q. who is the nobel prize winner for the current year
Azam Khan: A. 2011Biology: Daryll Gwynne and David Rentz for discovering that certain kinds of beetle mate with certain kinds of Australian beer...... more

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Q. rees may not be all that different from humans when it comes to certain memories about their origins. And they could, therefore, respond to stress situations differently. A study, led by Malcolm Campbell, biologist at the University of Toronto, looked at the theory that trees and other plants, even when they were genetically identical, responded to stress differently, depending on the nursery that the plants were obtained from.-Amazing ?
Khirod Das: A. may be right .... Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose also said the same thing that plants has life and they respond to similar stimuli as human being ,...... more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/rees-may-not-be-all-that-different-from-humans-when-it-comes/20868121/answers/20225458

Q. What do you say about Dr. Keith L. Moore is a Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Venkatesaldevarajan: A. That he is a professor and he should do his job. more

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H7N9 flu virus transmitted through close contact, coughing

Scientists have proved that the H7N9 influenza virus is efficiently transmitted when animals are in close contact-defined in the study as touching,... ...

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Calcium supplements may extend lifespan of women

Toronto: Taking calcium supplements of up to 1,000 milligrammes a day can help women live longer, a new study has found. Calcium, an essential... ...

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Prisoners of Mae Sot

A little over a week ago, a young Myanmar friend of mine, let's call him Myo, found himself hiding in some farm fields, avoiding the Thai police... ...

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Offering Economic Incentives to Attract Blood Donations Should Be Encouraged, Research Team writes in Science

Three researchers including Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis say economic incentives such as gift cards,... ...

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BU joins leading online course platform edX

Hybrid education gives faculty more flexibility in teaching Boston University has joined edX , the Harvard-and-MIT-led online learning platform... ...

http://www.universitiesnews.com/2013/05/23/bu-joins-leading-online-course-platform-edx/

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