Everything you need to know about Villivakkam North: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Villivakkam North: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Los Angeles, May 19 (IANS) Singer Beyonce Knowles is reportedly expecting her second child with rapper Jay-Z and it is unlikely to affect her forthcoming stage performances.
London, May 18 (ANI): George Michael, who suffered non-threatening injuries following a car crash on Thursday, has now been released from the hospital.
Washington, May 17 (ANI): Bernie Madoff, the American investor accused of ruining countless lives through his bogus pyramid scheme, has said he should be blamed for the suicide of his son in 2010.
Gandhinagar, May 10 (ANI): Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi will address non-resident Indians (NRIs) in 18 American cities via satellite from here on Sunday.
London, May 6 (IANS) Posters expressing support for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second man charged with last month's bombings at the Boston Marathon, have been put up on walls in Chechnya's capital Grozny, BBC reported.
Washington, May 5 (ANI): A meteor shower is predicted to peak early on Sunday morning, just before dawn.
Mexico City, May 4 (IANS/EFE) The Mexican unit of Japanese auto giant the Honda Motor Co. announced plans to invest $470 million in the construction of a transmission plant in Celaya, in the central state of Guanajuato.
Chicago, May 3 (IANS) General Motors said its profit fell 13.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from last year's $1 billion.
Washington, May 3 (IANS) The Boston Marathon bomber brothers initially planned to carry out a suicide-bomb attack on America's July 4 Independence Day, the surviving suspect told the investigators, according to various media reports.
Washington, May 2 (ANI): A St. Petersburg man has been accused of misusing the 911 system to request that he wanted "Kool-Aid, burgers and weed to be delivered to him."
London, Apr.28 (ANI): Cocaine smugglers in Britain have reportedly joined hands with the terror group Al Qaeda to spread cocaine usage in UK and Western Europe worth 168 million pound.
New Delhi, April 28 (ANI): The Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region has sanctioned 338 developmental projects for the region in the last three years.
Sydney, Apr. 26 (ANI): Hacking group Anonymous have attacked the website of the North American Man-Boy Love Association - one of the most prominent pedophilia advocate groups in the world.
London, April 25 (IANS) A primary school teacher has been jailed for filming students while changing for swimming and sharing the images on the internet in "a level of betrayal rarely seen", British police said Thursday.
Washington, April 23 (ANI): New test results have provided further evidence that the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide and Earth's surface temperature are inextricably linked.
Moscow, April 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian branch of Interpol has said it had no information on any links between the two men suspected of the deadly bombing at the Boston marathon and a militant organisation based in Russia's North Caucasus.
London, Apr. 22 (ANI): Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have found a 4400-year-old skeleton of an upper class woman, who was almost certainly a member of the local ruling elite.
London, Apr 22 (ANI): Late North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il ate snakes, hippos and spiders, a defector has claimed.
As US investigators hunt for evidence about the Boston bombing suspects, some of their questions will focus on Russia's restive North Caucasus, including the war-scarred Chechnya region that has produced a number of militant groups, but none that has been linked to terror attacks against the West.
Sochi, April 17 (IANS) Security measures to be taken in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games will be appropriate, a high-ranking official of the International Olympic Committee (I0C) said Wednesday.
Los Angeles, April 17 (IANS) American singer Selena Gomez has announced her world tour plans that will take her to 56 cities.
Seoul, April 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appeared in public for the first time in the past two weeks, as he laid a wreath at his grandfather's tomb Monday in Pyongyang.
Washington, Apr 13 (ANI): A northeastern Chinese city near the border with North Korea has staged an air raid drill in the wake of rising tensions over Pyongyang's latest threats.
Sydney, Apr. 12 (ANI): In yet another incident of racial ranting in Australia, a woman was witnessed racially abusing a man aboard a night train in Victoria, but was let free after being interviewed for causing a "disturbance".
Washington, Apr. 11 (ANI): For young South Koreans, it is not the level of threats or even the seeming madness of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, but fear of a heavy economic burden, that makes them resistant to the notion of a reconciliation between Seoul and Pyongyang.
London, Apr 10 (ANI): Jay-Z is buying an island in the Bahamas, according to reports.
London, Apr. 9 (ANI): Flights across the North Atlantic could get bumpier in the future if climate continues to change, scientists have said.
Moscow, April 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A woman doctor at a maternity clinic in Russia was detained by police when he tried to sell a newborn baby for one million rubles (around $32,000), police said.
Washington, April 5 (ANI): Deciphering nutritional information in a food package isn't always easy. People tend to eat more when presented with only calorie counts on the label.
New York, Apr. 5 (ANI): A brewery from Pennsylvania has debuted a beer can in which the entire lid is lifted, so that the drinkers can sip from it as a normal cup.
Moscow, April 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A new website to promote the activity of a Syrian rebel group has been launched in the Russian language, thereby leading to concerns that Russian Islamists are involved in the Syrian civil war.
Abu Dhabi, April 3 (IANS/WAM) Etihad Airways, the national carrier of the UAE, has launched non-stop daily flights between Abu Dhabi and Washington, D.C., creating the first direct air link between the two capitals.
Moscow, March 21 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Security officials from Russia and the US will meet in May to discuss a recent Washington decision to curtail its planned European missile defence system, a Russian defence official said Wednesday.
Islamabad, Mar. 18 (ANI): The Pakistani Army has no reservations or danger from dialogue with the Taliban, Corps Commander Peshawar Lt General Khalid Rabbani has said, adding that a decision in this connection has to be taken by the government.
Moscow, March 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Five militants have been killed in a special operation on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia, two volatile regions in Russia's North Caucasus, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee said.
Moscow, March 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A military helicopter crashed in the Russian republic of Chechnya, killing three of four people on board, an official said.
New York, Mar. 12 (ANI): Pee Pants - designed to allow people in high-pressure jobs to relieve themselves when they can't take a bathroom break - is being tested out by female mushers during the ongoing Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska.
Mumbai, March 10 (IANS) Actor Rajkumar Yadav, who will share screen space with internationally acclaimed Indian actress Freida Pinto in "NH10", is quite impressed with his co-star's down-to-earth attitude and describes her as a wonderful person.
Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): American officials have raised concerns that a scientific-cooperation pact between North Korea and Iran could advance the nuclear and missile programs of both countries, a report has said.
Washington, Mar. 5 (ANI): Global warming will make frigid shipping routes much more accessible than ever imagined by melting an unprecedented amount of sea ice during the late summer, a new research has revealed.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): A church in Harrogate has apologised after a vicar accidentally flashed a picture of a naked woman up on a PowerPoint screen during a sermon.
London, Mar. 1 (ANI): A church in Harrogate has apologised after a vicar accidentally flashed a picture of a naked woman up on a PowerPoint screen during a sermon.
Mumbai, Feb 28 (IANS) Director Rupesh Paul, who is currently busy with his debut film "Kamasutra 3D", will make a 4D sequel that will star a Hollywood actress.
Islamabad, Feb 27 (IANS) Unidentified gunmen shot dead a journalist in Pakistan's restive tribal region Wednesday, local media reported.
London, Feb 26 (ANI): US biologists have studied the behaviour in the swamp sparrow species by creating a robot from a dead bird.
Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) Bugs in the gut could have a bearing on how kidney disease, caused by melamine poisoning, turns out, according to a study.
Washington, February 14 (ANI): A study has concluded that triple-negative cancers, and basal-like breast cancers should not be considered as a single type, since more than 30 percent of triple-negative cancers lack biological markers associated with basal-like tumors.
New Delhi, Feb. 12 (ANI): Expressing deep concern over the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), India on Tuesday called upon Pyongyang to refrain from such actions, which adversely impact on peace and stability in the region.
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) Exposed to sunlight, ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost melts and collapses, releasing climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air much faster than suspected by scientists.
Washington, February 7 (ANI): Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear children of low birth weight, an international study has revealed.
Washington, Feb 6 (IANS) Mothers exposed to vehicular emission, urban heating and coal power plants are much more likely to bear children of low birth weight, says an international study.
Sydney, Jan. 29 (ANI): A new study, the first of its kind in 16 years, which surveyed 577 female journalists across all media platforms in Australia has found that there is still widespread gender discrimination in newsrooms.
Johannesburg, Jan 29 (ANI): Google's operating system Android and Apple smartphones captured a whopping 92 percent of global sales in the fourth quarter, giving the two systems an effective duopoly, according to a research firm.
London, Jan 25 (ANI): The age-old saying that blondes do have more fun seems to be putting a dent on their career, a new study has revealed.
Washington, Jan 24 (IANS) Children start picking up executive abilities like planning, task monitoring and controlling attention at the preschool age when they are as young as four-and-half years old, says a new study.
Chennai, Jan 23 (IANS) Consumer durables major LG Electronics India Wednesday launched a new range of room air conditioners to cash in on the coming summer season.
Washington, Jan. 21 (ANI): The next-generation wearable devices market, which include smart glasses, will double year-on-year to some 1.5 billion dollars by 2014.
Islamabad, Jan. 14 (ANI): The Pakistan government must recognise that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is in violation of the law of the land and needs to be taken to task, according to an editorial in a Pakistani daily.
London, January 14 (ANI): Lady Gaga risked sparking a controversy yet again when she wore a bra with plastic assault rifles for cups - less than a month after 26 people lost their lives in a US school shooting.
The thinning of cornea, a transparent outer covering of the eye, could be an alarm for the risk of blindness, a research has found.
Sydney, Jan 10 (IANS) When the cornea, a transparent outer covering of the eye, starts thinning, it becomes a ticking bomb, a risk factor for blindness.
Washington, January 9 (ANI): Moms, especially those who are obese, are more likely to use TV to quieten fussy and active infants, thus also causing greater likelihood of obesity in children, US nutritionists say.
Islamabad, Jan 3 (ANI): Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has denied having any links with the Pakistan Taliban, and condemned the banned militant outfit's strategy of blowing up schools and blocking girls' education.
Islamabad, Dec 28 (ANI): US drone strikes against militants in Pakistan's tribal areas has decreased for the second year in a row, according to a Washington-based think tank.
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Washington, Dec. 21 (ANI): Troubled Canadian mobile maker Research In Motion (RIM) has lost over a million
Washington, Dec 19 (IANS) American researchers have created super stretchable wires that can be expanded up to eight times their length, for potential use in headphones and phone chargers among others.
Chicago, Dec 19 (IANS) Toyota Motor Corporation has agreed to pay $17.35 million in fines for its delayed recall of 154,000 Lexus SUVs over pedal entrapment issues, promising it will make significant changes in responding to safety issues, a media report said Tuesday.
Washington, Dec 17 (IANS) Focusing on the negative makes evolutionary sense, says Kurt Grey, assistant professor of social psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, whose latest study shows greed may exert greater power than generosity.
London, Dec. 17 (ANI): Television footage of the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jung-un suggests that the country could soon be making a happy announcement.
Washington, December 16(ANI): The body position of babies while they learn plays a critical role in their cognitive development, according to new research.
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Algeria, Dec 12 (IANS/EFE) Two Algerian air force pilots died when their planes collided during a training exercise, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
Washington, December 11 (ANI): The asteroid collision widely thought to have killed the dinosaurs also led to extreme devastation among snake and lizard species- including the extinction of a newly identified lizard species that Yale and Harvard scientists have named Obamadon gracilis, according to a new research.
Pyongyang, Dec. 10 (Xinhua-ANI): The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that the scheduled launch period for a scientific satellite has been extended to Dec. 29, one week behind the original Dec. 10-22 window.
Washington, December 9 (ANI): A University of North Dakota scientist and his team have discovered a molecular-level interaction in space that science had puzzled over for decades but had never seen.
Tokyo, Dec. 9 (ANI): Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor Corp. is considering slashing the annual target for Japanese sales next year to 1.36 million units that would be about 19 percent lower than this year, according to a report.
Tokyo, Dec 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Japan has deployed anti-missile defence systems in anticipation of an imminent North Korean rocket launch, Japanese Defence Minister Satoshi Morimoto said Saturday.
Washington, Dec. 8 (ANI): Al Qaeda's expansion in Libya, following the successful terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate and CIA annex in Benghazi on September 11 this year, is part of a long-term plan by the terrorist group's senior leadership, a seasoned counterterrorism investigator has said.
Islamabad, Dec. 6 (Xinhua-ANI): At least four people were killed in a U.S. drone strike launched in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of North Waziristan on early Thursday morning, reported local media Ary.
London, December 4 (ANI): Britain is a nation of romantics with most believing in love at first sight.
London, Dec 3 (IANS) More than 2,000 primary school children were arrested by British police last year -- an average of six a day, figures obtained under the Freedom of Information act have shockingly revealed.
London, Nov 30 (ANI): A Playboy ad featuring scantily clad women was banned after it appeared on the side of a lorry parked outside a hotel popular with the elderly in a seaside town.
London, Nov 28 (ANI): Two loved-up pups have been joined in furry matrimony after their owners spent more than 6,000 pounds on a lavish canine wedding, it has been revealed.
London, Nov 27 (IANS) Editors at China's top newspaper have been left red faced after declaring North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the "sexiest man alive", the Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
Washington, Nov 27 (IANS) A tropical lizard species native to Puerto Rico has adapted to the cooler winters of Miami, suggesting its ability to survive climate change.
Washington, November 26 (ANI): Children exposed to alcohol in the womb exhibit changes in brain structure and metabolism that are visible using various imaging techniques, according to a new study.
London, Nov 22 (ANI): The Burmese government has said it is ready to open the country to comprehensive international inspection to make it clear that it does not have a covert nuclear programme.
Washington, Nov. 20 (ANI): While the Facebook page of most users is about to slow down, it might actually be a boon in disguise as the change will help keep online thieves away.
Washington, Nov. 19 (ANI): Paula Broadwell, who had an extramarital affair with CIA Chief David Petraeus that ensnared his career, has told her friends that she is devastated by the fallout.
United Nations, Nov 19 (IANS) The UN Security Council, whose presidency for this month is being held by India, has strongly condemned attacks by the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), RIA Novosti reported.
London, Nov. 18 (ANI): Shocking images have emerged from inside a terror camp in Pakistan's North Waziristan where boys as young as five are being brainwashed into waging Jihad and becoming suicide bombers.
London, Nov 16 (ANI): Navels harbour an ecosystem of bacteria, which is similar in their biodiversity to the world's rainforests, researchers have claimed.
Paris, Nov 13 (IANS) The US would lead global oil producers by around 2020, outpacing Saudi Arabia, thanks to an "extraordinary growth in oil and natural gas output" in the world's largest crude consumer, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.
Islamabad, Nov. 9 (ANI): The government of Pakistan has devised a strategy to stop drone strikes by America, which is considered counterproductive in combating terrorism, Defence Minister Naveed Qamar has said.
London, November 7 (ANI): Mariah Carey, Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus, who like a host of their fellow celebs took to Twitter to encourage followers to make their way to the polling station to cast their votes in the U.S. Presidential elections on Tuesday, turned the booth into their own personal photoshoot as they snapped photo after photo.
Washington, Nov. 6 (ANI): President Barack Obama is leading over GOP rival Mitt Romney in almost every swing state, which is crucial in deciding the White House winner, a new poll has found.
London, Nov 3 (ANI): Former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson is returning to the water for a campaign to save the whales.
London, Nov 3 (ANI): The 105-storey, pyramid-shaped hotel that has been under construction in Pyongyang, the capital of one of the world's most impoverished nations, is likely to be opened in 2013.
Washington, Nov.2 (ANI): The U.S.-based Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA) hails the concern of US Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Eileen Donahoe over 'growing instability' in Balochistan perpetrated by Pakistan.
