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Forty years ago rebellion at a gay pub in the heart of New York City, in Stonewall Bar opened a new era in politics and social justice, extended far beyond woody doors of then not-so-top establishment.
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Nokia, the world’s biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million chargers made this year because some of them could be faulty.
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Read Only If You Have a Burning Desire for India’s Progress
My friend Gurpreet returned to India after working for twenty five-years in the West. On reading about...
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Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.
It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could...
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Turkish website hackers are on rampange defacing government and media websites in developing countries. The latest casuality in the Kampala dispatch (a newsletter) that...
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The Moroccan inventor, Mohamed Nabil Srifi, won the award ‘Made in the Arab World” contest organized by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation award for...
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‘gPhone’ is in news again, This time the news is from India. As speculations suggest that the firm is considering launching own-brand of Android-based...
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The young child scientists of Udalguri district of Assam in India, who had attended the 17th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC), Assam state session at...
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There’s nothing I love more than having a little downtime and hitting the ‘open highway’. You know what I mean, living life. It’s a chance to...
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Rupert Murdoch has all but declared war on internet search engines for using the content that his (and others’) websites are generating. It seems more than just...
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As competition among telecom networks scales new heights, Orange Uganda has selected Alcatel-Lucent to build, operate and maintain their mobile network to reduce on...
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With change in political scenario ,its seems all equation suddenly gone against Kota in spite of it’s best location,plenty of water,power,educated and intellegent...
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A set of dinosaur footprints uncovered in eastern France and dating from 150 million years ago has been authenticated by scientists as a unique discovery.
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This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to the three US researchers who discovered how the body protects the chromosomes housing vital genetic code.
Elizabeth...
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Every now and then, in the democratic entity called India, something unusual happens which keeps one amused for so many days. The feeling is almost the same as some...
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With 338 million Internet users in June 2009, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China is no longer a niche market of the online...
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Quaid-i-Azam University, considered by some as Pakistan’s topmost institution of higher education, failed to make functional a management software that had been...
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Carrier pigeons are being used to transfer data between offices because bosses believe it is quicker than broadband.
Computer experts at a South African firm said it...
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The star of the event is back and the party is on. Apple boss Steve Jobs stole the show at an event to launch new products as he took to the stage for the first time in...
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If you are totally new to twitter applications and you are not getting enough followers, these simple instructions are meant for you. You need not to be panic if your...
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We’re less than 24 hours away from Apple’s “Rock and roll” event, an invitation-only press session in San Francisco Wednesday that’s...
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And here is a new M. Kerjman publication “The X-Challenge: Realm of Senses”.
If even at the end it brings about just some solutions to tackling a pig flue and...
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The Sun, Water vapor, Earth’s orbit, Volcanoes, Interstellar clouds, Cosmic rays, Tectonic plates, Land use, CO2, Sunspots, Gravitational pulls, Ocean currents...
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If I loathe anyone on the planet it is individuals who self-identify as “morning people”. I was forcefully reminded of this antipathy while watching footage...
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In their recent paper on Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why have poor countries regulated sooner?, Mary Lovely and David Popp observe that late developers have...
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According to Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist currently working at CSIRO in Australia, any realistic analysis of future energy sources can only conclude...
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It has been estimated that within the continental United States there is a sizable resource of accessible geothermal energy, which could supply about 3,000 times the...
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Rocks can be many things: they were probably our earliest weapons, they’ve been ballast on our journeys of exploration, even modern-art pieces.
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Once a year, tens of thousands of tourists gather in a town in Spain to hurl over one hundred tons of overripe tomatoes … all in just one hour.
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There are plenty of ways to cut your carbon footprint, whether it’s driving less or buying an energy-efficient refrigerator. But the British Medical Journal, in...
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Astronomers announced today that a new “minor planet” with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune. Using the...
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Who can forget the historical sci-fi moment when the Dr Emmet Brown of “Back to the Future” fame shoved some garbage into his time car to make it run?
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The Earth is alone among the planets of our solar system in having plate tectonics. Venus, a near twin of our planet in size and density, has no tectonic activity....
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There were/are plenty prophesies threatening the Earth with the end of the world in the nearest feature around-and this BBC story of The Green New Deal Group is, one...
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Tired of hearing that line? So are we. So let\’s bury this assumption once and for all! Here\’s how to save a ton of cash.
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Planet hunters say it’s just a matter of time before they lasso Earth’s twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy.
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An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model.
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When Pluto was demoted from planet to dwarf planet, there was a massive outcry of support. However, the latest interstellar demotion is unlikely to gather the same...
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Scientists at the Universities of Melbourne and Texas have successfully resurrected a gene from the extinct Tasmanian Tiger. This certainly isn\’t Jurassic Park...
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“Going green” doesn’t have to be a daunting task that means sweeping life changes. Simple things can make a difference.
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Spectators watch the launch of NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler Friday, March 6, 2009, from Cocoa Beach, Fla. Kepler, named after the German 17th century astrophysicist, set off on its unprecedented mission at 10:49 p.m., thundering into a clear..
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