Washington, Feb 25 – A laser technique best known for removing unwanted tattoos from the skin is finding a second life in preserving sculptures, paintings and other works of art. The technique, called laser ablation, involves removing material from a solid surface by vapourising the material with laser beam. Doctors, for example, use laser...
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Washington, Feb 25 – Single men or those leading an unhappy married life run a higher risk of fatal stroke in their later decades, says a new study. The findings are based on a survey of 10,059 civil servants and municipal workers (average age...
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New Delhi, Feb 25 – Projecting India’s growth at over 8.25 percent next fiscal and at double-digit rates by 2015, the country’s Economic Survey conveyed its concern over rising prices and called for urgent steps to lower the government’s fiscal deficit. ‘It is entirely...
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Wellington, Feb 25 – ‘Sex, um, success’ and ‘footage of bondage…ahmm, Bondy’ — Australian cricketers started their tour of New Zealand with two verbal slips. They are here to...
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London, Feb 25- British singer Leona Lewis has been showing off her new tattoo — a poem on her favourite animal, the horse. The poem is inked in a...
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Lucknow, Feb 25 – A man wanted in nearly 20 criminal cases was killed in a gunfight with police in Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, while two of his...
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London, Feb 25 – Hollywood star George Clooney has denied selling his Lake Como villa in Laglio, Italy, to soccer ace David Backham and his wife Victoria. Beckham, who...
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London, Feb 25 – Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani’s designs helped raise over one million pounds for earthquake-stricken Haiti at the Fashion For Relief show last week. The show,...
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London, Feb 25 – A British teacher, who was working in the Middle East, was found dead after her former boyfriend posted naked pictures of her on social networking...
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Mumbai, Feb 25 – Maharashtra’s Chief Post Master General M.S. Bali has been caught while accepting a bribe of Rs.2 crore, a top Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) official...
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London, Feb 25 – A man has been arrested in Britain for killing his 100-year-old frail, blind mother, a media report said Thursday. Hannah Fitzgibbon, who had recently celebrated...
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Dhaka, Feb 25 – Curfew was reimposed as ethnic violence in Khagrachhari resumed late Wednesday night after a day long calm. It’s now been six days since the clashes...
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New Delhi, Feb 25 – Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar Thursday said she was very happy that political parties had reached a consensus on holding a discussion on rising...
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Shimla, Feb 25 – Thousands of Buddhists from India and abroad have thronged to the Rewalsar lake in Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi district for the two-day Tsechu fair to commemorate...
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London, Feb 25 – Cosmetics owned by many women in Britain could be up to four years out of date, a research revealed and it warned that ‘reluctance to...
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Chittagong, Feb 25 – Nineteen people were injured in a violent clash after thousands converged in this Bangladesh port town under the banner of a little-known Islamist group to...
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Mumbai, Feb 25 – A couple of hours into trade Thursday, the benchmark index of Indian equities was 47 points lower than its previous close, having given up gains...
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New Delhi, Feb 25 – The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan Thursday began official talks here, the first formal engagement since the Mumbai terror attacks 14 months ago....
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New Delhi, Feb 25 – The Jharkhand State Khadi and Village Industries Board – the smallest of 33 such boards across the country – has become a business and...
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Amritsar, Feb 25 – Nearly 15 kg of heroin was seized Thursday from close to the India-Pakistan border in Punjab’s Ajnala sector after suspected smugglers abandoned the consignment following...
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London, Feb 25 – A goldfish bowl kept close to a window started a fire at a house in Britain as sun rays caused a ‘magnifying glass’ effect on...
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Guwahati, Feb 25 – Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has asked ministers and legislators of the ruling Congress party to immediately furnish details of their property and other assets...
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Washington, Feb 25 – The Obama administration is sharply expanding American weapons sales to both India and Pakistan in a bid to forge ‘closer ties with each country while...
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Bhubaneswar, Feb 25 – Faced with an acute shortage of power, the Orissa government is planning to tell factory and office managements to take off for an extra day...
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