The Secret Ingredient That Condemns Cocaine Abusers to a Disgusting Demise

The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine What's a drug used to deworm livestock—a drug that can obliterate your immune system—doing in your cocaine? Nobody knows. By Brendan Kiley A granulocytosis can kill you, but its symptoms are frustratingly broad. Some people's throats close up. Some people get diarrhea. Some people get skin infections, sores in their mouth or anus, or just a fever. Some people...

Khel Ratna to Saina Nehwal

The Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Dr. M.S. Gill gave away the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for the year 2010 to Ms. Saina Nehwal. Saina Nehwal received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal on Monday received the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award from Sports Minister M S Gill after missing out on the August 29 ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan due to the World...

NDFB Rebels Gun Down 18 Hindi Speaking Migrant Workers in Assam

Men with Automatic Weapons Target Bus Guwahati, Nov 9 : Police say suspected rebels using automatic weapons have killed at least 18 people in attacks on a bus, a barber shop and migrant worker settlements in northeast India. Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, a state inspector-general of police, says another five people were wounded in Monday's serial attacks at five places in Assam state in India's...

Meghalaya Varsity Students Call Off Protest

Shillong, Nov 9 : Students of Meghalaya's North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) Monday called off their indefinite strike against the appointment of A.N Rai as the vice chancellor after Chief Minister Mukul Sangma said he would take up their demand with the central government. The Meghalaya Tribal Students Coordination Committee (MTSCC) and NEHU Students Union (NEHUSU) has demanded that a local should...

Chinese-Origin Assamese Community ‘Forcibly Deported’ by India Now Welcome

Wang Shing Tung (in a cap) with his family, the former Chinese school in Makum, the shed in which the Chinese were kept and a house in Chinatown that is now a godown Guwahati, Nov 9 : Assam Chief Minister has rolled out the red carpet for Chinese -origin Assamese forcibly deported to China after the Chinese aggression in 1962. The displaced people can visit their birthplace if they wanted...

Bamboo Mission Has Tall Ambitions

An Indian IAS officer hopes to link small bamboo-processing units with research labs to conjure innovative products By Jacob P. Koshy New Delhi: A visit to Sanjiv Nair’s office can be, well, bamboozling. The floors are made of bamboo, the furniture, some of the walls and even the frame of an ornamental microscope is crafted out of the grass. Nair, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer...

Church Body Reacts to Mizo CM Remarks

Aizawl, Nov 8 : The Church-sponsored election watchdog Mizoram Peoples Forum (MPF) has taken a strong exception to Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla’s remarks that it 'approved' lies during the election campaigns. ''The Chief Ministers remarks came as a shock to the MPF, which has never approved lies. On the contrary, the MPF had kept appealing to political parties, their candidates and supporters...

Start Pedalling

By Priyanka Bhattacharya Eight reasons why cycling is good for you Cycling exercises the heart better than walking and offers health benefits faster than most popular form of workouts. So start pedalling. The British Medical Association estimates that cycling offers tremendous health benefits that outweigh the risks by 20 to 1. It is one of the most fun and enjoyable ways to lose calories...