WASHINGTON: Iran has stopped a controversial practice that could allow it to enrich uranium faster, the United States said on Monday, ceasing an activity one expert saw as violating an interim nuclear deal. The development was disclosed as Tehran and Washington hold talks on an agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program and dispel concerns, that Iran denies, that it is trying to build a nuclear weapon. The International Atomic Energy […]
Kaniwa, also known as Qaniwa, Qanawa or Qanawi, is about 1/3rd the size of the popular quinoa. It is often considered as a weedy variety of quinoa or as ‘baby quinoa’, but chromosomal studies have confirmed that the two belong to separate species complexes (kaniwa has a chromosomal designation of 2n = 2x = 18; quinoa has 2n = 4x = 36). At the time of the Conquest, kaniwa grain […]
Abuja: A suicide bomb attack killed 47 students and injured 79 others on Monday as they gathered for morning assembly at their school in northeast Nigeria, a massacre likely carried out by Boko Haram, police told AFP. “There was an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber,” national police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu said, referring to the attack in Potiskum in Yobe state. “We have 47 dead and 79 injured,” he added, […]
Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir’s remarks about Benazir Bhutto, Robin Raphel and the Taliban, published in the Indian Express newspaper some weeks ago, Kolkata’s The Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday, provoked the investigation of the controversial American diplomat whose home and office were searched by the FBI last week. Twelve years ago, in a column published on Rediff.com, Hamid Mir, who escaped an assassination attempt in Pakistan in April, made stunning […]
Virat Kohli, India’s star batsman became the fastest ever batsman to complete 6000 runs in One-Day Internationals. The batting maestro broke former West Indian legend Viv Richards’s record. Kohli achieved the feat against Sri Lanka on Sunday, after he struck a well made 53 runs. Kohli who needed 50 runs to complete the milestone, had 5950 runs in 135 innings. Viv Richards had managed to score 6000 runs in […]
Overthinking is an epidemic. Like a plague, it takes hold of its victims and eats away at them from the inside out. It clouds their minds, judgment and destroys any semblance of happiness their already overworked minds could muster. It rots away at their brain and keeps them in a perpetual state of paralysis. Stripped down to its most basic strain, it occupies their thoughts with only one […]
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Leonard Huxley 1. Understand YOU Determine The Direction YOUR Life Takes We are a long way from understanding the complexity and impact the mind has on our life. Our thoughts may well influence who comes into our lives and the timing. Events that change our lives may not be […]
India on Sunday test-fired its nuclear-capable Agni-II strategic ballistic missile from a military base in Odisha, a defence official said. The test was conducted from Wheeler’s Island in Bhadrak district, around 200 km from Bhubaneswar, by army personnel as part of routine user-trials, MVKV Prasad, director of the Integrated Test Range, told IANS. “The test was successful,” he said. The medium-range missile with a range of over 2,000 km has […]
Celebrations are being held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Concerts and exhibitions are being staged in the city and Chancellor Angela Merkel will later attend a huge open-air party at the Brandenburg Gate. White balloons marking a stretch of the wall will be released to symbolise its disappearance. The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop people fleeing from Communist […]
A British hi-tech start-up has invented a light bulb fitting capable of acting as the equivalent of a wireless network in the home. PureLiFi, a spin-out from Edinburgh University, is poised to announce new technology that can create a two-way high-speed connection using signals sent by LED lightbulbs for the first time. The company’s creation has attracted the interest of a club of hi-tech investors who are close to agreeing […]
