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Miscellaneous: New Evidence Supports 'Snowball Earth' as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution


A team of scientists, led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside, has found new evidence linking "Snowball Earth" glacial events to the rise of early.
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Tech: Apple iPod Shuffle 4th Generation

Think iPod shuffle and the first thing that comes to mind is "small". Despite the main feature of the player being the ability to shuffle songs, the iPod shuffle has always been known for its small size, which has kept getting smaller with successive iterations. With the previous generation model Apple seemed to have broken all laws of physics to come up with a model that looked more like a hair clip than a music player.
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Health: Lung taste receptors may improve asthma treatment


The ability to taste isn't limited to the mouth, and researchers say that discovery might one day lead to better treatments for diseases such as asthma.
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News: BJP asks PMO to clarify Padgaonkar's Pak remark

BJP on Sunday slammed Dileep Padgaonkar, head of the interlocutors' panel for J&K, for his comment that Pakistan has to be involved for a permanent solution of the Kashmir issue and demanded that the PMO explain if this was part of the brief of the team.
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News: US feels the heat over WikiLeaks allegations

Washington on Sunday came under increasing pressure to investigate the allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks, which Britain's deputy premier called "shocking".
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News: US feels the heat over WikiLeaks allegations

Washington on Sunday came under increasing pressure to investigate the allegations in the leaked Iraq war documents published by WikiLeaks, which Britain's deputy premier called "shocking".
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News: Bihar: 53% voting in Phase II, Maoists burn poll material

Defying call for a poll boycott by Maoists, around 53 per cent of the 98.44 lakh electorate cast their votes in 45 Assembly constituencies in Bihar in the second phase of elections which was marred by stray incidents of violence.
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News: Indo-UK war games begin at WB airbase


Indian Air Force's frontline Su-30 MKI fighter jets and Eurofighter Typhoons of the Royal Air Force on October 20 began 17 days of war games codenamed Ex-Indradhanush at the Kalaikunda airbase in West Bengal, which concludes on November 3.
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News: Cong snatches Goa bypoll seat from BJP

Congress wrestled the Valpoi seat in the by-poll on Thursday with its candidate Vishwajit Rane winning the election by margin of over 8,000 votes.
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News: Awaz Do: Will India rise for 8 mn uneducated children?

After a long time, a meaningful campaign to create social awareness for Indian children's right to education was launched by the UNICEF on Monday. Awaaz Do, the project, is timely, direct and uncomplicated, notes Sheela Bhatt.
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Tech: Google Android isn't really that open, says Steve Jobs

Apple’s chief executive, Steve Jobs, said that Google's mobile platform was "fragmented" and bad for developers and consumers.
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Tech: 'Half of wi-fi networks at risk of hacking in seconds'

An experiment in six cities across the country revealed that nearly 40,000 networks are at high risk of being used by criminals - a fact which could lead to the personal information of thousands of users being exposed.
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Health: Top 5 women's health concerns

Blame it on changing lifestyle or lesser body resistance; women's growing health issues are catching everyone's eyes. And while there's li'l that's being done to avoid them, we look at five of the most common health problems that women today are dealing with:
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Masti: Why daughters-in-law are hazardous for mothers-in-law's health

Always thought it's the mother-in-law who makes the life of her son's wife a living hell? Well, according to a research, the daughter-in-law is actually primed for revenge.
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News: Idled NATO Supply Trucks in Pakistan Are Attacked Again

As trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan were stalled at the Pakistani border for the sixth day, Pakistani truck owners complained that the government failed to provide protection for the convoys, leaving them vulnerable to attacks from militants and criminals.
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