Girls more subtle in tactics than boys

When it comes to competition, girls are no less than boys – with just a simple difference – they employ more subtle tactics, a new study suggests. According to the research, boys use head-on aggression to get what they want, while girls rely on the pain of social exclusion.

To test the apparent differences in how young children compete, Joyce Benenson at Emmanuel College in Boston, and her colleagues divided 87 four-year-olds into same-sex groups of three. In successive trials, each trio received either one, two or three highly prized animal puppets.

The sexes behaved similarly when there were two or three puppets to go round. The differences became clear, though, when there was just one puppet for each group, reports New Scientist. Boys tended to ask for the puppet, grab at it, or even chase the child who had it. In contrast, girls punished the puppet-holder by excluding her from their clique, whispering behind her back or even hiding from her.

Benenson says these socially aggressive tactics may explain why girls exhibit greater jealousy over same-sex friendships than boys. Source : Times of India.

Earthquake in Chennai and Andaman

An undersea earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale struck off India's Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean on Friday, the US Geological Survey said, causing people to flee their homes.

Officials and witnesses said the quake triggered panic and fears of a repeat of the devastating 2004 tsunami that ravaged the island chain.

Residents ran out of their homes as the powerful jolt rattled buildings, already weakened by a series of earthquakes that have hit the Andamans since the tsunami.

The epicentre of the quake was 115 kilometres (70 miles) southwest from capital Port Blair, the USGS said.

The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, however, said that "a destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data."

"We have not issued any tsunami alert although it occurred at a depth of around 35 kilometres (21.7 miles) in the Andaman Sea," a spokesman from the local Disaster Management Cell told AFP.

The archipelago's civilian administrator Chhering Targay said there were no immediate reports of damage.

"Till now we have not received any report of any damage or any casualty," he said.

The Indian navy ordered its ships not to approach Andaman shores until an all-clear was sounded by the local military command.

The Andaman and Nicobar chain of 536 islands, 58 of them inhabited, was badly hit by the 2004 tsunami, with hundreds dead and more than 3,000 still officially listed as missing.

An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale shook the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and parts of Chennai today triggering panic among residents.

With its epicentre near Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the quake occurring at around 1700 hrs lasted a few seconds and rocked several parts of Chennai including the busy T Nagar, Nugambakkam and Koyambedu areas, Met office sources and the police told PTI.

Employees working in a multi-storeyed building in Venkatnarayana Road in T Nagar rushed out of office as they experienced the tremor, police said.

However, there is no immediate report about any loss of life or property due to the quake.

Panchayati Raj from Wikipedia

The Panchayat is a South Asian political system. ‘Panchayat’ literally means assembly (yat) of five (panch) wise and respected elders chosen and accepted by the village community. Traditionally, these assemblies settled disputes between individuals and villages. Modern Indian government has decentralised several administrative functions to the village level, empowering elected gram panchayats. Gram panchayats are not to be confused with the unelected khap panchayats (or caste panchayats) found in some parts of India.

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SSC results to be out on June 26, 2008

Results of the secondary school certificate (SSC, Class X) March 2008 examination conducted by the Maharashtra state board for secondary and higher secondary education, will be declared at 11 am on June 26.

The board’s announcement put to rest all the speculation about a likely delay in the declaration of the SSC results this year owing to an enhanced work from the new course that took effect from 2007-08. Last year, the SSC results were declared on June 26 and the year before that (2006) it was declared on June 22.

As it happened with the higher secondary certificate (HSC, Class XII) results this year, the state’s overall showing in the SSC is anticipated to go up substantially due to changes like internal assessment of marks, a section of objective type queries etc.

The state’s passing percentage for 2007 was 70.59, which was six per cent better than the 64.59 per cent in 2006 and way better than the 57.31 per cent recorded in 2005. Pune division, which covers Pune, Ahmednagar and Solapur districts, had recorded 73.46 per cent success in 2007, which was a 7.56 per cent improvement over the 2006 results.

In March 2008, over 15.98 lakh students (new as well as old course) from 18,998 secondary schools had enrolled for the exam which was conducted simultaneously at 3,687 centres across the state.

Of these, 13.96 lakh students belonged to the new course and the remaining 2.02 lakh were from the old course. The male-female candidate ratio was 9.04 lakh boys against 6.93 lakh girls. More than 2 lakh candidates appeared from the Pune division. A notification issued by the board secretary, Vinay Dakshindas, stated that the results would also be posted on the board’s websites. Details of the website addresses would be declared through an independent notification to be issued in due course.

Those students, who may wish to opt for revaluation of marks post-declaration of the results, are directed by the board to furnish their duly filled prescribed pleas along with the fees, latest by July 7.

Similarly, the last date for filing of pleas for the October 2008 supplementary exam is also July 7 and, in case of late fees submission, the same is July 17.

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Giant Killer Snakes - MonsterQuest

The History Channel had a program tonight called “MonsterQuest.” It was about pet snakes that were turned loose in the wild. Photos and video below.

The “MonsterQuest” crew researched reports of escaped or released pet pythons in the Florida Everglades. Supposedly they’ve grown in “super snakes” that could eat an entire alligater. Then they headed to Venezuela to look for giant anacondas.

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India vs Hong Kong Cricket Live View

Today India will meet Hong Kong in their first appearance in the ongoing Asia cup. After receiving the crushing defeat from Pakistan yesterday, the rival team will be under much pressure.

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There's pleasure in your pain : Study

A crippling and painful experience like grief can also activate pleasure areas of the brain, according to a new study.

While most people let go of their loss, for a substantial minority, any reminder of their loss - a picture, a memory - brings on a fresh wave of grief and yearning.

The question is, why do some grieve and ultimately adapt, while others can't get over the loss of someone held dear?

University of California (Los Angeles) scientists suggest that such "complicated" grief activates neurons in the reward centres of the brain, possibly giving these memories addiction-like properties.

This study is the first to compare those with complicated and non-complicated grief, and future research in this area may help psychologists do a better job of treating those with complicated grief, said Mary-Frances O'Connor of UCLA and co-author of the study.

"The idea is that when our loved ones are alive, we get a rewarding cue from seeing them or things that remind us of them," O'Connor said. "After the loved one dies, those who adapt to the loss stop getting this neural reward.

"But those who don't adapt continue to crave it, because each time they do see a cue, they still get that neural reward.

"Of course, all of this is outside of conscious thought, so there isn't an intention about it," she said.

The researchers looked at 23 women who had lost a mother or a sister to breast cancer. (Grief is very problematic among survivors of breast cancer patients, particularly among female family). They found that, 11 had complicated grief, and 12 had the more normal, non-complicated grief.

Each of the participants brought a photograph of their deceased loved one and were shown this picture while undergoing brain scanning by functional MRI. Next, they were scanned while looking at a photograph of a female stranger.

The authors looked for activity in the nucleus accumbens, a region of the brain most commonly associated with reward. They found that while both groups had activation in the pain network of the brain after viewing a picture of their loved one, only individuals with complicated grief showed significant nucleus accumbens activations.

These findings have been reporting in the journal NeuroImage.

'Second Life' enters the World of mobile phones

Demanding a better-than-average processor, a 1024×768 screen resolution, a boatload of RAM, and a strong video card just to take part, it's hard to believe that Second Life, the virtual world developed by Linden Lab (download for Windows and Mac), could ever survive on a mobile phone.

Yet on Tuesday, Vollee, a 3G streaming services provider, began offering the free, open beta version of Second Life for 40 Wi-Fi-enabled and 3G cell phones with more handset compatibility coming soon. That means you, iPhone.

In Second Life Mobile, users will be able to fly and teleport all over the virtual world, and chat when other friends are online.

Talk about porting Second Life to cell phones began in February, and a private beta program of Second Life Mobile appeared shortly after.

How does Vollee accomplish the gargantuan, scoffed-at task of hosting a huge, graphics-hungry PC game on such compact devices? They won't spill much, except to say that Second Life Mobile is a thin client downloaded to the high-end cell phone that communicates with the full, unmodified game that's hosted on Vollee's servers. All the adaptation happens on Vollee's end, with the mobile-friendly results streaming to each individual handset.

We haven't had a chance to try it out yet, but we will soon. Watch this space for our first take of gameplay.

Bad Boys get the Girls : Study

Scientists have now confirmed what good guys always knew: bad boys get the girls.

Researchers have shown that across cultures it really does pay to have a mean streak - with callous, self-obsessed, deceitful men proving the biggest hit with the opposite sex.

The findings, reported at the Human Behaviour and Evolution Society meeting in Kyoto, Japan, may help to explain why anti-social personality traits, known as the "dark triad", could have an upside: a prolific sex life.

"James Bond epitomises this set of traits. He's clearly disagreeable, very extroverted and likes trying new things - killing people, new women," said study author Peter Jonason of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.

"It is universal across cultures for high dark triad scorers to be more active in short-term mating," said David Schmitt of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, who also presented preliminary results at the same meeting from a survey of more than 35,000 people in 57 countries.

He said such people are more likely to try and poach other people's partners for a brief affair.

Jonason and his colleagues subjected 200 college students to personality tests. Jonason found that those who scored higher on the "dark triad" personality traits tended to have more partners and more desire for short-term relationships, according to the study highlighted by New Scientist magazine.

But the correlation only held in males. The study shows that women who share the same personality traits do not enjoy the same success with the opposite sex.

Nice guys, however, need not lose all hope. Earlier studies have shown that while girls tend to like cads for flings, they usually settle down with more caring types. Source : Times of India.

In 2050, your lover may be a robot

Romantic human-robot relationships are no longer the stuff of science fiction - researchers expect them to become reality within four decades.

And they do not mean simply, mechanical sex. "I am talking about loving relationships about 40 years from now," David Levy, author of the book Love + sex with robots, said at an international conference held last week at the University of Maastricht in the south east of the country.

"... when there are robots that have also emotions, personality, consciousness. They can talk to you, they can make you laugh. They can ... say they love you just like a human would say 'I love you', and say it as though they mean it ..."

Robots as sex toys should already be on the market within five years, predicted Levy, "a sort of an upgrade of the sex dolls on sale now".

These would have electronic speech and sensors that make them utter "nice sounds" when a human caresses their "erogenous zones".

But to build robots as real partners would take a bit longer, with conversation skills being the main obstacle for developers.

Scientists were working on artificial personality, emotion and consciousness, said Levy, and some robots already appear lifelike.

"But for loving relationships - that is something completely different. In loving relationships there are many more things that are important. And the most difficult of all is conversation," said the author. Source : Times of India

Bijal Joshi r-ape : Boyfriend sentenced to life

The verdict on the Bijal Joshi r-ape case is out. All the five accused - Sajal Jain, Sugam Jaiswal, Ashok Jaiswal, Chandan Jaiswal and Karan Jain - have been awarded life imprisonment.

An Ahmedabad sessions court on Friday had convicted all of the five accused, while seven others were aquitted. The case had taken the country by storm back in 2004.

Twenty-four-year-old Bijal Joshi committed suicide on January 7, 2004 after she was gang-raped and tortured by her boyfriend Sajal Jain and his friends.

Sajal Jain, 32, a father of two, had befriended Bijal Joshi and invited her to Hotel Ashok Palace in Ahmedabad to celebrate the New Year. There he raped her along with four of his friends on December 31, 2003.

In a suicide note which Bijal left behind, she named Sajal and his four friends for raping and torturing her. Her body had borne several bite marks.

Sajal is son of industrialist and owner of Delhi's Apollo Millennium Hospital, S K Jain.

He was arrested on charges of rape and abetting suicide from Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, where he was admitted in the ICU feigning food poisoning to try and evade arrest. He has been in police custody since then.

Bijal - who had filed a police complaint against Sajal and his friends - killed herself for she believed the police were favouring the accused.

Six policemen, including an inspector of Shahibaug police station, were suspended for their laxity in the case in 2004. Source : IBN Live

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Firefox 3.0 Final Available for Download Right Here - Grab it while it's hot

This is it! The wait is now over! Firefox 3.0 Final is available for download for Windows and Mac OS X. Mozilla announced since last week, following the release of the Release Candidate 3 Build, that the gold bits for Firefox 3.0 would be made available on June 17, 2008, and managed to meet the deadline. Although the official release of Firefox 3.0 is still a few hours away, the downloads for the next iteration of the Firefox open source browser are live. So, make sure that you grab your copy; the links for the English binaries of Firefox 3.0 Final for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are also at the bottom of this article.

The Gecko 1.9 web rendering platform is the foundation for Firefox 3.0. Mozilla spent the last 34 months hammering away at Gecko 1.9. With the next version of Firefox, Mozilla will in fact move onward with the evolution of Gecko. But for now, Firefox 3.0 users will be able to enjoy the benefits of in excess of 15,000 updates introduced to the rendering engine. In this context, Firefox 3.0 delivers "improved performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability," according to Mozilla.

Placing a strong emphasis on performance, Mozilla also revealed that Firefox 3.0 is synonymous with a comprehensive evolution in terms of security, usability, customization, as well as from the perspective of developers, who benefit now from an enhanced platform. Firefox 3.0 marks the first time when Mozilla released versions of the open source browser tailored for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux when it comes down to the default theme. But Firefox 3.0 brings so much more, including a plethora of features highlighted by Mozilla's Deb Richardson :

• Add-on manager
• Bookmarks
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Color profile support
• Download manager
• Font and text rendering
• Full page zoom
• History
• HTML Canvas
• Location bar UTF-8 support
• Malware protection
• Microformats API
• Offline web application support
• Password manager
• Performance improvements
• Phishing protection
• Plugins
• Site Identification button
• Smart Location Bar
• Tabs
• Themes
• Video and audio feeds
• Vista parental controls support
• Web application protocol handlers.

1. Firefox 3.0 Final for Windows is available for download.
2. Firefox 3.0 Final for Mac OS X is available for download.

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Smoking harmful for both Sexes

Women who smoke are no more likely than men to get lung cancer but, among non-smokers, women appear to have a higher risk than men, US researchers reported on Friday.

Women who had never smoked were 1.3 times more likely to develop lung cancer than men who had never smoked, Neal Freedman of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues found.

"We noted slightly higher age-standardized incidence rates of lung cancer in women who had never smoked than in men who had never smoked," Freedman and colleagues wrote in the Journal Lancet Oncology . His team looked at a survey of 279,214 men and 184,623 women aged 50 to 71 first questioned in 1995 or 1996.

"The questionnaire asked participants about their past and current smoking status, demographics, alcohol intake, tobacco smoking, physical activity, and included a food-frequency questionnaire of 124 items," the researchers wrote.

They were watched until 2003. "During follow-up, lung cancers occurred in 4,097 men and 2,237 women," the researchers wrote.

Among men who had never smoked, 99 got lung cancer, compared with 152 women who never smoked.

The researchers did not ask about how much anyone had smoked or whether they were exposed to second-hand smoke. Experts agree that second-hand smoke also causes lung cancer.

"But when we compared smokers with similar smoking histories we noted that men tended to have slightly higher incidence rates than women.

"Our findings suggest that women are not more susceptible than men to the carcinogenic effects of cigarette smoking in the lung," Freedman's team wrote.

They said more study needs to be done to see if female non-smokers actually do have more of a risk of lung cancer. Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer worldwide, with almost 1.2 million deaths per year — 162,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. Source : Times of India

Why the iPhone 3G Is a King - The new iPhone is a good handset but it could have been much better

Apple's iPhone 3G, officially announced only two days ago, on June 9, will almost surely be one of the most popular mobile devices of this year and probably next year too. I’m saying this because the handset offers even more than what the first-generation iPhone does and we all know that the latter is a huge commercial success.

Coming with the slogan "Twice as fast, half the price", the iPhone 3G is, indeed, a lot faster than the previous iPhone when it comes to data transfer speeds and Web browsing. That's thanks to the tri-band 3G / HSDPA connectivity, of course (which, according to many, should have been included in the iPhone from the beginning).

Aside from 3G, the new iPhone also brings internal GPS, A-GPS, App Store access, support for Microsoft Exchange, a longer battery lifetime and an overall improved design. Added to the features already existent in the first iPhone, the new ones make iPhone 3G worthy to be called king (of all mobile devices, if you will).

But before you hurry up and bestow this kind of title on iPhone 3G, you should also know about the aspects that pretty much make the handset a beggar and not a king.

1. The "MMS curse" that was present with the first iPhone has stuck to the iPhone 3G too. Therefore, the iPhone 3G is, like the first-generation handset, not capable of sending and receiving MMS. I'm no MMS specialist (if I may say so myself), but how hard can it be to make a mobile device capable of sending and receiving these types of messages? The vast majority of phones currently on the market can do that. So why is it that the iPhone 3G can't do it?

2. The photo camera integrated in the iPhone 3G is the old one from the previous model. This means 2 Megapixels with no auto focus, no flash and, most notable, no video recording. Now, even entry-level phones from manufacturers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson or Samsung can have better photo cameras. Furthermore, while lots of the mid and high-end handsets that feature 3G connectivity have a secondary camera for video-calls, the iPhone 3G, like the first iPhone, does not have one.

3. Although iPhone 3G comes with Bluetooth 2.0, this does not support A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile). Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP is a common feature to all the multimedia-oriented handsets and, without it, iPhone 3G is an incomplete multimedia device.

4. Last of all, the new iPhone has no memory expansion slot. Sure, when you have 8 or 16 GB of memory on board, chances are that you don't even need a memory card slot. But wouldn't it have been nice if iPhone 3G had offered the memory expansion feature, like Samsung Omnia, for example, which (coincidence or not) was also announced on June 9? I believe it would.

Sure, the above mentioned flaws of iPhone 3G can be ignored by lots of users who will love the handset for its wide 3.5 inch display, its Mac OS X interface and all the other cool things that it offers. But that doesn't change the fact that, from some (important) points of view, the iPhone 3G is inferior to many mobile devices released this year.

Anyway. Available on most of the global markets by the end of 2008 (click here to see the exact countries and carriers), iPhone 3G is set to take the mobile world by a storm far greater than the one the first iPhone had started.

Just in case you haven't seen the iPhone 3G commercial yet, although it’s highly unlikely, we're posting it below. Listen how Robert Downey Jr. (yes, that's him speaking) says about the 3G handset that it's "the first phone to beat the iPhone". As if it's something really out of the ordinary for a new-generation device to "beat" an old-generation one.

iPhone 3G Officially Hits 23 Countries on July 11

After yesterday's official presentation of the second-generation iPhone, named "iPhone 3G", Apple also announced that its new handset would be available starting July 11, in no less than 23 markets around the world. Also, iPhone 3G will be released by the end of 2008 in other 50 countries, allowing about all the mobile users on the globe to buy it.

The 23 countries where iPhone 3G will be released on July 11 are (we're also mentioning the operators to carry the handset) :

– USA (AT&T)

– Canada (Rogers)

– Mexico (América Móvil)

– UK (O2)

– Ireland (O2)

– France (Orange)

– Germany (T-Mobile)

– Spain (Telefónica)

– Switzerland (Swisscom and Orange)

– Austria (T-Mobile and Orange)

– The Netherlands (T-Mobile)

– Italy (TIM and Vodafone)

– Portugal (Vodafone and Orange)

– Sweden (Telia)

– Norway (NetCom)

– Denmark (Telia)

– Finland (Sonera)

– Japan (Softbank)

– Hong Kong (Hutchison Telecom – 3)

– Singapore (SingTel)

– Philippines (Globe Telecom)

– Australia (Optus and Vodafone)

– New Zealand (Vodafone)


"Later this year", iPhone 3G will also be released in other countries, including: Romania, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, India, Egypt, Jordan, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and other markets from Central America, the Middle East and Africa.

iPhone 3G will be available in two versions (8GB and 16GB) as well as in two colors: black and white. According to Apple, the retail price of iPhone 3G should be the equivalent of $199 (130 Euros) for the 8GB version and $299 (190 Euros) for the 16GB one.

When it comes to design, the new iPhone 3G is not too different from the original iPhone, but it has more rounded corners and it looks more elegant. On the feature side, the novelties iPhone 3G comes with include tri-band HSDPA connectivity (850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz), built-in GPS, A-GPS and Mac OS X 10.4.10. Aside from these aspects, the new iPhone is pretty much like the old one.

All in all, Apple's new handset will probably be a huge success all around the world, considering its price (lower than the one of the original iPhone) and its improved features.

iPhone in India through Airtel and Vodafone booking soon

After announcing a tie-up for bringing iPhone, Bharti Airtel and Apple today extended their partnership to launch the 3G version of iPhone in India later this year, for which the booking will start soon.

Soon customers will be able to purchase iPhone 3G at Airtel Relationship Centers. Details of pricing and availability will be announced at a later date.

iPhone 3G combines all the features of iPhone with 3G networking, which is said to be two times faster than the first generation iPhone. It has built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, a joint press release said.

It also has iPhone 2.0 software, which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

"We are delighted with the opportunity to bring the innovative iPhone 3G to India," said Bharti Airtel President and CEO Manoj Kohli.

"We are thrilled to be working with Bharti Airtel, India's leading integrated telecom company, to bring iPhone 3G to millions of mobile customers in India," said Apple's COO Tim Cook.

"We can't wait to get this revolutionary product in the hands of even more people around the world," he added.

West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam 2008

West Bengal Joint Entrance Exam 2008

The results for West Bengal Joint entrance Examination (WBJEE) 2008 will be announced before June 15. You may get details of your results as soon as they are declaired at its official site.

WBJEE Results 2008

The results when they are announced can be obtained by students by visiting the official site of Central Selection Committee for Engineering and Technology.

Ranbaxy Labs : Indian drugs maker Ranbaxy taken over by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo

Daiichi Sankyo, the Japanese pharmaceuticals company, has acquired a majority stake in Ranbaxy, India's largest maker of generic drugs, in a transaction that will be worth up to $4.6 billion (£2.35 billion).

The combination of the two companies, which took India's corporate world by surprise, will give Ranbaxy access to Daiichi's expertise in research while the Japanese company will benefit from low-cost production on the sub-continent. Daiichi's drugs include Benicar, the high blood pressure medicine.

Daiichi said that it has agreed to buy the 34.8 per cent stake in Ranbaxy held by the founding Singh family at 737 rupees a share. Under Indian takeover rules it is obliged to make a tender offer for a further 20 per cent. Under the terms of the deal, Ranbaxy will become a subsidiary of the Japanese company.

Countries with ageing populations, such as Japan where generics account for just 5 per cent of the market, are regarded as likely to encourage cheap copies of patented drugs to reduce healthcare costs.

Drugs worth between $45 billion and $50 billion are set to fall out of patent in the US over the next two years, according to Motilal Oswal, the Indian stockbroker. Generics makers, many based in India and China, are pushing for cheaper treatments to be given regulatory clearances.

Generic drugs typically sell at a 97 per cent discount to their patented templates, making companies such as Ranbaxy a thorn in the side of companies that invest in discovering new medicines.

In recent months, however, there have been signs that drug developers are becoming more inclined to cut deals with generics specialists. In April, AstraZeneca settled a legal battle against Ranbaxy over the rights to produce one of the world's most valuable drugs.

Under the terms of the out-of-court settlement, Ranbaxy Laboratories scrapped its plans to manufacture a cheap unauthorised copy of Nexium, the ulcer treatment developed by AstraZeneca, in the US. Ranbaxy will instead produce a generic version of the blockbuster drug with AstraZeneca's blessing in six years' time, when the earliest patents on Nexium expire.

Nexium, the second most lucrative prescription drug in the world, accounted for sales of $5.2 billion last year, trailing only Pfizer's Lipitor, the cholesterol treatment that achieved revenues of about £6 billion, the patents for which have also been contested by Ranbaxy.

AstraZeneca will also outsource the production of part of its US supplies of Nexium to Ranbaxy from May 2010. The Indian group will manufacture supplies of the active ingredient in the drug, esomeprazole magnesium, from May 2009.

Malvinder Mohan Singh, chief executive and managing director of Ranbaxy, said: "This is a significant milestone in our mission of becoming a research-based international pharmaceutical company." He added that making generic copies of branded drugs, which has proved lucrative for Ranbaxy and its peers, was not a sustainable business model.

Daiichi is paying a 31 per cent premium on Ranbaxy's closing price yesterday. The combined company will be worth about $30 billion.

Takashi Shoda, president and chief executive of Daiichi Sankyo, said the deal would "complement our strong presence in innovation with a new, strong presence in the fast-growing business of non-proprietary pharmaceuticals".

Shares in both companies rose about 5 per cent on news of the transaction. Source : Timesonline

NIOS Results 2008

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The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) was set up as National Open Cchool in 1989 by the ministry of human resource development, government of India, as as autonomous organization. It provide educational opportunities to the persons who could not study due to any reason, but now wishes to study and further and make their life better for tomorrow. The mission of NIOS is to provide education to all the people specially the WOMEN and GIRLS, rural youth, working men and women.

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The GGSIP CET-2008 was held on 25th May 2008 in Delhi/NCR. The Results have been Announced you can check your Result by clicking on the Link given below.

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AIEEE Results 2008 declared

The results of the All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination 2008 were declared on Tuesday.

The results were made available at www.cbse.nic.in and www.aieee.nic.in

Around nine lakh candidates appeared for the examination conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education at 1,299 centres this year.

Information regarding central counselling for candidates will be displayed by the Central Counselling Board on www.ccb.nic.in

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The Central Board of Secondary Education on Tuesday announced the results for the All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE).

The results are available on CBSE's website, http://www.cbse.nic.in/ and http://www.aieee.nic.in/, an official release said.

Students qualifying the entrance examination would be eligible for admission in various National Institutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Information Technology and Deemed Universities. The entrance was conducted on April 27 at 1299 centres in 75 cities across the country and abroad.

This year 7,92,752 candidates had appeared for the AIEEE-2008, the release said.

Welcome to Online Admissions in Bethune College

Bethune College is a Women's College in India. It was founded as a school in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune.

Bethune College
Affiliated to University of Calcutta
181, Bidhan SaraniBeadon StreetKolkata - 700006, West Bengal
Phone : (33) 22411731 , 22192097

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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Arabic, Bengali, English, History, Persian, Philosophy, Political Science, Sanskrit, Urdu

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Botany, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Zoology

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Angelina Jolie's Pregnancy Made Fashion in Cannes

Angelina Jolie is definitely not what you'd call publicity-shy – on the contrary, the mother-of-four, actress and humanitarian knows full well the value of media exposure and of a carefully manipulated public image. Arm in arm with her equally famous partner turned world's-most-famous-Daddy Brad Pitt, Angie is moving on with her extraordinary life, promoting her movies, traveling the world and getting ready for the arrival of her twins.

And as always, the world – that is, all of us – is ready and willing to be swept away on the wings of the purest celebrity fantasy by this beautiful pregnant woman, who on top of glowing with pride and happiness is also displaying the most amazing arsenal of pregnancy-flattering gowns.

Angie has been in Cannes over the past days promoting her latest flick, an animated movie called "Kung Fu Panda", and has been doing the usual promotional rounds – interviews, photo shoots, red carpet events – with the utmost grace, showing off at least three separate, beautiful maternity gowns in one day: a forest green, flowing Thomas Wylde design on the red carpet, a mint green dress for a TV interview and a loose white dress decorated with a scorpion.

Angelina's pregnancy was one of the hottest topics in Cannes ever since the festival debuted two days ago, particularly since two of Angie's "Kung Fu Panda" co-stars, Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman have – inadvertently or not – spilled the beans on two of the actress’ best-kept secrets: the fact that she is in fact expecting twins and the exact date when she is due to give birth – August 19th.

What with the celebrity buzz surrounding her, her fashion choices and the fact that her whole family is currently in France alongside her, Angie is definitely the queen of the Cannes media hype – and the festival has only just begun. Stay tuned for more fashion news. Source...

Agra University Results - 2008

Dr. B.R. AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, Agra

B.Com., B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A. 2008 Results

The foundation of Dr B. R. Ambedkar University (originally known as Agra University), was laid on the 1st of July, 1927, as a result of hectic efforts of a band of enthusiastic educationists like, Rev. Canon A.W. Davis, Munshi Narain Prasad Asthana, Dr L.P. Mathur, Lala Dewan Chand, Rai Bahadur Anand Swaroop and Dr Brajendra Swaroop.

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