Thursday, 27 December 2012
Kabul, Dec
27 : Afghan construction magnate Haji Asadullah Ghaznawi was dragged
from his office with a gun to his head and locked up in a slaughterhouse for
almost three weeks.
Ghaznawi was later...
Gains in Afghan health: Too good to be true?
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Washington, Dec 27: A US-sponsored mortality survey released last year announced huge
improvements in health across Afghanistan. But the gains are so great that
experts are still arguing about whether...
Afghan air force learns to fly and fix aircraft
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Kabul, Dec 27 :
Twenty years ago, Afghan Air Force pilot Maj. Abdul Aziz was streaking across
the sky in the Soviet Union's deadliest fighter-bomber.
Now 45, his new
task is less dramatic or flamboyant,...
Andy Williams' Navajo blankets set for NYC auction
Thursday, 27 December 2012
New York, Dec 27 : The late American crooner Andy Williams, famous for easy-listening
hits such as "Moon River" and "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" from his
beloved Christmas TV specials, had...
‘Django,’ ‘Les Miz’ deemed ineligible for top screenplay award
Thursday, 27 December 2012
London,
Dec 27 : WGA's list of screenplays eligible to be nominated for Oscars
will not include Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," as Hitfix first
reported.
Tarantino, who won the Best Original...
Posen filling Kors' 'Project Runway' hot seat
Thursday, 27 December 2012
New York, Dec 27: Zac Posen is in on "Project Runway" — he'll be the new featured
judge, filling the chair Michael Kors sat in for the show's first 10
seasons.
"This was an amazing opportunity," Posen...
Pfizer to cut 600 jobs as Lipitor sales decline
Thursday, 27 December 2012
New York, Dec 27 : Pfizer Inc (PFE) plans to cut about 20 percent of its sales force
for primary-care drugs, Bloomberg News reported, as the pharmaceutical company
copes with the loss of a patent for...
Cliff talks hit a lull with Boehner's 'Plan B'
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Washington, Dec 27 : Just two weeks from an economy-threatening deadline, fiscal cliff
talks hit a lull as House Speaker John Boehner announced that Republicans would
also march ahead with their own...
FTC to delay Google anti-trust probe decision
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Washington, Dec 27 : The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which had been expected to wrap
up an anti-trust probe into Google within days, will now delay its decision for
weeks, a source said.
Google...
UK's FSA fines UBS 160 million pounds for Libor rigging
Thursday, 27 December 2012
London, Dec 27 : Britain's Financial Services Authority fined Swiss bank UBS 160
million pounds for manipulating the Libor interest rate in four countries over
six years.
UBS said separately it will...
SPX closes in on $4.2 billion Gardner Denver deal
Thursday, 27 December 2012
New York, Dec 27 : Industrial machinery maker SPX Corp is closing in on a roughly $4.2
billion deal to buy rival Gardner Denver Inc, as it makes progress in securing
financing, a source familiar...
Ford says recalls have not hurt auto sales
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Detroit, Dec 27 :
Ford Motor Co is not experiencing a hit to its auto sales as a result of a
recent spate of safety recalls, Chief Operating Officer Mark Fields
said.
"I think overall our sales are...
IHK families worried
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Srinagar, Dec 27 : The families in whose
houses the encounter took place in Sopore are worried about the safety of some
of their members as they have failed to locate their
whereabouts.
Khursheed...
Drug mafia ‘manages’ closure of fair price shops in IHK
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Srinagar, Dec 27 : Hundreds of poor patients coming to different government hospitals
in occupied Jammu and Kashmir don’t have access to life-saving drugs on
affordable prices as the state’s Health...
For Madvan village, primary health centre still a distant dream
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Madvan,
Dec 27 : There is no supply of safe drinking water in this village of
district Bandipora in occupied Kashmir.
The electricity remains mostly
off and roads are potholed. But what haunts villagers...
Cardiac surgeons install tiny temporary pump inside heart
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Islamabad, Dec
27 : Cardiologists weave an eight gram pump through an artery in the
groin into the left ventricle, where it pumps up to five liters of blood per
minute.
This temporary device assists...
Darwin had it right all along
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Islamabad, Dec 27 : More than 150
years ago, Darwin proposed the theory of universal common ancestry (UCA),
linking all forms of life by a shared genetic heritage from single-celled
microorganisms...
Faster salmonella detection now possible with new technique
Thursday, 27 December 2012
Islamabad,
Dec 27 : Using technology available through a local company, an Iowa
State University researcher is working on a faster method to detect and
genetically identify salmonella from contaminated...
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