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London, May 14: Three explosive letters that highlight Mahatma Gandhi's deep concerns over the behaviour of his eldest son, Harilal, will go under the hammer at an auction in England next week. Mullock's Auctioneers based in Shropshire county are hoping to fetch between 50,000 pounds and 60,000 pounds for a set of three letters written by the Father of the Nation in June 1935. "You should know...

London, May 10: Don't get depressed if she has refused to go on a date with you owing to your short height. Tell her you are going to stay longer on earth for better chances knocking on your door! According to research on Japanese men, shorter men are more likely to have a protective form of a gene, leading to smaller body size during early development and a longer lifespan. Shorter men are also...

London, May 7: Dinosaurs are alive and here! Although most dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago, one dinosaur lineage survived and lives on today as a major evolutionary success story - the birds, according to a new Oxford study. The study that'weighed' hundreds of dinosaurs suggests shrinking their bodies may have helped the group that became birds to continue exploiting new ecological...

Chikmagalur, May 3: L.K. Ramesh, member of Chikmagalur City Municipal Council, died in an accident in Chikmagalur on Thursday. Mr. Ramesh (52) was on his two-wheeler near Hanumanthappa Circle when his vehicle was hit by a tipper truck. He died on the spot as the tipper ran over his head. The BJP corporator, representing ward 28, is survived by his wife and two daughters. A large number of people...

Mangalore, May 2: The annual ice cream eating competition of the JCI will be held in Kadri Park on May 4. The competition will be held separately for children aged between 5 and 12 years and for the public. Spot registration will be till 3.30 p.m. and competition will start at 4 p.m.

London, Apr 29: Finished drinking your bottle of water? Now eat it! A design student in the UK has developed an edible bottle that could rid the world of excess plastic waste. Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, along with fellow students from Imperial College London, has been working on the Ooho water bottle for the past few years. The bottle is made from edible material, looks like a jellyfish, and has the...

To the People of India, India's elections have begun and you are exercising your votes to choose your new political representatives. Whoever you end up electing will be momentously placed to exercise real leadership and take the difficult decisions that are needed to shape a better course for the future of India and for peace in South Asia. In this regard, there are two clear paths ahead, each...

Apr 10: On my recent visit to Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, at the refugee camp of the September 2013 riot victims, the name of Amit Shah often came up during discussions. Mr. Shah is the newly appointed campaign manager for Narendra Modi in Western U.P. For those who are keeping a close tab on the human rights situation in India, Amit Shah?s name rings an alarm bell. The appointment of Amit...

It's the end of the line for Microsoft's Windows XP: as of today, the company will no longer release security updates for the 12-year-old operating system. "Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to...

London, Apr 7: Britain's Royal Mint has started minting coins from Indian bullion cargo recovered from a British ship more than 70 years after it was sunk by a German U-boat. The British ship with a cargo of 2,800 bars of silver bullion was on its way to London from Kolkata in 1941 when the ship, SS Gairsoppa, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast. The ship spent 70 years lost...