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New York, Jun 6: A 31-year-old man has died after his tattoo became infected with flesh-eating bacteria that live in ocean water, according to a new report. Despite the common advice to avoid swimming for a few weeks after getting a new tattoo, the man went for a swim in the Gulf of Mexico just five days after he received the tattoo in his leg. According to the report published in the journal BMJ...

London, Jun 6: Starting your university life? Playing video games may help you develop 'graduate attributes' - skills required for higher education, a new study suggests. Researchers found that gaming improved student communication skills, resourcefulness and adaptability and may have a role to play in higher education. Over an eight-week period, undergraduate students were assigned to either an...

Kasaragod, Jun 6: In the context of unprecedented drought situation experienced in the State, hundreds of people from all walks of life observed World Environment day by joining hands with the government on its massive afforestation drive. Addressing a public function after inaugurating the district-level World Environment Day programme at the AUP School, Udinoor near Trikkarippur,on Monday...

Chennai, Jun 5: Taking a big leap forward in the space technology, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launched its heaviest rocket GSLV-Mk-III carrying communication satellite at country's spaceport in Sriharikota near here. GSLV-Mk-III, the first of its kind mission, is capable launching four ton class of satellites to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO). The GSLV rocket...

London, Jun 4: Trying to get a date with a woman? Using metaphors when you compliment her could do the trick, say scientists who suggest that poetic language may make a man seem more attractive. "We found that the use of metaphorical as opposed to prosaic language by men in compliments is perceived by women as indicative of creativity and intelligence," said researchers from University of...

Ballari, Jun 4: Mabunni (25), who was convicted of trafficking in human beings, committed suicide by allegedly hanging herself to death with a sari in her cell at the Ballari Central Jail on Saturday. She was among the 39 undergoing 10 years imprisonment in connection with trafficking in human beings. Gandhi Nagar police have registered a case.

Kasaragod, Jun 3: The police have registered a case against the manager of Essa School at Perwad, near Kumbla, for allegedly misbehaving with a woman teacher. On a complaint filed by the teacher, the Kumbla police on Thursday registered a case against the school manager, whom the teacher accused of talking to her in a sexually explicit manner, a senior police officer said. Declining to reveal the...

Tumakuru, Jun 3: More skeletons are falling out of the cupboard after a hunger strike by the inmates of Tumakuru Central Prison for Women over alleged harassment by the jailer and videographing of the inmates by an unauthorised person. On Friday, while the inmates continued their hunger strike, it came to light that one of them had suffered a fracture after allegedly being beaten up by three...

Agra, Jun 2: In what doctors are calling a medical miracle of sorts, a 38-year-old woman has given birth to a child after 18 miscarriages in 20 years. Both mother and child are doing well, said the doctor couple who conducted a laparoscopic surgery on her to hold the fetus in the uterus. They plan to apply and get the case registered in the Guinness Book of World Records. A resident of Hathigarhi...

Kasargod, Jun 2: A man who fell down while plucking mangoes at Manikkal in Kallar grama panchayat met with a tragic end after 20 hours of lying unattended at the accident spot. Pala, 48, a resident of ST colony at Manikkallu under the Rajapuram police station limits, slipped and fell from a mango tree on a private uninhabited plot in the locality on Tuesday afternoon. None of his relatives...