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Chaplin's daughter goes gaga over her dad's genius
Mumbai: Her eyes light up with the same impish glow like that of her legendary father and her hesitant gait almost instantly reveal her genes.
IISc scientists extract silica from rice husk ash
Bangalore: Scientists at the Indian Institute Of Science (IISc) have been successful in extracting silica, used in industrial and pharmaceutical applications, from rice husk ash.
Myth: Are medical ads playing on human emotions?
Sex, fear and self-esteem are the strongest of all psychological appeals that the advertisers have exploited for years in convincing their audience. Not many pharmaceutical firms, however, in the past have exclusively focused on products that enhanced sexual pleasure. Whether it was the sixties or a mere six years ago, men who could not get an erection had few options. Then came Viagra in 1998 that has revolutionised the options for male intimacy.
Bollywood blamed for encouraging teenage smoking
London: Bollywood is again in the limelight, but this time it is for inadvertently encouraging youngsters to smoke, with World Health Organisation (WHO) saying three out of four films produced in the last decade had shown the stars smoking.
AIDS victims' children fight their way to school
Kollam: Two children, aged five and seven, who were being denied the right to pursue education as their parents had died of AIDS, have literally fought their way to school at Kummanalloor in Kerala's cashew rich Kollam district.
Warne's hat-trick of scandals - corruption, sex, drugs
Sydney: Cricket's greatest leg spinner Shane Warne has taken an unwanted hat-trick in the wake of his positive drug test at the World Cup in South Africa.
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