Power related discrepancies: 1,000 in 20 days Indian Express | All-woman squads to report billing irregularities, meter tampering & power thefts | Barely one-month-old all-woman squads Damini, set up by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), have managed to come out with over 1,000 cases of discrepancies in electricity billin...
The hidden powers of your pooch: Why your dog really is a genius The Daily Mail | Hidden powers: Dogs know a lot about their owners just through their amazing sense of smell | Loyal: Dogs can tell when you've eaten and even if you have cancer | Sharp-nosed doctors can recognise diseases by their smells: People with typhoid fever often smell like freshly baked bread, and tubercu...
Mind set: Why power is sacred The Times Of India Even far across the oceans, one hears India's collective sigh of relief. Since the Mumbai attacks, the old toxic rivalry with Pakistan has given the xenophobes a stake to drive into the body politic. But just as America turned decisively against the ...
London home to most powerful hedge fund women The Times | More than a quarter of the world's most powerful women in the hedge fund industry are based in London, according to a report by the Hedge Fund Journal which has identified the top 50 women in the traditionally male-dominated business. | The report ...
Generosity, By Richard Powers The Independent | Russell Stone teaches creative writing at a two-bit Chicago college. He hails from a family of congenital depressives and is hunched with low self-esteem, but among his variously untalented students is the remarkably gifted Thassa Amzwar, a Maghreb...
Repella powers West Virginia past Providence The Boston Globe | PROVIDENCE, R.I.-Liz Repella scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help No. 11 West Virginia beat Providence 75-59 on Saturday. | Asya Bussie added 12 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for the Mountaineers (21-3, 8-2 Big East), who bounced b...
Girl power: Young women can focus early on politics Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | A group of Allegheny County girls has decided that the best way to tackle the problem of too few women in elective offices is by getting involved early. | The girls were chosen last summer to be "Change Agents," an initiative of the Women and Girls...
Terry strikes winner for Chelsea; Liverpool power past Bolton Deccan Herald London, Jan 31, Reuters: | Chelsea skipper John Terry, whose personal troubles made newspaper headlines on Saturday, ensured he would also dominate the back pages when he headed Chelsea's late winner in a 2-1 Premier League success at Burnley. | The ...
‘Media, pop culture powerful tools in human rights advocacy’ Deccan Herald Utpal Borpujari | It began 10 years ago as an experiment using media and popular culture to advance the cause of human rights. The very first effort, in the form of the album and music video on women’s rights, ‘Mann Ke Manjeere’, was an astounding su...
For obese, vaccine needle size matters China Daily | NEW YORK - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic. | In a new study, the researchers report that using a standard 1-inch needle to immunize obese adolescents against hepatitis B virus produced a much weaker effect than using a longer needle. |...
Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | BANGKOK -- "I am not a woman prime minister," Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. "I am a prime minister." | But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. | More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world,...
