London, Feb 11: Hopscotch, which involves hopping between designated squares on a chalk grid, has been voted as the greatest ever playground game in a new poll.

The game, which dates back to Roman times, was first used as a military training exercise for foot soldiers, who ran in full armour and field packs along 100ft long courts to improve their foot work.

Adults who took part in the survey, conducted by parenting advice service TheBabyWebsite. com, voted hide and seek as the second greatest playground game enjoyed by their children.

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Shimla, Feb 11 : A spell of fresh snowfall has cheered both locals and tourists in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh.

Shimla on Wednesday presented a picturesque look with houses, roads, trees and plants all covered by a blanket of white snow.

For tourists, the snow turned out to be a surprise package.

Washington, Feb 11 : If you feel that you don''t have enough time to finish a task in hand, then chances are your finished work won''t be up to the mark, says a new study, which claims that it''s the perception of time pressure that impairs performance.

In a first of its kind study, Michael DeDonno, a doctoral student in psychology at Case Western Reserve University looked at how perceived time pressure affected the performance of 163 subjects in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT).

IGT is a popular psychological assessment tool that is used to investigate the effect of perceived time pressure on a learning-based task.

The clash between rational and disciples of astrology has been continuing for hundreds of years.

The first group believes that astrology is a mere superstition and a nice gambit to deceive people, while the later group has wide regards for it.

After the introduction of internet or other sophisticated technology, the attraction of Indian astrology knows no bounds.

The foundation of Indian astrology or Jyotisha is the idea of bandhu of the Vedas or scriptures, which is the link between the microcosm and the macrocosm.