Patna, Oct 25 : Violence broke out during the dawn-to-dusk Bihar shutdown today called by various student organisations to protest against the attacks on North Indian candidates during a railway recruitment examination in Mumbai.
The shutdown is being called by various student organisations, including AISA, the student wing of Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), an ultra Left party.
Students ransacked Shekhpura railway station and delinked the engine of a passenger train this morning.
According to official sources, some students pelted stones at the police and totally disrupted rail traffic on the Kiul-Gaya railway line.
The police have taken half a dozen protestors in custody.
Washington, Oct 25: Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have found that bumblebees use flower scent to guide their nest-mates to good food sources.
Creatures like bees, who generally have societies of their own, tell their peers about food-rich sites and ''recruit'' them to the search.
Honeybees use waggle dance to inform their nest-mates about the distance and direction of a food source.
However, bumblebees communicate geographical information by releasing a recruitment pheromone in the nest to encourage their colleagues to venture out in search of food.
Apple has come up with its new Macbooks, a consumer notebook family which was already launched a week ago in the U.S. The product offers seven models in three categories, all of them being made from a new mechanical design using ‘unibody’ ultra light aluminium chasis making it the lightest and thinnest from its counterparts.
The three categories are MacBook, MacBookPro and MacBook Air where the 13.3 inch Mac books are priced at Rs. 96,500 and Rs. 79,700, the 15.4 inches MacBook Pro will cost the consumers around Rs. 1.20 lakh to Rs. 1.45 lakh. The Pro machine is laden with a ‘stepney’ graphics chip from NVIDIA giving it a high rendering and editing speeds for the professionals in visual computing.
London, Oct 25 : Sarah Palin, the Republican Party vice-presidential nominee for the US elections 2008, has failed in her aim to keep beluga whales off the endangered species list.
According to a report in New Scientist, the US government has added beluga whales in the Cook Inlet in Alaska to the endangered species list.
This is despite Palin’s efforts as state governor to prevent protection for this population being boosted.
Washington, Oct 25: People who have experienced social rejection by family, friends, or peers acquire a sense to tell “fake” smiles from the “real” ones, says a new Miami University study.
The study demonstrated that people who have faced rejection have an enhanced ability to determine whether the “happy” face before them is genuine or not.
Led by Michael Bernstein, a Miami doctoral student in social psychology and one of the researchers, the study was conducted on 32 subjects, 17 women and 15 men.
The researchers found that the subjects who were manipulated to feel rejection could distinguish a fake smile from a real one nearly 80 percent of the time.
Los Angeles - New Jersey Nets coach Lawrence Frank continues to learn valuable lessons to take into the regular season.
Vince Carter scored 20 points, and the Nets nearly blew a 21-point fourth-quarter lead before holding off the New York Knicks, 111-110, on Friday night in the preseason finale for both teams.
"There are a lot of good things that happened tonight, a lot of good play to get the lead," said Frank, whose club opens the regular season at Washington on Wednesday.
"It's good lessons because you're on the road, (the) team's obviously going to make a run back and it's learning how to play through mistakes and not letting mistakes multiply, not letting momentum take over the game."
London, Oct 25 : Sarah Palin, the Republican Party vice-presidential nominee for the US elections 2008, has failed in her aim to keep beluga whales off the endangered species list.
