Nainital, Apr 18 : Nainital-based Regional Oak Tasar Research Centre has created a world record in the field of silkworm egg laying.

The scientists and other staff members of the research centre are very pleased by the way the project has shaped up.

The average eggs per moth at the research centre are in the range of 240 to 260 as compared to China's 160 to 200 eggs.

Vienna - The US would be in breach of international law if it does not prosecute CIA officials for torturing alleged terrorists, the United Nations' monitor on torture Manfred Nowak said in a newspaper interview published Saturday in Austria.

The UN Special Rapporteur on torture was reacting to the announcement by US President Barack Obama that CIA operatives who used harsh interrogation tactics authorized by the Bush administration should not be held responsible.

Lucknow, Apr 18 : Jaipal Pathik, a member of Rashtravadi (Nationalist) Communist Party (RCP) has found a unique way to campaign in his constituency, Mohanlal Ganj in Uttar Pradesh.

Considering that the farmers and their families are busy in fields and nobody is present at their homes in the villages, Pathik makes a round of the agricultural fields to interact with the farmers and solicit their votes.

Petaling Jaya, Apr. 18 : Leaders of Malaysia's Hindu Rights Action Front (Hindraf) have agreed to reorganize the banned organization.

However, they are at loggerheads as to whether it should be transformed into a political party.

In a bid to bring the movement forward, Hindraf's self-exiled chairman P. Waythamoorthy suspended his ten national and state coordinators.

"We are just moving on to the next stage by re-strategizing and re-energizing ourselves for the next general election," said Waythamoorthy from London.

Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a military ceremony Saturday in Tehran that no country would dare to attack Iran.

"With Iran's military might, the enemies would not dare anymore to even threaten Iran," Ahmadinejad said on National Army Day in Tehran.

The president's comments came after renewed speculation that the new Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would attack Iran to stop its alleged efforts to create an atomic bomb.

Israeli President Shimon Peres denied those rumors and said there was no military option to deal with Iran's nuclear programme.

Washington, Apr 18 : More than a decade after discovering kapakahines- marine-derived natural products with anti-leukaemia potential-scientists have found the first technique to synthesise them in laboratory in large quantities, by using only acetylene gas, a handful of amino acids, and a dozen inventive steps.

Kapakahines were isolated from a South Pacific sponge in trace quantities, but its lack of availability stalled any future studies.

But, thanks to the efforts of researchers at Scripps Research Institute that unlimited production of kapakahine is now possible.

Thus, research on the compound can proceed and may eventually lead to new drug treatments.