Indian Railways has decided to postpone the railway recruitment exam across centers in Maharashtra. However, the railway recruitment board would hold it on scheduled date across all 10 centers in Bihar. The exam was scheduled on November 9 by the Railway Recruitment Boards of Patna and Muzaffarpur to fill 106 vacancies of section engineer, technician, health inspector, radiographer and lab assistant.

It is, possibly, postponed in Maharashtra following insecurity of candidates of other states and high number of Maharashtra aspirants. However, Ranchi RRB chairman, J K Guriya said exam is deferred due to administrative reasons.

Washington, November 10 : Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a set of five proteins in blood, which they believe may lay the basis for a highly accurate early warning test to predict heart attack in people with severely reduced blood flow, a condition medically known as ischemia.

The team comprising over a dozen scientists revealed that it took them a year to perform the study. They believe that theirs is the largest protein analysis ever done at Hopkins.

Bangkok  - Thailand has detected a fresh outbreak of avian influenza among free-range chickens in the northern province of Sukhothai, the country's agriculture minister confirmed Monday.

Agriculture Minister Somsak Prissananathakul said lab tests had confirmed that a dead chicken from a family farm in Thuang Saliam district of Sukhothai province had died of an infection with H5N1, the virus subtype causing bird flu.

London, November 10: Queen of pop Madonna, who is currently in the process of a bitter divorce battle with estranged hubby Guy Ritchie, was reportedly spotted in poor health after she left a Kabbalah meeting.

A frail-looking Madge, who had allegedly attempted to hide her deteriorating health behind large sunglasses and a baseball cap, was seen looking strained while battling repeated coughing fits, say reports.

Washington, Nov 10 : Scientists have determined that the estimated temperature rise in India will far exceed the increase in projected rainfall by the end of the century.

According to a report in ENN (Environmental News Network), this makes it all the more important for the country to address the impact of climate change on its agriculture, water resources and health “right away”.

If India makes no efforts to cap its current emissions of greenhouse gases, then the country could face a temperature increase of four degrees Celsius by 2100, according to Kankicharla Krishna Kumar, head of the new climate change research centre at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM).

Taipei  - A Taiwan rooster has been spared the fate of being killed, cooked and eaten because of its good looks, the chicken's raisers said Monday.

In February, the Shifang School for Mentally Retarded in Taichung, central Taiwan, bought 20 chicks to raise, intending to sell them when they grew up to raise funds for the cash-strapped school, Wei Cheng-feng, executive director of the school, said.