Beijing, Nov. 8 : China has said that it will never tolerate any attempts at "Tibet independence".

"Tibet independence is out of the question," The China Daily quoted Du Qinglin, head of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the CPC Central Committee, as saying after meeting with two representatives of the Dalai Lama recently.

"Semi-independence or independence in any disguised form will not be tolerated either," Du reportedly told the two envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, Xinhua said on Thursday.

Washington, Nov 8: US President-elect Barack Obama today said that his administration would extend full support to Pakistan to overcome the prevailing financial crisis as well as war on terrorism.

Obama said in a telephonic conversation with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardai, from Washington.

Both Pakistan and the US share long lasting friendship and hoped to eradicate terrorism from the region with Pakistan support, The News quoted Obama as saying on phone.

The question of difference between chimpanzee and human genomes, which are near identical at the DNA level will be answered very soon. In what is seen as the basis which will help in further research, scientists have found areas linked to cell differentiation and immune response.

Islamabad, Nov 8 : A new Parliamentary Committee on Terror has been constituted in Pakistan to monitor implementation of the resolution passed by the parliament during the in-camera joint session on security issues last month.

National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza constituted the committee. An announcement regarding this is expected to be made today, the Dawn quoted official sources as saying.

London, November 7: A Canadian researcher team says that the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs in destroying tumours, or in keeping them in check, may be improved with the aid of a virus called reovirus.

Brad Thompson, CEO of Canadian company Oncolytics Biotech that has been developing the virus as a product called Reolysin, has revealed that this virus harmlessly infects most people at some time in their lives.

He says that the reovirus destroys tumour cells because they lack the cellular machinery that keeps the virus in check in healthy cells.

Demolition was off late seen as the only consequence of illegal construction, but the cabinet sub-committee on Sakrama, for the regularization of unauthorized constructions has opted for a more viable option. It has favored relaxing the upper limit of violation, currently 50% and reducing the penalty for irregularization substantially.

There may be more than one lakh buildings in Bangalore which have violated the building rules beyond 50 per cent and it will not be possible to demolish all of them. Furthermore, as most of these structures belong to poor and lower middle class people there was a feeling that penalty is very high, hence, a proposal for a substantial reduction in penalty for smaller sites.