The People's Democratic Party (PDP) and the Awami National Conference (ANC) announced on Tuesday that they would join the electoral process in Jammu and Kashmir.

Judicial probe demand into October 21 Bomb blast in Imphal has gained momentum in Manipur. The blast killed 17 people and 30 other were injured.

Washington, Oct 29 : A new research, which found racial and ethnic disparities in patient health-care experiences, claims that Asians have worse experiences than white patients in US.

The survey involving 49,000 patients showed that Asian and Pacific Islander patients have worst experiences than white patients, within the same practices.

"Our findings suggest that there are statistically significant ethnic disparities in physician-patient communication, access to care, and care coordination, even among comparably insured patients in a variety of health-care markets," said Dr. Hector Rodriguez, lead author and assistant professor of health services at the UW School of Public Health and Community Medicine.

London, Oct 29 : While sunlight can cause wrinkles, the red glow from LEDs may help smooth them out, finds a new study.

A light-emitting-diode (LED) is a semiconductor diode that emits light when an electric current is applied in the forward direction of the device, as in the simple LED circuit.

The red LEDs do this by altering the interactions between water and elastic proteins in the skin.

In a new study, Andrei Sommer and Dan Zhu of the University of Ulm in Germany, found how water molecules in the skin interact with different substances.

Washington, Oct 29: Women who’re not comfortable revealing their age should stay miles away from University of Illinois-developed computer software that reveals a person’s age just like humans do—by looking at his or her face.

The software, developed at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, could analyse an image of your face to verify your identity or run a commercial according to your interest.

"Age measurement is very difficult. If you use the face to estimate age we can really get the apparent age, or how old a person looks," Discovery News quoted Thomas Huang, the lead developer, as saying.

London, October 29: After divorcing twice, latest Bond girl Olga Kurylenko has realised that she doesn’t need a man.

The 28-year-old, who had a tough start sharing a small apartment with eight relatives, revealed she hated being a ‘possession’.

Speaking of her first hubby Cedric Van Mol, the Ukranian-born stunner said that after some time the photographer felt ‘like a brother’.

"He was a good friend so we never fought but you know how it is – at some point it just gets so comfortable – the person becomes more of your brother,” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.