Recent study revealed how caffeine can offer protection against skin cancer. Research team led by Dr. Paul Nghiem, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Washington in Seattle studied the caffeine's effect on human skin cells in a laboratory that had been exposed to ultraviolet radiation.

Research team found that caffeine interrupted a protein called ATR-Chk1 in cells damaged by UV rays. This led the damaged cell to self destruct. Caffeine had no effect on the healthy cells.

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According to Fortune magazine's Friday reports, Hearst Corp intends launching a wireless electronic reader with a large-format screen this year - the proposed device would be big enough to meet the outlining and advertising requirements of newspapers and magazines.

The e-reader, meant for viewing the newspapers and magazines of the publisher, indicates a kind of experimentation that can be considered crucial for hitting upon a business model to contend in the age of the content-free Internet.

Doctors at SSKM Hospital removed the intact glass bulb from the stomach of the four year old Pratima Aleymagar successfully.

Had the torch bulb broken inside the girl’s stomach, the glass could have caused immense damage to her organs.

Confirming the development, surgeon Arunabha Sengupta, who operated on the girl said, “Aleymagar underwent a surgery Thursday morning. The width of the bulb was 2 mm and it was struck so tightly inside the left bronchia that the slightest pressure would have led to her death.”

On Feb 16, Aleymagar had swallowed a 2 mm X 1 mm bulb while playing at her residence in Narendrapur town in South 24 Parganas district.

Recovery in steel and cement segments and plenty of funds available with states for expenditure today gave the centre the assurance that the country will grow by around 7% during the existing fiscal.

During the first nine months of the recent fiscal, the economic system came up by 6.9%, and the government's advance estimations nailed the growth at 7.1% for this fiscal (2008-09).

Japanese Automobile major, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) expanded its range of alternate fuel vehicles by including the Innova CNG in its fold in India.

From now onwards the country’s most popular multipurpose vehicle, Innova will be available in CNG variant as well.