On Friday, a major decision was taken by Pakistan under which it decided not to send its hockey and squash teams to India citing security concerns for the players.

The Pakistan hockey team was to participate in the four-nation Punjab Gold Cup, scheduled to start in Chandigarh from January 31, while the squash team was to defend its Asian Junior title in Chennai, which was supposed to start from January 16.

Scientists have found that dengue fever could be controlled by using parasites to shorten the life span of mosquitoes.

With laboratory-bred mosquitoes, the Australian scientists found that Wolbachia bacteria spread well. Researchers from the School of Integrative Biology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, and the College of Life Sciences at Central China Normal University in Wuhan, conducted the study and published it in the journal Science.

On Friday, a low-cost home computing device was launched by the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Chennai-based IT solutions company Novatium, which could help the former achieve a target of 9 million broadband connections across the country in the next couple of years.

Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL Kuldeep Goyal informed at a press conference after the launch of “Nova netPC” on the BSNL’s network, “Affordability issues over buying a desktop PC or laptop would no longer stand in the way of broadband penetration, especially in rural areas.”

According to a new study, antioxidants do not help women in reducing the risk of cancer.

The study, conducted by Dr. Jennifer Lin and colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston, involved 7,627 women, averaging 60 years. All of them had a cardiovascular disease or at its higher risk, and they were followed for almost a decade.

A unique and never seen before phone has been launched by Phenom communications, which you can wear on your wrist like a watch and that is why it is called a watch phone. The Phnom watch phone is basically an unlocked GSM phone and has MP4 player and an MP3 player, a video and digital camera and a compact cool watch.

Prison sentences have been issued by the Chinese government for what was believed to be the largest and most profitable software piracy operation in the world.

Prison terms to each of the eleven men were issued by the Courts in Shenzhen, China, who were thought to be masterminding the counterfeit ring. It has been learnt that the operation was based out of southern China with distribution to five continents and 36 countries.