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Bird flu Scare Triggers Culling In Sikkim

Bird flu Scare Triggers Culling In SikkimAs in compliance with an order from the Centre, the heath officials in Sikkim has already culled over 10,160 chickens at the Bird Flu affected area of Rabangla till Wednesday’s evening while more are in the process of being culled.

Sensex Nosedives 121.84 Pts; Metal, Realty Tumble @ 13:02 Hrs

Sensex Nosedives 121.84 Pts; Metal, Realty Tumble @ 13:02 Hrs The Sensex, which showed some signs of a recovery around noon, has slipped further into the negative zone on the back of continued selling action witnessed in several large, medium and small cap stocks.

Realty, metal, capital goods and power stocks plunged the most.

Mirroring the sell-off, several stocks from banking, IT and auto segments also fell sharply.

Select pharma, oil and consumer durables stocks hold on in the positive territory remained quite subdued.

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Phone To Hit Market By April 2009

Nokia 5730 XpressMusic Phone To Hit Market By April 2009Engadget mobile shows off Nokia’s highly-anticipated forthcoming 5730 XpressMusic phone.

The phone, which sticks to a regular design for Nokia smartphones, sports a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a traditional numeric keypad, a 2 inch display with a 240 x 320 resolution together with some dedicated external music controls with volume control buttons.

The slider of the XpressMusic phone zips out smoothly letting users to input text without any difficulty.

China milk scandal, Sanlu's former general manager escapes with life imprisonment and a fine

China milk scandalThe recent case of presence of melamine in Chinese milk products has once again put question mark on standards of the Chinese products. 21 people have been under trial for involvement in the scandal of contamination of milk products.

Two men received death sentence while Sanlu's former general manager, Tian Wenhua was given life sentence and fined more than pounds 2 million by a Chinese court on Thursday. Others are waiting for judgment.

Trust in newspaper and TV can keep you healthy

Trust in newspaper and TV can keep you healthyRecently, Japanese researchers found that people who have faith in mass media like TV and newspaper are healthier than people who criticize them.

Research team led by Yasuharu Tokuda from St. Luke's International Hospital and Takashi Inoguchi from Chuo University analyzed data collected from 39,000 people in 29 Asian countries.

Data analysis revealed that people in the Maldives had the most trust and good health as compared to people in Hong Kong who more cynical and sickly.

Neo Sports To Telecast Indo-Lanka Matches

Neo Sports To Telecast Indo-Lanka MatchesIn a significant move, Sri Lanka Cricket has announced that it has granted the worldwide rights to broadcast India's upcoming cricket tour of Sri Lanka to the Nimbus Sports International. The Singapore-headquartered global sports management company will also be producing the television coverage for the series which will be broadcast worldwide. Neo Cricket will air these matches.

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