Satyam Computers Chairman Ramalinga Raju resigns
Shares of Satyam Computer Wednesday crashed by over 72 percent to Rs.50 from a opening of Rs.179.10 on the bourses around 1 p.m., following the resignation of its founder-chairman B. Ramalinga Raju after he admitted to a Rs.40 billion (Rs.4,000 crore or $823 million) fraud - the largest in India [...]

Big volcanic eruptions can cool the tropics
Washington, Jan 6 (ANI): Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics.
The researchers included Rosanne D’Arrigo, a scientist at the Tree Ring Lab at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Rob Wilson of Lamont and the University of [...]

Nagaland moving on towards a rosy future
Kohima,Jan.6 (ANI): Moving on the path of self reliance, Nagaland is all set to have a rosy future with the success of rose farming in the state and annual sales turn over in 2008 standing at of crores of rupees.
Flowers like Lilium, Anthurium, Roses, dry flowers and Birds [...]

Pak Taliban commander surrenders in Khyber Agency
Peshawar, Jan.5 (ANI): A Taliban commander in Pakistan’s Khyber Agency surrendered to the area’’s political administration on Monday,even as traffic movement along the Pakistan-Afghanistan highway remained suspended, hindering NATO forces supplies.
Maulana Hazrat Nabi offered himself up for surrender through a Jirga of elders.
Sources were quoted by The News as [...]

Pakistan confers Hilal-i-Quaid-I-Azam on Boucher
Islamabad, Jan.5 (ANI): President Asif Ali Zardari conferred the award of Hilal-i-Quaid-i-Azam on Richard Boucher, U.S..Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asian Affairs, at a special investiture ceremony at the Aiwan-e-Sadr here on Monday.
The award was conferred on Boucher for his services to Pakistan, The News reported.
The citation read [...]

Parents warned against posting kids holiday pics online to avoid child porn collection
Wellington, Jan 5 (ANI): Parents are being warned not to put holiday photographs of their kids on the Internet because they could end up in collections of child abuse images.
Lee Chisholm, a spokesperson for NetSafe, said that authorities have found holiday pics of [...]

Trickster cuckoo chicks mimic foster parents’ young’s cries the minute they hatch
London, January 5 (ANI): Cuckoo chicks begin to imitate the cries of their foster parents’ young from the minute they hatch, an expert has said.
According to Professor Nick Davies, a Cambridge University behavioural ecologist, newly hatched chicks let out rapid frantic calls to ape [...]

‘The Thorn Birds’ to be staged as musical in Britain
Melbourne, Jan 5 (ANI): Australian author Colleen McCullough’s epic novel ‘The Thorn Birds’ will be staged as a musical in Britain this year.
McCullough, 71, had at first refused to let her popular love story be adapted into a stage play, but she has now agreed to [...]