Moms who don’t breastfeed at risk of diabetes
Tweet Washington : Women who don’t breastfeed their babies are more at risk of developing type-2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease, later in life than mothers who did. “We have seen dramatic increases in the prevalence of type-2 diabetes over the last century,” said Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, assistant professor of medicine, epidemiology, [...]
Tweet San Francisco: Cisco has made a bid to buy Skype for around $5 billion, before the privately-held internet phone company goes public, the influential Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch reported Monday. Skype allows users to make free internet telephone and video calls to other Skype users and charges relatively low rates for calls from computers [...]
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Tweet Washington : The US said Monday it has imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities connected to North Korea. The Treasury Department said the four individuals and eight entities being designated will face travel ban and assets freeze for providing support to the country’s nuclear programme, Xinhua reported. The new sanctions are seen as [...]
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Tweet Washington : US President Barack Obama was to mark the formal end of the US combat role in Iraq with a visit Tuesday to a Texas military base and a major evening televised address. Obama is expected to hail the transition to an Iraqi-led, civilian-led effort as a major milestone in the seven-year US [...]
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Tweet Washington : A leading US trade group wants India to adopt a nuclear liability regime channelling absolute and exclusive liability to nuclear power plant operators and establishing a sole remedy for compensation of claims. “These principles are basic to international best practices as reflected in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Convention on Supplementary Compensation [...]
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Tweet Buenos Aires :Iconic Argentine football player Francisco Varallo, the last surviving participant of the first World Cup, died Monday at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 100. Varallo was the youngest player in the Argentine national squad that lost to Uruguay by a score of 4-2 in the final of the first World [...]
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Tweet Washington : Former US Ambassador to India, Robert Blackwill, is returning to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a leading US think tank to focus on American foreign policy toward India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Naming Blackwill, a deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under President George W. Bush, as Henry A. Kissinger Senior [...]
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Tweet Washington : In a move that may benefit India, the United States plans to ease restrictions on selling products with military applications to foreign buyers as part of a restructuring of US export rules. Aimed at boosting American competitiveness in the technology and manufacturing sectors and strengthen national security, President Barack Obama will announce [...]
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Tweet Washington : There was no change in the US’ plans to extradite Russian businessman Viktor Bout, suspected of illegal arms trade from Thailand, the US Department of State said. “As far as I know, he remains in Thailand, and we look forward to having him in a courtroom here in the US,” Philip Crowley, [...]
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Tweet Santiago de Chile : The digging of a rescue shaft to free 33 miners trapped some 700 metres underground in a collapsed Chilean mine started late Monday, following several delays, a government spokesman said. Drilling the 66-cm wide rescue shaft is expected to take between two and four months. Rescuers hope to add [...]
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