A new strain of genetically modified geraniums that do not produce any pollen has been developed by Spanish researchers, leading to hopes that the risk of hay fever among scores of gardeners may now be a thing of past. The resulting plants are completely harmless to allergy sufferers and pose no risk to natural varieties of the plant because they are sterile, researchers said. As an added bonus, the new strain produces more brightly coloured flowers, ...
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Analysts believe that the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris more than 15 years ago helped bring a change in the behavior of the British royal family towards their subjects. Diana died in a car crash in a Parisian road tunnel on August 31, 1997 alongside her companion Dodi Fayed, triggering an extraordinary chain of events. Within hours, a carpet of flowers began spreading from her home at Kensington Palace in London as Britons threw off ...
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Even as the opposition is playing spoilsport for the government during the Monsoon session, the Lok Sabha managed to pass a new bill on Thursday that allows setting up of more medical institutes such as AIIMS in different states. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (Amendment) Bill, 2012, replaces an ordinance which allowed the six AIIMS-like institutes to become operational from Sep 15. The bill also gives the central ...
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The number of sex offenders repeating their crimes has gone down considerably in England thanks to a pilot program in which the sex offenders were made to undergo polygraph tests. The government is now arranging to make lie-detector tests for high-risk sex offenders across England and Wales compulsory, following its unprecedented success. More than 600 sex offenders who were freed on licence were tested every six months in an attempt to find out if ...
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Indian classical music can help heal the wounds of the war-ravaged Afghan society according to an Afghan student, Vahidullah Sagar who revealed that both Indian and Afghani music are very similar. Sagar is studying music at Bhatkhande Sangeet Vidyapeeth in Lucknow. "Indian classical music has a deep relationship with Afghan music. Technically they can't be described as different," Sagar said. "The ragas and khayals are the same; the only ...
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