Archive for November, 2008

Is Rahul Mahajan out of ‘Bigg Boss’ house?

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Rumours are rife that Rahul Mahajan, one of the strongest contenders on reality show ‘Bigg Boss’, has been asked to leave after he refused to apologise for fleeing the house with three other inmates.
The rumour came to surface Tuesday morning, after Rahul jumped out of the “Bigg Boss” house along More >

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‘Youth can change image of ugly Indian politician’

Underlining the need for changing the image of the “ugly Indian politician”, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Tuesday said one way of making this possible was by encouraging more young people to join politics.
“I tell my fellow politicians, particularly those belonging to my own party, that it is our duty to erase this More >

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Citigroup to slash 52,000 jobs, sees hard 2009

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc revealed plans to cut 52,000 jobs by early next year in a dramatic move to restore the No. 2 U.S. bank to health as it combats mounting debt losses and sagging economies worldwide.
The cuts announced by Chief Executive Vikram Pandit on Monday affect 15 percent of Citigroup’s workforce, and More >

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BIGG BOSS SEASON 2 A VERY DIRTY, FILTHY ROTTEN REALTY SHOW. SENDING OUT DIRTY MESSAGES TO THE WORLD.

THE DONS AND THE DIEN OF BIGG BOSS HOUSE SEASON 2
The best ones in the Bigg Boss 2 house have gone. They are Debojit Saha, Ketki Dave, Eshaan. Qureshi. The beauty and the charm of Bigg Boss Season 2 has been wiped off from the house by the Terror People Raja Choudhary, Rahul Mahajan, More >

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Wildfires Cause Ozone Pollution To Violate Health Standards, New Study Shows

Wildfires can boost ozone pollution to levels that violate U.S. health standards, a new study concludes. The research, by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), focused on California wildfires in 2007, finding that they repeatedly caused ground-level ozone to spike to unhealthy levels across a broad area, including much of rural California More >

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Probing Antarctic Glaciers For Clues To Past And Future Sea Level

Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have teamed up to explore two of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora and Wilkes Subglacial Basins, immense ice-buried lowlands in Antarctica with a combined area the size of Mexico. The research could show how Earth’s climate changed in the past and how future climate change More >

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Recent Hurricane History Provides Diverging Interpretations On Future Of Hurricane Activity

In a paper published in the journal Science, scientists Gabriel A. Vecchi of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Kyle L. Swanson of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Atmospheric Sciences Group and Brian J. Soden from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science teamed up to study hurricane data observed over More >

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Critically Endangered Fruit Bat Make Dramatic Return From Brink Of Extinction

A once critically endangered bat species, the ‘Pemba flying fox’, has made a dramatic return from the brink of extinction, according to new research. As recently as 1989, only a scant few individual fruit bats could be observed on the tropical island of Pemba, off Tanzania. Its numbers have since soared to an astounding 22,000 More >

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Wildflower Declines In Thoreau’s Concord Woods Are Due To Climate Changes

ScienceDaily (Nov. 1, 2008) — Drawing on records dating back to the journals of Henry David Thoreau, scientists at Harvard University have found that different plant families near Walden Pond have borne the effects of climate change in strikingly different ways. Some of the plant families hit hardest by global warming have included beloved species More >

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