November 4, 2012
NEW YORK: University students eating at one buffet-style dining hall produced less food waste when the facility removed the trays students had used to carry food, a new study has found.
At the single facility, researchers estimated the switch away from using trays saved about 25 total pounds of solid food waste at each lunch and dinner meal.
November 4, 2012
Washington: With less than a week left for the November 6 Presidential Election, majority of Americans believe that US President Barack Obama is better poised to win the elections than his Republican challenger Mitt Romney, the Gallup poll has said.
November 4, 2012
India's ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi and Premier Manmohan Singh will speak Sunday to rally support for controversial economic reforms ahead of 2014 elections.
Indian Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi speaking about the Party staging massive rally to push econimic reforms case
November 4, 2012
Sydney: Two super-luminous supernovas, 10 to 100 times brighter than others of their type, have been detected in the distant universe.
Dazzling Twin Supernovas
The discovery, led by Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist Jeffrey Cooke, sets a record for the most distant supernova yet detected.
November 4, 2012
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by Subramanian Swamy's charges over acquisition of a company that published National Herald newspaper, Congress on Friday dared the Janata party chief to sue Sonia and Rahul Gandhi contending that the onus to prove allegations lay with those who make these.
November 3, 2012
The shuttle weathered Hurricane Sandy this week at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City and sustained minor damage to its tail.
November 3, 2012
The job market seems to be gradually gaining momentum after nearly stalling in the spring.
People looking for jobs speak with potential employers at the Brooklyn Job Fair.
November 3, 2012
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has demanded the cancellation of the first Pakistan cricket tour to India in five years. VHP wants Pakistan to bring to justice the masterminds behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks that left 166 people dead.
November 2, 2012
The director of the first movie about the commando raid that killed Osama bin Laden does not think that its television premiere Sunday will swing the US election. But speculations about the broadcast are fueled by the fact that Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, a prominent fundraiser for President Barack Obama, is the distributor and one of the executive producers of the 90-minute action thriller.
November 2, 2012
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has urged his re-shuffled cabinet to focus all its efforts on reviving the flagging economy. The change of team was seen as an attempt to relaunch Singh's government after years of policy paralysis, worsening economic data and corruption allegations.
