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Abu Dhabi, Jan 27: The growing interest demonstrated by university aged students and teenagers for plastic surgery is being cited as one of the key factors that will help spark continuous growth for the UAE's plastic surgery segment. According to a media statement issued by Vasilica Aesthetics, a plastic surgery consultancy firm, “recent industry reports have shown that more and more individuals

Johannesburg, Jan 22: The South African government has ordered the removal of a rabbit that was secretly sculpted into a recently unveiled statue of Nelson Mandela, an official said today. The artists who built the nine metre (30-foot), bronze colossus in Pretoria, added a rabbit into the ear of the statue, without clearance from government. "We want to restore the integrity of the sculpture as

Jaipur, Jan 20: Author Amish Tripathi, who created waves in Indian publishing with a USD 1 million book contract, has cracked it even bigger this time with an American producer purchasing the rights to "The Immortals Of Meluha." While Bollywood director Karan Johar has obtained the rights for an adaption of the popular book, the English rights of the same has gone to an undisclosed American

That the Congress is on a sticky wicket is well known by now. That the party is fighting an anti-incumbency wave — never before experienced — is as well known. And that every party lives through such trying times is also no surprise, at least not to a party itself. In that, the Congress is not going through anything that has never happened to it before. So, why is the party worried? The answer to

Jaisalmer, Jan 14: A team of foreign and Indian scientists have spotted the foot-prints of Dinosaurs at Thaiat village in Jaisalmer district, the sources said. A team of 34 foreign scientists from a number of countries including France and Germany are camping here to study fossils of Dinosaurs found in sandy desert areas here recently. Dinosaurs' evolution, extinction, and paleo-bio-genography is

Bhopal: Five months before next general elections are due, there is already an air of victory around Narendra Modi as he strides from one jam-packed rally to the next. And yet, a regional leader from his party - Bharatiya Janata party - is quietly emerging as an alternative to lead the country. BJP's candidate for prime minister's post, Modi is being projected as the man to beat the ruling

Pretoria, Dec 6: South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday, was an icon for ending the much-reviled apartheid system, a colossus who strode over world politics and a staunch Gandhian. Mandela, who spent three decades in jail and went on to lead a life that was an inspiration, died at his home in a suburb of Johannesburg, at the age of 95. He was a believer in

For most TV news consumers, Arnab Goswami is both a name and a phenomenon. But there are still large parts of the world to be conquered by Times Now's bulldog of an inquisitor. B.V. Rao, editor of Governance Now, explains the name and the phenomenon to a childhood friend who lives in Canada. Dear Sharada Sometime ago during a Googlegroup discussion you innocently asked: “But who is Arnab?”. In

Once again the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh [RSS] has urged Hindus that more children should be produced, in order to check the demographic imbalance. Did anyone call it fatwa or a diktat? How many TV channels found RSS joint secretary Dattatreya Hosbale's comments as controversial? Has there been strong criticism on editorial pages in mainstream newspapers? This is not the first time that RSS

After unveiling their all new motorcycles, Street 500 and 750 at the EICMA in Milan earlier this week, Harley Davidson has revealed that they might not stop here, as far as building entry level motorcycles is concerned. Even though the two new Street"s are the smallest ever road-going Harley"s till date, the American motorcycle manufacturer is planning to go even smaller, in the 250-300 cc range