Michelle Obama tops Forbes most powerful women list
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
The American First lady Michelle Obama becomes world’s most powerful woman.
Michelle topped the Forbes World’s 100 Most Powerful Women list pushing the likes of corporate honchos including PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi and also the Queen of England to occupy the top slot.
Michelle topped the list of 100 most powerful women including in the political [...]
Three chemists share the 2010 Nobel for Chemistry
Posted on 07. Oct, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
Three chemists have been awarded the 2010 Nobel for Chemistry. Two Japanese scientists and an American scientist won the big prize for their work on techniques to make complex carbon molecules.
Richard F. Heck, a retired professor from the University of Delaware, Ei-ichi Negishi a professor from Purdue University and Akira Suzuki professor from Hokkaido [...]
Illegal gold mining and lead poisoning saga continues in Nigeria: This time kills 400 children
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
The illegal gold mining and lead poisoning saga continues in Nigeria, this time killing around 400 kids. Lead poisoning outbreak in the state of Zamfara killed as many as 400 toddlers in the last six months.
The northern state in Nigeria had had the pilferage of lead in the soil in amounts lethal enough to kill [...]
Google refutes patent and copyright infringement complaints
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Google refuted copyright infringement complaint by Oracle. The search engine major had asked the US court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Oracle regarding copyright infringement in development of a Android smartphone software.
Oracle had filed a suit against Google in August 2010, alleging infringement of patent and copyrights in the development of software(the popular Android-based [...]
US Naked Cowboy running for US Presidential Elections 2012
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
The Naked Cowboy, an entertainer who’s seen strumming guitar strings at the world famous New York’s Times Square announced his bid to run for the 2012 US Presidential elections.
The only-brief-wearing 39-year-old Robert John Burck more popular as the Naked Cowboy is a singer entertainer who makes a living by singing and dancing around the [...]
Russian duo share Nobel for physics 2010
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Two Russian-born scientists Konstantin Novoselov and Andrei Geim shared the Nobel for Physics which was announced yesterday. The scientists are based at University of Manchester, UK worked on properties of graphene (carbon in one-atom-thick flake form) dubbed as wonder material of the 21st century. Graphene is also the thinnest and the strongest nano material.
Even [...]
Musharraf admits that Pakistan trained militant groups against India
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Latha B. Reddy in Buzz
In a startling revelation, Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf admitted that Pakistan trained militants to fight in Kashmir against India.
The revelation comes in a few days after the former President announced mainstream political come back.
Musharraf was quoted of saying, “they (underground militant groups to fight against India in Kashmir) were indeed formed,” in an interview [...]
Australian lesbian couple expecting quintuplets
Posted on 05. Oct, 2010 by Murthy in Buzz
An Australian woman conceived quintuplets with no fertility treatment support. Quintuplets (5 babies) is a rare thing that happens as rare as 1 in 60 million pregnancies.
27-Year-old Melissa Keevers was artificially inseminated with a donor’s sperm (belonging to United States) to conceive and she conceived quintuplets. The doctors who checked on her say that the [...]
Evan Williams steps down as chief executive of Twitter
Posted on 04. Oct, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Evans Williams the co-founder and CEO of Twitter steps down. The Twitter co-founder and CEO Evan Williams steps down as the chief executive of the micro blogging site and will be replaced by current COO Dick Costolo.
The chief executive has headed Twitter for two years now since 2008, and he steps down the post to [...]
Japan to buy US drones for USD50m each
Posted on 04. Oct, 2010 by Allen Smith in Buzz
Japan is mulling with the idea of buying American unmanned spy planes. In a bid to bolster the espionage capabilities, according to Japanese media the country’s Defense Minsitry was palnning to offer $150m for 3 spy unmanned planes or the Global Hawk spy drones @ $50millions each.
Japan intends to use the camera-equipped drones to have [...]
