Ancestors of Chinese came from India: Study |
BANGALORE: The ancestors of most Asian
populations, including the Chinese and southeast Asians, came from India, a new
genetic study across 10 countries has revealed. The study found that humans
first migrated to the Indian subcontinent from Africa some 100,000 years ago and
then spread to other parts of Asia.
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“When humans moved out of
Africa, there was a migration to India and from India to southeast Asia and then
east Asia, and finally to the Americas. So, all Asians have a genetic connection
with India,” Mitali Mukerji, a scientist from the Institute of Genomics and
Integrative Biology who was in the team, said.
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Scientists say curry compound kills cancer cells |
LONDON (Reuters) - A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday. |
Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin — a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color — and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours. |
The cells also began to digest themselves, they said in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer. |
Previous scientific studies have suggested curcumin can suppress tumors and that people who eat lots of curry may be less prone to the disease, although curcumin loses its anti-cancer attributes quickly when ingested. Read more at www.reuters.com |
Air India Pilots, Crew Scuffle Leaving Cockpit Unmanned |
ABC’s Ammu Kannampilly reports from London: |
If Indian national carrier, Air India didn’t have enough problems (pilots going on strike last week, a lawsuit by stewardesses sacked for being overweight, and $875 million in losses last year), now the airline has hit the headlines for a brawl between pilots and cabin crew that reportedly left the cockpit unmanned during a flight between Sharjah, UAE to the Indian capital Delhi. |
Indian newspaper The Times of India reports that the pilot, Captain Ranbir Arora and co-pilot, Aditya Chopra, on flight IC 884 got into a full-blown brawl with two members of the cabin crew, a man and a woman. |
During the scuffle, the cockpit was reportedly left unmanned for a time, as the aircraft flew over Pakistani territory. As the parties involved hurled abuses at each other, Arora reportedly threatened to land the plane in Karachi, as the 106 passengers onboard watched in shock. Read more at blogs.abcnews.com |
Those NOT using Windows will have superior dominance since they will remain alive and working.  Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: UN |
| The next world war could take place in cyberspace, the UN telecommunications agency chief warned Tuesday as experts called for action to stamp out cyber attacks. “The next world war could happen in cyberspace and that would be a catastrophe. We have to make sure that all countries understand that in that war, there is no such thing as a superpower,” Hamadoun Toure said. “Loss of vital networks would quickly cripple any nation, and none is immune to cyberattack,” added the secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union |
“The best way to win a war is to avoid it in the first place,” he stressed. |
As the Internet becomes more linked with daily lives, cyberattacks and crimes have also increased in frequency, experts said. Read more at www.breitbart.com |
Looks like 3 of the 4 BRIC, all but Brazil, are questioning the strength and dominance of the US dollar. Wonder where this will head in terms of economics? | India Joins Russia, China in Questioning U.S. Dollar Dominance |
July 4 (Bloomberg) — Suresh Tendulkar, an economic adviser
to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the
government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange
reserves and hold fewer dollars. |
“The major part of Indian reserves is in dollars — that
is something that’s a problem for us,” Tendulkar, chairman of
the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, said in an
interview yesterday in Aix-en-Provence, France, where he was
attending an economic conference. |
Singh is preparing to join leaders from the Group of Eight
industrialized nations — the U.S., Japan, Germany, Britain,
France, Italy, Canada and Russia — at a summit in Italy next
week which is due to tackle the global economy. China and Brazil
will also send representatives to the summit. |
As the talks have neared, China and Russia have stepped up
calls for a rethink of how global currency reserves are composed
and managed, underlining a power shift to emerging markets from
the developed nations that spawned the financial crisis. Read more at www.bloomberg.com |
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Ancestors of Chinese came from India: Study
