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Monthly News December 2013

Now apply online to Indian schools in Oman
Now apply online to Indian schools in Om...

Now apply online to Indian schools in Oman

Muscat – Indian schools in Oman will go online with their admission process for the academic year 2014-2015, a media report Thursday said. The website related to admissions, www.indianschoolsoman.com, will go online with updated information and online registration forms from Jan 1, Times Of... read more »

'Dhoom:3' rules Nepal box office, local films' release delayed for 3 weeks
‘Dhoom:3′ rules Nepal box of...

‘Dhoom:3′ rules Nepal box office, local films’ release de...

By Anil Giri Kathmandu – Bollywood star Aamir Khan-starrer action thriller “Dhoom:3”, which is expected to mint Rs.300 crore (about $48 million), is going so strong at the box office in Nepal that the local filmmakers have had to delay the release of their own films for the next... read more »

Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.
Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.

Blast targets bus in Cairo, 5 injured.

Five people were injured, one in a critical condition, when a bomb was hurled at a public bus in Egypt’s capital, Cairo, two days after 14 were killed in an attack on a police station in Nile Delta city of Mansoura. The area hit by the explosion on Thursday in front of Azhar University in the... read more »

Ahmedabad court rejected a petition filed by Zakia Jafri against Modi in 2002 Gujarat riots
Ahmedabad court rejected a petition file...

Ahmedabad court rejected a petition filed by Zakia Jafri against Modi in 20...

Ahmedabad – In a big relief to BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, a Ahmedabad court on Thursday rejected a petition filed by Zakia Jafri against the closure report of Special Investigation Team (SIT) which gave a clean chit to the Gujarat Chief Minister in connection with... read more »

British man breaks `heart transplant survival world record` of 30 years

British man breaks `heart transplant survival world record` of 30 years

London – A British man has become world’s longest-surviving heart transplant patient, thus registering his name in Guinness book of world records. John McCafferty, broke the... read more »

Christmas is deadliest day of the year

Christmas is deadliest day of the year

Washington – A new survey suggests that more people die on Christmas than any other day of the year. According to Medical Daily, in the 1970s, researchers discovered this phenomenon... read more »

'Shock therapy' may help erase unpleasant memories

‘Shock therapy’ may help erase unpleasant memories

Washington – Researchers have found that exposing the brain to short bursts electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) might be used to erase unpleasant memories. Theories suggest that every... read more »

Prolonged exposure therapy more beneficial for rape victims than counseling

Washington – A new study has revealed that adolescent girls with sexual abuse-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) experienced greater benefit from prolonged exposure therapy... read more »

Cognitive behavioral therapy may ease migraine symptoms in kids

Washington – A new study has revealed that the use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) among children and adolescents with chronic migraine result in greater reductions in headache frequency... read more »