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Johnson reveals how Watson stuck his head in a toilet
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], Oct.24 (ANI):Australia pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson has revealed how his long-standing friendship with Shane Watson made a rocky start back in 2000, when the former all-rounder stuck his head in the toilet at the Australia's Cricket Academy in Adelaide.
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Guidelines to establish healthy habits for media use among children
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Oct. 23 (ANI): The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has released new set of policies to regulate healthy habits for social media use among children from infants to teenagers.
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Nobel academy member criticizes Bob Dylan as 'impolite and arrogant&#
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 22 (ANI): A prominent member of the Nobel academy that awards the literature prize has described this year's laureate, Bob Dylan, as arrogant, citing his total silence and failure to respond to phone calls from the Swedish Academy after being awarded.
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Nagaland Govt. asks educational institutes to be centres of development
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Dimapur (Nagaland),[India] Oct. 21 (ANI): Home Minister of Nagaland, Y Patton, has called on educational institutions to be centres of development not only for academic performance, but also as places where students can achieve good moral character.
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No Pakistani movie at this year's Mumbai film festival
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Mumbai [India], Oct. 17 (ANI): Amidst the controversy over the hiring of Pakistani artists and technicians in Indian films, the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) on Monday decided to boycott Pakistani movies.
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NBA announces elite basketball development initiative
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Beijing/New York [China/US], Oct. 14 (ANI): The National Basketball Association (NBA) on Friday announced the launch of NBA Academies, the NBA's international elite development initiative that will consist of a network of elite training centers around the world to develop top internati
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IIM at Jammu: Javadekar, Omar lock horns on twitter
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 14 (ANI): Union Human Resource and Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah entered into a twitter spat over the Union Cabinet's decision to approve the establishment and operationalisation of Indian Institute of M
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Cabinet approves to IIM establishment in Jammu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 13 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Thursday gave approval to the establishment and operationalisation of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Jammu in a transit/temporary campus at Old Government College of Engineering & Technology from the Academic Year 2016-17.
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India's academic 'gender gap' is same as US: Study
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct. 13 (ANI): Academically talented girls inthe United States surpass boys in language performance and are narrowing the gap with their male counterparts in math achievement, according to new research from the Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP).
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GAA SpeedJet Aviation, Jet Airways tie-up to train students at Mumbai Airp
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 12 (ANI): GAA SpeedJet Aviation, a partnership between Gulf Aviation Academy and domestic aviation training institute SpeedJet Aviation has announced its tie-up with Private carrier Jet Airways to provide on-ground training to its students from the current batch of cab
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Oliver Hart, Bengt Holmstrom win Nobel Prize in Economics
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Sweden, Oct. 10 (ANI): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart of Harvard and Bengt Holmstrom of Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their contributions to contract theory.
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UK bars foreign academics from advising on Brexit
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Oct. 7 (ANI): The British Government has barred leading foreign academics acting as expert advisers to the government from contributing to any government analysis and reports on Brexit as they are not British nationals.
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