'Annex part of Bangladesh' by INDIAN MP ! বাংলাদেশ দখলের প্রস্তাব দিয়ে সুব্রামনিয়াম বহিষ্কৃত

On Dec. 6, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted by a large majority to exclude Indian economist Subramanian Swamy’s courses from this year’s Harvard Summer School offerings. The proposal, brought forward by Comparative Religion Professor Diana L. Eck, referenced Swamy’s inflammatory op-ed published last year in the Indian newspaper Daily News and Analysis. In the piece, Swamy calls for the destruction of mosques as retaliation for terrorist attacks in India, as well as the disenfranchisement of Indian Muslims who refuse to acknowledge Hindu ancestry. 

Swamy's op-ed clearly constitutes hate speech, by even the most lenient definition. As a matter of principle, there is no place for hate speech in the Harvard community. Regardless of whether Swamy’s article actually has the ability to incite violence, the worthless, hateful bile contained therein itself ought to disqualify the man from teaching at our University.  The faculty’s decision to remove Swamy from the teaching roster was wise, just, and reasonable.
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Earth's Twin Discovered!!!

NASA confirms 'super-Earth' that could hold life

In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life, NASA said the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.

French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the first rocky exoplanet to meet key requirements for sustaining life. But Kepler-22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, is the first the US space agency has been able to confirm.

Confirmation means that astronomers have seen it crossing in front of its star three times. But it doesn't mean that astronomers know whether life actually exists there, simply that the conditions are right.

Such planets have the right distance from their star to support water, plus a suitable temperature and atmosphere to support life.

"We have now got good planet confirmation with Kepler-22b," said Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center.

"We are certain that it is in the habitable zone and if it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature," he told reporters.

Spinning around its star some 600 light years away, Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in class known as "super-Earths," and orbits its Sun-like star every 290 days.

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Nando's feature Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein in controversial advert

Nando's has released a controversial advert which shows deceased world dictators such asSaddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi joking about with each other.

The 45-second advert, called ‘Last dictator standing’, originates from Nando's in South Africa and opens with a Robert Mugabe lookalike wistfully picking up a Colonel Gaddafiplace card from an empty dinner table. In a dream sequence he is then met by the deceased Libyan dictator who starts a waterfight with a golden AK-47. 

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The risks of using Paypal

How does Paypal work?

Instead of sharing your payment details with an unknown retailer, if the website allows Paypal payments, you can effectively use Paypal as a middleman. So Paypal - which prides itself on being a brand you know and can trust - takes your payment and passes it on to the retailer without sharing any of your sensitive financial information.

Does Paypal actually offer extra protection?

If you pay for an item costing £100 or more using your credit card, you are protected under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. So if the retailer goes bust, fails to deliver the goods or the goods it supplies are not up to scratch, you have the statutory right to compensation from your credit card provider.

But this statutory right does NOT apply if you pay for something on your credit card via Paypal. In this case, the very safeguard you sought - having a middleman - means you no longer have a direct, legal contract with your credit card provider.

Instead, you will have to make a claim for compensation with Paypal. And that means Paypal gets to decide whether your dispute is valid. You no longer have the protection of the law.

Having said that, Paypal does offer some protection under its 'Buyer Protection' scheme. It states that it will 'help you' if you didn't receive the item you paid for with Paypal or you received an item that is 'significantly not as described'. However, there are eligibility requirements you must meet:
You must have paid the full amount in a single payment, not multiple payments, like a deposit followed by a final payment. (Under Section 75, you can put down a £1 deposit on your credit card and pay the remaining balance by another means, and still make a claim.)
You must open a dispute within 45 days of the date you sent the payment, and follow the online dispute resolution process on the Paypal website. (You get up to six years under Section 75.)

Both of these restrictions make using Paypal worse than buying direct from the online merchant with your credit card - if the item costs more than £100. This distinction is important. If the item costs less than £100, you don't get any special statutory protection from your credit card provider.

However, even then, you'd have more protection if you paid with a Visa or MasterCard debit card, rather than with Paypal. This is because your bank will allow you 120 days to make a claim after realising there's a problem with your purchase under its debit card Chargeback scheme. You can also make a claim for fraud and unauthorised use of your card under the Chargeback scheme.

Unlike Section 75, there's nothing to stop you making a claim under the Chargeback scheme if you've paid with your debit card via Paypal, but it might make the process more difficult. And as some banks are notoriously rubbish at dealing with Chargeback claims, personally, I would be wary of adding a layer of complexity to the transaction.

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Einstein's speed of light challenged !!!

Scientists are becoming more confident that they will be able to contradict Einstein's assertion that nothing can travel faster than light, after carrying out another test.

Italian physicists first made the startling claim in September but have now repeated an adapted version of their experiment, which produced the same result.

The test suggests that sub-atomic particles called neutrinos can break the barrier. If such tests can be repeated, they would challenge one of the fundamental assumptions of modern physics.

Scientists have submitted their latest findings to the Journal of High Energy Physics for consideration. They said that they had waited until now to submit the paper to take into account suggestions from other scientists and carry out a new test.

They beamed neutrinos through 730 kilometres (454 miles) of rock from the nuclear research facility Cern in Switzerland to Gran Sasso, Italy.

A light beam would take 2.4 milliseconds to travel the distance - but both experiments have shown a neutrino can beat it there by 60 billionths of a second.

In 1905, Albert Einstein stated in his theory of special relativity that nothing can travel faster than a light beam in a vacuum - 168,282 miles per second. According to the theory, it would take an infinite amount of energy to exceed light speed.

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Dates the world was supposed to end

We don’t want to panic you but according to evangelist preacher Harold Camping, the world will ‘probably’ end today - and unfortunately we can’t give you a specific time for it. However, we can tell you that the world is supposed to end quietly.

1. 1806 - Prophet Hen of Leeds

2. 20 May 1910 - Halley’s Comet

3. 17 December 1919 - Planetary alignment

4. 10 March 1982 - The Jupiter Effect

5. 1 January 2000 - Millennium Bug

6. 21 May 2011 - Rapture

21 December 2012

4,500,000,000 AD

According to scientists, this is the date the sun will swell into a red giant star, swallowing Mercury, Venus, Earth, and perhaps Mars.




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The cheapest iPhone 4S deals

With the iPhone 4S now on sale there are multiple options available for customers wanting to purchase the new Apple product. But where can you get hold of the cheapest one?

Buying the phone on its own

Buying the phone directly from the Apple store will cost you £499 for 16MB, £599 for 32GB and £699 for 64GB. This means you won't be tied into a long contract.

Prices for the new iPhone will be slightly cheaper when buying directly from the US (Prices to be confirmed in November), so if you're planning a holiday over there it's worth popping into an Apple store, but unlocked models won't be available until November.

Buying it as part of a contract

Orange, Vodafone, Tesco, O2 and T-Mobile have all released prices for the phone, and these vary depending on the package of minutes, texts and data you require.

If you don't want to pay for the new phone, the cheapest contract you can sign up to costs £43 a month for two years with Three Mobile.

If you're happy to pay for the handset, the cheapest 12-month contract comes from Tesco for £25 a month and an £335 upfront fee. This works out around £52 a month over the year and comes with 250 minutes, 5,000 texts and 1GB of data.

Orange offers one of the cheapest overall monthly contracts for £20 a month, but this has an upfront cost of £310 and only includes 50 minutes and 50 texts and 100MB.

Vodafone has one of best value for money 18-month contracts, which includes 600 minutes, unlimited texts, and 500MB of data. It will cost £41 per month and £99 for the handset. Orange and O2 offer almost identical contracts, but are both slightly more expensive over the full term of the contract.

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Did the SEA come from the sky?

Much of Earth's oceans may have been created by comets, which whacked into the infant planet billions of years ago, bringing precious loads of ice, a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature suggests.

The evidence to support this comes from a signature of the ratio of heavy hydrogen, or deuterium, in water.

Ice on a comet called 103P/Hartley 2, analysed by an infrared instrument aboard Europe's Herschel space telescope as it swung by Earth in October and November 2010, has the same deuterium ratio as water on Earth.

Primal leftovers from the building of the Solar System, comets are mixtures of ice and dust that have been dubbed "dirty snowballs."

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The truth about fruit juices

We all know we should be eating at least five servings of fruit and vegetables a day and for many years the Department of Health have said that one of those servings can come in the form of a glass of fruit juice. However, according to a number of recent media reports fruit juice may actually cause more harm to health than good.

These reports come off the back of a study recently published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association which found that those drinking more than three glasses of fruit juice a day were more likely to develop rectal cancer, a form of bowel cancer. The scientists claim that the high levels of sugar in fruit juice could be to blame.

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