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Washington, Feb 28 : The Youtube app on Android devices has been updated with a new feature that now allows users to trim videos before uploading it to the web.

Washington, Feb 28 - La Toya Jackson and her longtime business partner Jeffre Phillips have called off their engagement, it has been reported.

Washington: Meditation might be an effective treatment for reducing chronic neck pain, according to a new research.

Chronic neck pain can lead to serious comorbidities like depression. Patients with chronic neck pain frequently experience distress, researchers said.

Previous research has shown that chronic pain is associated with distress and that meditation has stress relieving benefits.

In a study published in The Journal of Pain, researchers compared the effects of meditation on pain, perceived stress and psychological well being.

They hypothesised that an eight-week meditation programme will decrease pain more effectively than a standardised exercise programme and that pain relief will coincide with stress reduction.

Beijing: Over 1,900 giant pandas, an endangered species, are currently in China and different parts of the world, representing an increase of 16.8 per cent compared to twelve years ago, according to official data.

There were 1,864 giant pandas living in the wild in China by the end of 2013, while 42 more stayed in 12 different countries, a survey of the State Forestry Administration said.

China has established collaborative research on giant pandas with 17 zoos from 12 countries, including Japan, the US, Austria, Thailand, Spain, Australia, Britain, France, Singapore, Canada, Belgium and Malaysia, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

New Delhi: The infrastructure sector has remained clogged by bottlenecks so much so that it accounted for one of the highest stressed advances by public sector banks, but a slew of steps are on fast-track its growth, says the Economic Survey.

"Infrastructure, iron & steel, textiles, mining (including coal) and aviation, hold 54 per cent of total stressed advances of PSBs as on June 2014," said the Economic Survey for 2014-15, tabled in Parliament today.

It said exposure of PSBs to infrastructure stood at 17.5 percent of their gross advances and was significantly higher than private sector and foreign banks.

The Survey added however that government's focus was on resolving issues that have marred the sector's growth.

The Obama administration on Friday proposed a bill intending to fill gaps by issuing some baseline information-processing requirements for all sorts of firms.

The new proposed bill, the Customer Privacy Bill of Rights Act, aims to provide American with more handles, fulfilling a promise the president had talked about for years.

But some privacy advocates immediately raised questions on the proposed bill. They said that the new legislation less adequate, specifically given the broad statements President Barack Obama had issued on the challenge.

They said that the bill will provide more flexibility to the providers and customers on the other hand will have no sufficient power.