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Noida (Uttar Pradesh), April 3 - In a major embarrassment to the Congress, its candidate from Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida) Thursday defected to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Saying he had taken the decision following a "wave in favour of Narendra Modi in the country", Tomar predicted a clean sweep for the saffron party in western Uttar Pradesh which goes to the polls April 10.

Washington, April 3 : Making light of the huge success of President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, Louisiana's Indian American Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, offered his own rival plan for healthcare.

Obama scored a major victory as an estimated 7.1 million people signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010 in the teeth of bitter opposition from the Republican Party, which has since made at least 50 attempts to repeal it.

Ghaziabad, April 3 - AAP leader and candidate Shazia Ilmi, pitted again former Indian Army chief Gen V. K. Singh in the Lok Sabha polls, has accused the BJP of waging a "psychological campaign" against her party.

A former journalist, Ilmi said this was the reason why Gen Singh, Ghaziabad's Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, called the Aam Aadmi Party "anti-national".

This is also why BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi dubbed AAP founder leader Arvind Kejriwal a Pakistani agent, Ilmi told IANS in an interview here.

New York, April 3 : Remember some of the dinosaur chase scenes from the "Jurassic Park" series?

Scientists have now reconstructed in 3D a real dinosaur chase that happened more than 100 million years ago.

About 112 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod dinosaur traversed a trackway in an area what is now Glen Rose, Texas.

A meat-eating theropod followed him, overlaying some of the sauropod's footprints with its own.

Now, researchers have reconstructed the entire 148-feel-long trackway using old photography and new technology.

Washington, Apr 03  : Yahoo has reportedly revealed that it has taken additional security measures in order to protect the data it handles and is also planning to encrypt additional services like Yahoo Messenger.

Yahoo, one of the many technology companies demanding reforms on US surveillance laws, reportedly revealed that it has been encrypting traffic from its data centers since the beginning of this week.

Los Angeles, April 3 : Actor Zac Efron will replace Shia LaBeouf in a big-screen adaptation