On the second day of the Tibetan New Year, hundreds of Tibetans living in exile staged a rally here today as a mark of homage to the martyrs of Tibetan freedom struggle.

The protestors covering their foreheads with black bands participated in the protest march, raising anti-Chinese slogans.

The protest also gains significance as the 50th anniversary of the exile of Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who fled to India after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, comes close.

Genomic analysis has confirmed that human remains found in the Ural Mountains in July 2007 are indeed those of the two "missing" children of Nicholas II, the last czar of Russia, whose family was murdered in 1918 during the Bolshevik Revolution.

The finding lays rest to a 90-year-old mystery that involved nobility, revolution, murder and the long-romanticized story of a child's escape from the firing squad.

In a new study, scientists have shown how the tropics have widened due to human environmental effects.

Previous studies have shown that the width of the tropical belt has been increasing since at least the late 1970s, based on a variety of indicators.

Jian Lu, and his team at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, US, use one such indicator to show that the observed widening of the tropics can be accurately replicated by an atmospheric general circulation model forced by the observed evolution since 1958 of global sea surface temperatures and sea ice distributions along with the direct radiative effects from natural and human-generated sources.

The world's most pierced woman has added more punctures to her body, bringing the grand total to 6,005.

Elaine Davidson, born in Brazil, made the Guinness World Record official in 2000 when she had a mere 462 piercings - 192 of which were in her face.

Nine years later, Davidson has thousands of piercings including more than 1,500 that she says are 'internal.'

Surprisingly, Davidson, a nurse who now lives in Edinburgh, says she doesn't like getting pierced and suffers for her art.

The Union Cabinet today approved the request of the Assam Government for conversion of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati into an autonomous grants-in-aid

Two couples, who were present at a juice centre in Balmatta, were questioned by a group of members last evening, and later the group was taken to police station.

Two boys and two girls were talking to each other when a group of men entered suddenly and began talking to them, said a person who was present at the spot.

He also said that they look like Sri Ram Sena members, speaking about religion.

Another eyewitness said, one boy ran away when the group entered and another one was questioned by beating up with holding his collar of his shirt.