Cause of male baldness found

Scientists have finally identified the culprits that are responsible for causing baldness in men. They are a enzyme known as prostaglandin D2, also known as PGD2 and its derivative (15-dPGJ2). Incidentally, the enzyme and its derivative were found to show the same effect in mice as well.

The results are published today (March 22) in Science Translational Medicine.

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Bangladesh restrict Pakistan to 236/9 in Asia Cup final

Sarfraz Ahmed top-scored with 46 not out on Thursday as Pakistan was restricted to 236-9 by Bangladesh in the Asia Cup final.

Opener Mohammad Hafeez made 40, Shahid Afridi 32, while Umar Akmal and Hammad Azam both hit 30.

Pakistan made a slow start and was reduced to 55-3 due to some tight bowling and fielding by Bangladesh, but a final over of 19 runs helped the team post a defendable total.

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Congress scores in Karnataka, Gujarat; routed in A.P.

The Congress won two morale-boosting victories in a string of bypolls, results for which came in on Wednesday: it snatched a Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka — taking its strength in the Lower House up to 207 — and an Assembly seat in Gujarat, both of which have been held by its principal national rival, the Bharatiya Janata Party, for the last 15 years. For the BJP, which is in power in both States, these two defeats don't augur well , especially as Assembly elections are due in Gujarat later this year and in Karnataka in 2013. But the Congress' celebrations in these two States, as well as the victory of the Kerala Congress (Jacob), its partner in the UDF government in Kerala, were offset by the ill-wind that blew in from Andhra Pradesh. Thanks to its shoddy handling of the Telangana issue, the party failed to win even one of the seven seats that went to the polls in a State in which it is in power.

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Emphatic win for AIADMK in Sankarankoil

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The ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) pulled off an emphatic victory in the Sankarankoil Assembly by-election, recording a margin of victory of over 68,000 votes.

In winning the reserved seat for a fifth time in a row, the AIADMK crushed all the opponents forcing them to lose their deposit. This is the second by-poll victory for the ruling party since it came to power in May 2011. The party had won the Tiruchi (West) Assembly by-election last year.

The victorious candidate, S. Muthuselvi, secured 94,977 votes (59.44 per cent) of the total 1, 59,772 votes polled on March 18. She defeated her nearest rival J. Jawahar Suryakumar of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam by a massive margin of 68,757 votes. He could manage only 26, 220 votes.

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Quit Yahoo, get $25,000 bonus?

Here's one good thing about being a Yahoo employee: if you quit and join Yammer, a social networking service forbusinesses, in the next 60 days you'll pocket a $25,000 signing bonus. 

That's the offer that was tweeted on Thursday by Yammer CEO David Sacks. 

"They've got a lot of great engineers there," Sacks said in an interview with Reuters. "The talent has been misused by senior managementwhich has made a lot of bad decisions." 

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Soumitra Chatterjee named for Dada Saheb Phalke Award

Legendary Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who has portrayed a versatile range of lead characters in films by Satyajit Ray, has been selected for India's highest film honour - the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2012.

Confirming the news, Chatterjee told IANS that he was "extremely happy" at the honour.

"I am extremely happy. Till this evening I had not thought of this award. But after I got the news I am extremely happy," Chatterjee said.

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Team India Kicked out by Bangladesh from Asia Cup

India were on Tuesday night knocked out of the Asia Cup after Bangladesh continued their giant-killing act by upsetting Sri Lanka by five wickets in the last league match.

Chasing a revised target of 212 after a rain interruption, the spirited hosts held their nerve to make their maiden entry into the summit showdown of the tournament where they will meet Pakistan on Thursday.

Nasir Hossain (36 not out) hit the winning boundary straight down the ground as the home crowd at the jam-packed Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium went into a state of frenzy.

Tamim Iqbal (59 off 57 balls; 9x4), Shakib Al Hasan (56 off 46; 7x4), Hossain (36 off 61; 3x4) and Mahmadullah (32 not out off 33; 3x4) were the notable batting heroes for Bangladesh, who recorded their second consecutive upset wins after having beaten India last Friday.

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Mukul Roy sworn in as Railway Minister

Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy was on Tuesday elevated to cabinet rank to take over as Railway Minister replacing Dinesh Trivedi, who was forced to resign after Congress caved in to Mamata Banerjee’s pressure.

Widely expected to roll back at least the lower class passenger fare hike proposed by Mr. Trivedi in the Railway Budget, Roy, 57, was sworn in as cabinet minister at a special but brief ceremony by President Pratibha Patil at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

He was currently serving as Union Minister of State for Shipping and had earlier served as Minister of State in the Railway ministry before Mr. Trivedi took over last July.

The ceremony was attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the UPA chairperson and cabinet ministers including ministers of Trinamool Congress.

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Supreme Court dismisses govt.’s review petition on Vodafone verdict

The Supreme Court today dismissed Government’s plea seeking review of its verdict which held that Income Tax Department does not have jurisdiction to levy Rs. 11,000 crore as tax on the overseas deal between Vodafone International Holdings and Hutchison Group.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S. H. Kapadia and Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan dismissed the Centre’s review petition in the Vodafone tax case during an in-chamber proceeding.

In the petition, the Centre contended there was a need for reconsidering the Janaury 20 verdict as the law on deciding the case involving the telecom major has not been correctly interpreted.

It had raised several points to contend that the verdict was erroneous.

The court had given the verdict allowing Vodafone’s appeal and had quashed the Bombay High Court verdict which had upheld the decision to levy tax on the overseas deal.

After the review petition was filed on February 17, the government in its March 16 budget proposed to amend the Income Tax Act to levy capital gains tax on domestic asset acquisition through merger and acquisition deals involving foreign companies.

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