Birmingham, June 16 (ANI): Indian cricket fans were jubilant as India defeated a disappointed Pakistan by the Duckworth-Lewis method in front of a sell-out crowd at Edgbaston in Birmingham after a series of rain interruptions resulted in three revised victory targets.

Washington, June 5 (ANI): An international team of geologists and engineers looking for a way to make concrete more durable and sustainable has found inspiration in the ancient Romans, whose massive concrete structures have withstood the elements for more than 2,000 years.

Beijing, May 18 (Xinhua-ANI): Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Saturday renewed his pledge to fight all "external elements" seeking to "disrupt" the country's peace at the fourth anniversary celebration of winning the three-decade war.

Washington, April 9 (ANI): An analysis of X-ray observations from the Japan-led Suzaku satellite has concluded that an exploding star observed in 1604 by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler held a greater fraction of heavy elements than the sun.

Washington, March 31 (ANI): It has been a mystery among musical experts if the sound of the Stradivari and Guarneri violins might incorporate such elements of speech as vowels and consonants.

Islamabad, Mar. 21 (ANI): The Pakistan Christian Welfare Society (PCWS) has urged the government to take action against elements responsible for violence against Christians and other vulnerable groups in the country.

Washington, March 14 (ANI): A team of physicists has looked at the conditions necessary for the formation of carbon and oxygen in the universe, the two elements crucial to life.

Islamabad, Mar. 11 (ANI): The periodic attacks on minorities in Pakistan's Punjab Province has been attributed to the provincial government's linkages with 'extremist elements' by rights activists.

Islamabad, Mar. 7 (ANI): Banned militant organisations, state's security institutions and political parties have been identified as the key elements responsible for attacks on media persons in Pakistan.

Sydney, Mar 1 (ANI): A new less-known social network, Pheed, has become the most downloaded free app in the App Store.

Sydney, Feb 7(ANI): The International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit needs to step up its efforts to tackle the menace of match fixing in the game just like the football authorities, who are constantly targeting corrupt elements in their game, according to senior sports journalist, Robert Craddock.

New Delhi, Feb. 2 (ANI): Reiterating that the government is committed to ensure stringent punishment for crimes against women, Women and Child Development Minister Krishna Tirath on Saturday said that the ordinance approved by the Union Cabinet on the basis of the Justice Verma Committee report, will definitely create fear among the criminal elements of the society.

London, Jan 25(ANI): FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted fining racist elements is not good enough to stop such elements from repeating their offences, adding tougher actions such as point deductions, relegation or spectators-ban can be the solution to this menace.

Washington, January 25 (ANI): Weather forecasters often make mistakes because the models they use for predicting weather can't accurately track highly influential elements called internal waves, researchers say.

London, January 6 (ANI): Individuals can now learn key elements of their genetic composition with the help of a new DNA testing kit for the price of a night out.

Allahabad, Dec 25 (ANI): Expressing his distress over the recent incident of brutal violence against a young girl in Delhi, President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said criminal attacks against women often happen in the backdrop of negative perceptions about women harboured and propagated by certain elements in society.

New Delhi, Dec.23 (ANI): Protests related to the December 16 gang rape of a 23-year-old woman escalated late on Sunday afternoon, after a few lumpen elements reportedly hurled bricks, stones and whatever else they could lay their hands on, on city police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel deployed across the national capital's central vista.

Washington, December 11 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the development of hands and feet occurred through the gain of new DNA elements that activate particular genes.

Washington, December 6 (ANI): NASA scientists are developing graphene-based tiny sensors to detect trace elements in Earth's upper atmosphere and structural flaws in spacecraft.

Pyongyang, Nov. 27 (ANI): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has asked the judiciary and the police to take steps against 'rebellious elements in society', hinting at unrest among a 'hungry and previously cowed population'.

London, November 23 (ANI): Blackboards and books, which are the main elements of a present day classroom, could soon be a thing of the past.

Islamabad, Nov. 9 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has warned against terror attacks in the country during Muharram-ul-Harram, saying that the occasion could be used by 'foreign elements' to instigate sectarian strife.

New Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Criticizing the Haji Ali Dargah Trust's decision to bar women from entering the sanctum sanctorum that houses the tomb of the 15th century Sufi saint Pir Haji Ali Shah Bukhari in Mumbai, columnist and author Sadia Dehlvi on Tuesday termed the move to be 'some politics of the Dargah Committee or influence of some extreme elements'.

New Delhi, Nov. 2 (ANI): With the Uttar Pradesh Government downgrading the probe against Amar Singh in the money laundering case from the Economic Offences Wing to the local district police, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Balbir Punj on Friday advised Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav not to take such steps that will strengthen the impression that his government has been supporting anti-social elements in the society.

Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Oct.30 (ANI): Incessant loud burst from automatic rifles by underground elements for around two hours rent the air shattering the Sunday evening silence of Borduria and Kaimai villages in Tirap district as security forces watched helplessly.