Previous studies, the website says, have suggested that the psychological perks of marriage depend upon the quality of marriage -- a happy marriage gives rise to a happy couple, and vice versa.

As many as 132 candidates contesting in the Karnataka elections this year have a criminal background.The Bharatiya Janata Party leads the pack with 37 candidates while the Janata Dal-Secular comes second with 28. The Congress has fielded 25 candidates with

Charges of attempt to murder and waging conspiracy against the nation were included in the nine First Information Reports filed on Sunday by victims of Jaipur serial blasts, which claimed 64 lives.The cases were registered under different sections of the

The confirmed death toll from the devastating earthquake in southwest China rose to 32,477 on Sunday, amid fears that it may go up further with thousands of people still buried under the debris of collapsed buildings, six days after the

Ruling out any threat to his six-week-old government, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has said he is confident that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will rejoin the cabinet soon after the legislation for reinstating the judges sacked during emergency last year

At least 20 vendors were arrested and later released on bail in a drive by Rajasthan police against 'people with suspicious behaviour', following last Tuesday's blasts that claimed 64 lives. These vendors, hailing from Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, had

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has asked the Centre to seal off the porous Indo-Bangla border to prevent infiltration by militants from Bangladesh. More than 100 camps of North East-based militants, including the United Liberation Front of Asom, National Socialist

Experts warn that various steroid-based supplements, which are easily available in the markets with attractive tags and offers, could cause physical and psychological side-effects such as impotency, shrunken testis, cardiovascular and liver disorders, and male breast enlargement (Gynaecomastia).

The Mecca Masjid blasts in Hyderabad opened a new chapter in terrorism. Terror groups such as the Lashkar e Toiba and Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami declared that this was just the beginning of a series of attacks.

Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Vinay Katiyar has organised a rally by sadhus to protest the recent wave of terror attacks in Ayodhya on Monday. At least 20,000 sadhus are expected to attend the rally. Katiyar, who once spearheaded the

International pressure on the ruling military junta in Myanmarcontinued to grow over the weekend as a senior United Nations envoy isdue to arrive in Yangon on Sunday to talk with governmentofficials about what the United Nations has called a slow

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by truthout.orgenvironment editor Kelpie Wilson and appeared on the truthout.org'swebsite edition for Saturday, May 17, 2008. Ms. Wilson's commentaryfollows:In 1956, M. King Hubbert, a petroleum geologist with Shell Oil, presented a paper to the American

The brown plant hopper, an insect no bigger than a gnat, ismultiplying by the billions and chewing through rice paddies in EastAsia, threatening the diets of many poor people. The damage to rice crops, occurring at a time of scarcity

Intellpuke: This commentary was written by New York Timesop-ed columnist Bob Herbert and appeared in the N.Y. Times edition forSaturday, May 17, 2008. Mr. Herbert's commentary follows: Walt Disney would have been proud of John McCainâ ™s presentation onThursday of

Thousands of earthquake survivors fled tent camps and villages across the ravaged landscape ofsouthwestern China on Saturday after the government warned that severallakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing becauselandslides have blocked water flow. The new threats came

Edward M. Kennedy, a liberal Democratic icon of the Senate and thesurviving patriarchof American political royalty, suffered a seizure at his home inHyannis Port, Mass., yesterday and was rushed by helicopter toMassachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said hospital officials.The76-year-old senior

For two-and-a-half days, Hussein al-Haj Obaid lay on the floor of adarkened warehouse in west Beirut, blindfolded and terrified.Militiamen loyal to Hezbolloah had kidnapped him at a checkpoint after killing his nephew right in front of him. Throughout those awful

United States President George W Bush on Sunday appreciated Pakistan's role in the war against terrorism, as he held talks with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.During the hour-long meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum

The way the bomb blasts were triggered on May 13 in Jaipur and on August 25, 2007, in Hyderabad showed that the terrorists were trained at the same place, before being 'deputed' to the states by Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami, the suspected organisation

An Indian national, who was kidnapped by militants in Afghanistan nearly a month ago, was freed on Sunday following an operation by the security forces in that country. Muhammad Naeem, 40, who was kidnapped along with a Nepalese citizen on