Kajol enjoys her break
Kajol is on a much-deserved break. The actor has just joined Ajay Devgn, in Karaikudi near Madurai with daughter Nysa, where he is shooting for Priyadarshan’s next movie Garam Hawa with Akshaye Khanna and Bipasha Basu. While Kajol has been kept busy with the shooting for the remake of Stepmom and the promotional activities of My Name is Khan, Ajay has a packed schedule too, leaving the couple with little time to spend together.
“Moreover, Ajay was worried about the Shiv Sena issue and the fact that Kajol too had to be given police security. He wanted to come back to Mumbai, but could not leave the shooting mid-way. Kajol decided to fly down to Karaikudi to spend time with her husband instead.”
Kajol’s co-star, Shah Rukh Khan too has taken a break and is spending time at his Bandra residence with his family.
Look for pollution trails to find aliens!
Future astronomers in the hunt for alien life forms on planets would be better off looking for pollution trails, as they would indicate the presence of technology.
During most of the 20th century, our television transmission antennas leaked a lot of their energy into space.
More recently, they have begun to be supplanted by satellites that beam their transmissions at the ground, as well as by cable.
Inquisitive aliens searching for signs of intelligent life on Earth may soon have to look elsewhere.
But, light pollution from cities might still give us away.
“Observed over interstellar distances, they would reveal to the observer the presence of a technology,” according to a team of astronomers led by Jean Schneider of the Paris Observatory at Meudon, France.
Now, according to a report in New Scientist, scientists suggest that we should look for a similar glow on alien planets.
But, it wouldn”t be easy. Even if all the electricity we generate was used to produce light, it would still be thousands of times fainter than the glint of sunlight reflected from Earth’’s surface.
To reliably detect even this massive amount of artificial light on a planet orbiting a relatively nearby star – say 15 light years away – would require an array of telescopes with a combined light-collecting area of 1.5 square kilometres, Schneider’’s team calculated.
Our presence on Earth also leaves other traces that could be observed from afar.
Phone counselling can help teen smokers quit
Personalised, proactive phone counselling centred on motivational interviewing can help teenagers quit smoking, recent studies suggest.
Arthur V. Peterson and colleagues at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, Seattle, designed a trial to evaluate to what extent phone counselling could help teenagers quit the habit.
Researchers identified more than 2,000 smokers via classroom surveys of juniors in 50 high schools in Washington state.
In 25 of the high schools, after parental approval teen smokers received personalised smoking cessation counselling that combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural skills training.
These included using the smoker’s own words and values to increase the importance of quitting, anticipating and coping with stress and other triggers to smoke, and making plans for stopping.
The study included over 700 non-smokers to ensure that contacting students for participation in the trial would not reveal a participant’s smoking status.
More than a year after the intervention, nearly 89 percent completed a follow-up survey in which 22 percent reported a six-month prolonged abstinence from smoking, compared to 18 percent among students in the no-intervention control arm.
There was also strong evidence that the intervention had made a difference for three months, one month and seven-day abstinence and for the length of time since the last cigarette.
These findings were published online in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Bookies menace is rife in India
Though the International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating a report made by the Australian team that one of its players was approached by a suspected bookmaker at their London hotel after the Lord’’s Test, the problem of illegal bookies approaching cricketers is rife in India.
””This is a massive problem that has its tentacles at all the high levels of the game”” .
Therefore, the targeting of one of the best-paid international cricketers in the world to influence the most prestigious series in the game only shows the growing audacity of illegal bookmakers, whose criminal operations include murder, death threats and entrapment.
However, according to a report in the sydney Morning Herald, any scrutiny is unlikely to discourage illegal bookmakers, who will continue to feed off cricket so long as there is such disparity in pay among the game’’s international elite.
Australian players earn up to 10 times more than peers from other Test-playing nations. If the Ashes can be targeted, what chance the new Twenty20 leagues?
Already there is widespread innuendo, all unsubstantiated, that matches in the Indian Cricket League were fixed.
Some Australian players also have concerns that bookmakers influenced a high-profile international star during the first Indian Premier League season.
””People also need to understand that this is not about match-fixing directly influencing a result, it’’s about spread betting. It could be about bowling a wide with the fourth ball of the 16th over, losing a wicket at a certain time in the match. We”re talking hundreds of millions of dollars here. This is heavy stuff, like the mafia.”
Officials are remaining tight lipped about
the Australian player episode, which is said to have taken place in the lobby of the Royal Kensington Garden Hotel.
””We did everything to the letter of the law,”” Australian captain Ricky Ponting said.
England captain Andrew Strauss said there had been no approaches made to his team.
Egyptian expert specially called to restore 4,500-year-old mummy in Hyderabad
Tarek el Awady, director of Scientific Research in the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt has specially arrived in India on Wednesday to help in restoring a mummy preserved at the State Archaeological Museum in Hyderabad.
The mummy is on display at the museum since 1930. It is believed that 1.40 metre long mummy lying in an airtight enclosure is of Nasihu, daughter of the sixth Pharaoh of Egypt who was around 16 or 18 years when she died during pregnancy.
Chandrayaan-2 will reach skies soon
Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has completed the design process of its ambitious moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, after successfully launching its first ever unmanned Channdrayaan-1 earlier this year. ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair said that the space agency is currently working on the orbital flight vehicle, while it will get lunar craft from Russia under mutual agreement.
Mr. Nair added: ”The landing of the rover would be decided after we analyse the data sent by Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. Now we are set to build a prototype of Chandrayaan-2 and this would happen next year. We will build upon our success with Chandrayaan-1.”
He said that ISRO has received some important climatic and radio based clues from its first mission, and it will try to overcome causes of malfunctioning, like experienced by ‘Star Sensor’ on Chandrayaan-1, in April this year.
Mr Nair expressed satisfaction over the success of Chanrayaan-1, adding that ISRO has achieved 95 percent of the scientific objective of Chandrayaan-1 while the remaining would be achieved in the coming months.
The ISRO Chief further added: “The redundancy factor would be the utmost on the minds of the scientists working on Chandrayaan-2 after their good experience with the first mission.”
Lampard gives his boots to female fan
Ace footballer Frank Lampard presented one of his female fans with his boots as she flashed her smile and a shapely figure.
The Chelsea midfielder was swept off the feet as his fan whipped off her shirt to reveal her yellow bra after his team won the Community Shield at Wembley.
The 31-year-old was so impressed that he gave her a kiss and handed over his white boots, which carried the name of his daughters Luna and Isla.
England footballer has urged his teammates to win the 2010 World Cup as a tribute to Sir Bobby Robson, the former national coach who died at the age of 76 on July 31 after a long battle with cancer.
He admitted that the death of Robson has hurt the Three Lions squad, and said that it made them even more determined to succeed in the tournament, which would be held in South Africa next year.
Denise Lewis has ‘Perfect Athletic Body’
Olympic champ Denise Lewis has the ‘Perfect Athletic Body’, according to a new poll.
The British athlete, who won the gold medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, topped the Maximuscle poll.
However, Lewis insists: “I’m just a normal person that worked hard, and I hope people can take inspiration from that.”
Soccer ace David Beckham, 34, and Zara Phillips, 28, had the best bums in the poll.
Transformers: ‘Revenge Of The Fallen’ Movie
It could be the biggest blockbuster of the year, and millions of words let been engrossed in expectation of its opening. But that does not mean that “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” doesn’t still accept a lot of secrets.
With that in mind, we departed directly to the people behind the film, bringing the best on top-secret cameos, things to appear as and amusing winkles at classic sci-fi roles from other enfranchisements. Earlier you buzz movie, make sure to acknowledge what to appear as in “Revenge of the Fallen.”
Tamanna carrying her responsibilities to Malayalam
The attractive stylish girl Tamanna who’s her way clean to overlook Kollywood fulfilling the empty place of no 1 actress, as Nayanthara and Trisha rolling off their individual identifies, Tamanna is acting ahead began doing with the good firm hero’s in Tamil with her new films, going her dominion to Malayalam at the same time.
In the movie ‘Campus days’ which is directed by debutant Prakash Kasi Nath, produced by Saudamini Jayan under the banner of Devi foundations Tamanna is debuting through this movie in Malayalam.
Tamanna acting the part titled on miss Kerala Bhama doing the lead character with Debutant Kiran Karthik as hero.
