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Written by admin on 17 February 2009
Krishna Vamsi is directing Srikanth’s 100th film titled Mahatma written by Parachuri Brothers.
According to sources, Chiranjeevi wanted to act in a political film before he formally announced his entry into politics and founding Praja Rajyam Party.
Parachuri Brothers wrote a political film titled Adhinayakudu which was meant to be Chiranjeevi’s last film before his plunge into politics. VV Vinayak was to direct this film.
However, Chiranjeevi decided not to make that film and started his active political career.
Tollywood sources say Adhinayakudu story has now been titled as Mahatma with Srikanth, chela of Chiranjeevi, playing the protagonist in the film.
The film Mahatma is said to depict and reflect the policies and programmes of Praja Rajyam Party.
Tollywood sources say that the veracity of this news lies in the fact that Chiranjeevi himself sounded the clap for the muhurt of Mahatma.
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Written by admin on 14 February 2009
Shah Rukh Khan’s house attacked
Two motorcycle-borne miscreants hurled a bottle of kerosene at actor Shah Rukh Khan’s Bandra residence, Mannat, at around 2.30 am on Friday. Nobody was injured.
Security personnel at Khan’s bungalow were unable to note the registration number of the bike in the darkness. A complaint was lodged at the Bandra police station.
According to reports, a fundamentalist group was upset with the use of certain words in the song, Marjaani, marjaani, featuring Khan and Kareena Kapoor in the film Billu.
On Friday morning a group of protesters gathered outside Bandra’s G-7 cinema complex, where Billu was being screened, and broke glass panes and tore away posters.
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Written by admin on 09 February 2009
Chandra Grahan
Which according to NASA is a penumbral (partial) lunar eclipse, will be visible on February 9, 2009 in India. In penumbral eclipse there will be a partial shadow of earth on the moon. The Eclipse will be visible at Moonrise along the western coast of India in cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Pune and Chennai. Partial lunar eclipse will be visible in Kolkata, Patna, Hyderabad, Bhubaneshwar, Lucknow, Delhi, Shimla, Bhopal and Srinagar.
The timing of the Penumbral eclipse according to NASA in all places in India is given from 18:09 to 22:08. Middle Eclipse will be at 20:08.
There is a Penumbral Lunar Eclipse, Chandra Grahan, on February 09, 2009. The Eclipse will be visible in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand. The eclipse will be visible at moonrise in Gulf countries, along the western coast of India and Eastern Europe. In Australia and New Zealand the lunar eclipse will begin on the midnight of February 09, 2009 and end early morning of February 10, 2009. The eclipse will be visible at moon setting along the pacific coast of United States of America. It is not visible along the Atlantic Coast.
In penumbral eclipse there will be a partial shadow of earth on the moon. It is a sort of partial eclipse.
Here are the timings of the lunar eclipse around the world on February 9, 2009 as per local timings:
India
Delhi – From 18:09 to 22:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 20:08 (local time)
UAE
Dubai – From 16:39 to 20:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 18:38 (local time)
Hong Kong
Victoria – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Nepal
Khatmandu – From 18:09 to 22:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 20:08 (local time)
Indonesia
Jakarta – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur – From 19:39 to 23:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 21:38 (local time)
Singapore
Singapore – From 20:39 to 00:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 22:38 (local time)
Thailand
Bangkok – From 19:39 to 23:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 21:38 (local time)
Australia
Adelaide – From 22:09 to 02:08
Mid Eclipse will be at 00:08 (local time)
Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney – From 22:39 to 02:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 00:38 (local time)
New Zealand
Christchurch – From 00:39 to 04:38 on February 10
Mid Eclipse will be at 02:38 (local time)
United States
In most of the United States the eclipse will be at moon setting and it is not visible along the Atlantic Coast.
Chicago – From 06:39 to 10:38
Mid Eclipse will be at 08:38 (local time)
Image courtsey NASA
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Written by Rahul on 29 January 2009
London, Jan.29 (ANI): The head of the Tamil Tigers in Britain conspired to supply military equipment to the Sri Lankan terrorist organisation, a court has heard.
Arunachalam Chrishanthakumar, 52, a “very prominent figure” in the Tamil community in the UK, co-ordinated the acquisition of material and funds for the benefit of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a jury heard.
But according to The Telegraph, despite warnings to put a stop to his activities, the defendant continued to procure electrical components for the LTTE, also known as the Tamil Tigers, some of which had “an obvious terrorist purpose”.
Chrishanthakumar, known as Shanthan, is standing trial at Kingston Crown Court, in south-west London, where he denies one count of conspiracy to receive electrical components for the purposes of terrorism.
He has also been charged with amassing a hoard of military equipment including machetes, combat boots, camouflage clothes, spades and handcuffs.
Another charge alleged that he received terrorist documents including guides to underwater warfare systems, explosive ordnance disposal and mine clearance.
He is also accused of two further offences – receiving money and belonging to a proscribed organisation, namely the LTTE.
The five offences are alleged to have taken place between January 2003 and June 2007.
Three other men, Jegatheswaran Muraleetharan (Muralee), 46, and his brother, Jeyatheswaran Vythyatharan (Vithy), 40, from Powys, Wales, and Murugesu Jegatheeswaran (Jegan), 34, from Mitcham, south London, are charged with receiving electronic items for use in terrorism.
Though they deny the charges, the trial continues. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 22 January 2009
Washington, January 22 (ANI): Liquid medicines may harm tiny tots due to the presence of some non-drug ingredients in them, says an Indian-origin researcher.
Dr Hitesh Pandya, a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester, says that his study documents the chemicals present in such liquid medicines as are administered to premature infants as part of their medical care.
Published in the Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood, his study has revealed that the chemicals added to medicines to improve their taste and absorption and to prolong their shelf-life could be potentially harmful to very small babies.
The chemicals generally used are ethanol, sorbitol and Ponceaau 4R (a colouring agent).
According to the researchers, premature babies are exposed to these potentially harmful chemicals in amounts equivalent to over three pints of beer per week.
“This study documents a worldwide problem. It shows that the collection of medicines given to babies may ultimately lead to them being exposed to harmful chemicals with the potential for short and long-term toxic effects.
Our research highlighted this, and we are planning further studies on the chemicals to understand exactly what these effects might be. What our study hasn’t done is find any direct evidence on the cause and effect of these chemicals and the medical problems that these babies might be being treated for,” Dr. Pandya said.
Dr Andrew Currie, Consultant at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust who was also part of the research team said: “Parents should not panic about these findings. These chemicals can be found in foods all around the world.
What the study highlighted is that we have a greater understanding of the side-effects of the drugs than we do of the chemicals that many of these drugs are mixed with; there just simply hasn’t been enough research done.
It is often necessary that these chemicals are added to medications, and in the majority of cases it improves the way the drugs work, but we should be taking more of an interest in them and their effects. It is great news that Dr Pandya and his team will continue their research.”
Dr Pandya added: “Babies and older children are often given medicines that have only received formal testing on adults, which means we estimate amounts that should be given to children and babies.
There are numerous reasons for this, such as the practical problems in performing studies in very small babies, worries their parents may have about involving their child in drug trials and drug manufacturer’s reluctance to tackle the problem. Our study showed that more work needs to be done to tackle this problem and to improve our understanding.”
He further said: “Both the UK Government and the European Union have recently passed legislation to incentivise drug companies to develop better medicines for children. Our research team is planning to engage with parents to talk about how they can be encouraged to allow their children to participate in drug trials.
We are also in close discussions with drug manufacturing companies about overcoming some of the practical hurdles that restrict performing drug trials in very small children. We are hopeful that this world-wide problem can be addressed for the benefit of future generations by highlighting the issue and through constructive engagement with interested parties.”
Dr Pandya concluded by saying: “Parents should begin to understand what chemicals are in the medicines being given to their children, but they should not be overly concerned. In many cases there may not be an alternative medicine, and the risk will be balanced in favour of using them in treatment.
As a research team we do feel it is important that the (medicines regulators) not only ensure that all manufacturers provide detailed labelling of the excipient content of their products but all lead action to determine whether existing practice constitutes a risk, and if so, how this might be dealt with.”
According to the researchers, children’s medicines have to cater for a wide age range, which makes it difficult for manufacturers to tailor their products for each age group.
The inclusion of some excipients is also a necessity, they say. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 21 January 2009
Washington, Jan.21 (ANI): Though President Barack Obama’s outreach to Republicans may be generating goodwill on the other side of the aisle, his honeymoon with the GOP is likely to be short-lived.
However, there are some Republicans who have a less adversarial relationship with the new administration. According to Politico, there are at least five GOP leaders who are expected to work closely with the White House.
Here is Politico’s list of the five Republicans most likely to embrace Obama:
1.Senator John McCain (Arizona)
As curious as it sounds, Obama’s rival for the presidency could end up being a key ally.
On issue after issue, from campaign finance to HMO regulation to immigration reform, McCain has shown a willingness to reach across the aisle – a habit that hasn’t endeared him to his own party.
Indeed, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said he believes that McCain is prepared to launch a national rehabilitation campaign that will lead him to a strong alliance with Obama.
“I believe Obama has an ace in the hole among Senate Republicans. This unlikely ace can deliver not only the GOP moderates needed to break a filibuster but also the stamp of bipartisanship: the 2008 GOP standard-bearer, John McCain,” Santorum recently wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
2. Senator Richard `Dick’ Lugar (Indiana)
Few Republicans can claim a closer personal relationship with Obama than the senior senator from Indiana. Upon arriving in the Senate, Obama sought out Lugar as a mentor when both men served on the Foreign Relations Committee.
To prove his bipartisan bona fides on the campaign trail, Obama regularly cited his work on Lugar’s signature Nunn-Lugar nuclear nonproliferation bill.
As part of their campaign to pass nuclear nonproliferation legislation, the two traveled together to Russia and Ukraine in 2005 to examine those countries’ stockpiles of conventional weapons.
Lugar, rumored to be a potential secretary of state in the Obama administration, was even named as an honorary co-chairman of the inaugural committee. “When you’ve got a president who’s trying to send a signal that he’s trying to achieve bipartisan solutions, it makes sense that Lugar’s going to play a very significant role in that,” said Indiana political analyst Brian Howey.
3. Representative Mark Kirk (Illinois)
As he mulls a run for Obama’s old Senate seat in 2010, Kirk knows he won’t get an endorsement from the president-elect. Still, whether he runs for reelection to the House or for the Senate, political imperatives demand that he work productively with the Obama administration.
Kirk’s House district delivered 61 percent of the vote to Obama, giving him a strong incentive to play nice with the new president.
One of the leading centrists in the House – and one who has repeatedly won reelection in a Democratic-leaning district by emphasizing his independence from his national party – Kirk is already inclined to work across the aisle.
4. Senator George Voinovich (Ohio)
Despite calling Obama a “socialist” in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Voinovich may find himself agreeing with the president-elect more often than not during his final two years in the Senate.
The Ohio senator, who announced he would retire in 2010, has often been a thorn in the GOP’s side, for opposing Republican-backed tax cuts and for his high-profile opposition to John Bolton’s nomination as ambassador to the United Nations.
Now that Voinovich is in the final stage of a political career that spans more than 40 years, he will be completely liberated from pressures to conform to his party’s line.
Since his Jan. 12 retirement announcement, Voinovich has already voted with Obama on releasing the second round of bailout money, joining only five other Senate Republicans in support of the legislation. Despite his reputation as a fiscal hawk, Voinovich has said he is open to supporting Obama’s proposed stimulus package.
5. Senator Susan Collins (Maine)
Fresh off an election victory in which she touted her record of working across party lines, Collins has a chance to prove it.
She is one of the two most liberal Republican senators, according to 2007 National Journal ratings – the other is her Maine colleague, Sen. Olympia Snowe. And with Democrats just shy of the 60 seats necessary to block GOP filibusters, Collins will be one of the first Republicans Obama will look toward to break logjams.
She has already indicated that she’s eager to work with the new president on climate change and health care reform, and has chatted with Obama’s congressional budget adviser, Peter Orszag, about her legislative priorities. (ANI)
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Written by Rahul on 21 January 2009
Washington, January 21 (ANI): A group of researchers from Brown University and University of Victoria says that the simplest way to reduce racial bias may be to teach people to distinguish between faces of individuals of a different race.
The researchers revealed that they learnt this through a new measurement system and protocol they developed to train Caucasian subjects to recognize different African American faces.
“The idea is this that this sort of perceptual training gives you a new tool to address the kinds of biases people show unconsciously and may not even be aware they have,” said Michael J. Tarr, a Brown cognitive neuroscientist, and a senior author of the paper published online in PLoS ONE.
“There is a strong connection between the way we perceive and categorize the world and the way we end up making stereotypes and generalizations about social entities,” Tarr added.
According to the researchers, training people to recognize facial differences among individuals of other races may blunt the effect of racial bias.
They hope that their training program may someday be used to train anyone who comes into contact with other races – police officers, social workers or immigration officials.
Overall, the researchers used 20 Caucasian subjects for the study, which incorporated a measurement developed at Brown and dubbed the Affective Lexical Priming Score (ALPS).
The ALPS measure is similar to, and builds on, a test developed at Harvard University known as the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which helps to identify unconscious social biases.
Each subject was first shown a series of pictures of different races, such as African American and Caucasian faces. All the faces were shown in black and white, so that subjects would focus on facial features rather than skin colour.
On each ALPS trial, each test subject was shown a picture of a face, which then disappeared. The test subject then saw a word that could be real or nonsense – “tree” or “malk”, for example – and had to decide whether the word was a real word or nonsense word.
The researchers said that real words would imply something positive or negative.
Study’s lead author Sophie Lebrecht, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and a member of Tarr’s lab, found that prior to training, the subjects more quickly responded if the word was negative and followed an African-American face.
Lebrecht revealed that the subjects responded more slowly if the word was positive, and followed an African-American face.
The subjects later participated in about 10 hours of facial recognition training: half learnt to tell apart individual African-American faces, while the remaining learnt simply to tell whether the faces were African-American or not.
The researchers noted that the subjects who had improved their ability to tell the difference between separate Africa-American faces also showed the greatest reduction in their implicit racial bias, as measured by the ALPS system.
Their positive associations with African-American faces increased, according to the researchers, and they had fewer negative associations with African-American faces.
The team conceded that it would not be right to claim that their approach could eliminate racial bias, but they suggested that teaching people to tell the difference better between individual faces of a different race might be at least one way to help reduce that bias.
Lebrecht said that developing a system that teaches people to make those distinctions should be helpful in reducing generalizations based on social stereotypes.
“If you give people the tools to start individuating, maybe they will make more individual (rather than stereotypical) attributions,” she said. (ANI)
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Written by admin on 06 November 2008
Mumbai: Readership of most newspapers and magazines has dropped over the past six months, according to the latest data (Round 2) of the Indian Readership Survey 2008 released on Tuesday, although the top five Hindi and English dailies retained their ranks.
The top five English newspapers by total readership are: The Times of India, the Hindustan Times, TheHindu, TheTelegraph, and the Deccan Chronicle.
The top five Hindi dailies by total readership are: Dainik Jagran, Dainik Bhaskar, AmarUjala, Hindustan, and Rajasthan Patrika.
The Hindustan Times and Hindustan are published by HT Media Ltd, which also publishes Mint.
Also See Declining Numbers: The Indian Readership Survey 2008 (Graphic)
These numbers, however, are unlikely to make much difference for media buyers because they relate to “total readership” or the number of respondents who claim to have read the publication “recently”. Media buyers buy advertising space on the basis of average readership, which only counts the number of people who have read the publication the day before (in the case of magazines, a week before for a weekly and a fortnight before for a fortnightly). These figures weren’t released on Tuesday.
The Media Research Users Council (MRUC), the body that conducts the survey, is expected to release detailed findings on Wednesday.
While most newspapers saw marginal decline in readership and some saw a slight increase, magazines saw a dramatic fall. For example, Hindi language fortnightly Saras Salil, on top of the list with a total readership of 8.4 million, saw a 1.4 million fall in readership from 9.8 million.
Andrey Purushottam, vice-chairman, MRUC, said: “The fact is that it’s the youngest amongst us who are moving away from print. There have been a lot of us who have complained that circulation figures are on the rise, while readership figures are steadily declining. As a solution, we could double the sample size, but it’s doubtful whether it would change the nature of the findings,”
According to MRUC, other contributors to declining readership are an increase in the number of nuclear families that may not buy as many papers as joint families, and a decline in the reading habit.
A magazine publisher, however, said that the survey could do with some improvement.
“I think mass surveys are not in a position to capture readership for magazines. Magazines have a different geographical spread—it’s more of a heterogeneous medium,” said Malcolm Mistry, publishing director for India Today. He added that magazine publishers want a survey that adequately captures the complexity of the medium.
Chandradeep Mitra, president, Mudra Max, an arm of Mudra Communications Pvt. Ltd said that while more people may be subscribing to dailies and other publications, they may not actually be reading them. There is more of casual readership than dedicated readership, he added. And television, which broadcasts news before print, takes away a compelling reason to read newspapers, he said.
source from – livemint.com
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