Flying stunt ends in tragedy
Todd Green falls to his death after losing his grip performing a stunt during an air show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township, Mich., Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011.
Dino Morea 'brings sexy back' at fashion show Yepme, an online fashion brand showcased its Private Label Men's Apparel, Footwear and Accessories collection in New Delhi. The collection featured Yepme's in vogue range of Formals, Casuals, Outdoor and Party wear. "Dress by Occasion" was the official theme for the show with India's leading actors and models including Dino Morea, Rahul Dev, Rajneesh Duggal and Shawar Ali.
Dino Morea 'brings sexy back' at fashion show
Yepme, an online fashion brand showcased its Private Label Men's Apparel, Footwear and Accessories collection in New Delhi. The collection featured Yepme's in vogue range of Formals, Casuals, Outdoor and Party wear. "Dress by Occasion" was the official theme for the show with India's leading actors and models including Dino Morea, Rahul Dev, Rajneesh Duggal and Shawar Ali.
Malaika having the time of her life! With the rustic appeal of Munni Badnaam Hui from the movie Dabangg taking the nation by storm, the super-sexy Malaika Arora Khan is back on top yet again.
Malaika having the time of her life!
With the rustic appeal of Munni Badnaam Hui from the movie Dabangg taking the nation by storm, the super-sexy Malaika Arora Khan is back on top yet again.
Michael Jackson crowned king of MTV VMAs - poll
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - King of Pop Michael Jackson is gone, but he is not forgotten -- not by MTV Video Music Award voters.
Two days before the widely-watched awards show, MTV on Friday released a poll of the top moments chosen by voters in the program's nearly three decades with Jackson singled out for most iconic and best pop performances for a medley of songs he sang in 1995.
Forever young: Superstars of the 90s Even after 2 decades, the Bollywood kingdom is still ruled by the three mighty Khans - Shahrukh, Aamir and Salman! Then there was Madhuri, Kajol and Aishwarya...People still love these darlings of the 90's, and they too keep their age at bay! A tribute to our evergreen stars!
Forever young: Superstars of the 90s
Even after 2 decades, the Bollywood kingdom is still ruled by the three mighty Khans - Shahrukh, Aamir and Salman! Then there was Madhuri, Kajol and Aishwarya...People still love these darlings of the 90's, and they too keep their age at bay! A tribute to our evergreen stars!
Spotted: Madhoo, Raveena, Sonali We spotted Madhoo, Sonali and Raveena at a store opening recently.
Spotted: Madhoo, Raveena, Sonali
We spotted Madhoo, Sonali and Raveena at a store opening recently.
Perfect girlfriend has a big sex drive!
Men believe that the perfect girlfriend is the one who has a high sex drive, enjoys a hearty meal and gets ready to go out in 10 minutes.
Apart from this, the perfect girlfriend is a career-minded woman who earns more than their partner but at the same time wants to stay at home and bring up the children.
The clue to these seemingly contradictory demands lies in the men polled, 3,000 bachelors.
Near the top of their girlfriend checklist is the requirement that she should have a "pert bottom" – which may explain why they are still single.
Sex-guide according to your age
Our sexual behaviour varies at different times in our lives. Sex guru Tracey Cox in her bestselling book, 'Sextasy' reveals the sexual urges and traits of lovers according to their age...
20-something
Most guys just can't stop dreaming about sex every couple of hours. At this age, girls are usually rebellious in their sexual imaginations. They share same-sex fantasies or want to try out bi-sexuality. A 2006 study of nearly 2000 people discovered that 76 per cent of women who slept with women reached orgasm (for women with men, the figure stands at 50 per cent).
The 20s are the time when young boys and girls are most experimental in their sexual positions. One in 10 people claims Tracey Cox have had a threesome in their early twenties.
Also, people in this age group have most likely visited a strip joint or a lapdancing club - with their friends or their better half.
30 something
The 30s are a time to experiment, almost all 30-somethings claim to have had sex outdoors. Unlike the teens when making out was the most common form of sexual experimentation, most 30 somethings prefer having sex somewhere semi-public like the beach, in the garden or on a park bench in the darkness. There's something wildly erotic about these sexapades! Also, high on the 30 something popularity chart are having sex in the shower or in the bath tub.
Facebook encourages drug, alcohol abuse in teens: Study
LONDON: How much time does your child spend on Facebook? Teenagers who regularly use social networking sites are much more likely to drink, smoke and use marijuana, a new study has claimed.
The Columbia University study of 1,000 American teenagers aged between 12 and 17 years found that those who used such sites daily were five times more likely to smoke tobacco than those who did not.
Similarly, they are three times more likely to drink alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana.
The poll also found that 70 per cent of those interviewed said they used social networking sites on a typical day, while 30 per cent did not, the Daily Telegraph reported.
Lara Dutta to be a supermom!
Lara Dutta to be a supermom!
Do you know who will be the next mummy in B-town after Aishwarya Rai Bachchan? The recent buzz in tinsel town is that Lara Dutta is pregnant. The sexy diva who is married to tennis player Mahesh Bhupathi on February 16, 2011, is three months pregnant and is expecting her baby by the end of January 2012.
Confirming her pregnancy, an overly excited Lara posted on the social networking site, Twitter, "Thank you so much for all ur wishes and prayers. It's an awesome time in life right now and Mahesh and I r both very excited abt the baby!"
First impressions that last - Men Women First Meeting
If you though chivalry is dead, you may be in for a shocker. In a survey conducted by a leading matrimonial portal, 62% women expect their prospective partners to open doors and hold out chairs. Not only that, being a miser only makes things worse for men. The poll received responses from over 5,200 Shaadi.com members across India and have thrown open some surprising facts.
According to the survey, both men and women shared the same opinion when it came to meeting their potential partner unaccompanied. Unlike the earlier generations, today’s prospective marriage seekers prefer the first meeting to be away from relatives and at a neutral venue. Not only that, 57% men get put-off if the woman comes accompanied by a relative and friend. But they are still orthodox when it comes to footing the bill as 70% women expect men to pay on the first meeting.
Try These to Give your Immunity a Boost - health is wealth
A healthy immune system is an aggressive age fighter that helps keep us feeling good, looking good and bustling with energy. If the immune system functions properly, we can put our health-related worries to rest. But as we age, our immune system, like an ageing cricketer, loses some of its vigour.
This amazingly complex defensive unit gradually deteriorates and its ability to tackle invading organisms fades out.
4 Indians among MIT’s top 35 innovators
Two Indians and two persons of Indian origin figure among Top 35 Innovators under-35 in the latest list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review, the world’s oldest Technology Magazine established in 1899.
Ajit Narayanan, Invention Labs, Chennai and Aishwarya Ratan, Yale University, who were part of TR35 India Winners announced in March 2011, have made it to the annual list of people who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business and technology.
The honourees are blazing new paths in a wide range of fields, including medicine, energy, communications, IT, consumer technology, entertainment, and robotics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, based institution announced Wednesday.
Chennai—based Ajit Narayanan, 30, was selected for his work on affordable speech synthesizers. He is currently working with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, to improve the quality of the speech synthesis. He also plans to use mobile app stores to distribute a version of his software with about 90 percent of the full Avaz system’s functionality.
Bihar's new tool to fight corruption - YouTube
Patna, Aug 26 (IANS) Bihar, for years a metaphor for backwardness, will now harness modern communiction tools to nail corruption. It will expose officials seeking bribes in welfare schemes by uploading clips of complaints against them on the video-sharing website YouTube.
'The state government has decided to use YouTube as a new tool to expose corrupt and bribe-seekers,' Bihar
Spotted: SRK, Bips Bollywood's Don Shahrukh Khan and dusky diva Bipasha Basu spotted at a book launch.
Spotted: SRK, Bips Bollywood's Don Shahrukh Khan and dusky diva Bipasha Basu spotted at a book launch.
Celebs and their cars Personal choices and star power translate to the cars these celebs own. Take a look
Celebs and their cars Personal choices and star power translate to the cars these celebs own. Take a look
Widescreen: Riots leave London burning
In what is turning out to be Britain’s worst civil unrest in decades, riots in London entered the fourth day with no imminent signs of a comedown. The riots were sparked off in Tottenham when armed police shot dead Mark Duggan, 29, a father of four, in disputed circumstances on August 4. Violence, clashes with police and sporadic looting were also reported from Croydon, Birmingham, Battersea, Lewisham, Kilburn, Liverpool and Camden as groups of young people pelted police officers with bottles and fireworks and set ablaze buildings, cars and garbage dumps. Police said that rioters were using phone text messages and social media to carry out lootings, adding that the rioting had changed from a “local issue to organized criminality”. While some commentators contend that the riots point to the deep social unease in the capital’s poorest areas, police and politicians have maintained that much of the violence is purely opportunistic. Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May said the violence was totally unacceptable and announced that 215 people have been arrested and 27 charged so far. About a hundred of those arrested are under 21, while the youngest person charged is an 11-year-old boy.
This is India – Your Pictures! Part-1
Thank you for your overwhelming response to the This Is India call for photos. We have had hundreds of amazing photos pour in since last week and our editors had a hard time picking the best. Finally, our editors chose the very best submissions. And here they are for your enjoyment. Don’t forget to share or recommend them to your friends. And finally, we’re extremely sorry if your photo didn’t make the cut. But hey, that should be a good reason to keep submitting!
Singapore stands up for its curry
Singapore, Aug. 21 (Reuters): Indian curry is what it takes to start a mass campaign with political overtones in Singapore.
Tens of thousands of people in the Southeast Asian city-state said they would cook or eat curry today in a protest highlighting growing anger over increased immigration.
The campaign began after an immigrant family from China complained about the smell of curry from a Singaporean Indian neighbour's home and local officials brought about a compromise.
A Facebook page devoted to the row after reports were published in a local newspaper has drawn over 57,600 members, many of who said they were cooking curry today in a show of solidarity with the Indian family.
Soon, bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk
London, Aug 22 (ANI): Bulletproof vests have been around for decades but skin that can stop them has only been the preserve of science fiction.
The most famous example is Superman, or the Man of Steel - bullets simply ricochet off of him.
Now, scientists have claimed to be making this science fiction into a reality with the development of bulletproof human skin made from spider silk and goat milk.
They genetically engineered goats to produce milk, which is packed with the same protein as silk spiders, which is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material that is ten times stronger than steel.
The fabric is then blended with human skin to make what the scientists hope will be tough enough to stop even a bullet.
Dutch researcher Jalila Essaidi said the 'spidersilk' project was called '2.6g 329m/s' after the weight and the velocity of a .22 calibre long rifle bullet.
Working with the Forensic Genomics Consortium in the Netherlands, she said the goal was to replace the keratin in our skin with the spider's silk.
The first stage involves growing a layer of real skin around a sample of the bulletproof skin, which takes about five weeks.
Hyderabad duo designs robot for low- cost harvesting
ROBOTS are all set to bring down the cost of harvesting. A solar- powered harvesting robot designed by T. J. David and Kudikala Shravan Kumar of the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad ( IIIT- H) bagged the overall first prize at the Intel India Embedded Challenge 2011 in Bangalore on Friday.
The crop harvesting machine works on 500 watt batteries that can be recharged by solar panels or grid power. The cost of using the robot would be as little as ` 10 an acre if grid power is used for charging as compared to a conventional harvester that uses diesel worth ` 800 for the task, claimed the inventors.
The robotic harvester will come for about ` 50,000, which is 80 per cent less than the traditional harvester, David said.
India Extreme
Independent though she is, India must deal with extremes that range from delightful to excruciating. Presenting a country juxtaposed between centuries, the contradiction that is India.
India can have third largest GDP by 2025: PM
Kolkata, Aug 22 (IANS) India could have the world's third largest GDP by 2025 if the country maintained its present growth rate, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Monday while conceding that the target of nine percent growth for the next five years was 'very ambitious' given the current state of the global economy.
Addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, the prime minister cautioned that while the 'rosy future' was within the nation's reach, it was not an assured outcome.
Manmohan Singh, who is regarded as the architect of India's economic reforms for having initiated them as finance minister between 1991 and 1996, said the reforms programme had courted controversy in the early years but all regimes at the centre had carried them forward.
GETTING THE MOST FROM THAT SIP - Test the quality of milk
ONE ARE the days when the only kind of milk we knew was plain and boiled. Today there is a range of milk in the market — full cream, skimmed, tetra pack, organic and flavoured. Condensed milk has become popular in most households and milk powder has replaced the fresh kind in offices and commercial establishments.
But do all these different kinds of milk really offer the same health benefits? We check the facts.
Salman to guard Lady Gaga?
The actor’s niece wants him to be the singer’s bodyguard when she comes to India in October
Well, it seems like Lady Gaga's trip to India just got more interesting as everyone is taking Salman Khan’s role in ‘Bodyguard’ seriously. The actor has got another request from none other than his niece. Apparently, Alvira and Atul Agnihotri's younger daughter Alizeh wants him to be Lady Gaga’s bodyguard when she comes to India in October.
SRK ditches Yash Chopra to work with...
SRK shoots for a cameo in Dia-Zayed starrer, despite postponing Yash Chopra’s directorial comeback
Shah Rukh Khan recently postponed Yash Raj’s directorial comeback to next year, stating he didn’t have time for it, with his big releases, Ra.One and Don 2 slated to release this year. Fair enough. But what SRK did have time for, was shooting for the unnamed Zayed Khan-Dia Mirza starrer at a suburban lounge. Sources say that SRK shot for a cameo appearance in the film which he did as a favour for Zayed, who he had previously worked with in ‘Main Hoon Na’.
How 8 in 10 women struggle with 'toxic friends'
A new survey has revealed that 84 percent of women put up with so-called "toxic friends", who are self-absorbed, emotionally draining, critical or backstabbing.
Men did not fare much better, with three-quarters admitting to having had such a friendship.
SRK’s ‘Don 2’ to be showcased in 3D - video Trailor
Shahrukh Khan’s most awaited December release Don 2 to now be showcased in 3D
The overwhelming response to the first teaser of Don 2 received a frenzied response and the makers of the film wanted to give viewers a different experience to live up to the hype. The result: SRK’s ‘Don 2’ will now be showcased in 3d.
The film is being converted to the 3 D format and will also be dubbed in Tamil and Telugu for release. The film shall hits cinemas this winter and is slated for release on 23rd December worldwide. The film’s producer, “Ritesh Sidhwani said, “There is a huge demand for the brand DON, also our audiences must be expecting much more and beyond just cinema from the sequel so hence a 3D format. We did a few 3D conversion tests on DON 1 and the conversion outcome was very good. So while shooting Don 2, the 3D conversion was at the back of Farhan's mind while shooting the film, in case we decided to go ahead with 3D format as it would make the Don experience even more memorable and exciting to watch for the audience.”
Apple suppliers building cheaper, 8GB iPhone 4 - sources
TAIPEI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian suppliers to Apple Inc have begun manufacturing a lower priced version of its hot-selling iPhone 4 with a smaller 8 gigabyte flash drive, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
The flash drive for the 8GB iPhone 4 is being manufactured by a Korean company, one of the people said on Tuesday, declining to name the company. Apple currently sources its flash drives from Japan 's Toshiba and South Korea 's Samsung Electronics.
The sources declined to be identified because the information has not been made public.
Apple, which demands high levels of secrecy and security from suppliers and employees, declined to comment.
Top 25 reasons to get running
Running is one of the best forms of exercise, not only for getting fit but for weight control too. A 30-minute run, three to four times a week, trims your waistline, strengthens the cardiovascular system, improves muscle tone and definition and helps foster a positive mental attitude. Running can also be a great social activity. Here are the top 25 tips on why you should start running today.
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