Earthquake with 5.7-magnitude Kills at Least 8 people in Turkey

by admin on November 10th, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Posted In: World News

The earthquake with 5.7-magnitude killed 8 people in Turkey and dozens people trapped in the rubble. Rescue workers have pulled 23 survivors from the dust.

Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said Wednesday’s quake toppled 25 buildings in the city of Van, but only three of them were filled. The others had been emptied after the damage of last month’s powerful earthquake.

The earlier 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit on 23 October, which killed near about 600 people.

Rescue workers raced up their search for survivors by daylight yesterday, trying to open tunnels into the rubble, CNN Turk television reported. The workers used the glower of high-powered lights to work throughout the night.

Mr Atalay said the rescue work was concentrating at the site of two cracked hotels and one apartment building.

The cracked buildings was the Van’s best-known hotel, Bayram Hotel, both hotels was about 40 years old, and had been freshned up last year.  Some of the guests were journalists there for the wake of the previous earthquake, which left thousands homeless.

Blankets, Tents and other supplies were sent from other countries to help. Turkey’s Dogan news agency said two of its reporters were missing.

Some foreign rescue workers who struggled to help the survivors of the previous quake were also staying at the same hotel.

The director of the Turkish Seismic Institution Dogan Kalafat, said that properly built, spoiled buildings would not be expected to cracked after a moderate earthquake like the one that came on Wednesday.

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Now brain scanner reads the dreams of people

by admin on October 30th, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Posted In: Health News

Now brain scanner reads the people dreams easily. The scientists can read people brain as they dream. The researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in

Germany said they were able to compare the brain activity of clear and consistent manner dreamers as they consideration the same thoughts awake and asleep.

The team used both functional MRI scanning and near-infrared spectroscopy to detect each person’s brain activity as they squeezed a hand while awake. They then compared this with the activity associated with imagining squeezing the same hand, and squeezing the hand in a clear manner dream.

The team leader Michael Czisch said, “The participants have to fall asleep in a scanner , reach REM sleep and enter a stable lucid dream state . This is a proof-of concept study and provides the first evidence that it may be possible to use brain imaging to read the contents of dream”,

The researchers at the Munich-based institute said they recruited six exercised lucid dreamers, all the lucid dreamers are adult men. The lucid dreamers slept in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, which measures blood flow to regions of the brain. The growth of blood flow indicate the particular part of brain is working and active. At the same time, the men were asked to make a series of hand-squeezing motions and eye motions when they entered into a clear manner dream-state.

The scientists has also made movies that awake people have seen, by analyzing their brain waves.

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Sonakshi and Ranveer’s romance

by admin on October 24th, 2011 at 2:14 PM
Posted In: Celebrities News

Sonakshi Sinha and Ranveer’s romance lived romance in real life now will continue on silver screen. Sonakshi Sinha and hero of Band Baaja Baraat movie will be seen together in Udaan movie’s romantic thriller director by Vikramaditya Motwane’s.

The information of Mumbai mirror “Sonakshi and Ranveer will finally come together. It is a romantic thriller and a very interesting script. Vikas Behl, Anurag Kashyap,

Madhu Mantena and Vikramaditya Motwane will co-produce the film. In fact, the four filmmakers are very good friends and they have now formed a production company. This

will be their first project for the company.”

The producer Vikas Behl told Mumbai Mirror, “Yes, all of us have come together for the film. This is going to be our first project.”

Conversation about the movie, “The film will go on floors in December. This is an original screenplay and Motwane has written it himself. Both Ranveer and

Sonakshi were keen on working with Motwane. They loved his debut film Udaan.”

Sonakshi and Ranveer’s romance rumours with their dance number at an award function, the filmmaker’s want play on screen soon. The big filmmaker’s want become the rope in Sonakshi and Ranveer’s romantic venture.

The source said, “Earlier, YRF tried to bring Ranveer and Sonakshi together for one of their projects. However, Sonakshi opted out of it. She wanted to work in Sajid Nadiadwala’s film directed by Sabbir Khan instead. A couple of other filmmakers have also tried to get Ranveer and Sonakshi to work together”,

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Shah Rukh has made a love story again

by admin on October 23rd, 2011 at 2:49 PM
Posted In: Entertainment News

Shah Rukh Khan made a love story in “Ra.One. The Ra.One movie releasing on Diwali. “Watching the first copy of Ra.One…Damn! realised yet again I have made a love story…a love story between me and my dreams,”

Shah Rukh is trying to promoting his superhero movie in metro cities. He has even tied up with channels and brands to sell the superhero film`s merchandise. Made at a budget of over Rs.100 crore, “RA.One” is directed by Anubhav Sinha who also roped in Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor for important roles.

Kreena Kapoor and Shah Rukh delighted the audience to promote the Ra.One by dancing on the songs of Ra.one “Chhamak Chhalo”.

Besides Khan and Kapoor, actors Dalip Tahil, Satish Shah and Shahana Goswami also essay key roles in the thrilling movie.
The music of the film is composed by musician duo Vishal-Shekhar.
The action-packed science-fiction film, directed by Anubhav Sinha, is slated for October 26 release.

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Govt Mulls out 100% FDI in single-brand retail

by admin on October 4th, 2011 at 3:26 PM
Posted In: Business News

The government if planning allowing 100 percent foreign direct investment in single brand retail, a senior official said today, “The matter is under consideration” the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP) sectary R P Singh told PTI when asked if 100 percent FDI was being considered for single brand retail in the country.

When asked weather the ministry would bring any discussion paper on the matter, he said, “it is a small issue and there will be no discussion paper on it”.

However, the cabinet will take the final decision on it, he added.

Presently, India allows 51 percent FDI in single brand retail and 100 percent in cash and carry format of the business.

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R-Power aims Rs 2000 crore green money from Tilaiya

by admin on October 4th, 2011 at 3:20 PM
Posted In: Business News

According to the fresh business reports, the well-known company Reliance Power expects to earn Rs 2,000 crore by trading carbon credits from its Tilaiya ultra-mega power project during the first 10 years of plant’s operations.

The project, proposed to be built in Jharkhand, is expected to generate over 21 million carbon credits during the initial 10 years.

These can be traded under the Clean Development Mechanism regime and are valued at over Rs 2,000 crore. The project will supply power to 18 bulk consumers in 10 states.

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Report on Blackberry solution by month-end

by admin on September 23rd, 2011 at 3:57 PM
Posted In: Technology News

A team from the department of telecomminution (DoT) is evaluating the latest interception solution offered by research in motion (RIM), the makers of Blackberry smartphone. The final report on its acceptability is expected by the month end.

The Canadian company recently came up with the solution for real-time interception of its Blackberry enterprises service (BES) after seeking number of extensions of deadline for nearly a year.

RIM has apparently offered lawful interception in its security, architecture through cloud computing system from Indian operators. It is an internet-based service, where by shared service provide software and data to computers and other devices on demand.

RIM infrastructure is ready to receive and process through the cloud computing –based system, lawfully introspected Blackberry messenger data from Indian service providers, the Canada based firm had earlier said.

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