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Jay-Z to break Elvis Presley’s album record

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 17 (ANI): Jay-Z may soon become the solo artist with the most chart-toppers in US chart history beating King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley.

The rap star’s new album ‘Blueprint 3′ might as well be his 11th American number one album, which will take him past the late ‘Jailhouse Rock’ hitmaker’s record of 10 number ones.

Billboard said the 39-year-old had so far shifted 476,000 copies of the LP, the BBC News reports.

Meanwhile, the Beatles still retain their position as the most successful act on the US chart, with 19 US number one albums. (ANI)

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Presley’s ex-bodyguard co-producing tell-all biopic

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 15 (ANI): Rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley’s former bodyguard is all set to reveal how his life used to be during his time with the tragic entertainer in a new biopic.

Sonny West will talk about Presley’s sensational rise to fame, his tragic demise, and struggle with drug addiction in feature-length film ‘Fame and Fortune’.

He will be a co-writer and co-producer of the film, reports Contactmusic.

According to Daily Variety, he has signed a deal with Toronto-based film company RLF Victor Productions in this regard.

West was employed by Presley from 1960 until 1976, one year prior to the star’s tragic death after suffering a heart attack. (ANI)

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Rolling Stones’ banned controversial docu leaked online

August 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, August 21 (ANI): A controversial documentary based on the Rolling Stones while they were touring the US in 1972 has found its way to the Internet.

The veteran rockers put a ban on ‘Cocksucker Blues’ over its content, including rock and roll antics, such as footage showing the musicians taking drugs.

The group placed a court order on the documentary, stating it could hit the screens legally only in the presence of its director photographer Robert Frank, reports Contactmusic.

But the eye-popping film emerged on FlavorWire.com’s blog on August 19.

Referring to the footage, guitarist Keith Richards once said: “If anyone in America saw it, we’d never be let in the country again.” (ANI)

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Bob Houghton confinement of Indian team faring well in Nehru Cup

August 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Aug 14(ANI): Bob Houghton, chief coach of Indian football team, on Friday exuded confidence at the team and denied that players were under any sort of pressure prior to the Nehru Cup 2009.

Houghton said this while addressing a press conference in New Delhi on Friday.

India will be the defending the title that it won in the last edition of Nehru Cup held in 2007.

The Nehru Cup is scheduled to kick-off on August 19 at the Ambedkar Stadium in the national capital when hosts India will take on Lebanon.

Houghton said that India is well in contention to win the Nehru cup as India is on a roll of winning international competitions.

“I don’t think it is adding pressure to the boys. I think it’s nice feeling for them to come to a tournament where they are regarded by all the other countries that are taking part here to be the team to beat. And that’s because we won that thing two years ago and then we won the challenge last year,” said Houghton.

“It has changed people’s opinion about us. And all these countries coming here they will be concerned about the games against India thinking India is the team to beat and that’s a very comfortable position to be in,” he added.

He further said that the players are not taking any of the opponents lightly and it is important that India starts the Nehru Cup campaign with a victory.

Indian football team returned from their tour to Spain last week, where they played practice matches against Tercera Division sides.

Houghton also stressed on the need to allow players recuperate from injuries before allowing them to play in matches.

“Finally, players don’t return to playing national leagues until they are absolutely fit irrespective of the importance of the upcoming games. And this is something we will do with (Sunil) Chettri. I don’t think there is no way we will play (Sunil) Chettri if we thought there was any doubt about his fitness,” he said. (ANI)

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Scientists create material that can repel hot water

July 16, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 16 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, scientists from University of Minnesota in St Paul have developed a new material that can repel hot water.

The new discovery could help protect vulnerable members of the population such as elderly, children, physically impaired people from hot-water burns.

Scientists have long been working on producing water-repelling materials inspired by natural surfaces, such as lotus leaves.

These leaves have waxy hydrophobic – water hating – coating and a spiky surface texture that helps to trap small pockets of air beneath water droplets.

During the study, Yuyang Liu along with colleagues from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, reviewed studies suggesting carbon nanotubes are powerfully hydrophobic in their search for a material that can repel hot water as well as cold, and found that they seem indifferent to temperature.

To further improve resistance to hot water, the team added carbon nanotubes to Teflon – a substance commonly used as a non-stick coating on cookware.

The researchers later dipped a cotton fabric into the mix.

They found that the material is able to repel hot water, milk, coffee and tea at 75 degree Celsius – a sufficient temperature to cause scalding – without problems.

Moreover, the hot droplets retain a near spherical shape and roll off the material.

However, Liu insists that Teflon coating alone is not so effective. He said that carbon nanotubes create a dimpled surface texture on a nanoscopic scale – small enough to trap air even under drops of hot liquid and prevent droplet impalement on the surface.

Philippe Brunet at the Mechanics Laboratory of Lille, France, thinks the work is promising.

“It has been claimed that a dense carpet of nanowires, coated with ad-hoc chemistry, should have a very high robustness to impalement but he doesn’t think anyone has tested such materials against hot water before,” New Scientist quoted him as saying.

The study appears in Journal of Materials Chemistry. (ANI)

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Robotic grasshopper to help explore Mars’ rocky geography

July 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 6 (ANI): Scientists have come up with the first robotic grasshopper based on the spring mechanism the insect has to propel itself, which may help explore Mars’ rocky terrain.

The Jollbot was masterminded by Rhodri Armour, who spent a year building the robot with colleagues at the University of Bath.

The robot, which can jump and roll, enjoys an edge over other machines due to its ability to launch itself over obstacles.

The remote-controlled Jollbot runs on a motor connected to a battery pack and a series of springs around the circumference, which help it leap up to half a metre.

Weighing only one kilogram, it has been made from soft plastic, and borrows dynamics from insects when it bounces on landing.

Armour said: “I was inspired by the way insects like the grasshopper jump around in extremely rough environments. Even with their comparatively long legs, an insect’s small size limits the possibility of using its muscles to directly provide the contraction needed for take-off.”

The researcher added: “That means all insects and smaller jumping animals use some sort of spring mechanism to store muscle energy and release it when required. It’s a bit like a mechanical catapult – with a lengthy energy storage phase and rapid release.”

The boffin further revealed that the project was meant to be low-cost, adding: “Jollbot was always intended to be inexpensive and as such many could be sent on exploratory missions in place of a single conventional robot. This would allow for some of them to fail.”

Dr David Williams, director general of the British National Space Centre, said that the University of Bath’s research helped boost homegrown innovation in space exploration.

He added: “We wish the project all the best.” (ANI)

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Shiv Sena protests vegetable price rise in Mumbai

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Mumbai, July 4 (ANI): Shiv Sena activists staged a protest here against the rise of vegetable on Friday.

They alleged that the rise in fuel prices had had a cascading effect on the prices of vegetables and other essential commodities.

Raising slogans against the price hike, they demanded that the government roll back the fuel price hike.

“Two months back the prices of coriander leaves were Rupees 35 but now it has shot up to Rupees 70. It is an essential material for cooking material making it difficult for us to buy. This price hike is because of the Congress government and in future if the prices don’t come down then along with the locals we will stage further such protests,” said Kishori, Shiv Sena activist.

“The prices of potatoes and onions were around Rupees eight but now it has gone up to Rupees 16. How can we afford buying vegetables at such a high rate?” said Mahananda, a local.

Despite price increase, oil firms are likely to suffer a revenue loss of 560 billion rupees this fiscal. (ANI)

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New Harry Potter film is all about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll: Director

July 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 03(ANI): ‘Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince director’ David Yates has revealed that the new film is all about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.

“It’s all about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Okay, maybe we should take the ‘drugs’ out. Really, this film is more sex, potions and rock n’ roll; but there are all these wonderful things in our story,” the Telegraph quoted him as saying.

The sixth film from the wizard franchise and the second under David’s direction will also see several of the young characters caught in a tangled web of love interests.

Daniel Radcliffe who plays Harry Potter will find himself drawn to Ginny, while Emma Watson as Hermione Granger will be jealous of Lavender Brown who casts her spell on Ron Weasley, played by Rupert Grint.

The new installment is also expected to be action packed; the movie is expected to open with a set piece that brings a major London landmark crashing down.

Many new villainous characters will also be introduced for the first time such as the werewolf Fenrir Greyback, and the zombie-like Inferi.

The helmer is happy about how adaptation of JK Rowling’s book offers the opportunity to explore more as a filmmaker.

He said: “Because it’s Harry Potter and because of the fan base, I think there’s a higher tolerance for what we can present to the audience.

“The viewers know the world and they’ve read about these things and they’ve experienced it on the page. Hence, we are able to do a little bit more than maybe other films can.”

The film will release on July 15th but Yates has already started filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2, the final chapters in the series. (ANI)

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Roller-skating catches the fancy of Kolkata kids

June 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kolkata, June 29 (ANI): Roller-skating is rapidly catching the fancy of youngsters in Kolkata.

With the Roller Skating Club now has 500 registered members. It was started up in 2001.

“It is absolutely an aerobic sport. So, because it is an aerobic sport, it helps you in endurance and stamina. Secondly you are dealing mostly with your leg. So, for that all the leg muscles get benefited. The body gets toned and total physical fitness of your body comes up,” said Akash Mondal, the founder of the Roller Skating Club.

The basic level of the training includes confidence building, balance, walking, falling and recovering, E brakes and cross over basics. While, the intermediate level includes stamina building, road skating, hand synchronization and bending styles.

The basic course is taught indoors, the intermediate and advanced levels are trained outdoors. While at the advanced level the skaters go through increased road sessions, speed training, circuit training, competition training, down hill, figure skating, full camel, straight spread eagle, barrel roll and spins.

“It (skating) has lot of benefits because it is completely a body building sport. There is no need for any other kind of exercises because skating makes the body completely fit,” said Lipika Biswas, an advance learner.

Skaters use different types of skates, varying from Quads which have four wheels in the four corners, In lines or blades, which have four to five wheels in one straight line. (ANI)

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Coming soon: Woodstock, the book

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, June 19 (ANI): Veteran rock deejay Pete Fornatale has penned a book on Woodstock Festival 40 years after the legendary rockfest shook fans all over the world.

Fornatale attempts to segregate fiction from “400,000 versions of the truth” in his Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock.

But the disc spinner, however, said a definitive book on the music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, could probably never be inked.

“Woodstock is an elephant. Perhaps even a big pink one, depending on what you were ingesting back then,” the New York Post quoted him as saying.

Thirty-two of the best-known musicians of the day appeared for the festival held from August 15 to August 18 in 1969 in front of nearly half a million concertgoers.

Other than being widely regarded as one of the greatest moments in popular music history, it was listed on Rolling Stone’s 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.

The event has previously been captured in a successful 1970 documentary movie, Woodstock, and Joni Mitchell’s song Woodstock. (ANI)

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‘We will destroy Manchester United, warns Barca’s Messi

May 27, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 27 (ANI): Barcelona and Argentine superstar Lionel Messi has warned that Manchester United face a humiliating roll over in Wednesday night’s Champions League final in Rome.

Predicting that Barca would see the face-off as a revenge outing for last year’s semi-final loss, Messi said that the Catalan giants were now better prepared and that Manchester United would not be able to repeat its 2008 heroics.

Messi told SunSport: “I don’t think Manchester will play like that again. They have players to play football and will be a bit more open. We’re the best team in Europe in an open game and this will give us the advantage. If they come out to play it will be a beautiful game – and I hope it will benefit us.”

“I remember last year’s semi-final. They were two evenly-matched games, very tight. The tie was decided by the great goal they scored.”

Back on May 2, Barcelona thumped Real Madrid 6-2 at the Bernabeu in La Liga’s title sealer.For Messi, that game proved any team, however great, which attacks Barca does so at their peril.

In this season’s dramatic Champions League semi-final against the Catalan giants, Chelsea spent practically 180 minutes camped inside their own half with Barcelona frantically trying to find a breakthrough.

Messi added: “The game in Madrid shows why Chelsea did what they did – sit back and try not to leave any spaces for us to play our football.

“For that reason, I say that for us it’s an advantage when a team plays football and tries to match Barcelona as equals. Manchester can be that team with the players they have.”

Messi said: “I was very frustrated and angry after last year’s semi-final loss to United. I was so sad we couldn’t make the final after coming so close. But the way we’ve turned things around this season gives us more desire and hunger to beat them this time. I’m very confident we’ll win.” (ANI)

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Meghalaya celebrates Elvis Presley 75th anniversary

May 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Shillong (Meghalaya), May 15 (ANI): To mark the 75th birth anniversary of Elvis Presley, the legendary figure in the history of rock and rolls, recently a concert was organized by his fans in Meghalaya.

The Elvis Presley fan club in Shillong has over 10 members.

Although Presley’s birthday falls on January 8th, the fans performed the evergreen Elvis hit number on stage to revive the old glory of the rock star among the Elvis fans and people in the city.

Another objective of the concert was to aid a voluntary project, ‘CHILDLINE’, as a part of extending support to the organization for the welfare of children in distress.

Donboklang Dohling, member of the fan club feels glad with the present turnout and expects a huge response to such Presley concerts in future.

” I am glad with the turnout we are getting. So we hope that the interest will grow again like it was earlier. I do hope for a bigger response. Of course this is our first show, which our club is doing. We will try to make our show grander in future,” said Donboklang Dohling, fan and mimicry artist of Elvis Presley.

The concert also attracted several international Elvis fans that were cheering among the crowd.

” When I heard of the concert of Elvis Presley here, I directly flew here to look at the concert because I am like a fan of Elvis Presley,” said Mutita Soontornvipat, an audience from Thailand.

Elvis Presley may have died 32 years ago but there are music lovers in Shillong who can sing like him with a voice and music that is more or less like the ‘King of Rock and Roll’. Shillong is also home to the Elvis Presley imitators. By Hempi D. Henpilen (ANI)

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Yoko Ono holds back tears at press unveiling of Lennon’s NY exhibition

May 12, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 12 (ANI): John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono kept her tears from pouring while speaking about a forthcoming New York exhibition in honour of the late Beatle.

The exhibition, entitled John Lennon: The New York City Years, will feature the singer’s personal possessions public for the first time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex.

Items like guitars, a posthumous Grammy Award, and the star’s iconic New York City T-shirt are set to go on public display.

And Ono, who held herself together while discussing Lennon’s love for the city in which he was murdered, continues to get upset when the tragedy is mentioned.

“It (the bag) was hard to include. And I thought it might be criticised as well,” Contactmusic quoted her as saying.

“I know it’s a kind of a sad and very poignant kind of paradox that he loved this place so much and this is where he was killed. I still get affected by it. If it (his death) was a slow a process we could have talked about it or something,” she said. (ANI)

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‘Free will’ spot found in brain

May 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 8 (ANI): Researchers in France have identified the place where free will resides.

Lead scientist Angela Sirigu, a neuroscientist at the CNRS Cognitive Neuroscience Centre in Bron, say that the place lies towards the back of the brain called the parietal cortex.

The finding was made when a neurosurgeon electrically jolted this region in patients undergoing surgery, they felt a desire to wiggle their finger, roll their tongue or move a limb.

Stronger electrical pulses convinced patients they had actually performed these movements, although their bodies remained motionless, reports New Scientist.

“What it tells us is there are specific brain regions that are involved in the consciousness of your movement,” says Sirigu.

Sirigu’s team, including neurosurgeon Carmine Mottolese, performed the experiments on seven patients undergoing brain surgery to remove tumours.

In all but one case, the cancers were located far from the parietal cortex and other areas that Mottolese stimulated.

The team’s work points to two brain areas involved in the decision to move a limb and then execute the action.

Sirigu believes that the parietal cortex makes predictions about future movements and sends instructions to another brain area, the premotor cortex, which returns the outcome of the movement to the parietal cortex.

The study has been published in the journal Science. (ANI)

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Why Lennon and Ono weren’t deported for anti-war activities

May 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, May 6 (ANI): John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono managed to escape deportation by the Nixon White House for their anti-war activities, thanks to some high-powered New Yorkers.

Previously unseen letters penned by then-Mayor John Lindsay, Dick Clark, Rep. Bella Abzug and Joan Baez explain the circumstances.

“It is possible for one to disagree with their personal and public way of life. Their cultural contributions cannot be ignored,” the New York Post quoted Clark as saying in one of the letters.

Lindsay dubbed efforts to boot the couple “unusual and harsh” and “an attempt to silence constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of free speech.”

The letters will go on display an exhibition, entitled ‘John Lennon: The New York City Years’ at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex later this month. (ANI)

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US must take steps to pull out nukes from Pak : Ex-US envoy to UN

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New York, May 3 (ANI): Worried about the expanding writ of the Taliban in Pakistan, a former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, has said the Obama administration must seriously consider pulling out as many nuclear weapons as possible from Pakistan.

Bolton said such a step would certainly allay fears about the consequences of the Pakistan government caving to the Taliban.

He urged Obama to push for the issue during trilateral talks with Pakistan and Afghanistan next week.

“President Obama’s talks next week in Washington with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan provide a clear opportunity to take the hard steps necessary to secure Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal and defeat the Taliban,” The Nation quoted Bolton, as saying.

Bolton emphasized the need of greater US assistance to both Pakistan and Afghanistan to counter the ever advancing extremists.

“We must strengthen pro-American elements in Pakistan’s military so they can purge dangerous Islamicists from their ranks, roll back Taliban advances and, together with our increased efforts in Afghanistan, decisively defeat the militants on either side of the border,” he added.

Bolton also highlighted the need to reduce the heightened tension between India and Pakistan, and pressurize Pakistan to put the disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan back under house arrest.

“We must strive to keep Indo-Pakistani relations stable, if not friendly, and pressure Islamabad to put nuclear-weapons proliferator and father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme Abdul Qadeer Khan back under house arrest,” he said. (ANI)

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New Pension Scheme launched in India for all citizens

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, May 1 (ANI): The New Pension Scheme (NPS) has been launched on ‘Labour Day’ on Friday for all the citizens.

This followed the confirmation by the National Interim Pension Regulator of the scheduled launch of the Mega Pension Plan from Friday.

According to the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA), the necessary infrastructure for the roll out of the NPS is now ready and it will be available to all the citizens.

Under this scheme, the Central Government employees who joined on or after January 1, 2004 are also covered under this.

Besides the government employees, bank branches and post offices will be used to collect contributions for all the citizens.

Six pension fund managers will plan schemes and manage funds.

A central record-keeping agency has also been appointed.

All these institutions will be regulated by an independent regulator, the PFRDA. (ANI)

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New York exhibition to honor John Lennon

May 3, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 1 (ANI): Late musician John Lennon will be honored with an exhibition in New York.

The exhibition titled the ‘John Lennon: The New York City Years’ will include Instruments and handwritten lyrics belonging to the former Beatle mate, reports Contactmusic.

The incredible items belonging to Lennon will go on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in the Big Apple later this month.

The exhibition will also include personal photographs and a self-portrait of the late celebrity.

A fraction of the proceeds from the exhibition will go towards Spirit Foundations, a charitable organization created by Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono. (ANI)

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Symonds determined to help Australia regain top spot in ODIs

April 26, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, Apr 26 (ANI): Troubled Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds is determined to make up for lost time and help his team regain their standing atop the world in one-day cricket.

With Symonds out of the side during Australia’s period of struggle, which has resulted in them slipping to No.3 in the one-day rankings, he is desperate to help the side regain the No.1 spot.

“When the team was losing, it’s very frustrating to sit and watch, you feel very helpless. Obviously now we’ve had a win and hopefully we can start getting a bit of a roll on from here,” The Herald Sun quoted Symonds, as saying.

“We’ve spoken about the amount of games we’ve failed to win in the last little bit, so hopefully from here we can continue to improve. We’ve got things we can work on but (Friday night) was not a bad effort from us,” he added.

Symonds can afford to broaden his perspective after reviving his future career prospects with his man-of-the-match performance on Friday.

It was just his second one-day international since July last year, after being twice stood down from the national team for disciplinary reasons, as well as having knee surgery.

“It’s a very important tour for me personally, I’ve got to do well I think. But more importantly, it’s important for the team to do well. We haven’t probably achieved as a team what we’d like to have in the last little bit, so it’s very important for everyone,” he said. (ANI)

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New guidance on global malaria elimination released

April 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Health experts from around the world have launched new guidance for countries and policy leaders on how and when to eliminate malaria.

The announcement would pave the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease.

The Malaria Elimination Group, a global body of researchers, policy experts and country program managers, by the Global Health Group of UCSF Global Health Sciences, is behind the launch of new guidelines.

“The international community has provided relatively little guidance to countries on elimination to date. The documents published today are intended to change that,” said Sir Richard Feachem, KBE, DSc(Med), PhD, director of the Global Health Group, and chair of the Malaria Elimination Group.

He added: “Much of the world’s attention has rightly focused on controlling malaria and reducing deaths caused by the disease. However, 39 countries around the world have embarked on the next step of elimination in the pursuit of eventual global eradication. They deserve our full support and encouragement.”

Feachem will officially announce the release of two publications, ‘Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Prospectus on Malaria Elimination’, and its companion, ‘Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Guide on Malaria Elimination for Policy Makers’, during a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, jointly sponsored with the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership to commemorate World Malaria Day 2009.

The Prospectus would help those working on the front lines of malaria control and elimination and reviews the operational, technical and financial decisions that should be considered for an elimination program.

The Guide is a policy digest of the Prospectus, intended for leaders and policy makers.

“The Malaria Elimination Group has made a valuable contribution at a crucial moment, by providing countries, policy makers and investors the information they need to make informed decisions about investment in malaria elimination,” said Raymond G. Chambers, the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Malaria.

He added: “We applaud the success of the countries that are pursuing elimination today, and all those countries in Africa that are working hard to achieve the Secretary General’s goal of universal coverage of preventive and treatment measures by the end of 2010.

“The international community must work together to ensure that all of these countries have the political and financial support to sustain implementation and achieve their goals. (ANI)

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