The world's biggest social networking site has launched a website for slow or poor internet.The new version of the site appears to be much cleaner and simpler. It appears, at a quick glance, to be a better site for Facebook newbies or for anyone who finds the current site overwhelming or noisy. It also pushes the old-school Facebook apps off a cliff, which is just as well for the newest Facebook-connected services.
The latest buzz about troubled singer Amy Winehouse is that she has been reportedly warned by Michael Jackson's ghost to quit her drug addiction soon. Earlier, many of her friends including her ex-hubby Blake Fielder-Civil had advised her to quit the habit, but all was in vain. In fact, the singer had exiled herself in the Caribbean that prompted her to really kick the habit.
It is said that the 'Back to Black' singer was visited by mediums during her stay on the Caribbean island of St Lucia. "Amy Winehouse heard Michael Jackson's voice telling her if she didn't sort herself out, she'd lose everything," People quoted a friend of Amy saying.
This is really a Good advice from the spirit of King of Pop. Winehouse has been a great Michael Jackson fan. Once she had said, “I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him. I don’t care what people say because he’s a f**king genius.”
Amy Winehouse's pal said that they might have been telling her that for years, but it's finally taken a ghost to make her listen. They also said that she has been great MJ fan she will definitely try to sort herself out of drug addiction. News Credit : Oneindia.in
Less than a week to her televised swayamvar an FIR has been filed against television
drama queen Rakhi Sawant and five others. A local court in Jaipur ordered filing of case of forgery and violation of Copyright Act against them. The list of accused include the executive director of the show, actor Ravi Kishen and Gaurav Gandhi, the managing director of NDTV Imagine and two others for their participation in the show.
The Judicial Magistrate in Jaipur ordered the filing of the FIR over the use of the word Swayamvar in her show Rakhi Ka Swayamvar. The complaint was filed by Gaurav Tiwari who owns the portal Swayamvar.com Gaurav in his complaint claimed he had the copyright of the script and the word Swayamvar since 2008 and had also shown it to a private channel. He claimed that the scripts was used by NDTV Imagine in the reality show
Rakhi Ka Swayamvar in an unauthorised way.
The show whereby Rakhi would choose her future partner from among 16 contestants was to end on August 2 with the first of its kind televised swayamvar. Rakhi had zeroed in on NRI Gujarati Elesh Parujanwala as her life partner. The producers would not mind the FIR as it will surely boost their TRP ahead just when they want it to be the most. / News : Oneindia.in
NEW DELHI: There was ruckus in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly on Monday with legislators of the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP)
New Delhi, India (CNN) -- India's financial capital of Mumbai was put on a high-tide alert with officalsexpecting a water rise of up to 197 inches (5 meters).
Sea tides are expected to rise 5 metersFriday, 4.9 meters Saturday and 4.7
"We have installed water pumps along the coast and advise the people to avoid beaches," said Jagtab, an official at the disastermanagement control room.
Floodgates may also be closed in case the threat mounts, he added.
High tides are also forecast from August 19 to 23.
Flooding has affected more than 1.5 million people in parts of India, according to the disaster management division of the federal home ministry.
The country's main weather office has warned of heavy rains in western and central parts of India.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other top Indian officals in New Delhi Monday, on a visit aimed cementing a growing U.S.-Indian strategic partnership. Clinton says she believes neighboring Pakistan has been making efforts combat terrorist elements on its soil.
40 years hence... From left, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Major General Michael Collins, pose for a portrait in front of a lunar module device at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington on July 19, 2009.
Forty years ago on July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to descend on the lunar surface. That moon landing in 1969, was the first of just six times that any human being has visited the Earth's nearest celestial neighbour, and it has been more than 30 years since any person has been there. (AP photo)
Flag on the moon: US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin deploy the US flag on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. (AFP file photo)
In the decades since Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first touched the surface of the moon in the Eagle lander, the moment has become one of the iconic images of the 20th century.
And as Armstrong became the first person to step onto the moon, he uttered the following words: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind."
In this file photo, the Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle is seen lifting off with astronauts Neil A Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E Aldrin aboard on July 16, 1969 on the first manned voyage to Moon. During the final summer of 1960s, the voyage of Apollo 11 brought an entire globe together to look up at a full moon and watch. (AFP photo)
This NASA handout picture taken on July 20, 1969 shows one of the first steps taken on the Moon. This is an image of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint from the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon on July 20, 1969. (AFP photo)
This picture taken on July 20, 1969 shows astronaut Edwin E Aldrin Jr, walking on the surface of the moon near the leg of the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity. During the eight-day mission, Neil Armstrong and Aldrin gathered samples of lunar material and deployed scientific experiments before joining Collins for the return trip to Earth. (AFP file photo)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (C) holds flowers presented to her by an unseen Indianoffical after her arrivalat the Chattrapati Shivaji International airport, in Mumbai
On the verge of retirement, government servant Ashok Vichare is the firstcustomers to get his hands on the people's car Nano. It is a reminiscent of the euphoria surrounding the delivery of the first Maruti 800 almost 26 years ago.
The scenario repeated when the crowds watched eagerly as Ratan Tata handed the keys to the first three customers at a Mumbai Tata Motors showroom.
Vichare, a
So, the deliveries have finally begun. The car was first conceived as Ratan Tata's dream in 2003, which was first revealed in January 2008 and was meant for release last year.
Bangalore, July 17 (PTI) : India's ambitious Chandrayaan-I Moon mission might come to a premature end as star sensors on board the spacecraft have failed.
"Star sensors are malfunctioning," S Satish, spokesperson of the Bangalore-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told PTI.
Star sensors played the crucial role of orientation towards the Moon.
ISRO said it has devised innovative technology and is using antenna pointing mechanism and gyroscopes to overcome the problem.
But the space agency is not confident on how long they can hold to this mode.
"We are not sure how long we will be able to sustain it
The life of Chandrayaan-I designed for two years may be reduced," Satish said.
He, however, maintained that the mission is not crippled adding, "it is continuing satisfactorily.".
Chandrayaan-I was launched from the spaceport of Sriharikota in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh on October 22 last year.
MUMBAI: Making his Hollywood debut, Anil Ambani is set to invest around $825 million as a first tranche towards making six films a year for global audiences. In oneof the largest deals in global cinema in recent times, Ambani has teamed up with noted Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg for their Los Angeles-based production house, Dreamworks Studios In a late-evening global conference call from New York, Ambani and Spielberg said the movies produced by Dreamworks would be distributed by Walt Disney globally, while the exclusive rights for India, ‘‘including DTH, DVD and theatre rights'', would rest with Reliance Big Entertainment . Anil Ambani said $325 million would come from his personal contribution, ‘‘$150 million would be chipped in by Disney and the rest would be with banks and institutions.'' ‘‘Clearly, the outlay of $825 million is what we are aiming at in the next three years: $325 million will be in the form of equity,'' Ambani said. Reacting to suggestions that
an investment outlay of over $1.5 billion for Dreamworks was on the cards, Ambani said, ‘‘There is no scaling up or scaling down of investment. We will begin with $825 million and this is the largest in recent times.'' The first DreamWorks motion picture to be released under the Touchstone Pictures banner is scheduled to hit theatres by 2010. Ambani also announced that his associate Amitabh Jhunjhunwala and Spielberg's partner for decades Stacey Snider, who has been associated with projects like ‘Eric Brockovich', ‘The Mummy' and ‘American Pie', would also serve on the Dreamworks board. He added that even though Reliance Big Entertainment was a private enterprise, he was not averse to listing it on the capital markets at an appropriate time. Spielberg said he was looking forward to visiting India to meet up with filmmakers. ‘‘This venture with Reliance opens a new door to our future,'' he said. ‘‘Their visionary step has given us a new set of dreams to work toward.'' Ambani said: ‘‘We are delighted to partner with such talented individuals as Steven Spielberg and Stacey Snider. Ever since we looked at their business plan, I have never doubted that we would succeed in providing them with financial muscle.”
Following is the statement to the media by the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh after the French National Day Parade in Paris:
“I am delighted to be present today at the National Day Celebrations of France. The magnificent parade we have witnessed dramatises the strength and dynamism of this great nation. It was an honour for India to have a contingent representing all three services of our Armed Forces lead the
July 14 is a date important not only for France. The French Revolution marked a defining moment in the world history when the aspirations of the common man began to acquire a central place in political and social life. The ideals of French revolution – liberty, equality and fraternity - helped to inspire our freedom struggle and guided the founding fathers of the Indian constitution. I am grateful to president Sarkozy for giving India a place of honour on this great occasion.
India–France relations and cooperation are growing in strength and vitality in all fields. We have a strategic partnership and have built vibrant political ties, with collaboration in energy, space research, defence, industry and commerce, science and technology, education, culture and tourism. It is my ardent wish that the partnership between our two democracies is further strengthened and deepened in the years to come. This will benefit the people of both our countries.”
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