Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor passes away

 "Shammi Kapoor ji passed away this morning at 5:15 am .. Rushing there now .. the flamboyance and joi de verve of the Industry lost !" This was Amitabh Bachchan's tweet that appeared on his twitter page at around 9am on Sunday. The 79-year-old actor had been admitted to Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai last Sunday. Kapoor had been suffering from chronic renal failure.

Shammi Kapoor 1931-2011

Shammi Kapoor (Shamsher Raj Kapoor) was born on 21 October 1931 in a Punjabi^[2] Khatri family, an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema during the late 1950s and 1960s. He passed away on the morning of August 14th, 2011 at 5.15 AM.

He was given the name Shamsher Raj Kapoor at his birth in Mumbai to film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi was the second of the three sons born to Prithviraj (the other two being Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor), both of whom were, like their father, successful Bollywood actors. Though born in Mumbai, he spent a major portion of his childhood in Kolkata, where his father was involved with New Theatres Studios, acting in films. It was in Kolkata that he did his Montessory and Kindergarten. After coming back to Mumbai, he first went to St. Joseph's Convent (Wadala) and then, to Don Bosco School. Shammi Kapoor finished his schooling from New Era School, at Hughes Road.

Shammi Kapoor was hailed as one of the finest actors that Hindi cinema has ever produced. Extremely versatile as an actor, he was the leading star of Hindi cinema during the late 1950s as well as the 1960s. He debuted in Bollywood in 1953 with the film Jeevan Jyoti, and went on to deliver hits like Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Dil Deke Dekho, Junglee, Dil Tera Diwana, Professor, China Town, Rajkumar, Kashmir Ki Kali, Janwar, Teesri Manzil, An Evening in Paris, Bramhachari, and Andaz and Vidhaata. He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1968 for his performance in Brahmachari and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Vidhaata in 1982.

 

Britain ! You also got wrong...

David O'Neill aged 22 attempts to avoid the waiting media as he runs from City of Westminster Magistrates' Court after he was released on bail, on charges relating to the London riots, August 11, 2011.

REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton

The Britain police admitted they got their riot tactics wrong, the prime minister has said, as he announced measures to help homeowners and businesses.David Cameron told MPs the riots in cities across England were "criminality pure and simple", but there were "far too few police" on the streets.

He announced a crackdown on facemasks and a review of curfews during an emergency recall of Parliament.More than 1,500 arrests have been made since the unrest began on Saturday.

The prime minister earlier chaired a meeting of the government's emergency committee Cobra to discuss the violence with cabinet ministers.

Mr Cameron told MPs that it had become clear there had been problems in the initial police response to the disorder. Former Cabinet minister Sir Malcolm Rifkind also raised concerns that officers were instructed to "stand and observe looting". Mr Cameron told MPs: "There were simply far too few police deployed on to our streets and the tactics they were using weren't working."Police chiefs have been frank with me about why this happened. "Initially the police treated the situation too much as a public order issue - rather than essentially one of crime. "The truth is that the police have been facing a new and unique challenge with different people doing the same thing - basically looting - in different places all at the same time."

The prime minister promised he would do "whatever it takes" to restore order to the streets as he set out a range of measures aimed at helping businesses and homeowners affected by the riots.

They included:

To look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via social media when "we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality"

Plans to look at whether wider powers of curfew and dispersal orders were needed

New powers for police to order people to remove facemasks where criminality is suspected

Courts could be given tougher sentencing powers

Landlords could be given more power to evict criminals from social housing

Plans to extend the system of gang injunctions across the country and build on anti-gang programmes, similar to those in the US

He said the government would meet the cost of "legitimate" compensation claims and the time limit for applying would increase from 14 to 42 days

A £10m Recovery Scheme to provide additional support to councils in making areas "safe, clean and clear"



A new £20m high street support scheme to help affected businesses get back up and running quickly

Plans for the government to meet the immediate costs of emergency accommodation for families made homeless

He said: "This is a time for our country to pull together.



"To the law abiding people who play by the rules, and who are the overwhelming majority in our country, I say: the fightback has begun, we will protect you, if you've had your livelihood and property damaged, we will compensate you. We are on your side.



"And to the lawless minority, the criminals who have taken what they can get, I say this: We will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we will punish you. You will pay for what you have done."

Mr Cameron ruled out bringing in the Army, but added: "It is my responsibility to make sure that every contingency is looked at - including whether there are tasks that the Army could undertake that would free up more police for the front line."

He said a reinforced police presence of 16,000 officers on the streets of London would remain in place over the weekend.

(source...BBC news)

Is the popular theory of origin of life wrong...Khushdeep

Scientists have found components of DNA, the building blocks of life on Earth, in meteorites, a discovery they say confirms the theory that at least some of the materials needed to make early life forms came to our planet from space.

In the NASA-funded study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists used advanced mass spectrometry instruments to scan 11 organic-rich meteorites called carbonaceous chondrites and one ureilite, a very rare meteorite with a different chemical composition.

They found three nucleobases -- purine, 6,8-diaminopurine and 2,6-diaminopurine -- that are widely distributed in carbonaceous chondrites and which are "rare or absent in terrestrial biology," said the researchers.

Scientists have found components of DNA, the building blocks of life on Earth, in meteorites.

The scientists found no significant concentrations of the trio in soil and ice samples near where the meteorites landed, LiveScience reported.



Past research had revealed a range of building blocks of life in meteorites, such as the amino acids that make up proteins. Space rocks just like these may have been a vital source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth.

This was the first time all but two of these meteorites had been analysed for nucleobases, the researchers said.

"People have been finding nucleobases in meteorites for about 50 years now, and have been trying to figure out if they are of biological origin or not," said study co-author Jim Cleaves, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.



"Finding nucleobase compounds not typically found in Earth's biochemistry strongly supports an extraterrestrial origin.



"This shows us that meteorites may have been molecular tool kits, which provided the essential building blocks for life on Earth," Cleaves was quoted as saying to SPACE.com.

The analytical techniques probed the mass and other features of the molecules to identify the presence of extraterrestrial nucleobases and see that they apparently did not come from the surrounding area.

Two of the carbonaceous chondrites contained a diverse array of nucleobases and structurally similar compounds known as nucleobase analogs.



Intriguingly, three of these nucleobase analogs are very rare in Earth biology, and were not found in soil and ice samples from the areas near where the meteorites were collected at the parts-per-billion limits of their detection techniques, the researchers said.



"At the start of this project, it looked like the nucleobases in these meteorites were terrestrial contamination these results were a very big surprise for me," said study co-author Michael Callahan, an astrobiologist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.



Lab experiments showed that chemical reactions of ammonia and cyanide, compounds that are common in space, could generate nucleobases and nucleobase analogs very similar to those found in the carbonaceous chondrites.



However, the relative abundances of these molecules between the experiments and the meteorites differed, which might be due to further chemical and thermal influences from space.

The findings suggest the earliest forms of life on Earth may have been assembled from materials delivered to Earth by meteorites, the researchers added.

(Source...PTI)

India For Corruption...Khushdeep

 

"Bhrashtachar" A Street play

A part of India Against Corruption Campaign.

The Play directed by Arvind Gaur, Performed by Asmita Theatre Group Actors.

Actors-Shilpi Marwaha,Shiv Chauhan,Imran Zahid,Gaurav Mishra,Rahul Khanna,Himanshu Maggu,Palak Bhutani,Vartika Tiwari,Ishwak Singh,Suraj Singh,Himanshu Katara,Anish Kumar Maht...o, Saurabh Pal,Narendra Thakur,Pankaj Shandilya,Aj Parikh,Manoj Yadav,Sachin Saxena,Pradeep Awasthi,Tarun kumar,Punkaj Datta,Amit Dhaiya,Kumar Vaibhav,Renu Kashyap, Abhishek Pandey,Manu Chaudhary,Smita Lal,Aparna Singh,Rahul Sharma,Rohit Vaid,Shivani Sinha,Anamika Singh,Manju Shah, Priyanshu, Jitendra Badana,Amrita Chakraborty,Manish, Prasant,Ankit,Prateek Sharma, Siddharth Tripathi, Harsh Arora,Aditya,Vivek Sharma, Vineet,Praveen Kumar,Payal Tarafdar and other.

Mr Churchill, You were right 64 years back...Khushdeep

WHAT THE BRITISHERS DIDN’T SUCCEED IN DOING, WE ARE EXCELLING IN!!

Sir Winston Churchill wrote 64 years ago: "Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low caliber & men of straw. They will have sweet tongues & silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for power & India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even air & water would be taxed in India." We are indeed an incredible NATION; we have worked very hard and we have indeed proved him right.....

Releasing Shortly Multi Billion $ Small Budget Film

"LOOT LO INDIA"

Producer-Director : IFC (India For Corruption)

Lead Roles : Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, Sharad Pawar

Villian : Indian Public

Supporting cast : B.S.Yediyurrappa,  Ashok Chavan, A Raja , D Maran , Kanimohzi & Kalmadi

Comedy : Lalu Prasad Yadav, Digvijay Singh, Amar Singh, Nitin Gadkari

Financiers : Corporate Houses, Reddy Brothers (Bellary Fame)

Script : Karunanidhi

Inaction : Indian Police,

Stunts; CBI, ED, NIA

PRO : Neera Radia

Noise ; M Tiwari, A Singhvi. Parkash Javdekar, Shahnawaz Hussain, Sanjay Raut

Media Partners : Sun TV, Kalaignar TV

Banking Partners : Hasan Ali, S Balwa

Shot at locales in Switzerland, Cayman Islands , Tihar,

Tickets printed by TELGI

DEAR FRIENDS IF YOU KNOW SOME POLITICAL PERSONS PLEASE REQUEST THEM TO SEE THIS. THEY NEED TO BE CONGRATULATED FOR THE PAINS THEY HAVE TAKEN IN THESE 64 YEARS TO PROVE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL CORRECT

Could Lab-Grown Sperm Help Infertile Men?

Could Lab-Grown Sperm Help Infertile Men?

Meredith Melnick

 In most mammals, it takes more than month to complete the complex, multistage process of making sperm — which is why scientists have had trouble growing sperm cells in the lab. But now Japanese researchers report success, using testicular tissue from baby mice to make sperm in a lab dish and then producing healthy offspring.

With further study into the safety and efficacy of the technique in human cells, it may potentially lead to treatments for some men who suffer from infertility problems. A better understanding of how sperm form could also help improve diagnosis and treatment of male infertility.



Researchers from Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan published their mouse-study findings this week in Nature, noting that they hoped their discovery would eventually be able to help humans. The BBC described the scientists' technique:





Rather than working with individual cells, the team in Japan used fragments of testes. It is like starting with a whole segment of an orange rather than just the juice.

The fragments were then bathed in nutrients and sperm production was maintained for more than two months.The findings suggest that testicular tissue can be frozen and saved for later use — a potential advance that could help preserve fertility in certain patients, such as young boys facing cancer treatment. Adult cancer patients can freeze sperm before starting chemotherapy or radiation, but that isn't an option for boys who haven't entered puberty yet.





Experts caution, however, that while the experimental advance is significant, there needs to be much more research before a similar technique could be used in the clinic. "It is important to be cautious because sometimes species-specific differences in biology means that what works for one species does not work in another," Dr. Allan Pacey, a senior lecturer in andrology at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC.

 (Meredith Melnick is a reporter at TIME)

Answers Brilliant but marks nil...Khushdeep

Brilliant answers for which a student got 0% marks...

Question no 1...In which battle did Tipu Sultan died ?...

Answer...His last one...

Question no 2....How do you stop acid indigestion ?...

Answer...Stop drinking acid...

Question no 3...Where was the declaration of independence was signed ? ..

Answer...At the bottom of the page...

Question no 4...What is the main reason for divorce ?...

Answer...Marriage..

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