Twenty20 cricket fever has now also hit the US, with an inaugural American Premier League (APL) series set to take place in New York in October this year, the Afrikaans weekly Rapport said here on Sunday. Rapport disclosed that former Proteas Nicky Boje, Andrew Hall and Lance Klusener had already been offered lucrative contracts […]
Dhoni’s elder brother joins BJP
Ranchi (PTI): Team India Captain M S Dhoni’s elder brother Narendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday joined the BJP and pleged to serve the interest of the party and Jharkhand. "L K Advani is my idol and I follow his ideals. I want to serve the party and work for the betterment of the people of […]
Odiya girl Ankita Mohapatra wins Gladrags Megamodel 2009
Odiya girl Ankita Mohapatra brought laurels for the state when she became the first Oriya girl to win the Gladrags Megamodel 2009 contest with elegance on Saturday. The typical family girl Ankita, who immensely believes in God and hard work, is a B.Tech in Electronics and Telecommunications from a city-based engineering college and has been […]
Want to get thin? Eat more
Calorie-burning fat may seem like science fiction, but a study released on Wednesday found that adults have small blobs of metabolism-regulating brown fat previously believed to exist only in babies and children. This "good" fat, researchers said, unlike white fat that makes up most body fat, is active in burning calories and using energy. The […]
Forensic Firm Finds Sensitive Data on eBay Hard Drives
During a study by Kessler International, the computer forensics firm found that 40 percent of hard drives that it purchased in bulk on eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information. The breakdown of data that was discovered is as follows, according to Computerworld: Personal and confidential documents, 36 percent E-mails, 21 percent Photos, 13 percent […]
Shah Rukh gets political
According to the Regional President of the Congress Party, Kripa Shankar Singh, Shah Rukh Khan could well replace Govinda as the Congress candidate for the Mumbai North constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. ”I had invited Shah Rukh to a party function, after which he came closer to the party and if he agrees […]