US drone lands on carrier deck in historic flight

A US Navy drone successfully touches down on the deck of an aircraft carrier in an historic first for robotic flight. Duration: 00:35

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Media wait outside London hospital for Kate

The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to give birth in the coming days or weeks, and the world's media are growing in number outside St Mary's hospital in London where she will be cared for, determined not to miss developments. Duration: 00:31

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No review of decision on gas pricing: Moily

India's decision to raise prices of locally produced gas will not be reviewed, the oil minister said on Thursday, allaying fears that New Delhi may consider a roll-back.

"No question of review of CCEA's (Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs) decision on gas pricing," Veerappa Moily told reporters.

India last month took the unpopular step of approving a gas price rise for the first time in three years, a move which could inject much needed investment in local production, but boost imports of more costly LNG.

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Demand for gas in India far outstrips consumption, but prices have been kept low for strategic industries, deterring investment in the sector. India has few energy resources other than coal and is the world's fourth-biggest importer of fuel.

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Cabinet nods for non-binding conciliation with Vodafone over tax dispute row

New Delhi, June 5 : The union cabinet has approved the start of a conciliation process with Vodafone Group Plc, in a dispute over more than $2 billion in taxes stemming from its 2007 acquisition of mobile phone assets in the country. Addressing a news conference in New Delhi, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday that the cabinet had approved to enter into a 'non-binding' conciliation. On reaching consensus from both the sides, the outcome of the conciliation would be discussed in the Parliament for amending the income tax act of the country. Last year, the Supreme Court of India ruled in Vodafone's favour, saying that the UK telecoms carrier was not liable to pay any tax over the acquisition.

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Aditya Pancholi's son quizzed in Jiah suicide case

Mumbai, June 5: Police questioned Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi's son, Suraj Pancholi in connection with the death of young actress, Jiah Khan. The 25-year-old actress reportedly made her last phone call to Suraj and later was found hanging in her room at an apartment in Mumbai, on Monday night by her mother. Local media reports say that Suraj and Jiah were dating each other. Interacting with reporters, outside Khan's residence, Bollywood director, Mahesh Bhatt, confirmed this relationship. Condemning the Hindi film industry, Bollywood Actor Turned Politician Raza Murad, said that talent is just not sufficient to survive in the tinsel town.

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Raj Kundra being questioned by Delhi police

Raj Kundra, one of the owners of the Rajasthan Royals, is being questioned by the Delhi Police in connection with the betting and spot-fixing scandal that has engulfed Indian cricket.  Mr Kundra is married to Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty.

Three players from the Royals including S Sreesanth are in custody after being accused of deliberately bowling badly in exchange for pay-offs from bookmakers.

All the accused deny any wrongdoing.  Yesterday, Mr Sreesanth was denied bail after the Delhi Police said tough charges would apply against 26 accused under the Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act (MCOCA), which is usually used against crime syndicates.   The police said that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, who reportedly lives in Pakistan, and his associate Chotta Shakeel, controlled the betting, and declared them accused.

he Mumbai and Delhi Police are investigating the Royals and the Chennai Super Kings for alleged involvement in illegal betting in this year's edition of the Indian Premier League or IPL, the country's top domestic competition.

The Chennai franchise is under scrutiny on account of senior management member Gurunath Meiyappan, who was arrested on May 24 for allegedly passing information to bookies and placing bets on the IPL. Mr Meiyappan was released on bail yesterday.  His alleged role forced his father-in-law, N Srinivasan, to step aside as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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Poonam Pandey tweets teaser shot of her look in 'Nasha'

New Delhi, June 05 : Bombshell Poonam Pandey who is all set to make her Bollywood debut with movie 'Nasha', has tweeted a teaser shot of her look in the film for fans. The naughty actress chose the social networking site Twitter as a platform to flaunt her image in public. The picture has her in an off-shoulder dress that liberally leaves space for her buxom bounty. The sultry siren has insisted that movie's poster is just a small trailer to capture the audience's curiosity. She promises much more on June 5 when the film's first look will be officially launched.

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Drinking destroyed me as an actor says Dharmendra

New Delhi, June 05 : Veteran actor Dharmendra, who is busy promoting his upcoming release 'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2', said he now understands the process of filmmaking and takes it seriously. He admitted that his drinking habit in the past destroyed him as an actor but he is now coming to terms with his films. "I don't drink these days. I had destroyed myself as an actor with my drinking habit in the past. I believe in humanity now and have learnt the business of filmmaking. We three worked really hard for this film. We are leaving no stone unturned for the promotions" he said during the promotion of 'Yamla Pagla Deewana 2' in the capital.

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US tourist gang-raped in northern India: police

A US tourist was gang-raped by a truck driver and two accomplices after hitching a ride in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, police said Tuesday. Duration: 01:48

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7th Annual Vijay TV Awards Part 2 - [01-06-2013]

It was the night for the Tamil stars as regional cinema’s most celebrated event, the 7th edition of the Vijay Awards took place hereon Saturday with celebrities namely Kamal Haasan, Vijay, Dhanush, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and A.R. Murugadoss sparkled at the event.

At the grand function the deserving stars were bestowed the prestigious Vijay Awards.

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7th Annual Vijay TV Awards - Part 1 - [ 31-05-2013]

It was the night for the Tamil stars as regional cinema’s most celebrated event, the 7th edition of the Vijay Awards took place hereon Saturday with celebrities namely Kamal Haasan, Vijay, Dhanush, Samantha Ruth Prabhu and A.R. Murugadoss sparkled at the event.

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Salman Khan to release 'Mental' on republic day?

New Delhi, May 31: Buzz is that Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's upcoming movie 'Mental' might get released on 26th January next year. The film has been in news, ever since it was conceptualized. According to a leading daily, the flick's director Sohail Khan and Salman were initially planning to release the movie mid-January, next year. But now they have suddenly changed their plan. From last couple of years Salman was releasing all his films on Eid as it was lucky for him. But this time Sallu is not coming up with any Eid release for reasons best known only to him.

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UP: Cop caught on camera thrashing a woman

Aligarh, May 31 : In yet another instance of violence against women by the Uttar Pradesh police, a female cop was caught on camera thrashing a middle-aged woman. The woman had gone to the police station to question them for keeping his nine-year-old son in the lock-up. Her son is among six minors who have been in the lock-up since Monday on complaints of theft. The mother was not given any information on why was her son arrested and she also alleged that the police was not listening to her. Satyendra Singh, in-charge of Quarsi police station, abused the woman and asked his subordinate lady sub inspector (SI) Sandhya Singh to thrash her when she came asking about his son.

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Samsung launches Galaxy S4 Mini

Samsung has launched the Galaxy S4 Mini, a smaller and cheaper version of its flagship smartphone.

The device has a 4.3in (10.9cm) screen, which is slightly bigger than its predecessor, the S3 Mini.

The company will show off the smartphone at an event next month, but has not yet given a date for when it will go on sale.

The 5in (12.5cm) S4 phone launched in April, and according to Samsung has sold more than 10 million units.

The mini version, the specifications of which were leaked online earlier this week, will need to convince consumers that it is not simply an underpowered phone sold with the help of Samsung's "premium" Galaxy brand.

Driving sales

Last year, the company released the S3 Mini, which was criticised at the time for being much less powerful than its bigger sibling.

"Those hoping Samsung's Galaxy S3 Mini was simply a smaller version of the company's flagship phone may be disappointed," wrote technology news site GigaOM at the time of the S3 Mini's release. "This is for the budget market."

Another site, knowyourmobile.com, said: "Given the competition, [it's] way too expensive for what's on offer."

The S4 Mini has an eight-megapixel camera on its rear, compared with the S4's 13 megapixels. The Mini's 1.7GHz dual core processor is also less powerful than the quad-core chip found in the larger model.

But such hardware downgrades were understandable, said Nick Dillion, mobile analyst for Ovum.

The point of it is to offer some of the bits of flagship device to a user who isn't quite as demanding and doesn't want the latest features and spec.

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"They are shaving off price with the processor and screen and memory and so on - but the experience will be similar."

Samsung said many of the software functions shown off at the S4's glitzy launch earlier this year would be available on the cheaper model.

Experimental

The S4 Mini is the company's latest move in its strategy of offering a smorgasbord of shapes and sizes of its devices to customers - rather than Apple's one-iPhone-per-year approach.

At a recent conference, Apple boss Tim Cook said his company did not want to get "defocused" on having multiple lines, but did not rule out future variants of the iPhone.

"It takes a lot of work, a lot of really detailed work to do a phone right when you manage the hardware, the software and the services around it," Mr Cook said.

"We've chosen to put our energies into getting those right."

At Samsung's event on 20 June, analysts and insiders predict even more products on the Galaxy brand, potentially including a model with optical camera zoom functionality, as well as a waterproof phone.

"They almost make every single permutation of a device as possible, seemingly to test out the market - they've had a certain degree of success with that, especially if you look at the [8in] Galaxy Note.

"That was very much an experiment. It's proved to be a very popular device that has spawned a whole new market segment."

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Radiation poses manned Mars dilemma

Nasa's Curiosity rover has confirmed what everyone has long suspected - that astronauts on a Mars mission would get a big dose of damaging radiation.

The robot counted the number of high-energy space particles striking it on its eight-month journey to the planet.

Based on this data, scientists say a human travelling to and from Mars could well be exposed to a radiation dose that breached current safety limits.

This calculation does not even include time spent on the planet's surface.

When the time devoted to exploring the world is taken into account, the dose rises further still.

This would increase the chances of developing a fatal cancer beyond what is presently deemed acceptable for a career astronaut.

Cary Zeitlin from the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and colleagues report the Curiosity findings in the latest edition o fScience magazine.

They say engineers will have to give careful consideration to the type of shielding that is built into a Mars-bound crew ship. However, they concede that for some of the most damaging radiation particles, there may be little that can be done to shelter the crew other than to get them to Mars and the partial protection of its thin atmosphere and rocky mass as quickly as possible.

At the moment, given existing chemical propulsion technology, Mars transits take months.

"The situation would be greatly improved if we could only get there quite a bit faster," Dr Zeitlin told BBC News.

"It is not just the dose rate that is the problem; it is the number of days that one accumulates that dose that drives the total towards or beyond the career limits. Improved propulsion would really be the ticket if someone could make that work."

New types of propulsion, such as plasma and nuclear thermal rockets, are in development. These could bring the journey time down to a number of weeks.

Curiosity travelled to Mars inside a capsule similar in size to the one now being developed to take astronauts beyond the space station to destinations such as asteroids and even Mars.

For most of its 253-day, 560-million-km journey in 2011/2012, the robot had its Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) instrument switched on inside the cruise vessel, which gave a degree of protection.

RAD counts the numbers of energetic particles - mostly protons - hitting its sensors.

Radiation exposures comparison

• Annual average (all sources, UK) - 2.7mSv


• Whole-body CT scan - 10mSv


• Nuclear power worker (annual, UK) - 20mSv


• 6 months on the space station - 100mSv


• 6 months in deep space - 320mSv

Source: UK HPA / Nasa

The particles of concern fall into two categories - those that are accelerated away from our dynamic Sun; and those that arrive at high velocity from outside of the Solar System.

This latter category originates from exploded stars and the environs of black holes.

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These galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) impart a lot of energy when they strike the human body and will damage DNA in cells. They are also the most difficult to shield against.

Earth's thick atmosphere, its magnetic field and its huge rock bulk provide protection to people living on its surface, but for astronauts in deep space even an aluminium hull 30cm thick is not going to change their exposure to GCRs very much.

The RAD data revealed an average GCR dose equivalent rate of 1.84 milliSieverts (mSv) per day during the rover's cruise to Mars. (The Sievert is a standard measure of the biological impacts of radiation.) This dose rate is about the same as having a full-body CT scan in a hospital every five days or so.

Number reassessment

Dr Zeitlin and his team used this measurement as a guide to work out what an astronaut could expect on a Mars mission, assuming he or she had a similarly shielded spacecraft, travelled at a time when the Sun's activity was broadly the same and completed the journey in just 180 days - Nasa's "design reference" transit time for a manned mission to Mars. They calculated the total dose just for the cruise phases to and from Mars to be 660mSv. The team promises to come back with the additional number from surface exposure once Curiosity has taken more measurements at its landing location on the planet's equator.

But even this 660mSv figure represents a large proportion of the 1,000mSv for career exposure that several space agencies work to keep their astronauts from approaching. Reaching 1,000mSv is associated with a 5% increase in the risk of developing a fatal cancer. There would likely be neurological impairment and eyesight damage as well. Nasa actually works to keep its astronauts below a 3% excess risk.

"If you extrapolate the daily measurements that were made by RAD to a 500-day mission you would incur exposures that would cause most individuals to exceed that 3% limit," explained Dr Eddie Semones, the spaceflight radiation health officer at Nasa's Johnson Space Center, who added that experts were reviewing the restriction.

"Currently, we're looking at that 3% standard and its applicability for exploration-type missions, and those discussions are going forward on how to handle that and what steps need to be taken to protect the crew."

All this should be set against the dangers associated with space travel in general, such as launching on a rocket or trying to land on another planet. It is a dangerous business.

It also needs to be considered in the context of the risks of contracting cancer during a "normal" lifetime on Earth, which is 26% (for a UK citizen).

Complex calculation

The space agencies have quite deliberately set conservative limits for their astronauts but it seems clear they would have to relax their rules somewhat or mitigate the risks in some other way to authorise a Mars mission.

However, the scenario for commercial ventures could be very different. Two initiatives - Inspiration Mars and Mars One - have been announced recently that propose getting people to Mars in the next 10 years using existing technologies.

Privateer astronauts that participate in these projects may regard the extra risks associated with radiation to be an acceptable gamble given the extraordinary prize of walking on the Red Planet.

Dr Kevin Fong is director of the Centre for Space Medicine at University College London, UK, and has written about the dangers associated with space exploration. He said that what Dr Zeitlin and colleagues had done was help remove some of the uncertainty in the risk assessment.

"Radiobiology is actually really tricky because how the body will respond to exposure will depend on many factors, such as whether you're old or young, male or female," he told BBC News.

"What's important about this study is that it characterises the deep space radiation environment for the first time in a vehicle whose shielding is not orders of magnitude different from that which you would expect to put a human crew inside."

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SRK returns home after surgery, thanks fans for prayers

Mumbai, May 30 : Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan got discharged from the hospital after successfully undergoing shoulder injury suffered while doing stunts for his upcoming film. Escorted by a ring of bodyguards Khan wobbled towards his car donning a sling on his right hand, as he waved back at fans cheering from the sidelines of a suburban hospital. Khan thanked the team of doctors who operated on his injury. Popularly called as  King Khan, the actor said that he would soon be back though doctors have advised him to rest for six to eight weeks.

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Salman Khurshid says border issue with China is impasse

Allahabad, May 30: External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said that India's border issue with China is in a stage of impasse due to disagreement over certain differing undue claims by Beijing. Recently both the nations were at loggerheads as Indian and Chinese soldiers faced off 100 metres (330 feet) apart on a plateau near the Karakoram region of Himalayas, where they fought a war 50 years ago, for three weeks until they reached a deal and both sides decided to withdraw. Further Khurshid spoke on the recent deaths of two Indian citizens Chamel Singh and Sarabjit Singh and Sarabjit Singh after being attacked in Pakistani prisons.

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Manisha Koirala to resume her work post cancer treatment

New Delhi, May 30: Manisha Koirala who has successfully battled cancer will return to her work soon with her pending projects. And to start with, she will begin with the shooting of Malayalam film 'Edavapathy' as she returns to the sets early next month. The lady who is playing a key role in this film by Lenin Rajendran had to quit work after being diagnosed with cancer last year. She then went to the US for treatment.

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Filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49

Kolkata: Renowned filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh died at his south Kolkata residence this morning. He was 49.

The National Award winner was suffering from pancreatitis and died of a heart attack at 7.30 am, his family said.

He is credited with many critically acclaimed and National Award-winning films like Dahan, Utsab, Chokher Bali, Raincoat, Dosor, The Last Lear, Shob Charitro, Kalponik and Abohoman. He won the Best Director National Award for Abohoman last year. He has also won many international honours.

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As news of his death spread, many film actors and actresses thronged his residence to pay their last respects.

State Commerce and Industry minister Partha Chatterjee also visited his home this morning.

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ICC withdraws Pak umpire Asad Rauf from Champions Trophy

New Delhi: The ICC on Thursday withdrew Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf from the Champions Trophy, to be played next month, in wake of media reports that he was under investigation by Mumbai Police in the spot fixing case. According to a statement issued by ICC, it took the desicion of the umpire's withdrawal since it believes it was in the best interest of Rauf as well as sports. It is unclear why Rauf is being allegedly probed in the spot-fixing case and the ICC chose not to comment any further on the matter. Rauf is likely to be summoned by Mumbai police for questioning. According to reports, Rauf was in regular touch with Vindu Dara Singh and had received various gifts from the bookies.

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