Eat Indian, love Indians: campaign in Australia

Australians are actuality apprenticed to eat Indian aliment in a attack dubbed "Vindaloo Against Violence" to appearance their action to dozens of attacks on Indian students.

Melbourne woman Mia Northrop, who organised the campaign, said she was auspicious bodies all over Australia to booty allotment in the abnormal beef on February 24.

"The abstraction is that you aloof go to your bounded Indian restaurant and aloof banquet on Indian aliment as a way of all-embracing the Indian community," Northrop told bounded radio.

"You can accept this appearance of force that bags of bodies are accomplishing this aforementioned affair at the aforementioned time."

The attacks over the accomplished 18 months, including a baleful cutting of a 21-year-old Indian alum this month, accept artificial ties with India and aching Australia's advantageous adopted apprentice market, its third better consign earner.

Indian media accept labelled the attacks as racist, but badge and the government assert they are absolutely criminal.

Northrop said she was afraid at the acknowledgment "Vindaloo Against Violence" had received, with Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd afterward advance on a Twitter stream. Participants are actuality asked to annals on a website advanced at http://vindalooagainstviolence.wordpress.com/

"We've got bodies from Tennessee and Vancouver and Singapore and Hong Kong adage 'We're activity to do it here'," she said.

Police in New South Wales accompaniment this anniversary arrested three bodies over the annihilation of addition Indian citizen, 25-year-old bake-apple picker Ranjodh Singh, whose partially austere anatomy was begin beside a rural alley in December

Modi has a complaint against Sonia, in Italian

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi had a altercation with Congress admiral Sonia Gandhi during the Lok Sabha elections. The action may resume again.

Modi on Friday had a dig at Gandhi, who is administrator of the cardinal United Progressive Alliance, and said he would address a letter in Italian to draw the Centre's absorption on ascent prices.

"I accept accounting a cardinal of belletrist to the Central Government on the affair of amount rise. I accept accounting belletrist in the accent they can accept advancement them to booty accomplish to do article about the ascent prices of aliment items," Modi said.

"But I anticipate that they accept no affinity for the poor bodies and it seems that they are not accommodating to booty accomplish to ascendancy ascent prices," he said. "Now I charge to address a letter in Italian."

"They (Centre) had organised a affair on the affair of amount rise. But accept now adjourned it adage that they accept some added work. I don't accept what assignment is added important than acclamation the affair of amount rise," Modi said at a accessible assemblage in Patan district.

"Keeping poor bodies athirst in this address will advance to nemesis of the Central government.

"Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had said that if Central government absolution one rupee for poor, alone 10 paise alcove them. By organising such melas I accept approved to break this problem," he said.

Preity Zinta jumps off toilet wall at Delhi airport

Bollywood extra Preity Zinta pulled off a achievement by jumping off the bank of a toilet at the Delhi airport afterwards she got ashore central for added than 10 minutes.

"Spent 10 account ashore in the toilet at the airport...Finally had to ascend the bank and jump over... People were calling out my name," Preity acquaint on her Twitter folio on Tuesday.

The 34-year-old says she acquainted she would die in there, but managed to escape.

"Thought I was activity to die as I am claustrophobic. Pulled a beef in my arm...," she added.

She says her babe attitude helped her appear out of the toilet.

"Being a babe back I was adolescent absolutely helped. Trying to ascend a bank is never easy. Phew! Happy to go home now," she said.

Avatar gets eight BAFTA nominations

Sci-fi extravaganza Avatar, Iraq drama The Hurt Locker and coming-of-age story An Education

earned eight nominations apiece in the race for the British Academy Film Awards, Britain's equivalent of the Oscars.

The three films are up for best picture alongside Up in the Air and Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire.

The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are handed out two weeks before the Academy Awards in Hollywood and considered an important indicator of likely Oscar success.

South African alien thriller District 9 received seven BAFTA nominations, while Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air got six each.

The nominations boost the Oscar hopes of James Cameron's Avatar, an astronomically expensive eco-adventure that has already taken more than $1.6 billion at the global box office. Avatar - Cameron's first narrative feature since the Oscar-sweeping Titanic in 1997 - has already won Golden Globes for best drama and director.

It faces strong competition from two much smaller films: The Hurt Locker, a claustrophobic study of a bomb-disposal team in Iraq, and An Education, the piquant tale of a teenager's sentimental education in 1960s London.

Cameron is competing for best director against his ex-wife, The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow. The other director nominees are Neill Blomkamp for District 9, Lone Scherfig for An Education and Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds.

The best actor race pits George Clooney, for Up in the Air, against The Hurt Locker star Jeremy Renner, Jeff Bridges for Crazy Heart,Colin Firth for A Single Man and Andy Serkis for his portrayal of musician Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.

Meryl Streep received her 13th BAFTA nomination for Julie & Julia. The other best-actress nominees are Carey Mulligan for An Education, Audrey Tautou for Coco Before Chanel, Irish actress Saoirse Ronan for The Lovely Bones and newcomer Gabourey Sidibe for Precious.

Nominees for outstanding British film are An Education; Fish Tank; In the Loop; Moon and Nowhere Boy.

Five films are competing for best foreign-language film - fashion biopic Coco Before Chanel, Pedro Almodovar's lush Broken Embraces, Swedish vampire story Let the Right One In, Jacques Audiard's prison drama A Prophet and Michael Haneke's chilling The White Ribbon.

The British prizes - officially the Orange British Academy Film Awards - will be awarded during a ceremony at London's Royal Opera House on Feb. 21.

Last year, Danny Boyle's underdog picture Slumdog Millionaire won seven BAFTAs, including best film; it went on to win eight Oscars.

Pakistan stars snubbed in IPL auction

World Twenty20 champions Pakistan were larboard abashed afterwards none of their players were active up for the advantageous Indian Premier League candid clash in Tuesday's auction.

With this year's account bargain from $2 actor per aggregation to aloof $750,000, alone 11 of the 66 all-embracing players on action were airtight up.

West Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard and adept New Zealand clip bowler Shane Bond were the better winners as the Mumbai Indians and the Kolkata Knight Riders appropriately acclimated their absolute allocated funds to assurance them for the 2010 season.

But Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi, one of the world's best atomic players in the limited-overs format, bootless to defended a abode forth with teammates highly-rated Mohammad Aamer, Umar Gul and Umar Akmal.

Afridi's administrator abhorrent the Indian government for continuing its long-running tensions with Pakistan.

"I'd heard above-mentioned to the bargain that franchises were actuality brash not to bid for Pakistani players as the players from Pakistan would not be issued with visas by the Indian government, and that is absolutely what has happened," Umar Khan told www.pakpassion.net.

"The Indian Premier League accept been application Afridi's name and pictures to advance the clash and to body up the hype, and he was accepted to be one of the best accepted players amidst the franchises."

Big-hitting all-rounder Afridi was abashed to be larboard out, accepting played for the Deccan Chargers in 2008 but did not affection aftermost year as the aggregation won the title.

"I'm abashed by the blank and, yes, I'm acutely actual aghast as I was absolutely attractive advanced to arena already afresh in the Indian Premier League and testing my abilities adjoin the world's best players and adjoin accompany and colleagues," he said.

"I anticipation I would be best and am actual afraid at the aftereffect of the auction."

Pollard was approved by four teams, with Mumbai branch off Kolkata, the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Chennai Super Kings afterwards authoritative a sealed-envelope final bid.

The 22-year-old Pollard, who has played alone 15 one-dayers and 10 Twenty20 internationals, takes $750,000 as his acquittal while the bearding added money goes to the IPL.

The 34-year-old Bond, who has retired from Test candid to prolong his career, has been accustomed into the IPL bend admitting accepting active up with its adulterine battling Indian Candid League, which has not been staged back 2008.

He went into the bargain with a $100,000 assets bulk tag, but both Kolkata and the Chargers bid the abounding bulk for him.

West Indies fast bowler Kemar Roach went to the Chargers for $720,000 while Delhi Daredevils active South Africa fast bowler Wayne Parnell for $610,000 -- $510,000 added than his assets price.

Former India batsman Mohammad Kaif was awash to the Kings XI Punjab authorization for $250,000 afterwards his arrangement was bought out by the Rajasthan Royals, while Bangalore active England one-day specialist Eoin Morgan for $220,000.

Rajasthan additionally airtight up above Australia batsman Damien Martyn ($100,000) and his accessory Adam Voges ($50,000), while Chennai Super Kings active South Africa's Justin Kemp ($100,000) and Sri Lanka's Thissara Perera ($50,000).

In the alone added sale, Punjab bought South Africa's Yusuf Abdulla for $50,000.

U2 and Jay-Z record song for Haiti

U2, Jay-Z and ambassador Swizz Beatz accept recorded a song calm to accession money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

U2's guitarist The Edge told Irish radio base 2FM the bandage "wrote a song, accomplished and recorded" aftermost anniversary afterwards actuality contacted about the idea.

The Edge, Bono and Jay-Z, forth with Rihanna, are due to arise in London for "a accumulation performance" as allotment of Friday's Hope For Haiti telethon.

George Clooney's two-hour account appearance will be aired on MTV in the UK.

The Edge told 2FM DJ Dave Fanning over the weekend: "Bono got a alarm from a producer, Swizz. He and Jay-Z capital to do article for Haiti.

"So Bono came up with the byword on the buzz and aftermost night we were here, we wrote a song, finished, recorded, and beatific it aback to them.

"So, that ability be the abutting affair you apprehend from us."

'Something amazing'

Swizz Beatz additionally accepted the activity on his Twitter page, saying: "Me, Bono, Hova [Jay-Z's nickname] accept article to say about Haiti. Stay tuned.

"I told you I was alive on article amazing for Haiti. They charge us!"

It is not bright back the distinct will be released, or whether the artists plan to premiere the song during Friday's telethon

Jay-Z has played with the Irish bedrock accumulation before, bustling up for a scattering of dates on aftermost year's 360 tour, and abacus a rap to their hit distinct Sunday Bloody Sunday during the 2009 MTV Europe Awards.

George Clooney is organising the Hope For Haiti event

George Clooney has been organising the Hope For Haiti telethon

Meanwhile, added acts accept been added to the bill for the Haiti telethon including Coldplay, who will

U2, Jay-Z and ambassador Swizz Beatz accept recorded a song calm to accession money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

U2's guitarist The Edge told Irish radio base 2FM the bandage "wrote a song, accomplished and recorded" aftermost anniversary afterwards actuality contacted about the idea.

The Edge, Bono and Jay-Z, forth with Rihanna, are due to arise in London for "a accumulation performance" as allotment of Friday's Hope For Haiti telethon.

George Clooney's two-hour account appearance will be aired on MTV in the UK.

The Edge told 2FM DJ Dave Fanning over the weekend: "Bono got a alarm from a producer, Swizz. He and Jay-Z capital to do article for Haiti.

"So Bono came up with the byword on the buzz and aftermost night we were here, we wrote a song, finished, recorded, and beatific it aback to them.

"So, that ability be the abutting affair you apprehend from us."

'Something amazing'

Swizz Beatz additionally accepted the activity on his Twitter page, saying: "Me, Bono, Hova [Jay-Z's nickname] accept article to say about Haiti. Stay tuned.

"I told you I was alive on article amazing for Haiti. They charge us!"

It is not bright back the distinct will be released, or whether the artists plan to premiere the song during Friday's telethon

Jay-Z has played with the Irish bedrock accumulation before, bustling up for a scattering of dates on aftermost year's 360 tour, and abacus a rap to their hit distinct Sunday Bloody Sunday during the 2009 MTV Europe Awards.

George Clooney is organising the Hope For Haiti event

George Clooney has been organising the Hope For Haiti telethon

Meanwhile, added acts accept been added to the bill for the Haiti telethon including Coldplay, who will comedy at "a London location" alongside Jay-Z.

Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban will arise in Los Angeles while Haitian-born Fugees brilliant Wyclef Jean, Sting, Mary J Blige, Shakira and Bruce Springsteen will be amid performers in New York.

Funds aloft will go to Oxfam America, Red Cross, Unicef, Partners in Health and the Yele Haiti Foundation.

The telethon will be buried alive in the UK from 0100 GMT on Saturday 23 January.

In the US, the telethon is actuality buried alive after commercials on a cardinal of channels including NBC, ABC and CBS

comedy at "a London location" alongside Jay-Z.

Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow and Keith Urban will arise in Los Angeles while Haitian-born Fugees brilliant Wyclef Jean, Sting, Mary J Blige, Shakira and Bruce Springsteen will be amid performers in New York.

Funds aloft will go to Oxfam America, Red Cross, Unicef, Partners in Health and the Yele Haiti Foundation.

The telethon will be buried alive in the UK from 0100 GMT on Saturday 23 January.

In the US, the telethon is actuality buried alive after commercials on a cardinal of channels including NBC, ABC and CBS

Emraan won't kiss Neha Sharma

Not Kiss the Indian beauty. Emraan Hashmi won't kiss his co-star Neha Sharma in his abutting film. The 'privilege' will go to an Australian chick. Mohit Suri's blur Crook: It's Good To Be Bad on ancestral attacks on Indian acceptance in Australia will brilliant four Australian actors, one of them would be a babe that the Indian hero (Emraan Hashmi) will abatement in adulation with in Australia.

There would be an Indian arch lady, Telugu cinema's Neha Sharma. But she wouldn't get to kiss the consecutive ass-kisser hero Emraan Hashmi. The smooching scenes in the calligraphy accept been adored for the Aussie girl. Says Suri, "There will be some kissing in the film. And yes there will be an Australian girl. I can't say any added appropriate now."

The administrator has auditioned a cardinal of Australian actors and will aught in on the final actors shortly. "We alpha cutting in February. When I started researching on the botheration of ancestral attacks in Australia I never anticipation it went so abysmal and far. My blur won't be alone about attacks on Indians or Asians. It will attending at allegory bigotry and racism amid all kinds of people."

The announced accent in the blur would be a hybrid. Says Suri, "The characters will allege Hindi, English and added languages; Indian and foreign, announced by acceptance in Australia." Neha Sharma is the most recent aspirant into Bollywood from the South Indian blur industry

. The babe fabricated her admission in Telugu films with Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi's son Ram Charan Teja in Chirutha.

James Cameron disses Meryl Streep at the Golden Globes

James Cameron's animadversion at the Golden Globes Sunday night were acutely crazypants; the Avatar administrator chose to bear allotment of his accepting accent in "Na'vi." (Apparently, it almost translated to "I see you, my brothers and sisters.” A abrupt shout-out to the designers of the Papyrus chantry may accept been added apt, but we digress...)

But it was what Cameron had to say post-show -- in a accent that he didn't accomplish up for his treehugging 3D blockbuster -- that is actuality accounted about today.

While accomplishing interviews backstage at the Golden Globes, Cameron reportedly bad-mouthed addition winner, Meryl Streep.

And what could the admired extra possibly accept done to irk Cameron? Did she accidentally beating over his beer? Or did he aloof anticipate Julie & Julia was, like, absolutely overrated. According to the Toronto Star, Streep aloof capital to allocution about animation.

As per the Star's account, Streep may accept compared her assignment on Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox to the Avatar cast's motion abduction performances – which the the self-appointed King of the World accounted alike to treason.

"She did a articulation achievement for a day or two," Cameron scoffed to reporters, adage her assignment on Mr. Fox didn't crave the aforementioned complication or concrete dash that was displayed by Avatar's cast.

Ajith-Gautham to work on a police story

Ajith’s is accessible to move on to his battleground (50th) blur with Asal accessible to hit the covering soon. There are letters that he had trusted administrator Gautham Menon this time. And activity by Ajith’s fresh accouterment during the audio barrage of Asal, which had the brilliant in a aggregation cut, speculations rose that it could be a badge story.

Incidentally, Gautham’s badge belief Kaakka Kaakka with Suriya and Vettayaadu Vilayaadu with Kamal Haasan were box appointment hits. Ajith’s accouterment change could be for yet addition Gautham Menon’s badge story? Let’s delay for accepted reports.

Top Tourist Destinations

The World Tourism Organization (WTO) afresh appear their abstracts for the world's top day-tripper destinations for 1998. Below is a annual of the twenty top countries that accustomed tourists for added than one day, forth with the cardinal of visitors for 1998.

1. France - 70,000,000

2. Spain - 47,743,000

3. United States - 47,127,000

4. Italy - 34,829,000

5. United Kingdom - 25,475,000

6. China - 24,000,000

7. Mexico - 19,300,000

8. Poland - 18,820,000

9. Canada - 18,659,000

10. Austria - 17,282,000

11. Germany - 16,504,000

12. Czech Republic - 16,325,000

13. Russia - 15,810,000

14. Hungary - 14,660,000

15. Portugal - 11,800,000

16. Greece - 11,077,000

17. Switzerland - 11,025,00

18. Hong Kong* - 9,600,000

19. Turkey - 9,200,000

20. Thailand - 7,720,000

*Though Hong Kong was advised separately, it is a Special Administrative Region of China.

From the WTO's alluring list, added capacity can be discerned. For example, France receives 11.2% of the world's travelers. Spain, Portugal, and Greece anniversary had ample all-overs in the cardinal of tourists amid 1997 and 1998 (10%, 16%, and 10%, respectively). Hungary suffered a bead of 15% and China's cardinal of tourists decreased by 7.7%.

Countries that abounding bodies generally accessory with travel, were not on the annual of the top twenty. Surprisingly, countries such as Croatia (31st) and South Africa (25th) exhausted Japan (32nd), Australia (33rd), and Brazil (39th). Overall, the top 20 countries annual for 73.6% of all visits worldwide.

'Asal' will accomplish it to the theaters from Feb

The aftermost agenda of 'Asal' shoot is accident in AVM Studio. Looks like a affiliation that appearance Ajith-Sameera and a acme action arrangement is yet to be attempt there.
The aggregation had already attempt a chat arena that comes afore the acme action in Annai Illam recently. On the added hand, sources abutting to makers say that a song which charge be attempt in away is awaiting added than the above.
We beforehand had it that the ‘Asal’ will be hitting the theaters on Republic Day, but now affairs assume to accept changed. As the final agenda of the shoot is not yet completed, 'Asal' will accomplish it to the theaters from Feb aboriginal week, they say.
As 'Asal' that was aiming for a Pongal absolution is actuality adjourned Thala admirers are little disappointed. Luckily, the audio 'Asal' that was appear afresh has appear as a beachcomber of abatement amid them.

Support of indian econony - natural resources

ndia's absolute cultivable breadth is 1,269,219 km² (56.78% of absolute acreage area), which is abbreviating due to connected burden from an ever-growing citizenry and added urbanisation.

India has a absolute baptize apparent breadth of 314,400 km² and receives an boilerplate anniversary condensate of 1,100 mm. Irrigation accounts for 92% of the baptize utilisation, and comprised 380 km² in 1974, and is accepted to acceleration to 1,050 km² by 2025, with the antithesis accounted for by automated and calm consumers. India's civil baptize assets absolute rivers, canals, ponds and lakes and abyssal assets absolute the east and west coasts of the Indian ocean and added gulfs and accolade accommodate application to about 6 actor bodies in the fisheries sector. In 2008, India had the world's third better fishing industry.[1]

India's above mineral assets accommodate Atramentous (third-largest affluence in the world), Iron ore, Manganese, Mica, Bauxite, Titanium ore, Chromite, Natural gas, Diamonds, Petroleum, Limestone and Thorium (world's better forth Kerala's shores). India's oil reserves, begin in Bombay High off the bank of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan and in eastern Assam accommodated 25% of the country's demand.[2][3]

Rising activity appeal accessory with bread-and-butter advance has created a abiding accompaniment of activity crisis in India. India is poor in oil assets and is currently heavily abased on atramentous and adopted oil imports for its activity needs. Though India is affluent in Thorium, but not in Uranium, which it ability get admission to in ablaze of the nuclear accord with US. India is affluent in assertive activity assets which swear cogent approaching abeyant - apple-pie / renewable activity assets like solar, wind, biofuels (jatropha, sugarcane).

Indians are eager to update the amazing facts at bermuda triangle

The Bermuda Triangle, additionally accepted as the Devil's Triangle, is a arena in the western allotment of the North Atlantic Ocean in which a cardinal of aircraft and apparent argosy are declared to accept mysteriously abolished in a address that cannot be explained by animal error, piracy, accessories failure, or accustomed disasters. Popular ability has attributed these disappearances to the paranormal, a abeyance of the laws of physics, or action by exoteric beings.[1]

A abundant anatomy of affidavit reveals, however, that a cogent allocation of the allegedly abstruse incidents accept been inaccurately appear or bizarre by after authors, and abundant official agencies accept declared that the cardinal and attributes of disappearances in the arena is agnate to that in any added breadth of ocean.

3D Bio-Printer: Cell by Cell Printing of Tissues

A first production model 3D Bio-Printer has been developed by Invetech which promises tissues on demand, researchers will be able to create to create complex human organs like liver, kidneys with the help of human cells and artificial Scaffolds. These Bio-Printers will soon be supplied to institutions which are into research of regenerative medicine, with the help of these machines researchers would be able to get tissues on demand, helping them in the process is a intuitive software that will allow them to develop 3D model of tissue construct and printing them later in the form of organs using laser calibrated print heads

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Rajnikanth to launch ASAL audio

Article Result :

It’s official now!!! Superstar Rajnikanth will barrage the audio of Thala’s ‘ASAL’. We were the aboriginal one to accompany the blessed account to all admirers of ‘Ultimate Star’. Now, we would like to affirm that things will appear as mentioned.

The film’s audio will be launched at the abode of ace amateur Sivaji Ganeshan as their sons accept produced it. The absolute casting and aggregation of this blur will be present forth with some of the arch personalities of blur industry.

It’s arresting that Superstar Rajnikanth has been a allotment of this project, appropriate from the alpha by demography allotment in anniversary and every break accompanying to this film.

As in the past, Superstar has been advancement a actual abutting accord with our ‘Thala’ and his blessings would absolutely accompany abundant after-effects for ‘Thala’….

What did Bhavana gain from Ajith?

Bhavana who is allotment of Ajith’s Asal opened up on the actor. Bhavana has declared in a annual that she has learnt a lot from the star.

Speaking beholden of Ajith, Bhavana said that the amateur has advanced ambit of ability starting from books, movies, activity and abounding more. He additionally talks about his wife and babe furthers Bhavana.

The extra captivated that Ajith has helped her accretion a lot of aplomb and she is blessed to accept been associated with him.

It is account a acknowledgment actuality that Bhavana was declared to accept featured in Naan Kadavul adverse Ajith but after the roles were bagged by Pooja and Arya respectively.

Trisha’s New Year resolution

“Ever back I bagged offers from Hindi, bodies accept started authoritative alpine claims that I wouldn’t act in Tamil films anymore. I appetite to prove it amiss in the New Year by acting in south Indian movies too,” says Trisha.

“Chennai is my place. And this is the burghal area my affection is. So there is no catechism of behest conge to Tamil films,” she says and adds: “I bagged Bollywood projects alone because of Tamil and Telugu films.”

The abbreviate beauty, who had afresh active a Tollywood activity with Ravi Teja, says, “I am accessible to act in Tamil movies. At the aforementioned time, I would accord accent to Hindi projects too. Because the acknowledgment is huge in Bollywood.”

The extra is abounding of hopes on her accessible adventure ‘Vinnaithandi Varuvaya’. “It is a bendable adventurous story. I am blessed to assignment with Silambarasan, my acceptable friend, and administrator Goutham Vasudeva Menon.”