In a statement circulated to the media by Harris Jayaraj's PRO, Nikhil Murugan has announced the ace music director has parted ways with his director 'friend' Gautham Vasudev Menon. The latest film by the famous twosome, 'Vaaranam Aayiram', will probably be their last one together.

Harris and Gautham made their debut together through the 2001 romantic musical, 'Minnale', which remained the chart buster for many years. They worked together in many films like 'Kakka Kakka', 'Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu' and 'Pachaikkili Muthucharam'.

London, Nov 16 : Boozy Brit women are consuming more than a week''s worth of alcohol units in just one night, according to a new research.

A British government has shown that one woman claims to have drunk 50 units in one night - the equivalent of seven bottles of wine.

And those who start drinking as young as 13 are more likely to become alcoholics, research also reveals.

The study’s author, Valerie McMunn, said girls have a few drinks to boost their confidence on a night out but find it hard to stop.

Washington, Nov 16 : Swedish researchers have shown that violent video games affect boys'' biological systems.

To reach the conclusion, boys were asked to play two different video games at home in the evening.

The boys’ heart rate was registered, among other parameters. It turned out that the heart rate variability was affected to a higher degree when the boys were playing games focusing on violence compared with games without violent features, reports Science Daily.

Differences in heart rate variability were registered both while the boys were playing the games and when they were sleeping that night. The boys themselves did not feel that they had slept poorly after having played violent games.

Beijing  - Twenty people are feared dead after a cave-in at a tunnel under construction for a subway line in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, state media said on Sunday.

Rescuers had recovered three bodies by Sunday morning and held little hope of finding 17 missing construction workers alive, the official Xinhua news agency said.

"There is a slim chance for the survival of trapped workers, because of heavy flooding in the crater," the agency quoted Wang Guangrong, a spokesman for the rescue services, as saying.

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Washington, Nov 16 : A leading researcher has said that shade trees can reduce homeowners’ electricity bills during hot summer months.

According to professor David Laband in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, electricity usage and costs will be 11.4 percent less if a house has just 17.5 percent heavy shade coverage.

This is compared to a house with no shade.

“The keys are heavy foliage and late afternoon shade,” Laband said.

“The savings can be very significant for homeowners. Over the years I had read statements that shade trees reduce electricity consumption, so we wanted to put a dollar amount to it,” the expert added.