Washington, November 16 : A professor of political science at Saint Joseph''s University in Philadelphia says that there has been a significant shift from party-centred voting to candidate-centred voting of late.

“This is a turning point. What we have is no longer party-centered voting. We’ve entered the era of ‘candidate-centered’ politics. Most voters aren’t strong Democrats or strong Republicans anymore. Party is important, but it keeps getting less and less important,” says Dr. Graham Lee.

“This year’s election was all about selling the candidate, especially to people who had no dominant party affiliation,” he added.

According to him, the days of straight-ticket voting are gone, except for isolated groups.

Friday release - 'Dostana' - is a path-breaking Bollywood film of sorts, considering the number of times the word 'gay' has been used in one film. The film, a barrel of non-stop laughs, features the usual concoction of romance, snazzy designer wear, exotic locales and foot-tapping numbers.

The cast of the film comprises actors like Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, John Abraham, Kirron Kher, and Bobby Deol. It is for the first time Bollywood's leading men are even pretending to be homosexual in the film.

As per the Calcutta High Court order, criminal proceedings will be initiated against six BCCI officials - including the president, Shashank Manohar, and former president Sharad Pawar - for filing a false affidavit, in a case of alleged perjury involving Jagmohan Dalmiya's expulsion from the Indian board.

The remaining four Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials include Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty; former secretary Niranjan Shah; Secretary N Srinivasan; and junior Cricket Committee Chairman Chirayu Amin.

Washington, November 16 : A software programme developed by Stanford artificial intelligence researchers can make it easy to edit videos and add various items in it with such an accuracy that they seem to be part of the footage right from the beginning.

The researchers say that their software does not past a picture on top of the existing video, but embeds in it. It even allows a user to play a video on a wall inside a video.

According to them, the software can reduce the cost of performing some of the tricks that presently involve expensive commercial editing systems.

Following the news of Maharashtra government's 60-day ban of Kamal Khan's film, 'Deshdrohi' - under Section 6 of the Bombay Cinema Regulation Act, 1963 - Jharkhand's Lok Janshakti Party(LJP) activists protested against the ban.

This controversial film, which is directed by Jagdish Sharma, features the film's producer and Bhojpuri actor Kamaal Khan, and other actors like Gracy Singh, Kim Sharma, Aman Verma, Ranjit, Kader Khan, Raza Mura and Manoj Tiwari.

Washington, November 16 : Researchers in the United States and at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have moved a step further towards building a usable quantum computer by finding a way to extend the quantum lifetime of electrons by over 5,000 per cent.

Writing about their work in Physical Review Letters, the researchers highlight the fact that electrons exhibit a property called “spin”, and work like tiny magnets that can point up, down or a quantum superposition of both.