Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), Nov. 8 : Activists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will celebrate the 82nd birthday of senior party leader L K Advani by preparing a laddu weighing 82 kilograms.

Advani turned 82 on Saturday.

According to party sources, the laddu will be made from 40 kilograms of sugar, 30 kilograms of groundnut powder and 10 kilograms of dry fruits and ghee or clarified butter.

The four feet high laddu has been kept on the party premises and will be distributed to the public today.

London  - Luiz Felipe Scolari turns 60 on Sunday and is an experienced coach who has won the World Cup, but that doesn't mean he can't be surprised anymore.

The Brazilian coach acknowledged earlier this week that the force and physicality in England's Premier League is bigger than he expected when he took charge at Chelsea in summer.

"Sometimes the games are more physical than I was expecting," Scolari told Sky Sports this week.

"I think I have learnt more than I have taught my players. I have learnt a lot about English football. I am very happy here."

Beijing - A UN-sponsored congress on Saturday urged the integration of traditional medicine into national health care plans, saying patients would benefit from its use alongside modern medicine.

"The knowledge of traditional medicine, treatments and practices should be respected, preserved, promoted and communicated widely and appropriately based on the circumstances in each country," said a joint declaration issued at the end of the World Health Organization Congress on Traditional Medicine.

Beijing - China on Saturday said it would crack down on "fake"
journalists, a category that appears to include many freelance
journalists.

The General Administration of Press and Publications issued a
circular on Friday asking journalists to register for press cards "in
order to prove their legal identities to their interviewees," the
government's official Xinhua news agency said.

The circular was designed to "protect the legal rights of news
organizations and journalists" and to "step up a crackdown on fake
journalists," the agency said.

New Delhi - Five persons were killed and at least three critically injured on Saturday in an explosion at an army waste dump in the northern Indian town of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, news reports said.

A group of waste collectors were sorting out rubbish when the blast occurred, PV Ramashastri, deputy inspector general of police said.

The blast may have been caused by dynamite sticks in the scrap heap, NDTV television reported quoting police sources.

New Delhi  - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday began a three-day visit to the energy-rich Gulf nations of Oman and Qatar for talks on investment, trade and energy.

Federal Petroleum Minister Murli Deora, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi and Planning Comission chief Montek Singh Ahluwalia are accompanying Singh.

In a statement ahead of his visit, Singh said: "The Gulf region is an area of vital importance for India's security and prosperity. We have always enjoyed a very special relationship with countries of the region."