New Delhi, Oct 29 : Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil today spoke to Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh following the incident of beating of a youth from Uttar Pradesh to death, in a local train in Mumbai.

Patil spoke to Deshmukh amidst suggestions from the Centre that the state administration should remain cautious and alert to possibilities of attacks on north Indians in the state, in the wake of death of a youth from Bihar in a police shootout on Monday.

Minister of State for Home Shakil Ahmed said that Maharashtra should be extra careful since these are very sensitive times.

London, Oct 29 : A new study has revealed that teenagers are increasingly becoming dull due to their overindulgence in TV watching and computer games.

Researchers at King’s College, London, have found that 14-year-old kids these days are only as bright as the average 12-year-old used to be way back in 1976.

The reason behind the decline in intelligence has been attributed to the fact that children these days spend more time playing video games and watch television, instead of doing practical activities to boost their brains.

However, the findings go against school exam results, which have seen a steady rise in grades across all age groups.

Washington, Oct 29 : Tennis referees are very likely to make mistakes when they call balls "out" than when they call them "in", mainly because of the inherent bias in people perceiving moving objects, according to a new report.

As it turns out, the study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, might just support the recent rule changes allowing professional tennis players to challenge the referees'' calls, thus helping them in exploiting the new findings to their advantage.

Washington, Oct 29 : American boy band ‘Jonas Brothers’ are all set to make their feature-starring debut in “Walter the Farting Dog” at 20th Century Fox.

The movie is based on the best-selling series of books by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray, which is being adapted by Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen into a family film, reports Variety magazine.

The film will revolve around Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas, as well as their younger brother Frankie, and it is a potential directing project for Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who’ll produce with Bradley Thomas through the trio’s Conundrum banner.

London, Oct 29 : American singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley has revealed that she holds talks with her late father, Rock ‘n’ Roll King Elvis Presley.

The 40-year-old holds sessions with a medium, and has even gone so far as to introduce dad Elvis to her newborn twins.

“This was my dad, this was Elvis coming through!” the Daily Star quoted her as saying.

“I would know his energy anywhere and this was him, I have no doubt.

“Not only was it his voice, but I could also feel the exact same love that he gave me when I was a little girl. It was so overwhelming that I started to cry.

Washington, Oct 29 : Online shopping can turn out to be more fun when you can try on new clothes on your own computerised image, all thanks to a new program that creates an accurate computerized image of a person’s body even when the subject is clothed.

Developed by Brown computer scientists, the new technology could be put to use in fashion, film, forensics, sports medicine, and video gaming.

The program can accurately estimate the human body''s shape from digital images or video.

“If you see a person wearing clothing, can the computer figure out what they look like underneath?” asked Michael Black, professor of the computer science at Brown.