Chennai, Nov 4 : South Indian film star Rajnikanth on Monday denied any plans to join politics.

While addressing a gathering of his fans in Chennai, Rajnikanth, who enjoys a huge fan following amongst masses in south India, said he was not ready to take a plunge into politics as of now.

The time has come to say ‘Good Bye’ to television’s long running Saas-Bahu serial ‘Kyunki Saas Bhi Kahi Bahu Thi’, as the Bombay High Court on Monday has dismissed Balaji Telefilms’ appeal against a termination notice served by Star TV.

The final episode of Kyunki… will be aired on Thursday (November 6).

The most popular TV channel Star has decided to annihilate the serial due to a fall in its television rating points (TRPs) between July and September.

Washington, Nov 4 : Computer scientists are going to use the ‘Grid’ for dealing with an unprecedented volume of data to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider 
(LHC) when it is fully up and running, a total of 15 million gigabytes of data every year.

Located in a tunnel complex under the Franco-Swiss border, the LHC is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons with very high kinetic energy.

It circulated its first particle beams on 10 September 2008, but a few days later had to suspend operations due to equipment failure.

Washington, Nov 4: While hip resurfacing is considered to be the modern day alternative for total hip replacement, researchers at Rush University Medical Center have suggested that the procedure is not ideal for everyone - and a patient''s age and gender is the key to the operation''s success.

For the study, the scientists examined data for 537 hip resurfacing surgeries performed in the U. S. using a hip resurfacing device, called the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing implant, recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

They found that the majority of serious complications occurred in women of all ages and men over the age of 55.

Lahore, Nov 4: Former Pakistan cricket captain Aamir Sohail is soon likely to take over as the Chief Selector of the national cricket team, reliable PCB sources have stated.

The current selection committee, under the lead of Saleem Jafar which had the responsibility to select players of Abu Dhabi series, was temporary and would be dissolved after the series against West Indies, The News quoted the sources as saying.

Former captain Aamir Sohail is a strong frontrunner for the post, the sources said and added that he has been offered the post by PCB.

Meanwhile, if he takes up the new job, Sohail would have to bid fare well to commentary assignments.

Washington, Nov 4: A new study by researchers at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, has revealed that brains of individuals with major depressive disorder appear to react more strongly when anticipating pain and also display altered functioning of the neural network that modifies pain sensitivity.

"Chronic pain and depression are common and often overlapping syndromes," the authors said.