New Delhi, Nov 4 : Hundreds of devotees belonging to the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) took out a procession of Hindu deity lord Jagannath in New Delhi on Monday.
The procession or ‘yatra’ was along the lines of the famous traditional “Rath Yatra” (chariot festival) of lord Jagannath, held in Puri District of Orissa every year.
The devotees sang hymns and danced in front of a chariot carrying the limbless wooden images of three deities - lord Jagannath, lord Balabhadra and their sister Subhadra.
According to a new study, violent video games tend to make children more violent in real life. The study, which appears in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, studied children in the U.S. and Japan and reported that children who played a lot of violent video games exhibited more aggressive behavior months later than their peers who did not play. Previous studies on the same lines could not differentiate if violent games made children aggressive or were already violent children more likely to play violent games.
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.