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Junglee Music launched the Music for the Punjabi movie `VIRSA' yesterday at Times Music office.

Present at the music launch were actors Arya Babbar and Gulshan Grover, along with Producer and Music Director Jawad Ahmad from Pakistan.

The actors and Jawad were seen happily posing for the shutterbugs and also sharing with the media their wonderful experience while shooting for the songs and also mentioned their favorite tracks in the movie.

British researchers have suggested that true leaders lead at the edges of a crowd, they are not in the middle of the action.

Successful leaders display more decisive behavior, spending less time following others and acting more quickly than others in a group, found a research team at the University of Leeds led by Jolyon Faria, who conducted the study as part of his doctoral dissertation.

U. S. researchers have said that a 15-minute test using gold nano-particles is a quick way to detect melamine, which was found in pet food and dairy products.

Melamine is an industrial substance used in plastics and fertilizers, which is high in nitrogen, and when added to foods can make products appear higher in protein in testing, says Na Li, an assistant professor at the University of Miami.

Researchers in Slovenia have suggested that so-called near-death experiences may be explained by elevated levels of carbon dioxide in the blood.

Zalika Klemenc-Ketis and a team of researchers at the University of Maribor in Slovenia examined 52 cardiac arrest patients, who reported near-death experiences that included life flashing before the eyes, feelings of peace and joy and encounters with mystical entities.

U. S. researchers have said that a test could identify smokers at risk of emphysema.

Computed tomography imaging was used by Eric Hoffman of the University of Iowa and colleagues to measure blood flow patterns in the lungs of 41 study participants, 17 non-smokers and 24 smokers.

All the participants had normal lung function, but 12 of the smokers showed disrupted blood flow.

A U. S. researcher has said that an herbal remedy for anxiety, St. John's wort, has not been proven.

Not only have St. John's wort and other herbs taken for anxiety, such as kava extract and valerian, not been shown to be effective, but there may be safety issues, says Dr. Kimberly Zoberi of Saint Louis University in Missouri.