Kosi Kalan (Mathura), Aug. 30 : Hundreds of thousands of devotees have converged at the famous Shani Dev temple at Kosi Kalan in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura district on the occasion of “Shani Amavasya” or “Kali Amavas” as it is described by the local villagers.

The significance of this month''s Shani Amavasya increased manifolds for the devotees of the Saturn God due to this day falling on Saturday.

Spread over 20 acre area in Kokilavan Dham, the main Shani Dev temple complex comprises Shani Dev temple, Shri Dev Bihariji temple, Gokulesh Maharaj temple, Giriraj temple, Nav Grah temple, Barkhandi Baba temple.

New Delhi - The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader has "no health problems" and is expected to be released from the hospital in India's western Mumbai city soon, one of his aides said Saturday.

The 73-year-old Nobel peace laureate was admitted at Lilavati hospital in Mumbai on Thursday after complaining of "abdominal discomfort."

Srinagar, Aug 30: Curfew was relaxed in several parts of the Kashmir Valley on Saturday as normal life remained paralysed in response to the continuing shutdown over the Amarnath land transfer issue.

The curfew had been imposed for 14 hours in Kulgam district and for three hours in Budgam district. It was also clamped in Kulgam and Khudwani towns and eight other districts of the Valley, including Srinagar, Anantnag, Pulwama, Baramulla, Kupwara, Bandipora, Ganderbal and Shopian.

In Srinagar, curfew was relaxed in areas falling under 28 police stations of the city for two hours from 11:00 a. m.

Islamabad, Aug. 30: An editorial in a prominent Pakistani daily has said that intelligence agencies in both Pakistan and India are acting as obstacles to people-friendly confidence-building measures initiated since 2004 by the two governments.

According to the editorial in the Daily Times, these so called “agencies” are not yet ready to allow easy travel for the purpose of holding dialogues.

London, Aug. 30 : Every tenth baby born in UK is of Pakistani or Indian descent, according to statistics provided by the Office of National Statistics.

According to The Telegraph, Of the 649,371 babies born in England and Wales in 2005, 8.6 per cent were recorded as Asian or Asian British, and of Pakistani or Indian descent.

The ONS statistics also revealed that over a third of new babies are foreign or from an ethnic minority, a sign of the changing face of Britain.

Washington, August 30: IIT-Bombay scientists have developed an inexpensive web-enabled device that can enable doctors to remotely measure lung function in patients with asthma and other disorders, and to quickly instigate medical attention in an emergency.

Vivek Agarwal, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and his student N. C. S. Ramachandran’s system is an easy to operate spirometer that can be quickly hooked up to an internet connection through built-in web and data encryption software.