After mesmerizing Indian viewers, Ashutosh Gowariker-directed historic genre ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ has won laurels enthralling judges and audiences at BAFTA awards in London.

Ash and Hrithik starrer ‘Jodhaa Akbar’ has been nominated in the Best Foreign film category of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards in London.

Due to the TV workers’ strike and terror attacks in Mumbai, the Hindi general entertainment channels (GECs) had been hit badly.

As a result, channels saw an average fall by 35-55% in prime time viewership.

After the controversial strike finally called off, the ratings started rising gradually, and this time the commencing of new shows add much to the ‘TRPs’ than fresh episodes of existing shows for major GECs.

According to the new edition of the World Cancer Report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, due to rapid increase in cancer cases, cancer will soon replace heart disease as the leading cause of deaths worldwide. Report added that low- and middle-income countries will experience the impact of higher cancer incidence and death rates more sharply than industrialized countries.

Recent research has shown that presence of a specific gene can be linked to urge to eat high-calorie foods. Researchers found that children with a common variation of the gene ate 100 extra calories per meal.

A recent research has shown connection between gene mutation and the most common eye cancer. Research team led by Catherine Van Raamsdonk, an assistant professor of medical genetics at the University of British Columbia has discovered a genetic mutation in a gene called GNAQ that could be responsible for up to 45 per cent cases of uveal melanoma.

Uveal melanoma is caused by unregulated growth of melanocytes which are also found in the skin and are cells linked to a life-threatening form of skin cancer. Researchers found that GNAQ regulates melanocyte survival.