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A team of South African scientists has claimed that cycling could lead to a third ‘testicle’ for men and one for women.

According to a new report by scientists, they have dubbed a nodule that develops from the friction of rubbing against the bike saddle a ‘testicle’, the Mirror reported.

The study claims that repeated vibration and friction between the lowest pelvis bones, tissue under the bottom’s skin and the hard bike saddles causes the lump.

Emirates Airlines CEO Tim Clark believes that missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 may not have crashed in the Indian Ocean and said that he was ‘totally dissatisfied’ with the investigation.

Clark said in an interview that the investigation so far raises a lot of questions and suspicion, reported Daily Express.

He also believes that someone took control of the plane and maintained it till the end.

Clark said that the missing flight MH370 remains a great aviation mystery and that everyone would keep it at that and move on.

Aiming at restoring biodiversity in Delhi Ridge and reducing pollution level, the city government has started planting several species native to the Aravali range in the northern part of the terrain.

The Northern Ridge, also called the Kamala Nehru Ridge, is part of the vast Delhi Ridge which is an extension of the ancient Aravali hill range in the national capital.

The semi-high speed train that proposes to reduce travelling time between Delhi and Agra to 105 minutes will be named Gatimaan Express and will have LCD TVs installed behind each seat and emergency braking system.

To be flagged off from New Delhi station next month, the train’s name has been chosen because of its capability of running at 160 km per hour speed, the maximum till date in Indian Railways, a senior Railway Ministry official said.

Scientists have revealed that they have identified a set of RNA molecules that are detectable in tissue samples and urine of prostate cancer patients but not in normal healthy individuals.

According to the researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, their study sets the stage for the development of more sensitive and specific noninvasive tests for prostate cancer than those currently available, which could result in fewer unnecessary prostate biopsies with less treatment-related morbidity.

Hrithik Roshan-starrer “Bang Bang”, which has raked in over Rs.4 crore within the first week of its release in Kerala, has become the most successful Hindi film in the state.

A delighted Hrithik thanked audiences for the overwhelming response.

“I’m overwhelmed with the response to my film in Kerala. Thank you showing your love and making my film successful,” Hrithik said in a video, available on online video-sharing platform YouTube.

“‘Bang Bang’ is the most successful Hindi movie in the history in Kerala with a record collection of Rs.4 crore in a week,” read a statement.

DDA has so far issued 2,000 conveyance deeds within the time fixed for the same under the Citizen Charter as part of its drive for people to get their properties converted from leasehold to freehold.

Around 3,800 applications for conversion were received during the 100 days, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has said.

Apart from these, special camps were organised at Nagarik Suvidha Kendras and more than 6,000 pending applications for conversion were also disposed off.

Filmmaker S.D. Vijay Milton has roped in actress Charmme for an item number in his upcoming Tamil film “10 Enrathukulla” as he finds her to be a wonderful dancer, who can add “life” to a song.

Charmme has earlier performed special dance numbers in films such as “Damarukkam”, “Naayak” and “R…Rajkumar”.

“I’ve seen Charmme perform in some of the songs. I really think she’s a wonderful dancer who can add life to any song with her moves. That’s precisely why I approached her for a special song in my film,” Milton told IANS.

Milton will shoot the song soon in a lavish set in Pune.

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Chad Micheal Murray, Cassie Thomson, Nicky Whelan, Lea Thompson and Jordin Sparks

Director: Vic Armstrong

Rating: **1/2

Many Christian faiths believe and talk about an end-time event in future, when all true believers who are still alive before the end of the world, will be taken from the earth by god into heaven. The term describing this event is “The Rapture.”

Packed with chaos, “Left Behind” is a disaster film based on this Christian, ‘Rapture’ theory.

The 25-year-old marriage ended between Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena but Shiv Sena is not leaving any opportunity to target BJP.

Making a cutting remark at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Prem Shukla, a Shiv Sena leader on Thursday said that in Maharashtra, a graveyard for Narendra Modi is in making.

“Maharashtra mein Modi ki kabar banegi, jaisi Afzal Khan ki bani thi, ” Shukla said.

Canada’s new High Commissioner to India Nadir Patel is an Indo-Canadian, one who was born in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state of Gujarat and speaks Gujarati at home.

Patel is barely 44. His appointment was announced Friday by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and International Trade Minister Ed Fast.

Patel’s appointment follows the appointment of Richard Rahul Verma, an Indian American, as the country’s next ambassador to India.

The sequel to Telugu blockbuster “Gabbar Singh” is likely to go on the floors from November, reveals director Sampath Nandi, who says that actor Pawan Kalyan doesn’t want to delay the project anymore.

“The project was supposed to have started a while ago, but since Pawan sir was busy with other engagements, it had to be delayed. He recently informed the team that he wants to start working on the sequel from next month (November),” Nandi told IANS.

Pawan is currently shooting for Telugu comedy “Gopala Gopala”, a remake of Hindi film “OMG: Oh My God!”.

INLD chief and former Haryana Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala to surrender before Tihar Jail authorities on Saturday, as per the Delhi High Court orders for misusing bail conditions by campaigning for Assembly polls, saying he cannot “take the court for a ride”.

A Chinese court today sentenced two persons to death and another to life imprisonment for killing a woman at a McDonalds outlet when she refused to join a Christian doomsday cult.

Cult members Zhang Fan and Zhang Lidong, who confessed their role in beating the woman to death in May in Zhaoyuan City, were sent to gallows by Shandong’s Yantai Intermediate People’s Court, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

The court sentenced their accomplice, Lyu Yingchun, to life while two others Zhang Hang and Zhang Qiaolian to seven years of jail terms respectively.

There are “very real concerns” that New Delhi has when it comes to Pakistan`s policy on India and the same holds true for Islamabad too, a leading Pakistani daily said on Saturday.

“…there are very real concerns that New Delhi has when it comes to Pakistan`s policy on India. But there are also very real concerns that Pakistan has when it comes to India, even if they gain less traction internationally,” said an editorial in the Dawn that appeared on Saturday, a day after a lull in cross-border firing.

An application equipped with Braille typing feature that promises to assist the visually-impaired in using all features of a smartphone was launched here Thursday on World Sight Day.

SimplEye, a custom-designed application developed by Kriyate, a Delhi-based enterprise, is available for all android-based devices and was launched by Minister of State for Rural Development Upendra Kushwaha at the Jawaharlal Nehru University here.

It can be downloaded for free from Google play store.

With a vacuum created in Tamil Nadu’s political scene following the conviction of AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa in a graft case, opposition parties are smelling an opportunity to strengthen their ranks ahead of the 2016 Assembly polls.

At the forefront is the DMK, whose house the party chief M Karunanidhi is trying to put in order in the wake of intra-party squabbles following the 2011 electoral debacle.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 72 birthday Saturday, feels there’s no gift greater than spending time with family. The actor, who feels “luckiest today”, has thanked all those who have been in his life through happiness but also in “loneliness”.

“To them that wish for me for my 72nd moving into 73rd…I have just few words…I am blessed to have you with me still! Thank you all for your affectionate greetings and love..they shall ever remain with me…I feel today the luckiest,” he tweeted early Saturday.

As a follow up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s US visit, India has joined the US and three other countries in a $1.47 billion project to build the world’s biggest telescope on Hawaii Island.

An Indian delegation participated in the groundbreaking ceremony of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Consortium Project at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on Oct 7 along with about 100 astronomers and officials from the US, Japan, China and Canada. The TMT will enable scientists to study fainter objects far away from earth providing information about early stages of the evolution of the universe.

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat today said people of India have not treated Hinduism as their fiefdom but as their heritage meant for the world and there is a greater need for people in the country to have knowledge of its roots than those abroad.

Speaking at a function for the launch of the international edition of “Encyclopaedia of Hinduism” at Vigyan Bhawan here, he said it is important to give information to children about their roots as this is currently missing from their education and learning system.