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Actors Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi will reportedly start shooting in Cape Town, South Africa, for “Humari Adhuri Kahaani” from next month.

The film was slated to go on floors in the summer of 2014, but it has now been postponed to October.

“Vidya Balan and Emraan Hashmi will start shooting for ‘Humari Adhuri Kahaani’ from October and the first schedule will be widely shot in Cape Town (South Africa) and the second schedule will take place in Dubai,” a source told IANS.

The cells that control our rhythms of sleep and wakefulness may have first evolved in the ocean – hundreds of millions of years ago – in response to pressure to move away from the sun, shows a new study.

The researchers derived this conclusion from their findings that a hormone that governs sleep and jet lag in humans may also drive the mass migration of plankton in the ocean.

Indian women’s doubles tennis pair of Sania Mirza and Prarthana Thombare settled for the bronze medal after losing the semi-final of the 17th Asian Games here Sunday.

Saina-Prarthana lost 6-7 (1-7), 6-2, 4-10 in a super tie-breaker to Chinese Taipei’s Wei Chin Chan and Wei Su Hsieh at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts.

–IANS

Scientists have revealed that children who are exposed to chemotherapy or radiotherapy while in the womb suffer no negative impacts on mental or cardiac development from chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

In the first study, 38 children prenatally exposed to chemotherapy were recruited from the International Network for Cancer, Infertility and Pregnancy (INCIP) registry and assessed for mental development and cardiac health and their outcomes were compared to 38 control children who were not exposed to chemotherapy.

Rihanna shells out 30,000pounds-a-week on her beauty regime that also includes spending on eyelash and tanning experts.

A source told Look magazine that the ‘We Found Love’ hitmaker’s eyelash expert is on call 24/7 and it was not unusual for the singer to call at 11pm before a night out, the Mirror reported.

The source continued that the 26-year-old singer gets laser skin tightening, oxygen facials, photo facials, even the infamous vampire facials.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly elections in October, Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Sunday that one party rule would change the state’s future.

“Maharashtra needs development, the unemployed needs employment, the infrastructure also needs to be developed that’s why for development and for one party rule the people of Maharashtra will support the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one party rule will change the future of Maharashtra and I am sure that it will be the BJP only,” said Gadkari.

Ingredients:

Toast two slices (on one side only) of whole wheat bread.

Apply egg less mayo to the non toasted side of a bread slice.

Layer lettuce leaves and cucumber slices. Place a bread slice over it.

Place a cheese slice over this, layer the sauteed vegetables and place the toasted bread slice over it.

Serve.

For sauteed vegetables – Grate a small carrot, finely chop capsicum and a shallot.

Heat a tsp of olive oil in a pan, add the shallot and saute for 2 mts.

Add bell pepper and carrot and saute for 2 more minutes.

Ingredients:

Cauliflower – half head, soak florets in salted hot water for 15 mts
Fresh green peas – 1/3 cup (matar) (optional)
Tomatoes – 1, medium, finely chopped
Onion – 1, large, finely chopped
Ginger – Green Chilli paste (2 or 3 green chilies+1/2″ ginger piece)
Curd – 1/4 cup, beaten
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Coriander powder – 1 tsp
Red Chili powder -1 tsp
Cumin powder – 1/4 tsp
Kasuri Methi – 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder – pinch
Salt to taste
Oil – 2 1/2 tbsps
Make a paste:
Cashew nuts – 1/4 cup

INGREDIENTS

20 ladies fingers
1 large onion
1 thumb sized ginger
2 tomatoes
3 green chilies
3 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder )
1/2 teaspoon garam masala )
1/4 teaspoon mango powder )
1/4 teaspoon cumin powder ) mix dry spices together
2 teaspoons chili powder )
2 teaspoons coriander powder )
Salt
Oil

METHOD

Wash and cut the ends off the okra and slice into two sideways

Peel and slice the onions, garlic and ginger

Mix all the dry spices together

Heat oil in a pan and fry the sliced onions, garlic and ginger until golden brown

The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander Philae on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November.

After conducting an unprecedented scientific analysis of the comet, the landing site, currently known as Site J, was selected just six weeks after Rosetta arrived at the comet, following its 10-year journey through the solar system.

Afghanistan believes in comprehensive, long term and friendly relations with Pakistan, said Afghanistan Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani at the UN General Assembly Saturday.

Osmani said: “Afghanistan strongly believes in comprehensive, long term, friendly and good-neighbourly relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan in the fight against terrorism and strengthening of peace and stability between two nations and in the region.”

However, he also expressed concern over the rocket attacks by Pakistani forces into Afghanistan.

A new research has revealed that bio-artificial liver support system for patients with acute liver failure is under investigation to assess the safety and effectiveness.

Lead investigator Steven D. Colquhoun at Cedars-Sinai said that the quest for a device that can fill in for the function of the liver, at least temporarily, has been underway for decades and a bio-artificial liver (BAL), could potentially sustain patients with acute liver failure until their own livers self-repair.

Congress and NCP rebels, including sitting MLAs and ministers who joined the BJP ahead of next month’s Assembly elections in Maharashtra, figure in the list of the party candidates in more than a dozen constituencies.

These rebels are likely to queer the pitch for the official nominees of both the parties as most of them are contesting from their pocket boroughs.

Similarly, kin of Congressmen are also pitted by BJP against prominent Congress candidates including caretaker Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in Karad South constituency.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry would skip inauguration of new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on September 29 to attend the luncheon he and Vice President Joe Biden have organised for Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Mr. Kerry, who personally invested much of his time and energy in resolving the Afghan crisis after the Presidential elections and visited Kabul several times to negotiate between the two candidates — Mr. Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah — was scheduled to travel to Afghanistan to be personally present at the swearing in ceremony of the new President.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has invited New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to visit India with a trade mission.

Modi extended the invitation to Christie when the latter called on him at the New York Palace hotel, where the Prime Minister is staying for attending the annual session of the UN General Assembly.

An earthquake of 4.6 magnitude on the Richter scale occurred on the Indo-Pak border region of Jammu and Kashmir today.

According to the Indian Meterological Department, the quake struck at 9.52 pm.

The depth of the earthquake was 10km below the surface, IMD said.

–PTI

Four key officials attached to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister’s Secretariat today left here for Bangalore to meet Jayalalithaa, who has been awarded a four-year jail term in a graft case.

Former Chief Secretary and currently adviser to Chief Minister Sheela Balakrishnan, Secretaries Venkataraman, Ramalingam and Sudalai Kannan left by a private airliner, according to airport sources.

The reason for the meeting was not immediately known.

The CBI today registered two fresh cases in connection with multi-crore chit fund scam in West Bengal in which for the first time two non-Saradha ponzi companies which have been named. CBI sources said two cases have been registered against MPS Greenery and Akashdeep projects Limited on the orders of Supreme Court on May 9, 2014.

CBI has registered these FIRs against Managing Director and other Directors of these companies on the allegation of criminal breach of trust, cheating, criminal conspiracy and abetment.

Autumn season calls not only for wardrobe change, but also the makeover of make-up kit. An expert suggests how you can transform make-up from summer to autumn subtly.

Natasha Daniel, a head make-up artist at beauty blog fBeauty, says that make-up needs extra attention during the transitional time of the year and hence, you need to be very particular about the kind of products you choose, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Here is what she suggests for different parts of your face:

George Clooney finally got married to human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin in Venice.

The couple got married in a hotel overlooking the famous Grand Canal, the BBC reported.

Cindy Crawford, Bill Murray, Matt Damon and the U2 singer Bono were among the high-profile guests in the much- awaited marriage.

The 53-year-old actor and Alamuddin got engaged in April, 2014. (ANI)

AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal’s daughter Harshita has decided to make her foray into politics by joining the party’s student wing the Chhaatra Yuva Sangharsha Samiti (CYSS), which was launched yesterday.

The daughter of the former Delhi Chief Minister will launch and expand CYSS in IIT Delhi, where she is currently pursuing her graduation.

The youth wing, which was launched today, will have its presence in 50 colleges in the national capital, apart from Delhi, Jamia Milia and Jawaharlal Nehru universities.

After surviving 12 agonizing days and nights on the attic of his nearly submerged house here with his family, Sheikh Muzaffar Ahmad is convinced he is leading a new lease of life.

A senior prosecuting officer in Jammu and Kashmir’s anti-corruption unit, the 45-year-old was confined with his 70-year-old mother, wife and two children in Shivpora, the first locality to get inundated as unprecedented floods enveloped the state on the night of Sep 7.

Australian government on Sunday issued a new travel advisory for its citizens in India following the unrest that has gripped the state of Tamil Nadu after the conviction and sentencing of its Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in a corruption case.

Issuing the advisory, the government said, “Following the conviction and sentencing of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, we recommend that Australians in Chennai remain indoors over the weekend of 27-28 September due to increased tensions.”

To protect the body from the dangerous ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun, skin pigment converts UV radiation into harmless heat through a rapid chemical reaction, a study says.

“In this way, the pigment disarms the energy in the UV light and prevents it causing harmful chemical reactions,” said Villy Sundstram, a professor of chemistry at the Lund University in Sweden.

Pigment in skin and hair comprises two different types of melanin: eumelanin and pheomelanin.

Vinod Khosla, Indian-American co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has lost a court battle against a coastal protection group to keep the public out from a popular beach in northern California with the victorious attorney saying that “great wealth cannot be used to circumvent and ignore the law”.

San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Barbara Mallach ruled Wednesday that Khosla, a billionaire venture capitalist, who was sued last year by the Surfrider Foundation, illegally blocked access to Martin`s beach and must open it to the public.