Former cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi passes away

Saif Ali Khan's father, ex-cricketer Pataudi criticalNew Delhi, Sept 22: Former India Cricket Captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi has been shifted to ICU after he was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital following a lung infection.According to the bulletin released by the hospital, 70-year-old Mansur Ali Khan remains to be critically ill. He has been put on high level oxygen support and requires intermittent BIPAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure). His cardiac function remains stable and is conscious.He is also being observed by a team of critical care specialists and pulmonologists, said the bulletin.Pataudi was admitted to the hospital in Aug end and was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease, a medical condition where the oxygen passage...

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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Google Doodle appears | Albert Szent-Györgyi - Biography

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Google Doodle appearsGoogle celebrates Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s birthday, vitamin C’s discovery.Citrus fruit a day keeps a cancer away! Search engine giant Google celebrates the life of Hungarian physiologist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi with a Google Doodle, or the tweaked logo of the search engine site that features the contribution of the person, or components of historical events. The new Szent-Gyorgyi doodle is a simple jpeg file showing off fruits like Oranges, Pineapple and lemon. Apparently, all fruits featured in the Google homepage are fruits that contain high-level of vitamin C. For example, Oranges contain 45 mg (54%) of Vitamin C per 100g of serving, Pineapple contains 36.2 mg (44%) per 100g, and lemon leads...

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Google does an animated music video doodle for Freddie Mercury's 65th birthday

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on Thursday September 5th 1946 on the small spice island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were both Parsee (Persian). His father, Bomi, was a civil servant, working as a High Court cashier for the British Government. Freddie's sister, Kashmira, was born in 1952. In 1954, at the age of eight, Freddie was shipped to St Peter's English boarding school in Panchgani, about fifty miles outside Bombay. It was there his friends began to call him Freddie, a name the family also adopted. As St Peter's was an English school, the sports played there were typically English. Freddie loathed cricket and long-distance running, but he liked hockey, sprint and boxing. At the age of 10 he became a school...

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Google Doodle On 112 Birthday of Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges Biography Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986) was an Argentine writer who is considered to be one of the foremost writers of the 20th century. A poet and an essayist, Borges is generally best-known for his short stories. Jorge Luis Borges was born in an educated middle-class family in August 1899. They were in comfortable circumstances, but not wealthy enough to live in downtown Buenos Aires. They resided in Palermo, then a poorer suburb of the city. Borges's mother, Leonor Acevedo Suárez, came from a traditional Uruguayan family of "pure" criollo (Spanish) descent. Her family had been much involved in the European settling of South America and she spoke often of their heroic actions.Borges's...

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Google Doodle Celebrates 410th Birthday of Mathematician Pierre de Fermat

Google is celebrating what would have been the 410th birthday of mathematician Pierre de Fermat with a homepage doodle that transforms the company's logo into a complex math problem. "We have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which today's tweet is too small to contain," Google tweeted this morning. Fermat was born in France in 1601 and studied at the University of Toulouse before relocating to Bordeaux in the late 1620s. It was there that he started his serious mathematical research, producing substantial work on maxima and minima. He then moved to the University of Law at Orléans, where he earned his law degree. "By 1631, Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now held...

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Anna Hazare sent to 7-day judicial custody

New Delhi: Anna Hazare has been sent to seven days in judicial custody and will be lodged New Delhi's in Tihar Jail. Hazare's supporters Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal, Darshak, Radheshyam, Suresh Pathare, Naveen Jaisingh and Dada Phatare have also been sent to judicial custody. Hazare was sent to judicial custody on Tuesday after he refused to sign a bond which stated that he and his supporters would not violate Section 144. He told the magistrate that he was not ready to sign the bond and was ready to go to jail. Hazare and Sisodia have been kept in Jail No. 4 of Tihar Jail where Congress MP and Commonwealth Games scam accused Suresh Kalmadi is also lodged. Kejriwal and others have been sent to Jail No. 1 where DMK leader and former telecom...

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He survived Afghanistan, got 4 bullets in Norway

Honefoss, Norway: Hussein Kazemi has faced danger many times before. Maybe that's why the teenager still can smile as he sits in his hospital bed, bullet wounds in both legs and an arm, and images of a crazed gunman in his head.The asylum-seeker from Afghanistan, who sought safe harbor in Norway two years ago, is one of dozens still hospitalized after a gun rampage on an island campsite killed at least 86 people - mostly teens and young adults. A Norwegian with anti-immigration views has been arrested in the attack, which left scores wounded and several presumed missing somewhere in the water."I experienced many dangers in Afghanistan. But this is the worst experience I will ever have in my life," the 19-year-old...

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UK Muslims vigilant after Norway

London: Extra security will be put up at mosques around the UK in the wake of the deadly attacks in Norway, British Muslim leaders said on Sunday.Mohammed Shafiq, the leader of Ramadhan Foundation, one of Britain's largest Muslim groups, says mosques are being extra vigilant as it emerges that the suspect blamed for the Norway attacks opposed Muslim immigration to Europe.Shafiq told that he was talking to other European Muslim leaders about the need to increase security and to British police about extra protection.In Norway 7 people died in bombing and hours later, 86 more died in a shooting spree."People are afraid that we will be the next target," Safiq said in a telephone interview during a large gathering of Sunni scholars and leaders in...

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U.S. Memorial Day History and Information on U.S. War Memorials

Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service.There are many stories as to its actual beginnings, with over two dozen cities and towns laying claim to being the birthplace of Memorial Day. There is also evidence that organized women's groups in the South were decorating graves before the end of the Civil War: a hymn published in 1867, "Kneel Where Our Loves are Sleeping" by Nella L. Sweet carried the dedication "To The Ladies of the South who are Decorating the Graves of the Confederate Dead" (Source: Duke University's Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920). While Waterloo N.Y. was officially declared the birthplace of Memorial Day by President Lyndon Johnson in May...

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Animated Google Doodle Honors 117th Birthday of Dancer Martha Graham

The Graham Center Celebrates our Google DoodleMartha Graham (1894–1991) is known as one of the great creative minds of the 20th Century, often compared with such greats as Picasso, Einstein, and Stravinsky because she made such radical change through the power of her discoveries. In the 1920s and 30s she created a completely new style of dancing and revolutionized dance and theater worldwide. Many of Graham’s groundbreaking ideas are referenced in the five dancing figures of the Martha Graham Google Doodle. Here are just a few clues and links to help you decipher the Doodle. The Doodle begins with the shrouded figure from Lamentation, Graham’s signature solo from 1930. Then radical, and now iconic, the solo contains the seeds...

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gold | gold price | gold price today | gold price trend in 2011

With a fall in prices of silver on Friday, the jewellers are expecting brisk business, specially with the middle-class families opting to buy a silver coin. "Silver price on Friday was Rs 59,000 per kg and over the past two days the price has crashed by over Rs 9,000. Even the middle-class families will come forward and but at least a Goddess Laxmi' coin,'' says Pratik Soni of Balaji Jewellers in the Walled City areas.Akshay Tritiya is considered the most auspicious day by Hindus, owing to the belief that any work that is commenced this day comes to fruition. It is a day when several weddings are held all across the country and is the beginning of the wedding season.The Pink City is known for its silver jewellery and its dealers...

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Mother's Day

Mother's Day Celebration in India are slowly catching! The concept of celebrating Mothers Day on the second Sunday of May is very new in India and it can be said that in a time span of less than a decade, Mothers Day has been a great success. In the presence of umpteenth number of existing festivals, it is a remarkable achievement for a foreign festival to make its presence felt in the vast and culturally diverse country like India. Globalisation, to a great extent has helped to make this Western, or mainly American festival to make its presence felt in India. Besides interaction of Indians with the West is at an all time high. A lot many people...

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Celebrate Mothers Day 8th May 2011

Recreate memories of a lifetime on Mother's Day with adorable gifts. Please your mom by choosing from a range of endearing Mother's Day gifts.Historical antecedentsCelebrations of mothers and motherhood occur throughout the world; many of these have histories can be traced back to ancient festivals. The modern US-celebration of Mother's Day is not directly related to these.[1][2][3]There is evidence of mother goddess worship in the ancient world, dating back as far as 6.000 BC,[4]:376 and many mother goddess shrines could be found in ancient times in Asia minor.[4]:372Ancient Greece imported the Mother Goddess cult from Asia Minor, in the form of a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods. It was held around the Vernal Equinox around...

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Osama Dead – Censored Video Leaked Wikileaks Video Facebook Spam

Today morning, a new kind of scam is spreading on Facebook where another fake Osama Bin Laden video is being circulated on Facebook. The new spam is spreading with the"Watch the Osama Shoot Down video – Osama Dead – Censored Video Leaked – Osama is dead, watch this exclusive CNN video which was censored by Obama Administration due to level of violence, a must watch. Leaked by Wikileaks."The scammers are using the name of the whistle blowing organization; Wikileaks, to make people think that the video is genuine. However, the video is a scam. Clicking on the link will take you to a fan page (which is being liked by more than 45K people right now) and ask you to complete a new 5 second security check before you can watch the video.However, following...

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Obama watched Bin Laden 'shot in left eye' on live video in White House

WASHINGTON: US president Barack Obama along with his high-level team, watched live coverage in the White House, as the commandos gunned down the world's most wanted terrorist Osama Bin Laden Via a video camera fixed to the helmet of a US Navy Seal.Obama was watching the operation live when bin-Laden was shot in the left eye, the Daily Mail reports.The Seal then carried out a 'double tap' military act, shooting him again, probably in the chest, to confirm that he was dead.The footage of the battle in Bin Laden's Pakistani hideout, relayed to the White House by satellite, is believed to have shown one of his wives acting as a human shield to protect him as he blasted away with an AK47 assault rifle.She died, along with three other men, including...

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Marathi Litterateur Jagdish Khebudkar Passes Away

Kolhapur (Maharashtra), May 3 (IANS): Renowned Marthi poet, lyricist and writer Jagdish Khebudkar passed away in a private hospital here Tuesday following a kidney ailment. He was 79. Decorated with 11 state awards in different categories, Khebudkar had been ill for quite a while, an aide said. Khebudkar, who is survived by two sons and two daughters, breathed his last in a private hospital where he had been admitted a few days ago. His last rites will be performed on the banks of the Panchganga river here Wednesday morning. In a career spanning over six decades, Khebudkar authored over 3,750 poems, 2,500 songs for Marathi and Hindi movies, four teleserials for Doordarshan, five telefilms, several plays and other literature. He penned songs for 350 films, including the Marathi versions...

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U.S. to close embassy in Pakistan Osama bin Laden Andehe possible after the death of Taliban attacks in the U.S. and its Embassy in Pakistan currently Kaunslet is closed to the general public. According to U.S. Embassy spokesman Rodrigj present U.S. Embassy in Islamabad and Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi consulate for visa and other work has stopped until further orders. U.S. Embassy and other necessary actions will be open to Kaunslet. U.S. fears that the death of bin Laden after Al Qaeda and the Taliban can attack U.S. installatio...

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