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Nandamuri Marriage Live Streaming

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NTR reminds Pawan Kalyan

Here is the exclusive Birthday wallpaper of Jr NTR that’s been unveiled on the occasion of the actor’s birthday (May 20th) by the makers of Ramayya Vastavayya. This pose of Young Tiger NTR reminds the much-popular leg lift act of Pawan Kalyan on the posters of Jalsa. The only difference is the mood of the stars in both the stills. While Pawan appeared in a serious mode then, NTR is in a dancing mode here. Nandamuri Fans were expected NTR to enthrall them with his dance moves once again after Baadshah which set a benchmark.

One much say, NTR is looking at his best in Ramayya Vastavayya after cutting down the extra flab. The teaser one the film is expected to release Tomorrow. The posters have generated positive buzz and the teaser is going to take the expectations to the next level.

Navneet Kaur is Miss India

Navneet Kaur Dhillon (20) has won the Miss India crown in the prestigious Golden Jubilee year of the Femina Miss India contests held at Yuvraj Studios in Mumbai yesterday, elbowing 23 contestants out of this beautiful race. Sobitha Doolipala (20) from Vizag has stood as runner-up in the contest, who also wins Femina Miss Items digital Diwa Award. Zoya Afroz (18) from Lucknow has stood as 2^nd runner-up in this contest.
Navneet is the daughter of an army officer in Patiala in Punjab state. She has studied in Army Public school in Patiala and pursuing her graduation from Punjab University now.

Rang Barse in Barsana

Originally associated with religious events, Holi today is a festival of riotous color and festivity that is celebrated with much enthusiasm in the month of Phalgun, which usually corresponds to March on the Julian Calendar. Holi marks the arrival of spring and the bright colors represent energy, life, and joy. The festival is also associated with the immortal love of Krishna and Radha. In Barsana, the birthplace of Radha and Nandgaon, Krishna's native village, and Mathura, the Lord's birthplace, this auspicious day is celebrated with a special puja and an even greater exuberance. Barsana, interestingly, has the custom of Lathmaar Holi where the festivities get unusually boisterous. Legend has it that the men of Nandgaon come to play with Barsana’s gopikas, Krishna's cowherd girlfriends, and are greeted with the irate women’s sticks instead of colours. Though the courting men wear protective padding to soften the blows, some unlucky ones often get the wrong end of the stick. Photojournalist JITENDRA SINGH brings us these captivating images from Barsana, Nandgaon and Mathura.

Rang Barse in Barsana

Originally associated with religious events, Holi today is a festival of riotous color and festivity that is celebrated with much enthusiasm in the month of Phalgun, which usually corresponds to March on the Julian Calendar. Holi marks the arrival of spring and the bright colors represent energy, life, and joy. The festival is also associated with the immortal love of Krishna and Radha. In Barsana, the birthplace of Radha and Nandgaon, Krishna's native village, and Mathura, the Lord's birthplace, this auspicious day is celebrated with a special puja and an even greater exuberance. Barsana, interestingly, has the custom of Lathmaar Holi where the festivities get unusually boisterous. Legend has it that the men of Nandgaon come to play with Barsana’s gopikas, Krishna's cowherd girlfriends, and are greeted with the irate women’s sticks instead of colours. Though the courting men wear protective padding to soften the blows, some unlucky ones often get the wrong end of the stick. Photojournalist JITENDRA SINGH brings us these captivating images from Barsana, Nandgaon and Mathura.

Russia reaches ancient Antarctic lake

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had pierced through Antarctica's frozen crust to a vast, subglacial lake that has lain untouched for at least 14 million years hiding what scientists believe may be unknown organisms and clues to life on other planets.
Sealed deep under the ice sheet, Lake Vostok is one of the world's last unexplored frontiers. Scientists suspect its depths may reveal new life forms and a glimpse of the planet before the ice age.
If life is found in the lake's icy darkness, it may provide the best answer yet to whether life can exist in the extreme conditions on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa.
"The 57th Russian Antarctic expedition has penetrated the waters of the subglacial Lake Vostok," Valery Lukin, head of the Russian Antarctic expedition, said in a statement.
After 20 years of stop-go drilling, the Russian team raced to chew through the final metres of ice and breached Lake Vostok in time to take the last flight out on February 6 before the onset of Antarctica's harsh winter. It was here that the coldest temperature found on Earth, minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit), was recorded.
Lukin said the breakthrough came on February 5, on the eve of the mission's departure: "At a depth of 3,769 metres (12,365 ft) the drill bit made contact with the real body of water.
"The discovery of this lake is comparable to the first space flight in its technological complexity, its importance and its uniqueness," Lukin told Interfax.
But Russia must wait for the Antarctic summer to collect and study water samples, leaving the door open for U.S. and British missions to explore two other subglacial lakes and beat it to be the first to answer the question of whether life exists under the polar ice.
"We call it extraterrestrial life," Russian astrobiologist Sergei Bulat told Vesti 24 state television. "It will be useful to the search for life on other icy planets like Jupiter's satellite Europa."
EXPLORATORY RUSH
A century after the first expeditions to the South Pole, the discovery of Antarctica's hidden network of subglacial lakes via satellite imagery in the late 1990s set off a new exploratory fervour among scientists the world over.
"This is scientific exploration, this is work that no one has ever done before," Martin Siegert, head of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, told Reuters.
"This is probably one of the last frontiers on our planet that remains largely unknown to us," said Siegert, who is leading a British expedition to explore Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica in 2012-2013.
Experts say the ice sheet acts like a blanket, trapping in the Earth's geothermal heat and preventing Antarctic lakes from freezing.
If there is life in Vostok and other ice-bound lakes, it is unlikely to be anything more complicated than single-cell organisms adapted to survive in the high-pressure, sunless environment, Siegert said.
"It is just imagination, we don't really know until we go in," he said.
Beneath the vast white landscape, Lake Vostok is the deepest and most isolated of Antarctica's subglacial lakes. Its size compares to Siberia's Lake Baikal or one of the Great Lakes, increasing the chance of biodiversity in its waters.
Scientists estimate the body of water is roughly 1 million years old and supersaturated with oxygen, resembling no other known environment on Earth.

John Priscu of Montana State University suspects that an oasis of life may lurk there, teeming around thermal vents.

"I hope that they can confirm unequivocally that there is indeed microbial life in the lake," said Priscu, the chief scientist on the U.S. project to probe subglacial Lake Whillans.

ALIEN LIFE

Russia has dreamed of uncovering the lake's secrets since the 1996 discovery that the low-lying buildings and radio towers of its Antarctic station sit above the ancient waters.

But the drive to explore this unspoilt environment is not without controversy.

The Russian borehole, pumped full of kerosene and freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs like a needle over the pristine lake. "The ice core at Vostok is there and it won't go away because it is full of anti-freeze," said Siegert.

In a bid to address international concerns, Russia halted drilling for several years to devise a cleaner method in 2000.

It used a smaller thermal drill to punch through to the lake and back pressured the borehole to force lake water to rise up into it, effectively sipping up samples from the lake's surface.

Russia will core out the frozen sample next season.

Russia reaches ancient Antarctic lake

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had pierced through Antarctica's frozen crust to a vast, subglacial lake that has lain untouched for at least 14 million years hiding what scientists believe may be unknown organisms and clues to life on other planets.
Sealed deep under the ice sheet, Lake Vostok is one of the world's last unexplored frontiers. Scientists suspect its depths may reveal new life forms and a glimpse of the planet before the ice age.
If life is found in the lake's icy darkness, it may provide the best answer yet to whether life can exist in the extreme conditions on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa.
"The 57th Russian Antarctic expedition has penetrated the waters of the subglacial Lake Vostok," Valery Lukin, head of the Russian Antarctic expedition, said in a statement.
After 20 years of stop-go drilling, the Russian team raced to chew through the final metres of ice and breached Lake Vostok in time to take the last flight out on February 6 before the onset of Antarctica's harsh winter. It was here that the coldest temperature found on Earth, minus 89.2 Celsius (minus 128.6 Fahrenheit), was recorded.
Lukin said the breakthrough came on February 5, on the eve of the mission's departure: "At a depth of 3,769 metres (12,365 ft) the drill bit made contact with the real body of water.
"The discovery of this lake is comparable to the first space flight in its technological complexity, its importance and its uniqueness," Lukin told Interfax.
But Russia must wait for the Antarctic summer to collect and study water samples, leaving the door open for U.S. and British missions to explore two other subglacial lakes and beat it to be the first to answer the question of whether life exists under the polar ice.
"We call it extraterrestrial life," Russian astrobiologist Sergei Bulat told Vesti 24 state television. "It will be useful to the search for life on other icy planets like Jupiter's satellite Europa."
EXPLORATORY RUSH
A century after the first expeditions to the South Pole, the discovery of Antarctica's hidden network of subglacial lakes via satellite imagery in the late 1990s set off a new exploratory fervour among scientists the world over.
"This is scientific exploration, this is work that no one has ever done before," Martin Siegert, head of the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, told Reuters.
"This is probably one of the last frontiers on our planet that remains largely unknown to us," said Siegert, who is leading a British expedition to explore Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica in 2012-2013.
Experts say the ice sheet acts like a blanket, trapping in the Earth's geothermal heat and preventing Antarctic lakes from freezing.
If there is life in Vostok and other ice-bound lakes, it is unlikely to be anything more complicated than single-cell organisms adapted to survive in the high-pressure, sunless environment, Siegert said.
"It is just imagination, we don't really know until we go in," he said.
Beneath the vast white landscape, Lake Vostok is the deepest and most isolated of Antarctica's subglacial lakes. Its size compares to Siberia's Lake Baikal or one of the Great Lakes, increasing the chance of biodiversity in its waters.
Scientists estimate the body of water is roughly 1 million years old and supersaturated with oxygen, resembling no other known environment on Earth.

John Priscu of Montana State University suspects that an oasis of life may lurk there, teeming around thermal vents.

"I hope that they can confirm unequivocally that there is indeed microbial life in the lake," said Priscu, the chief scientist on the U.S. project to probe subglacial Lake Whillans.

ALIEN LIFE

Russia has dreamed of uncovering the lake's secrets since the 1996 discovery that the low-lying buildings and radio towers of its Antarctic station sit above the ancient waters.

But the drive to explore this unspoilt environment is not without controversy.

The Russian borehole, pumped full of kerosene and freon to keep it from freezing shut, hangs like a needle over the pristine lake. "The ice core at Vostok is there and it won't go away because it is full of anti-freeze," said Siegert.

In a bid to address international concerns, Russia halted drilling for several years to devise a cleaner method in 2000.

It used a smaller thermal drill to punch through to the lake and back pressured the borehole to force lake water to rise up into it, effectively sipping up samples from the lake's surface.

Russia will core out the frozen sample next season.

Giant Whale Shark Washes A Shore

Pakistani fishermen use cranes to pull the carcass of a whale shark from the waters at a fish harbour in Karachi on February 7, 2012. The 40-feet whale, weighing about 6-7 tons, was found dead in Arabian Sea in the port city of Karachi

Residents gather as a whale shark is pulled from the water by cranes after it was found dead at Karachi's fish harbor February 7, 2012. A giant whale shark washed ashore near Karachi fisheries harbor on Tuesday and was sold for 1.7 million PKR ($18,758), local media reported.

Giant Whale Shark Washes A Shore

Pakistani fishermen use cranes to pull the carcass of a whale shark from the waters at a fish harbour in Karachi on February 7, 2012. The 40-feet whale, weighing about 6-7 tons, was found dead in Arabian Sea in the port city of Karachi

Residents gather as a whale shark is pulled from the water by cranes after it was found dead at Karachi's fish harbor February 7, 2012. A giant whale shark washed ashore near Karachi fisheries harbor on Tuesday and was sold for 1.7 million PKR ($18,758), local media reported.

Yuvraj Singh not suffering from Lung Cancer

Contrary to reports in media that Yuvraj Singh is suffering from Lung Cancer, the doctor who earlier treated the cricketer has clarified that his patient has been battling malignant tumour which was between his lungs.

"Yuvraj Singh is not suffering from Lung Cancer. Mediastinal seminoma, an uncommon tumor, is in between his two lungs," Dr Nitesh Rohtagi, who treated Yuvraj at Max Hospital, New Delhi.

While speaking to media, Yuvraj's father Yograj said that Armstrong's doctor (who is currently treating the left-handed batsman) had assured to him that his son would be back to normalcy within few months.

"My Son (Yuvraj) is God's gift to me. Yuvraj will come back soon and one day he will become the captain of Team India," said Yograj, who is also a former test cricketer.

Yuvraj Singh not suffering from Lung Cancer

Contrary to reports in media that Yuvraj Singh is suffering from Lung Cancer, the doctor who earlier treated the cricketer has clarified that his patient has been battling malignant tumour which was between his lungs.

"Yuvraj Singh is not suffering from Lung Cancer. Mediastinal seminoma, an uncommon tumor, is in between his two lungs," Dr Nitesh Rohtagi, who treated Yuvraj at Max Hospital, New Delhi.

While speaking to media, Yuvraj's father Yograj said that Armstrong's doctor (who is currently treating the left-handed batsman) had assured to him that his son would be back to normalcy within few months.

"My Son (Yuvraj) is God's gift to me. Yuvraj will come back soon and one day he will become the captain of Team India," said Yograj, who is also a former test cricketer.

Godman Sri Satya Sai Baba is no more

Puttaparthi: Sathya Sai Baba, one of India's most influential spiritual leaders, breathed his last at a hospital funded by his organisation in his home town of Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday.

He was 85.Sai Baba's response to medical treatment had been slow, doctors attending him said on Sunday, and he breathed his last at 7:40 am on Sunday. He was on intermittent hemodialysis and on assisted respiration until Saturday evening at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medial Sciences at Puttaparthi.Baba's body will be kept at the Sai Kulwant Hall in Puttaparthi for two days - Monday and Tuesday, Arrangements will be made for darshan after 6:00 pm on Sunday at the hall.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has left for Puttaparthi to pay homage to the Baba.

He was admitted to the super-speciality hospital on March 28 following problems related to heart and lungs. Doctors treating him said he was suffering from multi-organ dysfunction.

One of India's most famous spiritual leaders, who counted a worldwide following of millions including top diplomats, sports icons and film stars, Sai Baba led a life dedicated to philanthropy marred by the occasional controversies.

Thousands of devotees had gathered in his hometown since March 28 to pay their last respects.

Sathya Sai, whose devotees believe him to be an incarnation of God in human form, has a following believed to be over six millions in India and abroad.