Bhupen Hazarika nahi rahey

Mumbai,-Legendary singer-composer Bhupen
Hazarika died in a hospital here 5 november after a multi-organ
failure. He was 86.
"It was a multi-organ failure. The end came around 4.30
pm. Hazarika had been undergoing treatment at the hospital
since June 29.
His long-time companion and filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi was
beside him when he died.

4 youths who escaped death row,
return home from Sharjah
Amritsar, -) Four youths, sentenced to death in
Sharjah for murdering a Pakistani man in 2009, reached here
today following their release from prison after payment of
blood money.
Rakesh Kumar, Sukhpal Singh, Charanjeet and Rashvinder
Pal landed this evening at the Rajasansi Airport here after
spending two years in a Sharjah prison.
They were brought here by businessman and Indian Punjabi
Society founder president S P Singh Ubrai.
The Sharjah Appeal Court had accepted the appeal earlier
this year after the victim Misri Nazir Khan's blood relatives
dropped their request for capital punishment.
On March 28, 2010, the Sharjah Court of First Instance had
pronounced the death sentence on the 17 Indian nationals, who
were accused of killing a Pakistani in January 2009.
Seventeen men, 16 from Indian Panjab and one from Haryana, got
a new lease of life due to an out-of-court blood money
settlement amounting to Rs 4.36 crore.
Since all convicts completed their sentence on November
1, they have been ordered to be released and deported from the
UAE, subject to clearance from various authorities.
The other four prisoners are yet to be released after the
completion of pending documents, Ubrai said.
The Indian Consulate had issued temporary passports
within a day to four of the boys to facilitate their immediate
return to India.

Increase in social network enlarges brain: Study
London,-The bigger the social network you
have, the larger the size of your brain, says a new study.
The Oxford University study found that monkey brains grew
bigger with every cage-mate they acquired, showing that
certain parts of the brain linked to processing social
information expand in response to more complex social
information.
"Interestingly, there are a couple of studies in humans
by different research groups that show some correlation
between brain size and the size of the social network, and we
found some similarities in our studies," study author Jerome
Sallet told LiveScience.
"Our study reinforces the idea that the human social
network was built on something that was already there in the
rhesus macaques.
For their study, published in the journal Science, the
researchers studied 23 rhesus macaques living in different
size groups in a research facility, having a dominance-based
hierarchy (except the one monkey that was caged alone).
One's rank among male cage-mates is dependent upon social
interactions, including the ability to make friends and form
coalitions, which grants the monkey access to valued
resources.
The researchers scanned the brains of the monkeys using
magnetic resonance imaging to gauge the sizes of different
brain regions and saw enlargements in gray matter in several
areas of the brain associated with social interactions.
On average, they saw more than a five per cent increase
in gray matter mass per extra cage-mate.




Joining politics worst decision of mine : Actor Govinda

New Delhi, - Bollywood actor Govinda, who took a
break of five years from films to join politics only to quit
it later, says it was the worst decision of his life.
Govinda, 47 year old, who in 2004 was elected as the Member Parliament from North Mumbai, admits politics did not suit
him.
"I found myself dealing with Ram Naik instead of Karishma
Kapoor. It was really difficult time for me. I gained some
108 kgs during that period. When I decided to say goodbye to
politics, it was hard to shed the extra flab," Govinda told
here.
"Sometime something does not suit and the same happened
to me. I won't call it a dirty game but I must say it's very
difficult to survive in politics when you don't have any
political background. It was literally the saddest period of
my life. I am happy that I came out of it without a bad name,".
Govinda, who gave hits like 'Raaja Baabu', 'Coolie No 1',
'Hero No one' and 'Partner', says he used to feel nostalgic
about films while he was busy with politics and finally
decided to return to where he belonged.