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India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar who is precisely considered as “God of Indian Cricket” by cricket lovers will be the latest sporting great to be featured at the internationally renowned Madame Tussauds in London when a new wax figure of the Mumbai-born batsman joins the A-list line up in April.

Tendulkar follows  the famous footsteps of Bollywood greats Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan and will join other cricket legends Brain Lara and Shane Warne to become the very first Indian sports personality to be portrayed, the waxworks museum.

The Madame Tussauds studio team made their way to Mumbai to collect precise information and statistics about the great batsman. Considering his achievements in cricket and the reputation he earned for himself in the international sports arena, the Madame Tussauds studio team confirmed that next Indian superstar will be Sachin Tendulkar and probably he is the first sportsman from India.

The figure will be created at Madame Tussauds studios in West London at a cost of 150,000 pounds.The cricket star will join the ranks of sporting greats, including David Beckham, Mohammed Ali, Tiger Woods and Jesse Owens, in Madame Tussauds interactive Sports Zone.

Sachin makes India proud once again. Congratulations sachin!!!

The success of “Slumdog Millionaire” has propelled Mumbai girl Freida Pinto into instant fame with the former model going from anonymity to international celebrity within a span of few months. Fashion bible Vogue has lauded her as a style icon for her fashion choices at the coveted red carpet events attended by her.

The 24-year-old actress features in a smouldering new shoot for the Indian edition of Vogue magazine, which brands her as a “style icon”. The Vogue cover emerged just hours after it was revealed that Frieda is lined up to star in Woody Allen’s next film.

Allen moved quickly to secure the services of the 24-year-old Pinto, the latest in a long line of female muses featured in his films, including actresses like Scarlett Johansson and Diane Keaton. Pinto will star alongside Hollywood stars Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Anthony Hopkins in what will only be her second film.Filming will start in London this summer after the success of Allen’s latest hit Vicky Cristina Barcelona , which won actress Penelope Cruz her first Oscar.

The moments that are treasured by all of us live deep inside our heart till the end of our life.. We experience a lot of moments in our life but some of these moments will be greeted by our heart for our life time. These moments turn as memories if it was  in the past and these moments turn as desire if it is to be in the future and these moments are worth our life if it is in the present.  Memories represents an individuals worth of being a part of this entire world but these moments represents the memory of an individual to be filled with tear in his eyes if it is all over… Here are some of those moments that we treasure in life time that may tune you all to our world of dreams and toward your beloved ones…

1. Lying in the bed and listening to the rain outside!!!

2.Thinking about the person you love!!!

3.Taking a long drive on a calm road!!!

4.Finding money in your old jeans just when you need it!!!

5.Holding hands with your friends!!!

6.Getting a hug from some one you love!!!

7.On a beautiful starry night having a look at the waves of the sea and admiring it!!!

8.The moment your eyes are filled with tears after a big laugh!!!

9. Meeting your friend after a long gap unexpectedly!!!

Hope you all will share with me your beautiful moments that you will treasure for your life…

The Lunar map is also revealing secrets about the Moon’s interior — and hinting about Mars’s interior as well.The surface can tell us a lot about what’s happening inside the Moon, but until now mapping has been very limited. For instance, with this new high-resolution map, we can confirm that there is very little water on the Moon today, even deep in the interior.

Using the laser altimeter (LALT) instrument on board the Japanese Selenological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) satellite, the researchers mapped the Moon at an unprecedented 15-kilometer  resolution.

The map is the first to cover the Moon from pole to pole, with detailed measures of surface topography, on the dark side of the moon as well as the near side. The highest point — on the rim of the Dririchlet-Jackson basin near the equator — rises 11 kilometers (more than 6.5 miles) high, while the lowest point — the bottom of Antoniadi crater near the south pole rests 9 kilometers deep.

If water flowed beneath the lunar surface, the crust would be somewhat flexible, but it wasn’t. The surface was too rigid to allow for any liquid water, even deep within the Moon.Earth’s surface is more flexible, by contrast, with the surface rising or falling as water flows above or below ground. Even our planet’s plate tectonics is due in part to water lubricating the crust.

The LALT map is the most detailed lunar map ever created. The last three Apollo missions mapped part of the surface in the early 1970s, and the 1994 Clementine mission in offered a resolution between 20-60 kilometers in certain locations, but not the entire surface.

“Slumdog Millionaire”, by British film maker Danny Boyle was set and shot in Mumbai has won prestigious 8 oscars that includes 2 awards on the music category by the great musician AR Rahmann from Tamilnadu, the south of India. Danny Boyle has won the best director award for the ultimately hopeful tale of a young orphan who risks it all for love and a shot at instant wealth as a TV game show contestant.

The Academy awards that was announced on monday morning, Slumdog Millionaire took top honours with an against-all-odds love story that resonated with recession weary moviegoers worldwide. The small budget british film shot in the slums of Mumbai was named the best picture as widely predicted won eight oscars. This score of 8 came out of 10 nominations in nine categories. This emphatic triumphant victory created waves of excitement throughout India.

The time has come. The film Slumdog Millionaire which was sure shot favourite to hit the oscars a few days ago finally came out with absolute glory. This film emerged as a big winner on the 81st annual Academy Oscar Awards. Besides Best Picture and Best Director the film earned oscars for Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing, Original Score and Song.

The Music Director AR Rehamnn, who lives in the heart of all Indians, became the first Indian to win 2 Oscars. This simple musician has created history that is recognized and appreciated not only by India but also the entire world.He humbly thanked the whole crew involved in the film making and acknowledged Mumbai while accepting his golden trophy. He also thanked the ALMIGHTY for gifting him with 2 prestigious Oscar awards.

Scientists have convinced that Water existed on Mars, atleast in it’s history. So considering the fact that water acts as the only source for many lives, provokes us with a thought whether Life exists on Mars?
Lets move deep into this topic and explore…

What is less known is how much water occupied the red planet and what happened to it during its geological march to the present. Mostly, evidence has pointed to a period when clay-rich minerals were formed by water, followed by a drier time, when salt-rich, acidic water affected much of the planet. Assuming that happened, the thinking goes, it would have been difficult for life, if it did exist, to have survived and for scientists to find traces of it.

Now a research team has provided a evidence for the presence of carbonates on Mars that shows that Mars could have been the home for watery environments in the past. The red planet close to the earth is neither too hot nor too cold. At the same time it is not too acidic. So it’s just the right place.

Finding carbonates indicates that Mars had neutral to alkaline waters when the minerals formed in the mid-latitude region more than 3.6 billion years ago. Carbonates dissolve quickly in acid, therefore their survival challenges suggest that an exclusively acidic environment later cloaked the planet.This could open up a range of environment on Mars.

So the researchers say that the presence of carbonate mineral bolsters chances of environment on Mars.

A new phone based on Google’s operating system Android has been unveiled by Vodafone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The touchscreen HTC Magic will feature a 3.2 Megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, and GPS, but no slide-out keyboard.

The first “Google phone”, called the G1, was launched in September by HTC and is exclusive to T-mobile.The Magic will feature new Android firmware, known as “Cupcake”, with changes based on G1 user suggestions.The Magic will go on sale to Vodafone customers in the UK, Germany, Spain and France, and non-exclusively in Italy.

If the device hits an anticipated price point of between 99 and 199 euros, it would be pitched at the broader phone market.With that range of prices, it’s not aimed at the same audience as, say, the iPhone, it’s looking more at a broader appeal for people.

The HTC Magic has a proprietary headphone jack, and so will not accept many standard headphones.The device comes pre-loaded with Google applications, such as Maps, Mail, Search and You Tube.

The cool Continent Antartica is warming more than expected. Scientists studying climate change have long believed that while most of the rest of the globe has been getting steadily warmer, a large part of Antarctica – the East Antarctic Ice Sheet – has actually been getting colder.
But new research shows that for the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world. In fact, the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning that on average the continent has got more warmeThe scientists found temperature measurements from weather stations corresponded closely with satellite data for overlapping time periods. That allowed them to use the satellite data as a guide to deduce temperatures in areas of the continent without weather stations.

A major reason most of Antarctica was thought to be cooling is because of a hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer that appears during the spring months in the Southern Hemisphere’s polar region.In any case, efforts to repair the ozone layer eventually will begin taking effect and the hole could be eliminated by the middle of this century. If that happens, all of Antarctica could begin warming on a par with the rest of the world.

If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter’s gravitational pull could be creating powerful waves in Europa’s ocean. As those waves dissipate, they would give off significant heat energy.

Depending on the amount of tilt, the heat generated by the ocean flow could be 100 to thousands of times greater than the heat generated by the flexing of Europa’s rocky core in response to gravitational pull from Jupiter and the other moons circling that planet.
The current assumption is that oceans on moons are heated mainly by this flexing of their cores. In the case of Europa, it also has been thought that the thick ice covering its ocean probably generates some heat as two sides of cracked ice rub together in response to gravitational pull.

These factors are important considerations if exploratory missions are ever sent to Europa in search of life. Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth’s moon, is one of Jupiter’s 63 moons. With surface temperatures as cold as minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, Europa’s surface is covered with a thick layer of ice. There is evidence of a liquid ocean beneath the ice and, if there is volcanic activity on the sea floor, this could be a recipe for generating microorganisms that live without sunlight, perhaps like the microorganisms found at hydrothermal vents and other places on Earth.

Many planets and moons are known to be tilted within their orbital plane. The Earth, for example, has an axial tilt of about 23 degrees. It’s why the northern and southern hemispheres have different seasons, depending on whether they are tilted more toward or away from the sun.

Previous theoretical calculations expected Europa to have an axial tilt of at least 0.1 degrees. It hasn’t been measured and could be bigger than this. But even at this minimum value the tidal flow on Europa using Tyler’s new calculation is quite strong – some 10 centimeters a second – and enough to cause significant heating.

The new calculation differs from previous ones in that it allows a more realistic dynamic response of the ocean to the tidal forces.His assumptions and calculations led him to say that he thinks this kind of wave action could be the dominant heat source in the oceans of Europa and other moons.

Life, according to me is a god’s gift to man in this lovely universe. But the interesting and important part of life is how much we really enjoy  and treasure it. Follow the tips below and i’m sure you can mark a difference soon.

Tips for Happy Life…

• Never Be Late
• Don’t Cheat
• Live Simple
• Expect Little
• Work More
• Talk Less
• Always Smile
• Faith in God
• Love All
• Have Fresh and Good Thoughts
• Have patience

Wishing you all a very happy and enjoyable life.