GOOD FRIEND: John Abraham

John's fida over Abhi       Aishwarya Rai Bachchan has a huge fan following. Most people will tell you that they watched Raavan for her.However, John Abraham is very clear that whenhe watches raavan, it will only be for Abhishek Bachchan. John and Abhishek - the famous Dostana Jodi - share a warm camaraderie, and though their real-life friendship is not the kind that can tickle your funny bone, John genuinely likes AB Junior. The two of them are all set to fly to London, July end for their Dostana sequel. And before he leaves for London, John wants to catch up on Raavan. "I'm a huge Mani Ratnam fan, and I like Abhishek a lot, " says Johnny boy. Reason enough for junior to rejoice.

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RED HOT: Sanjaana Singh

TAKING THE  GLAM ROUTE       Actress Sanjaana Singh has no qualms about doing tem numbers in films. This PYT, who has, in fact, danced for a number in Marupadiyum Oru Kadhal, says, "I debuted in Kollywood with Renigunta as the second lead, but I'm sure this sexy number will catapult me to fame, I love dancing and I'm confident i can look glamorous without looking vulgar. So, I've absolutely no reason to feel insecure,"         But, there's no denying that Sanjanan's waiting for the perfect break that will estabilish her as a heroine. "I'm working for the perfect break that will establish her as a heroing, "I'm working in two Hindi projects - Jalawa Yeh Zindagi with Irfan Khan and Zameen Se Aasman with new comers - but I'm waiting for a break in Kollywood," she says.         Does that mean she will not do cameos? "I have an offer to do an item number in one of Gautham Menon's productions, and am all for it. i will make an exception" she smiles.

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BOOKED: Divya Dutta

Divya Dutta goes back to school       Divya dutta was handed a text book instead of a script while shooting for Amole Gupte's film recently. The actress went to shoot for the film at a school for gupte's Stanley Ka Dabba, and when she asked for the script, she was handed a text book! The actress was obviously aback. Stanley Ka Dabba will be a film based on kids by the actor-producer-director, who recently also made a 10-minute documentary about children. From no scripts, to bound scripts, to using a text book in place of scripts, bollywood's ways are truly fascinating.

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SENSIBLE: Aamir Khan

Aamir Khan talks money      While the Johnny-come-lately sorts of Bollywood are constantly talking money. Bollywood supremo Aamir Khan, who is the highest paid acctor, currently has a different take on the green stuff. Aamir came up with a surprising statement saying. "I have never thaought of money as something that is there t give me a sense of security. My needs are not that many. I am earning more than enoughto cover my needs. I have a very simple life." The actor added. "The value of money is only as much as you can use it. If I have thousands of cores in the bank, or if I have an equal amuont invested somewhere, it can not give me any pleasure. Money is of no use unless I use it. If money is not used, then it only has conceptual value. It is in your head. The way I look at it, at the end of the day, you're going to live in a house, eat two three meals a day and that's about it. After a point, money ceases to mean anything."

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News: General

Plane-like black boxes in cars to help after crashes  Computer scientists in the US are developing technology that will transform cars into intelligent vehicles fitted with aircraft-style black boxes that can record information about driving behaviour during accidents. The car, which is being developed by researchers at computer chip giant intel, will record information about the vehicle speed, steering and braking along with video footage from inside and outside the vehicle, the Telegraph reported. This would be automatically sent to police and insurance companies in the event of an accident to make it easier to determine the cause of car crashes and identify the person responsible. Satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit:    A new US air force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth. If all goes as planned, the Space-Based Space Survelliance satellite, scheduled for a July 8 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, will have an unobstructed, around-the-clock view of the increasingly heavy traffic in earth orbit - something the air force doesn't have now. Eating walnuts keeps brain sharp:    Daily consumption of three-four kernels of walnuts could make your heart healthy and brain sharp, a Russian nutritionist has said. Anna Protsenko said that since walnuts contain a range of biologically active substances above all the Omega. 3, their regular consumption has a positive effect on the vessels of the brain. Therefore, they are recommended for people engaged in intense mental or physical labour.

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News: GREEN DRIVE CAR 'fuel' from CO2

Soon, vehicles to run on 'fuel' from CO2 London: Scientists are inching closer toproduce a new fuel from carbon dioxide and sunlight which they claim will help meet world's energy needs and minimice carbon emissions.         A team at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico,is developing the technique which will produce "synthetic liquid fuels" in solar-powered reactors. Experiments have also shown that the reactors can absorb carboin dioxide (CO2) and turn it into carbon monoxide. The same reactors can also be used to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen.        The two can then be reacted together with a catalyst to form hydrocarbon fuels. Researchers say fuels made in this way are sufficiently similar to those currently used in cars.

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News: First Hydrogen town in the World

Hy-life: Welcome to world's first hydrogen town Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Hybrid Cars, Homes in a Trial Project In Japan      For Yosuke Ito, having a Toyota Prius on the driveway is not green enough. His house, as well as his car, is a hybrid, "I'm living the Hy-life," he said.       The single-storey home he shares with his wife, Mitsuko, near Fukuoka, 965km west of Tokyo, has mains electricity but chiefly runs on electricity but chiefly runs on electricity and het generated from hydrogen, which is cheaper and more environmentally friendly than conventional sources of power. "We save thousands of yen a year and we don't pollute so much, "he said.       Ito, 68, an unlikely green revolutionary who used to travel around Japan in a petrol-fuelled car selling soy sause, is one of hundreds of homeowners who have signed up to join the Fukuoka hydrogen town project.       Private companies, such as Nippon Oil and Nippon Steel, backed by central government, believe that hydrogenis the fuel of the future and are creating the world's first hydrogen-powered town and building the first "hydrogen corridor" that they say will eventually run from Fukuoka to Osaka and Tokyo.       The idea is simple, Supply homes with hydrogen to generateelectricity to power lights and heat water. At the same time, create a network of hydrogen filling stations so that drivers can top up their hydrogen-fuelled cars, such as Honda's stylish FCX Clarity.       So far, so futuristic, But there are problems. A hybrid house is expensive. The fuel-cell stacks cost some Euro10,000 - although government subsidies reduce that figure by about half. Nippon Oil acknowledges that even this is a gigh price to pay. Manufacturing improvements will bring the price down to about Euro 2,500 by 2015, it said.

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Health Issue: BOON FOR MOTHERS

Goats bioengineered to provide human milk Moscow: Russia has bred transgenic goats which give milk identical to human milk and coould be used as an alternative to breast feeding as it contains the human protein known as lactoferrin, absent in daity animals, according to a report.        lactoferrin protein, present in human milk, protects a newborn baby against viruses and bacteria until the baby's own immunity system becomes resistant enough.        "The first two kids with a human genome in their DNA were raised back in 2007 in the village of Goltsovo, outside Moscow, and were named Lac-1 and Lac-2, after lactoferrin , "RIA Novosti reported.             These two goats and their offspring became part of a joint Russian-Belarus BelRos Transgen researchproject, aimed at studying the properties of goat milk containg lactoferrin.                 Experiments to obtain goat milk with lactoferrin have been going on in russia and Belarus for the last five years. Scientists chose the goat as a "supplier" of the human milk protein because this animal is easy to keep and is not susceptible to disease. More importantly, goat milk cause no allergic reactions in infants.

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New Way To Detect Viral Infection

New way to detect viral infections gives homeopathy a boost Nobel laureate Luc Montagnier, who discovered the link between HIV and AIDS, has suggested a method for detection viral infections which bears close parallels to the basic tenets of homeopathy.       A Nobel laureate who discovered thelink between HIV and AIDS has suggested there could be a firm scientific foundation for homeopathy.       Professor Luc Montagnler, a French virologist, stunned his colleagues at a prestigious international conference when he presented a new method for detecting viral infections which bore close parallels to the basic, tenets of homeopathy. Al though fellow Nobel prize winners - who view homeopathy as quackery - were left shaking their heads, Montagnier's comments were rapidly embraced by homeopaths in UK eager for greater credibility.      Montagnier told the conference last week that solutions containing DNA of pathogenic bacteria and viruses, including HIV, "could emit low frequency radio waves" that induced surrounding water molecules to become arranged into "nanostructures" These water molecules, he said, could also emit radio waves. He suggested that water could retain such properties even after the original solutions were massively diluted, to the point where the original DNA had effectively vanished. In this way, he suggested, water could retain the "memory" of substances with which it had been in contact and doctors could use the ecisslons to detect disease.       For the lay person such claims may sound technical but uncontroversial. For scientists they are highly provocative because they embody principles which are extremely similar to those said to underpin homeopathy. Homeopathic medicines work on the principle that a toxic. substance taken in minute amounts will cure same symptoms that it would cause if it were taken in large amounts.        Montagnier's claims come at a sensitive time,with the British Medical Association's annual conference last week calling for the National Health Service to stop spending pounds 4m a year on homeopathy.

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Joha Abaham and Bipasha Invite Pary for Dhoni

John-Bips to host party for Dhoni        After the action in Dehradun over the weekend, the excitement is going to shift to Mumbai. And, TOI has it that John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, who are Mahendra singh Dhoni's closest freinds in Mumbai, are going to be holding a party for the newly-married Team India captain at John's duplex penthouse apartment in Sea Glimpse building, Bandra Bandstand. This prty, a sort of reception for Dhoni and his new bride Sakshi, may happen on Wednesday, July?, which is also the crickets birthday.        Bipasha, who was shooting in Dlu for Priyadarshan's "Aakrosh' on Saturday, could not accompany John to Dehradun for the wedding, because the couple (like everybody else, including Dhoni's cricketing teammates) got short notice. John himself, who spoke to TOI from the Dehradun airport, "Had no idea that he was heading for the ceremony. I just got a call from Mahi saying, Bro, please come... and I rushed off," said the Bollywood hunk who did not find the time to even pick up a gift for his buddy. Bipasha was attending to that.       She and John are both returning to Mumbai on Monday, he has to report on the sets of Vishal Bharadwaj's 'Saat khoon Maaf', and Dhoni and Sakshi are slated to come to the city on Wednesday after a brief stopover in Delhi. As towho will be invited to the party at John's home, according to Bipasha, only people close to them with whom Dhoni is comfortable. Apparently, the swashbuckling cricketer is a very private and reticent man, he doesn't know too many people in Mumbai. But he is a big fan of Ajay Devgn, revealed Bips.      The Bollywood couple have beenon foursome dates with Dhoni and Sakshi before and are pleased at the marriage. John gave his friend's choice a thumbs up. "Sakshi is a nice girl, very sweet... damn cute and pretty, a small-town girl with good middle-class values, she is perfect for Dhoni. In our industry, he'd be devoured, he's such a wonderful and amazing person." said John. While Bips added from Diu, "I'm over the moon. I can't tell you how happy I am that Mahi and Sakshi are getting married."

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