Chicago: Grammy-winning blues musician Willie 'Big Eyes' Smith, who was a longtime sideman for Muddy Waters, died of a stroke on Friday in Chicago at age 75, according to a statement on his website. Smith's death comes less than six months after the passing at age 97 of blues master Joe Willie 'Pinetop' Perkins, with whom Smith shared a Grammy win this year in the best traditional blues album category...
12:36 PM, Sep 17, 2011
Mumbai: The Prime Minister has become the latest in the list of public figures to pledge to donate his eyes. But alarming statistics show that last year 70 per cent of the eyes donated went to waste. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pledged to donate his eyes. It is a good cause given that 15 million Indians are blind. Yet, his eyes may not be usable as transplants, depending on...
08:54 AM, Sep 13, 2011
New Delhi: For the victims of the Gulbarg Society massacre, it's been a nine-year long wait for justice. Imitiyaz Pathan, who lost 8 members of his family is among the few who came forward to testify against the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Imtiyaz Pathan clearly remembers February 28, 2002, the day when rampaging mobs slaughtered eight members of his family, including his mother at Ahmedabad's Gulbarg Society. Imtiaz is...
08:28 AM, Sep 12, 2011
New Delhi: Setting an example, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Singh on Thursday pledged to donate their eyes. They signed the pledge form on the occasion of National Eye Donation day. There are over 4.5 million visually challenged persons in the country and doctors feel that at least three million can gain their sight through cornea transplant. Eye donation can help restore vision among the corneally-blind. There...
12:01 PM, Sep 08, 2011
Washington: Playing video games could help improve the vision of adults suffering from amblyopia or lazy eye, scientists have found. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, found that adults with amblyopia -- a brain disorder in which vision in one eye does not develop properly " experienced marked improvement in 3-D depth perception and the sharpness of their vision after spending 40 hours playing video games. Amblyopia is the...
03:56 PM, Sep 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Punjab and Haryana High Court pulled up the Hooda government on Monday for flouting land laws in order to aid the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust in Gurgaon's Ulawas village. It is being reported that the site for the Indira Gandhi Eye Hospital and Research Centre in Gurgaon's Ulawas village, to be set up by the Trust, was granted eight acres of land in violation of the land...
08:57 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Forced to live away from India, M.F. Husain at one time wanted to destroy all his paintings, says his son Owais Husain who is hungering to conquer the wasteland of possibilities left behind by his illustrious father. "I feel suddenly in life there is a wasteland in front of me, but the wasteland is rich, inspiring a hunger in me to devour the wasteland. I am ready, actually...
11:49 AM, Jul 05, 2011
Los Angeles:'Twilight' author Stephenie Meyer's next big-screen project has a release date. Distributor Open Road Films announced Monday that the movie adaptation of Meyer's apocalyptic sci-fi novel 'The Host' will arrive in theaters March 29, 2013. "The Host" stars Saoirse Ronan ("Hanna," "The Lovely Bones") in a story of one of the last holdouts against an invasion by entities that take over human minds while leaving their bodies intact. Published...
12:16 PM, Jun 28, 2011
Rihanna and Taylor Swift were two of the key winners at the Billboard Music Awards, which returned after a five-year hiatus with a major dose of star power, featuring Beyonce, U2, the Black Eyed Peas - even First Lady Michelle Obama. Like many other awards shows, the three-hour Billboard Awards served more as a promotional vehicle for today's top pop stars than a trophy presentation. The show was packed with...
11:56 AM, May 23, 2011
New Delhi: RTI documents in CNN-IBN's possession suggest repeated violation of government and Central Vigilance Commission norms in the procurement of marine equipment. Such gear is meant for use in surveys by the hydrographic wing of the navy. But senior naval officers CNN-IBN spoke to say the allegations are not true. The RTI documents allege - in 2007 the Navy Hydrographer's Office issued a tender for six survey vessels. The...
09:18 AM, May 18, 2011
London: American hip hop band Black Eyed Peas have opened a special school in New York for local teenagers to learn how to use music and video equipment. The "Boom Boom Pow" hitmakers teamed up their charitable Peapod foundation with the Adobe Foundation, run by heads at software giant Adobe Systems, for their latest venture, reports contactmusic.com. The group has already set up three youth voices academies throughout California and...
12:05 PM, Apr 21, 2011
London: Members of the American hip hop band Black Eyed Peas have dedicated their latest video "Just Can't Get Enough" to tsunami victims in Japan. The video was shot in Japan just a week before the 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the country March 11. They have added a special message to the video, urging fans to donate to the ongoing relief efforts. The promo opens with the message,...
02:35 PM, Mar 16, 2011
London: A laptop prototype has been unveiled with a device that allows a user to control the computer by sight. The eye-tracking technology monitors the user's gaze and works out where they're looking on the computer screen and means, among other things, that users can play a game where they defeat enemies because the game's lasers hit where they look. It can also scroll text on the screen in response...
12:36 PM, Mar 04, 2011
Moscow: The daughter of the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, has filed an application to register in the name of her father a trademark titled "Yury Alexeyevich Gagarin". "I do not consider it shameful given that everyone is making money on Gagarin's name. Why can't his family do it?" head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov said. Gagarin's youngest daughter, Yulia, filed the application in the Russian Federal Service...
11:25 AM, Feb 01, 2011
Hyderabad: The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), a premier research organisation engaged in frontier areas of modern biology, is confident of achieving a breakthrough in making artificial corneas in next 4-5 years, which they claim will put end to eye donations and serve as a boon for cataract patients. According to Dr Ch Mohan Rao, Director, CCMB two layers of the cornea have already been developed and the...
02:51 PM, Jan 19, 2011
London: Waking up before sunrise leaves you in a dark mood? Don't worry, as researchers have developed a new eye mask which they say can stimulate your body and help brighten your morning. According to its developers, the special eye mask called LUMI sleep mask is embedded with LED lights that begin to glow half an hour before the programmed time and slowly get brighter, helping the wearer to wake...
07:43 PM, Jan 12, 2011
San Francisco: The departure of Advanced Micro Devices' chief executive followed months of concern among some board members that he wasn't doing enough to get the chip maker into the exploding mobile market, a company source said. PC chip maker AMD's shares slumped 9 per cent to close at $8.36 on Tuesday after the company unexpectedly said late the day before that Dirk Meyer was leaving as the result of...
11:41 AM, Jan 12, 2011
San Francisco: Advanced Micro Devices Inc Inc's chief executive resigned on Monday as the world's No. 2 maker of PC microprocessor chips said it was seeking a new CEO to boost the company's growth, sending shares down nearly 4 percent in after-hours trading. AMD said the resignation of Dirk Meyer was the result of a "mutual agreement" with the board of directors and that Chief Financial Officer Thomas Seifert will...
11:45 AM, Jan 11, 2011
New Delhi: What's common among Fergie, Nicki Minaj and Julia Roberts? The Hollywood A-listers have all worn creations by Indian designers in the past year which saw 'desi' fashion going global in a big way. Taking a break from the staple black dress, the stars sported colourful ensembles by Indian designers on the red carpet and won brownie points for it. 'Black Eyed Peas' singer Fergie has become a devoted...
01:44 PM, Dec 29, 2010
London: The 'Rockstar' of Bollywood, Ranbir Kapoor has clinched the 'Sexiest Asian Man' title, beating off competition from favourites like John Abraham and Hrithik Roshan. The Kapoor scion famous for his high-profile romances topped the survey conducted by the London weekly, Eastern Eye. "If the women didn't like me I would feel that something is going wrong, but it feels good. I do understand that the fans I have comprise...
01:55 PM, Dec 19, 2010
