New Delhi, Aug 23 : "Gali gali mein shor hai, sabhi neta chor hain (there is a refrain in every alley, all leaders are thieves)". Be it old slogans with a twist, new catchphrases, witty one-liners or poetry, the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement suddenly seems to be inspiring the common person take a shot at protest literature.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Despite being on fast for eight days, social activist Anna Hazare on Tuesday said that he is fine and would continue his fast for a week or more. Addressing the gathering at Ramlila ground, Hazare said: "I have been fasting for eight days but I am fine. There is no cause for concern. The doctors attending to me won''t let me die. I''ve lost 5.5 kilos."
"I am ready for dialogue but it should be political one and direct with the government mediators," he added.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Fasting activist Anna Hazare Tuesday urged his supporters not to resort to violence.
"Do not take to violence. If you do, the government will crush you. The government is very powerful," Hazare told a large crowd at the Ramlila ground here on the eighth day of his fast in support of a strong Lokpal bill.
Non-violence, he said, "is a very powerful weapon".
"This is the reason the government has not been able to crush us so far," he said.

Mumbai, Aug 23 : The posts of chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of public sector banks should be bifurcated to ensure effective checks and balances, Reserve Bank of India Governor D. Subbarao said Tuesday. "We will discuss this issue with the government," Subbarao said while addressing a conference organised here jointly by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Indian Bank's Association.

New Delhi, Aug 23 :  Anna Hazare has hogged the limelight in the virtual
world. However it's no longer just voices in support of the elderly
leader and his movement -- there has been a steady rise of those
opposing it as well. On social networking site Facebook for instance, a group named "I hate Anna Hazare" has registered 2,301 supporters.
Wrote Vijayan Kallil, one of the supporters: "The Jan Lokpal bill will
create a totalitarian monster in the name of fighting corruption. It
must never be passed."

New Delhi, Aug 23 : The government has called an all-party meeting Wednesday to discuss and evolve a wider consensus on Anna Hazare's Lokpal bill demands, sources said Tuesday.
The sources from various political parties confirmed that the government has convened the meeting Wednesday afternoon to find a way to break the stand-off with the anti-corruption crusader whose fast entered its eighth day Tuesday.

Jaipur, Aug 23 : Will a Rs. 1 lakh car prove to be a million-dollar idea? In an effort to get more people to undergo sterilisation, the authorities in two districts of Rajasthan are offering them a chance to win Tata Nano cars.
After Jhunjhunu introduced the scheme last month, it is now Pali district where one can get sterilised and drive away a Nano.
The medical and health department in Pali recently announced the scheme in which Nano cars will be offered on a lottery basis to people who get sterilised there

Islamabad, Aug 23 : President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a provincial minister who lost his cool and told Interior Minister Rehman Malik not to frequently visit violence-hit Karachi. Malik retorted he won't visit the port city, if that's what the minister wanted. Zardari Tuesday summoned Sindh Senior Minister Zulfiqar Mirza to Islamabad, reported Geo News.
During the Sindh cabinet meeting, Zulfikar Mirza became angry and told Rehman Malik to stay in Islamabad and leave Karachi to the provincial setup.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Reiterating that there was no disagreement that corruption needed to be tackled, union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid Tuesday defended the government's Lokpal (ombudsman) bill and said it was "very strong". As Anna Hazare's fast against the government's version of the Lokpal bill entered the eighth day and parliament was adjourned on the issue, Khurshid said: "The government's Lokpal bill is not weak, it is very strong. I have said that again and again and for many points the credit goes to Team Anna."

Mumbai, Aug 23 : Indian equities markets opened on a dull note Tuesday with a benchmark index trading a tad lower than its previous close. The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 16,446.85 points, was ruling at 16,292.93 points -- down 48.77 points or 0.3 percent compared to its previous close at
16,341.7 points.
The 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange was also trading lacklustre, 0.22 percent down at 4,888.2 points.

Mumbai, Aug 23 - Sarod players Amaan and Ayaan Ali Khan have collaborated with American singer-songwriter Carrie Newcomer to create their new album "Everything Is Everywhere", a mix of Indian classical and western country music. They say it is aimed at a niche audience.
"The album has something for the lovers of classical music and also something for the lovers of country music," Ayaan told IANS.
Their father, maestro Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, too features in "Everything Is Everywhere".

Book: "Mumbai Fables"; Author: Gyan Prakash; Publisher: Harper Collins-India; Pages: 352; Price: Rs. 425 As described in an earlier work, Mumbai comes across as maximum city in "Mumbai Fables" too, a new release that traces the evolution of India's commercial hub from a trading port and a bastion of Parsis to an icon of India's new economic muscle.
Writer Gyan Prakash, an urban historian, documents the city's tumultuous years of unbridled growth, society gossip, scandals, Bollywood, politics, annual deluge, terror attacks and economic boom.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Social activist Anna Hazare''s fast for an effective Jan Lokpal Bill entered its eighth day on Tuesday.
Addressing mediapersons, civil society activist Arvind Kejriwa, said they want political dialogues since this is a political problem.
"It''s not a bureaucratic or technical problem it''s completely political problem, so solution is also political," he added.

Washington, August 23 : The dwarf planet 2007 OR10 - nicknamed `Snow White' - is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing volcanoes, according to astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
The new findings also suggested that the red-tinged dwarf planet might be covered in a thin layer of methane, the remnants of an atmosphere that's slowly being lost into space.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Team Anna wants the government to send "responsible representative" for negotiations, social activist Arvind Kejriwal said Tuesday, denying reports that it would talk only to the prime minister or Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
"This news is wrong, we never said that we would only talk to the PM or Rahul Gandhi. We just want the government to send responsible representatives," Kejriwal told reporters as Anna Hazare's fast for a strong Lokpal bill entered its eighth day.

Chennai, Aug 23 : The worker's strike at the auto ancillary company Comstar Automotive Technologies Pvt Ltd entered the 13th day Tuesday, with the two parties involved in the dispute sticking to their positions.
Around 425 workers of the company have been on strike since Aug 11, demanding recognition of their union and negotiations over a three-year wage accord that ended in March.

Washington, Aug 23 : Indian-origin American, Deven Sharma, President of Standard & Poor is to step down from his post next month, and leave the company by the end of the year, amid outrage over the company's downgrading of the United States' credit rating.
Sharma's plans to resign come as the ratings agency is under pressure on several fronts, including an inquiry by the Justice Department into its ratings of sub prime mortgage securities, and a push by activist investors to break up its parent company, McGraw-Hill, the New York Times reports.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : The Rajya Sabha was adjourned Tuesday as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that question hour be suspended for a discussion on corruption. As soon as the upper house met, members of the BJP, which had submitted a notice to suspend the question hour and take up the discussion, were up on their feet insisting on their demand.
Ruling party members tried to counter the opposition by shouting slogans demanding the question hour proceed.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : With Anna Hazare's fast at Ramlila Maidan here entering its eighth day Tuesday, hundreds of foreign and Indian journalists are spending hours at the sprawling grounds, reporting every single development of his protest for a stronger anti-corruption bill. Demanding a Jan Lokpal bill that brings the prime minister, the higher judiciary and the conduct of MPs inside parliament within the ambit of a Lokpal (ombudsman), Hazare has been fasting since Aug 16. Initially arrested, he has continued with his fast at Ramlila ground since Friday.

New Delhi, Aug 23 : Activist Anna Hazare has lost around 5.5 kg as his fast for a strong anti-graft bill entered its eighth day here Tuesday, an aide said.
"He (Anna Hazare) has lost a total of around 5.5 kg since he began his fast… his blood pressure is 124/82 and the pulse rate is 84. But he is feeling good," Hazare's confidante Manish Sisodia told reporters.
"Doctors are regularly monitoring him and as of now there is no need to hospitalise him. His condition is stable," added Sisodia.

London, August 22 : A key mechanism used by intestinal cells to defend themselves against one of the world''s most common hospital-acquired bacterial infections has been discovered by researchers.
According to them, the mechanism could be exploited to produce a therapy to protect against the effects of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

London, August 22 : An Indian origin scientist and his colleagues have discovered a molecule that blocks the development and spread of breast cancer.
According to the researchers, the "naturally-occurring molecule" "clamps" on to a cancer-causing protein, preventing it from working.

Washington, August 22 : For all those people who are suffering from the deadly skin cancer melanoma, the invention of a drug that can prolong lives, might bring some relief.
The drug, hailed as the first to prolong the lives of patients suffering from the deadly skin cancer, is a step closer to being made widely available.
Yervoy (ipilimumab) has been awarded a European licence, which means patients in the UK can access it, although it has not yet been approved for use on the NHS.

Mumbai, Aug 22 : Mumbai woke up to the beating of drums on the festival of Janmashtami Monday. With prize money worth lakhs dangled for them, many young men and women got together to form human pyramids to reach a pot of curd hung high and break it, a competition that's part of the annual celebration of Lord Krishna's birthday.
The young men who take part in this hugely popular and colourful spectacle called Dahi Handi are known as Govindas. In the adjoining city of Thane, some of them aimed to break the world record of a nine-layer pyramid by striving to make a 10-layered one.

New Delhi, Aug 22 : The announcement that Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi's sons had been captured by rebel forces was greeted with a roar of approval Monday at the Ramlila Maidan where Anna Hazare is fasting.
Hazare aide Swami Agnivesh declared to the thousands at the site that the sons had been seized and that Gaddafi's end was not far away.
"This is what happens to dictators," Agnivesh said amid applause, adding that there was need for rulers to bow to the wishes of the people.(IANS)

Mumbai, Aug 22 : After the ban on "Aarakshan" in Uttar Pradesh was revoked, director Prakash Jha has decided to make a film on creative freedom and the efforts to muzzle the artiste through extra-constutitional means. His experience of battling various organisations and a state government for the release of "Aarakshan", about the issue of reservations in educatinal insititutes, has inspired a script on the subject.

Beijing, August 22 : The Chinese economy will grow by 9.28 percent this year if the United States avoids a double dip recession and eurozone clears a debt crisis, a report has said. According to economists from China''s Xiamen University and the National University of Singapore, who brought out the report also said that the country will have a GDP growth of 8.91 percent, Xinhua reports.

ew Delhi, Aug 22 : With Anna Hazare's fast demanding a strong Lokpal entered the seventh day today, Union Law and Justice Minister Salman Khurshid has said that there should be a dialogue between the government and civil society representatives to find out a solution that is mutually acceptable by all sections. "There should be dialogue between the two sides (government and civil society). A solution that is mutually acceptable by all sections must be found to this row," Khurshid told media here

London, Aug 21: Actress Jane Fonda has admitted that she used testosterone from the age of 70 to boost her sex life. The double Oscar-winning actress, 73, happily tells of taking the libido-boosting hormones and advises other women to try what is still a controversial treatment.

Mumbai, Aug 22 - It was a big day for designers Kallo Datta and Aneeth Arora as they were short-listed by IMG, organisers of the Lakme Fashion Week (LFW), to represent India with their lines at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 in Berlin in January. The organisers shortlisted the two from a handful of apt designers, as not every designer would be able to represent India in a right manner, said Anjana Sharma, director fashion of IMG Reliance.

Mumbai, Aug 22 - Putting to rest all rumours about their alleged tiff because of Salman Khan's upcoming film "Bodyguard", actresses Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif were seen quite elated in each other's company at the grand finale show of the Lakme Fashion Week

New Delhi, Aug 22 - In his directorial debut "Pyaar Ka Punchnama", Luv Ranjan narrated the perils of falling in love. But his next will be a typical romantic saga because the director feels the much-loved genre has almost disappeared from Bollywood, thanks to romantic comedies.
"I am working on a romantic film now. I had planned it even before 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama'... But I feel true romance has sort of vanished from Bollywood; so I want to bring it alive once again," Ranjan told IANS.

London, Aug 22: Indian batsman Rahul Dravid believes that England's tour of India next year would be one of the biggest challenges for the new world number one-ranked Test team due to different playing conditions.
"The England team will come to India next year, and the Indian team playing at that point of time will be very keen to correct this series. Those will be our conditions, and it will be interesting to see how that series goes in our conditions," Dravid said.

London, August 22: Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre have discovered a mechanism that could explain why stress causes DNA damage. "We believe this paper is the first to propose a specific mechanism through which a hallmark of chronic stress, elevated adrenaline, could eventually cause DNA damage that is detectable," said senior author Robert J. Lefkowitz, M. D., James B. Duke Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at Duke University Medical Centre.

New Delhi, Aug 22 : Stating that corrupt people are sweating with fear, civil society activist Arvind Kejriwal on Monday urged supporters of anti corruption crusader Anna Hazare to remain united, as there are reports of anti social forces hampering the movement.

New Delhi, Aug 22: India opener Virender Sehwag and fast bowler Ishant Sharma have been ruled out of the One-day series against England. Mumbai batsman Ajinkya Rahane and Jharkhand speedster Varun Aaron will replace them for the one-off Twenty20 Aug 31 and five ODIs beginning Sep 3.
Sehwag missed the series against West Indies and the first two Tests against England because of surgery on his right shoulder. He joined the team before the third Test at Edgbaston, but has struggled with the bat.

New Delhi, Aug 22 : A day after Anna Hazare's call 'Lao ya Jao' (Enact the bill or go) triggered a row, Team Anna clarified Monday that it was not seeking to oust the Congress-led government. "Our aim is not to topple the government," Hazare confidant and Right To Information activist Arvind Kejriwal said at the Ramlila ground where the fast by the civil society leader for a strong Lokpal bill entered the seventh day.
Swami Agnivesh, another aide of Hazare, spoke on similar lines earlier.

New Delhi, Aug 22:  Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said Monday that his ministry is drafting a bill for redressing public grievances at the grassroots based on the experience of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Ramesh told reporters that the bill on grievance redressal at the village level was being drafted drawing on the experience of similar mechanism in MGNREGA. He said the draft bill is expected to be put in public domain by the end of this week.

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ANNA'S SEVENTH DAY FAST...

Anna's fast entered seventh day.More and more people are supporting anna.People from all over the country are protesting with anna.Negotiations of  prime minister with anna is continuing but a little movement is seen on passing of janlokpal bill.