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4,294 gallstones removed from bladder of 63-year old man

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Erode (TN), Apr 1 (PTI)

A surgeon at a private hospital here has claimed to have bettered a Guinness Record by removing a whopping 4,294 gallstones totally weighing 300 grams from the bladder of a 63-year old man. The laparascopic surgery was performed recently on Duraisamy, a retired Village Administrative Officer, who had complaints of back pain. A scan revealed the presence of gallstones in the bladder and the patient was advised to go for surgery during which 4,294 small gallstones were removed, Dr T K Swamy said. The patient is keeping good health now.

Swamy claimed removal of 4,294 stones from the bladder was a Guinness record. Earlier, in Germany 3,110 stones were removed from the bladder of a woman. He said he would approach Guinness Records for entry of his feat.

source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com / Home> Wires> Latest News / PTI / April 01st, 2012

Sachin Tendulkar thanks Dhanush for inspirational song

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 Sachin Tendulkar / DNA

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has left many in awe of his game, but guess who had the master blaster bowled over? Well, it was none other than South singer and son-in-law of actor Rajnikanth, Dhanush.

The Kolaveri Di hitmaker had made a special video anthem for Sachin recently. The cricketer made a special note of the video at a recent event, where he expressed gratitude to Dhanush.

“I saw the video,” admitted Sachin, adding it was really flattering to have an anthem made for him.“All I can say is that I’m really thankful you know. He (Dhanush) has put in so much effort and time to go that extra mile and dedicate this song to me,” he said.
Though Dhanush’s new video could not match up to the craze generated with his song Kolaveri Di, it has grabbed many eyeballs.

The cricketer, too, could not resist checking out the video when he learned about it.“I would once again say a big thank you to him (Dhanush)… I saw it and I liked it,” said Sachin, at the event that was meant to commemorate his 100th 100s, his latest feat.

He continued, “It has been done with so much of dedication. I really appreciate that… the efforts taken and all the hard work that went into making the video. He has truly put his heart into it.”

source: http://www.dnaindia.com/ Daily News & Analysis / Home> Sport> Report / by Shreya Badola / Place:Mumbai, Agency:DNA / Friday, March 30th, 2012

Rs.1 crore Jindal prize for Dr.Kalam, Santosh Hegde

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Caption: Dr. Kalam, Justice Hegde

New Delhi, Feb.16:

Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and former Lokayukta of Karnataka Justice N. Santosh Hegde have been selected by the Sitaram Jindal Foundation for S.R. Jindal Prize for their outstanding contributions in their respective fields.

The prize amount carries a cash of Rs. 1 crore. Sitaram Jindal Foundation will felicitate 25 other achievers also at the award ceremony to be held on Feb. 23.

S.R. Jindal Prizes will also be awarded for crusade against corruption, rural development and gallantry.

Patron of the Foundation Sitaram Jindal said, Dr. Abdul Kalam has been selected for the award for his contributions in science and technology while Justice Santosh Hegde will be honoured for his extraordinary service in social development.

source: http://www.StarofMysore.com / General News / February 16th, 2012

48.2-ft dosa for Guinness record

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Madurai hoteliers on Sunday dished out a 48.2-feet-long dosa in a bid to enter the Guinness Book of World Records.

“We have outdone the previous record for the longest dosa, which was 38.2-feet-long, made by Vijayawada Hotel Owners’ Association,” said a confident chef K. Damodaran under whose supervision the dosa was made.

The Temple City Group of Hotels had sponsored the event as part of Suvai Durbar, a three-day food festival organised by Madurai Round Table 14 to raise funds to improve infrastructure facilities in government schools. The food festival culminated with the sizzling dosa-making feat.

“We wanted to roll out a dosa measuring 64 feet in view of chief minister Jayalalithaa’s 64 birthday but we ended up at 48.2 feet as the dosa pan did not get the required heat from the 38 burners that were on. Yet, we have beaten the previous record,” said K.L. Kumar, proprietor of the Temple City Hotels.

While 24 kg of batter and 3 litres of oil were used, 18 masters were roped in to make the lengthy crispy brown dosa that was rolled carefully without damaging it or spoiling the colour. Later, it was sliced and served free to the crowd of visitors that flocked the festival venue.

“On the first day, we came out with 45 feet dosa and increased this to 48 feet on Saturday. On Sunday, we added an additional 0.2 feet. In all, we have used 200 kg of batter,” Kumar said.

Chef K. Damodaran and his team attempt to set a record by making a 48.2-feet long dosa at Suvai Durbar, a food festival held at Tamukkam grounds in Madurai on Sunday — DC

The event was videographed and the CDs would be sent to the adjudicators of Guinness and Limca books of records, Kumar said.Two giant monitors were placed to enable the visitors to watch the event that started at 5 pm and ended at 8 pm.

A sizeable number of foreigners were seen enjoying the south Indian delicacy along with the locals post the event.

source: http://www.DeccanChronicle.com / Home> Channels> Cities> Region> Madurai / February 20th, 2012

Rs 30 crore gold car on display in fort city

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Vellore:

India’s first Golden car made by the Tata Group and valued at `30 crore is on display here for the next four days at the Dhandapani Mudaliyar Kalyana Mantapam. VIT vice president G V Selvam inaugurated the exhibition of the car here on Tuesday.

“The gold car is a brand initiative aimed to create awareness among the general public that gold ornaments from the tiniest size of 0.2 gm to 80 kg could be designed by the Tata group”, noted S Balachandar, branch manager of Gold Plus here.

R Suresh, head, Business Analytics, Titan Industries at Bangalore said, the Goldplus Nano Car, a Tata product was declared as the first ever gold jewellery car that embodies the 5,000 years old jewellery making profession in India. He added, “The car’s body, made of 80 kg of 22-carat solid gold and 15 kg silver, features artistic designs made with precious stones (navaratna). As many as 14 techniques of jewellery making have gone behind the effort. From the intricate ‘filigree’ to the delicate and colourful ‘meenakari’, from the stunning ‘kundan’ to the traditional ‘naqashi’, the car has it all”.

The blueprint of the car was created in January 2011. The Titan jewellery industry plant at Hosur took up the work the following month and finished it by September. The components of the car’s outer body have been developed using gold, using the Fiber-Reinforced technology and a lot of precision engineering has gone into it, achieved by a team of 30 artisans and engineers, Suresh informed.

After its launch in Mumbai in September 2011, the Goldplus Nano Car is travelling to all the Goldplus showrooms at 32 locations in the country that includes 16 chain shops in the State before its stop at Vellore. The car would go to Kancheepuram for a brief display before winding up the tour

source: http://www.ibnlive.in.com / South> TamilNadu / Express News Service, The New Indian Express / posted January 025th, 2011

Indian-origin scientist & Nobel Prize winner Venkatraman Ramakrishnan to be honoured with knighthood

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LONDON:  Indian-origin scientist Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry, will be honoured with knighthood in 2012.

Venkatraman works as a biologist at the Medical Research Council’s Molecular Biology Laboratories in Cambridge, BBC reported.

Born in 1952 in Chidambaram in India’s Tamil Nadu state, Venkatraman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2009 along with two other scientists “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”, according to the Nobel Prize website.

The ribosome — the cell’s protein factory — translates genetic code into proteins, which are the building blocks of all living organisms.

Experts said the India-born scientist’s work solved an important part of the problem posed by Francis Crick and James Watson when they discovered the now-iconic double helix DNA structure as to “how does the code become a living thing”.

source: http://www.articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com / Home> Collections / News> News by Industry / IANS/ December 31st, 2011

India Post Released Srinivasa Ramanujam Stamp on 26.12.2011

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India Post released New stamp for Srinivasa Ramanujam in his 125th birth anniversary. Stamp Released by our honorable Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh in Chennai also declared December 22, the birthday of Ramanujan, as ‘National Mathematics Day.’
Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan ( 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920 ) was an Indian mathematician, Born in Erode, Tamil Nadu, India, to a poor Brahmin family, Ramanujan first encountered formal mathematics at age10. He demonstrated a natural ability, and was given books on advanced trigonometry written by S. L. Loney. He mastered them by age 12, and even discovered theorems of his own, including independently re-discovering Euler’s identity. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning accolades and awards. By 17, Ramanujan conducted his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler–Mascheroni constant. He received a scholarship to study at Government College in Kumbakonam, but lost it when he failed his non-mathematical coursework.
He joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research, working as a clerk in the Accountant-General’s office at the Madras Port Trust Office to support himself. In 1912–1913, he sent samples of his theorems to three academics at the University of Cambridge. Only Hardy recognised the brilliance of his work, subsequently inviting Ramanujan to visit and work with him at Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, dying of illness, malnutrition and possibly liver infection in 1920 at the age of 32.
During his short lifetime, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3900 results (mostly identities and equations).Although a small number of these results were actually false and some were already known, most of his claims have now been proven correct. He stated results that were both original and highly unconventional, such as the Ramanujan prime and the Ramanujan theta function, and these have inspired a vast amount of further research. However, the mathematical mainstream has been rather slow in absorbing some of his major discoveries.
The Ramanujan Journal, an international publication, was launched to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by his work.
source: http://www.sapost.blogspot.com / December 26th, 2011

Japanese Government released a postal stamp on Muthuji from Salem – Why?

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Bharadwaj, a youth from Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu went to Japan in the 10th century (736 AD). To the Japanese he was ‘Baramon’. He taught them Buddhism, Ramayana, Sanskrit, Dharma, Hindu Philosophy and gave them culture, art and music. Today everything with which the Japanese rightly feel proud of as their ancient heritage and culture was given to them by this monk. The Japanese have three scripts – one of them based on Tamil and Sanskrit. That was given by “Baramon Bharadwaj”.

A Japanese delegate Shri Shuzo Matsunoga participated in the Fifth World Tamil Conference held at Thanjavur in 1981 (30 years ago). He presented a paper on ‘Thirukural & Thiruvalluvar in the eyes of Japan’. Muthu, now 91years young, of Omalur off Salem, Tamilnadu came in contact with Sri Shuzo Matsunoga after the Conference. They discussed at length the Tamil culture and literature. Shuzo translated the English version of G U Pope’s Thirukuraal (aphorisms) as guided by Muthu Ji. Shuzo also translated various books of Subramania Bharathi (Kuil Paatu), Naaladiar, Vallalarr poems, Manimegalai and Silapathigaram into Japanese language. Shuzo not only translated the literature but also the culture/rituals of tamils from birth to death, which was greatly relished by the Japanese. Shuzo also bagged a prize for translation of tamil work in 1985 organized by University of Tanjore who also authors a book “My India as seen through letters”.

Now, the Government of Japan has included this Thirukural as a lesson in the text book at college level. To cap it all, when the Japanese Government proposed to release a postal stamp to honour Shuzo Matsunoga for his works, he humbly refused and said, “To translate this tamil literature into Japanese language, Muthu from Salem has helped me. So the credit goes to him”. On his recommendation the Japanese Government released a postal stamp on Muthu (Salem) for 80 Yen (Rs.27/-) in 2007. Muthu, a humble and noble person, did nothing for selfish end. It was all for the tamil literature. He communicated all this over to his friend in Japan only through 200 letters, while, in the Facebook age, individuals transmit info electronically.

Shri Ravikumar of Vishwa Vibhag during his tour of Tamilnadu, met Muthu Ji. He was received well. Muthu ji lauded RSS for its social service and patriotic fervor.

 

source: http://www.haindavakeralam.com / courtesy: VSK Chennai / December 27th, 2011