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Hyderabad: Telangana CM KCR planned to celebrate Telangana Formation Day in a grand manner on June 2nd. Chief Minister dreamed to unfurl largest national flag of India at the tallest pole and directed authorities to construct flag post of over 300ft at Sanjeevaiah Park for the same.

However AAI authorities is giving shock to KCR by giving permission for only 167 feet pole. Senior AAI official at Begumpet airport speaking to scribes said  “We have received the application from the TS government. There are certain rules and procedures to be followed. As per norms, we gave approval for a flag post for 50 odd metres. Though Sanjeevaiah Park is not in the funnel zone, it is in close proximity to the Begumpet airport,”

AAI stated that it forwarded the Telangana government's application to its headquarters in Delhi and Govt can take the matter with the headquarters. I.Ganapathi Reddy, chief engineer Roads and Buildings said “Works are also on in full swing. While the pole is getting ready in Kolkata, the flag is being readied in Mumbai. They will arrive in Hyderabad by May 27 or May 28 and will be assembled here. Meanwhile, we have started the foundation work at the site,”

Chennai: The DMDK floated by actor-turned-politician A. Vijaykant is expected to lose recognition as a "State Party" as it polled less than six percent votes in the Tamil Nadu assembly election.

The DMDK was the principal opposition party in the outgoing assembly and Vijaykant was the leader of the opposition.

All DMDK candidates were defeated in the May 16 polls. Vijaykant himself finished third in Ulundurpettai after the AIADMK and DMK. The DMDK secured just 2.4 percent of votes across the state.

In order to get the Election Commission's recognition as a State Party, a party must secure a minimum of six percent of all votes polled.

In 2011, the DMDK won 29 seats when it aligned with the AIADMK.

Subsequently, the two fell out and a group of DMDK legislators supported the AIADMK without resigning their seats.

At the fag end of the assembly's life, eight DMDK legislat

"We will study the reasons for the defeat. It is well known that money power played a major part in our defeat," K. Dhanaraju, a former MP, told IANS.

Raghuram Rajan will in all likelihood not be given an extension for a second term. And it has nothing to do with his ability.

It is not feasible for a person to work for a governmen

It puts the former in a highly embarrassing position and in a country like India, or for that matter anywhere in the world, it is fodder to the opposition. Also, what happens is that it sows the seeds of dissension and erodes trust between both of them.

One might argue that Rajan has freedom of expression to say what he feels to be right! Absolutely! But he can easily voice his concerns in private to the government if any.

Once he is no longer RBI Governor, he can easily write a memoir of his time in office or give interviews about what transpired. The position of RBI governor is a highly responsible and prestigious one. Rajan should have realized that every move of his would be scrutinized.

Therefore, it would make sense for the NDA to put in place a person who displays better tact in expressing his opinions.

Imagine if the Chief of Army or the Navy were start voicing their personal opinions on tolerance or some other personal issue in public such as how the defence organizations must be run? They don’t do that while in office.

Rajan will go as he is after all a UPA appointee. But he needs to be treated with the utmost respect and not slighted in such a derogatory fashion by the likes of Subramaniam Swamy.

In yet another major aviation mystery, the EgyptAir MS804 flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people onboard went missing over the eastern Mediterranean Sea, just after entering Egyptian airspace.

Amid statements of intensive search operations by the airline officials and Egyptian authorities, there are also reports that the flight may have crashed into the sea. The EgyptAir MS804 took off from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport at 23:09 local time on Wednesday and was scheduled to land at Cairo airport 03:15 local time on Thursday.

The airplane's contact was lost when it was at an altitude of 37,000 feet over the eastern Mediterranean at 02:30 Cairo time. According to an international media house's report, a Greek aviation official said that the flight may have crashed 130 nautical miles off the southern Greek island of Karpathos.

The EgyptAir MS804 was carrying 56 passengers, including 3 children - 7 crew members and 3 security personnel onboard. 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, 1 Briton, 2 Iraqis, including several passengers from Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, Chad, Portugal and Canada were onboard EgyptAir MS804.

Astrologers came into focus after elections in five states today and they are giving their predictions. A famous astrologer Subramanya Swamy from Rajarajeswari Jyothishyalayam is sure about AIADMK chief Jayalithaa winning assembly elections this time according to planet positions and vaastu conditions.

In Chennai press club, Subramanya Swamy claims to have predicted about Jayalalithaa's win in 2011 and he is confident on happening the same this time too. Other than that, he brings in Chandrababu's son Lokesh into the predictions saying that Lokesh will be the CM of Andhra Pradesh in 2019.

While not many predictions come true about the elections, exit poll surveys already are saying otherwise regarding AIADMK's win in Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, as the assume DMK's win. Well, we have to wait and know if Lokesh really becomes CM of Andhra Pradesh.  

You can soak the film with sunscreen and protect yourself without worrying about sweat or water washing it away. Soon, it can be used to treat eczema,

The idea sounds like fantasy: an invisible film that can be painted on your skin and give it the elasticity of youth. Bags under the eyes vanish in seconds. Wrinkles disappear. 

Scientists at Harvard and MIT have discovered that it is not fantasy at all. Reporting in the journal Nature Materials on pilot studies with 170 subjects, the researchers say a “second skin” composed of commonly used chemicals deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration can accomplish that – and in small studies of it, so far no one has reported irritation or allergic reactions. 

Undereye bags are just the start. You can soak the film with sunscreen and protect yourself without worrying about sweat or water washing it away, researchers said. They expect it can be used to treat eczema, psoriasis and other skin conditions by covering dry itchy patches with a film that moistures and soothes. 

The chemicals are siloxanes – their basic form is one atom of oxygen linked to two atoms of silicon – which form polymers, long chains of repeating units. The researchers made a large collection of them by modifying molecular features such as the chain length to get the ones with the properties they wanted. 

Then they devised a two-step process. First, a polymer, a clear liquid, is applied. Its chains are not very strong, though, so the next step is applying a product that links them together. By modifying the chemistry of the chains, researchers can alter the properties of the second skin, depending on how it will be used, making it more or less permeable, for example. A more permeable second skin might be used for undereye bags while a less permeable one might hold a medication in place. It can be removed with a solution that dissolves the polymer. 

The research was funded by a small, privately owned biotechnology company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Living Proof, and the product is being developed by another similar  Cambridge company, Olivo Laboratories, which owns the patents. All of the authors on the new paper have an equity interest in Living Proof and so, indirectly, in Olivo. 

The report describes pilot studies, the first test of the product. The researchers say that they are not sure yet when they will have enough data to submit to the FDA for marketing approval – they will know more later this year. 

“I think it is brilliant,” said Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia, who was not involved in the research. “What they have done is design a clever biomaterial that recapitulates the properties of young and healthy skin. They can use it as sort of a Band-Aid over old and aging skin and get very significant results.” 

Dr Murad Alam, professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, who also was not associated with the study, was impressed, too, but he cautioned that it was still early. 

“This is a first step,” he said, “and all these applications will require further work.” But, he added, if the testing is successful, “I think it will be very popular.” 

The idea for second skin originated more than a decade ago when Dr R Rox Anderson, a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, was approached by Living Proof, which had been working on a polymer to be used as a hair product. Since dermatologists also know about hair, the company consulted him. Why, Anderson asked the company executives, couldn’t there be a polymer to put on skin? 

“A lot of what happens when we age and skin starts wrinkling and sagging is loss of elastic recoil,” he said. “When we move skin, it doesn’t snap back to what it used to be.” What if there was a way to restore the elastic nature of skin? Anderson ticked off what would be needed: “It has to be nearly invisible. The skin still has to be able to breathe through this stuff. And it needs to be strong enough and elastic enough that it actually affects the recoil of the skin.” That, he said, “is the challenge I put to them.” Dr Robert Langer, a biomedical engineer who is a professor at MIT and a scientific founder of Living Proof, started searching for something that would work. “We made literally hundreds of polymers,” he said. “We were looking for safety, spreadability, adherence, and the right kind of mechanical and optical properties.” 

Long-lasting solution

The “skin” can last for more than a day. One of the first applications, said Dr Barbara A Gilchrest, a Harvard dermatology professor who is part of the research team, was on undereye bags, a condition that plagues so many middle-aged and older people. 
“We wanted something that is elegant, and the ultimate test is right there on your face,” she said. “You really can’t see it. It’s there. It looks normal. We saw that as a very high bar. If you can achieve that you’ve done something impressive.” 

The researchers emphasise that the second skin is significantly different from a product that Living Proof tried to market a few years ago as a cosmetic that could correct undereye bags. Those studies included tests on people with undereye bags and those with dry skin on their legs. In one study, participants put second skin on their forearms to see how quickly the skin returned to normal after it was pinched in a suction cup – a test of elasticity. In another study, people were randomly assigned to use second skin or a placebo under their eyes. Trained observers graded the subjects on the appearance of the undereye skin. The product’s durability was tested in volunteers who wore it while running in heat and working up a sweat, while swimming, and while going out in a rainstorm. 

One of the important uses, the researchers said, is in treating eczema and the sort of dry skin that comes with aging, with dry itchy patches on the back and legs that keep people up at night, scratching. 

“We tell people to pat their skin with a damp washcloth and put on a heavy moisturiser, but that only lasts a short time,” Gilchrest said. They end up with greasy goo all over the sheets, and they wake up in the middle of the night, terribly uncomfortable. We need something that was easier to use and didn’t make a mess and stays. Which is what this stuff does.”

Guntur: Brahmin organisations are up in arms against the derogatory and controversial statements made by Professor Kanche Ilaiah. Jwalapuram Srikanth, AP Brahmin Seva Sangham Samakya warned Ilaiah of dire consequences if he don't withdraw his statements and tender unconditional apology.

Kanche Ilaiah in a article written to a daily wrote that brahmins are lazy and only pass time to eat. Jwalapuram Srikanth warned Ilaiah in a pres statement. 

He asked Ilaiah to read vedas,mantras with concentration and interest and understand them completely. He asked Ilaiah to clarify all dobuts rather than blame brahmins in unnecessary.

Popular realty show “Meelo Evaru Koteeshwarudu” (MEK), being hosted by popular hero Akkineni Nagarjuna on Maa TV, had evoked a lot of response from viewers in the initial days of its launch.

It was really a family show, with all the family members getting glued to their television sets to watch curiously as to who would get what in the quiz.

The show became so popular that Maa TV got the highest TRP ratings, since the host was Nagarjuna and the programme was unique with no other TV coming out with such innovative programme.

It generated so much curiosity among the audiences that people used to discuss about it at every gathering. And the winners became overnight celebrities wherever they went.

However, the programme seems to have lost its sheen of late. The audiences are gradually losing interest in it, which has become monotonous.

Leave alone talking about winners, the audiences seem to have stopped bothering about the telecast of the programme. There are still viewers for it, but the craze has certainly come down.

Obviously, the TRP ratings have gone down and the mass mania for Nagajuna is also said to be on the wane.

Strongly condemning lathicharge on farmers of Kistapur, Leader of Opposition in Telangana State Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Sunday warned the TRS Government of mass agitation if it forcibly acquires land from farmers in the name of irrigation projects.

Shabbir Ali alleged that the State Government was using coercive methods to collect consent letters from farmers to acquire land for Mallanna Sagar reservoir in Medak district.

He said that the State Government was not willing to pay adequate compensation to the farmers as prescribed by the Land Acquisition Act 2013.

He alleged that the TRS Government has re-designed the Mallanna Sagar reservoir by increasing its capacity from 1.5 TMC to 50 TMC without calculating the economical impact in terms of payment of compensation. Now it wants farmers to settle for peanuts while denying them the deserved and promised benefits under the Compensation Act.

Shabbir Ali said that the land which state government proposes to acquire was fertile land which irrigate two crops every year.

He said that the State Government has replaced the GO. MS. No. 214 with GO. MS. 123 only to deny the farmers adequate compensation.

He said it was wrong on the part of State Government to suppress the voice of farmers by using police and lathicharge.

He demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao convene a review meeting to resolve the issue and come up with clarity on rehabilitation and compensation packages.

In a move that could raise the hackles of the Union government, the TDP government has decided to go ahead with a Metro Rail Project for Amaravati despite the Center not giving permission for the same.

The Center had rejected the Metro R

The TDP government has meanwhile decided to sign an agreement with the Delhi Metro Rail Authority to execute the project on a turnkey basis.  

The project will cost approximately around Rs 1300 crore and Naidu has decided to bypass the Center and seek the amount as a loan from Japan International Co-operation Agency.

Maybe Naidu should not rush into this project blindly. Hyderabad which has a lot of money is struggling with the L& T project there with many saying that it has turned into a loss making venture for the MNC post-bifurcation. Besides, how will the Center respond to this move of Naidu?

If the speculations are to be believed, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is likely to expand his cabinet shortly and at least three women MLAs are likely to get the berths in the reshuffled cabinet.

According to these speculations, at least six ministers may lose their posts in the reshuffle. The names doing rounds are: Ajmeera Chandulal, T Padma Rao, Nayani Narasimha Reddy, Jupalli Krishna Rao, Jogu Ramanna and Pocharam Srinivas Reddy.

It is not clear who would replace whom, but at least three women MLAs would get the chance this time. Sources said Kova Lakshmi, Padma Devender Reddy and Konda Surekha might make it to the Cabinet.

Among men, the names doing rounds are: D Srinivas, Koppula Eshwar and Errabelli Dayakar Rao. It is not exactly known when the Cabinet would be reshuffled, but it might not happen till the completion of Krishna Pushkarams as there are no auspicious days.