Sunday, December 29, 2013

‘Aishwarya Rai’ is 23-year-old and a Chhattisgarh voter?



Raigarh: Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai is the native of Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district if the electoral roll in Ghughri village in Pathalgaon is to be believed.

The Bollywood star’s name figures in the voter list of Ghughri village which falls under Pathalgaon constituency.

The accompanying photo makes it clear that it is not some namesake, but Mrs Abhishek Bachchan herself, Jashpur collector L.S. Ken said.

According to the voters’ list of polling station No. 15, Aishwarya Rai is 23 years old, and stays in house No. 376 in the village.

Her father is one Dinesh Rai. None by these names lives in the area, the official said.

Watch Earth spin from comfort of your home



Washington: Two Russian astronauts, who took a record-breaking seven and a half hour spacewalk outside the ISS, were unsuccessful at installing cameras that would allow people to watch the Earth spin from the comfort of their house.

The spacewalk by Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky was the third in a week at the orbiting laboratory. US astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Michael Hopkins had two spacewalks on Saturday and Tuesday to remove and replace a faulty cooling pump, Fox News reported.

The Russians' task was shelved after a Russian flight control team outside Moscow was not able to receive telemetry data from the video cam.

Vancouver-based UrtheCast launched the cameras with the Russian's aid into orbit on November 25.

Once calibrated, the cameras are going to start beaming images, and an ordinary web surfer would be able to see the Earth in space with a delay of only 45 minutes to a couple hours at the most.