सलमान खान से मिलने पहुंचे अमिताभ बच्चन

 

नई दिल्ली: बॉलीवड मेगास्टार अमिताभ बच्चन ने बुधवार से अपनी आगामी फिल्म भूतनाथ 2 की शुटिंग शुरू की. इस दौरान उन्होंने ऐश्वर्या राय के एक्स-बॉयफ्रेंड सलमान खान से मुलाकात की. दरअसल जिस लोकेशन पर बिग बी का सेट था वहीं पास में ही सलमान खान भी शूटिंग कर रहे थे. 

अमिताभ ने ट्विट किया:
T 1183 -Meet the lovely Tabu and Salman shooting on next floor ... always a joy to be with colleagues ..

जब बिग बी को पता चला कि सलमान खान और तब्बू पास में शूट कर रहे हैं तो वे दोनों से मिलने चले गए. सलमान खान ने अमिताभ बच्चन के साथ फिल्म बागवान और बाबुल में काम किया था. बिग बी ने सलमान खान से उनके नर्व प्राबल्म के बारे में बातचीत की और उनकी तबियत का हाल जाना. आपको बता दें अगस्त 2011 में दर्द से परेशान सलमान खान ने सर्जरी कराई थी.

बिग बी ने सलमान खान से मिलने के बाद ट्विट करके बताया कि सलमान के दर्द की परेशानी से उबर रहे हैं:

T 1183 -Salman shooting on next floor .. meet up and enquire of his nerve ailment ... he is improving !!

T 1183 - Chatting with Salman about his nerve problem .. he says he is recovering fast .. good !!

अमिताभ ने तब्बू से भी मुलाकात की और एक तस्वीर पोस्ट की. तब्बू के साथ बिग बी ने चीनी कम फिल्म में काम किया था.










भूतनाथ के पहले संस्करण में बिग बी ने भूत की भूमिका निभाई थी. विवेक शर्मा निर्देशित 'भूतनाथ' में जूही
चावला, शाहरुख खान और बाल कलाकार अमन सिद्दिकी ने अभिनय किया था.

Peter Higgs, Francois Englert win physics Nobel for particle mass

FILE photo: Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, and British physicist Peter Higgs answer journalist's question about the scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson at the European Organization for Nuclear Resea
Stockholm: Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theory on how the most basic building blocks of the universe acquire mass, eventually forming the world we know today.

Their concept was confirmed last year by the discovery of the so-called Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson, at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

"I am overwhelmed to receive this award and thank the Royal Swedish Academy," the 84-year-old Higgs said in a statement released by the University of Edinburgh, where he is a professor emeritus. "I hope this recognition of fundamental science will help raise awareness of the value of blue-sky research."

"Of course I'm happy," the 80-year-old Englert told reporters, thanking all those who helped him in his research.

Asked whether he could have imagined getting a Nobel Prize when he started the research 50 years ago, he said no.

"You don't work thinking to get the Nobel Prize, that's not how you work," Englert said. "(Still) we had the impression that we were doing something that was important, that would later on be used by other researchers."

The announcement, which was widely expected, was delayed an hour, which is highly unusual. The academy gave no immediate reason, other than saying on Twitter that it was "still in session." The academy decides the winners in a majority vote on the day of the announcement.

Staffan Normark, the permanent secretary of the academy, said the academy had tried to reach Higgs on Tuesday but "all the numbers we tried he did not answer." He wouldn't say if that's why the announcement was delayed.

By just awarding the men behind the theoretical discovery of the particle, the prize committee avoided the tricky issue of picking someone at the CERN laboratory to share the award. Thousands of scientists were involved in the experiments that confirmed the particle's existence last year.

The Nobel award can only be split by three people.

Academy member Ulf Danielsson noted that the prize citation also honored the work done at CERN, even though it didn't single out any of its scientists.

"This is a giant discovery, it means the final building block in the so-called standard model for particle physics has been put in place, so it marks a milestone in the history of physics," Danielsson said.

Englert and Higgs theorized about the existence of the particle in the 1960s to provide an answer to a riddle: why matter has mass. The tiny particle, they believed, acts like molasses on snow - causing other basic building blocks of nature to stick together, slow down and form atoms.

But decades would pass before scientists at CERN were able to confirm its existence in July 2012. To find it, they had to build a $10 billion collider in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel beneath the Swiss-French border.

"I'm thrilled that this year's Nobel Prize has gone to particle physics," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. He added that the discovery of the particle at CERN last year "marks the culmination of decades of intellectual effort by many people around the world."

In the CERN cafeteria, applause broke out and champagne bottles popped. Heuer gave a brief speech and told everyone to applaud themselves for their work.

The Higgs particle solved a problem that physicists had puzzled over for some time: how did matter form shortly after the Big Bang, eventually leading to the universe as we know it today? The explanation scientists came up with centers on the idea of an invisible field that pervades the universe. As particles travel through the field, they are slowed down like a ball rolling through molasses. If this is the case then it should be possible to detect a type of particle, dubbed the Higgs boson, where the fields clump together.

Yet finding the particle - often referred to as the "God particle" - required teams of thousands of scientists and mountains of data from trillions of colliding protons in the world's biggest atom smasher - CERN's Large Hadron Collider. The device produces energies simulating those 1 trillionth to 2 trillionths of a second after the Big Bang.

Only about one collision per trillion will produce one of the Higgs bosons in the collider, and it took CERN sometime after the discovery of a new "Higgs-like" boson to decide that the particle was, in fact, very much like the Higgs boson expected in the original formulation, rather than a kind of variant.

The phrase "God particle" was coined by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman, but it's disliked by most physicists because it connotes the supernatural. Lederman said later that the phrase - mostly used by laymen as an easier way of explaining the theory - was really meant to convey that he felt it was the "goddamn particle," because it proved so elusive.

Michael Turner, president of the American Physical Society, an organization of physicists, said the Higgs particle captured the imagination of the public.

"If you're a physicist, you can't get in a taxi anywhere in the world without having the driver ask you about the Higgs particle," said Turner, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago.

He said the finding of the Higgs completed the standard model, which is a basic picture of how physics operates on Earth. But beyond that, he said, it represents the first in a class of particles that scientists think played a role in shaping the universe. That means it points the way to tackling mysteries like the nature of so-called dark energy and dark matter.

The physics prize was the second of this year's Nobel awards to be announced. On Monday, the Nobel Prize in medicine was given to American scientists James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof for discoveries about how key substances are moved around within cells.

The prizes, established by Swedish industrialist and Alfred Nobel, will be handed out on Dec. 10 - the anniversary of his death in 1896. Each prize is worth 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million).

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On day one, parks close, workers stay home and panda cam goes dark

Washington: If there was a symbol on Tuesday of America's pent-up frustration with a gridlocked political system, it was this: Scores of elderly World War II and Vietnam veterans pushing past barricades to honour their fallen comrades at a memorial closed by a government shutdown.

The veterans arrived in Washington from Mississippi and Iowa, having spent thousands of dollars to charter "honor flights" to the capital. But like many others across the country, their plans collided with the reality of a Congress frozen by ideological disputes and unable to agree on how to keep the government open.

Lawmakers helped the veterans get past the barriers, but others around the country were not so lucky as tourists were blocked from their destinations and more than 800,000 federal employees were told to stay home.

Cleveland Faggard, 89, of Moss Point, Miss., who had been an aviation machinist for the Navy, had helped push past a black metal blockade after about a dozen Republican members of Congress arrived, responding to emailed pleas from the veterans. "I was just praying to the Lord," Faggard said. "He took care of it."

Around the country, barricades and padlocks closed off access to federal facilities as the vast machinery of the federal government began systematically shutting down operations for the first time in nearly two decades.

Americans seeking a variety of services at federal buildings found the doors shuttered, with no indication of when they might reopen. Federal employees braced for an uncertain financial future in the days ahead as their employers turned out the lights. Tourists found their vacation plans dashed at the entrances to hundreds of national parks and monuments.

When Sheila Caraway, 23, arrived at the Internal Revenue Service office in downtown Los Angeles, she was turned away by a security officer who explained that parts of the government had been shut down. She left the IRS without the tax refund that she had hoped would help pay for her cable TV bill.

"This is crazy. I don't like it. It's been over a year and I haven't gotten my refund," Caraway said, explaining that she had not followed the recent political struggles in Washington. "I think everyone is crazy right now. I want to go on vacation, get out of here."

Among the most noticeable impacts of the first shutdown of the Internet era: Many complex government websites were suddenly replaced by one-page notices like the one at Census.gov, which declared that "due to the lapse in government funding, census.gov sites, services, and all online survey collection requests will be unavailable until further notice."

Government Twitter accounts also went dark.

It was late Monday night when weary lawmakers finally gave up hope of passing a budget. On Tuesday morning, the executive branch started temporarily mothballing facilities and suspending the many services the government provides.

The reality of the shutdown became clear just hours later. Children's playgrounds in small pocket parks around Capitol Hill were closed. The military service academies suspended all intercollegiate sports competitions. The National Zoo's online "Panda Cam" stopped showing images of Mei Xian's latest cub. Officials stopped giving tours of Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay.

At the Statue of Liberty in New York, tourists from Norway and Beijing were prevented from getting close to the monument of freedom.

Haiyan Wang's 9-year-old nephew, Tony, had been "wanting to go inside the Statue of Liberty for a long time," Wang said Tuesday morning at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. She said her visiting relatives did not really comprehend what had happened in Washington because "the Chinese government never closes down."

Mail delivery continued as usual, financed by fees rather than the federal budget. Amtrak trains continued to run and officials said meat inspectors, border control agents and Transportation Security Administration screeners will stay on the job.

After a general retreat Monday, global investors reacted calmly Tuesday in the hours after congressional negotiations collapsed, as investors focused on the Oct. 17 deadline for raising the debt ceiling. Stocks on Wall Street closed slightly higher, while European and Asian stocks were mixed. Bond and foreign exchange markets were quiet.

Those looking for financial data to assess the impact of a shutdown will have to do it without help from the Congressional Budget Office and the Census Bureau, both of which are closing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is scheduled to issue its monthly jobs report Friday, is also closing and said the jobs report would likely be postponed.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission said it would stop recalls of products that do not present an imminent threat to consumer safety. The Food and Drug Administration, which inspects the majority of food Americans eat, suspended routine establishment inspections and monitoring of imported foods and drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control furloughed about 68 percent of its staff and said the shutdown would significantly reduce its capacity to respond to food-borne illnesses and disease outbreaks. Federal Communications Commission officials said the agency would send all but about 38 of its 1,716 employees home for the duration of the shutdown.

At the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged to give back a portion of his salary in solidarity with his employees. Meanwhile, a federal judge denied a shutdown-related request from the Department of Justice to delay the antitrust case merger trial of American Airlines and US Airways, citing the need for an expeditious trial.

Traveling Tuesday in Seoul, South Korea, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called the shutdown "nonsensical" and "needless," and said it would lead to the immediate furlough of about 400,000 civilian employees. (Obama signed legislation late Monday ensuring that uniformed members of the military will get paid during the shutdown.)

"It does cast a very significant pall over America's credibility with our allies when this kind of thing happens," Hagel told reporters.

Officials informed lawmakers that about 72 percent of the intelligence community's civilian workforce were furloughed. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., denounced the shutdown as "the biggest gift that we could possibly give our enemies."

The crowds were lighter than normal early Tuesday at L'Enfant Plaza in Washington, where there are a number of federal agencies. Phillip Davenport, a management analyst at the Federal Aviation Administration, who was deemed an essential employee, said he was expecting a heavier workload.

During the last shutdown 17 years ago, Davenport was on active duty in the military, based in Alaska, he said. "Back then, I don't remember for sure, but we came to work regardless of whether we were paid or not," he said.

At about 8 a.m., the steps of the Lincoln Memorial were being taped off by National Park police, metal barricades were erected and tourists were being turned away. Across Washington - the site of the political paralysis - commercial establishments sought ways to try to minimize the impact of a shutdown that will hit harder here than anywhere else. Late Monday, several bars and restaurants in the area started advertising "shutdown specials" for those who wandered in.

At Z-Burger, a popular restaurant in the Washington area, owners pledged to make good on their promise for a free burger for every furloughed federal worker. In a Twitter post, it said: "AlmostHere IF #GovernmentShutdown #FREE #Burgers."

(Reporting was contributed by Dan Frosch from Denver)