Mythical Sakshat Tablet

The Indian wonder tablet was suppose to be launched on June 2011, to initial testing by shipping it to IIT students.

Then, it disappeared, along with Kapil Sibal, HRD Minister, possibly succumbing to Team Anna's protest.
Now, both of them have reappeared.
At a function in Delhi, Sibal said: "The computer will be launched next month…This is not just a dream, it is a reality," he added. Officials announced that the device will be launched on October 5, 2011. However, Sibal has not spoken about the device's specifications.
The device's prototype is likely to be a 5/7/9 inch touchscreen gadget, featuring a webb browser, PDF reader, video conferencing, open office, sci-lab, media player, remote device management capability, multimedia input-output interface option, and a content viewer.
Sibal also mentioned how "corruption…in the recent past will be dealt with through initiative of IT…"… the device.
Sibal hasn't announced any program to institute the tablet for government work, Besides, And, the tablet won't actually be used for any of this - Indian government has issued a directive granting Rs. 50,000 to MPs to buy iPads and Samsung Tabs for parliamentary work, along with training to use the tablet interface.
The Rs. 1750 price-tag (quoted in dollars by the government) has also been questioned. Even though the tablet is considered, by experts, to be a copy of the Chinese Hivepad tablet, such a low-price tablet has never been invented by the Chinese.
According to PCWorld: "The basic components like a processor, motherboard, memory, display, etc, however obsolete they might be, that go into a computer, would cost more than $35 even if you buy in millions of pieces, which the major manufacturers anyways do…"

Grandfather of India

Sumant Misra, one of India's early tennis legends and the first Indian tennis champion in 1946 during British rule, was aptly called the 'grandfather of Indian tennis'.

Misra, who passed away Saturday evening at the age of 88, represented India in the Davis Cup, besides playing at the Wimbledon and US Nationals in the pre-Open era of world tennis. He is survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters.
Born in Faizabad in 1923, Misra was introduced to the game by his father, L.P. Misra, a former Chief Commissioner of Indian Railways.
A product of the famous South Club in Calcutta, then the nursery of Indian tennis which produced many tennis champions, Misra took to the game seriously at the age of 14 and from there on made rapid strides. Among his contemporaries were Narendra Nath, Man Mohan and Dilip Bose, and later on Ramanathan Krishnan.
In the first 10 years of India's National Championships from 1946 to 1955, Misra was one of the only three Indians to win the title -- and he won it twice. In the first Nationals in 1946-47, he beat Man Mohan in the final. Misra later won the title a second time in 1952.
Ironically, Man Mohan, who also played Davis Cup with Misra, died in April this year in Chennai.
The other Indians who won the title were Dilip Bose in 1948 and the then upcoming 16-year-old Ramanathan Krishnan in 1953. On remaining occasions, well-known visiting foreign players took the title.
Misra, an imposing six-foot-two who was nicknamed 'Tiny' by fellow players, was on the Indian Davis Cup team from 1947 to 1953 and captained the team in 1952-53.
The big-serving Misra played at both the Wimbledon and US Championships. With Jimmy Mehta, he reached the Wimbledon men's doubles quarterfinals in 1947 and 1948, and also entered the last eight in the US national doubles in 1947. He also won the Ceylon and Malay Tennis Championships twice in 1958 and 1959.
During the course of his tennis career, Misra was the only player to participate in the junior national championship, the national championship and national veteran championship.
Misra also served as the secretary of the All India Tennis Association from 1963 to 1967, under the presidentship of M.A. Chidambaram. He also served as a selector for Davis Cup teams.
Misra worked in the Calcutta Port Trust and later retired from Indian Aluminium in the 1980s and was living in Delhi.
His elder son, Gaurav Misra, also won the national tennis championships, and played the Davis Cup for India. Gaurav is now the director of a tennis centre in the United States.
Post-retirement, Misra kept playing the sport into his 80s at the Delhi Gymkhana Club. He was also involved in the coaching programme of the All India Tennis Association and played both golf and squash.

Wide Waist Size

For years, obesity has been linked with a number of serious illnesses that can directly cause premature death. Previous researches have also suggested that the size of your waistline could dictate your lifespan.

Ever since the mid-1970s, we've been told that white women, with waists over 40 inches, raised their risk of early death by 40 percent.
Now, a new study has found that black women are equally at risk.
"The risk of death increased incrementally with rising body mass index (BMI). Once women were above normal weight, they had an increased risk of death," said the study's senior author Dr. Julie Palmer, a professor of epidemiology at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University.
"Independent of BMI, women who had a higher waist circumference had an increased risk of death. And, this finding was primarily in normal-weight women," she added.
Palmer and her colleagues analyzed data from the Black Women's Health Study, a national sample of almost 52,000 black women in America.
The study subjects were between the ages of 21 and 69 when they enrolled in the study, and none had a history of cancer or heart disease.
The study began in 1995 and continued through 2008. The women were contacted every two years during the study.
The researchers found that for women with a BMI of 25 to 27.4, the risk of death was 12 percent higher than for women with a normal BMI. With a BMI of 27.5 to 29.9, nonsmoking black women had a 31 percent increased risk of death.
They also found an association between a larger waist circumference and the risk of death, though this link was strongest for women who had a BMI under 30.
After adjusting for BMI, the researchers found that women with waists between 40 and 47 inches had a 40 percent higher risk of death than did women whose waists were 26 to 27 inches.