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An artist's impression of the '’ to honour Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first deputy prime minister, will stand at 597ft when completed in 42 months. It is almost 100ft taller than China’s Spring Temple Buddha, the world’s current tallest statue at 502ft. It will be almost twice as high as the Statue of Liberty in New York, which is 305ft. Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square stands at 170ft. The memorial will be set on a river island close to the Narmada Dam and will be connected to an amusement park and a garden in Sardar Patel’s honour by a bridge. The current tallest statue is the Spring Temple Buddha located in the Zhaocun township of Lushan County, Henan, China. It is a statue depicting Vairocana Buddha and was built in 2002. It is 128 m (420 ft), which includes a 20 m (66 ft) lotus throne.

India launched its first rocket to Mars on Tuesday, aiming to reach the red planet at a much lower cost than successful missions by other nations, positioning the emerging Asian giant as a budget player in the latest global space race. The Mars Orbiter Mission's red and white striped rocket blasted off from the southeastern coast, streaking across the sky in a blazing trail, and is scheduled to orbit Mars by next September. Probes to Mars have a high failure rate and a success would be a boost for Indian national pride, especially after a similar mission by China failed to leave Earth's orbit in 2011. Only the United States, Europe, and Russia have sent probes that have orbited or landed on the planet. "The ISRO team will fulfil the expectations that the nation has in them," said K. Radhakrishnan, head of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), after the spacecraft was successfully placed into orbit around Earth. "The journey...

एकदा लग्न झालं की , आपलं आयुष्य सुखात जाईल असं आपल्याला वाटत असतं ... असा वाटण्याची जागा मग , मूल झालं की ... मोठं घर झालं की ... अशा अनेक इच्छांच्या अंगाने वाढतच जाते . दरम्यानच्या काळात , आपली मुलं अद्याप मोठी झालेली नाहीत . ती जरा मोठी झाली की सारं ठीक होईल , अशी आपण मनाची समजूत घालू लागतो . मुलांच्या वाढत्या वयात , त्यांच्या भवितव्याच्या सुंदर स्वप्नांनी आपण आपले दिवस सजवत असतो . मुलं जरा करती सवरती झाली की सारं कसं आनंदानं भरून जाईल , असं आपल्याला वाटत असतं . आपला नवरा / बायको जरा नीट वागायला लागला लागली की ... आपल्या दाराशी एक गाडी आली की ... आपल्याला मनाजोगी सुटी मिळाली की ... निवृत्त झालो की ... आपलं आयुष्य कसं सुखानं भरून जाईल , असं आपण सतत स्वतःशीच घोकत असतो . खरं असंय , की आनंदात असण्यासाठी , सुखात असण्यासाठी आत्ताच्या वेळेपेक्षा दुसरी योग्य वेळ कोणतीही नाही . आयुष्यात आव्हानं तर असणार आहेतच . ती स्विकारायची आणि ती झेलता झेलताच आनंदी राहायचा निश्...

London — More than 40 percent of people say listening to music can help alleviate pain, with songs by Elton John, Robbie Williams and Simon and Garfunkel among the favourites, a new British survey out Thursday said. Music seems to have an even bigger impact for younger people, with two-thirds those questioned aged 16 to 24 claiming it helps them manage pain, according to the study by Lloyds Pharmacy group. Pop music is the most popular genre for sufferers, helping to alleviate pain for 21 percent of people, followed by classical 17 at percent and then rock or indie at 16 percent. The company is currently trying out the use of music within the pain relief service it provides. The survey found that the top five most helpful songs selected by people living with persistent pain are: 1. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and Garfunkel) 2. Angels (Robbie Williams) 3. Albatross (Fleetwood Mac) 4. Candle In The Wind (Elton John) 5. Easy (The Commodores) An estimated 10 millio...

Noting a rise in bone diseases among the children in Delhi, experts attributed obesity as a major contributors to the rare disorder called juvenile arthritis. According to experts, the effects of obesity put children at risk of long-term foot, leg and back problems. "Our hips and knees bear five to seven times our body weight. These little frames aren't supposed to be carrying 50 to 60 kg of body weight. The heavier the child, the bigger the pressure on the joints and cartilage, and that can be painful. It sets up their soft tissue for inflammation,"said Raju Vaishya, founder of Arthritis Care Foundation (ACF). The experts expressed their views on the press conference held ahead of the World Obesity Day observed every year on Oct 26. Senior nutritionist Pallavi Vaishya advised parents that if their child complains of joint pain, swelling or stiffness in one or more joints for a period of six weeks or longer, they should seek medical attention as ea...

Washing your hands after you have failed at something can make you optimistic, a new study has found. Washing our hands influences how we think, judge and decide, according to researchers who examined how physical cleansing affects people after failure. They found that test subjects who washed their hands after a task were more optimistic than those who did not wash their hands, but it hampered their future performance in the same task domain. For the experiment, Dr Kai Kaspar from the University of Cologne in Germany, took 98 subjects in three groups. In the first part of the experiment, participants from two groups had to solve an impossible task. Both the group who after failing washed their hands as well as the one that did not wash their hands were optimistic that they would do better the second time. The optimism of the group who washed their hands was, however, much greater. In contrast to the usual finding that higher optimism results in better performance, the ...

  Researchers have used the fruit fly to find out how the brain integrates multiple signals to identify one unique smell. A team led by Associate Professor Glenn Turner has described how a group of neurons in the fruit fly brain recognize multiple individual chemicals in combination in order to define, or remember, a single scent. The olfactory system of a fruit fly begins at the equivalent of our nose, where a series of neurons sense and respond to very specific chemicals. These neurons pass their signal on to a group of cells called projection neurons. Then the signal undergoes a transformation as it is passed to a body of neurons in the fly brain called Kenyon cells. Kenyon cells have multiple, extremely long protrusions that grasp the projection neurons with a claw-like...