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SAINABrings bronze

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player to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

The much awaited third part of the Batman series has created unbelievable frenzy amongst its fans. A fan spirit in Colorado went a little out of hand.

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Poltu as he is lovingly called.India gets its thirteenth Presidentin the face of Pranab Mukherjee.

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New Delhi : President Pranab Mukherjee arrived at home at Rashtrapati Bhavan around noon today, shortly after he took oath of office as India’s 13th President. He was escorted to the spectacular presidential palace by the horse-borne President’s Bodyguard. A little later he gave his predecessor, Pratibha Patil, a ceremonial send off.Mr Mukherjee took oath at exactly 11.38 am in the Central Hall of Parliament, familiar ground for him as an MP for over 40 years. He said, “I, Pranab Mukherjee, do swear in the name of God that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the Republic of India, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the law, and that I will devote myself to the service and well-being of the people of India.”

He then swapped seats with Ms Patil and was given a 21-gun salute. He signed a register and rose to speak at a rostrum adorned with purple orchids. Mr Mukherjee made a powerful speech, speaking about the problems of hunger and global terrorism; he spoke about democracy and secularism; he spoke about his role as the protector of the Constitution, above all politics.Mr Mukherjee, 76, has worn a black sherwani with white churidar today, not the usual suits or dhoti that he prefers. His close aide Pradyut Guha said he spent a quiet Wednesday morning with his family at 13 Talkatora Road, his Delhi home for many years and then left in a Mercedes S 600 sent by the government. He visited Rajghat, then Rashtrapati Bhavan and then finally made his way

in a Presidential convoy to Parliament House alongwith Ms Patil.Among those at the ceremony was Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal CM, seated among other Chief Ministers. She landed in Delhi on Tuesday night and drove straight to Mr Mukherjee’s home. Ms Banerjee had initially opposed Mr Mukherjee’s nomination as the UPA candidate and then said she was voting reluctantly for him. One of Kolkata’s most famous imports to Bollywood, Mithun Chakraborty, who has been a mascot for Mr Mukherjee, attended the ceremony too. About 25 family members were also among the 100 odd personal guests of the President elect.Up ahead lie tough tasks for Mr Mukherjee. There are more than 10

petitions sent by prisoners on death row to the President’s office, asking for clemency. The President is also likely to have a huge imprint on the political future of the country in 2014, when the general elections are expected to yield a hung Parliament.

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Mumbai : At 19, Sahil Lavingia has a resume that would make most people in Silicon Valley envious. Not only was he part of the original founding team at the wildly popular social-media site Pinterest, he helped build a number of successful smartphone apps like Turntable.fm and co-launched the fi le sharing site Crate in 2010.But these days, the young tech dynamo is busy celebrating his one-year anniversary at Gumroad, a service that helps people sell intangible creations like songs and photos. We spoke to Lavingia about what it’s like to raise more than $1 million from some of the world’s top venture capitalists.

What is Gumroad?Our goal is to make selling stuff as easy as sharing stuff . The loop of content publications has gotten shorter. First it was books, and then newspapers and magazines. As you see , now there’s Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. The selling model is primed for disruption. The way we sell is the same model that we used to use - ten years ago.

Chennai : Meet Shravan Kumaran and his younger brother Sanjay Kumaran – two of the youngest promoters of a company. Aged only 12 and 10 respectively, Shravan is the Co-Founder and President of Go Dimensions while his brother is Co-Founder and CEO.When most adults have trouble understanding Java code, these two kids have used the code to build mobile applications. The brothers have together developed four apps for the Apple Store, which have

Any words of advice for would-be entrepreneurs?I think people are too obsessed with the notion of starting a company. People should care more about being happy. I don’t work on Gumroad because I want to change the world. That might be what happens, but really I want to work on Gumroad because I fi nd it fun.

Has your young age ever held you back?No, actually my age gets me inthe door sometimes. If I was at the same place I’m at today except I was 40, no one pay attention. Also, the users just want the best products.

Who in the tech world inspires you?My favorite founder is Cory Levy.He is the founder and COO of One Inc.

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been downloaded more than 10,000 times from 20 countries.Clad in grey suits and ties, these two highly-confi dent children demonstrated their apps to the media, on the iOS and Android platforms, for games, education and entertainment.Students of Vaels Billabong High International School, their interest in computers started early at home when their father got them a desktop computer.

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The royal couple have been eager spectators at the games.

Female athelets displayed some creative patriotism via nail art!

Be it a gold medal or a souvenir from a record relay run, Usain Bolt always gets what he wants at the Olympics.The Jamaican will leave London a perfect 3 for 3 - three events, three victories - just the way he departed Beijing four years ago. Almost even with the last U.S. runner when he got the baton for the anchor leg of the 4x100 meters, Bolt steadily pulled away down the stretch, gritting his teeth and leaning at the line to cap his perfect Summer Games by leading Jamaica to victory in a world-record 36.84 seconds Saturday night.

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal today returned to a rousing reception after winning a historic bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London. Saina was flanked by her father Harvir Singh, coach Pullela Gopichand and several secuity personnel as she arrived in the

national capital early this morning on a British Airways flight. The 20-year-old showed no signs of a jet lag as she smiled and greeted several cheering fans, who jostled to catch a glimpse of her at the Indira Gandhi International Airport from where she took a connecting flight to her base Hyderabad

Saina who bagged the bronze medal in London under fortuitous circumstances when her opponent -- world no. 2 Xin Wang -- was leading by a game and 1-0 before

withdrawing from the bronze medal contest. It was also the country`s 10th individual medal since its first - a bronze - in 1952 by wrestler Kashaba Jadhav and its third in the ongoing Olympics after rifle shooter Gagan Narang`s bronze on July 30 and pistol marksman Vijay Kumar`s silver yesterday.

The other badminton players who also landed with Saina were men`s singles quarterfinalist P Kashyap and women`s doubles pair of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta.

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hilarious catch- phrases or quirky badges, Chimp is best place to go and find them! Outlets opening soon in Mumbai and Delhi .You can order at : www.chimpwear.com

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curb the crime. His other avatar Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is spending his days inside his huge mansion. However, he returns to the city as Batman when he comes to know that Bane stages a raid on city’s stock exchange. The release of this movie took a very unfortunate

‘The Dark Knight Rises’is the third and ultimate fi lm in the ‘Batman’ franchise. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the fi lm starts after eight years of the era shown in ‘The Dark Knight’.This time the story is expected to begin with Commissioner James Gordon’s (Gary Oldman) account who still feel guilty about the planned cover up of Harvey Dent’s (Aaron Eckhart) crimes. However, he decides to not reveal the actual facts because in his opinion the people of Gotham are still not ready to hear the truth. A terrorist leader Bane (Tom Hardy) somehow gets his hands on Gordon’s speech and plans to use it against the local administration.Batman is not visible in Gotham city anymore as he doesn’t need to do anything to

IN THE OCEAN OFF KEY LARGO, Fla. -- ocean the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration owns the lab that has rested for two decades some 60 feet below the water’s surface. The federal budget

cuts threaten to close the lab un-less it can secure private funding. Aquarius is a pressurized lab whose residents are called “aquanauts.” Air, hot running water, electricity and high-speed communications lines snake down from a life support buoy to those confi ned to the 43-foot-long metal tube. Food, com-puters and supplies are delivered in water-tight drums. Researchers, who dive up to 12 hours a day, have used the platform to investi-gate everything from how sponges change the ocean’s chemistry to the way water fl ows over a reef. Mark

Patterson, a marine science professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary, is at Aquarius for the eighth time – for research involving corals, sponges, plankton and goliath grouper. Since 2001, NASA also has trained astronauts to live and work in space at Aquarius, including a mission in June that simulated a visit to an asteroid. ”What we’re hoping is that peo-ple will care about this national treasure and also (see) how useful it is to manage the coral reefs in the United States,” Patterson said.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology created the artifi cial jellyfi sh, called a medusoid, after studying the fast muscle contractions which propel the animals. The creature is made from silicone and heart tissue from rats and is said that, with more work, it could be engineered to pulsate by itself, as human hearts do.

A study on 55 children who were allergic to egg showed they were able to eat it after minuscule amounts were added to their diets. Gradually introducing the food which causes an allergic reaction has been successful in foods such as peanuts. However, the treatment is still experimental and should not be tried at home.

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turn for the people of Colorado. A gunman wearing a gas mask, helmet and full body armor opened fi re early Friday in a crowded suburban Denver theater at the opening of the Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.

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