China upgrades to Electronic passport.

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Recently, China has unveiled its first ever electronic passports that contain embedded microchip containing all the information.

One of the Chinese official says that the adoption of electronic passports complies with international trends and plays an important role in international travel for officials.

The embedded microchip contains personal data including name, family name, personal numeric code, the document's term of validity, the issuing agency and citizenship, China Daily reported.

China upgrades to Electronic passport.

Lungfish and Garfish tooth enamel to create lighter, stronger materials.

Researchers from Queensland University of Technology had found out that the tooth enamel of lungfish and garfish could help create a new material to make lighter aircraft or vehicles.

Team lead by Professor John Barry, physicist from Queensland University of Technology, is on the hunt for new materials that will enable technological advances.

Lungfish and Garfish tooth enamel to create lighter, stronger materials.

Controlled detonable bullet to have maximum impact on enemies.

New type of bullets had been developed which can be programmed to explode when they have travelled a set of distance, having optimum having impact on the enemey. Thats why they are called "smart" bullets.

Fired by XM25 rifle has a range of 2,300 feet, hitting targets well out of the reach of conventional rifles.

The rifle's gunsight uses a laser rangefinder to determine the exact distance to the obstruction, after which the soldier can add or subtract up to three metres from that distance to enable the bullets to clear the barrier and hit the target.

Controlled detonable bullet to have maximum impact on enemies.

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

According to estimation by World Health Organisation(WHO) researchers, one in a hundred deaths worldwide is due to passive smoking.

In the first study to assess the global impact of second-hand smoke, WHO experts found that children are more heavily exposed to second-hand smoke than any other age-group, and around 165,000 of them a year die because of it.

Second hand smoke kills 600,000 people per year :WHO

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

What happen when two popular things combine? The become much more popular and powerful.

How about this world's leading VOIP provider integrating with worlds leading social networking site? Yay Yay i am talking about Skype and facebook.

Rumors are doing round that soon Facebook might add Skype video chat functionality within the social networking site.

Facebook application developer Tal Ater has rekindled speculation around the idea in spotting a “VideoChat” object in Facebook’s code.

Skype soon to be seen intergrated with facebook?

Is Wi-fi making the trees sick?

According to study carried out by Dutch university, They observe that Wi-Fi radiation are causing unknown abnormalities in trees.

The dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn started this study 5 years ago to figure out why their city's trees were developing weird growths, according to PC World.

The study, conducted by a researcher at Wageningen University, found that 70 percent of trees in urban areas exhibited similar symptoms today, while only 10 percent did five years ago. What's to blame for the increase? Wi-Fi, maybe.

Is Wi-fi making the trees sick?

BBC Panorama exposes 3 top senior FIFA officials in bribery scandal.

In programme broadcast by BBC on Monday evening, Panorama reported that three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s.

Ricardo Teixeira, Issa Hayatou and Nicolas Leoz took the money from a sport marketing firm awarded lucrative World Cup rights, the programme alleges.

BBC Panorama exposes 3 top senior FIFA officials in bribery scandal.

Should Wikileaks be treated as Terrorist Organisation?

With the release huge cache of classified and unclassified files by Wikileaks which showed the world the secret dirty side of US Diplomatic world which even targeted major international figures and created global diplomatic crisis with its own allies.

Now after reactions form the world are pouring in with the New York congress man Peter King, demanding declaring Wikileaks as a terrorist group.

King, a Republican Representative who will soon chair the House Homeland Security Committee, wants WikiLeaks placed alongside al-Qaeda and Hamas for outlet of huge cache of diplomatic cables.

Should Wikileaks be treated as Terrorist Organisation?

Next Wikileaks will be Big Corporate secrets: Assange

After spilling the beans on US diplomatic secrets, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that the next Wikileaks will be about the Big Corporate secrets in an interview with Forbes.

In an interview to Forbes, Assanage said that the US diplomatic cable cache release is just the beginning. The next wikileak release will about the big American banks.

Next Wikileaks will be Big Corporate secrets: Assange

Again Dubai is home to World's tallest tower. This time its residential tower.

By the end of 2011, Dubai will be home to World's largest residential tower (107-storey) beside the world famous Burj Khalifa.

The 414-metre tall called Princess Tower is located in the city's high-profile Dubai Marina .

According to Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Q1, located on the Gold Coast of Australia, is currently the tallest residential building in the world, standing 323-metre high with 78 floors.

Again Dubai is home to World's tallest tower. This time its residential tower.

Just pay $ 7 (Rs.315) / hour for a nap at Terminal 3 (T3) at Delhi International Airport.

Now instead of taking nap sitting, now you can rest peacefully or take a quick nap at SNOOZE cabins installed T3, Delhi international airport.

It cost you Rs. 315 ($7) an hour to rent a Nap Cabin at T3. Equipped with a bed, a desk, Wi-Fi, a flat screen TV, and a DVD player and cell phone charging sockets gives a luxurious experience.

Just pay $ 7 (Rs.315) / hour for a nap at Terminal 3 (T3) at Delhi International Airport.

Concerned with Facebook privacy issue? Then join Diaspora.

A open source social networking site alternative for facebook was developed called Diaspora is not in live and in Alpha stage.

This site was developed keeping users privacy in mind, so some time referred as 'anti-facebook'.

At present is being invited to certain limited people and it is community-funded project.

Concerned with Facebook privacy issue? Then join Diaspora.

69 year old women trapped inside bathroom for 20 days, survives .

An old women aged about 69 years was trapped inside bathroom for 20 days due to door lock jam. An elderly woman has survived being trapped in her bathroom in Paris for 20 days, after the door lock jammed.

Due to some neighbors realisation, since she was not seen recently made some neighbors to alert the local authorities.

69 year old women trapped inside bathroom for 20 days, survives .

Rolls-Royce bags order worth $1.8 billion despite the Airbus A380 Engine failure issue.

Rolls-Royce said they had won contract worth $1.8 billion from Air China to supply and service 20 aircraft engines.

Earlier this month one of the Qantas airplane (Airbus A380 fitted with Rolls Royce engine) hit by safety concerns after one of its engines exploded in mid-air.

Rolls-Royce bags order worth $1.8 billion despite the Airbus A380 Engine failure issue.

Major Indian cities to get IAF aerial protection.

In order to avoid another major threats like 26/11, in the country, the Indian Air Force is planning deploying detachments of fighter aircraft close to major cities so that they can deal with such threats in very less time.

According to officials, a small detachment of three to four dedicated aircraft would be deployed close to major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Pune to provide cover against any threats from hijacked aircraft, low speed and high speed aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), micro-light aircraft, paragliders, balloons and remote-controlled aero- models.

Major Indian cities to get IAF aerial protection.

Wikileaks websites claims cyber attack, Newspapers to go ahead with candid revelations.

Wikileaks via twitter said "We are currently under a mass distributed denial of service attack."

Wikileaks added that several newspapers would go ahead and publish secret United States documents even if the website crashed.Check out how they referred to whom.

Here are some of revelations published earlier via german newspaper.

Wikileaks websites claims cyber attack, Newspapers to go ahead with candid revelations.

Shocking: Approx 8 children committed suicide every day in 2009 in India.

According to a Govt report nearly eight children below the age of 14 years committed suicide every day on an average across India during 2009.

Almost 2,951 children, including 1,450 girls, ended their lives in 2009.

Madhya Pradesh reported most deaths with 266 boys and 242 girls committing suicide.

Shocking: Approx 8 children committed suicide every day in 2009 in India.

Chinese women lands into jail for her hatred tweet.

A Chinese women, Cheng Jianping, 46 was sentenced to one year in a labor camp for inciting hatred and violence via micro blogging site twitter.

She urged recipients to attack the Japanese Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo.

Under China's legal system, the police can send people to so-called re-education through labor for up to four years without trial.

Chinese women lands into jail for her hatred tweet.

Astronomers claims to have a new planet outside Milky way.

From the telescope located at Chile, Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet outside from our galaxy.

The planet resembles Jupiter, they say, is part of a solar system which once belonged to a dwarf galaxy.

This dwarf galaxy was in turn devoured by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, according to a team writing in the academic journal Science.

Astronomers claims to have a new planet outside Milky way.

US Govt warns its home away troops not to use Social networking site.

Social networking sites like Facebook, Foursqure, Loopt may be dangerous to soldiers who are away from their home and who are on a mission.

The United States Air Force had issued a warning its troops through its internal website to be careful when using Facebook and other popular networking sites because some new features could show the enemy exactly where US forces are located in war zones.

US Govt warns its home away troops not to use Social networking site.