Bajaj to launch Bharat Bike in next month

Bajaj Auto will be launching a 150 cc Boxer bike which will be christened as Bharat Bike later this year. A report in The Business Line states that Bajaj Auto will introduce the Bharat bike in the 3rd quarter of this year at a price tag of Rs 40,000 approximately.

Bajaj has specially developed Boxer 150 cc for the rural India. Bajaj aims to replace age-old existing motorcycles like Rajdoot, Yezdi, etc with Boxer 150. Powered by a 4 stroke engine, Boxer 150 will generate decent power and torque to take on the likes of Yezdi and Rajdoot.

Bajaj Auto’s Boxer series of motorcycles is known for its stupendous on road mileage it delivers. But those figures are for the 100 cc variants. With the 150 cc variant, Boxer will not be able to deliver impressive mileage figures.

Atlantis link with ISS

Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the International Space Station(ISS) at 15:07 GMT yesterday, on its final visit to the orbiting outpost as the US prepares to wrap the shuttle programme.
Before connecting with the ISS, the venerable vehicle did the customary back flip to allow station crew to photograph its heat shield. The snaps will be sent to ground controllers to check for any damage.
Atlantis is carrying the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module, loaded with spares and supplies. Pilot Doug Hurley and mission specialist Sandy Magnus will today use the ISS's Canadarm2 robot limb to shift the module from the shuttle's cargo bay to the station's Harmony node.
Ground-based flight controllers, meanwhile, are monitoring reports from the US Department of Defense’s Strategic Command that a piece of Soviet satellite COSMOS 375 may pass close to the ISS tomorrow afternoon.
NASA said yesterday: "The team expected updated tracking information following today’s docking to help determine if a maneuver using the shuttle’s thrusters is necessary to avoid the debris."

Top Five Junk Food that Techies eat at workplace

Techies are known for their workaholic nature and most of the time they immersed in their work and they burn the night away. Under work burden techies tends to get addicted to junk food and they start having it at regular intervals. They often hop dinner or lunch at home because of their absurd work timings. 

But the habit of eating junk food effects very badly on their health. They work more; eat all the junk food but no physical exercise and this leads to different work related diseases.

There are certain junk foods that techies often prefer to have on their workplace:

Burger

Burger can be called as the king of fast food. It is one of the most preferred junk food by techies and they are also one of the biggest sellers. Burger is available in most of the office cafeteria, and it saves time for the techies as well as money. But it has high fat and sugar levels and it contains high saturated fats which are an instigator in higher cholesterol levels in the blood which can lead to heart disease.

Pizza and Noodles Pizzas are like heaven for techies. It is like when you snap your finger it's here. Techies can seat at their place and call up Pizza houses and get it. But techies consume high fat and calories with Pizza. They are usually high salt too.

To save the time many techies go for instant noodles. Noodles are basically a carbohydrate which is very essential for a health. But excess carbohydrates will be converted into sugar and if not utilized will deposit as fat in our body.

Samosa

Samosa is the cheapest fast food we can ever get. This is one of the most preferred snacks to have with tea or coffee. But many of us do not know that eating one Samosa a day for a week can increase the weight of a person by one pound. And that can be a big health concern and it will lead to greater health risk in future.

Fries and Chips: Fries and Chips are the most favorite food for not only the techies but almost for everybody. While working its fun to munch chips and working. Eating this fast food can reduce their tensions at work place and also at the same time to get rid of drowsiness. Techies need not waste time or much money to have this food. But after eating these, the body consumes almost twice as many calories as you would if you ate the same weight other fast food.

Soft DrinksCarbonated drinks are always liked by everybody, and by default it comes with every junk food or beverage. We can say soft drink completes the meal. In office hours, techies prefer soft drinks and they drink it frequently. But frequent consumption of soft drinks is very bad for health. The carbonation in the drinks irritates the stomach and it reduces the calcium in the bones. Most soft drinks also contain phosphoric acid and that can cause a drawdown on the store of calcium.

South Sudan becomes the newest nation in the World

South Sudan has become the world’s newest nation — 193rd country recognised by the UN and the 54th UN member state in Africa — after a peace deal that ended a long and bloody civil war, BBC reported Saturday.

On Friday, Sudan’s Minister of Presidential Affairs, Bakri Hassan Saleh, announced that it recognised “the Republic of South Sudan as an independent state, according to the borders existing Jan 1, 1956″, when Sudan gained independence from Britain Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon were among international dignitaries attending the celebrations in the capital, Juba.

Meditation can change brain activity

Anderson, who did research on Meditation as an undergraduate student, together with a team of University of Wisconsin-Stout faculty and students, wanted to know if there was a change in brain activity after a shorter period.

At the beginning of the new study, each participant had an EEG, a measurement of the brain’s electrical activity, according to a Wisconsin university statement.

Then a group was invited to take part in meditation training, while the other group was told they would be trained later. The group was offered two half-hour sessions a week, and encouraged to practise as much as they could between sessions, but there wasn’t any particular requirement for how much they should practice.

People who had done the meditation showed a greater proportion of activity in the left frontal region of the brain, in response to subsequent attempts to meditate, as compared to the group which did not meditate.

One of experience, the Landscape artist Jane Anderson struggled with seasonal affective disorder in the winter months. She tried meditation and noticed a change within a month.

“My experience was a sense of calmness, of better ability to regulate my emotions,” she says. Her experience inspired a new study which found changes in brain activity after only five weeks of meditation training, the journal Psychological Science reports.