Arnold Schwarzenegger could return to movies?

Arnold Schwarzenegger is willing to consider a return to the movies, he said in an interview to mark his departure from the post of governor of California on Monday.
Schwarzenegger told Variety magazine [paywall] he had not yet decided what to do with his future, but confirmed that acting was on the list of possibilities. The Austrian-born former bodybuilder recently took a cameo in the Sylvester Stallone action movie The Expendables, further signalling, perhaps, his willingness to return to the big screen following seven years in political office.
"The list is a long list of things I can do, but nothing I can concentrate on until I am literally, totally out of office," Schwarzenegger said. "For me the joy of life is not to know, and you get into it and you kind of figure it out. I love that. I don't like safety nets. I am not a believer in that … So you go in there with an open mind and you have to learn very quickly."

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South Super Star Rajinikanth to return to Bollywood?

Bollywood director Rohit Shetty, fresh from his success with Golmaal 3, is reportedly eying Southern superstar Rajinikanth for his next movie.

If reports are to be believed, Rohit is in talks with close aides of Rajini to convince the Robot star to make a return to Bollywood.

Rajinikanth appeared in Bollywood blockbusters Hum and Chaalbaaz and his last Hindi film was Bulandi in 2000 co-starring Anil Kapoor. Recent Tamil films Sivaji and Endhiran have been dubbed in Hindi.

Rajinikanth made an appearance on the silver screen in 2010's Endhiran three years after his previous release, Sivaji.

Endhiran went on to break box office records and if the superstar does decide to try his hand at comedy in Rohit Shetty's next, it's going to be a great start to the current decade for all Rajinikanth fans

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Happy Birthday to Allah Rakha Rahman

Indian music maestro Allah Rakha Rahman celebrates his birthday today (Thursday, January 06, 2011). The double Academy Winner turns 45.

He was born in 1966 as A S Dileep Kumar to a musically affluent Mudaliar Tamil family. His career started in 1992 with Mani Ratnam's Tamil film ‘Roja,’ which marked the start of his reign in Indian Film Industry. Since then he has bagged fourteen Filmfare Awards, eleven Filmfare Awards South, four National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award and a Golden Globe. Recently, he has been has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for the Hollywood flick ‘127 Hours,’ which hit the screens in UK yesterday.

16reels wishes this Music Storm a very Happy Birthday.


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South Africa can't overtake India at the top of the rankings: SMITH

Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, believes that India are the team with a point to prove going into the three-Test series starting in Centurion on Thursday. "If you're going to be No. 1 in the world you have to be convincing all around the world and beat people in their own backyards. That's what Australia did consistently. The pressure will be on India," Smith said at a press conference in Centurion on Wednesday.

Although Corrie van Zyl, South Africa's coach, and some of the other players have talked down the importance of the rankings, Smith echoed the thoughts of many who believe that India have to win in South Africa to justify their label as the world's top-ranked Test team. Smith believes South Africa are in an ideal space to challenge India. "We've been touching the No. 1 and 2 spot for the past two-and-a-half-years and we've played some good cricket around the world. We pride ourselves on big series like this one." Unless they sweep the series, South Africa can't overtake India at the top of the rankings, but they're more interested in asserting their dominance than the label itself.

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No Windows 8 announcement says Microsoft

UPDATE 10:38 p.m. ET: Angiulo makes it official: He shows a demo of the next version of Windows to highlight new hardware features from Microsoft's production partners. But it's rendered in the current Windows interface because Microsoft isn't discussing details of what's eventually expected to be Windows 8. Microsoft's keynote has come in with much less ambition than had been expected.
UPDATE 10:24 p.m. ET: "There's one more product I want to talk about tonight, and that's the Windows PC," Ballmer says. So probably no Windows TV tonight. Windows Vice President Mike Angiulo comes on and is recapping the announcements the company made this afternoon.
UPDATE 10:15 p.m. ET: Ballmer says Kinect is proving to be far more popular than expected; 8 million consoles were sold during the holiday season, 60 percent above projections. Now he's moved on to Windows Phone 7. There's much applause at word that cut and paste is coming soon.

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Bird census in Tuticorin and Nellai

TIRUNELVELI: Here is good news for students and others, particularly those who are very much interested in watching the birds, as a bird census in large scale is going to be conducted in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts for the first time during the third week of January.
The Bangalore-based Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) in association with the Department of Forest's Tirunelveli Division made extensive arrangements for launching a waterfowl count in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin districts on January 21 and 22. The districts of Tirunelveli and Tuticorin lie in a semi-arid landscape. However, the perennial river of Tamirabharani and its tributaries flowing from the Agasthyamalai Hills and traverses for about 175 km made these two districts the ‘Rice Bowl' of southern Tamil Nadu and being an important shelter for birds, especially waterfowls, in the entire country. The perpetual river not only supports human population and culture but also a large number of wetland birds as its water is being diverted to hundreds of systemised irrigation tanks in both the districts. The popular Koonthankulam birds' sanctuary too gets water from the Tamirabharani.

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Egg price increased in Namakkal

The intensive cold wave in northern parts of the country that has resulted in increased egg consumption scaled up the price of egg to Rs.2.91 at Namakkal on Wednesday, the highest ever in the egg production hub.

Sources from the National National Egg Co-Ordination Committee (NECC) said that the previous highest price was around 288 and 289 paise about six months ago.

President of the Tamil Nadu Poultry Farmers Association R. Nalla Thambi said that the consumption of the north Indian States has increased by an average five per cent from the usual 10 to 15 percent to 20 percent of the district's daily production of three crore eggs, since the third week of December.

Noting that Tamil Nadu was no exception to escape the cold wave, he said that the prevailing weather has brought down the production by five percent (more than 15 lakh eggs a day) over the last three weeks.

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Our Nation population reaches 25.1 million: TEXAS

Texas zipped past the 25 million mark as it topped the national growth chart for the last decade by adding 4,293,741 residents, according to 2010 Census figures released Tuesday.
The Lone Star State's population swelled to 25,145,561, a 20.6 percent increase since 2000, Census Director Robert Groves announced at a news conference in Washington, D.C.
By comparison, the United States population grew to 308,745,538, up 9.7 percent since 2000, the slowest growth rate since the Great Depression, Groves said.
Texas' numbers add up to one word for Texas demographer Steve Murdock: "Phenomenal."
"I was a little bit surprised about how large the change was," said Murdock, a Rice University professor and former U.S. Census director. "I thought it would be about 25 million, but that 4.2 million increase is unprecedented in Texas history."
By percentage, Texas' growth was the fifth-highest, trailing Nevada (35.1 percent), Arizona (24.1 percent), Utah (23.8 percent) and Idaho (21.1 percent).
"That percentage growth is really surprising. It's striking because size typically brings down rates," said Karl Eschbach, director of population research at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

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Strongest storm yet could bring flooding in Southern California

Authorities and residents were bracing for flooding, thunderstorms, hail, tidal surges and even small tornadoes Wednesday as the worst of a seven-day series of storms was expected to sweep into Southern California.

Wednesday's storm was projected to be the most intense of the week, the result of a powerful, cold storm from the Gulf of Alaska colliding with a river of subtropical moisture from the western Pacific Ocean.



"When you get the very cold air mixing in with the very warm air, it can be quite volatile," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. Forecasters said the system could produce lightning and possibly waterspouts offshore and small tornadoes on land.

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Ranatunga said Sachin never treated the game as source of income

NEW DELHI: The glamour and glitz of Twenty20 has had its adverse affect on Test cricket and only someone of Sachin Tendulkar's stature can help restore the waning popularity of the traditional form of the game, feels former Sri Lankan captain Arjuna Ranatunga.

The Lankan captain lavished praise on Sachin for not treating the game as a source of income.

"Sachin is an iconic figure. We need cricketers like him to save Test cricket. As long as Sachin is playing,

I am sure Test cricket is safe," Rantunga said from Colombo while congratulating the champion batsman on his 50th Test century. 

"He has been playing for more than 20 years now. I think he is a rare cricketer who does not consider cricket as a source of income. This is the secret of his longevity and phenomenal success as well," the cricketer turned politician said.

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