Rangmunch.TV - Nakuul Mehta-Love and Relationships

This week we talk to Nakuul Mehta, the handsome hunk who plays Aditya on Star Plus's hit show Pyaar Ka Dard Hai. Lets see what his views on love and relationships are.

RM: What's the best way to ask a girl out n a valentine's day?

Nakuul: I have never asked a girl out on a valentine's day date so have no idea.

RM: Do you think there should be a specific day to celebrate love?

Nakuul: I think you should celebrate love everyday, but having said that,I don't think its overrated . I think it's good you have a day marked for love where you make an extra effort to express your love . I have no issues with days like Valentine day.

RM:What's your idea of a perfect date?

Nakuul : It's changed with time. In school it was just holding hands, in college the first girl I dated is the one I married .During that time if I could take her out for coffee, that was exciting. Now that we both are busy, seeing each other, do something together like coffee ,film ,dinner..it's special.

RM:When you get free time what do you both do ?

Nakuul: We both love food, and I love trying out new cuisine.

RM: Do you believe in karma ,soulmates and destiny?

Nakuul : Yes I do. It's funny actually. I read this book called Many Lies Many Masters and the I read another book by the same author. Love is real...And I totally bought the theory of karma. Back then when I saw my wife , I didn't know but had this strong feeling that said I would get married to to this girl.

RM: We're you sure that she would say yes ?

Nakuul : She didn't say yes, ..that's another story we should not get into ( laugh). girls should always believe in the fact they are attractive and desirable. ( laughs some more) so I was turned down the first time. But then I kept on trying as I knew she was my soulmate and I couldn't let it just go.

RM:Who do you think is more romantic? Men or Women?

Nakuul: It's depends from person to person. Women need to hear it more and men need to say it more .

RM: How does one know it's not lust but love ?

Nakuul: In the morning when you want to have breakfast together it's love, and when you want to leave its totally lust! ( laughs out loud )

RM: Do you believe in falling in love completely or loosing yourself in love ?

Nakuul: It's a very poetic question. No answer at the moment , will have to think though ....

RM: What's the difference between being lonely and being single ?

Nakuul: you could be lonely in a relationship also,and being single is when you could date multiple girls. (laughs)

RM: Has your definition of love changed post marriage ?

Nakuul: Maybe to an extent.The responsibility factor increases.The care factor multiplies by many folds. But the essence is just the same .

RM: Do you remember what is the first thing you said to your wife ?

Nakuul: (thinks) infact I do. I had to think for a week for a good opening line ( laughs).We both were in Shamak Davar's class. She was in a much senior group than I was ..She was changing and I walked upto her and asked "Do you have a name ".. She gave me the most frozen look ever..

RM: How important is it to say out your feelings ?

Nakuul: I think it's very import at to verbalise your feelings.

RM: Do you think unconditional love exists in this world ?

Nakuul: Yes.. Parents have it for their children...

RM :Would you give up on a relationship just because the horoscopes said so ?

Nakuul: Never!

RM:What do you think of love in the virtual world ?

Nakuul: it's lust !! ( bursts out laughing ) one goes by DP on Facebook but it s never the same in real.

RM:Do you think familiarity breeds contempt?

Nakuul: not in my case

RM: Would you sacrifice the thing you loved the most for the one you loved the most ?

Nakuul: tough!!..maybe ....

RM:What puts you off in a relationship?

Nakuul: dishonesty

RM:What are your priorities in a relationship?

Nakuul: The way we look at life should somehow match ..it should be about the people in a relationship first and not things around us.

On that note we say bye to the actor who always warmly greets us has interesting things to say at all times! Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as we did conducting this interview session.

Edited by,

Navyanka Varma

(As told to Niharika Vidya Sagar & Swati Ghosh)

Source: http://www.rangmunch.tv/index.php/kaelidoscope/actors/item/2809-nakuul-mehta-love-relationships

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Maine man can whistle, but he must keep moving

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ? A man charged with disorderly conduct for his loud whistling in downtown Portland has reached a deal with the city ? he can whistle, but he can't linger in one spot.

Robert Smith, of Westbrook, has been cited by police twice in the past year after businesses complained. He pleaded guilty last summer and reached a deal with the city in which he can keep whistling as long as he's moving.

Smith maintains that his whistling ? audible a block away ? is protected free speech and usually brings smiles.

"God is showing me what I'm doing is OK," he told The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/15e6AEN). "He shows me every day with laughter."

But downtown businesses have complained about the 32-year-old Smith's never-ending noise-making.

Janis Beitzer, of the Portland Downtown District, understands why some business owners are upset.

"Just like if somebody plays an instrument in front of your business or has the radio on constantly, it's irritating," Beitzer said.

Smith said he works a construction job during the summer, but when he's not working he usually takes a bus into Portland and walks downtown streets from about 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., wearing a baseball cap, wrap-around sunglasses and a backpack while listening to classic rock and oldies through his headphones.

As he walks the streets, some people laugh and smile. But others scowl or roll their eyes in disgust, making rude comments after passing by.

In a plea agreement last summer, Smith pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and agreed to no longer whistle while standing in one place. As long as he's walking while he whistles, authorities agreed not to bother him.

The prosecutor, Trish McAllister, disagreed that Smith's whistling is protected by the First Amendment. A Portland city ordinance says whistling, hooting and other unnecessary noises that "annoy, disturb or injure the health, peace or safety of others" are forms of disorderly conduct.

"The judge and I viewed this as a behavioral issue," she said. "(Smith) was aggressive. He would follow people who gave him a wrong look."

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Information from: Portland Press Herald, http://www.pressherald.com

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/maine-man-whistle-must-keep-moving-142219466.html

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Dubai officials block Bahrain-based AP journalist

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? Two Bahrain-based journalists, including a reporter for The Associated Press, were blocked from entering the United Arab Emirates on Monday under apparent new restrictions by Gulf Arab states.

Reem Khalifa and her husband, Mansoor al-Jamri, chief editor for Bahrain's independent Al Wasat newspaper, said they were told by authorities at Dubai International Airport that they were on a list to deny entry.

No further explanations were immediately given, but it appears part of tighter coordination between Gulf allies to control and monitor journalists, activists and others in the region.

Like all Gulf partners, the UAE has expanded crackdowns on perceived political dissent since the Arab Spring, including charging 94 people last month with conspiring to overthrow the ruling system. But it still remains among the most open countries in the Gulf for journalists, researchers and scholars.

Bahrain's 2-year-old uprising is a critical issue for Gulf leaders, who want to safeguard the ruling families across the region.

Khalifa and her husband ? on a private visit to Dubai ? closely cover Bahrain's struggles between majority Shiites and the Sunni rulers in the strategic kingdom, which is home to the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet.

Khalifa had visited Dubai last year without incident. Al-Jamri was among the winners in 2011 of the International Press Freedom Award by the Committee to Protect Journalists.

A senior UAE official said airport immigration issues fall under Dubai police, which had no immediate comment. Bahrainis and other citizens from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council ? as well as many Western passport holders ? can enter the UAE without a pre-arranged visa.

Bahrain, however, has imposed a special journalist visa that has sharply limited outside media access to the country.

Last week, the UAE also denied entry to a prominent academic from the London School of Economics who was scheduled to speak about Bahrain at a conference on the Arab Spring.

The UAE's Foreign Ministry said Monday that Kristian Coates Ulrichsen was not allowed into the country because his work has been critical of Bahrain's monarchy, which is closely backed by other Gulf leaders. The UAE said "non-constructive" views on Bahrain are unwelcome.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dubai-officials-block-bahrain-based-ap-journalist-162433287.html

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Graphene: A material that multiplies the power of light

Feb. 24, 2013 ? Bottles, packaging, furniture, car parts... all made of plastic. Today we find it difficult to imagine our lives without this key material that revolutionized technology over the last century. There is wide-spread optimism in the scientific community that graphene will provide similar paradigm shifting advances in the decades to come. Mobile phones that fold, transparent and flexible solar panels, extra thin computers... the list of potential applications is endless.

The most recent discovery published in Nature Physics and made by researchers at the Institute of Photonic Science (ICFO), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, and Graphenea S.L. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, demonstrate that graphene is able to convert a single photon that it absorbs into multiple electrons that could drive electric current (excited electrons) -- a very promising discovery that makes graphene an important alternative material for light detection and harvesting technologies, now based on conventional semiconductors like silicon.

"In most materials, one absorbed photon generates one electron, but in the case of graphene, we have seen that one absorbed photon is able to produce many excited electrons, and therefore generate larger electrical signals" explains Frank Koppens, group leader at ICFO. This feature makes graphene an ideal building block for any device that relies on converting light into electricity. In particular, it enables efficient light detectors and potentially also solar cells that can harvest light energy from the full solar spectrum with lower loss.

The experiment consisted in sending a known number of photons with different energies (different colors) onto a monolayer of graphene. "We have seen that high energy photons (e.g. violet) are converted into a larger number of excited electrons than low energy photons (e.g. infrared). The observed relation between the photon energy and the number of generated excited electrons shows that graphene converts light into electricity with very high efficiency. Even though it was already speculated that graphene holds potential for light-to-electricity conversion, it now turns out that it is even more suitable than expected!" explains Tielrooij, researcher at ICFO.

Although there are some issues for direct applications, such as graphene's low absorption, graphene holds the potential to cause radical changes in many technologies that are currently based on conventional semiconductors. "It was known that graphene is able to absorb a very large spectrum of light colors. However now we know that once the material has absorbed light, the energy conversion efficiency is very high. Our next challenge will be to find ways of extracting the electrical current and enhance the absorption of graphene. Then we will be able to design graphene devices that detect light more efficiently and could potentially even lead to more efficient solar cells." concludes Koppens.

Scientists, industries and the European Commission are so convinced of the potential of graphene to revolutionize the world economy that they promise an injection of ?1.000 million in graphene research.

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International Conference on Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century

Public release date: 24-Feb-2013
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Stopping the spread of a plague

Imagine, for a moment, that a plague has ravaged the Developed World, but has not yet established its grip on the Developing Nations. If the world's leaders in public health came together for two days at Harvard to map out a campaign to prevent the plague's spread, wouldn't you want to cover that meeting?

February 26 and 27, under the auspices of the World Health Organization and Harvard University, representatives of more than two dozen nations, the African Union, the European Union and numerous other public health and international organizations will meet at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in Cambridge, MA, to lay the ground work for preventing one billion projected deaths by the end of this century all caused by the spread of tobacco smoking to the Developing World.

The major purpose of the conference is to prevent the global tobacco industry from using its wealth and power to thwart passage of laws based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) in developing nations. The industry undermines national laws through trade challenges or complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that they violate trade treaties.

Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and former Health Minister of Mexico, has said that "to end the tobacco epidemic once and for all, we must clearly present the facts that tobacco wreaks havoc on both public health and the economic health and development of nations. The two are interdependent. This meeting presents an enormous opportunity to prevent the plague of smoking from ravaging the developing world as it already has ravaged the more developed nations."

And Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: Chairperson of the African Union Commission, has called on the conference leaders "to prevent the global tobacco industry from transferring the burden of tobacco-induced death and disease from developed countries to Africa."

"Thanks to the tobacco industry, tobacco use killed 100 million people last century," said John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society. "If we don't become more aggressive towards the industry, they will claim one billion people this century. We know how to stop this pandemic - with good science, good governance, and political determination. The question is, will we take the necessary steps to do so?"

In addition to Frenk, Dlamini-Zuma, and Seffrin, presenters at this two day conference will include Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Vesile Kulao?lu, Director, Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization and Nicola Roxon, MP, Former Attorney General and Minister of Health of Australia, as leading academics, public health officials, and anti-tobacco campaigners from Russia, India, Kenya, Canada, Chile, Thailand, and other nations.

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Contact: B. D. Colen
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Harvard University

Stopping the spread of a plague

Imagine, for a moment, that a plague has ravaged the Developed World, but has not yet established its grip on the Developing Nations. If the world's leaders in public health came together for two days at Harvard to map out a campaign to prevent the plague's spread, wouldn't you want to cover that meeting?

February 26 and 27, under the auspices of the World Health Organization and Harvard University, representatives of more than two dozen nations, the African Union, the European Union and numerous other public health and international organizations will meet at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in Cambridge, MA, to lay the ground work for preventing one billion projected deaths by the end of this century all caused by the spread of tobacco smoking to the Developing World.

The major purpose of the conference is to prevent the global tobacco industry from using its wealth and power to thwart passage of laws based on the World Health Organization's (WHO) Framework Convention for Tobacco Control (FCTC) in developing nations. The industry undermines national laws through trade challenges or complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming that they violate trade treaties.

Julio Frenk, Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and former Health Minister of Mexico, has said that "to end the tobacco epidemic once and for all, we must clearly present the facts that tobacco wreaks havoc on both public health and the economic health and development of nations. The two are interdependent. This meeting presents an enormous opportunity to prevent the plague of smoking from ravaging the developing world as it already has ravaged the more developed nations."

And Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma: Chairperson of the African Union Commission, has called on the conference leaders "to prevent the global tobacco industry from transferring the burden of tobacco-induced death and disease from developed countries to Africa."

"Thanks to the tobacco industry, tobacco use killed 100 million people last century," said John R. Seffrin, PhD, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society. "If we don't become more aggressive towards the industry, they will claim one billion people this century. We know how to stop this pandemic - with good science, good governance, and political determination. The question is, will we take the necessary steps to do so?"

In addition to Frenk, Dlamini-Zuma, and Seffrin, presenters at this two day conference will include Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Vesile Kulao?lu, Director, Trade and Environment Division, World Trade Organization and Nicola Roxon, MP, Former Attorney General and Minister of Health of Australia, as leading academics, public health officials, and anti-tobacco campaigners from Russia, India, Kenya, Canada, Chile, Thailand, and other nations.

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Hot sauce king dies at age 68

By Jane Sutton, Reuters

Paul McIlhenny, the chairman and chief executive of the Louisiana company that makes Tabasco brand pepper sauce, has died at age 68, the McIlhenny Co said on Sunday.

McIlhenny died on Saturday, the family-owned company said in a news release that described him as "a true bon vivant" whose passions included hunting, fishing, wine-tasting and game cooking.

He was a sixth-generation member of the McIlhenny family to live on Avery Island in the southern Louisiana bayou, and a fourth-generation member to produce pepper sauces sold worldwide under the Tabasco brand.

The McIlhenny company was founded in 1868 on Avery Island. It supplies hot sauce to the U.S. presidential plane Air Force One and to Britain's royal family, the Times-Picayune newspaper said on its website.

Paul McIlhenny joined the company in 1967 and directly oversaw the production of its sauces for 13 years, expanding both its line of spicy sauces and the array of aprons, neckties and other merchandise bearing the familiar red-and-green Tabasco logo.

He spent much of his time in New Orleans and in 2006 he reigned as Rex, the first King of Carnival during Mardi Gras celebrations after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

"All of McIlhenny Company and the McIlhenny and Avery families are deeply saddened by this news," said Tony Simmons, president of McIlhenny Co and fifth-generation McIlhenny family member. "We will clearly miss Paul's devoted leadership but will more sorely feel the loss of his acumen, his charm and his irrepressible sense of humor."

Source: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/24/17076392-hot-sauce-king-tabasco-company-ceo-paul-mcilhenny-dies-at-age-68?lite

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