Virat Kohli cheers for Germany in Euro 2016

India's Test skipper Virat Kohli has showed his support for Germany to win the Euro 2016 competition starting from June 10.

Indian’s cricketing superstar Virat Kohli took to Twitter to show his support for his favorite football team in the upcoming European Championship a.k.a Euro 2016. Kohli tweeted support to current FIFA World Cup champion Germany, sporting a Germany jersey. Kohli is big football fan and is actively involved in cricketers versus Bollywood celebrity football matches. Germany football team official RT’d Kohli’s tweet thanking him for the support and asking other celebrities to show their support to Die Mannschaft during the Euro 2016 competition. Kohli is currently been rested for India’s tour to Zimbabwe, while he will captain the Test team during India’s tour to West Indies

Kohli, recently met with music maestro AR Rahman for composing the official anthem of premier Futsal League . Kohli, who met the legendary musical genius, tweeted a picture of him with Rahman through his official Twitter handle. Kohli said in his tweet that he feels privileged to have met Rahman, and having received the opportunity to spend some time with him. He called Rahman a ‘genius’ and added that he is a classic example of ‘humility’. He finally thanked Rahman calling him ‘Sir’. Rahman is widely considered one of the finest music directors of this generation and arguably the best India has ever produced since independence.

Bread makers to stop using ‘cancer-causing’ chemicals from tonight

New Delhi: Facing allegations about presence of carcinogenic chemicals in their products, a bread manufacturers' body on Thursday said they will stop using controversial potassium bromate and potasium iodate as additives from tonight.

The All India Bread Manufacturers Association, which represents over 90 organised bread manufacturers such as Harvest Gold and Britannia, has, however, asked Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to verify the findings of the CSE report that claimed most of the breads sold in the National Capital contained cancer-causing chemicals.

"FSSAI has already said that use of potassium bromate as an additive will be stopped and a notification will be issued within 6-7 days. Hence, we have decided to stop using potassium bromate and potassium iodate voluntarily," All India Bread Manufacturers Association President Ramesh Mago told reporters in Delhi. He, however, said proper scientific study must be done on the issue.

"We would go to FSSAI and ask them to verify the claims by CSE," Mago said. When asked as how much time the industry would take to implement it, he said: "It would come in effect immediately. It would not be used in the fresh production from tonight."

Harvest Gold MD Adil Hussain and member executive council AIBMA said: "It's a matter of respecting public opinion. We would use other alternatives such as enzymes and emulsifiers depending on what product we are making."

He, however, said the said chemical was in the book, which FSSAI publishes in which 11,000 ingredients are allowed to be used for food products.

"It has been there for almost two decades and not a recent occurrence. The industry is very clear that it's an additive, which is safe and legally allowed by FSSAI in India and FDA in USA and perfectly safe," Hussain claimed.

Mago said that after CSE study claiming that bread contains cancer-causing chemicals, sales have been affected. "We have an impact of around 10 per cent on our sales," he said adding it would return to normal once the controversial substance is not used.

I was comfortable abusing on screen: Alia Bhatt

Alia Bhatt's avatar in 'Udtaa Punjab' has ceryainly created quite a buzz. The trailers show the actress in a completely de-glam look, using expletives like anybody's business. The actress says she was not at all uncomfortable swearing on screen. "I am comfortable doing what fits in my character," she said.

According to a report by Indian Express, Alia said, "If the character is angry or upset or distraught , Alia doesn't have anything to do with it. It is the character. So when I am doing anything whether it is dancing crying or abusing or jumping or anything, I am doing it as the character. I may not necessarily feeling like that at that time but I am doing it because that is the way it is in the film, in the script."

'Udtaa Punjab' revolves around the drug abuse problem in Punjab and stars Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, and Diljit Dosanjh apart from Alia.

10 Interesting Facts About the English Language that You Didn’t Know

Did you know that enneacontakaienneagon isactually a word in the English language? (And you thought pronouncing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious was difficult?). In fact, the meaning of the word is just as bizarre as the word itself: it’s a shape with ninety-nine sides.

 
Compared to other languages, English may seem simple, but that is probably because most people don’t realize it is full of crazy inventions, misinterpretations, mistakes, strange words, and needless words!

Let’s take a look at ten interesting facts about the English language:

1“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

2 A pangram sentence is one that contains every letter in the language.

3Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (*breath*) is NOT the longest word in English.

4There are “ghost words” that mean nothing.

5The shortest, oldest, and most commonly used word is “I.”

6A new word is added to the dictionary every two hours.

7There’s a name for words that we repeat often.

8Swims will be swims even when turned upside down.

9.English is the language of the air.

10Girl used to mean small boy or girl.

Sachin: Sometimes I feel sorry for bowlers

Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar feels that technological improvement has given the batsmen too much of an advantage, and that the bowlers have been at the receiving end of it. The 43-year-old has pointed out how the bats have improved over the years, whereas the ball has remained the same.

Speaking to the commentators from the dugout of Mumbai Indians during their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Sachin Tendulkar said, "I have been checking out everyone's bats and the bats have changed in the last two and a half years. They (bat) are looking bigger. Even if you don't get in the middle of the bat, you are still able to clear the boundary lines and it’s fabulous."

The Master Blaster, who had amassed over 34,000 runs in Test and ODIs during his long and illustrious career, feels that the bowlers should also be helped out by improving the balls.

"Sometimes I feel sorry for bowlers. The bats are getting better and better day by day but there isn't much done to a cricket ball. It has been the same for years now, maybe it's time to look at that," he concluded.