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Chandigarh: The cremation of singing sensation Ishmeet Singh, who died in the Maldives yesterday, could be apprehended tomorrow in his native town Ludhiana.

The person of 19-year-old singer is forecasted to contact New Delhi afterward tonight, official resources assumed on Wednesday.

Ishmeet, the winner of the truth verify ‘Voice of India 2007′, had gone to the Maldives for a phase show. He drowned in the swimming pool of a hotel yesterday. He was going to perform on July 31.

Condoling the death of the talented singer, Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said, “He had acquired and cr and fame at a young age and was bound to progress further, but a young livlihood has continued cut short.”

Speaking at a urge conference here, Badal believed the the neighborhood authorities will require the equipments to bid Ishmeet’s person to his native place.

Badal in addition headed on to add such a he informed Ishmeet’s daddy Gurprinder Singh Sodhi in Ludhiana such afternoon the current the neighborhood will arrange to bid the body.

A pall of gloom descended at the structures of Ishmeet in Ludhiana go on night right away once argues poured in the the young singer died ensuing drowning in a swimming pool at a hotel in the Maldives.

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At least 15 people were killed and several injured in a blast at the office of Pakistan’s federal investigation agency in the eastern city of Lahore today, the city police chief said.

“The explosion took place in the premises of Federal Investigation Agency’s office, killing 13 people and injuring several others,” Lahore police chief Malik Muhammad Iqbal told AFP.

Iqbal said he could not immediately confirm the nature of the blast.

A second bomb went off in a residential neighbourhood about 10km away, killing two children, said a city administrator, Mian Ejaz.

Television channels showed footage of a partially collapsed four-storey building and piles of blackened wreckage. It was not clear if the footage was of the investigation agency building or of nearby structures.

Police cordoned off the area while emergency workers carrying stretchers scrambled over the rubble.

The explosion comes one week after two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a prestigious naval college in Lahore, killing at least five people and injuring 19, officials said.

Pakistan has been rocked by six major blasts since elections on February 18, posing a serious challenge to an incoming coalition government led by the parties of slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and former premier Nawaz Sharif.

Pakistan has been combating an Islamist insurgency led by al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters since President Pervez Musharraf joined the US-led “war on terror” in 2001, but the violence has soared since the start of 2007.

Around 600 people have died since the start of this year in suicide attacks, roadside bombings and clashes, mainly along the Afghan border in troubled northwestern Pakistan but also in major cities.

Many of the attacks have targeted the armed forces, police and security forces.

The army’s top medical officer, Lieutenant General Mushtaq Baig, was killed in a suicide attack in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on February 25.

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An identical triplets were born to Allison Penn who currently employed as an education specialist at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, USA — an event so rare it might happen 1 in 200 million births according to an obstetrician estimate.

Tom and Allison Penn wanted a baby more than anything. Now they have three, all alike. The triplets, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, born last Wednesday.

Miracle Babies

The babies, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30% chance of all three surviving by the first obstetrician consulted by the Patchogue, N.Y., couple, said Tom Penn, who called them “miracle babies.”

The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces (Logan); 4 pounds (Eli); and 4 pounds, 11 ounces (Collin) at birth, went home Sunday.

MANHASSET, N.Y. — Tom and Allison Penn wanted a baby more than anything. Now they have three, all alike.

The triplets, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn, born last Wednesday in North Shore University Hospital, faced a battery of TV cameras without a whimper Tuesday at a news conference at the hospital.

They are identical triplets, the first known to be born on Long Island in almost 15 years. Estimates on the odds of identical triplets being born range from one in every 60,000 births to one in 200 million births, said Dr. Victor Klein, who delivered the three boys.

The babies, developed from a single egg and placenta, were given only a 30% chance of all three surviving by the first obstetrician consulted by the Patchogue, N.Y., couple, said Tom Penn, who called them “miracle babies.”

Klein, who specializes in high-risk deliveries, gave them more confidence. This was his 161st delivery of triplets in 20 years, he said, but none of the previous sets were indisputably identical.

The couple, who had been trying for four years to have a baby, opted for an in-vitro procedure but hoped to avoid multiple births. There was no stopping the embryo from splitting once and then splitting again, however, and now they’re happy with their multiple sons, said Penn, 46, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where his wife, Allison, 31, also works as an environmental educator.

When told they would have triplets, the couple experienced “complete shock. We thought, ‘That’s not possible,’ ” Allison Penn said. “Then Tom started laughing and I started crying. . . . I was terrified.”

But she looked at ease Tuesday with a baby on each arm while her husband held the third.

Allison’s mother, Marianne McGuire, 64, of Manchester, N.J., is staying with them to help take care of the babies.

The triplets, carried to 35 weeks and weighing 4 pounds, 12 ounces (Logan); 4 pounds (Eli); and 4 pounds, 11 ounces (Collin) at birth, went home Sunday.

As leaders in the wireless industry meet Monday in Barcelona for the annual Mobile World Congress, they will be buzzing about the latest open software platform for mobile handsets. More companies are signing up to support it. A few phone makers will be flashing hot off the bench prototypes. Software developers will be snapping up just-released development kits.

The surprise is, the platform isn’t the much-vaunted Open Handset Alliance set up by Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ). Instead, a year-old alliance of companies spearheaded by a group called the LiMo Foundation is horning into the spotlight.

Both are working to create a truly open mobile software platform that standardizes how developers build their applications. Currently applications developers spend large amounts of time rewriting or tuning their applications for a myriad of software environments, including Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows Mobile and Nokia (nyse: NOK - news - people ) Series 60, and beginning last year, some Linux-powered phones. For consumers, an open system could translate into faster access to richer mobile applications like mobile TV and location-based services, and more affordable cell phones.

Google made headlines last year when it unveiled its Open Handset Alliance, a group of 34 technology and mobile companies that also is seeking to develop such an open and free mobile platform. That alliance will have news in Barcelona, too: Several companies, including British chipmaker ARM, are expected to exhibit prototype chips and phones running on the alliance’s platform, dubbed Android. Alliance member HTC Corp. has already said it plans to offer an Android phone this year.

But Android has been plagued by reports of glitches since Google released an early version in November. Google recently announced it was tweaking its software developers kit and postponing the deadline for a contest for developers by two weeks, to mid-April. The Android Developer Challenge will provide $10 million in awards for “innovative and useful” Android-based mobile applications.

Meanwhile, LiMo has been steadily chugging away. “[LiMo] is a very practical initiative, but also a deeply philosophical one, based upon the belief that openness in handsets delivers value to consumers,” says Morgan Gillis, LiMo’s executive director. Inspired by this vision and the desire to exert more control over the operating systems that power their handsets, Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ), NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ), NTT DoCoMo (nyse: DCM - news - people ), Matsushita, Samsung and Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) joined forces in January 2007 and set up a LiMo program office in the U.K. to facilitate collaboration.

Universal standards mean they can easily port applications from one device to another. That’s roughly the same vision Google has for its Open Handset Alliance. Currently, half of mobile software developments costs go toward ensuring the application will work correctly on different operating systems.

In Barcelona, LiMo will announce nine new members, bringing corporate participation up to 32 companies, including such heavyweights as Motorola, Panasonic and Vodafone. Eighteen handsets from LG, Motorola, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung will use its platform. The lineup includes Motorola’s Motorokr and Razr2, as well as the high-end 905 series of phones supported by Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo. LG is not an official LiMo member, but will be showing a prototype “LiMo Phone” at the event. LiMo partner Azingo Mobile announced in late January that it had built a full mobile Linux suite based on LiMo’s specifications.

New partners are also showing strong support for LiMo. Orange, the mobile arm of France Telecom (nyse: FTE - news - people ), plans to dedicate part of its 150-person Beijing-based R&D center to working with LiMo, says Yves Maitre, senior vice president of devices. The company, which began working with open platforms in 2002, wants to have 50% of its mobile phones run on open source by 2012, he says.

Similarly another recent member, ACCESS, a global mobile software provider that runs another popular mobile operating system called Garnet, has pledged to oversee future LiMo revisions and work closely with developers. To tap a wide range of developers, LiMo’s SDK suite includes native, Java and Web-based SDKs.

LiMo’s official position toward Google is cordial. The two groups share three members: Motorola, NTT DoCoMo and Samsung. In November, LiMo responded to Google’s announcement of its Open Handset Alliance with a press release that said the two shared “core beliefs” and technology that would allow them to “work together synergistically.”

Nevertheless, these new moves bring the two closer into competition. “There could certainly be overlap,” says Gillis. He hopes LiMo will attract developers by avoiding the types of delays that have beset the Open Handset Alliance. “For developers, what really matters is having a platform and having handsets available immediately, as that’s what will bring their applications to consumers,” he notes. LiMo is “completely on schedule” and “extremely well positioned to quickly deliver … new handsets, applications and services,” he adds.

How soon American consumers will benefit from LiMo is unclear as no American carriers have yet signed onto it. Gillis says he expects they will soon, citing AT&T (nyse: T - news - people ) and Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people )’s recent commitment to open their networks to outside phones and services, and the “strong American presence” of LiMo members Motorola, Samsung and LG. Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) and T-Mobile, the country’s no. 3 and 4 carriers, are Open Handset Alliance members.

LiMo-based phones could be a particular boon for consumers in emerging economies. Orange is proud to be the official operator of the iPhone in France, says Maitre, but the phone’s high price limits it to the elite. LiMo will help Orange reach a broader population in places like Africa by enabling it to offer affordable, feature-rich handsets from well-known brands, he says.

Android is believed to be similarly targeting the mass market with low-priced handsets, but it may have a more complicated model that includes subscriptions to Internet access and mobile advertising, backed by Google’s technology, says consulting firm Capgemini.

Leading handset maker Nokia may have its own open-source ambitions, judging from its recent acquisition of software developer–and LiMo member–Trolltech.

No matter who prevails, the shift will usher in a second cellular revolution, in which openness, innovation and collaboration between industry leaders and developers will transform the way people use their phones, say advocates.

It may also pump money into the telecom sector in general and encourage investors to take more risk with start-ups. Says Maitre, “That will bring value to everyone.”

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It was just a new day. Nothing had changed overhead, the sky was grey, the rain kept coming and going, casting a shadow over the second match of the Commonwealth Bank tri-series as well. Clearly, cricket was struggling to come to the fore.

The Indians were trying their best nonetheless by sweating it out indoors. Although it was an optional training session, they were out in almost full strength barring Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh and Ishant Sharma. There was no slip in intensity as they did whatever they could on the synthetic surface.

There was one change, however, and that was in planning. Up next is a new team that many believe is India’s principal obstacle on the road to the finals, given that almost everyone is convinced that Australia will be there. Irrespective of what India and Sri Lanka think of that, every game featuring them is going to be a semi-final of sorts.

Yuvraj Singh’s knee injury continues to be a concern and the team is not willing to take any chances by fielding him before he has recovered fully.

“He’s better, but not 100 per cent. I don’t think it’s prudent to rush him back in action. We have a break between the second and third match (on Sunday, in Melbourne against Australia) and Yuvraj is expected to be fully fit by then,” Dhoni had said after Sunday’s match. If Yuvraj stays out, there are unlikely to be changes to the XI that played the first match.

It means another chance for Manoj Tiwary and another test for the middle-order that stays an area of concern. Dhoni said he was toying with the idea of tinkering with the order, but there was no confirmation on that.

While worries over batting stay, the bowling has shown encouraging signs. Apart from glaring at the Australia batsmen, Sreesanth was impressive in what he did on Sunday as was Ishant. Even though Dhoni has talked about giving everybody a chance, Munaf Patel is unlikely to get a look-in unless the skipper opts for five bowlers. With the batting looking wobbly, that option is ruled out, at least for the time being.

The focus remains firmly on the batsmen and how they overcome inexperience with talent. Rohit Sharma looked good for a while and by sending him at the pivotal No 4 slot, the team has shown how hopeful the think-tank is of him.

If the first match was an indication, Dhoni’s plan seems to be conserving himself and Robin Uthappa for the big shots later in the innings. The responsibility of consolidating then lies with Gautam Gambhir, Rohit and Tiwary, after of course, the bigger names at the top of the order.

The Indians will be tested again by the likes of Chaminda Vaas, Lasith Malinga or Mutthiah Muralitharan and in that sense, it’s a precious outing for these young batsmen.

How they make the most of this earn-and-learn opportunity will unfold on Tuesday, weather permitting.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Brain scans of people in chronic pain show a state of constant activity in areas that should be at rest, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday, a finding that could help explain why pain patients have higher rates of depression, anxiety and other disorders.

They said chronic pain seems to alter the way people process information that is unrelated to pain.

“It seems that enduring pain for a long time affects brain function in response to even minimally demanding attention tasks completely unrelated to pain,” the researchers wrote in the Journal of Neuroscience.

Dante Chialvo, a researcher at Northwestern University in Chicago who worked on the study, said: “People with chronic pain — meaning pain that lasts more than six months after their injury — have many other issues that affect their quality of life as much as pain. It is not known where they come from.”

Recent studies have shown that in healthy people, certain regions of the brain take over during a resting state, something known as a default mode network. “It takes care of your brain when your brain is at rest,” Chialvo said in a telephone interview.

When a person performs a task, this network quiets down, he said, but not in people with chronic pain.

Instead, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion is constantly active, disrupting the normal equilibrium.

To study this activity, Chialvo did a type of brain scan known as functional magnetic resonance imaging on 15 people with chronic back pain and 15 healthy people.

They gave their volunteers a simple attention task — tracking a moving bar on a computer screen — to observe the brain shifting out of default mode to handle the task.

Both groups performed the task well but when they measured areas of the brain activated, differences emerged.

“Where we were surprised is the difference in how much brain they used to do the task compared with the healthy group. It was 50 times larger,” Chialvo said.

They said disruptions in this default network could explain why pain patients have problems with attention, sleep disturbances and even depression.

“These findings suggest that the brain of a chronic pain patient is not simply a healthy brain processing pain information but rather it is altered by the persistent pain in a manner reminiscent of other neurological conditions associated with cognitive impairments,” they wrote.

QUITO, Ecuador - Ecuador’s Tungurahua volcano shot columns of ash miles into the air on Wednesday, as officials ordered the evacuation of 3,000 villagers living near its slopes.

Some 1,000 villagers from the western flanks of the 16,575-foot volcano fled their homes for shelters at dawn, said Roberto Rodriguez, director of Civil Defense. He said 11 families who refused to leave, fearing looters, were removed by force.

“We’ve taken all of the precautions possible,” President Rafael Correa told reporters on Wednesday, adding that a state of emergency already in place in the area will be extended for 60 days.

Juan Salazar, the mayor of the nearby village of Penipe, said 3,000 people needed to be evacuated — a figure that included the 1,000 villagers who had already fled.

Experts at the Geophysics Institute warn that the intense activity shows no sign of slowing down, and compared it to the massive 2006 Tungurahua eruptions that buried entire villages, leaving at least four dead and thousands homeless.

“The volcano has entered a new explosive eruption cycle, a process which does not seem to be slowing down,” said Hugo Yepez, director of the Geophysics Institute.

The institute said Wednesday’s eruptions shot ash 6 miles into the air.

Populations on Tungurahua’s western flank have been most affected, particularly the communities of Bilbao, Cusua, Chacauco and Puela. The popular tourist town of Banos near the volcano, is currently not at risk.

There were no reported victims, according to Rodriguez, the Civil Defense director.

Ash billowing from Tungurahua, whose name means “throat of fire” in the local indigenous Quichua language, has already covered thousands of acres of farmland, destroying property, crops and livestock.

Tungurahua, located 95 miles southeast of the capital of Quito, has been active since 1999.