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Guwahati, Feb 25 : Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi said Tuesday that decentralisation of power is essential to tackle corruption.

Addressing a rally in Assam, Gandhi said that power needs to be decentralised and given to the people and the local bodies in the states.

"More power is given to the councils, local bodies and people, more better it is for the people in the state," he said in Diphu.

The rally took place days after Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addressed the people of Assam.

Washington, Feb 25 : Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly said that more revolutions like the one in Ukraine would be seen when another two billion people connect to the Internet in the next five years or so.

In an interview with Scott Pelley for CBS News, Schmidt said that the Internet is a one-time power shift that allows individuals to see and hear things that they have never seen before.

London, Feb 25 : In a remarkable feat, Danish researchers have developed a novel technique that can scan even the invisible parts inside your organs and make them clearly visible to human eyes to identify development of diseases in greater detail.

Called hyperpolarisation method, this radiation-free scanning can help scientists know what is going on at the cellular level to make them diagnose the disease earlier than today.

Los Angeles, Feb 25 : Actors Luke Bracey and Gerard Butler have been tapped to play the lead roles in the forthcoming remake of action film "Point Break".

Bracey will portray Johnny Utah, a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent, played by Keanu Reeves in the original.  Meanwhile, Butler is a part of the project to play Bodhi, a charismatic surfer previously portrayed by the late Patrick Swayze, reports aceshowbiz. com.

The names of the main characters remain the same and even the plot, which will follow an FBI agent infiltrating a crime ring.

Washington, Feb 25 : Your tummy's girth could indicate health risks, courtesy a new method developed by scientists to quantify the risk specifically associated with abdominal obesity.

In 2012, Nir Krakauer, an assistant professor of civil engineering in City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering, and his father, Jesse Krakauer, MD, developed a new method to quantify the risk specifically associated with abdominal obesity.

Mumbai, Feb 25 - A benchmark index of Indian equities markets was trading flat at 35.57 points or 0.17 percent up in the pre-noon trade Tuesday.

Good buying was observed in the consumer durables and IT sectors, while selling pressure was seen in the metal and banking index (bankex) sectors.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), which opened at 20,877.72 points, was trading at 20,847.01 points in the pre-noon session, up 35.57 points or 0.17 percent from the previous day's close at 20,811.44 points.