According to contactmusic.com reports, the celebrated American actor, Will Smith, has been taking advice from “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle, in an effort to fulfill his promise to star in a Bollywood movie.

Smith is serious about trying his luck in a different genre of pictures, as he made several trips to visit Boyle on set in India. Boyle said: “While we were filming there, Will Smith came over twice. There’s a massive coming together of Bollywood and Hollywood. It’ll only take one person to bring them together and it will be huge.”

According to a new study teens addicted to heroin or prescription pain killers had better results at leaving the drugs if they were given extended treatment using a combination of detoxification medications as compared to a short-term detoxification program using the same medication. The study, published in the November 5 issue of JAMA, said buprenorphine and naloxone have both proved to be effective in opioid addiction treatment. Buprenorphine works by easing withdrawal symptoms and naloxone prevents or reverses the effects of injected opioids.

A fine opening partnership by Hamish Marshall and Deep Dasgupta led to an easy 9 wicket win for Royal Bengal Tigers against in-form Chennai Superstars in the ICL 20s Indian Championship match at Tau Devi Lal Stadium.

Chasing a victory target of 162 runs, the duo in an irresistible form, added 132 runs at a rapid pace. They toyed with the rival bowling attack as Bengal Tigers romped home losing just one wicket.

After Chandrayaan-1 mission, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is all set to add another feather to its cap.

On the lines of Google Earth, ISRO will soon launch an IRS (Indian Remote Sensing) image portal called “Bhuvan”, which will provide online maps based on Geographical Information System (GIS).

Union IT and Communications Minister, A. Raja announced that under the rural broadband project by 2012, all Gram Panchayats, Government High Secondary Schools and Public Health Centres will be provided broadband connectivity.

Speaking at the National Round Table Conference on ‘Telecom Sector in Education Development’, the minister said that funds from USO are being extensively deployed to increase broadband connectivity at each block and village level.