MANGALYAAN MARS FEAT CELEBRATED

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 As Mangalyaan, the spacecraft of the Mars Orbiter Mission encountered the Red Planet on 24 September 2014 at 7:17 am, online accolades from various movie and music stars started flowing in through the web, celebrating the Indian Space Research Organization's grand success. Among them Amitabh Bachchan, Sridevi, Lata Mangeshkar, Shahid Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Sunidhi Chauhan and Abhishek Kapoor who contributed to make hashtags #ISRO, #ProudIndian and #Mangalyaan a trend on social network Twitter.

Amitabh Bachchan rightly pointed out that the cost of the mission was less costly than that of a Hollywood film budget. India is indeed not only the first Asian country to have sent a successful mission to Mars, but its mission has been the most economical of all. Alike other Indian celebrities, NASA joyfully tweeted: "We congratulate @ISRO for its Mars arrival! @MarsOrbiter joins the missions studying the Red Planet".

PINTEREST Reaches Out to HINDI Speakers

 

The esthetic and highly successful social bookmarking site Pinterest has recently reached out to Hindi speakers by launching a Hindi version of the service, following in the steps of Twitter, Google and of course Chrome. Hindi Pinterest is now available for computers and  Android devices alike, setting Hindi as one of the 26 languages and also as the first and only Indian language to be supported by the website. Current Pinterest users may change their language settings to Hindi in the Pinterest settings section.

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SHAMMI KAPOOR: The Spirit of Yahoo Will Live On

The Indian film industry has expressed its sadness at the news that magnetic, courageous and cheerful Shammi Kapoor passed away in the early hours of Sunday due to complications of chronic renal failure after being admitted to Bombay's Breach Candy Hospital a week ago at the age of 79. His funeral will be taking place on Monday morning. 

His bubbly and charming persona, which transpired throughout his film career from Tumsa Nahi Dekha, Teesri Manzil and Bluff Master to Junglee and many other screen delights, made Shammi Kapoor India's trademark hero during the 1950s and 1960s.

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