Most Expensive Car In The World: 2009-2010

Bugatti Veyron $1,700,000.

This is by far the most expensive street legal car available on the market today. It is the fastest accelerating car reaching 0-60 in 2.6 seconds. It claims to be the fastest car with a top speed of 253 mph+. However, the title for the fastest car goes to the SSC Ultimate Aero which exceed 253 mph pushing this car to 2nd place for the fastest car.

Sachin top taxpayer among Men in Blue

There has been much talk of late about M S Dhoni being more sought after by advertisers than Sachin Tendulkar.

But if payment of income tax is any indicator, the little master is still way ahead of all other Indian cricket stars when it comes to earnings. Dhoni is a distant second, though catching up, in terms of tax paid, while Virender Sehwag is third.

Data on income tax paid by cricketers shows that Sachin has maintained a steady level of over Rs 8 crore for the last three years, 2006-07 to 2008-09. Behind him, there's been a reshuffle in the batting order.

Dhoni has moved up from third spot in 2006-07 to second last year with a Rs 4.7 crore tax bill. Rahul Dravid, who was Sachin's closest competitor in 2006-07 and a close third behind Dhoni in 2007-08, has dropped to fifth spot.

Health Minister warns against excessive use of cell phones

How addicted are you to your cell phone? According to the health ministry's admission on Wednesday, talking for too long on a cell

phone could be seriously affecting your health.

Quoting a small-scale PGI Chandigarh study, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Wednesday that sensorineural deafness could occur in 30% of people using mobile phones for more than two hours a day over a two-year period.

Azad said people should not talk on their mobile phone continuously for more than one hour a day.

According to Azad, the use of hands free technology could reduce the side effects of excessive use of mobile phone on users, including hearing defects. "In a research study done in PGI, excessive use of mobile phones was found to cause deficient hearing and tinnitus (ringing in the ears)," Azad said.

Meanwhile, the ministry's admission should finally be able to make the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) sit up and approve the proposal to conduct a large study to gauge the exact effect cell phone use has on human health.

ICMR has been sitting on the proposal to study the effects of radio frequency radiation (RFR) from mobile phones on humans for over a year now.

Indian scientists had found during animal studies that radiation emitted from mobile phones caused DNA damage, low sperm count leading to infertility and reduction in testis size in rats.