Waitress makes British Prime Minister David Cameron wait ten minutes for a coffee

London: "I am in the middle of serving somebody", a waitress at a British coffee shop told British Prime Minister David Cameron as she failed to recognise him and scolded him for jumping the queue. Mr Cameron had been on his way to the Armed Forces Day celebrations in Plymouth, when he decided to stop for a coffee. He stunned locals by strolling into the Sandwich Box Plus cafe. But Sheila Thomas, who was behind the counter, failed to recognise the Prime Minister and told him she was busy serving other customers. Also Read European Union leaders watch football during economic summit: report Sahara planning to build an Indian Centre in UK Also See 2:29 Will UK ban Facebook, Twitter? 16:53 UK riots: Can Cameron bring back order? After a ten-minute wait, Mr Cameron's aides popped in to Warrens bakery next door to see if they could get served any quicker, and picked up the premier a jam doughnut and a cup of tea. But when the Prime Minister stopped to enjoy his treat outside the shops, passers-by began to recognise him and he was soon back in the cafe chatting to members of the public, the Daily Mail reported. Ms Thomas was upset to see he had picked up his drink elsewhere and gave him another scolding. "I didn't realise it was him at first. I was in the middle of serving a customer so I was running around trying to do something and didn't take too much notice to be honest," she said. "He asked if we served takeaway coffee and I said, 'Yes but I'm in the middle of serving somebody' and he said, 'I'm so sorry'. It was only afterwards somebody told me it was the Prime Minister," said the waitress. "He came back afterwards and I told him off for not getting a coffee here. He shook hands and was very pleasant," she said. It's not the first time the Prime Minister has been made to wait for a hot drink by a busy waitress. Last summer, while on holiday with his family in Tuscany, Mr Cameron was forced to carry a tray of drinks to his table when the 27-year-old waitress told him she didn't have the time.

The God particle through a scientist's eyes

Dr Archana Sharma is the only Indian on the rolls of CERN. Since 1989 she has worked on instrumentation, detector design, also development, installation and commissioning of the CMS experiment. She is now back on the drawing board designing the detectors for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider which is a gigantic scientific instrument used as a particle accelerator) upgrades. Dr Archana Sharma spoke to NDTV's Noopur Tiwari. NDTV: Which other major discoveries can you compare this one to? Dr Archana Sharma: This discovery can be compared to ground breaking earlier discoveries such as the discovery of gravity, or relativity or quantum mechanics sitting on giant shoulders like those of Galileo, Newton and Einstein. It's a historic moment. Trying to understand and come to grips with what we'd seen and how it fits into our understanding of the universe until today. Also Read Top 8 facts about CERN Large Hadron Collider 'God particle' a gateway to new vision of universe Also See 47:26 The 9 O'clock News: The biggest stories 1:21 India's 'God Particle' connection: Archana Sharma, from Jhansi to Geneva NDTV: What is the Higgs Boson in a layperson terms? Dr Archana Sharma: The presence of which "affects" all other elementary particles in such a way that they acquire mass. Can be likened to a mega star - like Amitabh Bachchan Ji suddenly appearing in a stadium filled with fans, the one closest to him will get hyper excited and acquire most mass while the ones farthest from him certainly excited but will acquire less mass, so the distance from the 'star' will dictate the 'field of the star' and 'mass acquired' by the fan (particle). NDTV: Do people know/talk enough about 'Boson' being named after SN Bose or is he forgotten? Dr Archana Sharma: The name Boson says it all, it;s due to the Bose Einstein statistics that was formulated by the two great scientists NDTV: Why was it important to 'see' the Higgs Boson? Dr Archana Sharma: To culminate and complete the "Standard Model of particle physics" which lends explanation to all observed behaviour of particles, hence physical phenomena. This was the "largest" missing link, and not discovering it would mean that all our understanding of the standard model would fall apart. NDTV: It's bit confusing to hear that we've found "a" Higgs Boson and not "the" Higgs Boson. What does that mean? Dr Archana Sharma: It could be a family or these Bosons that we are looking for. We don't know where exactly in mass would that be so this is a first of a generation of a family that we have seen and observed now. It's very interesting to open a new door to a new era in physics. The standard model and the physics beyond predict the presence of several bosons. What has been observed is a particle which is compatible with one member of that family. The properties that allow it to be observed are its consistent mass and decay modes. NDTV: it's is difficult to say when any discovery is made as to what exactly will people be able to do with it in the years to come. Do you have an idea what you can do with this discovery? Dr Archana Sharma: The impact of basic research comes later naturally. What we are trying to do here is to try to go ahead with curiosities and with the research and development we want to do in the quest of the origin of the universe. In doing so we have facilitated technology development, industrial development, computing development. For example the internet was born here in CERN and that was precisely because of the need to share data to do these kind of searches. We don't know what will come in the decade to follow but we continue the quest NDTV: We know only 6% of universe. We know nothing about 94% of dark energy or dark matter. Will these findings lead to getting know more? Dr Archana Sharma: That's true what we understand about the universe the galaxies that are swirling around us is because of the forces that exist between them ..and when we calculate using the forces using the distances. We find that we can account only for 6% of them.. Now where is the rest of the missing mass the missing energy- the dark energy the dark matter as we call it? And in order to explain this missing mass there has to be some kind of particle, some kind of bosons perhaps- the Higgs bosons which could account for this missing mass. Now what we have evidenced today could indeed be in unlocking the door towards an understanding of this missing mass. And hence of a large part of the universe! NDTV: What is 5 sigma? What is the highest level of certainty? Dr Archana Sharma: Sigma is the decisive parameter of the Gaussian curve, a mathematical function that describes the distribution of data from many experiments. Citing a certain number of sigma directly translates into a probability. 1.5 sigma means just noise (background), but 3 sigma is equivalent to a 99.75 percent chance that a future experiment will yield a compatible result. So something interesting has been observed, Well, technically it's not a 99.7% chance that the result is correct, but a 99.7% chance that if they were to run the same experiment again (with the same instruments), they would get the same result. Physicists think that only a 5-sigma result, indicating a 99.99995 percent chance that the result can be reproduced, is trustworthy and can survive the test of time. A "5 significance" describes effects where the chance of random occurrence is smaller than a few parts in tens of millions, and is agreed to be enough to claim the discovery of a new particle or phenomenon. So basically - 1.5 sigma: noise (background). 3 sigma: Observation 5 sigma: Discovery NDTV: What made you 'leap' into quantum physics? Dr Archana Sharma: My teachers certainly at St. Francis Convent Jhansi, and then all my professors at the Physics Department BHU Varanasi who kindled the quest to look further into the heart of matter ... made me take the leap! NDTV: Is there room for more Indians at CERN? Dr Archana Sharma: Already the Indian visibility has gone much higher than yester years. The student population has multiplied ten-fold from 2001. Further collaboration possibilities are there and are being discussed with competent authorities, opening opportunities to particpate and contribute at the frontiers of science and technology. And, once India becomes an associate member, a door will open for more Indian participation NDTV: When the discovery was announced yesterday (the 4th of July) at CERN they said more time needed to go through data. How much of a chance that this data could reveal something dramatic? Dr Archana Sharma: Here at CERN we are saying that the next step will be to determine the precise nature of the particle and its significance for our understanding of the universe. Are its properties as expected for the long-sought Higgs boson, the final missing ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics? Or is it something more exotic?

The armoured truck that followed Abu Jundal to court

Abu Jundal, the terrorist who played a key role in 26/11, was taken from a police station in Delhi to Safdarjung Hospital today, and then to court. The Delhi Police was granted custody of him for another 15 days. The terrorist, who is from Maharashtra and was based in a control room in Karachi during the 26/11 attacks, was transported in a Scorpio. The armoured truck shown here followed his car, just in case there was any attempt to attack or rescue him. The Mumbai Crime Branch asked for his custody; they want him to confront Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive in Munbai during 26/11, who is kept in a bulletproof cell at Mumbai's Arthur Road jail. The National Investigation Agency or NIA wanted him too so they could question him about the conspiracy behind 26/11. The Pune police want to interrogate him about his alleged link to the 2010 blast at the city's German Bakery in which 17 people died. A Delhi judge said they would have to wait their turn. Also Read 'Not 10, but 12 terrorists trained for 26/11 attack' Abu Jundal's new terror revelations on ISI and 26/11 Jundal has been sharing with interrogators details of ISI officers who he says supervised the control room in Karachi from where he along with five other handlers instructed the ten terrorists on the ground in Mumbai about how to strike.

Sadhvi Pragya brought to Nashik court, 3 more arrested

The Maharashtra ATS brought the prime accused Sadhvi Pragya Thakur to the Nashik court today, along with her co-accused Sahu , and Shivnarayan.


Meanwhile, the three accused were allowed to meet their siblings and the meetings happened with the lawyers in the court room.


Shiv Sena activists protested outside the court, to demonstrate their anger at the arrest and trial of the sadhvi.


Three other people too have been arrested in the Malegaon blasts case, that the ATF has arrested the sadhvi under.


She has already undergone several brain mapping tests in Mumbai. Reports say that a large number of activists from the Shiv Sena may gather outside the court as a show of support to the sadhvi.


On Sunday, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) joined the Shiv Sena and the BJP in saying that they would provide all legal help to the sadhvi.


They claim that the ATS had absolutely no evidence against her and that her arrest was just a larger part of a political ploy of the UPA government to tarnish the saffron outfits.


The editor of the party mouthpiece Saamana, Sanjay Raut had told CNN-IBN that the Sena is ready to provide legal aide to the accused, including sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur.


"If Dawood Ibrahim's brother was represented by eminent lawyers like Majeed Memon, shouldn't sadhvi Pragya, Ramesh Upadhyay and Sameer Kulkarni be represented by somebody?" said a previous editorial in Saamna.


"The government does not save Hindus from terrorists, and if Hindus defend themselves, they are maligned," it had said.


The Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested Pragya Singh Thakur in the September 29 Malegaon bomb blast case in which five people were killed.

Shah Rukh to play his age in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan sheds his casanova image for a new film, basing his character on a middle-aged man he met while hosting a popular game show on Indian television.


Shah Rukh, who turned 43 on Sunday, has mostly played the young romantic lead in a career spanning nearly two decades and 60 films. But for filmmaker Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, Shah Rukh casts off his designer suits and jeans to play a bespectacled government employee in ill-fitting trousers.


"I want to play the exact opposite of Raj and Rahul, the romantic hero that I have played all these days. I want to show that it is special to be ordinary, which is why I am doing this film," Khan said at a press conference on Sunday.



SRK, Bollywood's most bankable star, said the character was inspired by a "sweet, unassuming" contestant he met last year on the sets of Kaun Banega Crorepati, the Indian version of the worldwide hit TV show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?.


"I want everyone who watches the film to realise that the person they love is the best romantic hero there could be," he added.


Not much is known about the storyline of Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi except that the film is a love story and it also features SRK in a younger role which is again inspired by a contestant in another TV show hosted by the actor.


SRK did not elaborate but said this second character was based on another contestant he met this year on Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?, the Indian version of another American game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi opens in cinemas in December.

North Indian youths attack Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi

The Maharashtrian-North Indian standoff in Mumbai has spilled on to the streets of Delhi.


A group of 20 youths, reportedly from Bihar, attacked Maharashtra Sadan in the capital on Monday.


The Rashtrawadi Sena has claimed responsibility for the attack.


The youths were protesting attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra. The mob ransacked the reception of the building and raised slogans against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray.


Deputy Commissioner of Police Anand Mohan said that the situation was brought under control soon. However, no one has been arrested.


A journalist, Balasaheb Ambekar working a regional language paper in Maharashtra, Jivhala, said that the guards couldn't stop the attackers.


"The security guards tried to stop them but couldn't. They all looked like bouncers and they went on a rampage," Ambekar said.

Student mistaken for a criminal, shot dead by cops

Haryana Police gunned a student in Bhiwani late on Sunday night in a case of mistaken identity.


The 20-year-old student, Kuldeep Singh, was shot dead while he was returning back home after a party with his friends. The police were allegedly on the lookout for a criminal, Dara Singh, when the tragic incident occurred.


An FIR has been registered in the case and one policeman has been arrested. The main accused constable Karmbir Singh was arrested after the registration of a case against eight cops following the killing of Kuldeep, a student of a local Vaish College.


"There were four men in a jeep and two of them got out. The one in plain clothes shot my brother on the forehead. When they realised he had been shot the policemen ran away," the victim's brother said.


Bhiwani District Commissioner Satya Prakash clarified that the act was unintentional and a FIR has been registered.


"In a case of bank robbery the police had nabbed two people and there was search going on for the other two involved. They belonged to a village in Bhiwani. There was some information that the people would be coming to the same place. The police were waiting and at 0115 hrs IST and they saw three people coming and after repeated requests they did not stop," Prakash said.


"It was an unintentional act. An FIR has been filed. The victim was taken to hospital at 0415 hrs IST. We are investigating the policeman who fired. They went to the thana (police station) and confession was made," he added.


Prakash also said that the Sub Divisional Magistrate, Bhiwani Shiv Prasad Sharma has been asked to investigate the incident.


The SDM would complete his probe at the earliest and submit a report to the District Administration after which further action would be taken against the guilty.



Meanwhile, students went on a rampage in Bhiwani after the tragic incident.


Haryana Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda said that the guilty will not be spared.


"The police are at fault. It is an unfortunate incident and a case has been registered. The guilty will be punished and we have given Rs 5 lakh to the victim's family," Hooda said.


However, Kuldeep's father said that he won't accept the compensation offered by the Chief Minister.


Meanwhile, former chief minister Bhajan Lal visited Kuldeep's home and demanded strict action against the guilty.


Abhay Chautala, the son of another former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, accused the state police of orchestrating fake encounters.


"The Chief Minister and his government claim that they have chased away anti-social elements from the state. In reality the police are killing innocent people in fake encounters," Chautala said