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Matt Damon, star of the super-hit Bourne series, recently raised a lot of eyebrows due to his comments on gay actors and their career prospects. During an interview with The Guardian's Elizabeth Day for the promotion of his latest movie The Martian, Damon started speaking about the rumours romantically linking him to Ben Affleck when Good Will Hunting released and felt these rumours were deeply offfensive at that time. In the same interview, Damon suggests that gay actors might have better career prospects if they stayed inside the closet. He said, "Rupert Everett was openly gay and this guy-more handsome than anybody, a classically trained actor - it's tough to make the argument that he didn't take a hit for being out."

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"NRAI came to me with this proposal and I am waiting to get it in writing to act on it. However, on the face of it, I believe that extending operating hours will not just benefit the industry but is also essential in the city with several people getting free from work at late hours," said Mishra.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has given the go ahead to implement a single emergency number - 112 - across India, as proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India or TRAI. DoT has said that other emergency numbers - 100, 101, 102 and 108 - will function for a year as secondary numbers which would be re-routed to 112 and then cease to exist through phasing out.

Earlier, TRAI had suggested a GPS-based integrated system for communication and response accessible via single emergency number 112. However, DoT had rejected the suggestion on the grounds that many people in India own handsets without the GPS feature.

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On his birth anniversary, Lithuania will be unveiling a monument to honour Mahatma Gandhi and his close associate and Lithuanian Hermann Kallenbach. A bronze structure of Gandhiji and Kallenbach will be inaugrated by Lithuania Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius and Indian minister of state for agriculture Mohanbhai Kundariya. Poigantly, the monument has been contructed in Kallenbach's hometown, Ruste. Kallenbach was a German-Jewish architect who befriended Gandhiji in South Africa in 1904 and he is known to have donated 1,000 acres of land to Satyagrahis in Transvaal region in South Africa.

A Stanford University researcher has foud that A tiny worm, the mealworm, which is actually the larva of a beetle, eats Styrofoam and other forms of polystyrene. Inside the mealworm's guts are microorganisms that are able to biodegrade polythylene, a common form of plastic. With a world inundated by plastic, this finding could hold out hope.

The new studies were published in the Environmental Science and Technology by co-authors Professor Jun Yang and his doctorate student Yu Yang of Beihang University, and Stanford University engineer Wei-Min Wu.