Action superstar Jackie Chan, best known for Rush Hour series, The Myth and The Karate Kid, is all set to visit India this month as part of the China Film Festival to be held in the capital.
Indo China Economic and Cultural Council (ICEC), State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television and People’s Republic of China are jointly organising the China Film Festival, which will be held from June 18-23. “Jackie Chan is visiting Delhi in conjunction with the China Film Festival. Chinese Zodiac, his latest film, also directed by him will be the opening film of the six-day festival.
He is here as a part of a 20 member delegation visiting India,” said Irfan Alam, member secretary, ICEC.
Chan will be a leading member of the delegation visiting India along with actors and those involved in creating these moving images from the Chinese film fraternity.
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‘Tongue-patch’ to help shed extra weight
Melbourne: In an extreme weight-loss measure, a United States plastic surgeon has invented a patch which is sewn into the tongue and makes chewing of solid foods so painful that the patient is confined to a liquid diet.
The latest invention is being touted as an alternative to more drastic weight loss measures such as gastric bypass surgery or the lap band, and can help people lose as much as 14 kilogrammes in a month.
The abrasive plastic tongue patch costs $2,000, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. With six stitches, the reversible procedure “makes chewing of solid foods very difficult and painful, limiting the patient to a liquid diet”, said the Los Angeles plastic surgeon who created the patch, Dr Nikolas Chugay. — PTI