For last couple of months the story of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), its success,its perceived failure and associated fear has permeated both the popular and the scientific news. In some quarters while it is being touted that the LHC will answer all the possible mysteries of the Universe, in another section of press it is being said that the LHC will eventually lead to the destructionof the Universe.In this talk I will present the status of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)machine at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva,Switzerland and one of the the two multipurpose detectors, the Compact MuonSolenoid (CMS) meant to record proton-proton collision at a center of massenergy of 14 TeV. I will also give a brief review of first physics resultsthat are expected with the CMS detector at the LHC.
