Akram’s Wife Critical!
Oct 21, 2009 Sports
No one would have known about the critical stage of Wasim Akram’s wife until the air ambulance carrying her from the city of Lahore to Singapore landed in Chennai for the purpose of refueling.
She is in a really critical situation. According to the medical sources, Huma, Akram’s wife is in critical stage as she is suffering from Sepia, the sources told TOI recently. She has been staying on ventilator and there are chances that she might need dialysis any moment. She was immediately admitted to Apollo hospital while her air ambulance was on the way to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. But due to the refueling, they had to land in Chennai. The lady was accompanied by her husband Wasim and one more relative.
The doctors are refusing to comment anything on her current situation but sources confirmed that she was suffering from severe chest pain and discomfort and her vital parameters are said to be not in good condition.
Let us all hope for her wife. Please comment here to wish her best health. You may post your “get well soon” greetings here. She is a celebrity but at the end of the day she is a human and needs blessings like another other common man.
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Travel to Puri!
Feb 21, 2009 Travel
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One of the finest traveling places in India is Puri, which is situated at the eastern coast of India. Puri is famous for the famous Jagannath Temple and beautiful Sea Beaches. Puri is around 557 Kilometers from Kolkata and around 56 Kilometers from Bhubaneshwar. The famous and wonderful wide white-sand beaches, superb resorts and fishing farms are the properties of Puri.
How to reach to Puri?
Transportation to Puri is quite easy and convenient; you can choose the three ways Air, Rail and Road to reach to the Puri. Puri is connected to almost all the parts of India by rail network. You can get daily trains to Puri from almost all the major stations of India. On the other hand nearest Air Port to Puri is in Bhubaneshwar which is popularly known as Biju Patnaik Airport. You can always get daily flight to Bhubaneshwar from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Visakhapatnam, Nagpur, and Hyderabad.
What to see in Puri?
White sand beaches of Puri are the most popular go out place in India. You can enjoy the sun bathing, surfing and swimming in the clean water at Puri beaches.
Temple of Lord Jagannath is the must see place in Puri. It was constructed by Raja Ananta Varman Chodaganga Dev in 12th century. The statues of the Jagannath Balabhadra and Subhadra are really superb.
Gundicha Mandir and Konark Sun Temple are two of the famous places to visit in Prui. These are a few memorable places in Puri which can remain in the heart forever. Other than these historical places you can also look for the handicrafts of the region. Soap Stone, Sea-shell, Pattachitras and Palm Leaf paintings, Horn work, Wood carvings, and Solapith work can be purchased from Puri.
Right time to visit Puri?
Although you can visit Puri at any time, but October to March is the perfect time to visit Puri.
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Team India won the first test against England!
Dec 15, 2008 Sports
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Team India won the first test against England. When Indian skipper lost the toss and then the top order of Indian team failed in the first inning and India faced a trail of 75 runs in the first inning, no one was thinking that India can even win this match. Not even at the time when England declared their second inning just before tea on Day Four, thus England gave India a mammoth target of 387 in the last inning.
The previous examples of the targets met by Indian Team in the sub continent were not a good symbol in the second inning, and the results of at the tea of Day Four was clearly indicating one option of the England’s victory and second one of a draw, which too was looking so dim in the conditions there at Chennai. It was not at all easy to bat on the breaking pitch on Day Four and Fifth.
Four people Sachin, Yuvraj, Sehwag, and Gambhir rewrite the history today for India and thus the Dhoni brigade made the history of a famous victory against England by chasing the fourth highest total in the test history. The foundation was made by Virender Sehwag on Yesterday. His blistering knock of 83 in just 68 balls was a match winning inning and turned the match towards India.
The match has once again proved the importance of the captaincy of MS Dhoni. This victory is the fourth consecutive victory under his captaincy and thus he has a 100% record so far. The 41st test century of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar was superb and he dedicated his century to the people who lost their life during Mumbai Attack.
The match also provided the much needed platform to Yuvraj Singh to show his strength in Test matches too. He was called to replace Dada and his not out 85 was a good reply to those critics who are blaming him for his inconsistency in tests. After all he too failed in the first inning.
One thing which hurts me is the form of Rahul Dravid. I don’t know what has happened to the best batsman of the Indian team. Once he was known as The Wall and Mr. Reliable but these days his performance is certainly going through some bad patch. I would be happy to see him making some big inning for India. Let’s see what is going to happen with him.
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And the Booker Award goes to Aravind Adiga!
Oct 16, 2008 India, Literature
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If sportsmen had made India proud by winning gold medals in Olympics this time, Indian writers are not far behind in bringing laurels to our nation. The latest star of Indian soil is Aravind Adiga. This 33-year-old Chennai-born Mumbaikar has won the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger. Adiga is the fifth Booker winner of Indian ethnicity and the second youngest winner in the award’s 40-year history. He is also the third winner for a debut novel, the first debut novelist to win the Booker Prize being Arundhati Roy.
Booker Award
In an interview about his novel Adiga gave some insight about the book by saying, “The book is funny and provocative, and I guess that is what has clicked. Humour makes a stronger point. I tried to tell a very real story about India on the brink of unrest. I tried to challenge the assumptions that many in middle-class India hold about the poor: that they are stupid, easily manipulated, excessively religious and bound by caste and family.”
“India is dealing with great duality today. There are men with big bellies and men with small bellies’. It’s a metaphor to capture the duality (feast or famine) of human existence in India today. The world needed to see the other side of India.”
Adiga is a journalist-turned-writer and had worked with Time magazine. While working for this magazine he got the opportunity to travel throughout India, especially UP and Bihar. This brought him in closer contact with the rural life in India and gave him a glimpse of the problems poor people are facing in most of rural India. In his book he has tried to capture the sentiments of the colossal underclass and has also attacked the rotten political system that is stopping half of this country from achieving its potential.
I’m personally enthralled at Aravind Adiga’s achievement and wish him all the best for his future endeavors.
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Every run scored by Dhoni worth nearly Rs 1.5 lakh!
Jun 4, 2008 Sports
After the first IPL was over with a lots of pim pom, it was reported that Mahendra Singh Dhoni who got the highest bid in the landmark IPL auction in February, worth nearly Rs 1.5 lakh for each of his run during the 44-day tournament.
Although Dhoni, the Chennai Super Kings captain has lost the IPL final against The Rajasthan Royals, the Chennai franchise owners has shelled out a whopping Rs six crore for the Indian ODI and Twenty20 captain. Dhoni tallied 414 runs at an average of 41.40 in 14 innings and thus each run was worth Rs 1, 44,927.
Shaun Marsh son of former Australia opener Geoff Marsh, who was tournament’s top scorer, was bought for a paltry Rs 12 lakh recorded an aggregate of 616 runs at a brilliant average of 68 runs which means Rs 1948 for each run.
In fact, none of the franchise owners showed any interest in the Aussies, who were simply overlooked in the first two rounds of bidding before Kings XI Punjab coach Tom Moody roped him in just nine days before the IPL got underway.
Marsh, however, can still draw some relief from the fact that his sterling show in the Twenty20 event at least won him an ODI recall in the Australian team.
Gautam Gambhir (534) trails Marsh in the run-getters chart with an average of 41.07 and the left-hander proved a good buy for the Delhi Daredevils, who had coughed up Rs 2.9 crore for him.
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New technology to bring down fuel cost!
May 20, 2008 Technology
There is a hope to bring down the increasing price of emulsified fuels by the upcoming new technology invented and tested by the Chennai-based Hydrodrive Systems and Controls. This will also help in reducing India’s dependence on crude imports.
“The technology we have developed does not use any additives or surfactant,” Hydrodrive managing director and inventor Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan said.
“We do emulsification through a molecular engineering process, which has already been covered by a patent granted in several countries including Britain, Canada, India, the Philippines and patent pending in China, Japan and the US,” Gopalakrishnan told IANS.
An emulsified fuel is a mixture of water in fuels. It is used in internal combustion engines and for combustion in boilers, furnaces and external combustion equipment. As oil and water generally do not mix, costly special additives or surfactants are used for surface tension modifications to manufacture emulsified fuels by mixing them and to retain stability for a longer period without oil and water getting separated. Hence it is costlier than the conventional diesel fuel due to the use of costlier surfactants or additives. Due to the higher price compared to the conventional diesel fuel, the emulsified fuel marketing companies are unable to push the product and are dependent upon tax incentives.
A known technology since 1900, it is considered as eco-friendly because it reduces emission. Emulsified fuels are currently sold by five European manufacturers. The fuel produced for use in the internal combustion engines has minimum 10 percent to maximum 20 percent water in diesel.
“Our technology burns 25 percent water in 75 percent diesel as against the maximum 20 percent water in the diesel emulsion achieved by existing producers,” said Gopalakrishnan, a mechanical engineer with a management degree who set up Hydrodrive in 1981.
He added that the manufacturing process developed by his firm brings down the fuel cost to much below the cost of the conventional diesel or petrol or kerosene.
“India’s Super Auto Forge Limited which manufactures cold forged/cold extruded steel and aluminum components for the automotive industry has found after six months of testing that it saves fuel.
“Similarly the technology was tested in a tractor in the US and a vehicle in Canada. Both were found working without problem. More tests are also in progress,” he said.
“We are now commercially offering the on-demand emulsification plant on a 14-year license to individual industrial fuel users to cut down their fuel expenses,” Gopalakrishnan said.
The investment on the emulsification plant would be recoverable within 10 to 12 months through savings made in fuel consumption.
Gopalakrishnan said that the new technology could help reduce India’s dependence on costly crude oil imports and will help combat fuel crisis.
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Chennai Super Kings gave first defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders!
Apr 28, 2008 Sports
Mathew Hyden’s brilliant half century helped Chennai Super Kings to win against Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets in Chennai on Saturday. It was the first loss of Knight Riders after two successive wins.
Elected to bat first Knight Riders were wrapped up at a modest score of 147 for 9 in 20 overs while the Super Kings achieved the target within 17 overs.
Losing a single wicket in the form of Parthiv Pate l(21), Chennai’s Captain Dhoni and Hyden remain unbeaten and shared a strong partnership of 86 runs.
Hayden hit three fours and as many sixes in his 49-ball innings and was well supported by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who hit a quick 43 off 27 deliveries including six fours and two sixes.
From knight Riders it was only Laxmi Ratan Shukla who held the innings together with a crucial innings of 42.
Jacob Oram (3-32) was the wrecker-in-chief as the Knight Riders’ big guns — Brendon McCullum (24), Ricky Ponting (0), David Hussey (0) and skipper Sourav Ganguly (12) — fell to indiscreet shots one by one. Ganguly’s 12 off 19 balls had just one four.
While Muttiah Muralitharan remained the most economical bowler with 4-0-12-0, P Amarnath claimed two wickets in four overs conceding 29 runs.
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First test in Chennai ends in a dull draw!
Mar 30, 2008 Sports
First test match of Future cup series in M A Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai ended after a dull draw between South Africa and India on Sunday. South Africa played cautiously in its second batting. At the end of the match South Africa scored 331 runs at loss of five. McKenzie with 155 runs and Boucher with 11 runs were remain unbeaten on the pitch as the match was finalized.
During the second batting of South Africa, the openers Smith and McKenzie gave a speed start. Smith was dismissed yesterday after making 35 runs and Amla joined McKenzie then. Before the team agreed to draw, McKenzie hit 13 boundaries and a six during his 445-minute stay at the crease. He hit a double century in his previous Test.
South Africa got its first stroke from India by losing Amla at Kumble’s ball. Amla delivered 81 runs to the team. Kallis and Prince couldn’t contribute much after Amla. Both were dismissed by Harbhajan after making 19 and 5 runs respectively. De Villiers gave his 11 and was claimed by Sehwag.
The pitch at the MA Chidambaram Stadium did not have any significant help for the bowlers on the first four days and was not expected to behave any different on day five.
The match will always be remembered for Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid. Sehwag, who smashed 319 in India’s first innings, was deservedly named man of the match. He broke his own record of 309 runs in 2004 in Multan against Pakistan, although he couldn’t cross Lara’s record of 400 runs. Sehwag had taken India to a mammoth 627 in reply to South Africa’s first innings total of 540.
Dravid who completed his 10,000 runs in Test, is the third Indian and world’s sixth batsman to achieve the milestone. With this, the former Indian captain has also completed his 25th century.
The second Test will be played in Ahmedabad from April 3-7, with the third Test in Kanpur from April 11-15.
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Proteas end Day 4 at 131/1; lead by 44 runs!
Mar 30, 2008 Sports
Triple Century of blasting batsman Virendra Sehwag led India to beat the huge score of South Africa. Today on the fourth day of the first test match of Future cup Series, India scored a brilliant record of 627 runs, 87 points more than the rival team. Sehwag was dismissed by Ntini at a mammoth record of 319. he crossed his own score but unable to beat Lara’s record of 400 runs.
Dravid has achieved the milestone of 10,000 runs in test. Dravid also gave his century with 111 runs and was knocked out again by Ntini after lunch. He became the sixth player to tally 10,000 Test runs reaching the milestone in the first Test against South Africa. He is the third Indian player after Sachin and Sunil Gavaskar to achieve this target.
South Africa scored 540 runs in its first inning and India replied the rivals with 468 runs on second day at only one loss. South Africans seemed very helpless in front of the star batsman Sehwag. He gave the opponent team a hard nut to crack. Sehwag is the second player who achieved the milestone of making two triple centuries in test matches after Brain Lara.
Other players including Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dhoni couldn’t use their bats much. They all got dismissed one by one very soon. Dhoni gave only sixteen and Ganguly contributed 24. Sachin, Harbhajan and R P Singh were sent to pavilion without opening their account. Laxman gave 39 while the captain (Kumble) couldn’t achieve more than 3. Sreesanth was the last player with only 4 runs in hand.
In the second inning of South African team, the players have recorded 131 runs in 33 overs at the end of the day at one loss. Smith had made 35 runs and was knocked out soon. McKenzie and Amla are now the overnight players with 59 and 35 runs respectively.
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SA looking for another 100-150 runs: McKenzie!
Mar 27, 2008 Sports
After scoring 304 runs at a lose of four wickets in the first test against India on March 26, opening batsman Neil McKenzie told that South Africa will be looking to add another 100-150 runs on Thursday to push for a possible win in the series.
McKenzie who contributed sparkling 94 runs was happy with the start of the team scoring huge inning score but conceded that a lot of cricket was left in the match. But he is confident of getting big score by the remaining quality batsmen of the team.
“Still a long way to go. We have no illusions. Once the wicket gets to wear down, it will be difficult to bat on. I think another 100 to 150 runs tomorrow will be a good total and anything above that will be a bonus,” McKenzie, who added 132 for the opening wicket with Captain Graeme Smith, said after the match.
“We have dependable batsmen in Mark Boucher and AB De Villiers. If one of them comes up with a good individual score, it should be enough to fight our way for a possible win.” He added.
McKenzie said that it was a challenge to face high class spinners like Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh but his previous experience of conditions in the sub-continent helped him to fight but was a little disappointed
“I had toured the sub-continent (before). It is all down to experience,” the opener said.
“Paul Harris is a quality spinner, maybe not to the standards of Kumble or Harbhajan. If the same level of bounce that was there this morning continued in the Indian innings, Nitini and Morkel can be penetrative and trouble Indian batsmen,” he said.
“RP Singh bowled well in Australia but the Indian seamers did not get assistance from the wicket here today, though they played well as a unit,” he added.
The docile nature of the pitch rendered India’s pace bowlers largely ineffective, McKenzie said.
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