Badminton Saina Nehwal entered the quarter finals of the women’s badminton championship on Monday in the Beijing Olympic games. This news has cheered the Indians. In the pre-quarterfinals she stunned Hong Kong’s player Chen Wang who is ranked fourth in the world. She defeated her 21-19, 11-21, 21-11 in the match. But other Indians could not do well in their respective games as most of them disappointed the nation with their poor performance. Shuttler Anup Sridhar’s Olympic campaign ended in the second round as he was defeated by Shoji Sato of Japan in straight sets. It was a disappointing show by the Indian as his campaign ended only in 37 minuted. Archers Both the Indians Dola Banerjee and L Bombayla Devi could not perform well in the deciding moments of women’s individual archery events. They crashed out of the event as they lost their respective opening matches played on Tuesday. Both gave a tough resistance to their opponents. Dola was defeated by Canada’s Marie-Pier Beaudet and Bombayla lost to Poland’s Iwona Marcinkiewicz. Both the players were neck-to-neck with their rivals but lost only in the deciding shots. Earlier, Indian trio of L Bombayla Devi, Dola Banerjee and Pranitha Vardhineni had lost to China in women’s team event at Olympics on Sunday. Rathore But worst was yet to happen. Indian camp was stunned to hear the news of Rathore’s failure to qualify in the double trap final. He shot 131 targets that placed him at the 15th position. But he could not qualify for the final as top six shooters had made it to the final. It must be noted that he is the silver medalist of the Athens Olympic games in the same event and was hot favorite to win a medal. He told reporters that “I did not read the targets too well and paid the price.” Boxers Jitender Kumar stormed into the fly weight pre-quarterfinals boxing by defeating the Turkish Boxer Ulas Furkan Memis in less than three rounds. It was a lopsided match as the Indian was leading in the first round by 5-0 and in the second by 9-2. He remained aggressive throughout the match and easily evaded Memis’ every challenge. Another Indian boxer who has qualified for the pre-quarterfinals is Vijender who has qualified in the middle weight category. In the Lightweight men’s double sculls heats at the Olympics Indian due [...]
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Is State of J&K Heading Towards a Split
August 12th, 2008 
krishna Kashmir Situation in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is deteriorating with the passing of every day as people of both of the reason have stood up against each other because of the dispute caused by land transfer issue. It is a well-known fact that people of Jammu are pro-Indians and the Kashmiris are pro-Pakistanis. Kashmir is the area that is worst hit by the Pakistan backed militants. Pakistani army and ISI provides financial and arms’ help to the militants and also facilitates their infiltration into the Indian territory by providing them cover-fire against the Indian Security Forces present at the border. Jammu The present crisis has deepened because of the conflicting interests of the people of Jammu and Kashmir. At one hand Kashmiris agitated against the state government’s decision of land transfer to the Amarnath Shrine Board that resulted in revocation of the order and downfall of the government. But one the other hand it infuriated the Hindu population of the Jammu region who took to streets against the government’s order of revocation of the land transfer. They have blocked the national highway that is the only road link between Indian and Valley. It will affect the Kashmir a lot as all the essential supplies to the region have been blocked. As apples is the main crop of Kashmiris and it is the peak season time they are unable to send it to India and abroad because of blockade. Rift Agitations in both of the reasons are spearheaded by the hardliner fundamentalists. One one hand are Hurriyat leaders and on the other end are Hindu leaders backed by fundamentalist organizations like Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, RSS and BJP. Though it is headed by political leaders but it has taken a communal turn. Now both of the communities have taken the issue of land transfer as a religious matter that has prompted even women and children to take to streets. It is a very tough situation and there is a very little hope that government will find a middle path to solve the problem. But first priority should be given to control the situation. But it has become clear from the situation that the state is heading towards a split.
