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Result  Sri Lanka defeated India by eight wickets in the first one day international cricket match of the series of five one-dayers played in Dambula in Sri Lanka on August 18. India missed its in-form opener batsmen Virendra Sehwag a lot who could not play because of an injury. New young members of the Indian team could not handle the spin bowling or Muralitharan and Mendis well and all the team was all out for a very small score of 146 runs. They both took three wickets each by giving 37 and 21 runs respectively.

 
Indian Batting India had won the toss and had decided to bat first but they could not take the advantage of the toss. Chaminda Vaas gave first blow to India by bowling  out Gautam Gambhir for a duck in the very first over of the match. India was reduced to three for 36 as the next two batmen Virat Kohli (12)and  Suresh Raina fell to Nuwan Kulasekera. Third Sri Lankan seamer Thilan Thushara  took the wicket of Rohit Sharma who had made 19 runs and had shown some signs of recovery. He was caught at slip. Rest of the six wickets were taken by both of the Sri Lankan spinners. Yuvraz [More]

Wrestling As the Olympics games in Beijing have progressed India’s hopes of winning another medal have also dashed. Some Indian players had succeeded in reaching the quarterfinal round of their respective games but could not won their quarterfinal rounds that could have assured at least a bronze medal. Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt missed the medal with a very narrow margin as he was defeated by the Japan’s Kenichi Yumoto in the 60kg freestyle category by 2-1. He had won the first round by 1-0 but could not contain the lead in the second round as his opponent equaled the points by winning four points. In the decisive third round he had taken the earlier lead by winning one point but could not hold on to it as his opponent earned two points in the last 10 seconds of the games that decided the result of the match. He had beaten Kazakhstan’s Baurzhan Orazgaliyeb by 3-1 in the pre-quarterfinal round.
 

Boxing Earlier Indian were cheered to hear the news that three of the Indian boxers have succeeded in reaching the quarterfinal rounds of their respective categories. It had raised hopes of winning first medal in boxing which Indian had narrowly missed in Athens Olympics. But Akhil [More]

Clashes Fifteen protesters died in the state of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday when security personal opened fire on the violent protesters in various parts of the state. Both of the regions have stood up against each other because of the land transfer issue. In both parts hard line political parties have exploited the issue which has flared the public angers. State and Center governments, Hurriyat and Hindu Organizations are equally responsible for whole of the communal rift between both of the regions, damage to the public and private property and losses of many human lives. State government failed to handle the crisis when it was in its initial stages. Center government ignored the situation for almost one month. Hurriyat misguided the Kashmiri people on the issue of land transfer which forced the government to roll back its earlier decision and it was followed by Jammu agitations headed by radical Hindu organizations.

 
Kashmir Protests A Hurriyat leader named Abdul Aziz Sheikh with five supporters had died in police firing when he was leading a cavalcade of apple laden trucks towards Muzaffarabad-a PoK city-as a protest to the blockade of national highway by the Jammu agitators. After it, situation in Kashmir has become vary tense. Hundreds of [More]

Campaign These days a general campaign is going on in Assam, the north-eastern state of India bordering Bangladesh. People of the state of Assam have risen up against the illegal Bangladeshi occupants in the reason who have been living in the state for many years and have even succeeded in getting the voter identity cards issued by the Election Commission of India. There are crores of Bangladeshis who have entered into Indian without legal documents and are living for years. North eastern state are worst hit by the illegal migration that has forced the local population to rise against the menace.
 

Public Local people, all the political parties are supporting the campaign. Student unions are carrying out the operations of finding out the illegal immigrants and pushing them into Bangladeshi territory. BJP is also backing the movement as anti-Bangladeshi campaign is one of the issue listed in its election manifesto According to secret agencies there are more than 4 crore illegal Bangladeshis living in India. Though public has its own reasons against the illegal immigrants but government is also worried about it as it is the biggest security threat to the country. It must be noted that some years ago a Pakistani national had entered [More]

Clash 5 farmers have died and more than 100 farmers have been injured in cross-firing and violent clashes between police and farmers in Greater Noida, on Wednesday on August 13.  it is being said that condition of 15 persons is critical. More than two dozen policemen have also been injured in the incident. According to police sources only three people have died in the incident. Police had erected strong barricades made of bamboo and teen sheets to stop the agitating farmers. It was being expected that farmers will not be able to cross these barricades. But these barricades could not keep the farmers held even for a minute. Farmers had come to the spot in more than 45 tractors.

 
Farmers More than 2000 Farmers-mostly residents of Ghori Bachhera of Greater Noida-had gathered  there who were demanding adequate compensation to be paid to them for the land acquired by the state government. In 2006 land was acquired at Rs 450 per sq. m and in 2007 Rs. 850 were paid for every sq. m. Those farmers who had sold their land in the 2003 and 2005 were demanding compensation equal to the compensation awarded in 2008. According to the government sources their demands had been reviewed twice [More]

March A separatist Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz was killed on Monday in police firing. He was leading the march of thousands of protesters who were marching towards the PoK. A total of five people have died and more than 150 got injured in the police action when they used tear gas shells, lathicharge and fired at the violent protesters. People were marching towards PoK as a protest to the so called ‘economic’ blockade of the valley by the Jammu Hindu population. Hurriyat and some main stream political parties had given a call for the march in support of the apple growers . It was supported by Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kashmir Fruit Growers’ Association, Traders Federation and Lashkar-e-Toiba- a terrorist group.

 
Action State administration had placed some top Hurriyat and PDP leaders in house arrest on Sunday night as a move to prevent them from joining the Muzaffrabad march on Monday morning. Protesters were demanding opening of the road link between both of the divided parts of Kashmir so that they can sell their main crop of apples in the open market by the alternative road link as traffic between Jammu and Kashmir has severely been affected because of the Jammu agitations. [More]

Record Michael Phelps became one of the only five athletes who have won nine Olympic gold medals. He won three gold medals in Beijing Olympics on August 12, 2008 in swimming and with it has become the record holder. There are eight swimming events in which he had qualified to compete in the Beijing Olympic games. He is the hot favorite to win most of the swimming gold medals as he is expected to repeat his previous performance of Athens Olympics.

 
Year 2004 This American swimmer was born on June 30, 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is called MP also. It won’t be wrong to call him a records’ machine. He stunned whole of the world when he won six gold medals in the Athens Olympic games in 2004. In these games he had equaled Alexander Dityatin’s record of winning maximum medals in one Olympic as he had won a total of eight medals that included three golds and and two bronze. But except it he holds many  world records. He has remained World Swimmer of the year and American Swimmer of the year for many years.

 
Before 2004 He became the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic when he took part in 200 m Butterfly  [More]

Sri Lanka With the half centuries of Skipper Mahela Jayawardene and Malinda Warnapura,in the seond inning, Sri Lanka has won the third and final test match from India with the margin of eight wickets remaining. And with it they have won the three test match series from India with the margin of 2-1. Both the Sri Lankan batsmen completed their half centuries as  Mahela Jayawardene made 50 runs and M.  Warnapura remained not out with the score of 54.

 
Day First Batting first, India had made 249 runs in the first inning that included opener G. Gambhir’s knock of 72 runs. Ajantha Mendis was the most successful Lankan bowler as he took 5 Indian wickets and game only 56 runs in the first inning. India had lost three wickets for 104 till the lunch time on day first and all the damage was done by Lankan fast bowler D. Prasad. The remaining two wickets were taken by Muralidharan. It was once again that the Indian middle order failed to perform well.

 
Second Day Day two did  brought only wretched fortune to India as three of its main players got injured. Sri Lankan scored 251 runs for six gaining a lead of 2 runs on day two. Sri [More]

Shahrukh Vs Bachchans Recent incidents indicate that Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan who projects himself as the new King of Bollywood is slowly and steadily heading towards bad times. First is his spat between him and Amitabh Bachchan that remained for many days into the headlines. It has become very clear that a cold war is going on between Shahrukh Khan and the Bachchan family that has divided the film industry into two parts, Though rift has not yet surfaced but in long term it will affect the industry badly. As Bachchan’s are on a world tour to promote Bollywood as the leading entertainment industry Shahrukh Khan has started his own world campaign.

 
Shahrukh Vs Salman Another news that followed was the verbal fight between Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan that erupted at Salman’s girlfriend Katreena’s birthday party and both the Khans were seen exchanging blows. This not ended here. Salman along with his girlfriend drove to Shahrukh’s residence and threatened his family. Shahrukh retaliated by expelling Katreena from his world tour program. With this incident Shahrukh has lost one of his friends who is also a superstar and can challenge his supremacy in future.

 
Shahrukh Vs Bharat But the worst was yet to follow when a Mumbai [More]

Retirement Bringing every kind of speculations to a halt Lok Sabha Speaker Som Nath Chatterjee  has said that he will retire after the end of his term. It must be recalled that he is the veteran communist leader who had won ten times as a MP. But he had declined to resign as Lok Sabha Speaker after his parties’ decision of withdrawal of support to the UPA government. This issue had triggered a wave of discussions not in political circles but in public also. It is considered that when ever a MP is elected as a Speaker of Lok Sabha he becomes a neutral leader and distances himself from his political party.

 
Tradition Though there are very few examples when any Speaker had followed the tradition but Som Nath Chatterjee  has set an example. It is a pity that he has been treated badly by his own party. There are very few arguments as his party is following its ideology and on the other hand Chatterjee is following the tradition, a character that is rarely shown the political leaders especially in India. During the trust motion it was being expected that Chatterjee  will resign before the voting following the party whip. But it did not [More]

 
Medal Tally Till now everything was happening as was expected in the Beijing Olympics. But as the event is progressing many shocking results have been seen. China is at the first place in the medal tally and there are no signs that USA will reach even its half of the medals’ tally. Germany is at the third position with 7 golds. Russians and Australians are way behind.

Swimming Michael Phelps has ruled the pool till now and has become the only one Olympian who has won 12 gold medal. His has won six gold medals in various swimming competitions in the Beijing Olympics. But what is more interesting is that he has won all these gold medals by breaking the previous world records. His has won six gold medals for his country. Americans have broken the Chinese dominance in Water Cube and women’s gymnastics by winning four gold medals. America’s Rebecca Soni broke the world record and won the gold medal in women’s 200m backstroke swimming event by defeating world record holder Leisel Jones on Friday. Two years ago she had went heart surgery.
 
 

Tennis But to a great surprise three famous tennis stars Roger Federer and sisters Venus and Serena Williams, could not advance the quarter-finals [More]

Gold Medal Abhinav Bindra shot into fame when he won the gold medal in men’s 10m Air Rifle event in Beijing Olympic games. With it he became the first Indian to won an individual Olympic Gold medal and thus ended India’s 28 years old gold medal drought. Though he has won many international shooting events but his Olympic Gold medal has made the country proud.
 

Early Life Born on September 28, 1982 to an affluent Sikh Khatri family of Dr. Apjit and Babli Bindra, Abhinav has many other achievements that can not be ignored. He used to practice 12-14 hours daily at his family owned shooting range near Chandigarh. With his participation in 2000’s Olympic games he became the youngest Indian to participate in Olympics. He could not qualify for the final as his position was 11th and only the top 8 compete in the final. He succeeded in qualifying to the final of 2004’s Olympic games as he had earned the third place with the score of 597 in the quarterfinal round. But he could not won any medal in the final because of his poor performance. He had scored only 97.s points which was much below the other competitors.
 

Commonwealth Games He was the Gold [More]

Public Cash for vote scam is still haunting the ruling and opposition parities of India. Nuclear deal between Indian and USA has revealed many hidden truths of Indian politics. Though it was being expected that it will be very difficult for the government to achieve the ultimate goal as many of the IAEA board of governors and NSG counties had reservations against the Indo-US n-deal. But before it that Indian government could reach the IAEA board of governors it had to pass the first hurdle at home. UPA government had to prove its majority in the Parliament. Though Manmohan Singh led government has succeeded in proving its majority in Lok Sabha the political developments that happened during the testing time has left the Indian public astonished and disappointed.

Sting Operation Every one was shocked to see the open display of money in the Parliament. Allegations made by BJP MPs against the SP leaders have indicated that a lot of money power was used to muster the required votes.  But what is disappointing is that both of the parties are indulged in the blame game and nothing has happened that could clear the air of suspicion. BJP MPs had succeeded in filming the whole bribe incident in [More]

Crisis It is the testing time for the Indian democracy as India was severely jolted by the internal and external threats and also by the political crisis during the months of July and August. First it was cash for vote scam them serial bomb blasts and now the rift that has surfaced between Jammu and Kashmir following the Amarnath land issue. Some of the regional parties tried to exploit the issue but soon the situation slipped out of their hands and the most of the agitations in Kashmir were headed by Hurriyat a pro-Pakistani party. In such circumstances these regional parties lost their command over the people of the region. Now they are neither trusted by Kashiris nor by the people of Jammu.

 
Blockade But the land row has increased the rift between Jammu and Kashmir following the mass agitations in both of the regions. Situation worsened  because of the road blockade between Jammu and Kashmir that severely affected the Kashmir region. Hurriyat and other anti-India elements has exploited the situation by terming the Jammu agitations as an economic blockade of the Kashmir region which is helped by government of India. They are trying to present the  divide between both of the reasons as a rift [More]

Crisis It is the history that political situations in Pakistan takes dramatic changes immediately and this time again the same is going to happen very soon. After the elections in Pakistan everyone was expecting that it will bring back the economy to the track and also the political crisis will be solved and dismissed  judges will be restored. But new formed government could not do anything special and the political situation in Pakistan went on deteriorating. On the other hand influence of Islamic fundamentalists has kept on growing that was the cause of concern as its neighboring county Afghanistan is fighting a war with the help of nato forces against Talibani militants who are hiding in the NWFP of Pakistan.

 
Power Centers After the formation  of new government power had been divided into two parts at the one end was newly elected government and at the other end President Musharaf backed by Military and ISI. Both the power centers were struggling to gain the upper hand. Public was equally frustrated by both of the power centers and was slowly but steadily slipping towards Islamic fundamentalists. For USA and India it was an alarming situation as Pakistan is a nuclear state and if it falls the fundamentalists’ [More]