In ICC Champions Trophy, India battles against the West Indies in a must-win match ( India vs West Indies tonight ) .India approach to the game against the West Indies in a must-win match in Johannesburg on Wednesday in their final group A engagement of the Champions Trophy starts with a prayer on the lips that Pakistan would somehow prevail over Australia by a big margin in the day's first game in Centurion.
If it happens, India would need to up their net run-rate dramatically, besides winning the match, to stand a chance of making the last-four .
India presently has a net run-rate of -1.08 whereas Australia has a massive advantage of their +1.00 in their favour.
Australia won their opening game against the West Indies by 50 runs and India lost theirs by 54 runs. So if India is to go past Australia's net run-rate, they ought to cover the difference of 104 runs between the two teams.
If Australia lose their game by 25 runs, India needs to win theirs against the West Indies by 80 runs to prevail and go through to the semi-finals.
And if Australia bat first and score 250 runs, India need to get their runs inside 40 overs for them to go through.
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Manna Dey , is one of the greatest playback singers in Hindi and Bengali films. Along with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Mukesh, he dominated Indian film playback music from the 1950s to the 1970s. He has recorded more than 3500 songs over the course of his career.
Manna Dey has been nominated for Dadasaheb Phalke award, the highest honour in Indian cinema. Earlier he was honoured with several awards including Padma Bhushan for his achievements.
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Namrata Shrestha is a Nepali model, Radio Jockey, and actor currently in news with a sex tape of her . It was a six minute sex video that featured Namrata and her boyfriend Tantrik as she likes a partner who is wild in bed ( meet her ). The video was shot by a mobile phone and this controversial video clip spreading all over the net.
Namrata Shrestha has appeared on the cover of VOW Magazine, Wave Magazine etc.
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Here comes the famous nine days of Navratri, the great festival. Send Navratri cards, Navratri greetings and Navratri sms to each others and flourish your desktop with Navratri wallpapers on this auspicious occasion .
In Addition to Navratri greeting cards , the Navratri sms, Navratri Messages via Text, Navratri greetings messages, Navratri SMS and Navratri greetings sms is also becoming popular.
People exchange Navratri SMS to greet each other on this occasion.
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It comes the end of the holy month of Ramadan, here comes Eid ul fitr , the great festival. Send Eid cards, greetings and Eid sms to each others on this holy occasion .
In Addition to Eid greeting cards , the Eid sms, Eid Messages via Text, eid greetings messages, Eid Mubarak SMS and eid greetings sms is also becoming popular.
You will find a complete collection of urdu eid sms, eid greetings sms, free eid sms , funny eid sms , eid mubarak sms, eid 2009 sms and loads of eid sms messages HERE
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Vishwakarma Puja (the Festival Day of Vishwakarma) is celebrated on 17 th September . The festival is observed primarily in factories and industrial areas, often on the shop floor.
Vishwakarma is known as the divine architect of world. As a mark of reverence he is not only worshipped by the engineering and architectural community but also by all professionals. It is customary for craftsmen to worship their tools in His name.
Vishwakarma Puja 2009 is celebrated by all industrial houses, artists, craftsman and weavers. The festival is observed on the Kanya Sankranti Day (September) which follows the Ganesh Puja.
According to mythology it is Vishwakarma who designed the triloka; the tripartite universe consisting of the mortal world, the heavens, and the netherworld. Vishwakarma is also credited for creating the missiles used in the mythological era, including the Vajra the sacred weapon of Lord Indra (a parallel of Zeus' thunderbolts) from the ribs of sage Dadhichi. He is also credited with the creation of the twin bows Saringa and Pinaka used by Vishnu and Siva respectivly against each other to decide who was the greater warrior.
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In Compaq Cup cricket tournament India is playing against New Zealand and Sri Lanka In Sri Lanka.
All the surfers who are interested in cricket are on a search of a nice Live cricket stream online. Now the popular sports channel Ten sports has come up with a dedicated site for streaming the cricket series live. You can watch the series live On Ten Sports
Watch Ind vs SL, Ind vs NZ Live on Ten Sports Live streaming
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Raj Singh Dungarpur : End of an era.
Former chief of BCCI, Raj Singh Dungarpur has died on 12 September 2009 after suffering from a long-term illness. He also served as manager of Indian cricket teams on several occasions. The 74-year-old Dungarpur, who was president of the Cricket Board for three years in the late 1990s, was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
The funeral will be held in Dungarpur tomorrow.
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The car maker Mahindra has launched two new scooterettes in the Indian market ' Duro and Rodeo ' both engine capacity 125cc that powers with great performance. The launch has Mahindra 2 Wheelers entering a new world of scooterette market after they have acquired Kinetic.
The price The Rodeo will be around Rs 38000 (ex-showroom, Pune) while the Duro will be priced at Rs 41000 (ex-showroom, Pune).
The scooterettes have been developed with technical and design inputs from Engines Engineering from Italy that have fine tuned them to better suit Indian conditions.
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Nokia has launched a slightly smaller version of the N97 smartphone - N97 Mini. The phone has a shorter battery life and less memory, 8GB compared to 32GB in the Nokia N97. The phone has a smaller touch-screen display. The phone is priced at $639 and is expected to be shipped in October. The price is not much less than that of full N97 version,which initially was available for $700 in the U.S. N97 Price is India may be more than that.
The N97 Mini will also have Nokia’s Music service integrated into it. This service will increase the cost of the device
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Lisa Ray : The 37 year old actress who is suffering a rare bone marrow cancer has refused to bow down to her illness and is leading a life that may inspire many people suffering from the dreaded disease.
The Canada-born Indian actress who has already completed the first round of treatment is currently in Toronto to attend a 10 day Film Festively. Lisa isn’t even interested in talking about her illness though she has given a complete insight on it in her official blog. “I can to wrench the spotlight onto Myeloma and Cancer Awareness. I believe it can be cured. That’s the Dirty Realist in me” is what Lisa has posted in her latest lisa ray blog.
“I can to wrench the spotlight onto Myeloma and Cancer Awareness. I believe it can be cured. That’s the Dirty Realist in me” is what Lisa has posted in her latest blog.
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You can have free McAfee antivirus updates now.
If you own a McAfee antivirus protection software product, you may need to update it now and again! How do you know when it is time to update your McAfee software? Usually, McAfee products are so sensitive that they will begin to update themselves. In the very least, your McAfee should alert you of an update need! This is a free McAfee antivirus update! if you need to buy McAfee virus updates because your McAfee data updates are not new enough, you can look online!
If you need to buy McAfee virus updates because your McAfee data updates are not new enough, you can look online!
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It has been proved finally ! Ishrat Jahan encounter was a Fake !
Court has pulled Gujarat Government. An Ahmedabad magistrate given verdict that incident in which Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed in June, 2004, was a case of “fake encounter.” In the report on the encounter, Mr. Tamang has named the encounter specialist of the Gujarat police, D.G. Vanzara, and others as accused. Vanzara and few other policemen are already in jail for the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case.
Isn't it tragic enough to attract attention of Mr. Modi ?
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ILDC , Indian language software development for computer applications site has promised and advertised to give away new software tools, fonts and resources in local languages at no cost is intended to motivate general public to use ICT tools and technology in their day to day work like Word Processing, Presentation preparation, Spread Sheets preparation, Web Page Surfing & Designing, Messaging etc. in local languages.
Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Programme initiated by the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Govt. India has the objective to develop information processing tools to facilitate human machine interaction in Indian languages and to develop technologies to access multilingual knowledge resources.
DOWNLOAD when available from here :
TDIL data center is still not ready to give new language softwares.
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Today , September 8 was proclaimed International Literacy Day by UNESCO on November 17, 1965. It was first celebrated in 1966.
The aim of the celebration
To highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. On International Literacy Day each year, UNESCO reminds the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally. Celebrations take place around the world .
According to UNESCO’s "Global Monitoring Report on Education for All (2008)", South and West Asia has the lowest regional adult literacy rate (58.6%).
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Kanjeevaram has received the best feature film award at the 55th National Film Awards . Prakash Raj has won the best actor for his performance in Kanjeevaram too.
Kanchivaram is a Tamil film directed and written by Priyadarshan. The movie stars Prakash Raj and Shriya Reddy in lead roles and has the musical score by M. G. Sreekumar. The film was premiered and released at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, 2008. It was also shown at the Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival in Pittsburgh.
The film grossed $ 1.85 million at the box office.
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Lakhs of mourners swarmed Hyderabad to bid a tearful adieu to Y S Rajasekhara Reddy,Andhra CM, who was killed in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, on his final journey to his native Kadappa district.
The body was wrapped in a tri-colour and kept in an open army truck decorated with flowers for taking it to Gandhi Bhavan,State Headquarters of Congress in Nampally as thousands of mourners chanting Reddy's name followed the vehicle.
Reddy's son Jagan Mohan, Rajya Sabha member and close aide of Reddy, K V P Ramchandra Rao and Congress MP Mohammed Azharuddin were among those who stood near the casket carrying YS Reddy's body with hundreds of police personnel surrounding the truck.
The body is now being taken to his hometown Pulivendla in Kadapa for last rites this evening.
All leaders from country and state played wreaths on Reddy's body and also wrote condolence messages at the Chief Minister's camp office in Begumpet.
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Not only Jaswant Singh's Jinnah chronicle is enjoying a "A hot selling" in the ongoing Delhi Book Fair but other publications on the Pakistan founder and Partition are on high demand too.
Books on history of Partition and Jinnah have been given a prominent display by many publishers in their stalls as those are ' hot ' these days..
Due to the "hype" about Jaswant Singh's controversial 'Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence', there is a renewed interest on the subjects, the publishers say.
The book is in "high demand", and along with it, other books on history of Partition are also witnessing increasing demands.
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World's largest mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is all set to enter the PC industry with the launch of their first amazing 3G netbook, the Nokia Booklet 3G.
In the netbook segment, Asus rules the industry . Asus launched the Eee PC in 2007 and all other PC manufacturers had come up with their own versions of the netbook.
The Nokia Booklet 3G will be based on Intel Atom processor and Microsoft Windows operating system with expected battery life of 12 hours and a weight of 1.25 kg.
No details of the Nokia netbook price is available as yet, but the Nokia Booklet 3G is expected to be priced at $799, as per some websites.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ( ysr missing ) is still missing after his helicopter went missing due to bad weather problem.He took off by a government chopper at 8.45 am and was supposed to land in Chittoor at 10.40 am.
Popular news channels such as tv9, sakshi tv, satish tv, are continuously beaming the news ' Andhra CM missing ' .
At present the situation is quite foggy.
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With Tata indicom 's new tariff plan, CDMA pre-paid users can now call endlessly for hours as they have to pay only Re. 1 for the call on a ' Pay per Call ' basis.
In the new 'Pay-Per-Call' plan, instead of the usual general practice of charging on a one minute pulse basis, though, Tata Teleservices pre-paid CDMA subscribers will be charged Re 1 for all local calls and Rs 3 for long distance calls, irrespective of the call duration.
All other Tata Indicom and Teleservices subscribers would be able to avail of this new tariff by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly and call rates would also apply on mobile to landline and to calls made to other networks as well.
The plan also offers half rate for sending SMS at Re 0.50, for both local and national destinations. Hope Tata Indicom will get some more lot of customers fot their CDMA segment.
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India last suffered a dry monsoon in 2002, when rainfall was 19.2% below average through the season, and July rains were 54.2% below normal. India's crop output in 2002/03 fell 18%.
This year,in 2009, June rainfall was the worst in over 80 years, while July saw a 5% deficit. August began with an exceptionally dry two weeks, followed by near-normal rains in the later part of the month. From the start of June to Aug end, rains were 25% below normal.
Weak and uneven monsoon rains have ruined India's rice crop and hit the sugarcane, soybean and groundnut crops as well as disrupting the flow of water into the main reservoirs, which are vital for hydro-power generation and winter irrigation.
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