Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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IPL scoreboard: Knight Riders vs Super Kings

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT

Chennai, April 13 (IANS) Following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Chennai Super Kings here Tuesday.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Sourav Ganguly lbw Bollinger 10 (12b, 2 x 4)

Chris Gayle st Dhoni b Ashwin 6 (2b, 1 x 6)

Brendon McCullum c Muralitharan b Ashwin 0 (4b)

Manoj Tiwary c Vijay b Raina 27 (31b, 2 x 4)

David Hussey st Dhoni b Ashwin 0 (3b)

Angelo Mathews c Hayden b Muralitharan 48 (48b, 2 x 6, 3 x 4)

Wriddhiman Saha st Dhoni b Jakati 1 (2b)

Laxmi Ratan Shukla c Hayden b Bollinger 17 (10b, 2 x 6)

Ajit Agarkar (not out) 9 (5b, 2 x 4)

Iqbal Abdulla (not out) 0 (1b)

Extras (b-1, lb-5, w-14): 20

Total (for 8 wkts, 20 overs): 139

Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Gayle, 2.2); 2-17 (McCullum, 2.6); 3-17 (Ganguly, 3.2); 4-19 (Hussey, 4.1); 5-92 (Tiwary, 14.4); 6-96 (Saha, 15.5); 7-123 (Shukla, 18.2); 8-133 (Mathews, 19.3).

Bowling:

Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-16-3

Doug Bollinger 4-1-15-2

Albie Morkel 2-0-14-0 (1w)

Shadab Jakati 4-0-23-1 (1w)

Muttiah Muralitharan 4-0-47-1 (3w)

Suresh Raina 2-0-18-1.

Chennai Super Kings:

Murali Vijay (not out) 50 (40b, 2 x 6, 4 x 4)

Matthew Hayden b Gayle 0 (2b)

Suresh Raina (not out) 78 (39b, 3 x 6, 11 x 4)

Extras (lb-2, w-13): 15

Total (for 1 wkt, 13.3 overs): 143

Fall of wicket: 1-6 (Hayden, 0.3).

Bowling

Chris Gayle 3-0-35-1 (2w)

Ashok Dinda 2-0-25-0 (1w)

Ajit Agarkar 2-0-14-0 (1w)

Iqbal Abdulla 2.3-0-21-0

David Hussey 2-0-22-0

Angelo Mathews 1-0-15-0 (1w)

Laxmi Ratan Shukla 1-0-9-0.

Sharjah to Organise ninth Tourism Road Show

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Sharjah, April 13 (IANS/WAM) A delegation of tourism authorities from Sharjah will go on a road show from April 14-20 across several Gulf countries.

Places visited by the road show will include Doha, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) road show comes as the SCTDA seeks to stimulate tourism in the region.

Mohamed A. Al Noman, director general of the SCTDA, said the road show will help promote Sharjah as a leading tourism destination on the regional tourism scene through its numerous marketing and promotional campaigns.

“Gulf tourists constituted 24 percent – an amount of 330,000 tourists – of the total tourists visiting Sharjah last year, which is encouraging the emirate to continue offering more services and facilities for the tourists, thus raising the tourism sector in the emirate to new heights,” he said.

Susan Boyle Wants to work with Lady Gaga

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:12 AM PDT

Susan Boyle with Lady Gaga

Susan Boyle with Lady Gaga

London, April 13 (IANS) Singer Susan Boyle wants to work with Lady Gaga and would like to wear dresses like her.

“I think Lady Gaga is a wonderful artist and completely original and I like her costumes. Love it! Yes, I’d love to do a duet with her, complete with telephone hat too!” contactmusic.com quoted Boyle as saying.

Boyle was the biggest-selling female solo artist worldwide last year, selling more than 10 million copies of her debut album.

Miley Cyrus Wants to try all Genres of Film

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:07 AM PDT

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus

Los Angeles, April 13 (IANS) Hollywood actress Miley Cyrus has admitted that she wants to try her hand at all film genres during her career.

She is also not ruling out acting lessons in the future, reports imdb.com.

“I’m kind of bipolar in my acting choices because I just want to do a little bit of everything. One day I’m telling my mum I want to do an action movie, and then I want to be doing comedy. I’ve not taken acting lessons or anything but it doesn’t mean I don’t need to – I’m sure that I do. Once I watch this film in the theatre I’m probably going to book an acting coach,” said Cyrus. Cyrus stars in upcoming movie “The Last Song”.

Four killed in drone attack in Pakistan

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:52 AM PDT

Islamabad, April 13 (IANS) At least four people were killed and two injured in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan’s tribal area.

Locals said a pilotless US aircraft fired two missiles Monday evening near Miranshah in North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal agency near the border with Afghanistan, Xinhua reported.

Foreign and local militant networks are present in the area, including Haqqani network which the US blames for violence in Afghanistan.

650 firemen to be deployed for Commonwealth Games

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:47 AM PDT

New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Delhi Fire Services would be deploying 650 firemen for the safe conduct of the Commonwealth Games in October and purchasing GPS-enabled automatic vehicle tracking system to cut their response time in case of any fire, a senior official said Tuesday.

“We have made a three-tier fire safety plan for the Games and would be deploying 600-650 men,” Delhi Fire Services (DFS) chief R.C. Sharma told reporters here.

He said there will be an in-built fire safety system in each stadium and the fire fighting vehicles would be be equipped with secured wireless communication system. The Commonwealth Games village near Akshardham temple will have a dedicated fire station.

The fire chief said the service was procuring GPS-enabled automatic vehicle tracking system that will help in improving the response time of the fire-fighters, find the shortest route and facilitate reinforcements.

Sharma said the city will have four more fire stations at the Civic Centre, Games Village, Shahdara and Mayur Vihar district centre before the start of the Games.

DFS is also considering to buy hydraulic platform that can take fire personnel to a 70-metre height.

Chennai Super Kings race to victory over Knight Riders

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:43 AM PDT

Chennai, April 13 (IANS) The Chennai Super Kings raced to a magnificent nine-wicket victory against the Kolkata Knight Riders for their sixth win that took them to the second spot behind Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) leaderboard, here Tuesday.

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (3 for 16) and fast bowler Doug Bollinger (2 for 15) reduced the Knight Riders, batting first on winning the toss, to 139 for eight in their 20 overs. Then, Suresh Raina (78 not out, 39b, 3 x 6, 11 x 4) and Murali Vijay (50 not out, 40b, 2 x 6, 4 x 4) smashed the Knight Riders’ attack during a rollicking 137-run partnership off just 78 deliveries as the Super Kings reached the target in just 13.3 overs.

The hectic pace with which the Super Kings scored boosted their net run rate as they leapfrogged to the second spot on the points table and within sight of a semi-final spot with a tally of 12 points while the Knight Riders remain on 10 after 12 outings.

Paul Folmsbee backs keen desire to forge stronger economic ties with Gujarat

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:51 AM PDT

Gandhinagar, April 13 (IANS) US Consul-General in Mumbai Paul Folmsbee has made known America’s keen desire to forge stronger economic ties with Gujarat, an official spokesman of the state government said here Tuesday.

Folmsbee, who along with the vice-consul for political affairs Prashanth Rajan arrived here Tuesday on a two-day visit to the state, was accorded a warm reception by Chief Secretary A.K. Joti.

Joti also briefed them about the industrial development in the state that had made it the “most preferred investment destination”, and about the next Vibrant Gujarat global industrial summit to be held in January 2011.

The spokesman claimed that the consul-general inquired about the role of the state to make the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) a success and appreciated the state’s approach in developing all the six economic nodes of the DMIC in tandem.

On the 2011 Vibrant Gujarat summit, Folmsbee assured the state government of doing everything possible for improving the linkages between the small and medium enterprises in the US and their counterparts in Gujarat.

India completed 22 rounds of auctions for 3G services

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:49 AM PDT

New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) India Tuesday completed 22 rounds of auctions to award radio frequency spectrum for third generation telecom services in the country, with a provisional winning price of Rs.4,589.52 crore for a pan-India licence.

The provisional winning price is 31.13 percent up from Rs.3,500 crore, fixed by the government as reserve price for a nationwide licence.

Slots for between three and four players are available in each of the 22 circles, into which the country has been geographically divided for these services.

The government has already given Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) spectrum for 3G services on the condition that they will pay the same licence fee as would be levied on private players after the auction.

Along with the fee that will be eventually paid by the two state-run enterprises for the licences, the government will provisionally get Rs.18,703.34 crore from the auction, which, so far, is well below the projected earning of Rs.30,000-35,000 crore.

This is on the presumption that every available slot gets filled at the provisionally approved price.

The Gujarat circle attracted the highest bid at Rs.459.52 crore, even as one additional player was still in the fray for the three available slots. Delhi was next with Rs.437.65 crore, followed by Tamil Nadu receiving bid at Rs. 429.39 crore.

Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Orissa and West Bengal could not attract even a single player.

Nine telecom companies are participating in the online auction process – Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Vodafone Essar, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices, Aircel, Etisalat, S Tel, and Videocon Telecommunications.

It is a simultaneous auction for 22 circles over a secure website. At each round, the price is hiked from between 10-1 percent based on demand.

The auction is being held from 9 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. on all days, except Sundays and national holidays. The process will end only when the demand is equal to the number of slots available in each circle.

The bid data, including the winning companies’ names, will be made public after the auction’s completion and approval by the government. The winning firms will have to deposit the money within 10 days after the auction.

The successful bidders would be allowed to offer 3G services on a commercial basis from Sep 1.

The 3G services will facilitate much faster connectivity than what is available now and enable applications such as Internet TV, video-on-demand, audio-video calls and high-speed data exchange.

Kings XI Punjab Mgt. said Yuvraj Singh is an integral part of the team

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:47 AM PDT

Chandigarh, April 13 (IANS) The management of Indian Premier League (IPL)’s Kings XI Punjab Tuesday said that star player Yuvraj Singh is an integral part of the team and is not leaving it.

“Yuvraj is an integral part of Kings XI Punjab. We are happy that he would like to stay with our team,” said Anil Srivatsa, chief executive officer of the team in a statement issued here Tuesday evening.

He added, “Yuvraj is a valuable player and he has contributed immensely to the team’s performances in all the three seasons of IPL.”

Yuvraj Singh, who had led Kings XI Punjab in the first two editions of IPL, was replaced by Sri Lankan Kumara Sangakkara before the start of IPL-III.

Kings XI Punjab are almost out of the race for a semi-final birth with only four wins in 12 matches so far.
Posted by Suresh at 3:21 PM

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