GS WEBZONE: “Asian Cup Football 2011 schedule/fixture, live streaming, Qatar” plus 7 more

Friday, January 7, 2011

“Asian Cup Football 2011 schedule/fixture, live streaming, Qatar” plus 7 more

Asian Cup Football 2011 schedule/fixture, live streaming, Qatar
IPL auction 2011 Live on Set Max channel, list of players
Tata Venture MVP launched in Jaipur
Patna temperature dips further leading to flight delays due to fog
Pakistan vs New Zealand (Pak vs NZ) 1st test live cricket score, streaming and highlights, Hamilton
Swami Nityananda blackmailed before the release of his scandalous video
China to have Deep Space Monitoring network online in 2016
17th Star Screen awards 2011 winners, photos, videos

Asian Cup Football 2011 schedule/fixture, live streaming, Qatar

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 02:29 AM PST

The Asian Cup Football 2011 will begin in Qatar from 7 January – 29 January 2011. Check the Schedule/Fixtures .

The winner becomes the champion of Asia and automatically qualifies for the FIFA Confederations Cup. The options for live streaming and scores will be provided here.

Visit the Official website for Live streaming and other details

This is fifteenth edition of the Asia Cup football tourament has been held, and the 2nd time it has been hosted by Qatar,

The draw for the AFC Asian Cup 2011 was held on 23 April 2010 in Doha, Qatar.

16 countries have partcipated in the Asian cup 2011 Football.. Read more details

The groups are as follows.

Group A: China, Kuwait, Qatar, Uzbekistan
Group B: Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria
Group C: Australia, Bahrain, India, South Korea
Group D: Iran, Iraq, North Korea. United Arab Emirates

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IPL auction 2011 Live on Set Max channel, list of players

Posted: 07 Jan 2011 01:38 AM PST

The auction for the 4th edition of the Indian Premiere League (IPL) will be held on January 8th and 9th 2011. The links to watch the auction live will be posted here just before the auction begins.

The aution will be telecasted live on Set Max TV Channel. This is the first time ever that the IPL auctions will be shown live on the television.

The auction will have 350 players Click here to see the list of players being bid for over the two-day period and the ten teams will be the bidders. Apart from all the eight teams which had played in the previous edition of the IPL, there are two new teams – Pune and Kochi who will also bid for the players.

10 teams will be participating in the IPL 4 with 74 matches played between each other.

Overall, the channel is also expecting a sharp rise from ad revenues during the IPL this season that starts from April 8. IPL Auction Sony Max TV Channel links will be placed below.

Only 12 players were retained by their teams ahead of the auction, with three of the eight existing franchises – Punjab, Deccan Chargers and Kolkata – choosing to release all their players into the auction pool.

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Tata Venture MVP launched in Jaipur

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 11:35 PM PST

Vehicle manufacturer Tata Motors, is back with it's yet another pocket as well as 'Indian road friendly' Tata Venture MVP. The Venture MVP was launched in Jaipur on Thursday.

The MVP was shown off at the 2010 Auto Expo and had attracted many prospective buyers. The Tata Venture can be used as either a Taxi or even as a family car as it can accommodate 8 people at a time.

The vehicle has a 1.4 litre diesel engine, with a fuel efficiency of 15.42 KM per litre and features power steering, power windows, keyless entry, reverse parking aid and rear wipers. The MVP, in accordance to safety, features collapsible steering and side impact beams.

With a fresh new exterior, the Venture MVP will be available for 4.05 to 5.07 lakhs ex showroom, with a two year and 75,000 km warranty. The Venture for now will be available only in the state of Rajasthan and will be available in other states in due course of time.

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Patna temperature dips further leading to flight delays due to fog

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 11:09 PM PST

The weather conditions in the Bihar state capital worsen as the fog in the city further reduced the temperature. Many flights from Patna Airport were cancelled due to the severe cold weather conditions.

The city experienced a maximum temperature of 15.8C, which is nine degrees below the normal level. Two of the morning flights from Patna were cancelled. GoAir cancelled its flight on the Delhi-Patna-Delhi route while JetAirways cancelled the flight on the Calcutta-Patna-Calcutta route.

According to A B Gupta, assistant meteorologist of Patna, such conditions may prevail in the next 48 hours. Due to the extreme weather, the streets in the city had a deserted look till late in the day time.

The number of visitors in the Patna zoo also reduced from 5,000 to 2,000. As the temperature in the night reduced below normal levels, many of the people remained awake. However till Thursday no reports of death due to cold have been reported.

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Pakistan vs New Zealand (Pak vs NZ) 1st test live cricket score, streaming and highlights, Hamilton

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:53 PM PST

Pakistan won the toss and elected to field first in the 1st test against New Zealand being played at the Seddon Park, Hamilton from 7th to 11th Jnauary 2011. The match start time is 11 am Local.

At the end of the first days play NEw Zealand batting first scored 260 for the loss of seven wickets.

Pakistan has a good record in test vs New Zealand, these two teams have played 48 tests overall with Pakistan winning 22 of them, New Zealand winning just seven, while 19 were draws.

Even though rain is scheduled for the first two days, they might not impact the play.

Watch live scores

Live Streaming and highlights of the test.

The final eleven players are as below.

Misbah-ul-Haq (c) , Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal (w), Abdur Rehman, Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan , Umar Gul , Tanvir Ahmed , Wahab Riaz

Brendon McCullum , Tim McIntosh , Martin Guptill , Ross Taylor , Jesse Ryder , Kane Williamson , Reece Young (w) , Daniel Vettori (c) , Tim Southee , Brent Arnel , Chris Martin.

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Swami Nityananda blackmailed before the release of his scandalous video

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 10:04 PM PST

Hindu spiritual teacher Swami Nityananda was blackmailed before the news of his sex scandal had broken out. Last year a sex tape was released featuring the spiritual teacher and Tamil actress Ranjitha.

According to reports by Telegraph, Nityananda had confesed during an interrogation session that he had paid 1.4 million pounds, after he was blackmailed to release the sex video. However an Indian newspaper had said that Swami was approached by a journalist last year who said that, he had the video and threatened to release it to the media.

The journalist had demanded 3.5 million pounds. While investigations Nityananda told the investigators that after bargaining the amount was brought down to 1.4 million pounds. Swami also revealed that the amount was paid by one of his disciples.

After the video was released last year on 2nd March on Tamil New Channel Sun News, Swami's followers had rioted outside his ashram in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Later He was arrested in the month of April.

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China to have Deep Space Monitoring network online in 2016

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:38 PM PST

Kashgar, China site of one of their space monitoring stations.

To support future space missions,China is ready to put in place a deep space monitoring network by 2016, a senior scientist has said.

According to Qian Weiping, chief designer of the Chang’e 2 mission’s tracking and control system, the network will consist of two monitoring stations in China, one in China’s northwestern region Kashgar, a second in northeastern region of Jiamusi, and a third in South America.

Qian said that work is being done to upgrade or build monitoring stations in the three locations by equipping them with large-caliber antennas.

Qian said that added that the upgrades in Kashgar and Jiamusi will be done in 2012 in order to provide monitoring support for China’s lunar orbiters, Chang’e 3 and Chang’e 4. To assist in the lunar orbiters return to earth, the monitoring station in South America will be completed in 2016.

Jianusi, China (in red) location of second deep space monitoring station.

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17th Star Screen awards 2011 winners, photos, videos

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 08:28 PM PST

The annual Star Screen awards ceremony was held in Mumbai last night on 6th January.

Many Bollywood actors, actresses old and new, directors etc attended the star studded ceremony in Mumbai. The photos of the event have been uploaded here.

Udaan bagged the best film award. Click to the check the complete winners list

Salman Khan and Vidya Balan won the awards for Best actor and actress respectively.

Sonakshi Sinha won the award for Most Promising Newcomer (Female) for her role in Dabangg.

Superstar RajiniKanths latest Blockbuster won the award for Special Jury Awards For Spectacular Cutting Of Age Technology.

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ShahRukh Khan bagged the role for best actor, popular choice category. Best actress award for popular choice category was bagged by Katrina Kaif for role in Rajneeti.