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Gaikwad also highlighted the role played by minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor. "He explained that Kerala is one of the few states in the country where cricket is just beginning to grow. A Kerala team would also cater to fans in the Gulf where a lot of expatriate Malayalees with good disposable income reside."

Gaikwad, the CEO of the consortium, which includes five principal investors, namely Anchor Earth, Film Waves, Parinee Developers, Elite and Cholayil Group and Anand Shyam Real Estate, also informed that the group, which runs a cricket academy in Solapur, has plans of constructing a cricket stadium.

That, though, is for later on. Their immediate target is to form a team that can pose a challenge to the other nine come IPL 4. And they appear to have started on the backfoot.

After all, they don't have the cream of players at their disposal when the auctions take place in September.

Bills

Through the letter, the ministry will tell American authorities that a team of Indian investigators was ready and it could visit the US once a confirmation was given, said the official.

According to American law, the US department of justice will have to take permission from the Chicago court, which is hearing Headley's case, about India's request to have direct access to him. The court will also take the view of the American terrorist's lawyer before giving its consent for his interrogation by Indian investigators. Under the plea bargain struck by Headley with the US government, India can have access to the Pakistani-American by deposition, videoconferencing or through letters rogatory.

Sources said India would like to explore all three, particularly deposition or face-to-face access. India has also decided to send a magistrate to the US to record Headley's statement, which would be admissible as evidence in a court here.

The magistrate will be sent when the US grants permission for direct access to Headley to record his statement under CrPC 164, which is admissible in an Indian court of law, the sources said. The statement would be crucial when a chargesheet is filed against Headley in Mumbai. Headley had last week pleaded guilty to all 12 terror charges including nine relating to 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. He was arrested by FBI in Chicago on October 3 last year.

News

The head of the Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov said they appeared linked to Northern Caucasus militant groups who have waged an insurgency against the pro-Kremlin local authorities. The bombings came after warnings published on militant websites by Islamist leader Doku Umarov from the Caucasus region of Chechnya that Moscow would be the rebels' next target.

Andrei Malashenko, an expert at the Carnegie Centre, said the bombings could signal the beginning of a jihad, or holy war in the heart of Russia. "I would not rule out that they have started the jihad that they have been announcing recently quite regularly since the end of December," Malashenko said.

The US IntelCenter organisation — which monitors statements by militant groups — also pointed to Umarov's involvement.

"The most likely group behind the twin suicide bombings in the Moscow subway today is the Caucasus Emirate led by Doku Umarov," the agency said in a statement.

In an interview published on February 14 on the Kavkazcenter website, an unofficial mouthpiece for rebels, Umarov warned that rebels would move their actitivites from the Caucasus to central Russia.

"The blood will not just be spilled in our towns and villages. The war will come to their towns," Umarov said.

Amid a low-level insurgency in the North Caucasus, rebels regularly target police stations and local officials in shootings and suicide bombings that are barely mentioned by Russian state media. "This is directly linked to the situation in the North Caucaus," Grigory Shvedov, the chief editor of the web site www.caucasianknot.info, said.

Delhi Trashes Kolkatta

Deciding to bat first, Delhi was blessed by Warner special as the left-hander hit nine fours and five sixes to score an unbeaten 69-ball 107.

Knight Riders lost wickets in regular intervals thereby failing to establish any momentum in their run chase and scored 137/9 in their 20 overs after Daredevils set a challenging 178-run target.

For Delhi, young Umesh Yadav (2-27) took two wickets to lead the bowling attack after his seniors gave early breakthrough against Knight Riders.

Umesh Yadav took the important wickets of David Hussey (29) and Angelo Mathews (24) in consecutive overs to turn the tide for the Daredevils in the middle-overs.

Bhatia scalped the prize wicket of Chris Gayle in the ninth over to give a big blow to Knight Riders in their run-chase.

Gayle was going smoothly slamming two fours and two sixes to score 30 runs off 21 balls before Amit Mishra caught him at deep mid-wicket.

Kolkata lost Manoj Tiwary (0), Mandeep Singh (0) and skipper Sourav Ganguly (5) in the third, fourth and fifth over of the match to three different Daredevils’ bowlers.

Andrew McDonald clean bowled star of KKR’s last win, Manoj Tiwary after Amit Mishra outsmarted Mandeep Singh in the previous over.

After a slow start, Ganguly hit a four off Dirk Nannes before being clean bowled by the left-armer two balls later to give an early breakthrough for Daredevils.

Earlier, David Warner (107 not out) slammed a quick-fire hundred to help Daredevils post 177/4 against Knight Riders.

Warner and Paul Collingwood (53) put on a massive 128-run partnership, highest fourth wicket partnership in IPL, to help Delhi set a respectable 178-run target for Knight Riders.

Warner hit nine fours and five sixes in his 69 balls inning and completed his maiden hundred in just 66 balls.

After early wobble, when Daredevils lost three wickets in first three overs, Collingwood gave Warner the support he needed to score an amazing hundred.

Collingwood slammed three fours and two sixes of his own to score his half-century off just 43 balls.

Delhi lost three quick wickets early as they lost Dinesh Karthik (0) to Kolkata pacer Ishant Sharma, who clean bowled him for naught in the third over, after losing skipper Gautam Gambhir (1) and Virender Sehwag (8) in the previous two overs.

Langeveldt trapped Gambhir lbw in second over of the match just after Gayle got rid of Sehwag in the previous one. Sehwag hit two consecutive fours before being foxed by Gayle.

Earlier, Delhi skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and decided to bat against Knight Riders.

Ssnga Banned

Sangakkara is to miss the match after copping a one-match ban for the team's inability to maintain required over-rate for the third time and it could not have come at a worse time for the Mohali franchise.

The team, even with match-winners like Sri Lanka captain Sangakkara, his compatriot Mahela Jayawardene and India stalwart Yuvraj Singh, has come a cropper repeatedly in the IPL 3.

In absence of Sangakkara, who had done precious little in the tournament, the team is to be led by another former Lanka skipper - Jayawardene - and they would be hoping that a change at the helm would also bring about change in their fortunes.

Already their chances of making the semifinals appear remote and a sixth defeat tomorrow would dent their hopes further.

Failure of Sangakkara and Jayawardene to do something meaningful and the flop show of Yuvraj has meant the team had to depend mostly on the starts provided by England player Ravi Bopara and the finish by Irfan Pathan to a large extent.

These two players have been the pick of the Kings XI team.

The return of Brett Lee to lead the attack would be one bright spot in an otherwise dismal scenario as S Sreesanth has tended to blow hot and cold while Pathan and Salabh Srivastava can play only support roles.

The Mumbai team, on the other hand, are on a roll with Tendulkar in supreme touch, with four half-centuries to his credit and the others giving him good support.

Mumbai's only loss thus far has come against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Last night their winning run was in danger of being stopped by defending champions Deccan Chargers before Harbhajan Singh produced a blinder of an innings to make 49 not out off 18 balls and piloted the team to a good score.

Tendulkar has been given good support by youngsters in the team like Saurabh Tiwary and Ambati Rayudu. The duo, however, failed at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai Monday night and would need to get their act together.

Lasith Malinga has been the pick of the pace attack while Zaheer Khan has bowled well overall barring the odd occasion while Harbhajan has been too good in the middle.

Mumbai are hoping their West Indian recruits Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard justify the high hopes the team management has on them. The duo has come up with decent efforts, but not match-winning displays thus far.

The home advantage has also worked well for the team who got solid support from the crowd in Navi Mumbai though it was Deccan's home match.

Mumbai have not travelled outside the state in the initial stages barring the match against the Delhi Daredevils and have one more match scheduled at home, the return home tie against the Chargers at the Brabourne on April 3.

This has been a huge plus for Tendulkar and his men in the opening part of the tournament.

Harbhajan stated after the match that Mumbai wanted to become the first team to book a berth in the semifinals and if they continue to play the way they have done so far they would be hard to stop, least of all by a struggling Punjab.

Money

A poster in a University shuttle in U.S said that “Earn $10 for driving this shuttle an hour". In Indian money its equivalent to around five hundred rupees today. Immediately my mind started comparing the full time salary of Indian drivers with the part time U.S driver's salary. What the person sitting U.S would have earn in 10 - 15 hours is the monthly salary of a full time driver in our country approximately. A common thinking is that a person who comes out with a good talent and good effort has to be rewarded better than the person who doesn’t. Isn’t it? But is it happening so in the above mentioned driver's scenario? In India, we know the roads are bad. All the vehicles are manual geared. It means that one has to constantly keep his one hand on the gear to maintain the vehicle properly, save the fuel and manage the driving smooth in the known bad roads.

In U.S they have wonderful roads, automatic geared vehicles. A person can gently drive just with accelerator and break without much difficulties. Since the gears are automatic, fuel efficiency is not much in driver's hand. Analyzing the above two facts implies that the Indian drivers are more talented, efficient and give out more effort in giving our people a smooth drive than a driver in U.S. Then why is their pay reversed? Indian drivers should be highly paid. Isn’t it ? May be this comparison is looking absurd for finance people. They might be having some technical terms to prove that what both the drivers earn is same. But from a layman point of view, my arguments are valid isn’t it? If not you are welcome to help me understand these money value variations across the countries. Could see the site http://marketsformaharajas.blogspot.com/ is explaining the basics of trading, stocks and all. Let’s see if they help us to understand these money value variations and comparisons across the countries.

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British Scientists have estimated that each fat person is responsible for about one tonne of carbon di oxide emissions a more on average than each thin person, adding up to an extra one billion tonnes of carbon di oxide a year in a population of one billion overweight people. It aslo estimates each citizen accounts for 11 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year.

Over weight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly bad for environment, according to a study by London School of hygiene & tropical Medicine.

Got all these facts when I was searching net on how to loose weight. Think, at least from now on not just for me, also for a social cause let me try doing exercise regularly.I cant save earth alone, Please join me in saving earth by being slim and fit !

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Friends

So, can friends come in the way of a marriage? And, does a marriage come in the way of old friendships? Can friends really make that much difference or cause rifts if a couple is secure within the relationship? We got a range of opinions from married men and women, counsellors and the friends who are sometimes caught in the middle.

Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat says that choice of friends is definitely an issue that confronts all married people at some point. "Unfortunately,once you are married, your friends have to pass the couple-to-couple compatibility test, which can be a very complex thing. So, what happens after marriage is a complete readjustment of friendships. Sadly, it hovers more around the children. You tend to hang out with your children's friends' parents, so it's more a friendship of convenience than true friendship."

Bhagat thinks that after a person gets hitched, his or her single friends fritter away any way because they find married people boring. "In fact, one of the biggest reasons to get married is to keep up with your peer group, otherwise you lose all your friends!"

A lot depends on the spouse and his or her compliance levels.If he or she is not a prickly person, there needn't be a problem. "No,it's not really an issue," says Amita Chauhan, a communications consultant in Mumbai."I think that within a year or two of getting married,you figure out who are 'our' friends,and then you see 'mine' and 'yours' on your own time.Also,I find that the woman drives the social plans for the most part,so it's easy for her to steer things in the direction she prefers."

Lovely London

We had a rest stop in London while coming back from U.S. It was my first visit to London too. Of course I have been to all posh london cities many a times on the monopoly board !!

No wonder people call it "Lovely London". We landed in the Terminal 5, heard" its the world's larget terrminal ". Astonished on its contruction and size. Got down in the Paddington station by Underground referred as "Tube" there. I couldnt belive that they have such a big metro system since 1863. Know what ? All the stations were looking like our country's old stations. After all even those were built by them isnt it ? So felt home while walking on those railway platforms.

Had a sight seeing trip in the "Big Bus" to all the usual london attractions and the city. A beautiful array of cross linked streets with similar architecture and equal height buildings. Got to know that their engineers in olden days will take up a full street and design the buildings of the whole street in a similar architecture which makes london look very organised. They were looking very pretty and historical.

I liked these people's attitude. They were very kind and selfless.

Forgot to mention an another great experience in the ferry on the river Thames. One of my dream came true. It was a pride to sail on "Thames". Think it has a record on the number of bridges on it.Also, cant express how I felt when I stood beside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Leonardo Decaprio in madam tussads.Great Experiences !!

A city one must surely visit once in a lifetime.

IPL II

Keshav PT, of Filmwaves, though, isn't worried as most of the franchisees will have to use up a large sum of the $7m purse to retain the players they want. But that will mean a dearth of player availability. "We are not early starters. We are coming in when IPL has already established itself as a huge brand. That is the premium we pay for it. We don't expect to get the best players in the first year. But in the first two editions, we have seen a lot of unknown players excel. It's not necessarily the established players who have done well," he stated.

The catchment areas have not been specified for the consortium. "We have no specific catchment areas. We will go for players who would not be retained. As for locals we are looking for players from Kerala as we want to promote the sport there," Keshav said.

In the past two IPLs one has seen franchisees name icon players who are paid 15% more than the costliest player in the team and then used for marketing and branding. Rendezvous realise it. "It's important to have an icon player. It is eventually around him that you will market your team. But if you look at the teams, they are using a bunch of players unless you are talking about someone like Tendulkar, who is a team by himself," Keshav said.

As Filmwaves, one of the investors, is Dubai-based, Rendezvous has plans to host games in Dubai. That though is in direct confrontation with IPL commissioner Lalit Modi's views.

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Employees' cyberloafing favours Bosses

Next time when your boss frowns on you for browsing the net at work for personal use, promptly reply that you may be doing the office a favor.

According to researchers, people whose employers tolerate a reasonable amount of personal emailing and other Internet use at work, tend to be more open to doing work from home in their own time or making themselves available even after office hours.

Using the internet for personal use at work may also reduce stress for Employees giving them mini-breaks that can potentially make them more productive, the study found. Its true. I have experienced it.More over for many workers using the internet for cyberloafinf/cyberslacking is way of avoiding boredom, regardless of how busy there are with work or how much they have to do !

Mobile communications

You would have known that am in U.S now, from the last few posts. All of us know that U.S is "A developed nation" with its massive infrastructures - buildings/roads/planned cities, high yielding hardware/software/manufacturing/financial industries & institutions, patents for many inventions, high ranking schools & colleges, and so on.

But you know what, India is more developed in tele & mobile communications than U.S !!I am not telling this with all the data from internet which is comparing the turnovers of the telecommunication industries between India and US. Of course I am a layman too in the finance industry.

The very small fact that incoming calls and incoming messages in a mobile phone is charged in US makes me say so. I was not able to believe it. When I was able to make unlimited nation wide free calls for just Rs.800 in India, I was thinking that the developed nations will have much cheaper rates than us.

What makes such a big country which is well developed in all the sectors, do so in the mobile communications ? Is it due to lack of cell phone users ? less service providers like our Reliance/Airtel etc ? People there like to communicate through letters/mails than orally ?...

If we could land in a correct reason, think we can suggest them to get developed in that field too :)

MasterPiece

A plum once said, just because a banana lover came by, I converted myself into a banana. Unfortunately, his taste changed after a few months and so I became an orange. When he said I was bitter I became an apple, but he went in search of grapes. Yielding to the opinions of so many people, I have changed so many times that I no more know who I am. How I wish I had remained a plum and waited for a plum lover.

Just because a group of people do not accept you as you are, there is no necessity for you to strip yourself of your originality. You need to think good of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. Never stoop down in order to gain recognition. Never let go of your true self to win a relationship. In the long run, you will regret that you traded your greatest glory - your uniqueness, for momentary validation. Even Gandhi was not accepted by many people. The group that does not accept you as you is not your world.

What water can do, gasoline cannot and what copper can, gold cannot. The fragility of the ant enables it to move and the rigidity of the tree enables it to stay rooted. Everything and everybody has been designed with a proportion of uniqueness to serve a purpose that we can fulfil only by being our unique self. You as you alone can serve your purpose and I as I alone can serve my purpose.

There was a time in this world when a Lord Krishna was required and he was sent; a time when a Lord Christ was required and he was sent; a time when a Prophet Mohammad was required and he was sent; a time when a Mahatma was required and he was sent; a time when a J.R.D.Tata was required and he was sent. There came a time when you were required on this planet and hence you were sent. Let us be the best we can be. Don't miss yourself and let the world not miss you.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not!!!

Nice article ! I am sure it will motivate you too.

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You will surely know Kamal Haasan if you have ever seen Indian movies especially south Indian movies. He is an Indian film actor, film maker, script writer, singer, lyricist, choreographer and a director. A versatile person!! My favorite actor too. I love all his movies to be specific all his movies since 2000. All of them have some good message with awesome actions and comedies. "Anbe sivam" a mentionable one. An impeccable acting. And so the films kurudhi punal and Nayagan. I would have seen those two movies 100 times. Most of his movies worth watching many a times. Puzzled why am I suddenly writing about Kamal Haasan? Well, I happened to watch one of his comical movies "Michael madhana kamarajan” today. Believe it or not the whole three hours went like a minute. I couldn’t stop laughing for the whole movie. All time comedy. Don’t think I am a big movie buff. Actually not. But a great fan of kamal. So never miss his movies specially.