Puzzle : Find the next number..

Number 53 is derived from 72. 34 is derived from 53. 25 is derived from 34. What are the next 2 numbers in the sequence?


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Politicians hijack Twenty20 Cup

What is the first thing an Indian international cricketer would like to do after an exhausting but successful 79-day tour of Ireland and England, followed by a triumphant two-week World Twenty20 Cup tournament? He would like to head straight back home to his family.

But what if he arrives on a Wednesday morning and there is a gruelling 7-match one-day series in different corners of India and that too against the 50-over ODI world champs Australia, with the first tie being scheduled at Bangalore on Saturday? He might reluctantly proceed to India’s Garden City so as to recover from the jet lag and get ready for battle.

The last thing he might want to to do on arrival at the international airport is to go on a five-hour motorcade through different parts of Mumbai and to wade his way through crowds to receive a bonus cheque, especially if he knows that there is no time to spend with his family.

He could even wonder whether the tamasha being ostensibly organised on his behalf is actually meant to promote the image of various politicians, including the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president who is also the head of the National Congress Party which is part of a coalition government in Maharashtra and India.

He might wonder why the route to the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai is plastered with posters of Mahendra Singh Dhoni holding up the World T20 Cup and standing next to the beaming Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar. Plenty of food for thought in that!

Your worn-out cricketer could even react to the report that the Indian National Congress president has invited the team by wondering whether this means that he has to sacrifice on time with his family and cut down on match-practice by sneaking in a visit to Delhi so that he can be photographed with Sonia Gandhi.

He might remember or be told by former Indian cricketers that when Kapil Dev’s team won the 50-over World Cup in 1983 in England, they were invited for tea by the Prime Minister of the country and that the original Mrs Gandhi even coined a slogan that “India can do it”. That there were no elections due at that time made it all seem more a matter of patriotism than politics!

Your tired-out cricketer could, if he has the time and the inclination, even wonder at the difference a few months can make. He would remember that just six months ago, after being knocked out of the first round of the 50-over World Cup in the West Indies, he and his team-mates had to sneak into the country to escape from angry fans who were fed on a daily diet of media stories, pun intended that the shabby performance was due to infighting and an obsession with endorsements, all at the cost of the overall objective of winning for India!

Your worn-out cricketer could even wonder whether the largesse being showered on him by the CM of the state where he lives is motivated by an actual love of the game or by the political perception that now is the time to cash in on the public mood by wearing a sporting heart on the sleeve!


[from economictimes]

CAT & GRE words

artifice       :  deception; trickery

exiguous   :  small in amount; minute

laconic      :   brief and to the point;

serrated  :   having a sawtoothed edge

valor        :   bravery

Joke of the Day : Sardar proposed a girl

Sardar proposed a Girl
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Girl said 'I'm 1 year elder to you'
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Sardar said 'Oye No Problem Soniye, I'll marry you NEXT YEAR.

RJ Nitin comments on Indian Idol3 Prashant Tamang

Indian Idol, the show which runs more on contraversaries than on singing is still in business. Though the show ended few days back by declaring Prashant Tamang as winner, it came again in to the picture eith the comments of  Nitin who is working as Radio Jockey of a Delhi based FM.

The Darjeeling Hills have erupted in mass outrage following a reckless chatter by a radio jockey of a Delhi-based FM radio station, in which the RJ described Indian Idol Prashant Tamang as ‘chowkidwar se Indian Idol’.

The issue has sparked off a mass movement in the Darjeeling Hills, leading to violence in Siliguri on Thursday and general strikes in several places like Kalimpong and Sukna in the past three days.

At least 12 people were injured in a clash between Tamang's fans and locals in Siliguri in West Bengal on Thursday when police fired on an angry mob after the protesters had resorted to widespread violence and clashed with locals. The mob, comprising mostly fans of Prashant Tamang, torched cars and damaged shops during a protest march.

The Gorkha community has taken strong exception to the prattle-tattle of the radio jockey, claiming that the remark was derogatory and insulting to the marshal race of Gorkha.

The RJ, Jonathan Brady, who is popularly known as Nitin after a programme called Ulta Pulta Nitin that he used to host on some other FM channel, apparently commented in a live broadcast that “shopkeepers will now have to make their own security arrangements as Gorkhas have taken to singing.” The remark was made on his new programme, Khurafati Nitin on Red FM.

Darjeeling Hills were still celebrating the crowing of Prashant Tamang when the reckless remark turned the celebrations into protest rallies as soon as the news about the alleged comment spread.

Members of the Prashant Fan Club, supported by leaders of all political parties, educational institution and NGOs immediately observed a 24-hour bandh in Darjeeling sub-division on Tuesday in protest against the remark.

The protesters have demanded that the FM broadcaster be arrested immediately and brought to Darjeeling hills for a trial within three days, failing which the Gorkhas would take ‘appropriate’ measures.

Crorepati saga at IIM-C, 5 get offers over Rs 1 cr

The placement season is four months away and five students from IIM Calcutta are already prospective crorepatis. They have offers from leading investment banks for the position of an associate.

An IIM graduate is typically hired as a senior analyst on a Rs 70 lakh to Rs 80 lakh package, but an associate carries a salary of more than Rs 1 crore per annum.

Last year, four students took home this offer after the placement season, but this year during the pre-placement season, five students bagged such an offer.

Now, even consulting firms are flocking to IIM Calcutta. Besides offers from the McKinsey and Boston Consulting groups, IIM Calcutta has 10 pre-placement offers from slot-zero consulting firms. Last year, however, it bagged only one offer.

This summer eight students from IIM Calcutta interned at Morgan Stanley and the company has, for the first time, made seven pre-placement offers.

The institute has also bagged UBS group's first pre-placement offer, made to an Indian B-school.

Overseas offers have also risen significantly. Last year the institute got 50 overseas pre-placement offers. This year, 37 overseas offers have come in and the pre-placement season still has two months left.

IIM Calcutta is now confident it will break last year's placement record.


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CAT & GRE words

antiquated obsolete; old-fashioned; outdated

coalesce combine; fuse; N. coalescence

environ enclose; surround;

grisly ghastly; horrifying;

junket trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense

A new home PC that costs just Rs 5,000

The $100 computer has finally arrived. For a mere Rs 5,000, the urban employee with a shallow pocket can make his dream of a home PC come true.

The home PC is a product of Novatium, a Chennai-based startup in collaboration with MTNL. The 'Nova' is a Net PC.

"The Internet Nova PC is not very different from a TV. Just switch it on and do whatever task you want to do after you connect to it. Then switch it off," says CEO Novatium Solutions, Alok Singh.

A Net PC is a computer which has a central processing device connected through a server. This means, all functions are handled and data stored in a central location, while the computer helps to connect you to it.

Truly convenient, but the question is, what of the security and privacy of the data?

"While the firewalls have been taken care of, the more important thing is the security, especially since there are so many files. No one is given your password, except a few members of the service providers, who do not access the information," says MTNL Executive Director, A K Sinha.

But here's the downside. With just 300 MB in the initial package, it calls for spartan usage of space. And there's no CD or DVD drive. Also the dependence on the connectivity of the service is not a comfortable feeling.

However, there is cause for excitement, because the Nova Internet PC is the harbinger of times, when technology will be affordable by all.

Indian Cricket : Paradise Regained by Juniors

It was 20 th over of Pakistan innings.. 4 balls left, 6 runs required for Pak.... Every Indian was praying for wicket.... Misbah who was in good touch tried differently to hit towards deep fine leg...where there is no fielder at boundary...the ball gone top...the prayers continued... I thought only god can save!.... the camera came down .... and Its SreeSanth under the ball and took catch to drive India to World cup victory....

Indian team made it again after a long gap of 24 years. After an early depart in ODI World cup in 2007, it seemed Indian Cricket is in dying stage. The Indian team having great senior players like Sachin, Sourav and Dravid , inspite of high expectations failed cheaply and came back in the first round of ODI World cup. It was an unforgettable moment in Indian Cricket history...Paradise Lost

On the other hand, Twenty 20 team did not have any senior player, they did not have any experience in T20 as well. Inspite of new captain, this coach less team had given a sterling performance. The young team became the World Chapians. In the way of their campaign, they beat hosts,South Africa and mighty Australia... and at last their all time rival Pakistan in a heart stopping match. No doubt its young blood did the job.It was an unforgettable moment again in Indian Cricket history..Paradise Regained

Chak De India

Indian team celebrations after winning World Cup

India win Twenty 20 World cup

India's southpaws produced sterling performances as they prevailed in a thrill-a-minute final of the ICC Twenty20 World Championship, and for a change Yuvraj Singh was not one of them.

Gautam Gambhir, Rudra Pratap Singh and Irfan Pathan came up with heroic efforts to help India score a last-over victory in the much- awaited clash between the arch rivals and also had the satisfaction of bowling out their opposition with three deliveries to go.

With Pakistan needing 13 off the last over to be bowled by Joginder Sharma and just one wicket in hand and prolific Misbah-ul-Haq on strike, it was anyone's game. But Indian fans got the jitters when Joginder bowled an ugly wide and then got hit for a straight six by Misbah.

Suddenly, the equation was down to six from five balls. Joginder produced an important dot ball and then Misbah moved out towards the off stump but only ballooned the ball up and S Sreesanth made up for his poor bowling earlier in the day to take a well-judged catch at square leg.

India, who had lost the final of the 2003 World Cup to Australia at this same venue, scored a memorable victory much to the delight of the majority of the crowd that had been backing them.

The Indian players broke into an impromptu dance and took a victory lap with their national flag as the country got ready to celebrate the anticipated win. A fireworks display added to the excitement when the Indians were given the trophy.

A packed house waved national flags and shouted slogans like India jeetega and Pakistan zindabad as the two teams clashed in the final of a world level event for only the second time, the previous occasion being the Benson and Hedges World Championship in Australia in 1985.

India owed it to left-handed opener Gambhir, who steadied the Indian innings with a fine half-century.

RP Singh produced the early breakthroughs and other left-arm seamer Irfan Pathan broke the back of the Pakistan middle-order as their jinx against India in world level competitions continued.

India vs Pak Twenty 20 World cup finals Highlights part 2

India vs Pak Twenty 20 World cup Final Highlights Part1

Prashant is the Indian Idol

The wait is finally over.

Prashant Tamang, a constable in the West Bengal Police, was on Sunday declared the winner of talent hunt show Indian Idol after he pipped his rival Amit Paul in a grand finale of the over-two month long talent hunt.

Twenty-four-year-old Tamang, who hails from Darjeeling, has come a long way from being a member in the police band in Kolkata to becoming the heart throb of millions of TV viewers all over the country.

The glittering, star-studded grand finale saw Tamang perform with 24-year-old Paul, his rival from Shillong.

Tamang stole the show when he sang Yeh Kali Kali Aankhen from the Hindi film Baazigar.

As actor John Abraham announced Tamang the winner, the constable thanked his mother in a voice choked with emotion.

"I thank my mother, public and Bengal police for granting me the permission for participating in the show," he said.

The gala was held in New Delhi with the final witnessing over seven crore people sending in their votes via SMS.

India vs Aus semi finals Part 2

India vs Aus semi finals Part 1

Joke of the Day : Sardar in Train

Sardar : I hav'nt slept all nite in the train.
Friend : why?
Sardar : Got upper berth.
Friend : why didn't you exchange?
Sardar : Oye, there was nobody to exchange in the lower berth..

India in Final of T20 World Cup !!!

An imperious essay from stylish left-hander Yuvraj Singh helped India score a memorable 15-run victory over Australia and set up a title clash with Pakistan in the ICC Twenty20 World Championship

The big-hitting batsman clobbered the ball at will, much to the delight of a packed house waving hundreds of Indian flags. Yuvraj has been stroking the ball better than anyone else in this championship and it was no wonder that he was instrumental in helping India put up a challenging 189-run target for one-day world champions Australia.

Opener Mathew Hayden (62) and Andrew Symonds (43) kept the Indians on their toes with fighting knocks but India managed to strike crucial blows and also slipped in some vital dot balls as Australia fell short in the dying overs to finish with 173-7.

In the event, they were left to get 22 off the last over from Joginder Sharma, who had not been impressive till then but managed to pitch the ball up well enough to block out the chances of big hits and also bag a couple of wickets in the process.

Yuvraj was declared as Man of the Match for his terrific 70 of 30 balls.

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India vs SA part 1

India vs SA part 2....

India qualify for Semis

Underdogs India turned title-aspirants as they thrashed South Africa to not only qualify for the semifinals but top their Super Eights group in the ICC Twenty20 World Championship at Kingsmead here on Thursday.

India's bowlers, seen as the weak link, delivered when most required to help defend a modest total of 153 in the group E match. The 37-run victory for India knocked the hosts out of the championship with New Zealand qualifying as the second team from the group.

India will now take on Australia in the semifinals on Saturday on this ground, where they have not lost a match in the championship so far and enjoy a lot of support from fans. New Zealand will play group F toppers Pakistan in the other last-four match on the same day in Cape Town.

The group engagements finished with India, New Zealand and South Africa at two wins each. South Africa, needing 126 to qualify at New Zealand's expense and 142 to top the intriguing group despite a loss, put up an insipid display.

One of the favourite teams at the beginning of this tournament, the Springboks were inflicted devastating blows early in their innings by Rudra Pratap Singh, who seems to be one of the better learners in the Indian team, never mind his fielding.

Singh trapped the dangerous Herschelle Gibbs lbw with a peach of an in-swinger, dismissed captain Graeme Smith caught in the slips to a superb catch by Dinesh Karthik and then bowled experienced all-rounder Shaun Pollock to make the most of the seaming conditions on a fresh pitch.

With S Sreesanth dismissing AB de Villiers and the big-hitting Justin Kemp run out to a fine direct throw from Rohit Sharma, South Africa were reduced to 31-5 chasing what had seemed a modest target.

Mark Boucher and Albie Morkel scored 36 apiece later in the innings but the paucity of wickets in hand put paid to their hopes. Singh came back to dismiss Albie to finish with 4-13 and with other bowlers too chipping in when required, the last nail went quite easily into the South African coffin.

Yuvraj's 6 sixes video..

India win by 18 runs against England

Debonair Yuvraj Singh smashed six sixes in an over for the first time in Twenty20 cricket as India scored an impressive 18-run victory over England in their World Championship Super Eights match in Kingsmead on Wednesday.

The left-hander from Punjab walked in at number five, and to the delight of captain Mahendra Dhoni, who was at the other end, hit top gear straight away.

The Indian supporters here got a thrill-a-minute excitement and sang along to the tune of 'Chak de India' as India completed the formalities and Yuvraj was duly named 'man of the match'.

Yuvraj capped a brilliant batting performance by his team, racing away to 50 off just 12 deliveries, a record in the shortest form of the game. The bowler to suffer the ignominy of being hit out of the park time and again was young pace-man Stuart Broad.

Earlier, Sehwag and Gambhir laid the foundation with a handsome 136-run partnership.

Yuvraj was caught in the deep off Andrew Flintoff after scoring 58 off 16 deliveries with three boundaries and seven sixes as India amassed a huge 218-4 after electing to bat.

Indian Idol fever

Last week's performance by Amit and Prashant.. John and Bipasha became rivals. John supporting Prashant, where as Bipasha giving support to Amit

Dance Twenty 20 !..

There was a conscious effort to make the ICC World Twenty20 championship a sexy affair. The whole concept is fast and trendy. The cricket is innovative, so why should there not be some colour?

Well, we definitely got the colour and the oomph – in form of svelte cheerleaders dancing athletically whenever a four or a six is hit – and they have proved to be a big hit. The crowds just love them, the organisers say they have been a huge asset and a lot of young guys in India are watching cricket only to see them "shake it up."

Dressed in baggy army-style pants and red tops, with black winter caps to go with them, these 18-something boys and girls are enjoying every moment of it. Sure, it's hard work for them, but according to them, this also gives them an opportunity to get noticed on a global stage.

The girls have been asked to remain away from television reporters and were hesitant to let their voices get recorded, but the guys had no such inhibitions. Said Daniel, "It's great to soak up the atmosphere here. The crowds have been superb and no one calls us names here nor does anyone get abusive. We enjoy ourselves to the hilt."

He further said that all of them – there are about 30 at one venue – are professional dancers and their group has come through some rigorous selection process. "At this stage, we have been asked to identify ourselves as part of the T20 troupe and that's what we will be till September 24," he added.

Another girl in their group, who was happy to talk as long as "you don't record me", said they practised their moves months before the tournament got under way. "It was rigorous practice sessions as co-ordination with other dancers is very important. I hugely enjoy the whole atmosphere. It does get a bit difficult when the mercury drops down but hard work is no problem. It's fun, in fact."

For some of these cheerleaders, a big break can just be around the corner, or so they feel. Laughed Joanna, "You know, a lot of TV audience watches us and we are on the big screens across the grounds. So it's good to be noticed. A lot of people have asked for my autograph as well. I feel like a star!"

Said her colleague Kirsten, "The whole idea is to have fun. When we are up there on a little stage, we get into the groove with the music and the crowds sway with us. We have a long day but no one's complaining. In any case, every single one of us in the team loves music. That's why we are here and once the beat starts, tiredness goes away."

Joke of the Day : Sardar in China

Sardar in china

Sardar visits Chinese friend dying in hospital.

The Chinese friend just says "CHIN YU YAN" and dies.

Sardarji goes to China to find the meaning of his friend's last Words.
And finds It means "U R STANDNG ON the OXYGEN TUBE!"

CAT & GRE words

absolve   :  pardon (an offense)

celerity   :  speed; rapidity

torpor     :  lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy;

zany        :  comic; crazy;

yen          :  strong desire;

Dravid reveals he wasn't enjoying captaincy

Rahul Dravid, who resigned as captain of the Indian Test and One-Day team, revealed on Monday that he relinquished his post as he was not enjoying his stint.

"I was not enjoying captaincy of the Indian team," Dravid told PTI in his first public comment since his resignation.

"I began considering stepping down as Indian captain towards the end of the ODI series against England," Dravid added.

The thought of stepping down had crossed his mind after India's early exit from the World Cup in the West Indies for which he felt responsible, Dravid said, adding, "but I still felt that I had the strength and energy to do it then" in the hope that things could be turned around.

However, towards the end of the ODI series against England which ended this month, he had begun considering resigning. "I did not want to take any decision there without first speaking to my family and wanted to give it a few days back home to see if I felt differently before taking a final call," he said.

The decision was "personal and based on my observation of whether I would be able to give it my very best like I have always tried to", Dravid said.

Dravid, however, refused to comment on who should succeed him saying that the decision was best left to selectors.

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GrandPa... Plz wear spectacles. Ganesh is there!. He is our MLA and member of Ganesh Utsav committee.

Infosys hires UK graduates, finds Indians much better

India's second-largest software exporter Infosys, which recently hired 25 graduates from the UK, finds Indians to be relatively more flexible when it comes to work, according to the company's CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan.


"Indians tend to be a little more flexible," Infosys CEO told in an interview to a newspaper when asked how he found the British graduates to deal with.


The company recently recruited 25 graduates from the UK universities. These candidates are currently in India undergoing training and would return to London to handle clients in Europe from offices in Canary Wharf, the daily said in a report published on Friday.

Joke of the Day : Doctors dont tell...

Doctors dont tell Patient's condition


Could you please tell me the condition of Captain Ronald in Room No. 605?

He was operated upon last week and I’d like to know his condition.'

The nurse excused herself and then returned to the phone. 'I have just checked Captain Ronald’s chart. His condition is excellent and he seems to be making steady improvement.

Who shall I say called?' 'This is Captain Ronald in room. No.605. my doctors don’t tell me a thing!

CAT & GRE words

feint : trick; shift; sham blow;

knit : contract into wrinkles; grow together;

laggard : slow; sluggish;

paramour : illicit lover

redolent : odorous; fragrant;

Bharti wins the domain dispute on bhartiairtel.com

Ruling in favour of Bharti Airtel, international IPR watchdog WIPO has directed a Saint Kitts-based company to transfer the domain name bhartiairtel.com to the domestic telecom major.

Saint Kitts-based Marketing Total had registered the domain bhartiairtel.com in its name and has been sponsoring links to other websites offering cellular phone services and sale of phones, which were closely related to telecom giant's business.

"The domain name registered by the respondent is identical or confusingly similar to the trademark or service mark in which complainant (Bharti Airtel) has rights. The respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name and it has been registered and is being used in bad faith," said World Intellectual Property Rights Organisation (WIPO) panelist Francine Tan in his order.

WIPO is a UN agency tasked to protect intellectual property rights internationally.

Bharti Airtel (formerly Bharti Televentures), which owns the joint trade mark of Bharti and Airtel, had contended before the WIPO panel that the domain name was very similar and identical to its corporate name and also similar to the two main trade marks, Bharti and Airtel, owned by it.

Moreover, it also contended that by virtue of time, Airtel has become a house hold name in India. It was also a well known trade mark and they were sole proprietor of it.

Interestingly, respondent Marketing Total Ltd even did not filed reply over the contentions made by the telecom company.

Joke of the Day : Sardar's wish

Sardar's Wish


Sardar's wish: when i die, i wana die like my grandpa who died peacefully in his sleep not screaming like all the passengers in the bus he was driving..

CAT & GRE words

adamant : hard; inflexible

egress : exit; opening for going out;

murky : dark and gloomy; thick with fog;

remorse : deep regret for wrongdoing; guilt; self-reproach

spry : (esp. of older people) vigorously active; nimble

India vs Pak T20 Bowl Out

Its spectacular..Viru,Bhajji and Robin hitting stumps...

India V Pakistan Twenty20 Video

India 'bowl out' Pakistan 3-0 in T20

It was an unforgettable night of cricket at the Kingsmead in Durban. India versus Pakistan has often provided edge of the seat action but the Group D Twenty20 encounter was simply beyond belief.

The match ended in a a tie and was decided by a unique Twenty20 invention - the bowl out.Pakistan needed one run from the last two balls of the match to win and should have won but they didn't.

S Sreesanth kept his nerve as Misbah-ul Haq lost his to be run out and the scores were tied..

And then it was the time for cricket's answer to football's heart-stopping penalty shoot-out..For India, Virender Sehwag got No.1 but Yasir Arafat missed his by a long distance.Harbhajan Singh got No.2 for India but Pakistan failed again as Umar Gul missed.Robin Uthappa made it a hat-trick for India and Pakistan lost after Shahid Afridi completed a hat-trick of misses for Pakistan.

And India celebrated for a second time.

"It's a thing that is very different. Winning a cricket match 3-0," a smiling Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.

CAT toppers interview video

Cartoon: Dravid resigns

Dravid resigns as Captain

Rahul Dravid has decided to step down as the skipper of the Indian team.Dravid, who is the captain of both the Test and One-Day team, met Board of Control for Cricket in India President Sharad Pawar in New Delhi on September 13, 2007, and expressed his desire to step down as the captain of the Indian team.

Dravid requested that he should not be considered for the job from the upcoming Australia series. He further assured that he would extend his full co-operation to his successor and contribute as a batsman and a senior player.

The BCCI has accepted his decision. "Dravid met the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sharad Pawar at Delhi on Thursday during the working committee meeting and expressed his desire to step down as the Captain of the Indian Team and requested that he should not be considered for the job from the ensuing Australia series," a release from BCCI Secretary Niranjan Shah said.

"The Karnataka batsman further assured that he would extend his full co-operation to his successor and contribute as a batsman and a senior player. Rahul Dravid wanted to concentrate on his game and did not want to take the additional pressure of leading the side," the release said.

Sharad Pawar said that Dravid told him that captaincy was affecting his (Dravid's) batting.

Joke of the Day : Doctor called Plumber

A pipe burst in a doctor's house. He called a plumber. The plumber arrived, unpacked his tools, did mysterious plumber-type things for a while, and handed the doctor a bill for $600.

The doctor exclaimed, "This is ridiculous! I don't even make that much as a doctor!."

The plumber quietly answered, "Neither did I when I was a doctor."

CAT & GRE words

aphasia : loss of speech due to injury or illness

incinerate : burn to ashes

seethe : be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if

wrath : anger; fury

zephyr : gentle breeze; west wind

Sharukh and Sania

Ram! Are you there?

Lord Rama, revered by millions across the world, now the subject of a bitter political  controversy. The Congress feels archaeologists can't prove his existence. The BJP says there’s no need to prove anything of the kind.

The debate has now assumed archaeological overtones. While the Congress is going into a hasty damage control, the BJP is out to score political points.The debate revolves around the Sethusamudram project, a proposed water canal system that would have reduced travel time between the north and the eastern coast by half.

So what’s Lord Ram got to do with it?

The project would actually end up destroying an underwater bridge believed to have been built by Lord Ram and his vaanar sena to get to Lanka and rescue Sita.

So, BJP rushed to the rescue of the Ram Sethu. "It’s an insult to Hindu religion, the government must immediately withdraw the affidavit,” said BJP leader L K Advani.

Ever since the BJP was voted out of power, there have been many who feel that the party's close identification with Ram and Ram temple have now become an unwanted baggage.

Now as the party gets set for another bout of fighting over Ram, it might just have made a return to what was once its pet issue.

Crack the Puzzle: Life door and Death door

There is a prisoner who is about to be executed. The king decides to give him one last chance to live.

There are 2 doors, the life door and the death door. There is one guard standing by each door. Those two guards know which door is the life door and which is the death door. However, one of them always tells the truth and the other always tells a lie. There is no way you can identify which door is the life door or the death door. There is no way you can distinguish who is the one telling the truth.

The prisoner can only ask one guard one question. Then he needs to choose a door to walk in. If he walks in the death door, then he will be executed. If he walks in the life door, he can have a new life.

He did choose the life door and lived. What was the question he asked? How did he choose the door after he got the answer from one of the guards?


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Joke of the Day : Sardar and his daughter

A man came running in to the sardar's office and cried-
"Santa ! Your daughter has died"
Depressed, Sardar jumps from 100th floor
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At 50 th floor he remembers I don't have a daughter!
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At 25 floor: I'm unmarried !
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At 10 floor : he remembers "I'm Banta not santa"

CAT & GRE words

fluster          :   confuse; make nervous and confused;

soporific       :   sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness; drowsy

thespian       :   pertaining to drama; actor

urchin           :   mischievous child

vantage        :   position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point)

Windies out of Twent 20 World Cup

T-20 transformer gave another shock.The young Bangladeshi team under Mohammad Ashraful sent the West Indies tumbling out of the Twenty20 World Championship by winning its Group A match on Thursday at the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.

Set 165 runs to win, Bangladesh reached the target losing just four wickets with two overs to spare.

Bangladesh were never in trouble though the first three overs yielded just 12 runs. But once Aftab Ahmed and skipper Mohammad Ashraful got together after the loss of the opening pair, it became clear there would only be one winner.

Both Aftab Ahmed and Ashraful played some cheeky shots to leave make the life of the West Indies players miserable.

Ahmed was the first off the blocks hitting pacer Ravi Rampaul for a six and a four in the fourth over and then Ashraful took over sending the ball past the boundary ropes four times in the next over that was bowled by Daren Powell.

After that it was mayhem with the West Indies bowlers and fielders watching helplessly as the ball kept on crossing the boundary at regular intervals.

Though Ashraful was finally caught by Chris Gayle off Ramnaresh Sarwan but his 61 runs off just 27 balls with the help of seven fours and three sixes had made sure that only a miracle could save the West Indies from catching the flight back home.

Zimbabwe shock Australia by 5 wickets

Reigning One-Day world champions Australia were shocked in their lung opener as Zimbabwe scripted a thrilling victory by five wickets in their Group B encounter at Newlands in Cape Town on Wednesday

Australia put up a below par performance as their batsmen only managed 138 runs after electing to bat, and were unable to defend their modest total as Zimbabwe got there with one ball to spare.

The Zimbabwean outfit put up a sterling bowling display coupled with terrific fielding as the Australians never got going on a damp Newlands wicket. Opener Brendan Taylor then notched up an unbeaten 60 from 45 balls to see his side home.

At four wickets down for 74 in the twelfth over, Zimbabwe were well on course to chase down the 'modest' Australian target, but an impromptu rain delay meant the Zimbabweans were still behind by two runs on Duckworth-Lewis.

Play resumed as Taylor and Hamilton Masakadza put together 53 runs for the fifth wicket to take Zimbabwe closer to their target, only to witness high drama as Brett Lee dismissed Masakadza in the penultimate over for a crucial 27.

Needing 12 runs from the final over off Nathan Bracken, Taylor dispatched the first delivery for a boundary. And with four runs to get from the last two balls, Bracken’s penultimate delivery was sent for yet another boundary to spark off wild celebrations in the Zimbabwean camp.

Wipro to launch supercomputer

Wipro Infotech, the India, Middle East and Asia Pacific IT business unit of Wipro Ltd, on Wednesday announced the launch of Wipro Supernova, a range of supercomputers and superstorage in India.

Wipro is building Supernova grounds up in India in exclusive partnership with Z RESEARCH, Inc, a California-based organisation specialised in commoditising supercomputers and superstorage.

Supernova includes a complete range of supercomputers with an entry level configuration delivering one trillion mathematical calculations per second going up to hundred thousand trillions of calculations per second and superstorage scaling to multiple hundred petabytes, company officials said.

Vice-President of Wipro Personal Computing, Ashutosh Vaidya, said the trend of leveraging India's skills in engineering and industrial design working along with expertise in animation design, simulation and modeling and bioinformatics is gaining tremendous momentum.

Wipro Chairman, Azim Premji is world's richest Muslim entrepreneur

India's software czar Azim Premji now has a new nomenclature - the world's richest Muslim entrepreneur - as he holds more wealth than any other Muslim outside the Persian Gulf royalty, a US media report said.

Financial daily 'Wall Street Journal' has written a front-page profile on chairman of India's third largest IT exporter Wipro, saying Premji defies all the conventional wisdom about Islamic tycoons - he does not hail from the Persian Gulf, did not make his money in petroleum, and does not wear his faith on his sleeve.

"Azim Premji has tapped India's abundant engineering talent to transform a family vegetable-oil firm, Wipro Ltd, into a technology and outsourcing giant. By serving Western manufacturers, airlines and utilities, the company has brought Premji a fortune of some $17 billion," the report said.

Premji is ahead of Russia's metal and real estate baron Suleman Kerimov ($14 billion), Kuwait's Nasser Kharafi ($11 billion), Saudi Arabia's Mohammad Amoudi ($8 billion), UAE's Abdulaziz Ghurair ($8 billion), Russia's Iskander Mahmudov ($8 billion), Saudi's Maan Sanea ($7.5 billion) and Saudi's Suleiman Rajhi ($7.5 billion) among the richest Muslim entrepreneurs in the world.

The daily quoted Premji in the report titled "How a Muslim Billionaire Thrives in Hindu India" as saying that such success shows globalization is turning into "two-way traffic" that can bring tangible benefits to developing countries.

"We have always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus, or Muslims, or Christians or Buddhists," Premji told WSJ in an interview.

CAT & GRE words

brook       :   tolerate , endure

frantic      :   wild; distraught as from fear or worry;

indite       :   write; compose

prodigious :   enormous; marvelous;

remonstrate :   protest; objection

Gayle's gale couldnt stop South Africa's win

Herschelle Gibbs blitzed his way to an unbeaten 90 to lead hosts South Africa to a dramatic eight-wicket win over the West Indies in the first match of the inaugural ICC Twenty20 World Championship on Tuesday.

Cricket's new avatar kickstarted with hosts skipper Graeme Smith winning the toss and inviting the West Indies to bat in a packed Wanderers stadium in Johannesburg.

It had seemed that Smith had squandered an opportunity to rake up the runs first up when the West Indies put up 205-6 in their allotted 20 overs. Chris Gayle brought Johannesburg to his feet with the first ever Twenty20 international century coming off only 50 deliveries as he hammered the South African bowlers to all corners of the park.

But Gibbs played one of his own blinders as he clobbered 90 not out from 55 balls as the South Africans cruised to victory with 2.2 overs to spare. The West Indies, on their part, were guilty of not backing up their batsmen as the bowlers sent down a total of 28 extras—a record—and dropped three catches to make matters worse.

Joke of the Day

Sardar writing to his son

Sardar was writing something very slowly.

Friend asked:" Why r u writing so slowly?

Sardar: "I'm writing 2 my 6 yr old son, he can't read very fast.

Airtel and Hutch under MRTPC scanner

NEW DELHI: After landing in trouble at telecom tribunal TDSAT, two of the country's biggest mobile players Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar have now come under the scanner of anti-monopoly watchdog MRTPC which has ordered a probe into their suspected cartelisation in raising tariffs.

The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Commission has directed its investigative arm Director General of Investigation and Registration (DGIR) to conduct a probe into the manner in which the companies raised tariffs last month. The Commission suspects these companies have formed a cartel and are distorting competition in the market, sources said.

The companies last month raised tariffs for STD, local calls, SMS and value-added services. But while even a small cut in rates is announced with fanfare, they refrained from publicizing the tariff hike and brought out customary notices by way of small advertisements tucked inside newspaper pages.

The three companies including Idea control around 86 per cent of the GSM-based mobile services market and raised local call charges by 20 per cent and STD charges by 20-32 per cent.

Cartoon: 20 20 world cup starts

No need to worry!.. Any way we cant bat more than 20 overs...

CAT & GRE : 5 words a Day

desultory      :   aimless; haphazard; digressing at random

gambit          :   action made to produce a future advantage

luscious        :   pleasing to taste or smell; delicious

poignancy    :   quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion;

disembark   :   debark; go ashore (from a ship); unload cargo from a ship;

Joke of the Day : The Doctor and the Lawyer

The Doctor and the Lawyer

A doctor and a lawyer were attending a cocktail party when the doctor was approached by a man who asked advice on how to handle his ulcer.

The doctor mumbled some medical advice, then turned to the lawyer and asked, "How do you handle the situation when you are asked for advice during a social function?"
"Just send a bill for such advice" replied the lawyer.

On the next morning the doctor arrived at his surgery and issued the ulcer-stricken man a $50 bill. That afternoon he received a $100 bill from the lawyer.

Vision Twenty 20

Graeme Smith is pretty sure tactics are going to be crucial, Virender Sehwag wants a team packed with all-rounders to whip the opposition into submission while Shahid Afridi feels it is just the type of contest his team needs to boost its sagging fortunes.

The cricketing world is training its eyes on South Africa for a World Championship for Twenty20 cricket in the same year that has seen an off-colour World Cup in far away Caribbean, and in that, the International Cricket Council may well have played a well-concealed card to its maximum.

On the face of it, Twenty20 seems to be for batsmen who are able to cart the ball out of the park with ease, but slugfests are not what the format is all about. It might seem so because of the fact that it is a compressed limited overs version that enables set batsmen to score at 10 an over with ease. But just think, will not be a dot ball as important as a huge six in this game?

CAT & GRE : 5 words a Day

abbreviate : shorten

abridge : condense or shorten

curtail : shorten; reduce

truncate : cut the top off; shorten

abscission : cutting off; separation


[Note: All above words have similar meaning]

Crack the Puzzle!!!

Can you make a target number 37 by using five 5s? You can use any math operator as you want. There are at least two different ways


[send answers as coments]

Joke of the day

Funny Jokes: Sardar wins a lottery


Sardar wins 20 cr from Rs. 20 lottery ticket. Dealer gave him 11 cr after deducting tax.

Angry Sardar: "Give me 20 cr or else return my 20 Rs back.!

Chiranjeevi's Thriller

This is Tollywood Megastar Chiranjeevi's song from movie "Donga". It is a copied version of Michael Jackson's thriller. Chiranjeevi has became world famous by this Youtube.Thanks to Youtube and Chiru is really a dance guru...

Michael Jackson's original Thriller

This is Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1983

Flyover collapsed in Hyderabad

Hyderabad: 4 people were feared dead and another 10 injured after an under-construction flyover collapsed in Hyderabad's busy Panajagutta area late Sunday evening.

The flyover has been under construction for the past one year, and was to be inaugurated this December.

“Ambulances have been called. The death count may rise because there are a number of vehicles trapped under the debris. Gas cutting machines have been called to clear the chunks of concrete,” said Police Commissioner of Hyderabad, Balwinder Singh.

India won Asia cup

India beat South Korea 7-2 on Sunday to retain the men’s field Asia Cup. South Korea was completely outplayed as the in-form team led India to its second successive triumph in the Asia Cup. Chak De... India

IT firms bank on training to tackle staff crunch

BANGALORE: Train them, keep them seems to be emerging as the new mantra for IT companies to retain their employees.

Training budgets have nearly doubled across companies as the headcount continues to increase. Between them, the top five Indian firms — TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and Satyam — and MNCs like IBM India, Accenture and EDS, are expected to add more than 1 lakh employees this fiscal alone. This means that they better have their training machines switched on as well.

India’s two biggest IT players TCS and Infosys Technologies currently spend about 4 per cent of their total revenues on training. Infosys has, in fact, said that the company spent $5,000 per fresher in FY07. Wipro spends 2 per cent of its revenues on training.

According to industry sources, the rising headcount in each of these companies has meant that the amount spent on training employees, often freshers, has gone up. In some cases like Accenture India (which currently has about 35,000 people) and Cognizant, the training budgets have doubled this year, sources added. And that’s not all, bigger companies are also outsourcing their training initiatives to training majors like NIIT.

Joke of the day: The Drunken Cop

A drunken man was wondering around the parking lot of a bar, bumping into then rubbing the roofs of the cars.

The manager comes out ofthe bar and stops the guy.

'What the heck are you doing ?' he asks the drunk.

'I'm looking for my car, and I can't find it.' he replies.

'Dont worry Sir, we will give comlaint to Police.. How does your car look ?' asks the puzzled manager.

'Well,' replies the drunk earnestly, 'MY car has two blue lights and a siren on the roof!'.

Cartoon: Who knows where the bomb is??

Last 2 overs of indian innings in 6th ODI - Must Watch!!!

Highlights of spectacular Ind vs Eng 6th ODI

Joke of the day

NASA and the Lawyer :

NASA was interviewing professionals to be sent to Mars. Only one could go -- and couldn’t return to Earth.

The first applicant, an engineer, was asked how much he wanted to be paid for going. “A million dollars,” he answered, “because I want to donate it to M.I.T.”

The next applicant, a doctor, was asked the same question. He asked for $2 million. “I want to give a million to my family,” he explained, “and leave the other million for the advancement of medical research.”

The last applicant was a lawyer. When asked how much money he wanted, he whispered in the interviewer’s ear, “Three million dollars.”

“Why so much more than the others?” asked the interviewer.

The lawyer replied, “If you give me $3 million, I’ll give you $1 million, I’ll keep $1 million, and we’ll send the engineer to Mars.”

Cartoon

India bounce back in Natwest

Robin Uthappa played a cameo as India won with two balls to spare chasing a mammoth 317 to level the seven match series at 3-3.

Dismissals of Gautam Gambhir (47), Rahul Dravid (4) and Yuvraj Singh (18) in a short interval of time tilted the match in England's favour after India held the upper hand in the initial part of the run chase.

India had added 150 for the first wicket in just 22 overs.Tendulkar made a splendid 94 before being snapped by Collingwood at short cover off Panesar.

Sachin was declared as Man of the Match

Song Composed just on 3 notes/Raga... by Ilayaraja

Joke of the day

Postman:- I Have To Come 5 Miles To Deliver U This Packet

Sardar:- why did you come so far. Instead you could have posted

Cartoon

Andhra Govt works only for VIPs !!!

Even as the Hyderabad police is under tremendous pressure for a breakthrough in the successive terror attacks, security experts say the state police has perhaps foccused on Naxalism to the neglect of ISI-backed terrorism.

That's why perhaps targets like VIPs and the state secretariat are well protected and terrorists are striking soft targets.

On Saturday terrorists had managed to strike with impunity once again. It was exactly 100 days since the blasts in Mecca Masjid.

''Both cases are not solved yet. Therefore the second incident happened. We are worried now for Ganesh Chaturthi and Ramzan when huge crowds gather,'' said Asaduddin Owaisi, MP, Hyderabad.

Experts say mere security checks cannot prevent a terror attack like the one on Saturday.

That can be prevented only with sophisticated intelligence provided by a dedicated police force.

''We need a specially trained, highly motivated team with adequate resources at their disposal that will be with state intelligence and city police,'' said C Anjaneya Reddy, Former IG, Intelligence.

Analysts say the law and order machinery in Andhra Pradesh has focussed on Naxal extremism perhaps to the neglect of Islamic fundamentalist-inspired terrorism.

To its credit, the state has managed to curb Naxalism with a Special Intelligence Bureau and greyhound Naxals raised to focus on Naxals.

Now the need is to develop core competence to deal with ISI-backed terrorism.

Joke of the day

Funny Jokes: Sardar and romantic date


On a ROMANTIC date sardar's girl friend asks him, "Darling on our
engagement will you give me a ring?"

Cooly replies: Ya sure, what's your phone number.....

Cartoon

Chak De India

The launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04, from here on Sunday turned out to be "a sweet success," with the launch vehicle lifting off flawlessly and injecting the communication satellite, INSAT-4CR, in its pre-determined orbit.

ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair said the ISRO team did "a fantastic job" after the failure of the GSLV mission in 2006. He appreciated "the precision with which this mission performed the job."

B.N. Suresh, Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, described the launch as "a sweet success." It showed that the GSLV was a robust vehicle, whose systems performed as expected.

It was a remarkable comeback for the ISRO after the failure of the GSLV on July 10, 2006. It was the third consecutive successful mission this year.

Proud to be Indian ...Chak De India...