BANGALORE: That's the sad story of Bangalore's recent run of deaths, which include the suicide of two techies on Thursday. On Saturday, a PU student consumed poison in his hostel, two women were victims of domestic woes and father died while trying to save woman.
l Father, daughter die: Anjanappa, 70, died on Friday night trying to save his daughter Shilpa, 30, who jumped into a well next to their house near Kothanur, off Airport Road. Shilpa was married to Nagaraj and lived in her father's farmhouse at Nagenahalli. However, the couple had been living separately for the past few years. The bodies of Shilpa and Anjanappa were recovered on Saturday morning.
l Student commits suicide: Umashankar, 17, a I PU student living in SLN hostel near KR Market, committed suicide by consuming poison. He hailed from a poor family and had allegedly got into bad company. On Thursday, his seniors and hostel officials informed his father about Umashankar's behaviour. That afternoon, he consumed poison and was rushed to Victoria Hospital, where he died on Saturday.
Read more:The Times of India.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
1st ODI: India beat New Zealand by 40 runs
NEW DELHI: Virat Kohli's 105 and Yuvraj Singh's (42, 3/43) all-round performance propelled India to an emphatic 40-run victory over New Zealand in the first ODI at Guwahati on Sunday.
India now lead the five match ODI series 1-0.
After being dropped from the Test series, Yuvraj Singh put on a crucial 88-run partnership with centurion Virat Kohli to set the formidable 277-run target for Kiwis.
The dashing southpaw Yuvraj also shone with the ball as he scalped three vital wickets in his 10-over spell to put the visiting team in doldrums.
Earlier, flashy Virat Kohli stood up to his reputation and scored 105 to carry India to a challenging total of 276 all-out in the first innings after New Zealand put India into bat.
The right-handed number-three scored 100 off 100 balls before falling to Andy McKay, New Zealand's most effective bowler, when caught by Jamie How in the 43rd over.
Kohli's firepower looked set to take India to a formidable score but McKay pinned them back with four wickets for 62 runs.
Gambhir chipped in 38 as he took up the role of Indian captain, with MS Dhoni rested along with other top stars such as Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh for the start of the five-match series.
New Zealand's regular captain Daniel Vettori was also missing due to back stiffness following the three-game Test series between the teams, which India won 1-0 with a victory in Nagpur.
Ross Taylor took over Vettori's post.
With the game starting at 8:00 am local time, New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl as they took into account the Guwahati ground's reputation as a tricky track to bat on early in the day.
Sachin, MSD's IPL base price 1.84 crore, Sourav for 92 lakh
NEW DELHI: Around 62 Indian cricketers will be up for auction for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the legendary Sachin Tendulkar in the top-bracket of cricketers valued at Rs 1.84 crore.
However, Tendulkar and Dhoni are likely to be retained by their respective franchises -- Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.
Former India captains Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid along with VVS Laxman are Rs 92 lakh.
The cricketers who will command the highest base price of Rs 1.84 crore are Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh.
The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 specialist Yusuf Pathan finds a place alongside speedster Zaheer Khan and the talented Suresh Raina.
Similarly stand-in ODI captain Gautam Gambhir, who didn't have a great IPL 2 and 3, has been priced in the third bracket at Rs 92 lakh along with the likes of Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and veterans such as Ganguly, Kumble, Dravid and Laxman.
The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh which consists of domestic cricketers and the fringe India players who have represented the country since 2005.
Bengal players Wriddhiman Saha, Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda along with Saurashtra's Cheteshwar Pujara are some of the players in the fourth bracket.
The fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh where there are India discards such as Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Sridharan Sriram to name a few.
The five brackets of base price: 1st: Rs 1.84 crore; 2nd: Rs 1.3 crore; 3rd: Rs 92 lakh; 4th: Rs 46 lakh; 5th bracket: Rs 23 lakh
List of Players up for auction
Andhra: Yelakka Venugopal Rao; Assam: Sridharan Sriram Baroda: Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Munaf Patel;
Bengal: Sourav Ganguly, Manoj Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashok Dinda;
Delhi: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma
Gujarat: Parthiv Patel, Siddharth Trivedi Haryana: Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra
Hyderabad: VVS Laxman, T Suman, Pragyan Ojha
Jharkhand: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Saurabh Tiwary
Karnataka: Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa
Kerala: S Sreesanth
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Abhishek Raut, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar
Madhya Pradesh: Naman Ojha
Punjab: Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manpreet Gony, VRV Singh
Railways: Murali Kartik Rajasthan: Pankaj Singh
Saurahstra: Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara
Tamil Nadu: Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath, R Sathish, R Ashwin, M Vijay, L Balaji
Uttar Pradesh: Mohammed Kaif, Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, Piyush Chawla, Rudra Pratap Singh
Vidarbha: Umesh Yadav
Friday, November 26, 2010
India record their best-ever performance in Asian Games
GUANGZHOU: India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Asian Games with 64 medals, including 14 gold, with star boxer Vijender Singh providing the icing on the cake by bringing the last yellow metal on the penultimate day on Friday.
The men's and women's kabaddi teams expectedly maintained their supremacy by clinching the gold before the women's 4x400m quartet and Vijender (75kg) bagged a yellow metal each on the most productive day for India in the mega-event.
With the addition of 11 more medals on Friday, India's tally climbed to 14 gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze (total 64), the biggest ever haul in the Asian Games so far, to jump to the sixth place.
India's best medal haul till date was recorded in the 1982 Games in Delhi when they had won 13 gold, 19 silver and 25 bronze for an overall tally of 57. India had finished 10 in the last edition of the Games in Doha with a tally of 10-17-26.
India have now completed their engagements in the Games and their final standing will depend after the completion of the six events -- men's and women's marathon, men's and women's doubles sepaktakraw finals and women's volleyball final -- on Saturday.
China leads the medal table with 197 gold, 117 silver and 98 bronze (total 412), followed by South Korea (74-63-91) and Japan (47-73-94) at second and third respectively.
While the kabaddi teams did not sweat much to keep their reputation intact in rather lopsided finals, Vijender made amends for his bronze-finish in Commonwealth Games with a gold here while compatriots Santosh Kumar (64) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for a silver each.
The women's 4x400m relay team also lived up to the expectations as they defended the gold they won in the 2006 Doha Asian Games.
Long distance runners Preeja Sreedharan, who had earlier won a gold in women's 10,000m race, and Kavita Raut had their moment of glory by winning the silver and bronze medals respectively in the women's 5000m event.
Rollersports fetched India a couple of unexpected bronze medals with Anup Kumar Yama bagging one in men's single free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event. The Indian men's chess team also contributed a bronze.
Much was expected from the kabaddi teams to provide the boost to the gold haul and they did not disappoint.
The men's kabaddi team maintained their impeccable track record by winning the gold medal for the sixth time on the trot, demolishing Iran with a facile 37-20 margin what turned out to be a lop-sided contest.
The script unfolded on expected lines for the women's kabaddi team also as they completed a memorable Asian Games debut by clinching the gold medal with a comprehensive win over Thailand in the final.
The Indians beat Thailand 28-14 in a dominating performance to clinch the inaugural women's kabaddi gold of the Asian Games.
World number one Vijender added another feather on his cap by clinching an unprecedented second boxing gold for India in the Asian Games to round off the best ever campaign by the country's pugilists at the quadrennial mega-event.
It was sweet revenge for Olympic and World Championship bronze-medallist Vijender when he blanked reigning world champion Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan 7-0. Atoev had beaten the 25-year-old Indian at the World Championship semifinals last year but Vijender wiped off the disappointment with a performance fitting the hype around him.
The dashing six-footer Indian crouched a bit and took full advantage of his long reach and taller height against Atoev, whom he had beaten in Asian Championships last year.
Hitting straight and clear, Vijender, who was a bronze-medallist at the 2006 Asian Games, defended stoutly, seldom letting Atoev to attack.
However, V Santhosh Kumar (64kg) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for silver medals after losing in the finals.
While Santhosh lost 1-16 to Kazakhstan's Daniyar Yeleussinov in finals, Manpreet went down 1-8 to Mohammad Ghossoun of Syria to take India's silver tally to three in boxing after Dinesh Kumar (81kg) had finished second yesterday.
The athletics team also ended their campaign with a bagful of medals with the women's 4x400m relay quartet winning the gold to bring down curtains with a bang.
India emerged from the track and field events with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals, one of their best efforts in Asian Games history, though below their performance in 2002 Busan Asian Games where they had a 7-6-5 medal haul.
Having started their campaign with a golden double in the women's 10,000m and 3,000m steeplechase through Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh on the first day, the 4x400m relay team of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, AC Ashwini and Mandeep Kaur ended the campaign by clinching gold in 3 minutes 29.02secs.
Kazakhstan took the silver in 3:30.03 while China claimed the bronze in 3:30.89.
It was the fifth gold from the athletics arena for India following gold medals by Ashwini in the 400m hurdles and by Joseph Abraham in the corresponding men's event and the opening day's heroics by Preeja and Sudha.
Preeja, however, could only get a silver in the women's 5000m despite making a great effort to catch Bahrain's eventual gold winner Mimi Belete while compatriot Kavita Raut got the bronze as India won one gold, a silver and a bronze.
Preeja and Kavita clocked their personal bests of 15:15.89 and 15:16.54 while Belete had a timing of 15:15.59.
Renjith Maheswary, bronze winner in the Commonwealth Games, looked headed for the gold in men's triple jump when he took the lead with his fourth attempt of 16.74m.
But his dream got shattered first by Kazakh Evginiy Ektov's 16.86m in reply to the Indian's 16.71m in the final try, before Chinese defending champion Li Yanxi uncorked a winning leap of 16.94, incidentally his season's best, in his fifth and last attempt to take care of the gold.
Had Maheswary come anywhere near his CWG effort of 17.07m, he would have easily won the gold, but under pressure and in his final leap the Kerala jumper faltered to finish in fourth place as another Chinese Asian junior champion Cao Shuo also leaped past him with a 16.84m effort in the final attempt to grab the bronze.
India's second entrant, Amarjit Singh, ended up a poor 7th with a best try of 16.15m from 16 starters.
The Indian men's 4x100m relay squad narrowly missed the bronze medal after a great anchor leg by Mohamed Abdul Najeeb who started in fifth position when the baton was passed to him by third runner Shameer Naseem Mon and nearly edged out the last runner of Thailand, Sittichai Sowonprateep. The other Indian runners were M Rahamatulla and Suresh Sathya.
Two bronze medals came from roller sports with Anup Kumar Yama bagging one in men's single free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event.
Anup totalled 244.2 in his singles routine for which he fetched 123.6 on technical merit and 120.6 for artistic impression.
In the pairs event, Anup and Avani combined for a score of 222 which included 112.5 points on technical merit and 109.5 for artistic impression.
Indian men's chess team of P Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B Adhiban contributed a bronze with a 3.0-0.5 victory over Iran the ninth and final round.
Despite suffering an elbow injury, Indian woman wrestler Suman Kundu reached the semifinals of the 63kg freestyle wrestling but failed a get a bronze.
The injury hampered her from giving her best in the semifinal bout and she lost 0-3 to Mongolia's Nasanbyrmaa Ochirbat. She was overwhelmed 0-5 by China's Chen Meng in the bronze-medal play-off.
SOURCE: times of India
The men's and women's kabaddi teams expectedly maintained their supremacy by clinching the gold before the women's 4x400m quartet and Vijender (75kg) bagged a yellow metal each on the most productive day for India in the mega-event.
With the addition of 11 more medals on Friday, India's tally climbed to 14 gold, 17 silver and 33 bronze (total 64), the biggest ever haul in the Asian Games so far, to jump to the sixth place.
India's best medal haul till date was recorded in the 1982 Games in Delhi when they had won 13 gold, 19 silver and 25 bronze for an overall tally of 57. India had finished 10 in the last edition of the Games in Doha with a tally of 10-17-26.
India have now completed their engagements in the Games and their final standing will depend after the completion of the six events -- men's and women's marathon, men's and women's doubles sepaktakraw finals and women's volleyball final -- on Saturday.
China leads the medal table with 197 gold, 117 silver and 98 bronze (total 412), followed by South Korea (74-63-91) and Japan (47-73-94) at second and third respectively.
While the kabaddi teams did not sweat much to keep their reputation intact in rather lopsided finals, Vijender made amends for his bronze-finish in Commonwealth Games with a gold here while compatriots Santosh Kumar (64) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for a silver each.
The women's 4x400m relay team also lived up to the expectations as they defended the gold they won in the 2006 Doha Asian Games.
Long distance runners Preeja Sreedharan, who had earlier won a gold in women's 10,000m race, and Kavita Raut had their moment of glory by winning the silver and bronze medals respectively in the women's 5000m event.
Rollersports fetched India a couple of unexpected bronze medals with Anup Kumar Yama bagging one in men's single free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event. The Indian men's chess team also contributed a bronze.
Much was expected from the kabaddi teams to provide the boost to the gold haul and they did not disappoint.
The men's kabaddi team maintained their impeccable track record by winning the gold medal for the sixth time on the trot, demolishing Iran with a facile 37-20 margin what turned out to be a lop-sided contest.
The script unfolded on expected lines for the women's kabaddi team also as they completed a memorable Asian Games debut by clinching the gold medal with a comprehensive win over Thailand in the final.
The Indians beat Thailand 28-14 in a dominating performance to clinch the inaugural women's kabaddi gold of the Asian Games.
World number one Vijender added another feather on his cap by clinching an unprecedented second boxing gold for India in the Asian Games to round off the best ever campaign by the country's pugilists at the quadrennial mega-event.
It was sweet revenge for Olympic and World Championship bronze-medallist Vijender when he blanked reigning world champion Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan 7-0. Atoev had beaten the 25-year-old Indian at the World Championship semifinals last year but Vijender wiped off the disappointment with a performance fitting the hype around him.
The dashing six-footer Indian crouched a bit and took full advantage of his long reach and taller height against Atoev, whom he had beaten in Asian Championships last year.
Hitting straight and clear, Vijender, who was a bronze-medallist at the 2006 Asian Games, defended stoutly, seldom letting Atoev to attack.
However, V Santhosh Kumar (64kg) and Manpreet Singh (91kg) settled for silver medals after losing in the finals.
While Santhosh lost 1-16 to Kazakhstan's Daniyar Yeleussinov in finals, Manpreet went down 1-8 to Mohammad Ghossoun of Syria to take India's silver tally to three in boxing after Dinesh Kumar (81kg) had finished second yesterday.
The athletics team also ended their campaign with a bagful of medals with the women's 4x400m relay quartet winning the gold to bring down curtains with a bang.
India emerged from the track and field events with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals, one of their best efforts in Asian Games history, though below their performance in 2002 Busan Asian Games where they had a 7-6-5 medal haul.
Having started their campaign with a golden double in the women's 10,000m and 3,000m steeplechase through Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh on the first day, the 4x400m relay team of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, AC Ashwini and Mandeep Kaur ended the campaign by clinching gold in 3 minutes 29.02secs.
Kazakhstan took the silver in 3:30.03 while China claimed the bronze in 3:30.89.
It was the fifth gold from the athletics arena for India following gold medals by Ashwini in the 400m hurdles and by Joseph Abraham in the corresponding men's event and the opening day's heroics by Preeja and Sudha.
Preeja, however, could only get a silver in the women's 5000m despite making a great effort to catch Bahrain's eventual gold winner Mimi Belete while compatriot Kavita Raut got the bronze as India won one gold, a silver and a bronze.
Preeja and Kavita clocked their personal bests of 15:15.89 and 15:16.54 while Belete had a timing of 15:15.59.
Renjith Maheswary, bronze winner in the Commonwealth Games, looked headed for the gold in men's triple jump when he took the lead with his fourth attempt of 16.74m.
But his dream got shattered first by Kazakh Evginiy Ektov's 16.86m in reply to the Indian's 16.71m in the final try, before Chinese defending champion Li Yanxi uncorked a winning leap of 16.94, incidentally his season's best, in his fifth and last attempt to take care of the gold.
Had Maheswary come anywhere near his CWG effort of 17.07m, he would have easily won the gold, but under pressure and in his final leap the Kerala jumper faltered to finish in fourth place as another Chinese Asian junior champion Cao Shuo also leaped past him with a 16.84m effort in the final attempt to grab the bronze.
India's second entrant, Amarjit Singh, ended up a poor 7th with a best try of 16.15m from 16 starters.
The Indian men's 4x100m relay squad narrowly missed the bronze medal after a great anchor leg by Mohamed Abdul Najeeb who started in fifth position when the baton was passed to him by third runner Shameer Naseem Mon and nearly edged out the last runner of Thailand, Sittichai Sowonprateep. The other Indian runners were M Rahamatulla and Suresh Sathya.
Two bronze medals came from roller sports with Anup Kumar Yama bagging one in men's single free skating before combining with Avani Panchal to finish third in the pairs skating event.
Anup totalled 244.2 in his singles routine for which he fetched 123.6 on technical merit and 120.6 for artistic impression.
In the pairs event, Anup and Avani combined for a score of 222 which included 112.5 points on technical merit and 109.5 for artistic impression.
Indian men's chess team of P Harikrishna, Sasikiran Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B Adhiban contributed a bronze with a 3.0-0.5 victory over Iran the ninth and final round.
Despite suffering an elbow injury, Indian woman wrestler Suman Kundu reached the semifinals of the 63kg freestyle wrestling but failed a get a bronze.
The injury hampered her from giving her best in the semifinal bout and she lost 0-3 to Mongolia's Nasanbyrmaa Ochirbat. She was overwhelmed 0-5 by China's Chen Meng in the bronze-medal play-off.
SOURCE: times of India
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Stunning Kareena Kapoor | Globus Photoshoot
Kareena Kapoor | Photoshoot for Sony Vaio E Series
Sony India announced the launch of the fun & vibrant, easy-to-use VAIO E Series laptops in Mumbai on June 8, 2010.To mark the launch of the new E series, Sony will also launch a brand campaign called ‘GO VIVID’ with Brand Ambassador, Kareena Kapoor. Her exuberance & vivacious personality brings in a direct connect to the vibrancy of VAIO E Series colours.
Vidya Balan | Unseen Vidya Balan | FHM Photoshoot | Never seen Before
Vidya Balan Photoshoot For FHM India November 2010 — Vidya Balan Make Over Photoshoot in the latest issue of FHM Magazine Indian Edition for the month of November 2010.
