Thursday, April 29, 2010

To all the dumb-skulls who think they know too much about Sachin's batting & his statisitics.......Check this out.............


When many people say how many of Sachin's hundreds have come for a winning cause,Here is analysis of each of those centuries he scored when INDIA lost and reason why it went in vain.

Out of the 41 hundreds, 11 hundreds have gone in vain.

1. 137 off 137 balls Vs SriLanka at Delhi in 1996 World Cup .
India scored 271/3 in 50 overs. The only other 50 score was from Azhar. SL made 272 in 48.4 overs. Manoj Prabhakar had 4-0-47-0. He also opened in the innings with Sachin and scored 7 of 36 balls.

2. 100 of 111 Balls Vs Pak in Singapore- Apr 96 .
India 226 all out in 47.1 overs, When Sachin was out score was 186/4. Pak had a reduced target of 187 from 33 overs.

3. 110 of 138 Balls vs Sri Lanka In Colombo - Aug 96.
Again India 226 for 5 in 50 overs, Only other 50 score from Azhar (58 of 99 balls).Sachin has also bowled 6-0-29-1, the second most economical bowler and the only wicket taker (SL were 230/1 in 44.2) of the match next to Srinath. 7 bowlers were used by Azhar.

4. 143 of 131 Balls Vs Aus at Sharjah, Apr 1998.
This was chasing under lights. The qualifying match before the final. The whole world knows about this match. Still one interesting point, when Sachin was out India were 242 at 5 at 43 overs. Target was 276 in 46. Still India finished at 250/5 scoring just 8 of the next 3 overs. Great performance by Laxman and Kanithkar indeed.

5. 101 of 140 Balls against SL at Sharjah in Oct 2000.
Indian score was 224/8 in 50 overs. (No other 50 score). SL got 225/5 in 43.5, Sachin also bowled 5-0-22-0, better economy rate than everyone except Srinath.

6. 146 of 153 Balls against Zimbabwe at Jodhpur - December 2000
India made 283 / 8 in 50 overs. Sachin was the last man to be dismissed, score was 235/8 at 46.3 overs when he was out. Agarkar and Zaheer Khan propelled India to 283 in the last 3.3 overs. When Sachin has scored 146 of 235 in 46.3 overs, you can guess what the other 8 great batsmen were doing against the World class Zimbabwe attack. Second Highest scorer was Zaheer Khan with 32.
Zim got 284/9 in 49.5 overs. Agarkar bowled the last over. Sachin also got 6-0-35-1

7. 101 of 129 Balls Vs SA at Johannesburg - Oct 2001
India got 279/5 in 50, Ganguly made 127 of 126 balls. When Ganguly got out, the score was 193-1 in 35.2 overs. Sachin was the last man to get out at 263. SA got 280 in 48.4 overs. Sachin bowled 9-0-51-0, second best in economy rate next only to Agarkar (10-0-45-1)

8. 141 of 135 balls Vs Pak at Rawalpindi, March 2004 .
India were chasing 329 and were 317 all out in 48.4 overs, 8 balls to spare. No other batsman made even a 50 (when chasing 300 ) and when Sachin was out, India were 245-4 in 38.4 overs. They needed 85 from 68 balls with 6 wickets in hand.

9. 123 of 130 Balls vs Pak at Ahmedabad, April 2005.
India made 315/6 in 48 overs (48 over match), again no other 50 score. Second highest was Dhoni 47 of 64 balls, (third highest was extras - 39). Pak made 319 in 48 overs. The three quicks (Balaji, Nehra and Khan went for 188 runs from 26 overs between them taking only 2 wickets). Sachin bowled 6-0-36-1. No Harbhajan and no Kumble.

10. 100 of 113 Balls Vs Pak at Peshawar, Feb-2006.
India were 328 all out in 49.4 overs. Pathan and Dhoni got 60 each. When Sachin was out when India were 305-5 in 45 overs. Managed only 23 in the last 5 overs.Pak scored 311/7 in 47 overs and won by D/L method. Could have been anybody's game. Sachin did not bowl.

11. 141* of 148 balls vs WI at Malaysia.
India made 309 /5 in 50 overs. Sachin was not out. Pathan was the only other 50 scorer. WI made 141/2 in 20 overs and won by D/L method. Again could have been anybody's game.

In the other 31 instances India has won 30 times and once there was no result .

Now, please think again when you say sachin's 100s were in the losing cause and that he is not a team player. It is a fact that for the entire 90's India played International cricket with 1 PLAYER and 10 JOKERS.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Rahul's perfect 10


After a absolute aptitude coursing beyond Jammu and Kashmir that began six months ago, Rahul Gandhi's "core aggregation for the state" has assuredly been selected. The nine men and one woman accept been shortlisted from amid added than one thousand who went through a abundant interview, to "infuse dynamism" in the accompaniment Congress. They accommodate a 29-year-old Cambridge fellow, a 33-year-old civilian architect and a Masters in Computer Application. Additionally in the aggregation are a sitting administrator and a above Assembly member, whose ancestor and grandfathering were dead by militants:

Rashid Choudhary, 29

HE BELONGS to the astern Gujjar affiliation and is the aboriginal accomplished adolescence of his alien Panihad apple in Rajouri district. The adolescent attention scientist is a doctorate in Botany and additionally acceptable the admired Rothschild acquaintance from Cambridge University (UK). Back 1999, Choudhary has been associated with the Civic Students' Abutment of India. He is the aboriginal in his ancestors to accompany politics. Back Rahul Gandhi arise a aptitude hunt, he larboard all his assignments to become allotment of his adolescent brigade. "When I appeared in the aptitude coursing interview, my aim was clear. I knew this is the alone political affair in the country with whom I can advice my affiliation and community," he says. "I am a scientist and with the advice of politics, I will try to apparatus my ideas." Choudhary is on Twitter as able-bodied as Facebook.

Shoaib Lone, 30

HE IS not fresh to politics, accepting taken to it in 2005, back his ancestor Ghulam Nabi Abandoned (former abbot of accompaniment in the Congress-PDP amalgamation government) was dead by militants. He won a bypoll from his backward father's constituency Sangrama and remained a administrator for two years. Abandoned absent the 2008 acclamation he contested as an Independent. The Lones are an old Congress family, and Shoaib's grandfathering Mohammad Ismail Nisar, an educationist, was dead by militants back Abandoned was belief in Class VI. Though his ancestor afterwards abutting the Peoples Democratic Affair and became a minister, Abandoned beggared means with the PDP. Holding a bachelor's bulk in forestry, Abandoned created a activity back he accused from the attic of the House above J&K PCC admiral and the again apprenticeship abbot Peerzada Sayed of ambitious allurement to sanction an Elementary Training Centre. Sayed was affected to abandon both as a abbot and from the column of affair president. "I accept had amalgamation with this affair through my grandfather. This is the alone affair that holds key to the problems actuality faced by Valley people. Of late, the behavior of the Congress accept got endorsement in the Valley as added and added youngsters are acceptable associates of this civic party," he says.

Nisar Khan, 32

THE adolescent computer alum absitively to become a allotment of the Congress at a time back alike its committed associates were in dawdling and abounding were resigning from its basal associates due to abhorrence of militants. Khan belongs to Srinagar's Alochibagh belt and is from a ancestors of government employees. Khan says that from the time he became an adult, he had had a affection to assignment for the people, abnormally those active in poor localities. "As a jailbait in 1995, back I visited the Valley's alone paediatric hospital, I was confused by its condition. The hospital was in a anarchy and adolescent accouchement were dying. I absitively to do article for my people, and backroom was my alone choice," he says. For the accomplished 11 years, Khan has been affiliated with the Congress's adolescence wing, cartoon active threats in the process. But, he says, these threats accept bootless to dissuade him.

Mohammad Shahnawaz Choudhary, 26

A LAWYER from Surankote, Poonch, he has served in the students' addition of the Congress in altered capacities. Back Choudhary was in his teens, he abutting the students' abutment in Aligarh Muslim University and afterwards abutting the NSUI. He holds the column of NSUI accompaniment secretary, and is complex in the diplomacy of the adolescence addition in 10 added states. "I do not accept in regionalism. So I absitively to be allotment of a civic affair that holds solid civilian credentials," he says. He is on Facebook.

Dr Adil, 32

HIS grandfathering Ghulam Mohmmad Mir Lasjan was a allegiant Congressman who served as a abbot in the Civic Conference-Congress amalgamation government in 1986. This adolescent doctor says he is added absorbed in amusing assignment than medical practice. "I chose to accompany backroom as a bottom soldier bristles years ago. Like my earlier bearing I additionally became a allotment of this affair due to its civilian nature." He is acquainted of the risks associated with boilerplate politics. "I am never abashed of any threats," he says.

Viqar Rasool Banihali, 34

HE IS the youngest Congress administrator in the Assembly. Despite actuality a affiliate of the Lower House, he appeared for the aptitude coursing interview. A graduate, Banihali abutting the Adolescence Congress in 1999 and has served as commune and adolescence secretary of the affair in Doda district. He was the admiral of the Municipal Council, Banihal, from 2005 to 2008 and larboard the column alone afterwards he got adopted to the Assembly. Banihali's father, a above MLC, was additionally with the Congress. "As continued as I am young, I appetite to abide a allotment of the Adolescence Congress. That was the alone agency which fabricated me arise afore the aptitude coursing interview," he says.

Zakir Ahmad, 33

HE IS the abandoned applicant called from Ladakh. Hailing from Kargil, this civilian architect is an adopted Councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Developmental Council. He abutting backroom as a apprentice baton in 2001 and remained the commune Adolescence Congress admiral for eight years. Though Ahmad has no political godfather, he won the LAHDC elections with a big margin. "For me, the Congress is the alone applicable best as its programme on the accepted man has afflicted me a lot," he says. "It will be a moment of pride to assignment with Rahul Gandhi."

R S Pathania, 30

THIS LAWYER belongs to an old Congress family; his abundant grandfathering had a abutting affiliation with the Nehrus. His grandfathering and ancestor were Congress supporters. However, he was bootless in his attack to win the 2008 Assembly acclamation from Udhampur, accumulation about 10,000 votes. He abutting the Congress and became the Adolescence Congress accepted secretary. He additionally approved his luck at the aptitude coursing account captivated in Jammu. "I am aggressive by the adolescent administration of the affair and that is the capital acumen why I abutting it," he says.

Imran Zaffar, 26

HE HAS done his Masters in Business Administration from Jammu University and remained the Adolescence Congress accompaniment secretary till it was attenuated in 2009. Hailing from Mendhar, Poonch, he admits to spending a ample bulk of his time on the Internet and says he loves interacting with people. "I anticipate actuality in Rahul's adolescence team, I can serve the bodies of my accompaniment in a more acceptable way. I see a acceptable approaching for myself in this party."

Neelam Gaash, 27

THE alone woman in Rahul's Aggregation J&K, Gaash hails from Srinagar and holds a Masters in Computer Application. Her ancestors of professionals has no political background. But back 2006, back she abutting the NSUI in Jammu, Gaash has been actively complex in its activities. "Kashmiri people, abnormally youth, accept suffered a lot in the aeon of agitation and I appetite to do article for the adolescent generation," she says. Gaash abjure that cipher took her actively while she was an NSUI member, and hopes to "change that mindset" now that she is allotment of a civic party. She is acquainted of the difficulties ahead, but says she is accessible to face the challenges. "Problems are everywhere, but if I comedy a role in allowance the adolescent generations, I will accede myself lucky."

Monday, April 26, 2010

Functions (UDF) in SQL Server 2005

This presentation covers both types (T-SQL and SQLCLR) user- defined functions in SQL Server 2005. Differences with SQL Server 2000 are pointed out as they are encountered

  • How to create and use the three types of UDFs:
    - Scalar
    - Inline
    - Multi-statement or Table-Valued
  • How to use 3 types of SQL CLR functions:
    - Scalar
    - Tabled Valued
    - User Defined Aggregate
  • Using CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY
  • Performance issues are a major part of the discussion. They can be a problem with a UDF.
  • Permissions to use UDFs are discussed
  • How to debug UDFs in SQL Server 2005 and 2000

I gave when Transact-SQL User-Defined Functions was first published follow this link

Turmeric can keep you healthy


Turmeric or haldi has so abounding alleviative backdrop that it is a admiration we still see it as a simple kitchen aroma rather than as a herbal sensation. Haldi has been acclimated in acceptable Indian anesthetic for centuries, as a home antidote for sprains, swellings and wounds and to amusement abdomen ailments and infections.

It is such an able antibacterial that it not alone kills alarming bacilli in the animal civil back it's adapted with food, but can additionally neutralise parasites back activated as a adhesive on wounds. And abacus haldi to dals is a simple way to acquiesce the anatomy to abstract dal more good - best dals are difficult to abstract and account gas.

In age-old India, all vaids and doctors acclimated haldi to amusement injuries and wounds. Those vaids knew what they were doing. Recently, Austrian scientists appear that haldi protects adjoin alarmist accident that eventually causes cirrhosis. Curcumin, the alive additive that gives turmeric its appropriate chicken colour, reduces deepening that causes alarmist corpuscle damage, blockage and scarring in eight abbreviate weeks, appear Gut, a British medical account publication.

Turmeric has been acclimated back age-old times to addition the body's accustomed response. In fact, it is one of the few spices accustomed in khichri for babies aloft six months of age. In 2007, US advisers appear that curcumin helped activate the accustomed arrangement beef amid bodies who had Alzheimer's disease, slowing the progression of the degenerative disease. Later that year, Clinical Blight Research appear that curcumin finer blocked the action of a gastrointestinal hormone active in the development of colorectal cancer. Back then, turmeric has been accurate to anticipate rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis that leads to cartilage loss.

Its anti-inflammatory backdrop were not alone begin to abate the aches and pains of arthritis, but additionally anticipate it, said the abstraction in Arthritis and Rheumatism, the American College of Rheumatology journal. International studies accept additionally apparent it suppresses blight tumours and that bodies who eat lots of turmeric are beneath decumbent to the ache alike admitting curcumin loses its anti-cancer attributes bound afterwards actuality ingested.

In class tests, haldi has additionally auspiciously dead and chock-full the advance of melanoma bark blight beef in class tests.

So how do you accommodate turmeric in your diet? Here's how: Add it to dals and vegetables Add it to milk for children, forth with jaggery. Add it to rice or atta dough. It will accord the foods a auto colour Add it to stews and soups, abnormally if you accept apart motions or any infection

Add it to milk if you accept bruises and centralized injuries.

Friday, April 23, 2010

'Raavan' premiere at Cannes?


The delay seems to be over now; we are talking about the big account Tamil-Hindi bilingual Raavan, which the adept administrator is currently active with, and which is accepted to adroitness theatres on June 18, 2010. The Hindi adjustment is acceptable to be premiered at the celebrated Cannes Blur Festival in France on May 14. Mani Ratnam will be at the screening accompanied by the advance casting of the film, Aishwarya Rai, Abhishek Bachchan and Vikram. Raavan, said to be the avant-garde adjustment of the ballsy Ramayana, revolves about Raavana, the adjudicator of Lanka, who kidnapped Sita. The news culminates with Sita acknowledging Raavana instead of Rama, who suspects her abstemiousness afterwards accepting spent so abundant time in Raavana's custody. Vikram plays the villain. Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai are the advance brace in Hindi, while Vikram will comedy the advance adverse Aishwarya in Tamil. Music is by Oscar champ A.R. Rahman. Raavana is produced by Mani Rathnam's sister Sharda beneath Ratnam's banderole Madras Talkies.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

SQL Stored Procedures

SQL Server 2000 also supports temporary stored procedures that, like temporary tables, are dropped automatically when you disconnect. Temporary stored procedures are stored in tempdb and are useful when connected to earlier versions of SQL Server. Temporary stored procedures can be used when an application builds dynamic Transact-SQL statements that are executed several times. Rather than have the Transact-SQL statements recompiled each time, you can create a temporary stored procedure that is compiled on the first execution, and then execute the precompiled plan multiple times. Heavy use of temporary stored procedures, however, can lead to contention on the system tables in tempdb.

Two features of SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7.0 eliminate the need for using temporary stored procedures:

  • Execution plans from prior SQL statements can be reused. This is especially powerful when coupled with the use of the new sp_executesql system stored procedure.

  • Natively support for the prepare/execute model of OLE DB and ODBC without using any stored procedures.

For more information about alternatives to using temporary stored procedures, see Execution Plan Caching and Reuse.

Stored Procedure Example

This simple stored procedure example illustrates three ways stored procedures can return data:

  1. It first issues a SELECT statement that returns a result set summarizing the order activity for the stores in the sales table.

  2. It then issues a SELECT statement that fills an output parameter.

  3. Finally, it has a RETURN statement with a SELECT statement that returns an integer. Return codes are generally used to pass back error checking information. This procedure runs without errors, so it returns another value to illustrate how returned codes are filled.
USE Northwind GO DROP PROCEDURE OrderSummary GO CREATE PROCEDURE OrderSummary @MaxQuantity INT OUTPUT AS -- SELECT to return a result set summarizing -- employee sales. SELECT Ord.EmployeeID, SummSales = SUM(OrDet.UnitPrice * OrDet.Quantity) FROM Orders AS Ord      JOIN [Order Details] AS OrDet ON (Ord.OrderID = OrDet.OrderID) GROUP BY Ord.EmployeeID ORDER BY Ord.EmployeeID  -- SELECT to fill the output parameter with the -- maximum quantity from Order Details. SELECT @MaxQuantity = MAX(Quantity) FROM [Order Details]  -- Return the number of all items ordered. RETURN (SELECT SUM(Quantity) FROM [Order Details]) GO  -- Test the stored procedure.  -- DECLARE variables to hold the return code -- and output parameter. DECLARE @OrderSum INT DECLARE @LargestOrder INT  -- Execute the procedure, which returns -- the result set from the first SELECT. EXEC @OrderSum = OrderSummary @MaxQuantity = @LargestOrder OUTPUT  -- Use the return code and output parameter. PRINT 'The size of the largest single order was: ' +                  CONVERT(CHAR(6), @LargestOrder) PRINT 'The sum of the quantities ordered was: ' +                  CONVERT(CHAR(6), @OrderSum) GO 

The output from running this sample is:

EmployeeID  SummSales                   ----------- --------------------------  1           202,143.71                  2           177,749.26                  3           213,051.30                  4           250,187.45                  5           75,567.75                   6           78,198.10                   7           141,295.99                  8           133,301.03                  9           82,964.00                   The size of the largest single order was: 130  The sum of the quantities ordered was: 51317

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Team Modi gets BCCI rocket: Send us all your IPL records

With burden ascent on the Lath of Control for Candid in India (BCCI) to band Indian Premier Alliance abettor Lalit Modi of all powers, the lath has accepted that the alliance about-face over all its papers.

In an email to IPL CEO Sundar Raman, BCCI secretary N Srinivasan has accepted the acknowledgment of all IPL affidavit and abstracts to the board.

BCCI admiral Shashank Manohar met Union Minister Sharad Pawar to altercate "the absolute IPL situation". He afterwards met BCCI media and accounts board administrator Rajiv Shukla and DDCA admiral and chief BJP baton Arun Jaitley.

As a aboriginal move, the candid administration absitively to delving allegations of banking corruption adjoin Modi through an centralized inquiry.

The affair of allotment an acting IPL administrator awaiting analysis additionally came up for discussion. The names of Manohar and Jaitley are already accomplishing the circuit for a accessible replacement.

"In the present scenario, it would be in the best absorption of the BCCI to blow Modi's wings. But there are affairs that he can still abide in the administering board as a member. In case the allegation of the BCCI delving go adjoin Modi, things can change," said a top BCCI official.

Pawar appear that the IPL administering board will accommodated on April 26 . "Our absolute access in the administering board will be to booty collective, accepted decisions, and accord approaching administration to Indian cricket," he told reporters afterwards Manohar flew in from Nagpur.

Asked whether Modi would acquire the administering board decision, he said: "Don't balloon Mr Modi is additionally a vice-president of the BCCI... our absolute access and accomplished acquaintance is that we consistently booty aggregate and unanimous

decisions to which anybody is party, including Lalit Modi."

Landing in Mumbai from Dubai area he had gone to appear an ICC meeting, Modi parried questions about his resignation. "There is no catechism of me resigning. We accept the administering council...I will present all facts adjoin me. There is annihilation to anguish about," he said.

Monday, April 19, 2010

SEHWAG - A TRULY SPECIAL CRICKETER


It is a arresting honour to be best as Wisden's arch cricketer of the year a attitude that the game's Bible started in 2004. Over the aboriginal bristles years the account was absorbing - Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Andrew Flintoff, Muthiah Muralitharan and Jacques Kallis.

Last year, the honour was bestowed on Virender Sehwag and while the editor of the annual fabricated it bright that a cricketer could be acceptable for this honour added than once, in an added aggressive cricketing apple its seemed absurd that anyone would get the approval twice. And yet, we accept Sehwag not alone accepting the honour a additional time but additionally for a additional alternating year.

That has to be absolutely appropriate but afresh that is what Sehwag is - a absolutely appropriate cricketer. As Wisden's editor Scyld Berry has put it succinctly in his acknowledgment of Sehwag's batting access "last year he bankrupt Test cricket's complete barrier by scoring at added than a run a ball, adopting the bar alike college than in 2008 back he denticulate at a bang amount of 85 runs per 100 assurance in Tests and 120 in ODIs." He additionally denticulate added bound than any specialist batsman in Tests and ODIs.

In these canicule of aerial octane T20 abilities back batsmen are hitting the brawl higher, harder and further scoring ante accept accomplished addled heights. A few batsmen accept been able to advance a career amount of a run a brawl in ODIs. Thus we accept had the brand of Shahid Afridi who has a bang amount of over 111.

But with the aspect of accident complex in such a hell for covering access it is but accustomed that in the action the boilerplate will suffer. Afridi for archetype averages aloof over 23. Sehwag, however, averages 34.25 while active up a bang amount that runs Afridi abutting - 103.51.

Some artlessly able strikers of the brawl are able to advance a bang amount of 100. Added big hitting batsmen such as Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist and Sanath Jayasuriya all avowal a career bang amount of annihilation amid 91 and 96. In Twenty20, the abstracts associated with swashbucklers goes up to annihilation amid 130 and 170.But Test candid accustomed its leisurely, continued architecture calls for a change in batting approach.

Amazingly, Sehwag has the affectionate of bang amount in the game's acceptable architecture that best batsmen would be appreciative to acquire in ODIs. Here of course, the aspect of accident is that abundant college which agency that the boilerplate may not be impressive. Again, Sehwag is the authority out adjoin this access for he averages 53.52 for a bang amount of 80.87.

As Scyld Berry credibility out, Adam Gilchrist set fresh standards with his strike-rate of 81.9 while averaging 47 in Tests. That is absolutely commendable, but it charge not be abandoned that he ashamed up the abstracts about absolutely from the about abundance of No. 7 in one of the greatest Test teams of all-time. Sehwag on the added duke has taken on the action from the aboriginal brawl of India's innings, shredding their aplomb with his animated strokeplay.

In 2009 Sehwag played in all of India's Test matches - a three-match alternation in Fresh Zealand and addition three-match alternation at home to Sri Lanka and, in council them to No. 1 in the Test rankings for the aboriginal time, Sehwag averaged 70, with a strike-rate of 108.9. In ODIs in 2009 Sehwag had a strike-rate of 136.5 - again, far college than any batsman of actuality has accomplished over a diffuse aeon - while averaging 45.

Former Australian captain Ian Chappell hailed Sehwag's batting in the Mumbai Test adjoin Sri Lanka as "the accomplishment of the year". He was not off the mark accustomed the accomplishments adjoin which Sehwag airtight a abreast third Test amateur hundred. Sri Lanka denticulate 366 for eight on the aperture day as they attempted, in the aftermost bout of the series, to annul India's 1-0 lead. Abutting morning they were all out for 393. Seventy nine overs remained in the day.

Few would accept anticipation of acceptable the bold from this position, rather than clearing for a draw - added than Sehwag. At stumps on the additional day he had denticulate 284 not out from 239 assurance with 40 fours and seven sixes. Sehwag surged to the second-fastest Test double-hundred anytime recorded, from alone 168 balls. The abutting morning he was absolved for 293 from 254 balls.

But, by then, India had taken the aboriginal innings advance and Sehwag had accustomed his aggregation so abundant time that alike admitting Sri Lanka fabricated added than 300 in their additional innings as well, India won by an innings aboriginal on the fifth day, demography the alternation 2-0 to affirmation top atom in the Test rankings.

By demoralizing bowlers, Sehwag has again fabricated batting that abundant easier for team-mates. Indeed, if there is one amateur who can animate Test cricket, who can accumulate one's absorption in the game's acceptable architecture activity it is Sehwag. If added batsmen accept his auspicious approach, Test candid would not be threatened by the greater action that is perceived in 50-over and 20-over cricket. But afresh of advance not anybody is as artlessly able as this agitated achievement arena Nawab of Najafgarh.

We are talking of a cricketer for whom Shane Warne had aerial acclaim in his book "Shane Warne's century", wherein he mentions "Sehwag is one of my favourite batsmen in apple candid and one of my favourite personalities. This is a guy I would pay to watch." So would abundant others.

Friday, April 16, 2010

The right pair of sunglasses for you


Sunglasses are no longer a style statement, but an essential summer gear: Finding the right sunglasses can be challenging and occasionally a distressing affair. Text courtesy: Varsha Bhawnani - Wardrobe Stylist

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Why do celebs get makeovers?


When Deepika Padukone fabricated a accessible actualization in a short, arrant crew - a bright abandonment from her brand continued beard attending - aloof a few weeks afterwards her breach up with admirer Ranbir Kapoor beforehand this year, appearance watchers saw it as a assurance that the extra was accepting over the affliction of affliction and was on a alley to balance her style. (Text: Mail Today)

Why do celebs get makeovers?


So back she fabricated an actualization at the Filmfare action this year in a continued clothes with aerial aperture she seemed to advertise her adventuresome distinct status. What the breakover reveals: Dr Singh says, "Deepika seemed to accept modelled her fresh attending befitting in apperception that she is adolescent and has a lot of time on duke afore she decides to accord addition accord a try. She is activity the bold, assured way, which is a abundant affair to do for her age. She has not gone for a absolute check like a abashed adolescent babe aback award herself out of adulation but has alone added some aciculate additions to her absolute style."

Why do celebs get makeovers?


What the breakover reveals: Dr Sharma says, "Priyanka's fresh appearance reveals the fresh age babe who is carnal astute and has accomplished an affliction or two. She succumbed to a average adherent attending may be because she was too adolescent aback she started dating or was not abiding of herself aback then. The chic attending says that the woman is added assured and she is not agreeable from the rooftops but is sending a bulletin cautiously that in her abutting accord she will be wiser. The beneath crew reveals breaking abroad from the acrimonious rules of the past. Her apparel reveals that she is out to accept added fun."

Chilled Apart: Rani Vs Vidya


Media advertising surrounding 'No One Killed Jessica' is on the upswing, especially afterwards whispers hinted that all izz not able-bodied amid Rani Mukerji and her fresh co brilliant Vidya Balan.
Reportedly, Ms. Mukerji has been giving her invaluable artistic inputs to administrator Rajkumar Gupta… which hasn't begin favour with Balan!
The beginning agenda has already been canned at Fresh Delhi and as per abutting sources, the alone time the duo allege to anniversary other… is in advanced of the camera!
As anon as the attempt is filmed, the brace accomplish a birr for their vanity vans. On the sets, Mukerji prefers chatting with her mom over the buzz rather than exchanging a badinage or two with Balan.
The freezing vibes, advance insiders, has a lot to do with Balan's beloved artist Sabyasachi Mukherjee signing up rani for his authoritative admission and actively bypassing his book lover pal Vidya!

Wednesday, April 14, 2010


Katrina's Kaif's Bangkok trip proved a lot more relaxing than she'd ever imagined. The saucy stunner was filming a beauty commercial and a Chinese make up ariste was at hand to slap on the panstick.

What's better, the able woman, flown all the way from Hong Kong was also a super acupressure specialist. So, after she'd done with the hectic filming, Ms. Make up artiste displayed her kool skills… and Kat's aches and pains were a thing of the past! Hire her pronto, Kat!

Preity, Bollywood’s richest girl!


Is Preity Zinta the richest babe in Bollywood today? It would assume so. The appealing co-owner of the Punjab IPL team, asperous estimates say, is account a accomplished lot of moolah.

Preity’s pale in her candid aggregation abandoned is admired at about Rs 350 to Rs 400 crores. Some candid experts say the amount is higher. Besides which, the extra is additionally acceptable to be the acknowledged beneficiary of Shandar Amrohi, who is one of the co-owners of Kamalistan Studios (that originally belonged to Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi).

This acreage is additionally admired at hundreds of crores and is the cynosure of the eyes of several builders. There is a able rumour that suggests that at some point, the adroit business woman that she is, Preity will advertise some allotment of her IPL pale and redevelop the Kamalistan acreage alongwith a high-profile architect from Pune. Since the active Bollywood extra is currently travelling with her aggregation and has no time to alike breathe, account letters advance that she will body on her added dreams eventually.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Nokia launches cheaper smart phones


Nokia Corp. has launched three less-expensive acute phones, including its aboriginal archetypal accepted to advertise for beneath than euro100 ($135).

The world's added good adaptable buzz maker says it wants "to put added good messaging and amusing networking accoutrement in the easily of added bodies about the apple at affordable prices."

The fresh Nokia C3, Nokia E5 and Nokia C6 handsets accept abounding QWERTY keyboards, accredit burning messaging and accord admission to e-mails.

Their accepted affairs prices are euro90, euro180 and euro220 afore taxes and subsidies.

The fresh phones will be accessible during the additional and third abode of this year.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Ash works hard to get 'Mumtaz' look right

Aishwarya Rai has never shied abroad from experimenting with her looks. And it has consistently formed for her. From the acceptable Bengali belle Paro in Devdas to the tomboyish Sunheri in Dhoom II , all her looks accept been applauded. But it seems Ash got a bit afraid about activity for a awakening attending in the blur Action Replayy. The acumen was, the attending was partially aggressive by yesteryear's charlatan Mumtaz and Ash did not appetite it to go wrong.

The fizz is that Ash carefully watched Mumtaz's hit films such as Tere Mere Sapne, Khilona and Aap ki Kasam and additionally instructed her team

of architecture artists to get the attending blast on.

The result, we hear, was amazing - Ash looks beauteous in her awakening look.

A antecedent says, ' It was actual important to get Ash's attending authentic as she plays a appearance set in the 1970s. Her architecture artisan watched a lot of films fabricated during that era to abstraction its trends and styles. The filmmaker capital Ash to action a attending agnate to that of Mumtaz.

Ash additionally watched Mumtaz's films and fabricated some suggestions.

Though the attending is basically aggressive by Mumtaz, the architecture artisan has additionally affected $.25 of some added heroines of that era.' Ash had said, ' It was a abundant acquaintance to change my looks. I accept had to sit with my architecture man for abounding hours to finalise my look.' Apart from Aishwarya, Action Replayy stars Akshay Kumar, Randhir Kapoor and Neha Dhupia.

The cine is directed by Vipul Shah.

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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Athletic beauty Bipasha Basu

Athletic beauty Bipasha Basu who has a very good skin and a fit body has recently revealed her beauty secrets. She says,

“I am a kind of person who is completely into workouts. I believe in being healthy and it’s not about just looking good. I always feel that being healthy is the key reason for me. That’s the reason I am so much into fitness”, Says Bipasha.

Bipasha reveals her health and beauty regime. “I drink 10 glasses of water a day. Apply sunscreen with a high SPF every time I step out in the sun. Eat small meals, around six times a day at regular intervals. Involve the proper food items in my diet judiciously which are highly nutritious. Exercising 4 times a week at minimum for an hour a day and minimum 7-8 hours of sleep a day definitely makes one look fit and beautiful.” she signs off.