SACHIN blasts his 50th century..N still going..

India's batting legend Sachin Tendulkar has become the first man on Earth to score 50 Test centuries in world cricket.

Finally the wait is over as the maestro played a masterful innings trying to save India from the blushes in the first test against South Africa in Centurion.

      It was what the entire cricketing world was praying for and it could not have come in a more handy time for India, and at the same time let's not forget our Great Wall's achievement when Rahul Dravid became the third batsman to score 12,000 Test runs.
       Dravid reached the milestone in typically unspectacular fashion with a single off Harris in the 64th over, matching a feat achieved previously by Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting.
       The two legends of Indian cricket set an example for every child who is aspiring to become a future cricketer as all their shots and footworks are just copy-works from the Book of Cricket, which has been scripted down the years by greats like Don Bradman, Viv Richards, Chappels, Gouch and many others...

         Let us pray that they carry the good work in promoting Cricket to an even more wider dimension and would love to see Cricket added to Olympics very soon...

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Internet DATA CARDS becomes Cheaper & Faster

 An absolutely exhuberating news for all, especially Youths..
        Gone are the days when we had wait for an week for a broadband connection. Till today Data card are mostly used by businessmen only owing to the fact that it is a bit costlier..but this trend is sure to change now .....
MTS and TATA Photon are only leading data card manufactuers but things are starting to change dratically after 3G auction .....
        With BSNL starting Prepaid costing around Rs.2500 including National roaming, but it was VODAFONE who introduced the same with cheapest price @ Rs.1200 with monthly tariff starting from just Rs.100. It seems the product is becoming a real hit mainly among youths as they keep storming into Vodaphone shops...
        Hold your breath guys, the biggest offer is just now coming...
It is TATA Docomo who are introducing their data card @ a speed of 21.1mbps.. unbelievable isn't it ??? Not only this,it also includes 32GB Memory slot as well..2 in 1 plan.
Now that's a really great news coming in the year ending season.

       Now with everything said n done,we could recommend that if u r planning to buy an new Internet connection, just wait for a couple of months as other telecom majors like Aircel, Airtel and others too will inevitably join the 3G race and we are surely poised to get several more new offers for new data cards in markets .....
It seems that in the upcoming 4-5months, it will not be a surprise to find Data cards in groceries just like how SIM cards n Mobile Recharges have come in every shop around the corner.
       INDIA shining towards Development come 2020...

TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon - Coming soon

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the third film in the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and is scheduled for release on July 1, 2011 in Real D 3D. It will also be released in 2D.   

CAST :     
        The cast includes Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro and Ramón Rodríguez are set to reprise their starring roles, with Peter Cullen returning as the voice of Optimus Prime, and Hugo Weaving also returning as the voice of Megatron with the only difference being that Megan Fox would not be reprising her role from the previous two films and with Fox's character Mikaela being dropped, Sam would be assigned a new love interest, who will be played by English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.

PLOT:     
         In 1969, the Apollo 11 moon landing mission ventures onto the far side of the moon for a top-secret mission. For the next twenty-one minutes, they document the wreck of a Cybertronian spacecraft with no survivors, confirming that mankind is not alone in the universe. Forty years later, the secrets of that mission are uncovered.
         Lets wait n watch ... Another action packed blockbuster rolling out...

FACEBOOK recruiting students from IIT Madras with a pay package of Rs.38 lakhs

Facebook, a social networking site has offered a package of Rs 38 lakh around USD 85,000 for IIT Madras students during the ongoing placement season. Companies selecting prospective candidates from the country's premier educational institute IIT Madras began on December 1.
        He said around 1000 students from various streams including B Tech, MTech, MS, Doctoral programmes, MBA, have registered for placements this year and so far around 30 students have received offers from various multi-national companies including Goldman Sachs, IBM and Boston Consulting Group.
       However, Facebook leads the chart with a package of Rs 38 lakh, every year students eagerly await to participate in the campus selection and this year too more than 260 companies have registered so far, says N Ramesh Babu, IIT Madras Advisor for Training and Placement, said the final round of interview would be done later.
"Usually Facebook after conducting all the rounds, will conduct another interview via Skype from the US and the student who gets the USD 85,000 package.
        Now that the world has come to know about Facebook's origin as vividly narrated in the movie "The Social Network", which has picked up a major share of honors at the opening event of the Hollywood awards 'Season', including David Fincher was named Best Director for his work on the project, and writer Aaron Sorkin won Best Adapted Screenplay.
Jesse Eisenberg won Best Actor for his portrayal of the Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg.
       A good career prospect for IITians and Indian students seeking global expertise..

SACHIN in fray for Laureus World Award

Sachin Tendulkar will compete with the likes of Rafael Nadal and Sebastian Vettel for the 2011 Laureus World Sportsman award.

         The Laureus World Sports Awards, which recognize sporting achievement during 2010, are the premier honors on the international sporting calendar.

         Tendulkar, who is the  ICC Player of the Year, will also have to fight it out with spin legend Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan for the prestigious award.
         Star footballers like Diego Forlan, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi will also hope to become the first-ever team player to win this individual Award.
         Tendulkar has been very consistent all through out the year. He became the first man to score a double century in a ODI history in February, hitting an unbeaten 200 for India against South Africa.       
         He also became the first man to score 14,000 runs in Test cricket in which he also scored his 49th Test century during the second Test against Australia in Bangalore in October playing in his 171st Test match, . 
        Rafael Nadal is the current World No. 1 and completing his Grand Slam by winning his first US OPEN in 2010.
       Lionel Messi is the current holder of  Ballon d' Or  - FIFA World Player of the Year 2009 and literally thrashed Real Madrid 5-0 in the recently La Liga match in Nou Camp.
        Diego Forlan won the Golden Boot award in the FIFA World Cup  in South Africa.
        Muttiah Muralitharan, took his world record 800th Test wicket on the final day of his career in Galle in July 2010.
        Sebastain Vettel is the current World Champion, having won in the 2010 season and currently driving for Red Bull Racing. In the same year he, along with teammate Mark Webber, helped Red Bull win the World Constructors' Championship .
    
The names of the six nominees for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award, as voted by the Laureus Media Selection Panel, will be announced in early January.     
        The eventual winner will then be chosen from that list of Nominees by the Laureus World Sports Academy, the ultimate sports jury, made up of 46 of the greatest sportsmen and sportswomen of all time, and will be unveiled during a televised Awards Ceremony in Abu Dhabi on Monday, February.

POLL :
Who will win this prestigious Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award 2011 ?
a) Sachin Tendulkar
b) Rafael Nadal
c) Lionel Messi
d) Muttiah Muralitharan
e) Sebastain Vettel
f) Diego Forlan

Vote n comment on the most best sports personality of 2010..

INDIA excels in ASIAN GAMES 2010

China swept the 16^th Asian games as expected. The Hosts dominated the show by winning 416 medals including 199 G, 119 S, 98 B. As competition progressed the fight for second spot was between  South Korea and Japan. But it was South Korea who bagged the second place with 76 G , 65 S, 91 B taking a tally of 232medals. India bettered its own Asian Games tally to find itself in No.6 with its best ever medal tally of 64 comprising of 14G, 17S, 33B, surpassing its earlier record of 13G with a total of 59 medal in 1982 Asian Games which held in Delhi.

        

HEROES of the event:         

                  In Tennis, Indian star Somdev Devarman repeated his magic of CWG. Not only in singles but also in doubles . With big names like Bhupathi, Paes, Bopanna missing their Asian games due to their ATP commitments, all expectations fell on Somdev’s shoulder and the first gold came from Doubles event beating the host,  in spite of a hostile home crowd support high on their heels, the match went to a super tie breaker when the Indians held their nerves to win the super tie breaker .

      The singles gold was much better and sweeter, Somdev, currently  106 in the ATP Rankings beat his Uzbek opponent, Denis Istomin, ranked 66 places above him in straight sets 6-1,6-2. The youth icon said that it was his childhood dream to win medals for the country and nothing important than playing for country. Something which other senior players have to learn from him. 

      In Kabbadi  team both men and women players bagged the gold , while men's team beat Iran with an comfortable margin, women team won the semis by 1pt against Iran and marched to gold by beating the Thailand. 

      To everyone’s surprise most of gold medals won came from Tracking & Field events, which till date haven’t been such a good hunting ground for the Indians.  It bagged 5G,2S, 4B to move India to 8th position with Joseph Abraham and Ashwini Akkunji created history by winning 400m Hurdles.

India's ace marksman Ronjan Sodhi won the individual gold in the Men's double trap event and helped Indian team bag the bronze medal at the Asian Games.

In some cases India missed bronze narrowly by a margin of 1/100^th second.  On the whole they played with heart and raised to the occasion.

The REAL HERO:

                It was Vijender Singh who was the Star of the games who  earned India the 14^th Gold when all the odds were against him when hehumbled the two-time World champion Abbos Atoev of Uzbekistan by 7-0 

for a memorable gold, thereby making a new record of 14G for India in Asian Games history and therefore was the Flag-bearer for India at the Closing ceremony of the games. 

ZEROES of the event:          

                The games  started with disappointment as the Indian shooters could not win golds with the likes of like Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang who had much success in CWG .  Boxing athletes could better  only with 7 medals. Many CWG Gold medalists who made it finals were not able to convert that silver into gold. As the days progressed India  was lying in 12 position in medals tally.

        The huge disappointment came from Men’s Hockey, after their scintillating run in CWG , everyone expected them to win gold, but unfortunately they lost to Malaysia 4-3 in semis, though they bagged bronze by beating Koreans. Women’s team really were miserable. 

                In Badminton, Sania Nehwal could not repeat her magic as she did not do justice to her status and missed out her gold.     

                In Cricket, which is introduced for the first time in Asian games, BCCI should have acted more wisely by team sending their B team just like the Sri Lankans and Pakistan, for a nation like India which breathes Cricket this act was a shame and it is BCCI who should be held responsible but the climax saw both the Asian majors being upset by an unknown Afghan team and Bangladesh team. Credit must go to Afghan players, but unfortunately they lost the finals by 3 runs to Bangladesh. However Pakistan saw their women’s team to bag gold.              

        Though this was India’s best show in Asian Games with an haul of 64 medals, let us hope they learn from their mistakes and bring more  laurels to the country in the future.  

                       Good luck for 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS