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Saturday 6 December 2014

Feels good to be back at cricket: Brad Haddin

A couple of days after Hughes' funeral, the home team finally started preparations for the first Test against India starting December 9 and the seamers were seen bowling a barrage of bouncers in the nets.
   
"Yesterday was a very good day. We went back to cricket training. As simple as that," said the ... year old wicket-keeper. "We all went back to the game we loved. And it was a good day," Haddin said ahead of  Saturday's practice session.
   
"We just got back to cricket," he replied, when asked if the training session felt normal. "We can try to complicate it as much as we want, but we went back to cricket training.

Everybody did what he needed to do yesterday. We needed to feel that cricket hurt in our legs again.
   
"The next two days are about getting back to training. Getting that cricket feel back in your legs and getting that soreness that you get from miles from out training. From that point of view, the next two days are important to get that feel. On Sunday will be a big cricket day leading into the Test match on Tuesday."
   
Skipper Michael Clarke had put in some work at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday before he flew to Adelaide to join the team. Still uncertain about his fitness, Clarke practised with the team on Saturday.
   
"No, I haven't," said Haddin when asked if he was thinking about having to lead the team on Tuesday. "Michael had a good hit today. He is going to back up this afternoon, and be involved in our session. So I haven't thought about it to be honest."
   
"Michael's been strong for the team for a long time. I think he's a tremendous captain and we want our captain out there playing. All signs are that he's going in the right direction, and like everyone else, we want Michael out there leading our team in the first hour of play here in Adelaide," he added.

As much as cricket needed to be the central theme, talk did shift back to the events of November 24, when in the Sheffield Shield game between New South Wales and South Australia in Sydney, Hughes was hit by a Sean Abbott bouncer.

He died two days later, sparking an emotional outpouring  across the country. The Test series was rescheduled afterwards.
   
Haddin, along with David Warner, Shane Watson and Nathan Lyon, were all part of that match and witnessed the incident first-hand. Naturally he was asked about the fateful day and how the players were trying to move on.
   
"We get back to playing the game we love. I don't think we need to complicate it any more than that: you get back to playing cricket," he replied calmly.

"We all love the game. That's why we're all here now. It's a great game and been good to so many of us. Our job is to go and play cricket, and to enjoy that. We need the support of the Australian public and everyone leading into this first Test. We're looking forward to playing and we need the help of everyone to enjoy the moment and just enjoy the game of cricket."
   
On Friday, Warner had excused himself from the Australian team's training, although he had taken part in some team-bonding activities before the work-out began.

When asked about the opener's state of mind, Haddin said, "There was no pressure on anyone on Friday. There were no expectations on anyone regarding what you had to do or what you needed to get out of the net session. If you needed to take half an hour or ten minutes or five minutes, there were no expectations. It was all individualised and I didn't count how guys were in the nets."

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Not hiding anything: Anushka on relationship with Virat

"Nobody is hiding anything. We are living our life very normally. It's just that we don't want to talk about our relationship. "We can't subject it to entertainment news. We will not hide if you guys see us together, but we will not talk about it," Anushka told reporters in a group interview.

She also feels that she will only "talk to her friends" about her personal life and not "to the world".

Anushka who is currently busy promoting her film "PK" says she would love to do a biopic too."I want to do a biopic as an actor. It's a thrill... I would love it if I am able to do a biopic."

Directed by Rajkumar Hirani, "PK" also stars Aamir Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani and Saurabh Shukla.

Ali Fazal shocked to find his fake profile on a matrimonial site

What perplexed him the most was that the profile had true details of his personal life, suggest sources.
A source says, "He was shocked to see his profile as he has not registered himself on that site. Apart from his pictures, exact details of his education career, residential address, etc. have also been listed on it. He is now trying to figure out who might have created the profile."

The actor says before taking any legal action, he wishes to confirm if it was a friend pulling a prank on him or some fraudster trying to mislead people.

"Initially, I found it funny but later realized it could have serious repercussions. I assumed that my friends must have done it because they were the first to inform me about the profile. However, I am now sure they have not done it because I have received a few queries (from prospective brides’ families)," adds Ali.

The actor is now trying to get in touch with the matrimonial site authorities.

"I have been busy for film shoots and a play, but would like to find out what is their process of verification for creation of a profile. Only then will I decide my next step," he says.

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Who is targeted in Arjun Kapoor's tweet?

The actor recently tweeted, "Have u ever wondered how relationships change so quickly... almost over night... one minute it's all good & in the other it's a royal mess..."

With his tweets, here arises a question- To whom is Arjun linking to?

Arjun is nowadays linked to his 'Tevar' co-star Sonakshi Sinha. He however says that she is only a neighbour with whom he hangs out these days.

Source:News from Entertainment News

Thursday 4 December 2014

24,89,185 bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana in Haryana

PMJDY is an ambitious programme on financial inclusion to cover all unbanked households in the country.

Mega camps in this regard are being organised and as many as 15,567 camps have been organised in rural areas and 10,812 in urban areas till end of November, he added.

He said that as per the survey, a total number of 43,99,191 households have to be covered and work is being carried out at large scale to cover remaining households under the scheme.

It is expected to cover the remaining household under the scheme by December 10, the Minister said.

Abhimanyu said out of total covered households, 10,79,204 accounts have been opened with Aadhaar Card and 14,09,981 without Aadhaar Cards in rural as urban areas.

All accounts have been opened by public sector banks, private banks and nationalised banks, he added.

The Minister urged the people to come forward to take advantage of the scheme and open bank accounts of their families.

Source: News and World News

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Richard III's DNA raises questions over royal succession

The genetics and genealogy research led by the University of Leicester discovered that the male line of descent is broken at one or more points in the line between Richard III and Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (1744-1803).

This provides scientific evidence for the first time of a possible question mark over medieval lines of succession in the monarchy, the researchers said.
  
Critically, there is no evidence whatsoever on when the break occurred, however, it is statistically far more likely that the break in the male line occurred lower down the chain - and therefore not affecting any Royal lineage – including that of the present day.
  
Historically Royal succession has taken a number of twists and turns over the centuries and is not based on straight linear inheritance, researchers said.
  
However, the research does pose a question mark over where the break might have occurred - and the potential implications for the historical monarchy.
  
"There are one or more breaks in the chain from Richard III to Henry 5th Duke of Beaufort," Professor Kevin Schurer said.

Source: News and World News

Porsche India launches updates versions of Cayenne

The SUV market continues to grow in India and the Porsche Cayenne has been witnessing a positive response for the last few years.
   
According to a statement from Porsche, in its latest version, the Cayenne has bi-xenon headlights and four-point LED daytime running lights.

Other modifications include the newly developed exhaust tailpipes which are incorporated in the lower rear section and automatically activating boot lid. The Porsche Cayenne embodies the ultimate Porsche attributes, class-leading performance and outstanding driveability.

The new diesel versions are more fuel efficient. The three-litre V6 engine in Cayenne Diesel has a fuel consumption of 7.7 litres/100 km. The Cayenne S Diesel has a fuel consumption of 8 litres per 100 km with 4.2 litre V8 engine. The 3.6 litre V6 bi-turbo engine of the Cayenne S has a fuel consumption between 9.5 litres to 9.8 litres per 100 km.

While the top-end Cayenne Turbo is powered by a 4.8 litre bi-turbo V8 engine and all Porsche models are available from the company’s authorized sales and service dealers across India.

Source: News and Auto News

Robust Sino-India ties in the interest of United States: Richard Rahul Verma

"Much like the United States, the Indian relationship with China has elements of cooperation and elements of competition. But Prime Minister Modi himself has said that he wants a strong and healthy relationship with China," Richard Rahul Verma said at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
  
"It's very much in our interest to see these two countries have a healthy relationship," he said. The Indian-American noted that "although there will be disagreements from time to time between the countries but again, to the extent these are resolved peacefully...I would say the Prime Minister has set out on a very positive footing in reaching out to China".
  
Commenting on the border issues between India and China, Verma said, "There is a dialogue on border issues when they occur. And again, the economic issues are important to both countries. So anything that we can do to ensure that the dialogue remains open, that trade and connectivity remain strong."
  
"Premier Xi's visit to meet Modi after he became the Prime Minister coincided with the flare-up along the India-China border and there was a lot of confusion about why the incident took place when such an important meeting was underway," he said.
  
The Indian American told lawmakers at the Senate that it has been "fascinating to watch" over the last year when India's Look East policy has become Act East policy.

Source: News and World News

India services PMI jumps to five month-high in November: HSBC

A figure above 50 indicates that the sector is expanding, while a figure below that level means contraction.
  
"Service sector activity grew in November, as new business rose for the seventh month running," HSBC Chief India Economist Pranjul Bhandari said.
  
The survey further said that notwithstanding the strong order flows, business sentiment slipped to the weakest level since mid-2007.
  
"Despite the uptick in order flows, business sentiment deteriorated, reminding us that continued policy action that addresses investor concerns is needed to sustain growth momentum," Bhandari said.
  
Meanwhile, the headline HSBC Composite Output Index, that maps manufacturing as well as services sectors output also climbed to five-month high of 53.6, up from 51.0 in October.

Growth of activity and new business had little impact on service sector employment in November as workforce numbers in the Indian service sector declined for the first time in four months.
  
Meanwhile, prices dipped on falling commodity prices and increased competition.
  
Calls for a rate cut had been growing in the run up to the policy announcement, with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also pitching for lower the cost of capital to boost growth.
  
However, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan on Tuesday kept interest rates unchanged, saying a shift in stance is 'premature' but hinted that a cut may come early next year if inflation continues to ease and the government acts on the fiscal side.
  
Jaitley had recently said a whole set of second generation reforms would be unveiled in the next Budget and added that his immediate target is Insurance Amendment bill, Coal Ordinance and the GST bill.

Source: News and Business News

Monday 1 December 2014

TMC MPs stage protest against PM Modi, Amit Shah with red diaries

"We have given a notice for suspension of question hour, we want a discussion over this issue," Bandhopadhyay said.

"In a raid by CBI, from Sahara's office a red diary was recovered in which Amit Shah's name is mentioned," he said.

The MPs wanted to know from Prime Minister Narendra Modi what action has been taken against the BJP president whose name allegedly featured in a red dairy recovered from Sahara chief Subrata Roy's office.

Earlier on Sunday after Shah's rally in Kolkata, West Bengal Panchayat Minister has said,''Recently Sahara chief was arrested and a red diary was recovered. We heard Narendra Modi and Amit Shah’s name features in the diary. What action has been taken against them?”

Subrata Roy was arrested on February 28 this year and is still behind the bars.

TMC leaders also alleged that the Centre was using the CBI to settle political vendetta.


"If Mamata Banerjee has the guts then why is she not saying that those arrested by the CBI in the Saradha scam are innocent? Earlier it was only alleged, but now it is proved that TMC leaders are involved in the scam," Shah said.

Source: News and India News 

Ebola virus suspect shifted to hospital in Pakistan

The passenger arrived in Karachi from Liberia via Qatar and appeared to be in poor health condition.

The Express Tribune reported that after a brief medical assessment, the suspected patient was sent to Jinnah hospital, while his blood samples were sent to Islamabad for testing.

Earlier in Faisalabad, a suspected Ebola patient was later found out to be in the terminal stage of hepatitis C, coupled with an episode of dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Last week, a WHO team visited Pakistan to observe the measures taken to treat the patients suspected of Ebola.

So far no confirm case of the deadly virus has been found in the country.

Ebola virus has infected over 15,000 people in West Africa since it was first reported in Guinea in March, according to the WHO.

Although the number of cases in Liberia appears to be falling, Sierra Leone and Guinea are witnessing a steep rise.

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Dubai to invest USD 32-billion to build world's largest airport

The proposed new airport will become the world's largest aviation facility on completion and will have five runways which all will be simultaneously operational, all A380-compatible with a length of 4.5 km each.

"We are planning a USD 32-billion brand new airport at the Dubai World Central at Al Maktoum, 30 km off the present Dubai facility. In the first phase, the new airport will be able to handle 120 million passengers, which will go up to 200 million by 2020, when the project is completed," Dubai Airports Corporate Communications Head Julius Baumann told.

"On completion, the new airport will be the world's largest airport, with each concourse the size of seven football fields and have five runways which all will be simultaneously operational, all A380-compatible," Baumann said.

The other features include 200 aircraft stands for wide bodied aircraft, four concourses connected via six airport trains to two terminals, which in turn will be linked to the city's metro network. When complete, the mega-hub will have total annual capacity exceeding 200 million passengers and 12 million tonne of freight.

The existing Al Maktoum International opened its doors to passengers on October 27, 2013 and three airlines are operating from here. It has one A380 capable runway, 64 remote stands, one cargo terminal with annual capacity for 250,000 tonne and a fully operational passenger terminal building designed to accommodate 5 million passengers annually.

The Dubai International Airport is the world's second busiest airport after the London Heathrow and is on course to become the global  aviation hub, thanks to its geographical location and the availability of cheap fuel.

The first phase of the new airport includes a single A380 compatible runway, a passenger terminal with capacity of 5 million passengers which is expandable to 7 million; a cargo terminal with a capacity of 250,000 tonne per annum and expandable to 600,000 tonne and a 92-metre air traffic control tower.

The state-owned Dubai Airports already operates the Dubai International Airport in the heart of the Arabian megapolis and the Al Maktoum International Airport at the upcoming Dubai World Central (DWC).

The DWC is a 140 sq km new international city being built to de-congest the present city, Dubai Airports' Marketing & Corporate Communications Manager Zaigham Ali said, adding the work on new airport will begin early next year.

Apart from the new airport plan, the Emirate is also expanding the Dubai International Airport with a USD 7.8 billion investment to take the capacity to 100 million by 2020. This project was started in 2011 and will be completed by 2016.

The expansion of the Dubai International include a new concourse (Concourse D), expansion of Terminal 2 to twice its current capacity, refurbishment of Terminal 1, and additional aircraft stands, taxiways and aprons among others.

Dubai International, Baumann said handled 66.43 million passengers in 2013, and has being growing 15.5 per cent per annum since its launch in 1960. In 2013, it was named the
second busiest airport in the world after the London Heathrow. Ali said India is the largest source market for the airport, with an airline network that connects Dubai with 18 cities in the country.

In 2013, the airport saw a 14.3 percent increase in passenger numbers from India at 8.5 million and in the first 9 months of this year, the number has already crossed 7 million.

Ali added the company is confident of crossing the last year's mark this year. Explaining the rationale for a gigantic new airport, Baumann said the airport's forecast figures for unconstrained passenger traffic show 126 million passengers by 2020, and 300 million passengers by 2050.
  
Additionally, the Terminal 2 will double in capacity by 2015. Concourse D of the airport, slated to open by mid 2015, will provide for 100 more aircraft and taking the figure up to 80 million passengers. In all, the expansion projects will take the airport's  passenger capacity to a little over 100 million passengers, Ali said.

With a built-up area of 1,972,474 sqm, the Dubai International Airport comprises three terminals and ranks among the world's top two busiest airports for international passengers, serving over 125 airlines flying to over 260 destinations, as per the Airports Council International.
  
On the economic impact of the aviation sector in Baumann, quoting an Oxford Economics report said, aviation will contribute USD 53.1 billion to Dubai's economy, which is 37.5 percent to its GDP and will support over 750,000 jobs by the turn of 2020.

The aviation sector as a whole contributed USD 26.7 billion to the Dubai economy in 2013, which was almost 27 percent of the national GDP and supported 416,500 jobs accounting for 21 percent of the Emirates' total employment.

Passenger traffic in September totalled 5,942,628 compared to 5,407,326 recorded in the same month  last year, an increase of 9.9 percent. January-September rose 6.2 percent to 52,422,547, up from 49,379,165, while in 2013, the passenger traffic stood 66,431,533, up 15.2 percent from
2012.

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Eradicating terrorism would be a difficult fight: Singapore PM

"The threat of terrorism can cause doubts and sow division between communities but multi-racial Singapore has avoided this danger because its people are rational and have looked at the facts squarely and forthrightly condemned extremists," he said.
  
Lee said he was particularly grateful to the city state's Malay-Muslim community, especially its leaders, who have maintained this position.
  
The Prime Minister also noted that the Mufti and the Religious Rehabilitation Group have done a lot to counter the ideological propaganda of Islamic State (IS).
  
"The Government had to do what was necessary to protect Singapore," Lee told 300 religious and community leaders of various faiths at the start of a closed-door dialogue on the threat posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

This includes producing a brochure "The Fallacies of ISIS Islamic Caliphate" in English, Malay and Tamil, as well as two online videos to point out these fallacies and why the brutal methods employed by ISIS are against the teachings of Islam.

Lee stressed that extremist terrorism is a serious and difficult long-term problem. The last such dialogue was held in 2011, according to media reports today. In 2011, the Jemaah Islamiyah had been reviving its network in the region, noted Lee.
  
"You must know that eradicating terrorism is going to be a difficult and long-term fight," he said.
  
"We have to carry on doing it and provided we continue to work together, and we are open to each other, and we share and we come closer together, we will prevail."
  
Lee said that terrorist elements in Southeast Asia are  regrouping and getting more active, as the conflict in Syria and Iraq morphs into a civil war.
  
He said that people from Southeast Asia and around the world, including a few from Singapore, are also travelling to Iraq and Syria, to join IS.
  
"It is naive for us to think that we can keep our heads low, and the problems will pass over us," said Lee. "We have got to do what is necessary in order to protect Singapore and Singaporeans,"he added.

Singapore would also join over 60 countries, including many Muslim countries, in the coalition fight against IS. Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs, Yaacob Ibrahim, has also called for a regional voice to condemn IS.

Source: News and World News