Virender Sehwag

Virender Sehwag has constructed an extraordinary career with a relentless quest, and a genius, for boundary hitting. With minimal footwork but maximum intent, he has piled Test runs at a faster pace than anyone in the history of cricket. Bowlers must always fancy their chances against a batsman who plays so many strokes; it's just that Sehwag fancies his chances against them much more.

As a starry-eyed youngster from Najafgarh, where his family ran a flour mill, Sehwag grew up, like many others from his generation, wanting to be Sachin Tendulkar. Indeed, when he scored his first one-day hundred, filling up for his injured idol against New Zealand in Sri Lanka, he could have been mistaken for him: there was the same back-foot punch on the off side, the minimalistic straight drive and the wristy whip to the leg. And on his Test debut, on a fiery pitch in Bloemfontein, he matched the master stroke for stroke as they both blazed away to hundreds. But soon he emerged his own man, and not long after Tendulkar was playing a supporting, and somewhat calming, hand as Sehwag romped away to a triple-hundred, the first by an Indian, in Multan, bringing it up with a six. Two Tests ago, he had been dismissed trying the same stroke five short of what would have been his first Test double-hundred.

His uncomplicated approach - batting is all about scoring as many runs as quickly as possible - belies a sharp and street-smart cricket mind. He has a keen grasp of his own, and his opponents', strengths and weaknesses and exploits them in a forensic manner. What appears risky to many, is merely an opportunity for him, and his lack of footwork, which does get him in trouble against the moving ball, is mostly an advantage, for it creates space for his brilliant handwork. Few batsmen have hit the ball harder square on the off side, and fewer still have hit them as frequently. And the sight of a spinner brings the savage out in him: and for many spectacular assaults against the world's leading spinners, there have numerous outrageous dismissals against the not-so-reputed ones.

The most remarkable aspect of Sehwag's career of course has been his ability to build massive Test scores at breathtaking speed. He holds the Indian record for highest number of Test double-hundreds, and came within seven runs of becoming the first batsman to score three triple-hundreds. That innings, against Sri Lanka at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, epitomised the Sehwag brand of batsmanship: a mix of imagination, daring, power, skills, and clarity of vision.

He is equally refreshing off the field and shares his views on the game in an endearingly direct and candid manner, a rare trait among contemporary cricketers. He is, in every sense, a true original.
Full name  Virender Sehwag

Born October 20, 1978, Delhi

Current age 31 years 347 days

Major teams India, Asia XI, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, ICC World XI, India Blue, Leicestershire, Rajasthan Cricket Association President's XI

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Happy birty day ( "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ) Lal Bahadur Shrivastav Shastri

 Happy birty day  Lal Bahadur Shrivastav Shastri
2 October 1904 - 11 January 1966) was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.
Jawaharlal Nehru died in office on 27 May 1964 and left a void. The then Congress Party President K. Kamaraj  was instrumental in making and installing Shastri as Prime Minister on 9 June. Shastri, though mild-mannered and soft-spoken, was a Nehruvian socialist and thus held appeal to those wishing to prevent the ascent of conservative right-winger Morarji Desai.

In his first broadcast as Prime Minister, on 11 June 1964, Shastri stated“     There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the cross-roads of history and must choose which way to go. But for us there need be no difficulty or hesitation, no looking to right or left. Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations.     ”

Shastri worked by his natural characteristics to obtain compromises between opposing viewpoints, but in his short tenure he was ineffectual in dealing with the economic crisis and food shortage in the nation. However, he commanded a great deal of respect in the Indian populace, and he used it to gain advantage in pushing the Green Revolution in India; which directly led to India becoming a food-surplus nation, although he did not live to see it. During the 22-day war with Pakistan, Lal Bahadur Shastri created the slogan of "Jai Jawan Jai Kisan" ("Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer"), underlining the need to boost India's food production. Apart from emphasizing the Green Revolution, he was instrumental in promoting the White Revolution]. Greatly impressed by a visit to the Kaira district in October 1964, he urged the rest of the country to learn from the successful experiment at Anand. The National Dairy Development Board was formed in 1965 during his tenure as Prime Minister.

Though he was Socialist, Shastri stated that India cannot have a regimented type of economy. During his tenure as Prime Minister, he visited Russia, Yugoslavia, England, Canada and Burma in 1965

Happy birty day Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

happy birty day Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present day state of Gujarat in India on October 2, 1869. He was raised in a very conservative family that had affiliations with the ruling family of Kathiawad. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay, without much success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban
. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for elementary rights for Indian

India has access to BlackBerry messenger service - govt

The government has manual access to Canadian Research in Motion's BlackBerry messenger services and is hopeful of getting automated access from January 1, a top official said on Friday.

India, which along with several other countries has expressed concerns that BlackBerry services could be used to stir political or social instability, had threatened RIM with a ban if it were denied access to data.

"We have manual access to the messenger services. We want automated access and we are hopeful of getting that from January 1," G.K. Pillai, India's home secretary, told Reuters.

The Indian interior ministry said on Aug. 30 that the Canadian firm had offered several ways to allow authorities to monitor BlackBerry communications. The government said it would check their feasibility over the next 60 days.

Saudi Arabia, fretful over services such as online pornography, has reached a deal with RIM on access to the BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging service, a consumer product that operates outside of the secure corporate domain, according to government sources.

Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have raised similar concerns, with the UAE setting an Oct. 11 deadline for RIM.

Power star is back on track

Power star Pawan kalyan is back on track. We know from the sources that Pawan will act in 4 movies in next 2 years.

Isn’t that great news for power Star fans? Two are already on the floors out of 4 proposed movies i.e . Jayant’s ‘Khushiga’ and another one, which Pavan playing an imporatnat role in Singeetham Srinivas Rao’s movie on Jesus Christ.

Pawan is going to act in production houses like Arka Media and in BVSN Prasad’s banner that produced movies like ‘Chatrapathi, ‘Darling’, etc and another movie with Producer Danaya, who made ‘Nenu Inthe’, ‘Oy’, etc

Pawan is going to complete all these projects in next two years. It seems that Pawan is back in track by choosing what he is best at – Acting! So Power Star fans be ready Pawan is ready to rock.

Suspected Pakistani militants set fire to Nato fuel tankers

Pakistani firemen beside the tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops set alight by suspected militants  Pakistani firefighters stand beside the 27 tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops that were set alight by suspected militants. Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP

Suspected militants in Pakistan set fire to more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan today, officials said.

The attack came a day after three soldiers were killed in a cross-border Nato air strike.

Angry at repeated incursions by Nato helicopters over the past week, Pakistan has blocked a supply route for coalition troops in Afghanistan.

Pakistan is a crucial ally for the United States in its efforts to stabilise Afghanistan, but analysts say border incursions and disruptions in Nato supplies underline growing tensions in the relationship.

A senior Pakistani intelligence official said the border incursions could lead to a "total snapping of relations".

Senior officials blamed extremists for the attack on the tankers in the southern town of Shikarpur.

About 12 people, their faces covered, fired into the air to scare away the drivers, then set fire to 27 tankers.

"Some of them have been completely destroyed and others partially. But there is no loss of human life," the Shikarpur police chief, Abdul Hameed Khoso, told Reuters.

The tankers were parked at a filling station on their way to Afghanistan from Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi.

The previous day, three Pakistani soldiers were killed and three wounded in two cross-border strikes by Nato forces chasing militants in Pakistan's north-western Kurram region.

It was the third cross-border incident in a week, the Pakistan military said. Nato said the helicopters briefly crossed into Pakistani airspace after coming under fire from people there.

Hours later, Pakistani authorities halted tankers carrying supplies for the Nato forces passing through the Khyber tribal region on the Afghan border.

About half of all cargo for Nato forces in Afghanistan travels through Pakistan, most of it via two main border crossings: Chaman north of Quetta in Baluchistan, and Torkham at the Khyber Pass.

Another third enters Afghanistan through the northern distribution network across Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Sensitive gear such as ammunition, weapons and critical equipment is flown in.

Officials say supplies for Nato forces through Chaman continue uninterrupted.

Also today, a United Nations relief helicopter with 12 people on board went down in a lake in a flood-affected area of Pakistan's southern province of Sindh, a UN official said.

Initial reports said seven people had been injured and officials said the accident was probably mechanical.

Pakistan has been in the international spotlight this week after western intelligence sources said a militant plot to stage co-ordinated attacks in Europe had been disrupted by a recent increase in missile strikes by US drones in Pakistan.

Pakistani security officials said they had no evidence of any specific terror plot being hatched in the tribal areas, described by the US as a global hub of militants. Most of the recent drone strikes have taken place in the north-western North Waziristan region.

"It's no secret that there are terrorists from all nationalities in North Waziristan. They are Arabs, Uzbeks, Pakistani, Afghan, Chechans, German, Brits, Americans, everyone. And they are a threat to us, to their own countries and to the entire world," a senior security official said.

"But to say that we have any specific information that they were plotting attacks against this country or that country, then sir, we don't have any concrete information or intelligence about that."

He said drones strikes had killed members of various militant groups.

In September up to 21 US drone attacks have killed at least 100 militants. It was the most intense month for drone attacks to date.

Facebook has 15 million users in India: Launcheed Hyderabad centre on Sept.30th

Users of Facebook, one of the leading social networking sites, can rest assured about the security of information they share with family, friends and colleagues.


The social networking site is spending huge amounts in “seeing patterns” in the content being sent on the site. “We have invested sufficiently in ensuring that the network is safe,” Facebook global online operations director Don Faul has said. Mr. Faul was responding to queries on concerns expressed on the security front regarding the vulnerability of social networking sites to become conduits for transmitting virus and incapacitating crucial systems.


All efforts are being made to check authenticity of users and investments are being made to secure users' trust for the site for sending information besides keeping the site spam-free. Facebook commenced its Indian operations by formally launching its Hyderabad centre, the first centre outside the United States, on Thursday.


 “We are seeing a tonne of momentum with our 15 million users, developers and advertisers. It is an incredible time to start operations in India,” director online operations and head of India office Kirthiga Reddy said. With these 15 million users, who the company claims to be “really influential users”, the company is eyeing to rope in more advertisers as well as bring in more software developers.


With more than 500 million users worldwide, Facebook has 35 million users updating their status on a daily basis, while another 55 million status updates are being posted each day. While more than 2.5 billion photos are uploaded each month, more than 3.5 billion pieces of content is being shared each week.


There are an estimated 1.6 million active pages including 7 lakh pages of local businesses and Facebook has more than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries. More than 65 million active users access Facebook on their mobile devices and people using. Facebook on their mobiles are found to be 50 per cent more active on the site than the non-mobile users.