Veer Movie Photo

What are the real ingredients of a successful film? A perfect storyline or script,be it a strong star cast renowned director or production house, or be it the right required sound and special effects according to the theme of the movie. Well ‘Veer’ has every such ingredients with the main highlight of the movie, Salman Khan and his new find Zarine Khan who is a Katrina Kaif look a like.

VEER is one most awaited film of the time and it was dream project of Salman Khan. Directed by famous director Anil Sharma of ‘Gadar-Ek-Prem Katha’ fame, Veer is an epic which throws light on the unpopular pages of Indian history and taking center stage is the brave heart Veer (Salman Khan). The story is set in the era of 1875 and is based on the love story of a warrior “Veer” and his clan of the fearless ‘Pindari’ warriors of the 19th century. The film is being shooted in parts of various parts of Rajasthan and London as well. The action is being well directed by the Master Tinu Verma by completing scenes in hard and hectique locations of heated desert region of the country.

According to Vijay Galani Moviez production, “Salman is the ideal star to play a warrior; his gravelly voice and impressive physique combine to give him a huge presence. He is larger than life and adds charisma to a vengeance-driven heroic character.”

Audiences immensely loved Salman Khan’s action image in Wanted and with Veer he is going to just take it further. Finally his chiseled body and bulging biceps are put to better use than mere topless shots in films. The action is directed by one of the most prominent action directors of Bollywood – Tinu Verma and if the buzz is to be believed some sequences are simply mind-blowing.

The nail has hit hard on the head. They have been given nod from Pakistan govt side for playing in IPL. They have been asked to apply for the auction. It was Lalit Modi Who set the deadlines for documents of Pakistan players. And the franchises required their visa information from Pakistan and Cricket Board. Done everything !!! Now, you have No takers..

Pakistani Players Ignored

Few franchisee owners cited the strategic reason for not picking Pakistani players, and others raised the concerns over their availability. Whatever may be the reason Indian public will definitely miss some of the good T20 players in IPL. When you say the relation between two countries are still fragile and there may araise a chance that government could deny the Pakistani players, Indian government should have given that guarantee. and Mr Lalit Modi should have taken care of it. This would have given the franchisee a bit of confidence.

Had a single Pakistani players got a bid, it would have been a strong message of hope for a better relation between the two countries. What happened today is definitely a setback. Many Indians will definitely miss Afridi,  Akmal,  Aamer and others.

If international sports is for building better relation between countries, then whatever may be the reason, players from a specific country should not be abandoned when they are the world champs in this format.

Lalit Modi is taking things for granted. Being the IPL boss, he should have clarified from the govt regarding the stand of the govt on playing the Pakistani players. If he really wants to make IPL a matured tournaments, he should make arrangements of expanding the horizon of fan base, not by clipping it. He should stop blabbering about himself whenever he gets a chance as this is about the pride of Cricket and India.

The exhilarating IPL auction 2010

Indian Premier League Auction 2010

The exhilarating IPL auction 2010 of Indian Premier League (IPL3) booted up today in Bandra, Mumbai. Sundar Raman, the chief organizer of IPL expects that the West Indies players are likely to overlook the auction. He hopes the Caribbean batsman Kieron Polard and the fastest bowler K Roach might get the uppermost offer from franchise owners.

Franchise owners have proposed for 12 cricketers out of 66 players. Each and every franchise owner will have prize money of US $ 75,000 to buy a player from nine test playing nations. For today’s auction cricketers from all the nine test playing nations and minnows like Canada and Holland are in attendance.

Lists of players up for IPL auction are:

• England: Tim Bresnan, Eoin Morgan, Robert Key, Anthony McGrath, Monty Panesar, Mark Ramprakash, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott

• Australia: Brad Haddin, Philip Hughes, Doug Bollinger, Ashley Noffke, Adam Voges, Luke Pomersbach, Clint McKay, Graham Manou, Ben Laughlin, Jason Krejza, Damien Martyn

• Pakistan: Shahid Afridi, Misbah ul-Haq, Umar Gul, Imran Nazir, Rana Naved, Mohammad Aamer, Abdul Razzaq, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Saeed Ajmal, Sohail Tanvir

• South Africa: Zander de Bruyn, Wayne Parnell, Tyron Henderson, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Rory Kleinveldt, Yusuf Abdulla, Vernon Philander, Johan van der Wath, Vaughn van Jaarsveld, Morne van Vyk, Justin Kemp

• Sri Lanka: Nuwan Kulasekara, Nuwan Zoysa, Upul Tharanga, Thissara Perera, Thilina Kandamby, Kaushalya Weeraratne, Chamara Welegedara, Chinthaka Jayasinghe, Chamara Silva

• West Indies: Kieron Pollard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Daren Ganga, Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Wavell Hinds, Kemar Roach, Sulieman Benn

• New Zealand: Grant Elliott, Lou Vincent, Shane Bond, Nathan McCullum

• Zimbabwe: Murray Goodwin

• Bangladesh: Shakib Al Hasan

• Canada: Rizwan Cheema

• Netherlands: Ryan ten Doeschate

The much awaited Initial Public Offering of Jubilant Foodworks that runs the fast food retail chain under the Dominos pizza brand in India has been issued in public’s interest with their real interest of getting capital funding.

Dominos Pizza India

As the company expects to raise up to Rs 329 crore, that’s why the price band of the initial public offer (IPO), has been fixed between Rs 135 to Rs 145 per equity share.

The issue will last on January 20. Jubilant Foodworks is expected to hit the capital market with an issue size of 2.26 crore with equity shares of Rs 10 each. The offer is valued worth Rs 328.72 crore, at the upper end of price band.

Sudeep Bandyopadhyay, Group President, Finance, Spice Group said, “Jubilant Foodworks IPO would be an interesting case to watch as it represents the growing fastfood business in India, Retail investors will look at rightly priced IPOs. The credibility of the promoter group and the pricing of the issue are the two most critical factors”.

Reliance MF, SBI MF, Blackrock, Canara Robeco MF and Fidelity are the roped investors as the retailing IPO starter expects a total investment of Rs 44.3 crore under its pre-IPO placement.

The IPO comprises a fresh issue of 40 lakh equity shares and an offer for sale of 1.86 crore shares by India Pvt Equity Fund (Mauritius) and Indocean Pizza Holding.

Conservative investors can avoid subscribing to the initial public offer of Jubilant Foodworks (JFL), the operator of the national pizza chain, Domino’s Pizza. Though the business has managed strong growth rates so far, the asking price for the offer is stiff.

Talking about the positives, Recently renewed, the franchise agreement, it will continue for another 15 years. JFL currently operates 286 outlets, across a geography of 59 cities. JFL plans to open about 15 more outlets by end-FY10, and is required to open at least 25 stores a year after that per its agreement.

A good portion of new stores are slated for smaller towns and cities where demand is beginning to take off as income levels and spending habits pick up.

Rarely you will find a convict doing such flip-flop as Kasab is doing for each and every opportunity he gets from the court. Today, Kasab told Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani that one of the terrorist was a Kashmiri and other one from Gujarat. The third terrorist Abu Ismail is from Mumbai

Amir Ajmal Kasab

When the judge inquired about his claim of Abu Ismail is from Mumbai, Kasab said ““I can make out from his face”. I also do not know the people who had fired and exploded bombs at these places on November 26, 2008, he said. Kasab feigned ignorance about the blast at a petrol pump near Nariman House and said he was not aware that both the places were located close to each other.

At one point earlier Kasab had claimed that he reached India by Samjhauta Express long before Mumbai attack and got caught at Girgaum Chowpatty by police a day before 26/11.

“Kasab’s claim is absurd and concocted. He has been taking frequent U-turns and this is one of those. This will in no way weaken the prosecution’s case against him,” Mr. Nikam said.

Sachin Tendulkar hit his 44th Test Hundred against the “minnows” Bangladesh just before the lunch time on the second day of the first Test Match in the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium at Chittagong.

Sachin Tendulkar Photo (Pic Credit - http://www.flickr.com/photos/suyog/)

Resuming at an overnight score of 76, Tendulkar looked in sublime touch. The beginning of the day’s play was delayed by 90 minutes because of foggy conditions. During the first day of the Test Match, Sachin was once dropped on 16 and then later on, he went on to became the first batsman in Test Cricket to surpass the 13,000-run mark in Test cricket.

Two Bangladesh bowlers took 5-wicket haul and made the “great” batting line-up struggle on this turning track as India crawled to 243 all out in their first innings of the Test Match. Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan and fast bowler Shahadat Hossain snatched the 2 wickets in the morning session. Both of them managed to get 5-wickets in the Test Match.

Barring Sachin Tendulkar & Virendar Sehwag, none of the Indian Batsman could manage a respectable score. In a nutshell, it was a one-man show by Tendulkar and he remained unbeaten on 105 off 166 balls. He hit  11 fours and two sixes during this another “gem” of his career. He is surely getting better by age.

Bangladesh Openers started well in the Bangladesh innings and were looking set to surpass the 1st inning Indian total. But few minutes back, Indian Pacers got 3 quick wickets in 3 overs. As we finish writing this article, Bangladesh is on 59 for the loss of 3 wickets. Mohammad Ashraful is yet to open his account &  Raqibul Hasan has just made 1 in 3 balls.

After a daring struggle of 17 days with his falling organs, veteran Communist and former chief-minister of WestBengal passed away today at 11.47 AM. On 1 January, 2010, Basu was admitted to AMRI hospital, Salt Lake City, Kolkotta, after feeling unwell. On 16 January, 2010, his health condition became extremely critical and he was suffering from multiple organ failure.

CPM Leader Jyoti Basu

Another pillar of Communism in India has fallen. Such was his charismatic personality that it is rare his voice was ever ignored in Delhi. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh described Basu as one of the “great sons of India”. Union finance minister P Chidambaram who came to the city on Sunday paid his last tribute calling him a “colossus” in Indian politics. “His death marked the end of an era in Indian politics,” said film-maker Mrinal Sen.

Born on 8 July, 1914 and completed his undergraduate study in 1935.  Persued his higher study in Law at  London. It was in England that Basu was introduced to the activities of politics through the Communist Party of Great Britain. There he was inspired by noted Communist Philosopher and prolific writer Rajani Palme Dutt. In 1940 he completed his studies and qualified as a Barrister at the Middle Temple and returned to India and later entered politics in 1940.

He served as the Chief minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him India’s longest-serving CM as of 2010 of any Indian state. He was a member of the CPI(M) politburo from the time of the party’s founding in 1964 until 2008. He is survived by his son Chandan Basu. As per his last wish, his body will be donated to hospital for research on 19 January, 2010.

The Institute of Chartered Accounts of India(ICAI) has declared the results of Final, Final (New Course) and Common Proficiency Test (CPT) (Paper Pencil Mode) examinations held in November / December 2009.

Institute of Chartered Accounts of India

Results can be checked at the following links online:

http://www.caresults.nic.in/
http://caresults.nic.in/cpt/cpt.htm
http://caresults.nic.in/cpt/meritcpt.htm

The institute had also made arrangement for the students desirous of having their results through e-mail by pre-registering themselves at the website.

About ICAI:

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (Act No. XXXVIII of 1949) for the regulation of the profession of Chartered Accountants in India. During its nearly six decades of existence, ICAI has achieved recognition as a premier accounting body not only in the country but also globally, for its contribution in the fields of education, professional development, maintenance of high accounting, auditing and ethical standards. ICAI now is the second largest accounting body in the whole world. The institute’s Headquarters is located in New Delhi, the national capital of India with 5 Regional Centers at Chennai, Kanpur, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai and 98 branches all over the country. The institute also has 11 chapters in overseas.

With nearly 115,000 members and 250,000 students to its credit and 70% of the total members in practice ICAI has the mission to be valued as best among top class institutions in the world. The institute celebrated its Golden Jubilee year in 1999.

For more information on ICAI visit http://www.icai.org/

The 96 year old Communist Party of India(CPI-M) Leader Jyoti Basu is in a Hospital right now and his condition worsened on Friday Night as his five organs are not functioning properly. The veteran Chief Minister of West Bengal had a dialysis on Friday.

Jyoti Basu: CPI-M Leader

Dr A K Maity who is Jyoti Basu’s personal physician, gave this news. There is a team of doctors currently keeping a check on him though his condition is very critical.

Jyoti Basu’s son Chandan Basu & his family also came back to the Hospital around 11:3 pm in the night. Few other relatvies of Basu’s family are also there at the hospital.

This has been repoted the ratio of CO2 has risen to an alarming level in Jyto Basu’s body & full ventilation is also not able to help at such a stage.

Around 1.15 a.m., Jyoti Basu’s BP also came down to a very low level. All these signs are not very promising as of now.

In the past, there have been some false reports in the media about the dealth of Jyoti Basu.

We will let you know as soon as we hear something soon on this news !!

Is it true about the Mayan calendar which says that the earth would come to an end by 2012. Tsunami, then Japan earthquake ,then snow storm at Washington and now the most massive and destructive earthquake at Haiti all these are the signs of the Mayan calendar’s theory coming true. Even in this scenario there are few organizations which work out for the aid of the helpless people. American Red Cross Society is a major among them.

Mobile users can also give their contribution by texting the word “Haiti” to 90999 if you are in United States of America.

Hait Disaster Relief Map Image

With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit Haiti Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional $9 million for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far to $10 million to support relief efforts in Haiti.

Priority needs in Haiti are food, water, temporary shelter, medical services and emotional support. Thousands of local Red Cross volunteers are aiding their fellow Haitians. American Red Cross Disaster management specialists are scheduled to arrive today from the United States, Peru and Mexico to join local Red Cross staff already on the ground in the disaster zone. As soon as airports begin accepting relief shipments, tarps, hygiene items and cooking sets for approximately 5,000 families will come from the Red Cross warehouse in Panama.

The American Red Cross is also helping the injured who may need blood. Blood and blood products were shipped to the U.S. Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and then on to Guantanamo Bay to help Haitian evacuees and patients.

Other Red Cross partners have deployed a mobile hospital, medical teams, and 40 staff to help with sheltering, providing water, sanitation, and telecommunications.