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Indian World Cup Team 2011 announced!
Jan 17th
India World Cup team for the 2011 cricket world cup has been announced today! The selection committee lead by Krishnamachari Srikanth has announced the squad of 15 members in Chennai, who will take the responsibility of winning world cup for India.
The batsmen are quite obvious persons like Sachin Tendulkar, Virendra Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh where as bowlers include Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. India included three spinners with Harbhajan Singh heading the slow bowling department with Piyush Chawla and R Ashwin as his spin partner and dropped Rohit Sharma.
The top-seven of the Indian batting-order — Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, More >
Golden Globes Winners 2011: Full List
Jan 17th
Golden Globes Winners 2011: The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards has been presented. The show was broadcasted nationwide live on NBC, Sunday, January 16, 2011 from 5:00-8:00 (PST)/8:00-11:00 (EST) from the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Here is the complete list of Golden Globes winners 2011.
CECIL B. DEMILLE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD – Robert De Niro
BEST DRAMA – The Social Network
ACTOR (DRAMA) – Colin Firth – The King’s Speech
ACTRESS (DRAMA) – Natalie Portman – Black Swan
BEST MUSICAL OR COMEDY – The Kids Are All Right
ACTOR (MUSICAL OR COMEDY) – Paul Giamatti – Barney’s Version
ACTRESS (MUSICAL OR COMEDY) – Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM – In a Better World (Denmark) – Susanne Bier More >
Teresa Scanlan Miss America 2011
Jan 16th
Teresa Scanlan is Miss America 2011. The 17 year old Teresa Scanlan from Nebraska is crowned as the 90th Miss America!She was named the youngest champion of all-time on Saturday night, earning the crown by performing “White Water Chopsticks” on the piano. She was the only contestant to neither sing nor dance.
Teresa Scanlan won a $50,000 scholarship and a yearlong run with the crown at the competition Saturday night at the Planet Hollywood casino-resort in Las Vegas, giving the Cornhusker State its first-ever win at the pageant.
India vs South Africa 2nd ODI: India won by 1 Run
Jan 15th
India vs South Africa 2nd ODI: India won by 1 Run. SA had the game in the bag and they …. choked. India won the toss and elected to bat first. India lost its first wicket M Vijay (16) early in the eighth over. The score was 22. Sachin Tendulkar (24) and Virat Kohli (22) then added 41-runs for the second wicket partnership. Kohli was unfortunate to get run out. Yufraj singh and dhoni made good partnership of 83 but after that India lost all wicket so quickly and gave a very simple target of 190 runs to South Africa.
South Africa didn’t have good start and lost the wicket of Hashim Amla on the total score of 7. Munaf Patel brought him back to pavilion. Graem Smith and Colin Ingram (25) contributed 59-runs for the second wicket. Harbhajan made Ingram to depart and got him lbw. AB de Villiers and JP Duminy couldn’t do much and made just 8 and 13 runs respectively. But then with David Miller (27), Graeme Smith before getting bowled on the ball of Munaf added some precious runs for his team. He played a well innings of 77 runs.
India 190 (47.2 ov)
South Africa 189 (43.0 ov)
India won by 1 run
Munaf Patel is the man of the match. MS Dhoni “It’s a big win for us. We were short of 40-45 runs. More >
Sourav Ganguly says that “He is Transparent”
Jan 15th
After being ignored in the IPL auction, Sourav Ganguly breaks his silence on Saturday. He said that he never did politics and was always been transparent in what he did as a cricketer.
Indirectly taking a dig at the IPL snub during a programme, Ganguly said: “I never did politics. I would not have been here if I did politics. With my practical experiences I say whatever you do, you will not be at the top all the time.
So when you are at the top, be transparent. The rule is same for all, be it in politics or sport. As a leader you must tell the truth. They might not like it but it’s important to be clear with your colleagues,” Ganguly said. More >
Petrol Price Raised upto Rs 2.54 per Litre
Jan 15th
Petrol Price Raised upto Rs 2.54 per Litre: This is the second time with in a month the prices of petrol are raised. On Saturday State-owned oil companies raised petrol prices by Rs 2.50-Rs 2.54 per litre based on rising of crude oil prices.
Indian Oil Corp, the nation’s largest fuel retailer, will raise petrol prices by Rs 2.50 per litre with effect from midnight on Saturday night, while Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) would hike rates by Rs 2.54 a litre, an industry official said.
Bharat Petroleum Corp, the third state fuel retailer, would raise price by Rs 2.53 per litre with effect from midnight on Saturday. The three firms from on December 15-16 raised petrol prices by Rs 2.94-2.96 per litre, the biggest hike in six months. More >
Earthquake of Magnitude 5.9 hits Central Chile
Jan 10th
Central Chile has been struck by a 5.9 magnitude about 129 kilometres north north-west of Concepcion, but there were no initial reports of any damage.
A quake struck in the same region a year ago with a massive 8.8 magnitude quake and the ensuing tsunamis that battered Chile a year ago, ravaging towns and roads and killing hundreds.
“There have been no reports of any injuries or damage to infrastructure,” a spokeswoman for state emergency office Onemi said.
“A tsunami has been ruled out.”
Big Boss Season 4: And the Winner is Shweta Tiwari!
Jan 10th
Big Boss Season 4 winner is Shweta Tiwari! She cannot believe that she got the amount Rs. 1 crore prize money for winning a reality TV show Bigg Boss 4. After she was announced as the winner she had an emotional moment with her daughter and mother. Shweta got the title by leaving behind the WWE star Khali (now as I don’t want to say him “The Great Khali”), Ashmit Patel and the sadistic loud mouthed Dolly Bindra.
Shweta intends to spend the entire money on her daughter Palak’s education and future. “I know for sure that it will be totally reserved for my daughter’s upbringing.” She also commented on Raja Chowdary beating her current boy friend saying “I’m single and I don’t know who this current boyfriend is, I don’t know about the incident.” More >
People’s Choice Awards Winners 2011: Television
Jan 6th
People’s Choice Awards Winners 2011 from Television are
Favorite New TV Drama: Hawaii Five-O
Favorite TV Drama: House
Favorite TV Drama Actor: Hugh Laurie
Favorite TV Drama Actress: Lisa Edelstein
Favorite TV Comedy: Glee
Favortie TV Comedy Actor: Neil Patrick Harris
Favorite TV Comedy Actress: Jane Lynch
Favorite TV Crime Drama: Lie to Me
Favorite TV Crime Fighter: Tim Roth
Favorite TV Doctor: Gregory House (Hugh Laurie)
Favorite Competition Show: American Idol
Favorite Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show: Fringe
Favorite Talk Show Host: Conan O’Brien
Favorite TV Obsession: Dexter More >
People’s Choice Awards Winners 2011:Movies
Jan 6th
People’s Choice Awards Winners 2011: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse bagged more awards in 2011 people’s choice awards.
Twilight party Rob, Kristen and Taylor cleaned up the four categories they were nominated in. Kristen won Favorite Movie Actress and was accompanied to the podium by Taylor to receive her award from “True Blood”‘s Stephen Moyer and Malin Akerman. “I’ve never been to the People’s Choice Awards,” she said during her acceptance speech. Here is the full list of the winners
Favorite Movie: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Favorite Movie Actor: Johnny Depp
Favorite Movie Actress: Kristen Stewart
Favorite Action Movie: Iron Man 2
Favorite Action Star: Jackie Chan
Favorite Family Movie: Toy Story 3
Favorite Drama Movie: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Favorite Comedy Movie: Grown Ups
Favorite Comedic Star: Adam Sandler More >