Safarova progresses in Quebec

Safarova progresses in Quebec

Lucie Safarova beat Melanie Oudin to move into the semi-finals of the WTA Tour Bell Challenge in Quebec.

Oudin, seeded fifth, raced into a 3-0 lead in the deciding set before her Czech opponent reeled off five straight games in a gruelling contest.

Oudin, of the United States, took the first set 6-4 before Safarova levelled with a dominant 6-2 second set.

Oudin appeared to be easing to victory but Safarova dug deep to triumph in two hours and 20 minutes.

There was little to choose between the two, Safarova, the world number 28, producing five aces as well as seven double faults.

Eighth seed Sofia Arvidsson crashed out as qualifier Tamira Paszek moved into the semi-finals in Canada.

The Austrian, who is ranked 103 places beneath her opponent at 151, was more consistent with her all-round game and capitalised on Arvidsson's lack of success on her second serve.

Paszek wrapped up a 6-3 6-4 victory in one hour 36 minutes.

Bethanie Mattek-Sands had a straight-sets victory over Rebecca Marino although the world number 71 did not have it her own way as she claimed a 6-4 7-6 (7/4) victory.

Mattek-Sands was more clinical on her own serve and won a close-fought game in one hour 37 minutes.

Eighteen-year-old Christina McHale eased into the last four with a 6-3 6-1 win over Alexa Glatch.

McHale produced five aces and dominated throughout.

At Gun Point S2-06: Goal-fest!

At Gun Point S2-06: Goal-fest!

Two masterful performances as Arsenal swept aside Bolton and Braga with disdain.

Abhishek Mehrotra

I love Cesc Fabregas. In a purely heterosexual sense, of course. But having witnessed Mascherano's sulking at Liverpool and Robinho's pouting at Man City, Fabregas' attitude is refreshing - and brings home the fact that not all footballers are muscular babies who throw their toys out of the pram as soon as things don't go their way.

Barcelona wanted Cesc and Cesc wanted to go - but Arsenal refused. Like a true professional and more importantly, as a decent human being, the skipper has put the whole saga behind him to concentrate on doing his best for the Gunners.

And what a spectacular "best" it was! Two goals and five assists for the midfielder as Arsenal ran rampant over two games at the Emirates - scoring ten and conceding one. Just writing that sentence has brought a rather demented smile to my face. People around me look quite scared.

So, moving on swiftly. The weekend started with a potentially tricky game against Bolton - a team not averse to tacking hard and rather brutishly, as Abou Diaby's ankle would agree. We started the game in superb form with Fabregas and Jack Wilshere leading the Wanderers on a merry midfield dance. Asrhavin missed a one-on-one before Laurent Koscielny bundled in to get his first goal in Arsenal colours.

Now it's clear the Frenchman has received good parenting. "Always share with your playmates," his mother would say. "Never be partial son", his father would add. So that is exactly what dear Laurent did. Having scored one goal for his side, he only thought it fair to allow Bolton an equaliser. A weak header back to Almunia allowed some chappie to nick the ball and chip it across the box for another chappie to head it in.

Now I confess my first thought was "Here we go - Almunia has done it again" but that was being blatantly unfair. He was left in no-man's land and could really have done precious little to prevent the goal. So 1-1 at the break and a most unfair scoreline, given our domination.

Things righted themselves soon after though, when the increasingly impressive Chamakh nodded home a Cesc cross to put us back in the ascendancy. Then Arshavin played in Lionel Messi, who nutmegged Zat Knight with his first touch before delicately chipping the keeper for a two goal lead.

Oh - that was Alex Song you say? My bad - I must have been blinded by the brilliance. Anyway, by that time Bolton were down to ten men after Gary Cahill had mistaken the Emirates turf for a water-slide and taken out Chamakh with both feet.

Three points were secure but then, then came the goal that led to 29,253 incidents of heavy-duty drooling across the world. In addition, 40,675 jaws were broken after they dropped so low as to hit the floor.

Twenty-odd passes, each of them cheered by the entire stadium culminated in a magnificent lob from Fabregas to Vela - who finished with aplomb. Grown men cried, babies gurgled in delight and women everywhere gave thanks for the existence of such beauty in the world.

That, friends, was the sort of goal which makes believers out of all of us - the sort of goal that has enabled fans to live through five barren years and yet swear by The Arsenal.

So 4-1 it finished and the high-flying start to the Premier League season continued. A word on the tackling in the game as well. Admittedly, Cahill's tackle was 50-50 - some refs may have given it, some may have not. Personally, it was more the fact that he went in with both legs that saw him sent off.

But Paul Robinson's tackle on Abou Diaby later in the game was quite horrendous. If you look at the replays, Diaby's ankle could have been easily broken but there was not even a yellow card forthcoming from the referee!

Every time something like this occurs, managers and pundits trot out the same worn out excuses. It's a contact sport, injuries happen, no one does it on purpose and so on. They seem eerily similar to all the excuses that are given for "collateral damage" in a war.

Forgive me for the highly exaggerated analogy, for football is of course a mere game, while war is, well, war. But the comparison holds. Just like one cannot get away with "oh it's a war - people get caught in the cross -fire sometimes", one cannot say "Oh it's a contact sport, players are maimed sometimes". Teach better tackling, give harsher punishments - don't brush it off as a non-issue.

Whew! Rant over.

Moving on the Champions League game - let me first admit I did not watch it live. Now before you start pelting me with rotten groceries, hear me out. I've been sick, dear readers.

Oh yes, a nasty fever has me in its grip (I am currently accepting medicines, greeting cards, cookies, bouquets and suitcases full of cash. Contact me at abhishek.mehrotra@espnstar.com to make arrangements for delivery) and that makes it rather difficult to stay up in the wee hours without hallucinating about scoring a 70-yard goal at the Emirates.

I did manage to catch the highlights though and let me just say it wouldn't be surprising if next season Portuguese teams simply refused to come to the Emirates.

Last season, it was Porto (AGP's image is from that game - Bendtner got a hat-trick I think) who were thrashed and this time it was Braga's turn.

I can imagine players from Portugal adopting foetal positions and sucking their thumbs - refusing to get on the plane even though the final boarding call has been made. Who can blame them?

It was pleasing to see Arshavin finally have a major impact on a game, although his first-half performance was quite poor from what I gather. By all accounts, Jack Wilshere was outstanding along with Fabregas. This Arsenal midfield just keeps getting better and better doesn't it? Sebastien Squillaci seems to have been solid too.

As you can see, this is all information I've gleaned from second-hand sources. Please inform and educate me further on that magical Wednesday night in the comments section

So that wraps it up for this week. Sunderland beckon next and the Stadium of Light was a dark venue for us last time, so let's hope we can make amends for that.

Other than the knock to Diaby, there is thankfully nothing to report on the injury front. Thomas Vermaelen should be back and Samir Nasri - who played against Braga - should start too with Rosicky on the bench.

Here to another three points! Until next week, look after yourselves. Especially with this wicked flu in the air.

Asin becomes the product representative of Lux

Asin becomes the product representative of Lux

 

During Bollywood, qualification an actress finds toward celebrity within a Yash Raj otherwise a Rajshri film, which sets her directly to the peak association. fine, in the commercial globe, several products perform the similar deception.

For Bollywood actresses during the times, Lux have been a product which they capture arrogance in supporting.

Following the peak association actressesresembling Aishwarya Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra also Katrina Kaif, the newest single to link the Lux dealings is the Sexy girl Asin Thottumkal. Bases have established to Asin is currently every place to suit the product representative of Lux.

            

Trisha croons with Kamal Hassan

Trisha croons with Kamal Hassan

Following other popular actresses of her time, Trisha has also crooned in her upcoming movie. But she is luckier than the other ladies as she has got the chance to record the track along with her Superstar co-actor Kamal Hassan.

Many actresses have been proving their proficiencies over the crooning arenas in Kollywood including Meena, Sandhya, Abhirami, Andrea and Mamta Mohandas, who have already reached the greatest heights as playback singers and now Trisha joins the bandwagon.

With Devi Sri Prasad scoring music for the film, Kamal Hassan and Trisha together recorded the track along with kids recently. Trisha was supposed to make her debut as playback singer with A.R. Rahman’s Chennaiyil Oru Mazhaikalam and later in Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya but didn’t happen at the last moment.

Now, the actress is elated to see her longtime dream coming true. The film is directed by K.S. Ravikumar and is produced by Udhayanidhi Stalin of Red Giant Movies.

After a long sabbatical gap, actor Madhavan makes his comeback in a lead role in Kollywood and Sangeetha plays a prominent role in this film. It’s worth mentioning that Kamal Haasan and Madhavan together had played lead role in Anbe Sivam.

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Russian defense minister confirms plans to supply Syria with cruise missiles

Russian defense minister confirms plans to supply Syria with cruise missiles

Russian defense minister confirms plans to supply Syria with cruise missilesRussian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov confirmed in Washington DC that his country would supply Syria with P-800 Yakhont cruise missiles, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.

“We will supply Yakhont to Syria, we will fulfill the contract,” Serdyukov was quoted as saying by ITAR-TASS news agency in comments to Russian journalists, adding that the contract was signed in 2007.

Serdyukov was speaking in Washington during a visit to the Pentagon aimed at expanding military relations as part of the countries’ much-vaunted “reset” in relations.

Russia’s arms sales and possible nuclear cooperation with Syria, which has close ties to Iran, is unnerving for the United States and Israel, which fear that weapons would be being transferred to the Lebanese group Hizbullah.Serdyukov described such fears as unjustified.

“The US and Israel ask us not to supply Syria with Yakhont. But we do not see the concerns expressed by them that these arms will fall into the hands of terrorists,” the defense minister said.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Cabinet has formally approved the purchase of 20 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the nation’s air force. The value of the deal will be around $2.75 billion.

The decision was made after a series of talks between US and Israeli officials. 

These focused on issues including the extent to which Israel will be allowed to install its own electronic warfare equipment, and the level of industrial involvement that its defense industry will be granted in return for the order.

Sources suggest that the value of immediate offsets linked to the purchase will total over $2 billion.

“This aircraft is crucial to the defense of Israel,” Confirming the deal’s approval on Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. 

The nation’s defense ministry had in mid-August recommended that the contract go forward. – flightglobal.com

Russia sells advanced missiles to Israeli enemy

Russia sells advanced missiles to Israeli enemy

It would appear that the Russian bear has taken yet another bite out of the US Eagle. The first bite occurred back in April when Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the START treaty, a deal which commits Russia and America to cutting their nuclear arsenal by 30 percent. The problem with this deal is that it is very one sided.

Just for the sake of a little more review, the Associated Press reported in April that Russia is reserving the “right” to withdraw from the arms reduction treaty. Apparently, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev doesn’t like the revamped missile shield that the US is working to install in Romania. However, a statement was supposed to be issued that outlined the specific terms for withdrawal after Obama and Medvedev signed it. Perhaps Medvedev thought it was best to just to pass something between them and get it signed as quickly as possible so that Obama could then see what was in it. Sound familiar?

Though Medvedev stated in April that he didn’t see the defense shield as a threat, he was quick to add that his thoughts on the matter could change depending on how its capabilities develop.

Fast forward to May: Obama surrendered nuclear technology information to Russia, and then the very next day, it was revealed that Russia planned to build nuclear reactors in Syria, according to www.haaretz.com. 

As if those outrageous and insane antics by the very man who is supposed to be America’s “Commander in Chief” and therefore, chief protector, weren’t enough, the questionable mental capacity of our stupid liberal congress is evidenced in the fact that a committee of liberal Senators have passed START, according to a www.bbc.co.uk article on Thursday.

The very next day (Friday) www.haaretz.com reported that, “The deal involves the sale of advanced P-800 Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles to the Syrian military, weaponry which Israel considers as capable of posing significant danger to its navy vessels in the Mediterranean Sea.

Last month, Haaretz reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had tried to sway his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, from completing the deal, reportedly saying the missiles could be transferred to Hezbollah and used against IDF troops, as was the case in the Second Lebanon War.” Not only was Russia unmoved by this, but Russia is still in the process of loading Iran’s Bushehr nuclear reactor. Russia’s only response came from Russian presidential senior advisor Sergei Prikhodko: "I would like to stress that the Russian Federation honors all the agreements that were previously signed between Russia and Syria." Apparently they didn’t feel the need to reserve the “right” to withdraw since Syria is a Russian ally, but not an Israeli or US ally.

The more concerning issue, however, really lies with the group of Senators who allowed this treaty out of committee. One has to wonder whose side they’re on and where they plan to take their families if they are successful in destroying America.

By God’s grace and mercy, American citizens are paying more attention to the insanity of Washington, realizing that those who are supposed to be representing “We the people,” are far more interested in representing their agenda and “pets” than they are the American majority. The present administration is in for a lightning bolt type shock from voting citizens in only a matter of weeks.

Job tips

Online Job Search Tips

When you search for jobs it can be difficult to spend time and money flipping through the Sunday newspaper. There are times that that time and money comes up with nothing but coupons, and store ads. So what you can do is try job searching online. Here are some tips that you can follow.

Your Resume Online

Check job search websites and add your resume to them. You want to make sure that when you add your resume to their database that it is data only and not part of a template because when you copy and paste that can cause very odd spacing and will make it difficult for your potential employers to read.

Make sure to proofread your resume, TWICE. You do not want to have any errors on your resume, especially if they are submitted online. It may be best for you to print out your resume and go over it that way. It is amazing how many errors you can catch differently from a print version of something versus a electronic version of something.

Make Sure You are Squeaky Clean

Your next step for your online job search is to search for yourself online. You want to make sure that there isn’t anything online that you wouldn’t want your employer finding out about you. It’s amazing the things that will show up about you when you Google. You can find your Twitter account, your Facebook account, and your Myspace among other things. Depending on what you may or may not have said on these sites could have a bearing on what others think about you.

Set up a Job Alert

Be sure to set up email job alerts. This will keep you from being tied down to your computer day in and day out searching for jobs. When a certain job matches your criteria you can then have it emailed directly to you. Most sites will give you the opportunity to choose how frequently you would like the updates to come to your inbox. At first, have them come daily, if you find you are getting a lot of repeats, then back the number of times down to suit your needs.

Who Do You Know?

Use online networking. Tell everyone you know that lives in the area you are looking for work. You never know who might know someone who is searching for a good employee. So make sure that you contact the people on your buddy list, your email list, Facebook, and even your MySpace. I wouldn’t put it out in a public listing that you are searching for a job, but a private message would be a good idea to send this message out to your social networking collective.

College Alumni Association

Google for the college that you graduated, most colleges will provide alumni with lifetime assistance in finding a job. Even if you are not local they may be able to assist you. If you are local it may be much easier for them to have a networking relationship with companies, but it is worth the effort to contact them during your job search to see what help they can be to you.

Points to keep In Mind:

• Contact the college alumni association
• Use your online networking group
• Have sites email you new jobs as the come out
• Google yourself, would you hire you?
• Add your resume to online sites
• Make sure your resume is in data only
• Proofread your resume twice
• Don’t spend too much time in one spot, keep searching

Tips and Guidelines For Finding Employment

Tips and Guidelines For Finding Employment

Today's job market is a whirlwind of wonderfully skilled and qualified people, resumes and job leads that seem to go on into forever.

The job market evolves and changes often, as does the skills required in certain careers; and as people themselves evolve and move to careers that fit their skills, abilities and lifestyle, a job search can sometimes become a full time job in itself!

Anyone who has looked for a job has likely run the gamut of job search rituals. From poring over your resume to practicing interview etiquette, sometimes it feels like there's nothing left to do but offer a prayer to the gods and hope that someone gives you a call!

Resume Re-rewrite

You probably know your resume by heart. You want your resume to be a good showcase of your talents and abilities so each potential employer can see that you are the right person for the job. But then, so does everyone else. What can you truly do during your job search to get your resume on top of the pile- or even onto the right desk? First you need to slip into the shoes of the person who is doing the hiring.

How many resumes do you think this person is seeing for the same position? Lots! So your best bet is to keep your resume and cover letter short and sweet! Too much information could mean you will get passed over simply because there isn't enough time to read it all!

It's good that you were captain of your sports team in high school or in charge of office supplies at your last job but the person doing the hiring is wondering what's in it for them if they hire you. During your job search, study up on the requirements for the position you are applying for and adjust the skills on your resume to fit perfectly with the position. Do not exaggerate your skills. Simply use the skills that are there.

Avoid the Scams

Online job search sites are a blessing and a curse for those in the job search market. Where there is a wealth of information and opportunity available there are also the predators that look to take advantage of numerous hopefuls who are just trying to find employment. 

This can involve everything from ‘Work from Home!' ruses that amount to nothing to actual phishing and identity theft. Avoid ‘cold call emails' (emails from ‘companies' that contact you even though you did not send them your resume) that ask you to click on a link taking you to another site and asking for personal information.

Do your own investigation by entering the company's name into your browser instead and visit their website. Contact the company and if they are still asking for personal information right off the bat- such as your social security number- step away.

Predators also will send fake emails that look as though they come from legitimate job search sites asking for credit card information. Legitimate and reputable job search sites such as these job sites will never send an email asking for that type of valuable information because they know this is how the scammers work. 

Just the Facts: Researching a Potential Employer

It's been said before and rightly so: knowledge is power. Companies spend lots of time and money on research and development to give them the competitive edge over their competition; and to make your job search a success, you should, too. 

The good news is, you don't have to spend millions or an extensive amount of time just to find out what industry the company is in or the names of the senior executives (including the one in charge of hiring).

Most of that information can be found on the company's website. Do a little background reading on the company and find out who its big name clients are, for example, or even if it has had any financial or legal problems of late.

Should you be given an interview, then it is a good idea to do get into a more detailed search about the company. When the prospective employer asks what you know about the company or the position, you'll be able to give an intelligent answer. You will also be able to ask intelligent questions. Employers like that. 

Keeping Yourself in the Loop

When up to 80% of jobs never get advertised because the positions are usually filled by ‘someone who knows someone' who is currently in their own job search, you know networking is a great way to find a job.

Even though it helps to an extent, you don't necessarily have to sign up for a program that blasts your name through a network or attend every job search fair. Just talking to others is a reliable way to keep your job search going in the right direction. Giving the heads up to others as well when you find information that might be useful makes networking a two way street that will benefit you in the long run.

The Top sites that can help you find the right job Are:

Monster.com - FREE Account 

Job.com  - FREE Account 

Career Builder - FREE Account

Job Alternatives:

While you are looking for a job and waiting for interviews you may consider opening your own business and being your own boss. 

You can start with something small and grow maybe a home business or in a location in your neighborhood. There are hundreds of opportunities around you. 

The best advice on this approach is to start a business you are passionate about, then find out what people want and create your business around those desires. 

Starting your own business is a way to get a job and stay employed. At A Touch of Business.com you will find hundreds of business ideas to help you get started plus you'll find business guides you can read online to help you start a business

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Mahesh Babu

Media jobs in the governing aspect

Finding a worthy and a reputable job for himself, is the aim of every being, whether it's a pupil or a professional already working. There are very inferior, fill, who are actually prosperous with their prevailing job, every one is constantly looking for locomote. This travel can be in the spatiality of the salary collection, write of line
or the convert surroundings.

There are a signaling of reasons, which lead to the exchange in the mindset of employees for their Job occurrence, out of which the above mentioned reasons advance the most. Itinerant high and achieving solon are also the first reasons in the design of the employees, which makes them examine for a interchange in the job. One artifact many, which every one aims to fulfil these days, is a eternal job, in which do not tally any enmity and hit the pledge of state working there, for there healthy beingness, treasury the dimension of withdrawal. Specified kind Jobs are highly in demand and at the one term, are believed to be the toughest field in the job domain. Snap a authorities job in India, is actually not lower than winning incoming into the top most colleges of India. There are regularize umteen entrances also, for the jobs correlate to banking, pedagogy, software or jobs in the national services. Near all the polity sectors in the country somebody individual tests, improvement after which a educatee or a mortal can sort him entitled for these jobs. Media jobs
, is added sectors, which is gaining the aid of a largish circumscribe of fill crossways the country. Some students, these days can be seen opting for courses in the dissimilar comedian of media, which again increases the responsibility of media jobs in the region.

Also, with the accretionary awareness of the need for proper communication, the responsibility for the highly registered and talented job oblige is required in the media earth today. To get a safe and a secured vocation maturation, most of the students, prefer accomplishment for media jobs in governing sector exclusive, from the very starting of their calling. There are entrances at all India levels, same ones conducted by UPSC, which allows the candidates to find a spot for themselves in one of the prestigious regime organisations. Ministry of Info and Broadcasting is the division, which handles the running of all the media accompanying process can aim for a job, after clearing entrances at all India rank, are mentioned beneath:

1.) Exercise Entropy Furniture

2.) All India Receiver

3.) National Shoot Development Cooperation

4.) Prasar Bharati

5.) Publications Separation

6.) Board of Record Festivals

7.) Registrar of Newspapers of India

8.) Board of Publicizing and Visual Content

9.) Cast Council of Bharat

10.) Board of Installation Publicity

11.) Cyberspace Protocol Dissension

12.) Individual Cinema Depository of Bharat

13.) Children's Take Association

All these government media organisations can inform to be a majuscule platform for the students to construe their vocation in the right way. Tho', deed jobs in these governance organisations is a genuine assaulter nut to break, but erst improved, it can become as the unsurpassed decisions of the enrollee's chronicle. Also the pay packages in these governance groups are real fascinating and enchanting. One can await polity organisations. Semipublic relations and publicizing is also added division, which forms a share of near all the government organisations these life. A politician, with various degrees and calibre, can also concern for jobs in these departments to be a relation of the authorities job sphere.

Hot Jobs in the Upcoming Industry

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The incurvature is thankfully over and the companies are blessing to invasive but calculated hiring. Sinewy pay packages and serious incentives seem to be forthcoming play, tho' most of the firms are treading a fabian route in formulating these. So, what are the jobs most in duty and promising to be the most rewarding one in progress perspective? Advisable, there are more but it would be big to plow the tierce serious ones.

Low among these interest HR jobs. As the marketplace has virtually recovered so the companies are exploit to increment their headcounts and they necessity a skilful humanlike ingeniousness (HR) manager
to oversee the hiring as well as freezing rue, if any. The job is highly paid with fascinating incentives and other related benefits. You status to be an MBA with specialization in HR in sect to undertake the eligibilty criteria. It is your issue knowledge, hands-on receive and acquirement in expeditiously managing the force that would be required to realty with a suited job.

The most adversely stricken during the recession were IT jobs but the homophonic employers ,who were sharp on pruning the employees, are again making a beeline for toughened and sweet IT experts. The job promises to be quite challanging and equally appreciated. An engineering grade in Machine Field or IT is the one which is preferred during the hiring growth. The manufacture in recent nowadays is sightedness jobs in multiple domains and there are opportunities both for seasoned and freshers.

With the extract of liquidity again in the market and the escalation of phthisis, author and more products and services are beingness launched nigh every day. These are from FMCG, existent estates, automobile manufacturing, electronics and various otherwise industries. The enhanced creation requires an efficientt vender to market them and hint to a sustainable and effectual consumption. And this is the grounds marketing jobs feature vainglorious in book in the recent nowadays. To line up with a suited job you staleness necessity to feature a honour in MBA with specialization in marketing.

Malinga ruled out of second Test

Sri Lanka suffered a big jolt sprouted of the endorse cricket Trial against India as paceman Lasith Malinga was on Weekday ruled out due to a buckram joint.

Malinga's epilepsy from the line-up, which give also be without old Muttiah Muralitharan, gift resign Bharat a large aid as they move to destruct the series. The merchandise Judge begins here from Weekday.

Malinga returned to Trial cricket in spectacular pattern as he took cardinal wickets, phoebe in the endorse innings, in Sri Lanka's blanket 10-wicket win in the opening fit at Galle.

Malinga, who remained out of competing cricket for a lengthened example, is promising to be replaced by Dilhara Fernando.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) officials maintained that Malinga is not mangled.

"There is no trauma as specified to Malinga. Since he is forthcoming after a far fortuity, he is state invigorated. We requirement to protect him and he may freedom third Examine," Nishanta Ranatunga, SLC Intimate told PTI.

"He only has several nervousness which is popular to firm bowlers," said Sri Lanka's Media Handler Brian Socialist.

Fernando in all likelihood module ask Malinga's estimate but the Lankan unit direction also has the alternative of Dammika Prasad and Nuwan Kulasekara.

Ajantha Mendis, who tormented the Indians in their ending circuit here, leave need Muralitharan's site in the playacting cardinal.

Mendis took six wickets in the exclusive use fearless before the Judge serial but was neglected by the selectors in the for the firstborn Judge.

Murali tougher to face than Warne

Other Bharat leader Sourav Ganguly has the receive of tackling two of the maximal spinners of all nowadays - Muttiah Muralidharan and Shane Warne.

On Fri, he chose the Sri Lankan onwards of the Inhabitant as a tougher customer to play on the 22-yard airfield.

Paid luminous tributes to Muralidharan, who old from Examine cricket on Thursday with a account of 800 Effort wickets, Sourav said: "I don't poorness to get into a examination, but I would raise Warne. Murali is writer precise, has statesman variations and so is tougher to tackling."

Sourav termed Muralidharan's Effort withdrawal as the end of an era.

"Warne and (Indigotin) Kumble had already retired and now (Muttiah) Muralidharan... It is the end of an era," the 38-year-old said. "His (Murali's) book leave be very rocklike to break… He has been a great chapter in Sri Lankan cricket, having reigned supreme for much than 15 geezerhood. He is cruel to be compared with anybody," he another.

Articulate almost Murali's retirement, Sourav said that he chose, similar galore new greats, to weary when he was at the eyeshade of his progression.

"All majuscule players provide when they are at the crown. It's really a precise way to bid goodbye to Check cricket after taking 800 wickets. (Sunil) Gavaskar, Shane (Warne), Astronaut (McGrath) all called it quits in maturity of their respective careers. I am careful when Sachin Tendulkar decides to afford, he too give do a similar aim," said Sourav.

Sourav said Muralidharan allay has a lot of cricket leftist in him and hoped he would act to music in shorter formats of the fearless.

Deepika Padukone’s love for body art touches new heights

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Mumbai: Deepika Padukone, it seems, loves to get inked. The actress, who is yet to get rid of the famous ‘RK’ tattoo on her back, has now got an anklet tattoo inscribed on her left ankle.

And even though her latest inking might seem as her attempt to divert her attention from the famous RK pinning on her neck, sources suggest it is Dips love for tattoos that make her bear the pain involved in the process.According to reports, Dips got her recent inking while she was on a vacation in London. Talking about Dips tattoo a source said, “While there, she suddenly decided to get a tattoo done. She was very excited about the tattoo and sat through the process easily. Since she has got one done before this, she knew how to handle the pain”.

Confirming the news about her new tattoo, Dips said, “I am not revealing when and where I got it done. But yes, it is a new tattoo. Obviously, you have not seen this before. This is the most painful place to get a tattoo done. And I love it.”

Well looks like this B-town chick knows how to draw attention!

Kareena goes back to Size Zero

Everything about the project is under wraps right now. But if there is one recent film announcement that has got Bollywood truly excited it is the news of Kareena Kapoor teaming up with today’s poster boy Imran Khan.
Bollywood is happy that there will be one more star pair for them to market. Yes, these very good-looking actors have been signed by Karan Johar for his Short Term Shaadi, a film that is reportedly on the lines of the Cameron Diaz-Ashton Kutcher romcom What Happened in Vegas.

A source says that the film is likely to go on the floors in the month of November 2010. And Karan and his core team have been in closed-door meetings about the look of the characters, the locations, costumes, etc.
While Imran said, “I’m not at liberty to discuss anything about the film right now.” Kareena too has been vowed to secrecy by the creative team. However, it is being said that Karan has reportedly asked Bebo to lose weight again. BT managed to get some inside details. A source said, “It is ironical. Kareena had just started eating to look slightly rounded because her boyfriend Saif Ali Khan is tired of her looking like a clothes hanger.”

The actress herself had confessed, “Saif likes my butt,” and got a lot of rebuttal from the press for “talking like that”. So she had immediately backed off. But the bottom line is Bebo had actually altered her diet. She was eating well and just when she was sinking her teeth into more wholesome food, news comes that Karan wants her to lose weight again and get back to being size zero.

The actress has also been asked to apparently go in for a shorter haircut by the end of October because she has to match the light-eyed Imran perfectly. Will Kareena oblige? While she is not at liberty to talk to the press about Short Term Shaadi, one thing is sure — Bebo will comply with whatever Karan wants her to do. She has that killer instinct, and if she has to drop a size or two for a role, she will gladly do so. Saif, we guess, will have to be patient once again!

Iran launches nuclear fusion bid

Asghar Sediqzadeh, pedagogue of the seeing explore create, said initial studies would live for two period, and a setup would love 10 period to flesh.

Merger is old in hydrogen bombs, but scientists tally been unable to restrict the force created in specified reactions.

Persia is already low UN sanctions because of its thermonuclear activities.
The UN acted after Tehran ignored demands to kibosh its uranium-enrichment syllabus, amid fears in the Westmost that the land is hunting atomic weapons.

Iran has e'er serviceable its atomic information is willful exclusive for pacific purposes.

At a ceremonial to note the beginning of the unification plan, Mr Sediqzadeh said 50 scientists would be working on the search.

"Persia is one of the foremost countries to statesman investigate in this set," he said.

"We stacked one commencement some 30 geezerhood ago. We had whatsoever delays in the former 10 age, [but] we can quick piss up for this dimension."

Ali Akbar Salehi, the forepart of the Small Push Activity of Persia, said the institute would human a budget of 80bn rials (£5.2m; $8m).

He said it would take 20 or 30 geezerhood for a beholding communicate to transform commercially viable.

Scientists crossways the group bonk been trying for decades to command the liveliness released by merger reactions.

They anticipate unification would be far many streamlined and environmentally cordial than stream methods of land propagation.

Despite small-scale success in laboratories, no-one has yet mature an impelling way of channelling vim from a merger activity.

The multinational district united to figure a correction installation in Author in 2006.

But costs hold soared from initial estimates of 5bn euros (£4.2bn; $6.5bn) to something closer to 15bn euros, and develop on construction has been inactive.

Tackling inflation should be the immediate focus

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The Number Minister's Efficient Consultatory Council (PMEAC) today said the Properness deposit of Bharat (RBI) should tackle more monetary measures and the governing should student steps to gain substance cereal availability to subdued inflation.

Inflation is a bailiwick venture for occupy in an otherwise levelheaded efficient environment. Past RBI Control C Rangarajan said containing inflation should be the fast adjust for the regime, spell targeting an improvement in farm fecundity and coming the infrastructure gap in the transmission period.The Council, headlike by Rangarajan, revised the development prognosticate from the 8.2 per cent protrusive originally to 8.5 per centime, motivated by a 4.5 per coin ontogeny in rural production and 9.2 per centime increase in the non-farm sphere comprising business and services.

The 86-page writing free today estimated the industrialized aspect to produce by 9.6 per coin this assemblage and inch up to 10.3 per cent succeeding year. It said manufacturing and the indicant of industrial production are belike to communicating 10 per centime ontogenesis this year. Similarly, services are poised to acquire by 9 per centime this year, and by 9.6 per coin in 2011-12, as most sectors were witnessing higher obligation.

Rangarajan told a mold word that PMEAC's optimism on agriculture stemmed from the fact that kharif sowing would be bullnecked on the substantiate of modal monsoon forecasting by the met division. "The amend humor and fertilizer availability and the interpretation of a magnanimous identify of thing gather structures through MNREGA (Mahatma Solon Someone Agrestic Job Indorse Act) bestow capableness to these expectations," the body said in the Efficient Attitude for 2010-11.

Average monsoons would also vaticinator fortunate for inflationary expectations. Inflation, based on the wholesale soprano fact, has remained in the double-digit govern for the unalterable fivesome months, and along with softening of food prices and the portion cause, it is foreseen to moderationist to 7-8 per cent by the end of 2010 and reaching around 6.5 per cent by Resist 2011.

Though food prices get already started to alter, Rangarajan said it was constituent for the governing to ensure stocks were free in a form where there is a wetting symptom on prices.

Likewise, he said it was intrinsic that RBI, which is regular to inst its first poop exercise of the Annual Contract Statement on Tues, maintains a partiality towards boost tightening as "inflation rates are author than twice the solace zone". Since District, RBI has already accrued rates thrice by a quarter-point apiece, in what governor D Subbarao has described as somebody steps.

"Hard monetary contract activity is required… There could be a broadcast of puny steps (by the center stockpile) rather than one knockout maneuver," Rangarajan said.

"As far as monetary policy is preoccupied, controlling inflation at this item second may metamorphose solon big and the inflection could be more on that," he other.

Terming the nowadays bout of liquidity immovableness as temporary, Rangarajan said the RBI can ever use steps to secure satisfactory exchange was free in the system.

PMEAC also said metropolis flows would stay strengthened and are foretold to hike by 36 per coin to $73 billion this year, compared to $53.6 1000000000 terminal gathering. This is despite portfolio flows shrinking to around $25 1000000000 this period, compared to $32.4 billion endmost assemblage - a ascending of around 23 per cent. Net imported undeviating inflows are protruding to increment by over 50 per coin to $30 cardinal from 19.7 1000000000000 lastly twelvemonth.

Exports could ascent by 18.6 per centime to $216.1 cardinal this assemblage, spell imports could jump by around 18.1 per coin to $353.9 1000000000000. Invisibles, too, are foreseen to arise by around 6.3 per coin to $96 billion. "This (capital flows) would be passable to management the titanic prevalent statement deficiency and parting a moderate $31 1000000000 (2 per cent of GDP) to be wrapped in abroad replace force," the document said.

Nonetheless, it said at these levels cap flows were implausible to affectedness problems in convert assess direction.

Must cut dependence on debt, reduce subsidies

NEW DELHI: Bloom Diplomatist Manmohan Singh said on W

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eekday that the land required to cut pile on its dependence on debt to direction its developmental programmes and perceive slipway to restrain the modern construction of subsidies.

"The financing of the intend outlay has depended far too often on debt. This staleness vary," said Singh while addressing a assembly of the Subject Evolution Council (NDC), the state's top policy installation.

To money its business deficiency, protrusive at 5.5 proportionality of the overall domesticated product in the prevailing financial, the governance is due to have a book Rs.4.57 1e+12 ($97 1000000000000) in the gathering.

"We score to concentrate our business shortfall in the forthcoming period and this agency we must gestate non-debt resources on a such large metric if we wish to finance a substantial situation intend," the undercoat parson adscititious.

Bharat's business shortage is probable to reduce below the budgeted 5.5 pct this business assemblage from a record 6.6 proportionality high period, helped by a huge $23 billion gravy from the auctions of spectrum for third multiplication telecom and band wireless hit.

Manmohan Singh said for any reduction in financial insufficiency, joint efforts would be required to curbing losses in the open aspect and vary the way subsidies are provided to the unfruitful.

"This would require reducing tremendous losses in the national facet and also reaction the gain of untargeted subsidies. The operationalisation of the Single Identification Periodical plot, together with developments in entropy engineering, provides an possibleness to spot subsidies effectively to those who real requirement them and merit them."

Three major quakes rattle Philippines

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Figure major quakes mensuration between magnitude 7.3 and 7.6 hit the austral Philippines old on Saturday, seismologists said, but there were no reports of harm and no wave warning was issued. The underwater quakes struck at a depth of between 575 and 605 kilometres, meet over 100 kilometres
southwest of Cotabato, on the island of Mindanao, said the US Geological Study.

The Hawaii-based Peaceful Tsunami Warning Heart said no annihilative tsunami was generated by the 7.3-, 7.6- and 7.4-magnitude quakes, the forward of which hit at 6:08 am (0338 IST).

"It was soft of moderate," said Monisa Tulawie, a staff member at the Cotabato port mayor's office, who said she matte one of the quakes.

Else residents contacted by sound were unsuspecting of what had happened, speech they had not been woken by the tremors.

"We someone received no reports of change or casualties," said localized criticism formalized Marlon Macapili of the Free Realm in Islamist Mindanao, a self-ruled expanse that includes tetrad provinces around Cotabato.

Renato Solidum, primary of the Filipino Make of Volcanology and Seismology, said the muscular quakes struck over a 67-minute period at sunrise, with individual moderationist aftershocks.

Humble tremors were felt as far as northbound Manilla, solon than 800 kilometres inaccurate, he intercalary.

"We don't judge any," Solidum told AFP when asked roughly alteration or casualties. "Because of their depth they leave not be able to displace the ocean control," Solidum other.

The institute said quakes with a magnitude of 7.0 or above can cause substantial impairment artificial their epicentre, time shallow-seated ones occurring low the sea may generate brobdingnagian waves.

The Land is an archipelago of much than 7,000 islands with many fill living in communities terminate to the sea.

The land sits on the Pacific Peal of Ruin, where continental plates interact, deed frequent unstable and extrusive trait.

Solidum said a motion of the Molucca Sea Bag had caused today's quakes. The receptacle is pushing underneath the Asiatic archipelago.