Anil Kumble, India's most successful leg spin bowler in one-day cricket and a perfect teamman, announced his retirement bringing the curtain down on his ODI career but making it clear he would be available for the Test matches.
"I wanted to go with the ball in my hand. It did not happen in the last World Cup. It feels a bit different to be a part of the team and not play. I was hurt at not being a part of the eleven but took it in my stride.
"I spoke to my colleagues and stayed on. This World Cup we had a good chance but unfortunately it did not go our way. Its time for me to end and pass the mantle to young players," said 37-year-old Kumble.
The expected announcement came a day after his return from the disastrous World Cup in the Caribbean. Despite his good performance in practice matches and against Bermuda (only official match he played in this world cup), he was not given the green card to play against Sri Lanka.
"It has been a one long journey that started in 1990. Today I formally announce my retirement from one-day cricket," Kumble told a press conference.
"I thought of giving up ODIs four years back. Actually right thoroughout my career I was fortunate enough to be a part of the team. It became a habit to be a part of the team," said Kumble, who has 337 ODI wickets from 271 one-dayers at an average of 30.89.
Kumble actually increased life of his Test career by few years or by few tests after retiring from ODI. His Test figure reads 547 wickets in 113 matches with an average of 28.65.
Kumble era is over, now who is next? - any taker
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
IT will make newspapers extinct, says Kamath
Forecasting a gloomy future for the global newspaper industry, eminent journalist and Prasar Bharati Chairman M V Kamat today said newspapers might lose their relevance in the next one decade and even become extinct due to the explosion of Information Technology.
Already the circulation of newspapers, including the popular New York Times and The Washington Post, had gone down deeply while the London Times in the UK had now become a tabloid, he said at the inauguration of the three-day 'Print Congress-2007', an International Conference on 'Print and Media Technology', here.
He cautioned that even books would also become irrelevant as the number of book lovers was drastically coming down and a day would come where everything would be heard and nothing would be seen. "The IT may chanage your lifestyle in future so that you may not require paper... Just information and not knowledge," he added.
The conference is being organised by the Department of Printing and Media Engineering of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT).
Gunther Keppler, the General Manager of Heidelberg India, who inaugurated the Congress while contradicting the views of Kamat, said the argument that IT would lead to be paperless offices had been found to be false. "We could find today more paper in the offices than before." He said that the application of know how of printing education would be decisive in the printing production investment projects. Training and education was most important in print media segment, he added.
(Source: PTI)
Already the circulation of newspapers, including the popular New York Times and The Washington Post, had gone down deeply while the London Times in the UK had now become a tabloid, he said at the inauguration of the three-day 'Print Congress-2007', an International Conference on 'Print and Media Technology', here.
He cautioned that even books would also become irrelevant as the number of book lovers was drastically coming down and a day would come where everything would be heard and nothing would be seen. "The IT may chanage your lifestyle in future so that you may not require paper... Just information and not knowledge," he added.
The conference is being organised by the Department of Printing and Media Engineering of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT).
Gunther Keppler, the General Manager of Heidelberg India, who inaugurated the Congress while contradicting the views of Kamat, said the argument that IT would lead to be paperless offices had been found to be false. "We could find today more paper in the offices than before." He said that the application of know how of printing education would be decisive in the printing production investment projects. Training and education was most important in print media segment, he added.
(Source: PTI)
Supreme Court puts break on Quota Express - Right or Wrong?
In a setback to pro-reservationists, the Supreme Court stayed the central law providing for 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in elite educational institutions like IITs and IIMs.
The Court held that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation.
However, IIMs and IITs have decided to go by Centre's decision on quota issue.
All political parties have come together to raise their voice against the stay for the very simple reason of saving their vote bank. In a live interview with one of the News Channel one politician defended the quota reservation saying that there is no quota in the final exams hence whoever has the talent will passout and become Doctor or Engineer. Absolutely right, but what about those students who would be denied admission because the seat is reserved for so called OBCs.
We talk a lot about equality yet our law divides its own citizens based on their cast and creed. Is it ethical? Is n't the right time has come to stop all this nonsense? If political circle believes that OBC/SC/ST students could not compete with others then why not provide training to them and make them competent rather than just reserving seats for them.
OR at least spare institutes like IITs and IIMs from this quota virus.
The Court held that the 1931 census could not be a determinative factor for identifying the OBCs for the purpose of providing reservation.
However, IIMs and IITs have decided to go by Centre's decision on quota issue.
All political parties have come together to raise their voice against the stay for the very simple reason of saving their vote bank. In a live interview with one of the News Channel one politician defended the quota reservation saying that there is no quota in the final exams hence whoever has the talent will passout and become Doctor or Engineer. Absolutely right, but what about those students who would be denied admission because the seat is reserved for so called OBCs.
We talk a lot about equality yet our law divides its own citizens based on their cast and creed. Is it ethical? Is n't the right time has come to stop all this nonsense? If political circle believes that OBC/SC/ST students could not compete with others then why not provide training to them and make them competent rather than just reserving seats for them.
OR at least spare institutes like IITs and IIMs from this quota virus.
Quote of the day
"Never, Never, Never Quit. It's always better to fight and then lost rather than be loser without fighting at all"
Thursday, March 29, 2007
IIMs and IITs to go by Centre's decision on quota issue
Putting the ball in the HRD Ministry's court, IIMs and IITs today said they would go by the directive of the Government on providing 27 per cent reservation for other backward classes (OBCs).
These top institutions were reacting to the Supreme Court order staying the law extending 27 per cent reservation for OBCs.
"Now the Common Admission Test(CAT) Group will meet soon and decide regarding the OBC quota admission on the basis of the communication received" from the HRD Ministry, IIM- Ahmedabad Director Bakul Dholakia told reporters.
Voicing similar views, Directors of IIM-Kolkata and IIT- Kharagpur Shekhar Choudhury and S K Dubey respectively told PTI that they would go by the Centre's decision on the reservation issue.
IIT-Guwahati Director Gautam Barua said his institution would await the final verdict of the apex court to decide its future course of action.
The IIM-A had decided to increase the seats phasewise in a span of three years to complete the 27 per cent quota,. Dholakia said in Ahmedabad, noting that it wanted to increase this year six per cent seats in the first phase based on the order of the HRD ministry.
The IIMs will complete the admission process for this year by April 12, Dholakia added.
Sources in the IIM-A, however, said it would be impossible for the institute to implement the six per cent OBC quota in this academic year as the next hearing on the case will take place in the apex court in August and IIM-A will be completing the admission process by April 12.
This means that the admission procedure will done this year without the OBC quota, the sources said. (Source: PTI)
These top institutions were reacting to the Supreme Court order staying the law extending 27 per cent reservation for OBCs.
"Now the Common Admission Test(CAT) Group will meet soon and decide regarding the OBC quota admission on the basis of the communication received" from the HRD Ministry, IIM- Ahmedabad Director Bakul Dholakia told reporters.
Voicing similar views, Directors of IIM-Kolkata and IIT- Kharagpur Shekhar Choudhury and S K Dubey respectively told PTI that they would go by the Centre's decision on the reservation issue.
IIT-Guwahati Director Gautam Barua said his institution would await the final verdict of the apex court to decide its future course of action.
The IIM-A had decided to increase the seats phasewise in a span of three years to complete the 27 per cent quota,. Dholakia said in Ahmedabad, noting that it wanted to increase this year six per cent seats in the first phase based on the order of the HRD ministry.
The IIMs will complete the admission process for this year by April 12, Dholakia added.
Sources in the IIM-A, however, said it would be impossible for the institute to implement the six per cent OBC quota in this academic year as the next hearing on the case will take place in the apex court in August and IIM-A will be completing the admission process by April 12.
This means that the admission procedure will done this year without the OBC quota, the sources said. (Source: PTI)
1984 Sikh mass murders - Finally some justice after a long wait of 22years
Three people have been sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court for lynching three members of a Sikh family during the 1984 riots.
A fine of Rs 5,000 each was imposed on the convicts - Harprasad Bhardwaj, R P Tiwari and Jagdish Giri.
However, the court rejected the prosecution's contention that the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare' category for which the three convicts should get death penalty.
"Rigorous life imprisonment would meet the ends of justice," said Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri.
The three have been convicted for leading a mob on November 1-2 and attacking the house of complainant Harminder Kaur in 1984 in an East Delhi locality after anti-Sikh riots broke out.
As per the prosecution, Kaur's husband Niranjan Singh, a Head Constable with the Delhi Police, who was on duty at Shahdara Railway Station on November 1, 1984, was lynched and set ablaze by a mob led by the convicts.
Her 17-year-old son Gurpal Singh and son-in-law Mahender Singh were killed the next day by the accused.
A fine of Rs 5,000 each was imposed on the convicts - Harprasad Bhardwaj, R P Tiwari and Jagdish Giri.
However, the court rejected the prosecution's contention that the offence fell under the 'rarest of the rare' category for which the three convicts should get death penalty.
"Rigorous life imprisonment would meet the ends of justice," said Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri.
The three have been convicted for leading a mob on November 1-2 and attacking the house of complainant Harminder Kaur in 1984 in an East Delhi locality after anti-Sikh riots broke out.
As per the prosecution, Kaur's husband Niranjan Singh, a Head Constable with the Delhi Police, who was on duty at Shahdara Railway Station on November 1, 1984, was lynched and set ablaze by a mob led by the convicts.
Her 17-year-old son Gurpal Singh and son-in-law Mahender Singh were killed the next day by the accused.
Santa-Banta are not funny
Santa-Banta jokes have been doing rounds for years now. But the Sikh community at the receiving end is anything but amused.
Some of the community members are demanding that the jokes be banned. “It's sheer humiliation. Think of the psychological impact such jokes have on a Sikh child,” says Businessman Jaswinder Singh Bajaj.
“We teach our children about our community, but when everyone else makes fun of it, they don't think much of it too,” says Preeti Bajaj.
People say laughter is the best medicine. But for the Sikh community laughter has turned into a bitter pill. In Mumbai, the Sikh community is enraged at joke booklets that are mocking at their community. “What are they trying to say with books like these? That we are jokers? How can we find it funny?” asks Swaranjit Singh Bajaj Vice-President, Sikh Media and Culture Watch.
Sick and tired of being made”butt of joke” members of the Sikh community are now saying the joke has gone too far. They have now approached the state's Minorities Commission with an appeal to ban such joke books.
“Their complaint is that such jokes that are going on for years now, cause them pain. There are fools in every community. We have written to the police commissioner and are awaiting action from them under Section 295 (A),” says Abraham Mathai Vice-Chairman, State Minorities Commission.
“I get very annoyed, I'm sick of it,” says one Sikh Avtar Singh.
The community says if no further action is taken, they will take their complaint to the courts.
Some of the community members are demanding that the jokes be banned. “It's sheer humiliation. Think of the psychological impact such jokes have on a Sikh child,” says Businessman Jaswinder Singh Bajaj.
“We teach our children about our community, but when everyone else makes fun of it, they don't think much of it too,” says Preeti Bajaj.
People say laughter is the best medicine. But for the Sikh community laughter has turned into a bitter pill. In Mumbai, the Sikh community is enraged at joke booklets that are mocking at their community. “What are they trying to say with books like these? That we are jokers? How can we find it funny?” asks Swaranjit Singh Bajaj Vice-President, Sikh Media and Culture Watch.
Sick and tired of being made”butt of joke” members of the Sikh community are now saying the joke has gone too far. They have now approached the state's Minorities Commission with an appeal to ban such joke books.
“Their complaint is that such jokes that are going on for years now, cause them pain. There are fools in every community. We have written to the police commissioner and are awaiting action from them under Section 295 (A),” says Abraham Mathai Vice-Chairman, State Minorities Commission.
“I get very annoyed, I'm sick of it,” says one Sikh Avtar Singh.
The community says if no further action is taken, they will take their complaint to the courts.
Sikh organizations give memorandum to UN
Amritsar, Mar 27 : Representatives of nearly 25 Sikh organizations from around the world gave a memorandum to the UN on various international Sikh issues in Geneva on Tuesday.
Nearly 200 members of the various Sikh organizations from 15 countries assembled at Langenthal to highlight the problem of religious freedom. The conference coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.
Talking to ANI from Switzerland, Harminder Singh, senior member of Sikh Foundation, said that though most of the Sikh affairs in India were taken care by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), but as far as international Sikh issues were concerned, the SGPC had failed to take them up at international platform.
The representatives said that their demands include a request that the UN endorses International Code of Practice on Sikh articles of faith.
They said that Sikhs across the world were facing increasing difficulties regarding religious freedoms and their visible identity due to a lack of knowledge and ignorance.
The memorandum said that there was a need to properly protect the Sikh identity and articles of faith at work, in business and in public places.
Harminder Singh said that identity crises were one of the major issues for the Sikh living outside India. He lamented that SGPC also failed to resolve turban issue with the Government of France.
This was the first time that representatives of various Sikh organizations from different countries assembled on an international platform to not only discuss the Sikh issues, but also put forward their best efforts for resolving these issues, he added.
Besides Sikh representatives, senior members of various human right organizations also took part in the conference.
Nearly 200 members of the various Sikh organizations from 15 countries assembled at Langenthal to highlight the problem of religious freedom. The conference coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome.
Talking to ANI from Switzerland, Harminder Singh, senior member of Sikh Foundation, said that though most of the Sikh affairs in India were taken care by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC), but as far as international Sikh issues were concerned, the SGPC had failed to take them up at international platform.
The representatives said that their demands include a request that the UN endorses International Code of Practice on Sikh articles of faith.
They said that Sikhs across the world were facing increasing difficulties regarding religious freedoms and their visible identity due to a lack of knowledge and ignorance.
The memorandum said that there was a need to properly protect the Sikh identity and articles of faith at work, in business and in public places.
Harminder Singh said that identity crises were one of the major issues for the Sikh living outside India. He lamented that SGPC also failed to resolve turban issue with the Government of France.
This was the first time that representatives of various Sikh organizations from different countries assembled on an international platform to not only discuss the Sikh issues, but also put forward their best efforts for resolving these issues, he added.
Besides Sikh representatives, senior members of various human right organizations also took part in the conference.
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