subhan St Lucia, July 12: Pakistan’s hopes of levelling the series after the disappointment of Galle received a huge setback on the opening session of the second Test, as Sri Lanka’s seamers took all the honours after being asked to bowl first.
On a pretty good batting surface, the seamers took advantage of the new ball, some nip off the surface, and careless batting by some of the Pakistan batsmen to reduce them to 74 for 6 at lunch.
New Delhi, July 12: The Annual General Meeting of the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) would be held on July 31 although any chance of electoral battle between Sourav Ganguly and current chief Jagmohan Dalmiya appears remote.
“The 78th AGM of the CAB will be held on July 31,” CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya told reporters after the state body’s working committee meeting at Eden Gardens here today.
London, July 12: Kevin Pietersen said it was time for the England cricket team to launch a spirited fightback to avoid being crushed by Australia.
England went into Sunday’s final day of the first Test in Cardiff on 20 for two, still needing a further 219 runs to make Australia bat again.
“We’ve put ourselves under a hell of a lot of pressure and it’s up to us to stand up and be counted now,” Pietersen told the News of the World newspaper.
London, July 12: Australia’s media are relishing the prospect of Ricky Ponting’s team ramming home a psychological Ashes blow on ragged England on the final day of the first Cardiff Test Sunday.
England’s challenge has unravelled with each day of the opening Test with Australia’s cricket pundits questioning the team’s attitude, bowling and Andrew Strauss’s captaincy.
England head into Sunday’s fifth day at 20 for two and needing a further 219 runs to prevent going down one-nil in the five-Test series.
Kabul, July 12: The British premier claims the country’s troops are ‘succeeding’ in Operation Panther’s Claw aimed at removing the Taliban militants from southern Afghanistan.
“Despite the tragic losses from the battle the current operations are succeeding in their objectives,” Reuters quoted the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as saying on Saturday.
Operation Panther’s Claw is aimed at rooting out the Taliban from the central parts of the violence-ravaged Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.
Islamabad, July 12: Unknown militants have killed at least five policemen in an ambush in the Manshera district of troubled north western Pakistan.
Militants opened fire on a police vehicle in the Kandbangla area of the district killing all five policemen on the spot, a Press TV correspondent quoted city Police Chief Akhtar Hayat Khan as telling reporters on Saturday.
The militants managed to flee from the scene. Police and law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area.
Hamburg, July 12: July is often a slow month for computer games, but a few of this year’s offerings might still make some people skip the beach and while away a few hours in front of their computers.
Highlights include Overlord II, the sequel to the first smash hit, the role-playing Divinity II, and Call of Juarez, a wild Western action game. There’s also Free Realms, a new online role-playing game.
Hamburg, July 12: Windows XP sometimes sends out annoying warnings about files still ready for burning on CD. This frequently occurs because the user has dragged files onto the drive symbol for the burner without actually burning the files. To eliminate the warning, any files in the “CD Burning” folder need to be deleted.
To do so, first activate the option “Show Hidden Files and Folders” in Windows Explorer under the Tools, Folder Options, View. Then enter “userprofile” in the Explorer’s address bar. “CD Burning” can then be found under “Local Settings/Application Data/Microsoft.”
New York, July 12: Lohan Fakes Pregnancy to keep her job Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan is making news again. This time the alcohol loving party girl is faking pregnancy to keep her job
Well there is no need to fret; as that is the storyline of the new flick Lindsay is doing. In her new film Lohan plays Thea Clayhill, a woman who is about to lose her job. Thea works as a secretary to a very cranky publisher, who is about to give her the pink slip, but then drops the idea as Thea announces her pregnancy.
Mumbai, July 12: ADHYAYAN SUMAN tells Jyothi Venkatesh in a no holds barred interview his take on Jashn and his break-up with Kangana.
Adhyayan Suman is awaiting the release of his third film Jashn after having come up with a hit in the form of his second film Raaz, asserts that though it does help him that he is Shekhar Suman’s son since it automatically gets him attention, he is emphatic that if there was no talent in him, no one would have bothered to come forward to launch him as an actor or continue to cast him in their films.
Mumbai, July 12: No doubt Imran Khan was the discovery of 2008. And if after the experience of tasting the most delicious adulation on this side of Hrithik Roshan he still continues to keep his head firmly on his shoulder, then you’ve to hand it this sensible superstar.
Imran has been shooting around the clock for Aamir Khan’s Delhi Belly directed by Abhinay Deo. There’s patchwork shooting to be done for Soham Shah’s Luck, Imran’s only other film on hand.
New Delhi, July 12: A book on the depiction of Musim culture in Hindi cinema from the 1930s, co-authored by an Indain professor and the head of cinema studies at New York University, was released here Saturday evening.
The “Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema” was written over a period of almost two years by Ira Bhaskar, an associate professor of cinema studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Richard Allen, chair of Cinema Studies at New York University.
Hamburg, July 12: Many internet users spend more time with their browsers than with their cars. Which makes it all the more important to know the pros and cons of the browser you choose for your global surfing.
With that in mind, Firefox 3.5, which came out June 30, is worth a look. Downloads are free.
“We’ve put more than 5,000 improvements into version 3.5,” says Mike Shaver, one of the chief designers at Mozilla, the company that, with a host of voluntary contributors, backs the browser.
Vatican City, July 10: Pope Benedict XVI planned Friday to receive US President Barack Obama at the Vatican, in a meeting in which they were expected to discuss issues on which they have both professed concern – global poverty and the environment.
Obama was scheduled to arrive in Rome in the afternoon after attending, with leaders of advanced and emerging nations, the final day of a Group of Eight (G8) summit in the central Italian city of L’Aquila.
Mumbai, July 10: There are two things that the reclusive Akshaye Khanna is sure of. One is he wouldn’t want to share screen space with his father. The other is he doesn’t want to get married.
Mumbai, July 10: He is just one film old and still makes hearts skip a beat. His good looks paved the way for him to the league of chocolaty heroes like Aamir, Saif Ali Khan and Imraan Khan.
Although his debut film MP3 did not work wonders at the box-office, still he became famous overnight with the beautiful track from the film titled “Pehla Pehla Pyaar Hai Ye’.
Karachi, July 10: The fast bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif could make comeback in the International cricket soon as they have been expected to be included in the 30-member squad for the Champions Trophy by Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB),
According to PCB sources Chairman Ejaz Butt had given green single to select Mohammad Asif in the Champions Trophy probable list, while he had told the interim Chief Selector Wasim Bari to discuss the team management in Sri Lanka on the selection issue of Akhtar.
Karachi, July 10: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) needs to resume cricket ties with India as soon as possible to save them from huge losses in the upcoming years which has been suspended due to tension between both countries.
PCB has television rights contract with the Dubai based TV Channel Ten Sports in which Pakistan has been supposed to play at least two bilateral series against India which is not looking possible until now.
Pamplona, July 10: A man was killed on Friday at the annual running of the bulls festival in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, medical services said.
It is the first time since 2003 that a participant in the festival has died. The victim received a gore wound to the neck from the horns of an animal and died in hospital shortly afterwards.
The identity of the dead man has not yet been released. Three other participants were injured.
Seoul, July 10: North Korean authorities have accused South Korea of pushing talks on the fate of a troubled joint industrial complex to the brink of collapse.
North Korean sources said Pyongyang will take firm action unless Seoul adopts a more sincere approach to the bilateral talks.
The warning comes after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on the future of the Seoul-funded estate located on the North Korean border.
London, July 10: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says his country will not unilaterally reduce its nuclear weapon cache unless other countries engage in disarmament.
“Unilateral action by the United Kingdom would not be seen as the best way,” the British premier said in Italy on Thursday.
Brown told journalists present at the G8 summit in the quake-stricken city of L’Aquila that his country will not negotiate its 160 strategic nuclear warheads, Trident missiles capable of launch from nuclear submarines, should other countries continue their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Karachi, July 10: A breathtaking century from Umar Akmal set up an enormous victory for Pakistan A in the first unofficial ODI against Australia A in Brisbane.
Umar’s 104 from 70 deliveries helped Pakistan set up an imposing total of 339 and their bowlers, led by Wahab Riaz, completed the 146-run win.
Their hefty score was all the more impressive because they had been sent in and were reduced to 3 for 28 in the fifth over after Doug Bollinger and Shaun Tait made early breakthroughs. But Umar and Sheharyar Ghani (93) revived the innings with help from Fahad Iqbal, who made 52.
New Delhi, July 10: Sunil Gavaskar, the legendary opening batsman who is credited with giving Indian cricket a voice, has lamented cricket’s loss of innocence. Speaking on the eve of his 60th birthday, Gavaskar said while the game has become more attractive to watch today some of the old values have gone out of it.
Gavaskar, who played 125 Tests between 1971 and 1987 and was the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs, said that the win-at-all-cost system has brought the unpleasant things that happen in the game have come to the fore.
Mumbai, July 10: With Kites all set to go global, Rakesh Roshan has also revived the idea of a Krrish sequel. This time, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra will not be directing the Krrish sequel for Rakesh Roshan.
Rakesh has decided to take over the responsibility from Rakeysh, and with good reason. After Kites, Rakesh Roshan wants to take Hrithik Roshan’s career to the next international level. The next instalment of Krrish will therefore be a super-hero film to compete with the Hollywood films of the genre like Batman, Superman and Spiderman.
Mumbai, July 10: The dusky Chitrangada Singh who made her influential debut in Sudhir Mishra’s Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi and was all set to team up with the director for his take on Devdas, is now the lead in the director’s most autobiographical film to date.
Sudhir Mishra’s new film entitled Homecoming which will be shot in the director’s hometown will tell the story of a woman’s return to her roots.