Men in blue get blues for the country

A billion people's hopes were shattered when india made a shameful exit from the world cup.
India's World Cup of woes were full after they crashed to a 69-run defeat in their last Group 'B' engagement against Sri Lanka on Friday, sliding towards elimination from the tournament.
And finally India were knocked out of the World Cup after Bangladesh beat debutants Bermuda by seven wickets in a Group B match on Sunday.

Gates, Buffett Top Billionaires Ranking

Bill Gates, Warren Buffett Top Record-Breaking Forbes Magazine's Billionaires Ranking. They're among a record number of wealthy people who held the title of billionaire over the past year. The tally of billionaires around the globe reached a high of 946, their combined wealth growing 35 percent to $3.5 trillion, according to Forbes magazine's 2007 rankings of the world's richest people.

Among three Indians in the wealthiest top 20 are Mukesh and Anil Ambani, feuding brothers who got even richer after dividing their fortunes in 2005. Mukesh Ambani ranked 14th with a $20.1 billion fortune, while brother Anil came in four places lower at No. 18 with his $18.2 billion.

Big B's property may land Jaya in trouble

Rajya Sabha member, Jaya Bachchan might land in trouble due to Big B...the issue being related to some property bought by Amitabh Bachchan, which did not find mention in Jaya's nomination papers for June 2006 bypoll to the upper House.

I has been claimed that Amitabh had bought two plots of land in Daulatpur village of Bara Banki, 40 kilometres from the state capital, which were duly registered in Big B's name on May 15, 2006 with the office of the registrar. Exactly a fortnight after the land was registered, Jaya filed her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha bypoll. This fact was not mentioned in Jaya's asset declaration, mandatory for the candidates.

Sunita poised to set space walking record

Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, the first person of Indian descent to take a stroll in space, is all set to become the world's most experienced woman space walker.Starting with an outing at 8:30 a.m. IST Thursday, flight engineer Williams and International Space Station (ISS) commander Michael Lopez-Alegria will take three spacewalks in nine days to step up station assembly before NASA shuttles stop flying in 2010.Their main job is to attach the US-made Destiny laboratory to a new cooling system installed at the half-built space station during the last shuttle flight, a round trip of 8.5 million km, in December.
The next two space walks are scheduled for Feb 4 and 8. If time allows, they will photograph a solar panel that is due to be folded up during the next shuttle mission in March.While Williams will top the women's list with four spacewalks on completion of the work, Lopez-Alegria too will become US space agency's lead spacewalker with 10 after a fourth spacewalk Feb 22 with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin

Tendulkar catching up with Kumble, Srinath on ducks

Sachin Tendulkar is fast approaching a record he would not like to be either mentioned or remembered.The world's most successful batsman registered his 17th duck in 376 matches against the West Indies in the second one-day international at Cuttack.The Mumbai batsman is fast catching up on this count with Javagal Srinath and Anil Kumble, who however are not known for their batting prowess. Srinath leads the Indian list with 19 ducks, just ahead of Kumble on 18.

Isn;t it high time for the maestro retire!!!

Shilpa wins 'Celebrity Big Brother'

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty has won Channel 4's reality TV show "Celebrity Big Brother" and bagged an estimated 100,000 pounds (almost Rs.9 million) in prize money.wheww!!!ths surely is biggg money!! The results surely didn't come as a surprise because the bollywood star was tipped as the favourite to win.
Shetty is now manifestly, greatly in demand in Britain, after she started to weep buckets of tears 10 days into the reality TV show because of Goddy's racially-charged bullying.Not a bad out come ...afterall Money and fame both came in for the actress.

HAPPY REPUBLIC DAY!!!!!!

As we are celebrating Republic Day on 26 Jan 2007 ...Today......I want you all to think and write about what you miss the most....about ur country..!!!

Could it be bursting firecrackers during Diwali or dancing for garba every night during Navratri?

Or
Going to all your family's houses and celebrating Eid with all your family and friends?

Or
Eating the Motichur ladoos and having garam garam vada pav with lasun chatni in the streets?

.....Or it could even be the gettogethers on the kattas near the colleges where we use to chit chat for looooooong hours and eat all possible stuff from the thelewalas / samosewalas/sandwichwalas?

Just pen them down.....and lets all take a break from our routines and go back to the OLD MEMORIES for some time at least.....