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Russian rouble at new highs as c.bank shifts band

April 3, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

MOSCOW, April 2 (Reuters) – Russia’s central bank shifted the rouble’s floating trading band for the 23rd time since mid-February on Friday, allowing the currency to scale fresh 15-month highs versus the basket, dealers said.

The regulator moved its floating corridor to 33.85-36.85 roubles against the euro-dollar basket from 33.90-36.90 after purchasing $700 million at the boundary and some $100-150 million within the band, dealers said.

“The central bank stepped back because with such oil prices the market is turning around and more people are entering new short positions (in dollars and euros),” said a dealer at a major Russian bank.

By 1037 GMT, the rouble had climbed as far as 33.8836 versus the basket, according to Reuters data RUS=MCX — its strongest since late December 2008.

(Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh; editing by Toni Vorobyova)

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Tibetans-in-exile at Leh react strongly to Chinese incursion

September 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Leh, Sep 15 (ANI): Members of the exiled Tibetan community at Leh reacted strongly to the recent Chinese trespass into India’s border areas in Ladakh region.

Such concern was expressed by functionaries of Tibetan fora based at Leh on Monday.

Warning India of Chinese designs, Kunzang Dechen, President of Regional Tibetan Youth Congress, Leh, termed China as the biggest threat to India.

“China these days is a great threat to India. I have seen through channels…that the Chinese are entering to the border but when Tibet is an independent nation, when Tibet is in between them, China has nothing to bother even. From Indian point of view, this must be settled through Tibet and not through China,” Deche added.

Sonam Gyatso, President of Tibetan Market Welfare Association, Leh, said that if the recent developments in Ladakh are ignored by the government of India, then Ladakh would also meet the same fate as Tibet.

“The one and half kilometres incursion by the Chinese troops in Ladakh…. written at the border area in Chinese ‘Republic of China’, all these will have a bad impact on Ladakh. In Pangong Lake, first they said 45 kilometres is under China and 45 kilometres is under India, which they (Chinese) have extended to 50 kilometres and if Ladakhi government and the authorities ignore this issue then whatever happened in Tibet, the same would happen in Ladakh also since Ladakh is a very isolated region,” Gyatso added.

Officials sources have said that Chinese troops entered nearly 1.5 kilometres into the Indian territory near Mount Gya, which is recognised as the international border by India and China, and painted the word ‘China’ in Cantonese on the boulders and rocks there with red spray paint. The incursions were reported from the area generally referred in the Chumar sector in east of Leh.

The 22,420 ft Mount Gya, also known as “fair princess of snow” by the Army is located at the tri-junction of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir, Spiti in Himachal Pradesh, and Tibet. Its boundary was marked during the British era and is regarded as International border by the two countries.

The border patrol discovered the red paint markings on various rocks and boulders along the Zulung La (pass) on July 31 and the Chinese had entered into the area and written “China” all over the place, the sources said.

Indian soldiers later erased the text, writing ‘India’ instead.

This is not the first such reported intrusion. On June 21 Chinese helicopters had violated the Indian air space along the Line of Actual Control in Chumar region. The Chinese troops also reportedly dropped expired tinned food packets in the area. (ANI)

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Declining CO2 levels helped in Antarctic formation 34 million years ago

September 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, September 14 (ANI): In a major research study, the link between declining carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the earth’s atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time.

The research was carried out by a team of scientists from Cardiff, Bristol and Texas A and M universities, in a small East African village, where they extracted microfossils in samples of rocks which show the level of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere at the time of the formation of the ice-cap.

Geologists have long speculated that the formation of the Antarctic ice-cap was caused by a gradually diminishing natural greenhouse effect.

The study’s findings confirm that atmospheric CO2 declined during the Eocene – Oligocene climate transition and that the Antarctic ice sheet began to form when CO2 in the atmosphere reached a tipping point of around 760 parts per million (by volume).

According to Professor Paul Pearson from Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, who led the mission to the remote East Africa village of Stakishari, “About 34 million years ago, the Earth experienced a mysterious cooling trend. Glaciers and small ice sheets developed in Antarctica, sea levels fell and temperate forests began to displace tropical-type vegetation in many areas.”

“The period, known to geologists as the Eocene – Oligocene transition, culminated in the rapid development of a continental-scale ice sheet on Antarctica, which has been there ever since,” he said.

“We therefore set out to establish whether there was a substantial decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as the Antarctic ice sheet began to grow,” he added.

The team mapped large expanses of bush and wilderness and pieced together the underlying local rock formations using occasional outcrops of rocks and stream beds.

Eventually, they discovered sediments of the right age near a traditional African village called Stakishari.

By assembling a drilling rig and extracting hundreds of meters of samples from under the ground, they were able to obtain exactly the piece of Earth’s history they had been searching for.

According to co-author Dr Gavin Foster from the University of Bristol Earth Sciences Department, “By using the rather unique set of samples from Tanzania and a new analytical technique that I developed, we have, for the first time, been able to reconstruct the concentration of CO2 across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary – the time period about 34 million years ago when ice sheets first started to grow on Eastern Antarctica.” (ANI)

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George Harrison’s widow in razor fence row

September 6, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, September 5 (ANI): Late Beatle George Harrison’s widow Olivia has been caught up in a planning row after a former television sitcom star alleged that a razor wire fence around her house almost killed his cat.

Rodney Bewes, who starred as Bob Ferris in Seventies television show ‘The Likely Lads’, said the fence posed pets with a dangerous threat and even made the neighbourhood looking like a “war zone”.

Olivia filed a planning application with South Oxfordshire District Council to replace the fence with an identical version, a move opposed by Bewes.

“My cat, Maurice, has been injured on that fence several times, once severing an artery that nearly killed him. It has cost me thousands in vets’ bills,” the Telegraph quoted Bewes as saying.

“There are several other cats – people’s pets – that have been practically gored on that fence, it’s that dangerous.

“It makes me sad when I come home to such a beautiful place and see this thing that makes it look like a war zone. If everybody had razor wire around their gardens can you imagine what it would look like?

“It doesn’t make it any more secure. The bottom half is wood and with a good crowbar you could get through it no problem,” Bewes added.

The Harrisons came up with the boundary in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, after a crazed intruder broke in and stabbed the late guitarist in 1999. (ANI)

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Britain reassures Pakistan 1.08 million dollars as humanitarian aid

August 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Aug.29 (ANI): Britain has reassured Pakistan to provide it 1.08 million dollars as humanitarian aid to help the troubled nation stabilise and counter insurgency in its lawless trouble areas.

During his meeting with President Asif Ali Zardari, who is on a visit to Britain, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said UK is pledged to provide financial aid to Islamabad to help it succeed against the extremists.

“The Prime Minister and the President agreed to tackle the underlying causes of extremism. Brown reiterated our support for Pakistan’s efforts and repeated the UK’s commitment for 665 million pounds over four years. Our development programme in Pakistan is our second largest in the world. We aim to spend around half of this in critical border areas,” a Downing Street spokesperson said.

During the meeting, Brown asked Zardari to ensure that the aid for the region was being spent exactly for the purpose it being allotted, The Dawn reports.

Meanwhile, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik has asked Britain to ‘do more’ to help Islamabad fight extremism effectively.

“Now we say: do more for us. Do more to fight terrorism in the world because we think the terrorists do not have any religion or any boundary,” Malik told media persons after the meeting. (ANI)

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Remains of 11th Century dog found during archaeological dig in England

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, July 8 (ANI): An archaeological dig at the heart of Cambridge University, UK, has revealed Roman pottery, medieval remains and 11th Century dog bones.

According to a report by BBC News, the dig has been taking place beneath a tearoom in the university’s central offices, known as the Old Schools.

It was one of the events marking the 800th anniversary of the university.

Some material pre-dates its foundation in 1209 by over 150 years, and is said to be the first evidence the area was occupied by an Anglo-Saxon community.

Archaeologists have unearthed several animal bones, boundary markings and signs of quarrying, which a spokesman said suggested that in the final decades of the Saxon era, the foundations of Cambridge were being laid.

“The site has enabled us to prove what we previously had no proof for – that by the time of the Norman Conquest there was a thriving settlement in the middle of Cambridge,” said Richard Newman of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

The dig has reached what would have been ground level in ancient times, even before the Saxons arrived.

“In Anglo-Saxon times, a cluster of domestic properties began to emerge, and the dog, which appears to date back to that period, would have been a valuable ally for the family that owned it,” said Newman.

“It would have been a working animal,” he added.

“A dog would also have given people security, it was useful when it came to protecting your possessions and it was cheaper than a lock,” he explained. (ANI)

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Gilani stresses on US-Mexico like fencing along Pak-Afghan border

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, July 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has stressed on the need of fencing the country’s border with Afghanistan on the lines of the US and Mexico border wall to stop terrorist infiltration and drug trafficking.

Talking to US Secretary for Homeland Security, Janet Napilitano, Gilani urged the United States to provide immediate military assistance to help Pakistan tackle the rampant Taliban effectively in the tribal areas.

It may be noted that Napilitano, as governor of Arizona, had initiated action to erect a boundary wall along the US-Mexico border to check the extensive drug trafficking.

Gilani also asked the Obama Administration to provide Cobra helicopters and other military hardware, as well as financial assistance to assist the Pakistan Army to establish their control over the Swat and Malakand Divisions after the offensive in the region is called-off.

Referring to the exodus of over two million people in Swat due to the military operation, Gilani said the international community should come forward and help Pakistan come out of the crises.

He said the aid received by Islamabad has proved inadequate so far, and urged the US and international donors to deliver on their pledges made in the Friends of Democratic Pakistan meeting in Tokyo, The News reports. (ANI)

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NASA spacecraft detects ultra fast hydrogen coming from Moon

June 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, June 19 (ANI): NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the Moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.

During spacecraft commissioning, the IBEX team turned on the IBEX-Hi instrument, built primarily by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which measures atoms with speeds from about half a million to 2.5 million miles per hour.

Its companion sensor, IBEX-Lo, built by Lockheed Martin, the University of New Hampshire, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the University of Bern in Switzerland, measures atoms with speeds from about one hundred thousand to 1.5 million mph.

“Just after we got IBEX-Hi turned on, the Moon happened to pass right through its field of view, and there they were,” said Dr. David J. McComas, IBEX principal investigator and assistant vice president of the SwRI Space Science and Engineering Division.

“The instrument lit up with a clear signal of the neutral atoms being detected as they backscattered from the Moon,” he added.

From its vantage point in space, IBEX sees about half of the Moon – one quarter of it is dark and faces the nightside (away from the Sun), while the other quarter faces the dayside (toward the Sun).

Solar wind particles impact only the dayside, where most of them are embedded in the lunar surface, while some scatter off in different directions.

The scattered ones mostly become neutral atoms in this reflection process by picking up electrons from the lunar surface.

The IBEX team estimates that only about 10 percent of the solar wind ions reflect off the sunward side of the Moon as neutral atoms, while the remaining 90 percent are embedded in the lunar surface.

Characteristics of the lunar surface, such as dust, craters and rocks, play a role in determining the percentage of particles that become embedded and the percentage of neutral particles, as well as their direction of travel, that scatter.

According to McComas, the results also shed light on the “recycling” process undertaken by particles throughout the solar system and beyond.

The solar wind and other charged particles impact dust and larger objects as they travel through space, where they backscatter and are reprocessed as neutral atoms.

These atoms can travel long distances before they are stripped of their electrons and become ions and the complicated process begins again.

The combined scattering and neutralization processes now observed at the Moon have implications for interactions with objects across the solar system, such as asteroids, Kuiper Belt objects and other Moons. (ANI)

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Court judgement could threaten future of UK village green cricket

May 14, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 14 (ANI): A county court is to rule whether a homeowner can stop his local village cricket team playing because of the threat of players knocking a six on to his roof or into his garden.

In a long running dispute that has more the hallmarks of a bitter divorce than a neighbourly dispute, a judge will be asked to hand down a legal ruling that will have implications for amateur cricketers up and down the country, reports The Telegraph.

It centers on Shamley Green, near Guilford in Surrey, where cricket has been played on its village green for 169 years, despite roads running through the playing area and the backs of houses dotting the boundary.

But four years ago, when Mike Burgess moved into a bungalow on the edge of the boundary and just 25 yards from the crease, all that changed.

Aware that a crisp, square leg pull could run under his gate or through his hedge; or a slog could arrow straight onto his roof, he issued a set of demands that would protect his bungalow.

After a flurry of arguments, legal letters and even a session of independent mediation, Burgess is now asking the court to issue an injunction against the club, preventing it from playing on the green until his demands are met.

They include calling for the club to put up 25ft high nets around his property to protect it from any stray balls, and for players to be declared out if they hit it so hard it clears the nets and hits his property. He also wants a health and safety risk assessment to protect other homeowners and the general public while a match is on.

David Harris, chairman of the cricket club, said it had done all it could to meet Burgess half way and said its future was in doubt if the court ruled against them.

The club has a policy of paying for replacement windows and roof tiles caused by their cricketers.

Burgess, 54, a clinical audit specialist, said: “This has nothing to do with stopping cricket, I like cricket, but the injunction is designed to instigate what needs to be done to create a safe environment.” (ANI)

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New nanocrystal shows potential for cheaper and more versatile lasers

May 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 11 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Rochester, along with researchers at the Eastman Kodak Company, have created a nanocrystal that constantly emits light, which has potential for the development of cheaper and more versatile lasers and brighter LED lighting.

Many molecules, as well as crystals just a billionth of a meter in size, can absorb or radiate photons. But, they also experience random periods when they absorb a photon, but instead of the photon radiating away, its energy is transformed into heat.

These “dark” periods alternate with periods when the molecule can radiate normally, leading to the appearance of them turning on and off, or blinking.

“A nanocrystal that has just absorbed the energy from a photon has two choices to rid itself of the excess energy-emission of light or of heat,” said Todd Krauss, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Rochester and lead author on the study.

“If the nanocrystal emits that energy as heat, you’ve essentially lost that energy,” he added.

Krauss worked with engineers at Kodak and researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory and Cornell University to discover the new, non-blinking nanocrystals.

Krauss and Keith Kahen, senior principal scientist of Kodak, were exploring new types of low-cost lighting similar to organic light-emitting diodes, but which might not suffer from the short lifespans and manufacturing challenges inherent in these diodes.

Kahen, with help from Megan Hahn, a postdoctoral fellow in Krauss’ laboratory, synthesized nanocrystals of various compositions.

Xiaoyong Wang, another postdoctoral fellow in Krauss laboratory, inspected one of these new nanocrystals and saw no evidence of the expected blinking phenomenon.

Remarkably, even after four hours of monitoring, the new nanocrystal showed no sign of a single blink-unheard of when blinks usually happen on a scale of miliseconds to minutes.

After a lengthy investigation, Krauss and Alexander Efros from the Naval Research Laboratory concluded that the reason the blinking didn’t occur was due to the unusual structure of the nanocrystal.

Normally, nanocrystals have a core of one semiconductor material wrapped in a protective shell of another, with a sharp boundary dividing the two.

The new nanocrystal, however, has a continuous gradient from a core of cadmium and selenium to a shell of zinc and selenium.

That gradient squelches the processes that prevent photons from radiating, and the result is a stream of emitted photons as steady as the stream of absorbed photons.

With blink-free nanocrystals, Krauss believes lasers and lighting could be incredibly cheap and easy to fabricate. (ANI)

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Physicists create world’s smallest incandescent lamp

May 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, May 7 (ANI): A team from the UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) Department of Physics and Astronomy has created the world’s smallest incandescent lamp.

The team that developed the lamp was led by Chris Regan, a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA, and includes Yuwei Fan, Scott Singer and Ray Bergstrom.

The UCLA team is using their tiny lamp to study physicist Max Planck’s black-body radiation law, which was derived in 1900 using principles now understood to be native to both theories.

The incandescent lamp utilizes a filament made from a single carbon nanotube that is only 100 atoms wide.

To the unaided eye, the filament is completely invisible when the lamp is off, but it appears as tiny point of light when the lamp is turned on.

Even with the best optical microscope, it is only just possible to resolve the nanotube’s non-zero length.

To image the filament’s true structure, the team uses an electron microscope capable of atomic resolution.

With less than 20 million atoms, the nanotube filament is both large enough to apply the statistical assumptions of thermodynamics and small enough to be considered as a molecular – that is, quantum mechanical – system.

“Because both the topic (black-body radiation) and the size scale (nano) are on the boundary between the two theories, we think this is a very promising system to explore,” Regan said.

“The carbon nanotube that is used as the lamp filament is ideal for their purposes because of its smallness and extraordinary temperature stability,” he added.

The UCLA research team’s light bulb is very similar to Thomas Edison’s, except that their filament is 100,000 times narrower and 10,000 times shorter, for a total volume only one one-hundred-trillionth that of Edison’s. (ANI)

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Punjab Kings defeat Kolkata Knight Riders in last ball thriller

May 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Pretoria (ANI): A smashing half century from Mahela Jayawardene of Punjab Kings XI cost sixth straight defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders at Port Elizabeth on Sunday.

Needing seven from the last over off Ajit Agarkar, Jayawardene got a crucial boundary away and left Irfan Pathan facing the final ball needing one. But Pathan got the ball into the gap to spark off wild celebrations in the Kings XI camp.

Kings XI Punjab 154 for 4 (Jayawardene 52*, Katich 34) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 153 for 3 (Hodge 70*) by six wickets.

Four dropped catches overturned Brad Hodge’s impressive half-century and took Kings XI Punjab back into the top four of the IPL after they chased down 154 to beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by six wickets.

The match went down to the final ball but Punjab had clearly outperformed Kolkata through the chase. Mahela Jayawardene, who scored an unbeaten 41-ball 52, and Irfan Pathan held their nerve to take Punjab through and avoid the match being decided by the Super Over.

Brad Hodge made his second consecutive half-century to power Kolkata to 173.
Brad Hodge’s second half-century in two games took the Kolkata Knight Riders to an unexpected 153.

But no one in their right mind would have bet on Kolkata crossing 150 when Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle began the innings.

Hodge and Sourav Ganguly rotated the strike and looked for loose deliveries to convert to boundaries. Ganguly opened the face of his bat to guide a four to third man and then slogged a huge six off Chawla to square leg.

This six clearly boost Ganguly and he tried to attack every delivery after that. It didn’t work and three balls later Ganguly top-edged a sweep to Kumar Sangakkara for a 23-ball 22. It was only when the in-form van Wyk walked in at Ganguly’s dismissal that another 50 more runs began to look like a possibility. (ANI)

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Exoplanets which venture near their host stars are doomed to premature deaths

May 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, April 29 (ANI): Two new studies have suggested that exoplanets which venture near their host stars are doomed to premature deaths – even before they get close enough to be ripped apart by the stars’ gravity.

According to a report in New Scientist, the studies say that a star’s gravity can put a nearby planet on a ‘fast track’ to spiralling into the star and may also cause the planet to lose much of its atmosphere.

More than 300 exoplanets have been catalogued to date. Many are situated close to their host stars, where it is thought to be too hot for gas and dust to collapse into planets in the first place.

That implies that the planets came from farther away and migrated inwards.

But strangely, the closest-in ones are commonly found some 0.05 astronomical units (AU) from their host stars (1 AU is the distance from the Earth to the sun).

This distance, which corresponds to a three-day orbit around a star as heavy as the sun, is sometimes called the “three-day pile-up”.

No one is sure why the planets seem to pile up there. Very close to a star, at a boundary called the Roche limit, planets are dismembered by the star’s gravity.

But, the migration of planets seems to stop well outside this limit. So, the question remains that why do planets seem to stop there?

Brian Jackson of the University of Arizona in Tucson and colleagues offer an explanation.

There may be planets that orbit closer in, but they will not do so for very long before they get dragged inwards by their host star’s gravity.

The tugging is caused by tidal forces between the planet and its star – differences in the pull of gravity on the objects’ near and far sides.

Close-in planets seem to orbit their stars faster than the stars themselves rotate, so this tidal friction will have the opposite effect.

It causes the stars to deform. Their gaseous atmospheres are stretched towards the close-in planets, and causes the planets to migrate inwards.

Planets may only last in close-in orbits for perhaps tens of millions to a few billion years before spiralling into their stars.

“Once a planet gets that close, the tide raised on the star by the planet causes the planet to migrate in so quickly they’re hard to catch,” Jackson told New Scientist.

Stars that are spinning abnormally fast for their age could also be a sign that they have absorbed a planet and “spun up” as a result, he added. (ANI)

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Oram selected for Twenty20 World Cup

April 7, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Wellington, Apr.7 (ANI): New Zealand cricket selectors have taken a gamble by selecting injury-prone all rounder Jacob Oram in their Twenty20 World Cup squad today.

Oram played no part in the three-test series against India because of an Achilles tendon strain. He is currently playing for Central Districts in the State Championship final against Auckland at Christchurch.

The fickle English climate had presented a challenge in selecting the side.

“In selecting the side we have been particularly conscious of selecting players in the middle and lower order who are boundary hitters.We’re really not sure what conditions will prevail in early June. But being able to take 15 players means we have hopefully been able to cover all angles,” said selection committee chairman Glenn Turner.

“We have retained aggressive but more orthodox batsmen in the top order and we’re looking for that extra aggression lower down the order as well,” he added.

Turner said wicketkeeper-batsman Peter McGlashan had proven himself as a good improviser in the middle order and was well suited to the 20-over game.

“Brendon Diamanti is another whose skills fit the short game format – he’s a good striker of the ball an excellent fielder and has good skills with the ball.”

Diamanti has yet to play in international Twenty20 matches, but was part of the T20 squad and played in the one-day series against Australia in February.

He comes into the side after good form in this season’s State Shield, with a batting average of 47.6 and strike rate of 102, and a bowling economy rate of 5.77 in State Twenty20 games.

Four other players are recalled to the squad after being absent from the side which played two T20s against India – McGlashan, who played in the one-day series against India, was part of the T20 squad in Australia in February, Franklin played against Australia in February, while Kyle Mills and Scott Styris turned out in T20 games against the West Indies in December.

Two notable omissions from the 15-strong squad are one-day specialists Grant Elliott and Tim Southee, who are both on the list of replacement or cover players.

The squad will travel to England in mid-May and hold a training camp before the competition starts.

Warm-up matches begin on June 1 with New Zealand playing India at Lord’s, then facing Australia at the Oval the following day.

The World Twenty20 opens on June 5. New Zealand’s group round matches are against Scotland on June 6 at the Oval, and South Africa on June 9 at Lords.

New Zealand squad: Daniel Vettori (captain), Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Brendon Diamanti, James Franklin, Martin Guptill, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Peter McGlashan, Kyle Mills, Iain O’Brien, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Scott Styris, Ross Taylor.

The replacement or cover players are: Peter Ingram, Shanan Stewart, Aaron Redmond, Craig Cumming, Peter Fulton, Jamie How, James Marshall, Gareth Hopkins, Grant Elliott, Ewen Thompson, Tim Southee, Michael Mason, Warren McSkimming, Chris Martin and Jeetan Patel. (ANI)

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Patrolling increased on Indo-Nepal border

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Keeping in the view the coming Lok Sabha polls scheduled on May 13 in Uttarakhand, the state police have planned to beef up security at the Indo-Nepal border. Speaking to Hindustan Times, Ashok Kumar, IG (Kumaon) said, “In a bid to rule out any untoward incident along with Indo-Nepal border, security has been beefed up in the region.

We have also planned to erect several barricades in border areas to keep an eye on suspects during election time.” Three districts of the state including Pithoragarh, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar share 240-kilometer long international border with Nepal.

“The police have to directed to intensify patrolling in areas which are closer to the Indo- Nepal border. We have also intensified hunt for criminals against who non-bailable warrants have been issued in their respective areas.

More than 200 such criminals have been put behind the bars so far,” added Kumar. The Inspector general said the border will be completely sealed on May 13, the day the polling is scheduled.

Meanwhile, Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB) which is deployed by the Central government to look after security at the border has also intensified patrolling. Sources said SSB personnel have started to carry out comprehensive checking drive at the border outposts adjacent to the international boundary

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New Zealand seize advantage in third test against India

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Zealand seized the advantage in the third test against India, capturing three wickets including that of Sachin Tendulkar, in the session to reduce the visitors to 190 for five at tea on the first day on Friday.

Rahul Dravid was on 31 and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni six after New Zealand captured three wickets in the hour before tea. India had resumed after lunch on 101 for two.

Tendulkar had looked comfortable despite some deliveries from Chris Martin that reared up on him off a length and he brought up his 53rd test half century when he square cut Iain O’Brien to the cover-point fence for his ninth boundary.

He was dismissed shortly after when he got an edge to wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum off Martin to be dismissed for 62.

Vangipurappu Laxman, who scored a century in the second innings of the second test in Napier, was caught at second slip by Tim McIntosh off Tim Southee for four, while Yuvraj Singh was trapped in front by Jesse Ryder for nine.

Virender Sehwag (48) and Gautam Gambhir (23) were dismissed in quick succession before lunch after making an aggressive start, scoring 65 runs in the first hour.

Sehwag had stroked seven boundaries and a six before he nicked an O’Brien delivery through to McCullum with the score on 73. Gambhir fell two runs later when he was trapped in front by James Franklin.

India lead the series 1-0 after winning the first test in Hamilton by 10 wickets, while the second match in Napier ended in a draw.

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Pakistan to raise Obama’s Contact Group issue during Holbrooke’s visit

April 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, Apr.5 (ANI): Pakistan is concerned with the US President Barack Obama’s idea of forming new contact group including India on Afghanistan and Pakistan, and has said that it will raise the issue during the US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke’s forthcoming visit to the country.

“We will talk to our American interlocutors. Holbrooke will be in Pakistan soon. We intend to talk to him about the idea of a contact group,” The Daily Times quoted Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Hussain Haqqani, as saying.

Haqqani said bilateral talks and smaller groups of countries were more effective in tackling any issue rather than a group involving several nations.

“We have seen in the past, when many countries try to solve the problem of a third country, sometimes, it can also lead to logjam. So, it is often much better to deal with things bilaterally, in smaller groups,” Haqqani added.

He stressed that Islamabad is aware of its responsibilities in the fight against the rising extremism in the region.

Haqqani said that Pakistan recognizes the ‘War on Terrror’ as it own fight and not just as a favour to the United States.

“Fighting terrorism is a global cause. Pakistan is a partner of the United States, NATO and all its neighbours in fighting terrorism for our own sake, not for somebody else,” he said. (ANI)

Haqqani also admitted that Pakistan could not afford to allow the extremist groups to expand its territory inside its geographical boundary.(ANI)

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Fielding Muslim candidate, BSP hopes to clinch N-E Delhi seat

April 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

In the narrow alleyways of Kabir Nagar in Northeast Delhi, where mounds of garbage are a common sight and houses stand neck to neck, the BSP office is abuzz with activity at all hours.

Community elders, party workers and those seeking favours keep filtering in and out of the glass doors adorned with posters of Mayawati and the BSP’s candidate for Northeast Delhi Haji Dilshad Ali.

It is in this constituency they hope to clinch riding high on the Muslim votebank.

Dilshad Ali is the party’s dark horse who contested the Assembly elections last year from Babarpur constituency and garnered around 28,000 votes.

In Delhi, the BSP is the only party to give tickets to three Muslim candidates – Haji Yunus from East Delhi, Haji Dilshad from Northeast Delhi and Mustkeem Ahmed (Billo) for the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat.

On December 9 last year, the party high command cleared Dilshad Ali’s name for candidacy in the area. Since then, he has been working with 1,200 party workers to make sure the BSP emerges as a viable option for the community. It also helps is that neither the Congress nor the BJP have pitched Muslim candidates from the area. Varun Gandhi’s alleged remarks against the community also seem to have come at a perfect timing. “No Muslim will vote for the BJP here,” she adds.

“Muslims are like tezpatta in biryani- only for flavour. We are considered only as votebanks,” Mohd Nasir, Dilshad Ali’s driver, said.

While the party’s ideology of an “inclusive society” is at the core, it is at the same time making the most of local issues during poll season. At the top of the agenda is a decrepit Muslim graveyard for the Mustafabad, Kabir Nagar, and Babarpur areas. Without a boundary wall and heaps of garbage surrounding it, it is a haven for stray dogs sniffing around the graves.

For local Muslims, it is an emotionally sensitive issue that the party is only too ready to use for its campaign.

‘Social engineering mantra for Delhi’While the Delhi BSP has no manifesto, party workers say the party’s idea of “Samtamulak Samaj Vyavastha” will bring in the votes. The bhaichara samitis, a core programme of the BSP, has been functional in the area for months now, holding meetings and bringing people together. There are around 10 to 12 bhaichara samitis in a Vidhan Sabha constituency.

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Can Obama push the Pak envelope any further?

April 1, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar. 31 (ANI): US President Barack Obama said the destruction of militant safe havens in Pakistan’s tribal areas could not be achieved without full cooperation from the army and the intelligence, but how far can the US push the Pakistan envelope, asks a BBC analyst.

Recently, three American generals have recently accused elements in Pakistan’s ISI of supporting Taliban and Al Qaeda. The unprecedented attack, he points out, follows the announcement of a new US strategy for Afghanistan.

Charges against the ISI may not be new, but they have never before been made so publicly.

To ensure Pakistan’s support in fighting terror on its border along with Afghanistan, the Obama administration has offered an increase in civilian aid, only with a warning that no ‘blank cheque’ is available for the military if it does not ‘perform’.

Last year, Washington’s suspicions were so strong that it scaled down intelligence sharing with the ISI, especially after accusing it of involvement in the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.

As far as the Islamabad is concerned, it never gave up the idea that in order to defend itself against India, it needs a pro-Pakistan government in Afghanistan.

However, the government in Kabul is full of factions hostile to Islamabad and closely allied with India, and India is expanding its influence in the country, according to the BBC analysis.

This is all the more troubling because Afghanistan has never recognized its boundary with Pakistan.

The Taliban, therefore, can be an asset for the ISI.

“The concept of pressuring Pakistan is flawed. No state can be successfully pressured into acts it considers suicidal,” Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin were quoted by BBC, as saying.

America’s leverage is thus limited: in pushing too much, it may lose even the limited cooperation it has, the BBC analyst concludes. (ANI)

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India needs to make Obama understand that all Taliban are bad: ex-NSA Miishra

March 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Mar.21 (ANI): The Indian Government should try to convince the Brack Obama administration that all Taliban are equally bad and dangerous, former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra suggested here today.

“There is nothing like good Taliban or bad Taliban. Taliban is bad. We should try to make President Obama and his team understand this,” Mishra said during a keynote address at the Observer Research Foundation’s seminar on China “Internal Scene: olitical, social and political”.

Mishra, now Trustee of the ORF, said: “India is going to have enough opportunities in the immediate future to convince the Obama Administration.”

He said the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, should raise this point when he meets President Obama in London on April 2 during the G-20 summit.

He said India will have the opportunities at the SCO meeting in Moscow and NATO meeting at The Hague also where India is sending its representatives.

Mishra said, after the Mumbai attack, though the Government said that there won’t be any military action but would launch diplomatic action, but in fact there was no action at all. “There was no diplomatic action”, he remarked.

Saying that India is now low on the US radar, he said the Obama Administration is shifting its policy regarding Taliban and is eager to ensure more Pakistani assistance to fight a section of Taliban.

Though Obama is in need of China now to fight the economic crisis, he said the China-US relations is not going to be a rosy path.

Mishra, who held lengthy negotiations with the Chinese during the Vajpayee regime, said the Chinese are keen to solve the boundary dispute, but they felt the present government lacked the political will to do so.

He said if the NDA came back to power, it would have made significant progress, if not solving the problem itself. He said India had got two good opportunities to solve the boundary problem – once during the prime ministership of Jawarharlal Nehru and another in during the period of Indira Gandhi government in 1980. “There was no political problem then, but we created problems ourselves,” he said.

Saying that the situation now is grave, he said steps should be taken to see that no conflicts arise between China and India.

He suggested that negotiations and dialogues with China, especially in the fields of culture and science and technology, should continue to give the impression of some kind of normalization process. “This we have to keep going,” he said.

The seminar was inaugurated by former Foreign Secretary M.K. Rasgotra. The seminar had sessions on ‘Overall Political Scene’, ‘Centre-Province Relations; Regional Trends and Developments’, ‘Social and Cultural Scene’ and ‘Impact of Globalisation on China and China’s Handling of the Process’.

It was attended by ex-bureaucrats and academics like Salman Haider and K. Raghunath, C.V. Ranganathan, D.S. Rajan, Air.Commodore Jasjit Singh, Dr. Srikanth Kondapalli, Dr. Ravi Prasad Narayanan, Dr. Alka Acharya, Dr. Ravni Thakur and others. (ANI)

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