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Flintoff to make comeback by next month

June 4, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, June 4 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who retired from test cricket in 2009 after helping England regain the Ashes from Australia, is expected to return to action for his county club Lancashire by July or August.

Flintoff, 32, has been recuperating since undergoing reconstructive knee surgery after the final test at the Oval and is still ambitious to represent England in one-day cricket.

He had initially targeted England’s one-day series in Bangladesh in February for his comeback, but had to abandon that plan while conducting his rehabilitation in Dubai, Stuff.co.nz reports.

“Fred was with us last week and he had a long interview with Mike Watkinson (the cricket manager at Lancashire) and he said he is on course,” Lancashire chief executive Jim Cumbes told reporters.

“He is full of enthusiasm. It’s amazing that with the time he has been out he is still able to plough on. We are hoping to have him back by the end of July or start of August,” Cumbers added. (ANI)

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Monsoon woes continue in Uttar Pradesh

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Madna (Uttar Pradesh), July 4 (ANI): Delay in Monsoon in Uttar Pradesh, is upsetting villagers and farmers of Madna village, as they are going through a tough time as the fields in the region have almost dried up.

Harvesting was supposed to start by June 15 but with the delay in monsoons, the whole schedule went haywire.

“We haven’t received any rainfall since last monsoon. We received light rainfall some 7-8 days ago but it was of no benefit. The crops are completely dried up. We don’t plough the land now as the crops which have dried up are now finished,” said Kamlesh Singh, owner of a field.

The village head of Madna, Om Prakash fears that if the current situation continues, it may bring the villagers on the verge of death.

“Farmers are feeling helpless as our village is a flood prone village and many of the sugarcane crops got destroyed earlier because of it. This time we just had wheat crop yield and if there are no rains, then drought might occur and bring the farmers to the verge of death,” said Om Prakash.

Meanwhile, priests in Hyderabad performed fire rituals to appease the Hindu God of rain, Indra.

While incessant rains are lashing the western parts of the country disrupting normal life, it is playing truant in some southern parts of the country.

The monsoon is crucial for summer-sown (Kharif) crops and most of the country’s marginal farmers rely solely on the rains.

Lack of rains has created concern among people across the country. Thus almost all farmers are desperately seeking divine intervention. Parched farmlands present a grim situation. (ANI)

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Chomu emerges as favourite shopping hub for agricultural equipments

July 4, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Jaipur, July 4 (ANI): Chomu, a small town near Jaipur, is emerging as favourite hub for the purchase of agriculture equipments and machines.

In spite of being surrounded by non-fertile land, people in this region are economically self-sufficient because of their technical capabilities.

The agricultral machinery business in the town has flourished a lot due to sufficient availability of the raw materials.

“Unlike other villages, sufficient raw materials are available in our village. Therefore we have so many agro-machinery manufacturing workshops. Secondly the agriculture sector is also booming,” said Nathuram Jangid, agriculture machine fabricator.

The machines fabricated in the town are being supplied to Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and Uttaranchal.

According to the factory owners, the reason behind the success is that their machinery is more advanced, accurate and well fitted. That is why farmers prefer using the machinery manufactured in Chomu at their farms.

“Our machines are famous across the country because we use original bearing and original fittings. The buyers opt for our machines when they realise that our machines give superior service to them,” said Vijendra, another agriculture machinery fabricator.

There are over 150 small and medium sized Agro machinery manufacturing factories in this town.

Various types of Agro machineries are produced here but the owners claim that thresher, cultivator, plough and fodder cutting machines are always sought for. By Lokendra Singh (ANI)

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Peter Andre wants a ‘quickie divorce’ from Jordan

May 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 25 (ANI): Oz musician Peter Andre has revealed that he wants a “quickie divorce” from his estranged wife Jordan, despite the latter’s constant pleas to reconcile.

Though Jordan begged Peter to reconcile and bombarded him with text messages and phone calls on her 31sr birthday, her efforts have gone in vain because peter is in no mood to reciprocate to her plea.

Jordan urged Peter to reconcile telling him: “Please give me another chance.”

“I’ll take Pete back tomorrow. I’ll drop the divorce if he gives me another chance. If only I could turn back the clock. I’ve made the biggest mistake of my life,” the Mirror quoted Jordan as saying.

Though Jordan urged Peter to “stop rushing things” in a bid to reconcile, he is less than convinced, as Jordan recently got all his stuff removed from their home and consulted top lawyer Fiona Shackleton over their divorce.

“Kate doesn’t want to rush things. She believes Pete is moving too fast and doesn’t want him to go through this divorce without thinking it through properly,” a source said.

“As far as Pete is concerned, though, their marriage is dead and buried. All he cares about is the welfare of his children. There is no going back. Pete wants to get on with things for the sake of his kids and plough on with the divorce – the quicker the better. He doesn’t want things to be delayed and turn any nastier than they already are. He just wants resolution, again for the sake of the children,” the source added.

Meanwhile, according to reports, Peter is only worried about his kids and wants to get through with the divorce as soon as possible.

“Pete wants joint custody – and that’s all he cares about right now. He doesn’t want his heartstrings tugged, and he sees the split as permanent,” the source added. (ANI)

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To protest Chinese rule Tibetan farmers refuse to sow spring crops

April 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Apr 11 (ANI): Tibetan farmers discontented with the Chinese rule have refused to sow their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.

Chinese officials are so anxious at the latest action of farmers that they have sent in troops from the People’s Liberation Army to work with them or in their place if need be to carry out spring planting in mountainous regions.

The Times quoted sources as saying that many farmers in areas of Sichuan province with large ethnic Tibetan populations have decided to down tools and leave their barley fields fallow this year.

“The farmers know that they will be the ones to suffer if they do this. But this is a way for them to show their unhappiness,” one source said.

State-run TV broadcast footage show soldiers accompanying Tibetan farmers into the fields to plough and hoe. The Government has even ordered officials and party members into the fields themselves to get on with the spring planting.
he extent of the protest was impossible to gauge since foreign reporters are barred from Tibet and have been prevented from entering Tibetan-populated regions.

However, it appears to be serious enough to have prompted a statement this week from the Dalai Lama’s capital, saying: “The Tibetan Government in exile of the Dalai Lama appeals to Tibetans not to make this sacrifice and to stop their ‘refusal to till the fields’.”

A huge police and army presence across Tibet has failed to still simmering unrest, local residents said. (ANI)

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When foes turned friends

April 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) They fought the 2004 Lok Sabha elections against each other. But now they are campaigning together for the 2009 polls.

Surjit Singh Salathia of the National Conference and Madan Lal Sharma of the Congress slugged it out in the last polls for the Jammu-Poonch parliamentary constituency. Sharma emerged victorious.

But in a political twist following the November-December assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the National Conference and the Congress entered into a partnership to rule the state and also decided to fight the Lok Sabha polls jointly.

Salathia, who won the assembly election from Vijaypur and is now a minister in the National Conference-led government, is campaigning for Sharma. He urges his party men and constituents in the Jammu constituency to vote for the Congress nominee.

‘This time, don’t look around for plough (National Conference symbol). Vote for hand (Congress symbol),’ he tells his supporters. ‘Sharma is our candidate and his victory is mine.’

Sharma reciprocates, ‘We are brothers’, as he lifts Salathia’s hand in a display of unity between the two rivals and their parties.

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Pharmaceutical experts selling English Channel water as blocked nose remedy in US

March 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, March 9 (ANI): Pharmaceutical experts are selling water from the murky English Channel to Americans as a blocked nose remedy.

Drugs company Shering-Plough claims that its Afrin PureSea Hydrating Nasal Rinse is “the only nasal rinse product made of 100 per cent purified seawater.”

The water is sourced from one of the world’s busiest shipping lane several kilometres off the coast of Saint Malo in northern France, which is surrounded by sewage works.

But the company still says that it has been proven to clear mucus, and help people breathe more easily.

French company Goeman, which extracts the water, told the Mail that the water is collected several kilometres off the coast for purity, and has to meet strict quality controls.

The water will not be marketed in the UK, reports the Telegraph. (ANI)

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Robert Burns is first non-Royal to be honoured with three collections of stamps

January 19, 2009 By Rajesh Leave a Comment

London, Jan 19 (ANI): Scottish poet and lyricist Robert Burns has become the first non-Royal to be honoured with three collections of stamps.

Burns, whose new edition of stamps will be unveiled by the Royal Mail this week, has outdone even wartime leader Winston Churchill, who got just two editions, and William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, who both got just one edition each, reports the Scotsman.

The Bard’s honour is the crowning glory of a 50-year-old campaign for Scotland’s icon to be recognised by the Royal Mail, and a miniature sheet of the first-class stamps, which feature two Burns designs and four Scottish designs, will be released on January 22.

One of the stamps features the title of the poem ‘A Man’s a Man For a’ That’, with a detail from a copper-plate engraving from a painting by James Sargent Storer of Robert Burns turning up a mouse in her nest with his plough, inspired by Burns’s poem ‘To A Mouse’.

The second stamp features Alexander Nasmyth’s famous portrait of the Ayrshire poet.

The other four stamps feature a saltire, a thistle, a lion rampant and a cloth of tartan.

The first edition of Burns stamps, finally issued in 1966, were meant to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth in 1959, but the campaign was originally denied by Parliament despite 30 questions being asked in the House.

However, in 1964, Labour MP Tony Benn reversed the decision when he became postmaster general, and the first two commemorative stamps were released.

In 1996 a second collection of four stamps, each one featuring a line of Burns’ poetry, were released in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of his death.

A Robert Burns commemorative 2 pounds coin, produced in association with the Royal Mint, will also be on sale. (ANI)

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