Current Affairs Info : Saturay,22nd 2009

Hi Again

Well the weekend is here ; time to get a break from "office" work and take some "more" time out towards the other work !!

Lots of things happening around in the world of Sports , Politics and Business , and always Current Affairs. I will have a dedicated Sports Section from today , highlighting all that you need to know in the world of Sports. Another info , I am sports fanatic ; be it badminton, cricket , football , I love playing it and also following it .

To start off , what are the different things going on :

World of Cricket :

1. Virender Sehwag has revolted against the DDCA ( Delhi and District Cricket Association) and along with several others like Ishant Sharma , Ashish Nehra have not turned up for training, accusing the DDCA of corruption. Sehwag is reportedly interested to play for Haryana instead in the Ranji trophy

Aha ! ! Can you tell me what are the domestic cricket tournaments help every year in our country. Dont worry , ll tell you everything in short :

Ranji Trophy
The Ranji Trophy was launched as the "Cricket Championship of India" at a meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India in July 1934. The first Ranji Trophy fixtures took place in 1934-35 with Bombay walking away with the top honours.

Irany Trophy
The tournament was named after the late Z. R. Irani, who was associated with the Board of Control for Cricket in India since its inception in 1928. It is a 5 day match played between the Ranji Champions and the Rest Of India.

Duleep Trophy
The Duleep Trophy, named after Kumar Shri Duleepsinghji, was launched by the BCCI to espouse more competition in the Indian cricket arena. The tournament was proposed to help the national selectors in assessing the form of the cricketers.

Deodhar Trophy
The Deodhar Trophy was started in the 1973-74 as a one-day equivalent of the Ranji Tournament. It is named after the grand old man of Indian Cricket - the Late Prof. D. B. Deodhar. It is played between the five Indian cricket zones- the North, South, East, West and Central Zone.

Challenger Trophy
The Challenger trophy began in India 1994-95. In 1998-99, it was renamed to as N. K. P. Salve Challenger Trophy in honor of N. K. P. Salve, the person who was instrumental in bringing the World Cup to the country in 1987. It is played between the Indian national team along with two other teams India A and India B consisting of the most promising Indian cricketers at domestic level.

Cricket you see is a Religion in a country like ours ! ! ! Dont worry I am not going to go on and on about these tournaments, as it can be very lenghty and I will bore you then :).

Well some recent cricket important cricket matches going on :

England and Australia are facing each other in the Ashes , 2009. It is termed as one of the greatest rivalries in the world of Cricket. Click here if you want to know more ! !

Some Sports Personalities in news !! !

• Kumar Sangakkara ( Cricket , Sri-Lanka ) : World's no 1 Test Batsman ranked by International Cricket Council ( ICC )
  
• Arjun Balu : National Rally Driver
  
• Usain Bolt : He also claimed the World 200 mtrs athletics Championships beating the previous record of Michael Johnson .
  
• Stuard Board ( Cricket , England )
  
• Blanka Vlasic ( Athletics , High Jump ; Russia )
  
• Sebastian Vettel : Formula One Driver

Talking about Formula One, do you know the drivers of the ForceIndia team ( owned by the charismatic Vijay Mallya ) ?

They are Giancarlo Fiscicella and Adrian Sutil . And guess who is the test driver ? Vitantonio Liuzzi......are you bit amazed , I was also hoping to see the name of Narain Karthikeyan somewhere in that list .

Now time for some Currentl Affairs :

• The Haryana State Assembly has been dissolved by the Governor Jagannath Pahadia on recommendation from the Chief Minister , Bhupinder Singh Hooda and the cabinet.
  
• Who is the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India , he is Montek Singh Ahluwalia . Okay ..now why am I asking about the Deputy Chairman , who is the Chairman of Planning Commission ? it is always the Prime Minister of the Country.
• See this link : India to give Rs 2,000 cr assistance to Nepal. Click here

Well thats for the day, more coming on its way ! !

Bye

Tidbits for the day:19/08/2008

Writing a blog regularly is a tough job when you consider the hectic schedules we are all exposed to . Dont think that I want you to have pity on me for that, its just a fact that I am stating right now. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do not the know the person who said "A busy person has the time for Everything" , but if he was able to do everything , hats off to that person.

Once had read a newspaper article about Khushwant Singh about his daily set of magazines and newspapers ; but I seriously feel its a luxury to read them . With the kind of days we have at times, just feel at times if we are just trying to do too many things in too short a time. Or maybe not ! ! ! Tough to thing to decide as these are all very very personal things.

Well , this world is an unforgiving one , after we saw what happened to Jaswant Singh, just because of his book on Jinnah , he is being expelled from BJP. For a pretty good article on it , click here.

Liked this comment from him " I am worried and sad that just one book has led to my expulsion," he added, wondering what would happen if "soch, vichar and chintan" (thinking and introspection) stopped in Indian politics.

Rightly said , I think that every person has the right to express his opinions and taking such a action is totally undemocratic on part of the party itself ..

Assam and its neighbouring states were rocked by a EarthQuake today .The quake which measured 4.9 in the Richter scale was experienced at around 4.15 pm, the Regional Seismological Laboratory in Shillong reported

Some background of EarthQuakes

Two earth quake measuring scales are Richter and Mercalli scale. The magnitude of most earthquakes is measured on the Richter scale, invented by Charles F. Richter in 1934. The Richter magnitude is calculated from the amplitude of the largest seismic wave recorded for the earthquake, no matter what type of wave was the strongest. For more details , you can read here. It is a good read for people learning Geography or taking it as an Exam Optionals.

On Sports and Business side also , many developments are happening !! !.. The updates are coming shortly.

Bye for now everyone ! !!

Tidbits : 17/08/2009

1. Which are the countries celebrating Independence day on 15th Aug every year ?

Korea ( North K and South K ) year 1945 ; Democratic Republic of Congo ( year 1961 ) ; Bahrain : 1971

2. On 14th Aug this year , Pakistan celebrated their Independence day ; it conferred to Sitare -e-Imitaz to 17 foreign nationals including an Indian. Who received it ?

Parliamentarian Nirmala Deshpande , a passionate advocate for India Pakistan relationships received the award posthumously.

3. "CIL , SAIL Chief conferred SCOPE Award" . what is being referred to here ?

SCOPE - Standing Committee on Public Enterprises

CIL - Coal India Limited , conferred as an organisation

SAIL Chairman , Mr S.K. Roongta was conferred the award in individual category.

4. Boat Clinics "AKHA" offerring ray of hope in remote islands of the Brahmaputra. More Details ?

These are mobile boat clinics started in the remote islands of the Brahmaputra , which provides health-care facilities to people in these remote areas. They were started by an NGO , C-NES ( Centre of North East Studies and Policy Research ) and entered into a Private-Public partnership with NHRM ( National Rural Health Mission ) . For the full article click here

Feels good personally that people even today are working hard for the welfare of people living in downtrodden areas giving up many a luxury themselves.

4. Sonia Sotomayor was currently in news. Why ?

She is the 1st Hispanic judge into the US Supreme Court and the 3rd female judge.

Coming more on your way today ! ! ! !

Till then enjoy and take care