Born : 10 July 1949 at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

One of the game’s great opening batsman, Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to reach 10 000 Test runs and held the world record for most centuries for many years. A short man with an excellent technique, he made an immediate impact on Test cricket when he scored 774 runs at an average of 154.80 in his first series against West Indies in 1971.
He was the first player to score two centuries in a Test match on three separate occasions. He was …

Born : 6 January 1959 at Chandigarh, Punjab, India
Kapil Dev was a swashbuckling all-rounder. He was the first genuinely successful fast bowler produced by India and went on to become the leading wicket-taker in Test cricket. He was particularly skillful in his use of swing. His best bowling of 9-83 came against West Indies at Ahmedabad in 1983, the first captain to take nine wickets in a Test innings.
With the bat he was a natural striker of the ball who scored his runs quickly, once saving the follow-on in a …

The revised double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA) with Switzerland may not help India track down the black money stashed by Indians in Swiss bank accounts, known for their secrecy.
A day after signing a protocol amending the double taxation avoidance pact with Switzerland, Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday told the Lok Sabha that “as far as Swiss laws are concerned, they don’t give any information on their banking transactions”. The revised pact would result in information sharing on taxes, with a wider scope. He also said that the information …

Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of Parliament  (MP)
Monthly Salary : 12,000
Expense for Constitution per month:10,000
Office expenditure per month :14,000
Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km) :48,000(  eg.For a visit from
kerala to Delhi & return: 6000 km)
Daily DA TA during parliament meets:500/day
Charge for 1 class (A/C) in train: Free  (For any number of times)
(All over India )
Charge for Business Class in flights : Free  for 40 trips / year
(With wife or P.A.)
Rent for MP hostel at Delhi : Free
Electricity costs  at home : Free  up to 50,000 units
Local phone call …

Mumbai: The Indian Premier League’s broadcast rights holder MSM Satellite, Singapore has said its dispute with WSG Mauritius can be sorted out only in an Indian court which will have to summon suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi as a witness.

Modi has to appear in court: MSM
MSM, which has entered into a fresh agreement with the BCCI for the media rights license, has alleged that WSG accepted facilitation fee for transfer of rights when it did not possess any rights.
MSM had paid Rs 125 crore to WSG for the IPL broadcast …

Yes, you read it right. And it is a sorry tale, isn’t it? Virender Sehwag has scored 240 out of 585 runs India have scored in this tri-series so far. This is a staggering 41% by a single batsman! What is worse from Indian batting point of view is the other side of the equation.
India minus Sehwag = 345 runs 31 wkts!
If you remove Viru’s contribution, India have scored 345 runs for the loss of 31 wickets in this series with a woeful average of 11 per batsman! The team …

New York: If Roger Federer is going to reach a seventh consecutive U.S. Open final, he might need to get past the man who ended his Grand Slam semifinal streak.

Federer, Soderling slotted in same U.S. Open quarter
Five-time U.S. Open champion Federer was given a possible quarterfinal against two-time French Open runner-up Robin Soderling when the draw for this year’s U.S. Open was made Thursday.
The No. 5-seeded Soderling upset Federer in the quarterfinals in Paris this year, stopping Federer’s record run of reaching at least the semifinals at 23 consecutive Grand …

New York: Number one Serena Williams on Friday blamed a mysterious summer foot injury with forcing her withdrawal from the US Open.

The American, who has not played since winning the Wimbledon title last month, cut her right foot in Europe – reportedly at a Munich restaurant – under circumstances that have yet to be fully explained.
She underwent surgery and had hoped to be fit for the final major of the season starting a week from Monday.
The 13-time Grand Slam champion lost in the New York semi-finals a year ago to …

‘I’m still a fat girl in my head’
…says actor Sonam Kapoor who’s now considered a fashion icon for her svelte figure

No matter what everybody has to say about her lissome looks, actor Sonam Kapoor hates it when she has to diet. “I feel bad when I can’t gorge on things that I want to have. Like right now, I’d rather have choco-chip muffins, but they (her staff) refuse to indulge me. That’s how life is now,” she grumbles, good-naturedly.
Sonam admits that even though she has shed the flab off her …