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The Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 is all set to entertain the cricket fans all over the world with Ponting choosing the young side when Kumble gets the chance to beat them at home.

Here is the schedule and match start times countdown

Match date & time	Match schedule details	Stadium	Match starts in -
1st Test: India v Australia at Bangalore, October 9-13, 2008 09:30 local Time, 04:00 GMT	Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 - 1st Test India vs Australia	M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore	1st Test match starts in - -
2nd Test: India v Australia at Mohali, October 17-21, 2008, 2008 09:30 local Time, 04:00 GMT	Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 - 2nd Test India vs Australia	Punjab Cricket Association StadiumMohali, Chandigarh, India	2nd Test match starts in - -
3rd Test: India v Australia at Delhi, October 29-November 2, 2008, 2008 09:30 local Time, 04:00 GMT	Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 - 3rd Test India vs Australia	Feroz Shah KotlaDelhi, India	3rd Test match starts in - -
4th Test: India v Australia at Nagpur, November 6-10, 2008, 2008 09:30 local Time, 04:00 GMT	Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 - 4th Test India vs Australia	Vidarbha Cricket Association GroundNagpur, India	4th Test match starts in - -

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Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2008 ( India vs Australia 2008 October/November test series) is a real litmus test to Kumble's Indian team which stumbled during their last Sri Lanka test series. Australian team is playing a fairly young side, Ozzies are ready to beat India on Indian grounds. Tendulkar is a man to watch who if he scores 77 more runs then he will become the lead test run scorer in the test cricket surpassing Lara.

As always it's a hassle to find which TV Channel plays the upcoming series. Here is list of all TV Channels around the globe that will be telecasting test series played between India and Australia.

US

Zee sports will be telecasting this series live in USA from October 9' 2008. For $19 a month this channel is available to all dish network subscribers in US. The schedule and timings for the channel can be found from the below link.

Note the matches start at 11:00 PM central time the day before.



UK

Skysports in UK is telecasting Australia vs India 2008 series.

Here is the link to the schedule and timings from Skysports

Note that matches start at 5 AM UK time.



India

NEOSports is showing these matches in India and they start around 9:30 AM Indian time.





South Africa

Supersport is the channel you have to watch if you live in South Africa. Here is the schedule link.

Select cricket and see what channel is showing the series



Australia

I've yet to find the channel that is showing this series in Australia. Usually TenSports is the one to look for.

If you find any other channels in Canada or UAE or any other country , please share with us via comments

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With so much focus on bomb blasts and violence these days in India it is sad to see violent cricket encounter ads have begun propping up again on Neo Sports.

Neo Sports a cricket channel is too famous for glamorizing violence in its cricket ads have started airing the crushed toe ads for the upcoming India vs Australia 2008 October/November Test series :

Last Year, Not all of Brett Lee's Yorkers hit the wicket.

It's time to return the flavor.

Australia Tours India - Oct. 9 onwards

1st Test: Oct 9 (Bengaluru)
2nd Test: Oct 17 (Mohali)
3rd test : Oct 29 (Delhi)
4th test : Nov 6 (Nagpur)

Thanks to Cribb.in who posted this graphic image of the same and condemns their act.



The previous ad of India vs Australia series was much better with humor added to it. I feel to my heart that such ad "Hum Honge Kamyab" (we will Overcome Some Day) is what India needs during these troubled terrorist attacks and not something that brings back the bloodbath witnessed in recent incidents.

Here is the cricket ad (Hum Honge Kamyab) Neo Sports video:



The full lyrics of Hum Honge Kamyab in English & Hindi: (courtesy - Dinsan)

English
We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day

Oh, deep in my heart
I do believe
We shall overcome some day


We’ll walk hand in hand
We’ll walk hand in hand
We’ll walk hand in hand some day

We shall all be free
We shall all be free
We shall all be free some day


We are not afraid
We are not afraid
We are not afraid some day

We are not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone some day

The whole wide world around
The whole wide world around
The whole wide world around some day

We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day

Hindi

ho'nge' kAm yAb, ho'nge' kAm yAb
hum ho'nge' kAm yAb Ek din
ho' ho'man me' hai vishwAs
pUrA hai vishwAs
hum ho'nge' kAm yAb Ek din ||

ho'ge' shAnti chAro'm Or
ho'gee shAnti chAro'm Or
ho'gee shAnti chAro'm Or Ek din ||
ho' ho'man me' hai vishwAs
pUrA hai vishwAs
ho'gee shAnti chAro'm Or Ek din ||

hum chale'nge' sAth-sAth
DAl hAtho'm me' hAth
hum chale'nge' sAth-sAth Ek din ||
ho' ho'man me' hai vishwAs
pUrA hai vishwAs
hum chale'nge' sAth-sAth Ek din ||

nahe' Dar kisee kaa Aj
nahee bhay kisee kaa Aj
nahe' Dar kisee kaa Aj kE din ||
ho' ho'man me' hai vishwAs
pUrA hai vishwAs
nahe' Dar kisee kaa Aj kE din ||

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For each Right Answer our sponsors would donate Torches, Candles, Milk powder, Match Boxes, Chlorine Tablets, Nylon Ropes, Tarpaulin Sheets and Biscuits to Bihar Flood Victims.

When I took the quiz myself - This is the outcome

Thank You for spending your time to donate 2 Band Aid(s) and 2 Tarpaulin Sheet(s) for the Bihar Flood Victims. Plan India will make sure that these essentials reach the victims soon.
You have Donated
2 Band Aid(s)
2 Tarpaulin Sheet(s)
We also thank our sponsor Cadence on your behalf.
To take this effort forward and get more donations please forward this to as many friends and colleagues as possible. Give their details below or simply ask them to log on to www.helpbihar.in

If you want to cheat for the good cause here are the answers :

The capital of Bihar is "Patna"

Which river has caused havoc in Bihar recently? "Kosi"

How many people have been affected by the recent floods in Bihar? "25 lakh"

What is the opposite of word “flood”? "Drought"

Here is the announcment link:

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Truroots is calling card service offered bt TATA/VSNL ( VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited), which is operated by Tatas now). The celebration Buy One Get One (BOGO) offer is announced in the months where India celebrates Ramadan and Dusshera in September/October months.

Offer is valid for the both new and old customers. Truroots charges now 6.9 cents per minute and with BOGO promotion one will end up paying just promotional 3.49 cents per minutes . The credit should appear right away in your account.

This is good alternative to people who have issues with calling cards services from AirTel and Reliance.The call rounding time is around one minute as compared to other numerous calling cards which charge up to 39 cents. One annoying feature is with their so many prompts that has to be used when calling destination number.

Here is promotional BOGO offer from Truroots

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Indian IT firms are heavily dependent on services provided to US financial services. The financial crisis of billions and billions of dollars write down by US investment banks and customary deposit banks like Washington Mutual will create a big hole in TCS and Infosys in quarter 3 and 4 of 2008 is what Forrester CEO writes in his blog. TCS is effected more with its 43% of revenues coming from its financial services where as Infosys gets 34% of revenues. This is just a start in financial melt down that is predicted to have a spiraling effect on other sectors like technology being #1.

Forrester CEO George Colony in the blog writes :

Some IT vendors focus on financial services, and could find their business mildly tightened. Tata Consultancy (TCS) gets 43% of its revenues from financial services; Infosys 34%; IBM 29% (but only 6% from US financial firms). So, these vendors –- plus software vendors that sell risk management software or trading systems -- could experience some delayed or canceled contracts.

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Is India vs Pakistan 2009 series confirmed ? Says Yes !! Pakistan Daily Times

Pakistan will be hosting one three-day match, three Test matches, five one-day matches and one Twenty20 international. The tour will be between January 4 and February 24. This will be India's eighth tour of Pakistan.

As ICC tournament is postponed, this series is good for host Pakistan as the last test match they played is in 2007 series when India hosted the series. In 2006 when India visited Pakistan, Pakistan surrendered badly in ODIs with Dhoni, Youvraj, Sreesanth leading the rout. However India lost test match by a margin of 341 runs.

The arch rivals clash is always an interesting one but with fragile Pakistan team the encounters have become one sided matches. Hope Pakistan will have reversal of fortune in 2009 series.

If Pakistan is hosting then Zee Sports America will telecast this series in North America.

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Obama has touched on a sensitive and valid unemployment issue. Job losses is blamed on immigrants. Serial stream of bad news from Bears n Stearn's to Fannie Mae n Freddie Mac to Lehman brothers is further deteriorating the US job situation.

In the article "The Bitter Taste of Bigotry", it is rightly said that one man's loss in another's gain.

Thousands of engineers and computer scientists arrive in America yearly to fuel high-tech businesses. Silicon Valley is filled with startups founded by immigrants, like Vinod Khosla’s Sun Microsystems and Sergey Brin’s Google. Astonishingly, Congress has actually reduced the number of special H1-B visas given to foreign workers, which allow American companies to import guest workers with highly specialized knowledge. As a result, many of these workers move to countries with more liberal immigration policies, like Canada and Australia. In these cases, America’s loss is another country’s gain.

Canada immigration is made much simpler that within 1 year with sufficient points based on higher education a Canadian PR (permanent Residency) status can be achieved and after three years the immigrant becomes Canadian citizen. Australia has similar system within two years of PR one can become Aussies citizen.

Compare this to PR (Green Card) in US which is now taking eight painful years compounded with H1-B visas reduction and a lottery system to get H1. Citizenship is another five more years. To become an immigrant a total of thirteen years are required so that would be 1/5th of immigrants life (assuming 65 years of stressful life) spent in this cycle.

To sum up - America’s loss is another country’s gain.

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One more cheerleaders row that happened in India-Sri Lanka series. The newspaper quote I liked comparing Cheerleaders with frescoes featuring topless women.

NZHerald :

Sri Lanka's cricket authorities have dumped a team of eastern European cheerleaders from the one-day series against India after locals protested over the scantily-clad women at Dambulla International Stadium. Cultural Minister Yapa Abeywardena said: "It is not in keeping with our tradition," he said. "I have asked the cricket board to drop this item immediately." In keeping with our tradition? Clearly that tradition has nothing to do with the fifth-century Sigiriya rock fortress, a World Heritage site near the ground known for its frescoes of bare-chested women.

Cheerleaders in cricket is very recent as far as I know . The first time I noticed them is with Twenty20 world cup hosted in South Africa where the music and dance added the glamor to short version of cricket. IPL continued that tradition amidst the protests in India during the May'2008 IPL matches. Some controversies too that media enjoyed when one popular Bollywood actor -Emran Hashmi- to promote his "match fixing" movie --Jannat-- kissed one of the cheerleaders from Deccan Chargers team during the match between Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab.

This is just the start of controversies around Cheerleaders in cricket -- a clash of culture happening with the gentleman's game.

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Image via Wikipedia The Indo-US nuclear deal is approved by 45-nation NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group). The Indian congress government led by Manmohan Singh won confidence vote that created political division in recent months in this US-Indo nuclear cooperation agreement though some political parties are still unhappy with the agreement.

Kanchan Gupta writes about H1-B visa holders and their reason for unhappiness with ongoing US-India nuclear deal. Gupta writes the civilian nuclear cooperation agreement will create thousands of Jobs which otherwise would have been opened for H1-B visa holders. Some India's middle class who prospered using these H1-B visa may not like these $$ paying jobs taken away from them.

Here is quote from Kanchan Gupta's Article :

Look at the way it has managed to foist on us a so-called 'civilian nuclear cooperation agreement' that will revive the moribund American nuclear power industry, create thousands of jobs (which will not be open to holders of H1B visa, so there's little reason for our middle-class to cheer the deal), give President George W Bush his only foreign policy 'success', and serve the purpose of forcing India into the non-proliferation regime without conceding its nuclear weapons capability.

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A new innovative challenge from Google to increase the user base for Google apps in engineering and MBA colleges.

From India's GoogleApp team :

1. Sign up for the challenge by September 15, 2008.
2. Get approval from your college's administration to implement Google Apps by October 15, 2008.
3. Work with your IT department to implement Google Apps by December 15, 2008.
4. Achieve the highest level of Google Apps usage amongst all participating colleges by January 31, 2009 to be declared the challenge winner!

Here is video of Kellogg ( Northwestern University, Chicago, US) director of technology talks about how they have benefited using Google Apps for their intranet IT solutions:



This in my opinion is good for colleges as Google will assign one Google employee to each team to help answer questions through out the challenge. Drawback is that they are targeting only Engineering and MBA colleges. Google is trying hard to push collaboration tools like its "Google Talk" , "Google Mail" to compete with "Microsoft Instant Messenger", "Outlook" as Microsoft dominates the corporate as well university accounts.

To learn more about GoogleApps watch this video from google - Googleapps Youtube video:

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Chiranjeevi unveiled the party name, flag and ideologies in front of a huge 9,00,000 plus crowd in Avilala, Tirupathi. Sticking to his August 17 announcement, the party name -- Prajarajyam -- reflected that the party is for the people. He donned the dais single highhandedly with his near 2 hrs emotional, well prepared political party speech and gave utmost importance to Handicapped and Seniors citizens by not allowing any VIP section for the meeting.

The flag of the party is 3/4 the white and 1/4th green with rising sun on white part. Prajarajyam initial ideologies is of democratic and secular party with more emphasis on backward classes, farmers, workers, women and youth. The goal of the party is to make state of Andhra Pradesh a happy - Santhoshandhra and Anandandhra.

He repeatedly assured the crowd that he is one of them and he has seen both poor and rich lives. He recollected the Mogalthur days where he slept half stomach because of poverty. His farming days and tough college times to learn acting in Madras with Rs 125/-. On acting side he said he acted in many roles from a outcast to riksha puller to cobbler and in the process learn many real life time situations. These excerpts from the dais reflected the recent criticism that he is getting as the newcomer to politics arena.

To sum up Chiru spoke honestly from his heart rather than the monolithic political speaking. I give him perfect 10 and only caution for him is not to be more of a defensive person for each criticism he gets on his way to assembly. What do you guys think of this mega speech ? Leave your comments

Good Luck Megastar !!

August 26 Chiru Tirupthi youtube video :


NENU SAITHAM PRAJA RAJYA KU SEVAKUDU NI SEVA CHESTHAANU video

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The wait is over for south India megastar fans, On August 17' 2008 Chiru officially announced his party in front of media. The podium with Ambedkar, Gandhi and Mother Therisa photos reflects the party ideology of Chiranjeevi party.

Chiru mentioned "A J Kalam" as his advisor who reflected why Chiru should join politics and is told as the motivation for him starting the party. He looked composed and confident with his well prepared speech despite of flighty rumblings heard in the media hall.

The media coverage concentrated more on its ads as seen from the following two youtube videos. Almost all of the screen is filled up with glazy deviating ads.

Chiranjeevi Party announcemnt videos from Youtube

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Congratulations Abhinav Bindra !!

Finally from a population of India's 1 billion people plus, Abhinav Bindra got first ever gold medal for India in the Olympics since 1928. Bindra’s gold medal came form men's 10m air rifle event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

You tube video of Abhinav Bindra's medal ceremony

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