April 11th, 2008
| Graeme Smith capitalised on his good fortune at the toss and led a confident start on a sluggish pitch that started assisting the spinners as early as the first session. South Africa survived a few nervy moments but their ability to put away the loose balls steered them to 80 for 1 at lunch.
The pitch didn’t throw up the demons that were predicted but there was enough good news for the spinners early on. India surprisingly went with just two specialist spinners, partly forced by Anil Kumble’s absence owing to injury. Both Harbhajan Singh, who came on as early as the ninth over, and Piyush Chawla extracted turn and bounce from the first-day surface. Chawla snapped up a wicket in his very first over, beating McKenzie with a ripping legbreak and offering Mahendra Singh Dhoni a regulation stumping.
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April 8th, 2008
| Patrick Ewing, who rescued the Knicks from their malaise in the 1980s and made them an Eastern Conference power in the 1990s, has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He will be inducted this fall, along with one of his most beloved coaches, Pat Riley, and one of his greatest rivals, Hakeem Olajuwon .
, who rescued the from their malaise in the 1980s and made them an Eastern Conference power in the 1990s, has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He will be inducted this fall, along with one of his most beloved coaches, , and one of his greatest rivals, .Four others round out the Hall’s class of 2008, which was announced on Monday: Adrian Dantley, a dominant scorer for seven N.B.A. teams; the Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson; the television announcer Dick Vitale; and Cathy Rush, a former coach and a force for women’s basketball in the 1970s.
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April 3rd, 2008
| Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking today (Monday 31 March 2008) at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics in their fight against resistant superbugs, making them up to three times more effective. Green tea is a very common beverage in Egypt, and it is quite likely that patients will drink green tea while taking antibiotics. The medical researchers wanted to find out if green tea would interfere with the action of the antibiotics, have no effect, or increase the medicines’ effects. “We tested green tea in combination with antibiotics against 28 disease causing micro-organisms belonging to two different classes,” says Dr Mervat Kassem from the Faculty of Pharmacy at Alexandria University in Egypt. “In every single case green tea enhanced the bacteria-killing activity of the antibiotics. For example the killing effect of chloramphenicol was 99.99% better when taken with green tea than when taken on its own in some circumstances.” Green tea also made 20% of drug-resistant bacteria susceptible to one of the cephalosporin antibiotics. These are important antibiotics that new drug resistant strains of bacteria have evolved to resist. The results surprised the researchers, showing that in almost every case and for all types of antibiotics tested, drinking green tea at the same time as taking the medicines seemed to reduce the bacteria’s drug resistance, even in superbug strains, and increase the action of the antibiotics. In some cases, even a low concentration of green tea was effective. “Our results show that we should consider more seriously the natural products we consume in our everyday life,” says Dr Kassem. “In the future, we will be looking at other natural herb products such as marjoram and thyme to see whether they also contain active compounds which can help in the battle against drug resistant bacteria”.
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April 2nd, 2008
| Equities shot up at the open triggered by a rally in markets across the globe after a Lehman Brothers share offering triggered hopes that the worst of the credit crisis may have ended.
At 10:05 am, the Bombay Stock Exchange’s Sensex was up 539 points or 3.45 per cent at 16,165.41.
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April 1st, 2008
| The Congress has fastened its belt to regain lost ground in Uttar Pradesh.
It has now launched a Hisaab Maango campaign against the Mayawati government, asking for an account of work done by the state government.
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April 1st, 2008
Young smoker who keep on smoking after heart attack are more likely to have three times more heart problems than survivors. Those who smoke in young age leave this world with mire heart attacks mostly.
Smoker have to clean up there blocked arteries by future treatments as, compared to those who stopped smoking after heart attack.
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March 31st, 2008
An epic battle raged at the Chandigarh Golf Club (CGC) on Sunday ending in veteran Mukesh Kumar winning the PGTI’s Centurion Bank of Punjab Open on Sunday.
However, this was not before Mukesh was taken the full mile by India’s rising young star, Gaganjeet Bhullar, who tied the course record of 65.
Mukesh not only birdied the 18th hole to force a playoff but repeated the birdie on the first playoff hole to lift the crown and Rs 4.04 in prize money.
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March 27th, 2008
| The Olympic torch is coming to San Francisco. Exactly where is another question.
Two weeks before the torch arrives here for its only stop in North America, San Francisco officials say they still have no final plans on its route through the city. And the delay has upset some groups — including members of the always-vocal San Francisco Board of Supervisors — that want to use the torch’s procession to protest China’s human rights record and its crackdown in Tibet.
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March 26th, 2008
It may take yesteryear lover boy Rishi Kapoor and his son Ranbir some time to showcase their talent together. But the young actor’s girlfriend Deepika Padukone already has that privilege.
She will be sharing screen space with Rishi in Saif Ali Khan’s first production to be directed by Imtiaz Ali of Jab We Met fame. I did a reading with Rishi uncle for the film, and I was simply stunned. He’s that good. Imtiaz’s film will be a departure for me.
“I’m lucky enough to work with both Ranbir and Rishi uncle. Now all I need is a film with Neetu aunty to complete the picture.” The actress, who debuted with Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om, will play Saif’s leading lady in the yet untitled film.
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March 25th, 2008
| Sunil Gavaskar is all set to step down as ICC’s cricket committee chairman after the governing body asked the former Indian captain to give up his other job of a commentator and columnist, which is in “direct conflict” with his duties in the ICC. The issue was raised in the ICC’s executive committee meeting in Dubai last week where members felt Gavaskar’s dual roles were in conflict with each other and he should choose between the two. However, the committee decided against removing Gavaskar as it felt it would be better to give him the option of deciding what he wants to do. The former batsman will meet ICC CEO Malcolm Speed this week to take a final call on the issue. “Gavaskar will meet CEO Malcolm Speed in Dubai this week to discuss this matter”.
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