U.S. Award for Mallika Dutt

Indian-American human rights activist Mallika Dutt has won the American Courage Award for her work in the U.S. and India.
The 47-year-old, who grew up in Kolkata and left for the U.S. at the age of 18, will receive the award on October 1 from the Asian American Justice Center, a leading civil rights organisation.
In 1989, Ms. Dutt co-founded ‘Sakhi,’ an organisation that helped south Asian women suffering domestic violence in New York.
According to Ms. Dutt, the award highlights the need for effective immigration reform in a post-9/11 America. “Right now people can be detained and deported for very minor reasons. There has to be a fair and sensible way for people to enter this country.”

India-Australia ODI called off due to rain

India's semi-final chances on Monday suffered a big jolt as incessant rain led to the abandonment of their Group A Champions Trophy match against Australia, forcing them to split points at SuperSport Park.Now India will have to beat the West Indies by a big margin on Wednesday and pray that Pakistan too beat Australia by a good margin on the same day.

Lata Mangeshkar turns 80

Bursting into the music scene with the soul-stirring ‘Aayega Aanewala’ six decades back and following it up with romantic hits like ‘Pyar kiya to darna kya’ in Mughal-e-Azam, there has been no looking back for melody queen Lata Mangeshkar as she turned 80 on Monday.
“I want to continue singing till my last breath,” Lata, who has over 30,000 songs to her credit in 20 languages, said.

Morgan, Collingwood guide England to victory

Eoin Morgan steered England to a morale-boosting six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka with a solid half-century in the Champions Trophy on Friday.
England achieved a 213-run target on a lively track with five overs to spare in the day-night match, thanks to Morgan (62 not out), man-of-the-match Paul Collingwood (46) and Owais Shah (44).
England's win was set up by pacemen James Anderson (3-20), Stuart Broad (3-49) and Graham Onions (2-58) who bowled well to restrict Sri Lanka on a seamer-friendly track

Chandrayaan-I finds traces of water on moon

The Chandrayaan-1 probe had found traces of water across the surface of large parts of the moon, challenging the long-held view that the earth’s natural satellite is bone dry.
The spacecraft also found indications that water is being produced in the lunar soil through interactions with charged particles streaming out from the sun.
This major discovery is a vindication of the Chandryaan-1 mission, which encountered many problems and finally ended abruptly last month.
The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a U.S.-supplied instrument that flew on the Chandrayaan-1, examined the intensity of different colours of sunlight bouncing off the lunar surface.

ISRO launches Oceansat-2, nano satellites from Sriharikota

India successfully launched its 16th remote-sensing satellite Oceansat-2 and six nano European satellites in 1,200 seconds with the helpof Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV- C-14) from Sriharikota on Wednesday.The launch was carried out as per schedule at 11.51 am and ended at 12.06 pm.
The 44.4-metre tall, 230-tonne Indian rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) freed itself from the launch pad at the spaceport and lifted itself up, lugging the 960-kg Oceansat-2 and the six nano satellites all together weighing 20 kg.

Jet Airways to operate at full capacity from today

The five-day agitation by Jet Airways pilots owing allegiance to the National Aviators’ Guild was called off on Sunday morning after hectic talks between the management and Guild officials.
The pilots, including the four who were sacked, will resume duties. All international flights will resume immediately, and domestic flights by Monday afternoon.
A Jet Airways statement said an amicable agreement was reached and, effective Sunday, the airline would operate its full schedule of services in all sectors, with all crew members reporting for their normal rostered duties.
Prior to the stand-off, Jet’s revenue was around $8 million a day (Rs. 40 crore). It has lost Rs. 200 crore in five days. On an average, Jet carries 23,000 passengers a day, but bookings dropped to 14,000 on September 8, and further down to 7,000 by September 12

India beat New Zealand to reach tri-series final

No side has won a match at the Premadasa Stadium batting second in the last 13 ODIs played here. India broke that hoodoo on Friday, beating New Zealand by six wickets in the second match of the Compaq Cup tri-series and thereby ensuring a place in Monday's final against hosts Sri Lanka and also moving to the top of ICC's ODI rankings. India now take on the hosts in an inconsequential game on Saturday.

Additional 5 % DA for Central staff

The Centre on Thursday approved an additional 5 per cent dearness allowance for Central government employees and pensioners with retrospective effect from July this year.
Briefing the media after the Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said: “The Cabinet has decided to release an additional instalment of DA to Central government employees and dearness relief to pensioners... representing an increase of 5 per cent over the existing rate of 22 per cent of the basic pay/pension to compensate for price rise.

Vijender in World Boxing semis

Olympic bronze medallist Vijender Singh has created history by advancing to the semifinals of the World Boxing Championships in Milan, thereby, ensuring that India wins its first medal ever at a world boxing championship. In his quarterfinal bout the top seed in the 75-kilogram category defeated Ukraine's Sergiy Derevyanchenko 12-4. It was an easy outing for Vijender. The 23-year-old was leading right from the start.

National Mission for Female Literacy launched

The National Mission for Female Literacy, a renewed effort to make 70 million people — 60 million of them women — functionally literate by 2012 and plug the gender gap that has persisted despite the two-decade-old literacy drive in mission mode, was launched here on Tuesday by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to mark the International Literacy Day.
Within minutes of Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal putting a billion dollar bill on the recast National Literacy Mission (NLM), the Prime Minister assured the nation that resources would not be a constraint in this endeavour. According to him, infrastructure development in the economic sector and female literacy in the social sector were the two critical factors that impede India’s steady climb to a higher and sustainable level of growth.
Stating that persistent efforts of the government had made elementary education accessible to all children, increased enrolment and reduced drop-outs — thereby checking further accretion to the population of illiterates — the Prime Minister stressed the need to renew the efforts of the 1980s and 1990s to address illiteracy among adults.
Further, Dr. Singh voiced the hope that the Saakshar Bharat Mission — as the National Mission for Female Literacy has been christened — would fully involve the community in its implementation and utilise the “potential and promise” of panchayati raj institutions and women’s Self-Help Groups.

Pankaj Advani wins World Billiards Championship

Pankaj Advani defeated nine times champion Mike Russell at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds to win the elusive World Professional Billiards Championship.

Advani beat the defending champion 2030-1253 after having a 800-plus lead at the break. Advani is the second Indian to win the title in its 139th years of history. Geet Sethi was the last Indian to win in 2006, his first being in 1992.

Dhoni is the world’s top earning cricketer: Forbes

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features four other players from the sub-continent Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly.
Raking in $10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the second spot with earnings worth $8 million in the list of the world’s top-earning cricketers.
While Yuvraj Singh and Dravid are at the third and fourth spots, respectively, Ganguly and Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting share the sixth place.

Iran approves first woman Minister

For the first time since 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran will have a woman Cabinet Minister, as Parliament on Thursday approved 18 out of 21 nominees proposed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his new Cabinet.
Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi, who will hold the Health portfolio, will be Iran’s first woman Minister. She is a qualified gynaecologist from Tehran University, and has been a well-known health activist.

Soon ,websites that talk to you

The next time when you log on to railway website to book an e-ticket ,don`t be surprised if it starts talking to you .many others will get chatty too- even you file your income tax –return .The purpose behind the sound effect is to help the disabled, especially for visually challenged. Government 5,000 sites will turn audible . ablind person can use the key board to respond –tab key will take him/her through the different links.

BHARTI TO LAUNCH 3G SERVICES BY OCT. 10

Till now, we aware about 3G services regarding NOKIA and RELIANCE but now , the CEO of BHART AIRTEL Manoj koshi announced plans to auction spectrum for 3G mobile services ,which India’s largest private cellular operator.
Bharti Airtel Has said it will launch the service by October next year. If all activities goes well on time with regarding to spectrum auction. Then it defiantly it will be launch till Feb to March. If we talk about 3G services then these equipments are GSM, GPRS, and EDGE.

Andhra Pradesh CM dead in chopper crash

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy has died in an air crash, the Prime Minister’s Office said on Thursday.

The bodies of 60-year-old Reddy, who led his Congress party to a spectacular second consecutive victory in the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, and his Special Secretary P Subramanyam, chief security officer A S C Wesley, pilot Group Captain S K Bhatia and co-pilot M S Reddy were found on Rudrakonda Hill, 40 nautical miles east of here, besides the mangled remains of the helicopter.

Indian cricketers lead nominees list in ICC Awards 2009

MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh and Sehwag are nominated in the ODI player category while Gautam Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh and VVS Laxman have got nomination for the Test player of the year award at the prestigious ICC Awards 2009.
Indian pacer Zaheer Khan has been nominated for best Twenty20 international performance of the year award.
Leg spinner Amit Mishra nominated for emerging player of the year award.
Indian skipper Dhoni has been nominated for all three categories—Best cricketer, Best Test batsman and Best ODI player of the year award.Dhoni, Gambhir, Harbhajan also nominated for cricketer of the year award.For Women's category, Indian Mithali Raj has been nominated for best cricketers of the year.

Moon mission over, Mars next for India?

A catastrophic power failure forced India to pull the plug on its moon mission. But that hasn't stopped the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) from dreaming big.On Saturday, ISRO confirmed that it had lost contact with Chadrayaan 1, India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft. Now, here's what it wants the government to sanction for the next 10 years.
In 2012 it wants to launch a second mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-2; followed with a mission to study the Sun; an unmanned mission to Mars before 2015. ISRO hopes to put an Indian in space from Indian soil in 2015; and then, in 2018, a mission to an asteroid.
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