Bollywood winners at 13th Jaypee IIFA awards

Bollywood winners at 13th Jaypee IIFA awards

Here's a look at the main winners:

Best Film: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Actor In A Leading Role: Ranbir Kapoor (Rockstar)

Actress In A Leading Role: Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)

Best Director: Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

Actor In Supporting Role: Farhan Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

Actress In Supporting Role: Parineeti Chopra (Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl)

Hottest Pair: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri (Rockstar)

Performance in a Comic Role: Riteish Deshmukh (Double Dhamaal)

Performance in a Negative Role: Prakash Raj (Singham)

Best Story: Reema Kagti & Zoya Akhtar (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)

Best Debut (Female): Parineeti Chopra (Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl)

Best Debut (Male): Vidyut Jamwal (Force)

Music Direction: AR Rahman-Nadaan Parinde (Rockstar)

Lyrics: Irshad Kamil-Nadaan Parinde (Rockstar)

Playback Singer (Male): Mohit Chauhan - Nadaan Parinde (Rockstar)

Playback Singer (Female): Shreya Ghoshal - Teri Meri (Bodyguard)

Outstanding Achievement in Indian Cinema: Rekha, Ramesh Sippy

Green Award: Dia Mirza

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SGPC - take Operation at Blue Star memorial at Golden Temple

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbhandhak Committee (SGPC)

will construct a memorial for victims of Operation Blue Star at the Golden Temple.

Last week, the five-member committee constituted by the SGPC proposed to construct the memorial in the Golden Temple premises. It has taken SGPC 28 years to decide on the venue.

Dam Dami Taksal was earlier headed by Jairnal Singh Bhindrawala.eacting to the opposition, Rajinder Singh Mehta, the executive committee member of the SGPC, said opposing the move was an individual decision and the entire community desired to build the memorial in the Golden Temple Complex.

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chris hayes

MSNBC's Chris Hayes sparked controversy and debate on Sunday when he said that he felt "uncomfortable" calling soldiers killed in action "heroes" because the term can be used to justify potentially unjust wars. He later apologized for the statement.
After speaking with a former Marine whose job it was to notify families of the death of soldiers, he turned to his panel and, clearly wrestling with what to say, raised the issue of language:
I think it's interesting because I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words "heroes." Why do I feel so [uncomfortable] about the word "hero"? I feel comfortable -- uncomfortable -- about the word because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

IRCTC

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has been selling air tickets at its website since May 6, 2010 as a white label arrangement with a backend content provider. However, now IRCTC has launched air ticketing website on its own since May 7, 2012. This initiative has been taken to improve customer satisfaction and provide a seamless passenger movement over various modes of transport. IRCTC has developed in house air ticketing module for booking tickets for domestic and international airlines through website irctc.co.in and railtourismindia.com.

IRCTC now has directly entered into agreement with the major airlines and the low cost carries in the country like Air India, Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Spicejet, Indigo and Go Air. Initially, the customer will be able to book tickets for these airlines for domestic travel and later the international airlines for international travel.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways, Shri Bharatsinh Solanki in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.

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The Golf Ball Man - Tv9 Sports news

 

Dubuque-They are in his living room. They are in his basement.

They are in his front yard. Boxes and boxes of golf balls. Clete Meyer of 1410 North Grandview in Dubuque figures he has about 12 thousand golf balls at any one time.

The 75 year old bundle of energy figures he started finding and selling golf balls when he was 9 or 10. He says he personally finds the golf balls, cleans them up, and puts them up for sale. The brand name balls go for about one third the normal price.

Meyer also has thousands and thousand of "logo balls." You want one with Santa on it? Clete Meyer has one. Probably two or three. You want a Pooh Bear ball? No problem.

CBSE Class 10 Result 2012 Declared

CBSE Declared for class 10 Chennai Region on 21 May 2012. The result is available at

The results came on Monday, ending confusion over the timing of the announcement. The board uploaded the results on its website in the evening, taking schools and students by surprise. Of the 1.52 lakh candidates from the Chennai region, 54,741 opted for school-based exams. Of them, 432 are eligible to appear as eligibility for improvement of performance. They would have scored E1 and E2 grades.

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fleet week

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Staten Island's Fleet Week Celebration kicks off tomorrow and continues through next Wednesday in Stapleton, with highlights including the Annual Splash Music Festival, the display of the National 9/11 Flag and the display of military ships at The Sullivans Pier.

Located at the former Homeport site in Stapleton, The Sullivans Pier was named in 1997 for the USS The Sullivans, a guided missile destroyer that was commissioned there. The name honors the five "Fighting Sullivan" brothers who died during World War II.

This year's Fleet Week Celebration welcomes the 2012 Operation Sail Parade of Sail and U.S. Navy Parade of Ships.

Magnificent military ships representing the U.S. Navy and coalition navies from countries around the world are coming together to honor and celebrate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and the penning of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

At the pier, free tours of the ships will be offered Thursday through Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The National 9/11 Flag will be on display at the pier Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The opening ceremony will be held at 10 a.m.

romney bully

Mitt Romney, Bully

What is the defining image in the Washington Post’s story on Mitt Romney, as a student at the Cranbrook School, bullying a gay teen-age boy? Maybe it’s Romney, the eighteen-year-old son of a governor, spotting the student, John Lauber, with, as a classmate remembered, “bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye,” and saying, “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” Or Romney, a few days later, “marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair.” Or the Post’s description of the attack itself:

“Hey, you’re John Lauber,” Seed recalled saying at the start of a brief conversation. Seed, also among those who witnessed the Romney-led incident, had gone on to a career as a teacher and principal. Now he had something to get off his chest.

Romney was a high school senior; he turned 18 in the spring when this happened. Horowitz has the story cold, and Romney isn't even trying to deny it. Phil Rucker, the Post's Romney beat reporter, has tweeted out the governor's measured response.

India tests nuke-capable missile able to hit China

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NEW DELHI (AP) — India announced the successful test launch Thursday of a new nuclear-capable missile that would give it the ability to strike the major Chinese cities of Beijing and Shanghai for the first time, a significant step forward in its aspirations to become a regional and world power.

The Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), still requires a battery of tests and must clear other bureaucratic hurdles before it can be inducted into India's arsenal in a few years. But officials hailed the launch as proof the country has taken its place among the world's most powerful and scientifically advanced nations.

"The nation stands tall today," Defense Minister A.K. Antony said, according to the Press Trust of India.

The test came just days after North Korea's failed rocket launch, but sparked none of the same global condemnation aimed at Pyongyang, an internationally isolated regime that has been banned by the U.N. from testing missile technology.

China is far ahead of India in the missile race, with intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching anywhere in India. Currently, the longest-range Indian missile, the Agni-III, has a range of 3,500 kilometers (2,100 miles) and falls short of many major Chinese cities.

"At the moment there is a huge asymmetry in China's favor," said C. Uday Bhaskar, the former head of the Institute of Defense Studies and Analyses. After it adds the missile to its arsenal, however, "India's deterrent profile in the region would be appropriately burnished."

Video released by the government showed the Agni-V taking off from a small launcher on what appeared to be railroad tracks at 8:07 a.m. from Wheeler Island off India's east coast. It rose on a pillar of flame, trailing billows of smoke behind, before arcing through the sky.

The missile hit an altitude of more than 600 kilometers (370 miles), its three stages worked properly and its payload was deployed as planned, the head of India's Defense Research and Development Organization, Vijay Saraswat, told Times Now news channel.

"India has emerged from this launch as a major missile power," he said.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin declined to discuss the launch at a regular news conference Thursday, saying only that India and China should work together as strategic partners.

But a state TV report on the launch enumerated the missile's shortcomings and a Chinese newspaper warned India not to get arrogant and overestimate its strength.

"India should be clear that China's nuclear power is stronger and more reliable. For the foreseeable future, India would stand no chance in an overall arms race with China," said an editorial in the Global Times, which is published by the Communist Party's official mouthpiece the People's Daily.

It also warned India not to work with Western allies to try to contain China. "If it equates long range strategic missiles with deterrence of China, and stirs up further hostility, it could be sorely mistaken," it said.

The Agni-V is a solid-fuel, three-stage missile designed to carry a 1.5-ton nuclear warhead. It stands 17.5 meters (57 feet) tall, has a launch weight of 50 tons and was built mainly with Indian-made technology at a reported cost of 25 billion rupees ($486 million). It can be moved across the country by road or rail and can be used to carry multiple warheads or to launch satellites into orbit.

The missile will need four or five more trials before it can be inducted into India's arsenal at some point in 2014 or 2015, Indian officials said.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hailed the launch as "another milestone in our quest to add to the credibility of our security and preparedness and to continuously explore the frontiers of science."

Others called the test a major step in India's fight to be seen as a world power. "India has today become a nation with the capability to develop, produce, build long-range ballistic missiles and today we are among the six countries who have this capability," Saraswat said.

Analysts say France, Russia, China and the United States also have this technology, while Israel is believed to have developed such missiles. Others were more cautious.

Defense analyst Rahul Bedi said much needed to be done, noting that a government that is notoriously slow with defense decisions now needs to push forward with more tests, work out strategic doctrines, define targets, figure out manufacturing issues and how many missiles to build among a host of other issues.

"We need to build on today's success ... to build in a very capable dissausive deterrence capability," he said. "But going back to past records I don't know if we can sustain it." India and China fought a war in 1962 and continue to nurse a border dispute. India has also been suspicious of Beijing's efforts to increase its influence in the Indian Ocean in recent years. India already has the capability of hitting anywhere inside archrival Pakistan, but has engaged in a splurge of defense spending in recent years to counter the perceived Chinese threat. The Indian navy took command of a Russian nuclear submarine earlier this year, and India is expected to take delivery of a retrofitted Soviet-built aircraft carrier soon. The new Agni, named for the Hindi word for fire, is part of this military buildup and was designed to hit deep inside China, Bedi said. Government officials said the missile should not be seen as a threat because India had a no-first-use policy and its missiles were used only for deterrence. The test came days after North Korea's failed long-range rocket launch. North Korea said the rocket was launched to put a satellite into space, but the U.S. and other countries said it was a cover for testing long-range missile technology. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States urges all nuclear-capable states to exercise restraint regarding nuclear capabilities. "That said, India has a solid non-proliferation record," he told a news briefing. "They're engaged with the international community on non-proliferation issues."

Apple wants trial on e-book price-fixing: lawyer

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple Inc wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations that it conspired with publishers to raise prices of electronic books, a lawyer for the Silicon Valley giant said in court on Wednesday.

Two publishers took a similar stance in the first hearing in Manhattan federal court since the anti-trust division of the Department of Justice last week accused Apple and five publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominance of the digital book market.

The publishers are Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, and Pearson Plc's Penguin Group.

"Our basic view is that we would like the case to be decided on the merits," Apple lawyer, Daniel Floyd, told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote. "We believe that this is not an appropriate case against us and we would like to validate that."

The judge scheduled the next hearing for June 22. The court also heard that 15 U.S. states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico were in settlement talks with the three publishers. If all 50 states were ultimately to settle, it would have an impact on a separate class action brought by consumers, a HarperCollins lawyer, Shepard Goldfein, told the judge.

Hachette and HarperCollins also settled with a group of U.S. states, agreeing to pay $51 million in restitution to consumers who bought e-books. Simon & Schuster is in negotiations with the states to join that settlement, a lawyer for the company said in court on Wednesday.

The European Commission is also probing Apple and publishers in a similar antitrust probe. It said on Wednesday that it had received settlement proposals from Apple and four publishers - Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Hachette Livre and Macmillan's parent.

The case is USA v Apple Inc et al in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, No. 12-2826 and No. 11-md-02293.

Apple investors brace for more turbulence

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc's results will be dissected more closely than ever next week, after a share swoon raised concerns on Wall Street that the stock's gravity-defying rally may be losing steam.

Five straight days of stock losses for the world's most valuable company sparked fears it had ventured into dreaded bubble territory and was overdue for a strong pullback. Shares reversed course on Tuesday, gaining 5 percent.

Between major legal challenges across several continents, increasing competition from Google Inc's Android -- now the world's most-used mobile software -- and confusion over what its next groundbreaking product will look like, more cautious investors are re-evaluating their positions and cashing in some holdings ahead of Apple's second-quarter earnings next Tuesday.

There's reason for caution: Apple's shares surged nearly 60 percent to a high of $644 this year. The slightest sign of trouble in the earnings report may prompt further profit-taking.

"Any disappointment in Apple could lead to a significant selloff in the short term," said Channing Smith, co-manager at Capital Advisors Growth Fund. "Are we long term believers in Apple? Absolutely, but as we move forward...you get up here to over $600 and you say, ‘Hmm, this is getting pretty frothy, expectations may be getting out of line.'"

Apple shares fell 7 percent when the company missed Wall Street expectations for the first time in years last October.

Should investors choose to park their cash elsewhere, many believe they will eventually return.

Most investors remain bullish on the longer-term -- 45 out of 53 Wall Street investment banking analysts still have "Buy" or "Strong Buy" ratings on the stock, citing robust iPhone and iPad sales and new products from a TV to a 4G iPhone coming down the pike.

They argue that Apple will again reveal a bumper quarter, attributing the nearly 9 percent slump in the stock since last Tuesday to a combination of pre-earnings caution and profit-taking, and successive strings of sell orders triggered as the lofty shares retreated.

In the days leading up to the selloff, at least two analysts predicted the stock will vault over $1000. Wall Street analysts on average expect it to touch $675 in the next 12 months.

Apple, riding on strong iPhone and iPad sales, has smashed consensus estimates in recent quarters. But any dissatisfaction with the numbers could weigh heavily on its shares, which have quadrupled over the past two and a half years.

Major challenges for the California firm this year include the lawsuit against it by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged collusion on ebook prices and a potential hit on gross margins if key contract manufacturer Foxconn is able to pass on increased labor costs. The world's most valuable company is expected to present a positive short-term picture when it reports earnings. Apple is estimated to have sold between 30 million and 35 million iPhones and around 13 million iPads on average last quarter, according to Wall Street analysts. Monstrous sales of the iPhone -- 37.04 million -- accounted for more than half of Apple's first quarter revenue and assuaged investors' worries about the company's size slowing it down. "It's going to be a blowout quarter, just like the last one, but there's been a big move in the stock and to trim back on your position a little bit makes imminent sense," said David Rolfe, chief investment officer at St. Louis-based Wedgewood Partners Inc, who manages $1.6 billion.

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orange cap in IPL season five ( Friday, 13 april )Orange Cap Winners

Orange Cap and Purple Cap are given to the best batsman and the best bowler of the Indian Premier League (IPL) respectively. From the very first season of IPL, every year a IPL governing body announces this award to the highest run scorer and highest wicket taker of the tournament.

IPL season five

Orange Cap Winners – IPL
Player Name	Team	Season	Runs
-	-	2012	-
Chris Gayle	RCB	2011	608
SR Tendulkar	Mumbai Indians	2010	618
ML Hayden	CSK	2009	572
Shaun Marsh	KXIP	2008	616