Century seems to have become Sachin Tendulkar’s middle name. And that is what he did on Sunday to deliver the knockout punch to the Kiwis in their own backyard. A majestic 163 (retd hurt) by the maestro saw India post 392 in their allotted 50 overs, his innings studded with 16 fours and garnished with 5 monstrous hits into the stands.

New Zealand fought hard and gave India a run for their money as they ended up scoring 334 before they lost their last wicket in the form of Tim Southee and losing by only 58 runs even after being set a target of 393 in fifty overs. Cricket surely was a winner at Christchurch.

Sachin Tendulkar was named the man-of the-match for his breath taking innings of 163 not out.

After losing Sehwag (3) and Gambhir (15) cheaply, the Master Blaster manoeuvred his heavy willow with utmost perfection to make the Black Caps swing to his tunes. The Mumbaikar brought up his 43rd ODI century off 101 balls and later went to score 163 off 133 deliveries before he had to walk back to the pavilion due to a muscle pull in the abdomen.

Enter Yuvraj and boundaries started to rain. 87 off just 60 deliveries was the damage that the left handed batsman did to New Zealand. Out of the 87 that he scored, 76 were in boundaries (10×4, 6×6). Sadly, the Kingsmead marauder did not get to his three figure mark but paved way for captain MS Dhoni to come to the crease and free his arms.

New Zealand were left gasping for breath and cover by the devastating Yuvraj who had taken the Kiwi bowlers to the cleaners and brought up his fifty off just 42 balls. He had brought up his half century with an extremely humungous hit, a six that could well have brought down an air hostess with it.

Dhoni played a captain’s innings rotating the strike and sending the loose deliveries to the advertising boards. He departed after scoring 68 but the scoring rate did not dip. Raina contributed 38 from 18.

New Zealand started off extremely well with Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder providing New Zealand with the perfect start. The Kiwis were cruising at 156 for no loss after 20 overs and suddenly seemed to lose the plot as they lost seven wickets till 218. Ryder (105) had blasted off to his maiden century off just 72 deliveries and McCullum departed after 71 from 68 balls.

Suddenly a couple of run outs and an improvement in the fielding saw India run riot into the New Zealand middle order to reduce them to 251/8. It was then that the improbable seemed quite achievable. Kyle Mills (52 off 34) and Tim Southee (32 off 20) joined hands and put up an 83 run partnership for the 9th wicket to give the Kiwis an outside chance of creating history.

Well, there were quite a few records that were created. This was Sachin Tendulkar’s first ODI century in New Zealand. He looked all set to overhaul Saeed Anwar’s record of 194 runs but had to walk away in the 46th over. There were 31 sixes hit in the match, a world record.

India now lead the five match series 2-0 with two more matches to go which means, they cannot lose the series from here on. The next match will be played at Seddon Park, Hamilton on March 11

A dozen masked gunmen armed with rifles and rocket launchers attacked a vehicle carrying members of Sri Lanka’s national cricket team Tuesday, wounding at least two players and killing five police officers, officials said.The attack in Lahore came at a time of unrest in both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, both of whom are trying to defeat insurgencies. It was unclear who was behind the assault, but it appeared to have been carefully coordinated.City police chief Haji Habibur Rehman said five policemen died in the shooting and that two players were wounded. A Pakistan Cricket Board security official had earlier said eight players were wounded.”It was a terrorist attack and the terrorists used rocket launchers, hand grenades and other weapons,” Rehman said, adding that the police were hunting down the attackers who managed to flee. “Our police sacrificed their lives to protect the Sri Lankan team.”He said one wounded player was hit in the leg while the other received a bullet in the chest.Sri Lankan team manager Brendon Kruppu said the team’s batsman, Kumar Sangakkara, was among those injured near Gaddafi Stadium ahead of a game.Rehman said 12 masked gunmen participated in the attack. Footage from the scene Tuesday showed the team’s white van with its front window shattered as security officials tried to gain control of the scene in an intersection.Security concerns have plagued Pakistan for years and some foreign sports teams have refused to play here.Most of the violence in Pakistan occurs in its northwest regions bordering Afghanistan, where Taliban and al-Qaida militants have established strongholds. Lahore has not been immune from militant violence however, and at least one attack in recent months in the northwest has occurred next to a sports stadium.Sri Lanka appeared on the brink of crushing the Tamil Tiger rebels after more than a quarter century of civil war.In recent months, government forces have pushed the guerrillas out of much of the de facto state they controlled in the north of the Indian Ocean island nation and trapped them in a small patch of land along the coast.

In this modern world there is lot of growth in each and every technology. But there is no particular treatment for Acne for the youths which affect them very much. Even i also get affect by the Acne recent days. Then i asked the suggestion About this to my friends. They ask me to visit the site acnetreatmentsreview.net which will be the best treatment for the Acne. In this site they will suggest about the treatment should taken according to the skin type. They also gives the certain top 3 product which will cure the Acne fast and in better way. Acne Treatments There is no side effect and the product will give the best result for treating the Acne. They first think of customer satisfaction and will produce the product according to the Customer’s wish. The product contain good quality ingredients which will be very usefulk for the customers. So of anyone who wants to get rid of the Acne can go for the products publish in  acnetreatmentsreview.net.

One good news for the people who have been continously affected by the Acne. There is a site acnewash.org which helps the people to get a best treatment for Acne in their home itself. In their site they provide the top 5 product for best Acne wash which will be well researched and  and then only recommended for their customers. acne face wash Instead of using Soap and other creams for treating the Acne they can use this product for the best results of the Acne. Even i was very much affected by the Acne for past few days . After knowing about this site i took the treatment according to that site. My face become as much shining as never it would be. The product that is published in this site is very much customer satisfaction and do not have any side effect. This Face wash can be used in home itself and can be recommended by all the Face treatment professionals. So one who want to get rid of the Acne problem can go for the product which is been Recommended.

‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has won seven awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Film Editing, Original Score,

Slumdog Millionaire shines at 81st Academy Awards. (Agency Photo)

Original Song and Direction.

The Indian music maestro, Rahman wooed the audience with ‘O Saya’ and ‘Jai Ho…’ the nominated songs from ‘Slumdog…’, as the nominees for Best Original Song were being announced.

Best Original Score: A R Rahman for Slumdog Millionaire . “I have nothing but my mother and she is there with me. I thank her for making me coming all this way with her blessings,” said a proud Rahman.

Best Film Editing: Chris Dickens for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Sound Mixing: Ian Tapp, Resul Pookutty for Slumdog Millionaire. “This is just not a sound award, but a history being handed over,” said Indian receiver Pookutty.

Best Cinematography: Anthony Dod Mantle for Slumdog Millionaire

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy for Slumdog Millionaire. “The cast and crew of the film told me so much about India and writing,” said a proud Beaufoy.

Best Documentary Short Subject: Megan Mylan for Smile Pinki

Best Foreign Language Film: Departures (Japan)

Best Sound Editing: Richard King for The Dark Knight

Best Visual Effects: Eric Barba for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Documentary Feature Film: James Marsh for Man on Wire

Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger for The Dark Knight . It was a special moment for actor’s family – mother Sally, father Kim and sister Kate who came to receive the trophy on Ledger’s behalf.

Best Live action short film: Jochen Alexander for Spielzeugland Toyland

Best Make-up: Greg Cannom for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Costume Design: Michael O’Connor for The Duchess

Best Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Animated Short Film: Kunio Kato for La Maison En Petits Cubes

Best Animated Feature: Andrew Stanton for Wall-E

Best Original Screenplay: Dustin Lance Black for Milk

Source: The Times of India

Most of the people are struggling very much in lossing their weight. People like me can’t able to spend lot of time in doing excercise and there is no interest in doing excercise daily as it very strainful and become very tired. So to overcome these problems Site like  Consumerpricewatch.net is very much helpful. In that site they have been Some pills which has been ranked according to the Coustomer Satisfaction and the number one and most Extradonary pill is Lipofuze this is the one of the best diet pills which hits the market recently and very much liked by the Customers as they are very effictive in reducing the weight and do not have any side effect. lipofuze Most of the Customers are saying that taking this diet pills one can able to reduce upto One pound per day. Lipofuze contain lot of healthful ingredients which will keep the health in good condition. So one who want to reduce their weight Safely, Easily and in Affortable price can go for Lipofuze.

Delhi-6 clearly isn’t an autobiographical take on Rakeysh Mehra’s childhood days in the capital city. That’s because the story is set around the monkey-man episode that made headlines in Delhi some years back and Mehra surely wasn’t a child then. The treatment of the film, however, gets childishly corny at places. Of course do not expect a thriller treatment with the monkey-man chapter. Rather, Delhi-6 thematically apes the banner’s (UTV) own Swades (2004) and remains a social drama all through.

So you have the purported protagonist Roshan Mehra (Abhishek Bachchan) coming to India, though this time not to fetch his nanny, but to get his granny (Waheeda Rehman) to Delhi gullies where she wants to spend the final phase of her life. In the bylanes of Chandni Chowk in old Delhi, Roshan is introduced to customs, conventions and relations alien to him. Meanwhile panic spreads in Delhi as news of random attacks by a mysterious creature titled monkey-man makes headlines.

Muddled up between the liking for his land and ladylove Bittu (Sonam Kapoor), the movie progresses as monkey-man gives ways to discuss social and political issues like the Hindu-Muslim and upper-lower class divide.

The movie makes an interesting start as it introduces multiple characters and gets into multi-track storytelling. But soon the characters and the tracks start jumbling up, giving way for continuity lapses in the multi-dimensional narrative. It’s surprising that the same multi-layered storytelling that Rakeysh Mehra exploited brilliantly in Rang De Basanti , intermittently handicaps the narration in Delhi-6 .

Midways the movie, it’s still difficult to comprehend what’s the central lead of the story amongst Roshan’s love for Bittu, Bittu’s quest for Indian Idol independence, grandma’s loyalty towards motherland or a family feud (Om Puri – Pawan Malhotra sibling rivalry). Unfortunately even the monkey-man track doesn’t help connecting the individual installments and rather works only on peripheral level. However, it resolves all above conflicts in a single-stroke climax, in addition to an Ayodhya-Babri Masjid kind of issue it incites towards the end.

The US space agency (Nasa) has delayed the launch of its Mars Science Laboratory rover mission. MSL was scheduled to fly next year, but the mission has been dogged by testing and hardware problems. The rover’s launch would now be postponed until late 2011, agency officials said. The mission is using innovative technologies to explore whether microbial life could ever have existed on the Red Planet. The delay could add $400m to the price tag, which is likely to top $2bn. “Trying for ‘09 would require us to assume too much risk, more than I think is appropriate for a flagship mission,” said Nasa’s administrator Michael Griffin. The launch date was changed following an assessment by the mission’s scientists and engineers of the progress it has made in the past three months. “Despite exhaustive work in multiple shifts by a dedicated team, the progress in recent weeks has not come fast enough on solving technical challenges and pulling hardware together,” said Charles Elachi, director of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, US. “The right and smart course now for a successful mission is to launch in 2011.” Technology hurdles MSL will use novel technologies to adjust its flight while descending through the Martian atmosphere, and to set the rover on the surface by lowering it on a tether from a hovering platform. It is engineered to drive longer distances over rougher terrain than previous rovers and contains a science payload 10 times the mass of instruments on Nasa’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers. “Up to this point, efforts have focused on launching next year, both to begin the exciting science and because the delay will increase taxpayers’ investment in the mission,” said Doug McCuistion, director of Nasa’s Mars exploration programme. “However, we’ve reached the point where we can not condense the schedule further without compromising vital testing.” Engineers have struggled with the development of MSL’s complex actuators – the motors that drive and turn the rover’s wheels, and operate its robotic arm. The window for a 2009 launch ends in late October. The relative positions of Earth and Mars are favourable for flights to the Red Planet only a few weeks every two years.

MSL will use novel technologies to adjust its flight while descending through the Martian atmosphere, and to set the rover on the surface by lowering it on a tether from a hovering platform.

It is engineered to drive longer distances over rougher terrain than previous rovers and contains a science payload 10 times the mass of instruments on Nasa’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers.

“Up to this point, efforts have focused on launching next year, both to begin the exciting science and because the delay will increase taxpayers’ investment in the mission,” said Doug McCuistion, director of Nasa’s Mars exploration programme.

“However, we’ve reached the point where we can not condense the schedule further without compromising vital testing.”

Engineers have struggled with the development of MSL’s complex actuators – the motors that drive and turn the rover’s wheels, and operate its robotic arm.

The window for a 2009 launch ends in late October. The relative positions of Earth and Mars are favourable for flights to the Red Planet only a few weeks every two years.

The next launch opportunity after 2009 is in 2011. The window in 2011 runs through October to December.

Sania fought her heart out against her formidable opponent but the Russian drew from her vast experience to halt the India’s brilliant run in the one hour and 17 minutes contest. The first set was fiercely fought and both the players traded many a breaks but unforced errors in pressure situations did Sania in. Once she lost the first set, and squandered the chance to break Zvonareva in the opening game of the second set, Sania was all but out of the match. Nevertheless, Sania’s sizzling run in the event will boost her confidence and give a fillip to her plummeting WTA ranking, which is currently 126th. Sania could have got an early lead at the start of the match as she had two break points in the opening game but squandered both. Sania then broke Zvonareva in the third game but the Russian did not allow Sania to run away with the lead as she fought back and broke the Indian in the very next game. After trading breaks in the ninth and 10th games, Zvonareva held her serve in the 11th to make it 6-5. It was imperative for Sania to win the next game and stretch the set to a tie-breaker but the Russian pounced on the second breakpoint to wrap it up in her favour.

The main problem occurs for the teenagers is the acne. This will makes them so shy and guilty to come out of their homes. Even i tried out many products which is not worth. The acne treat product should also be safety and should not cause any side effect. So i searched in the net then i found a site AcneCuresRevealed.net which will be very useful for the teenagers so that they could able to find out which is good product. The top 5 product which they publish has no side effect and has good quality ingredients.  This product is very safe and will not affect the skin. AcneCuresRevealed.net will publish the best acne solve product that must be updated by them. They first look at the customer satisfaction and will make them happy by publishing the good and safety product. Acne Treatments So nowadays no one wants to fell for Acne as it become very easier for thwm to cure with the help of AcneCuresRevealed.net site. So one who to overcome the effect of Acne can go through this site.