CHITTAGONG: Graeme Swann claimed five wickets as Bangladesh was dismissed at 296 in its first innings Sunday in reply to England’s 599-6 declared, on the third day of the first test.

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CHITTAGONG: Graeme Swann claimed five wickets as Bangladesh was dismissed at 296 in its first innings Sunday in reply to England’s 599-6 declared, on the third day of the first test.
England elected not to enforce the follow-on, keen to rest its bowlers before a likely declaration on Monday. At tea, England was 12-0 in its second innings.
Mushfiqur Rahim scored 79 runs to head the home side’s meager resistance, adding 113 runs for the eighth wicket with Naeem Islam, but the hosts lost their last three wickets in the space of four deliveries.
Resuming on its overnight score of 154-5, Bangladesh looked like making a quick exit when Tamim Iqbal made an early departure, beaten by movement off the seam and bowled by Tim Bresnan. That ended a fine innings of 86 runs.
Nightwatchman Shahadat Hossain was the next to go, as debutant paceman Steven Finn claimed his first test wicket, with Paul Collingwood taking the catch at second slip.
Rahim and Islam came together with the score on 183/7 but dug in for a disciplined partnership that defied England’s bowlers, seeing off almost 10 overs of the new ball before the final collapse came.
Islam (38) was run out attempting a second, beaten by a slick piece of fielding by Michael Carberry. Rahim went next ball as he attempted to smash a Swann delivery through midwicket where substitute fielder James Tredwell took a diving, one-handed catch. Rahim’s 79 came from 152 balls, with 15 fours.
Last man Rubel Hossain negotiated one delivery but was out the next, bowled by Swann.
England is the only test-playing nation to have never lost to Bangladesh in any form of the game.

Boxing live Streaming free, Pacman Vs Clottey Latest News: Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao easily defeated Joshua Clottey by unanimous 12-round decision to retain his World Boxing Organization welterweight title at Cowboys Stadium.

Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao easily defeated Joshua Clottey by unanimous 12-round decision to retain his World Boxing Organization welterweight title at Cowboys Stadium.
Pacquiao, recently named Fighter of the Decade, ran his win streak to 12 straight fights with a dominating performance in front of a crowd of more than 50,000 at the 1.2 billion-dollar home of American football’s Dallas Cowboys.
Pacquiao’s punishing assault was reflected on all three judges scorecards as he won by totals of 120-108, 119-109 and 119-109.
“This fight is dedicated to all of you, especially to the people in the Philippines,” Pacquiao told the crowd from the center of the ring.
This marked the second consecutive true welterweight fight for Pacquiao, who was the heavy favourite despite giving away a 10-pound advantage to Clottey.
Clottey, who barely threw a punch through the first few rounds, proved to be an easy target for Pacquiao, who was the more aggressive fighter through all 12 rounds.
Pacquiao was frustrated by Clottey’s defense and the challenger’s decision to cover up and not throw more punches than he did.
“Clottey is not an easy opponent he is very strong,” Pacquiao said. “He took a lot of punches and was never hurt.”
In the fourth round, Pacquiao tried to get Clottey to come out of his defensive shell and at one point tapped both of Clottey’s gloves in a failed attempt to get him to trade blows.
Pacquiao, 51-3 with two drawn and 38 knockouts, has looked unstoppable in his previous three fights against opponents who were willing to engage him in the middle of the ring.
Clottey, who fell to 35-4, lasted all 12 rounds with a game plan that included counter-punching and covering up. By the middle rounds it was apparent Pacquiao had a victory sewn up.
Pacquiao, who last lost to Erik Morales in March of 2005, defended his title on the same date he was to face unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather before negotiations broke off over a drug-testing dispute.
With Clottey out the way, Saturday’s victory could set the stage to reopen talks between Pacquiao and Mayweather’s camp.
“I want that fight because the people want to see that fight,” Pacquiao said.
“Right now I am so happy because of the support I have from my fans. This is the first fight in my career where there is a lot people coming.”
But first, Pacquiao plans to try his luck at politics and run for a congressional seat in the Philippine national election in May. He ran for Congress in 2007 but failed to get elected.
The fight, part of the first boxing card at the stadium, was watched by one of the largest crowds in US boxing history at the state-of-the art facility which opened last year.

NEW DELHI: The head of India’s Congress party said on Tuesday its ruling coalition was intact, despite a key ally breaking ranks to abstain as a bill to reserve a third of parliamentary seats for women was passed by the upper house.

Already under fire over issues such as food inflation and a proposed hike in fuel prices, the government has been hit by two days of turmoil trying to push through the legislation.

While the Congress-led coalition still has a majority, the stand-off may give the government less breathing room over key pending economic legislation.

Sonia Gandhi, seen as the country’s most influential politician, was asked by reporters whether she was confident in the stability of the government.

“I think so. One can never tell. I am not not an astrologer. I wish our former partners remained with us,” she said, according to the Press Trust of India.

The bill was passed in an evening vote after a raucous day in the upper house of parliament, but it still needs the approval of the lower house.

“It is a historic occasion, which calls for celebration,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in the upper house where the bill was supported by a majority of opposition parties.

Two regional parties pulled their support on Monday, and on Tuesday the Trinamool Congress party, one the government’s most influential allies, abstained to protest at Congress’ handling of the bill and said it would do the same in the lower house.

The Trinamool Congress party, whose leader, Mamata Banerjee, is the railways minister, said Congress had not properly consulted its ally on pushing through the bill in the upper house in the face of strong opposition from some regional parties.

Detractors say the legislation will be passed at the expense of other disenfranchised minorities such as Muslims, or benefit women already in privileged classes.

Trinamool faces an election in its stronghold state of West Bengal next year where about 20 percent of voters are Muslims.

The women’s bill is a test for Congress, which sees the quota as a cornerstone of its election-winning platform of inclusive growth, but which might lose some political capital needed to push economic reforms and maintain high growth.

The bill, which was first introduced in 1996, is intended to speed up women’s empowerment in a country where women lag far behind on many social and health indicators. Women lawmakers and activists shouted “we have made it” outside parliament.

Seven lawmakers were suspended on Tuesday and physically evicted from the house, and the sessions adjourned several times as those against the bill besieged the speaker of the house to shout slogans and stall the debate.

INDIA NEW DELHI: Socialist lawmakers forced India’s parliament to adjourn twice Tuesday as they tried for a second day to block passage of a historic bill to increase the number of female lawmakers across the country.

On Monday, angry legislators in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament, rushed to the chairman’s seat as he presided over the session, tore up copies of the bill and tried to grab his microphone.

The house suspended seven lawmakers on Tuesday because of their behavior the day before, but they refused to leave the chamber, again stalling debate on the proposal and forcing parliament to adjourn twice.

The bill to reserve one-third of legislative seats for women has faced strong opposition since it was first proposed more than a decade ago, with many political leaders worried that their male-dominated parties would lose seats.

The proposal is an attempt to correct some of the historical gender disparities in India, where women receive less education than men and are weighed down by illiteracy, poverty and low social status.

Mulayam Singh Yadav, the leader of a socialist group, said Tuesday a portion of the women’s quota should be set aside for minorities and lower castes, which have been socially and economically disadvantaged as well.

However, the main opposition parties, including right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party and communist groups, already have announced their support for the legislation proposed by the ruling Congress Party.

The bill would raise the number of female lawmakers in the 545-seat lower house to 181 from the current 59. It would nearly quadruple the number of women in the 250-seat upper house. The bill would also apply to state legislatures.

INDIA:The Women Reservation Bill is to be introduced in the upper house on Monday, International Women’s Day, before being considered by the decision-making lower house at a later date.

“We will table the bill in the upper house today,” Congress party leader P.S Ghatwar told AFP. “The bill if passed then will move to lower house.”

The controversial proposal to reserve 33 percent of seats, first introduced in parliament in 1996, would dramatically increase women’s membership in both houses of parliament where they occupy about one in 10 seats.

The legislation needs the approval of two-thirds of legislators. If passed, women would occupy 181 of the 545 seats in the lower house.

“Our government is committed towards women empowerment. We are moving towards one-third reservation for women in parliament and state legislatures,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told a women’s leadership summit on Saturday.

The bill has the backing of the Congress-led ruling coalition and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Several socialist parties vow to oppose it, arguing that if passed it would lead to upper caste, not lower caste, women in parliament

Attempts to pass the bill have been blocked by various political groups who demanded separate quotas for women from Muslim and low-caste communities.

Sonia Gandhi, president of the Congress party and regarded as India’s most powerful politician, has thrown her weight behind the bill, saying she attaches the “highest importance” to it.

It will be a “gift to the women of India if it is introduced and passed” on International Women’s Day, she told party lawmakers last week.

The main opposition on Monday voiced support for the bill.

“I see no reason why it should not be tabled, it is true that there is no unanimity but there is a huge consensus,” senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley said.

But leaders of socialist parties such as the Samajwadi Party said they would oppose it.

“We will do everything to make sure that bill is not passed,” said Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Politics in India has traditionally been a male bastion, but women now hold prominent positions, including President Pratibha Patil and Sonia Gandhi. India has had one female prime minister, Indira Gandhi.

Women currently occupy 59 seats out of 545 in the lower house. There are just 21 women in the 248-seat upper house.

United States Postal Service is asking Congress to approve a five-day mail week that will eliminate Saturday delivery services, Your mailbox is going on strike.

There are more than 36,000 post offices, stations and branches in the United States, and the number of customers who use a post office is dwindling, officials say. To cut costs, the postal service has farmed out duties including sale of stamps, which now are available at more than 56,000 alternative locations, such as supermarkets, drug stores, and other retailers.

Additionally, nearly 18,000 ATMs are equipped to sell stamps.

In the 2009, officials said, nearly 30 percent of postal retail transactions took place in locations other than a post office.

All the talk about cutting Saturday delivery is preliminary, said Gary Sawtelle, the U.S. Postal Service spokesman in Tampa.

“No decisions have been made on that,” he said this morning. “It all still has to play out.”

Indian Seductive Stories Latest News Updates, in Indian Seductive Stories, indian sax, zarine khan wallpapers, iss, gutter uncensensored malaysia, isteri kedua sultan kelantan, Kozhikode , A specter is haunting India’s state of Kerala, a supposedly new and secret Islamic weapon, “love jihad.” Namely,

the idea that young Muslim men court impressionable Hindu and Christian women to capture their souls as well as their bodies. In the Malabar region, where the majority of Kerala’s most venerable Muslim community lives, it is whispered that as many as four thousand women have already succumbed. Can it be? Will seduction threaten the communal peace in this tolerant multicultural state? By chance, we arrived in Kozikode on the day riot police dispersed hundreds of demonstrators belonging to Hindu Aika Vedi (HAV) as they marched within a hundred meters of an Islamic social center. It was actually a “conversion center,” the protestors insisted as a large crowd led by the Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) gathered to protect the threatened social center. City authorities invoked a law banning provocative assemblies, a riot was averted, and the crowd dispersed. A newspaper account was careful to state that during the agitation, Hindu leaders of HAV escorted a pregnant Muslim woman in a jeep to the local women’s hospital.

It also happened that we were meeting two highly respected Muslim leaders: A Congress Party veteran, T. Sadarikkoya, who as a youngster took part in Gandhi’s “Quit India” campaign in 1943; and Prof. M.N. Karassery of Calicut University, a leading authority on Kerala’s Malayalam language and a widely read columnist.

Both agreed that yes, there were communal problems. Fundamentalists have been proselytizing, and its effects are evident in the prevalence of hijabs worn by a growing minority of Muslim women. But Malabar had its distinct civil culture. Whereas Muslims in India’s Northern provinces arrived as conquerors, their brothers arrived in Malabar some 450 years ago as traders.

With rare exceptions, they have lived in peace alongside Hindus and Christians. Another unifying factor, Professor Karassery, stressed is that while a common language, Urdu, unites northernIndian Muslims and Pakistanis, the Malabar Muslims share the same language, Malayalam, with Hindus and Christians. Thus during the bloody exchange of populations that occurred when India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947 there were no riots in Kerala, and few Muslims migrated northward.

India’s apex court and the High Courts can order Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe into criminal cases to protect the fundamental rights of citizens, without consent of the state governments.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of courts’ powers to order CBI investigation without the prior permission of state governments with a provision that this should be used carefully and cautiously.
A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan in a unanimous judgment said such powers have to be exercised cautiously by the apex court and the High Courts.
India’s federal ruling Congress party welcomed the decision saying that it would be beneficial in the public interest. “It is a judgment which in the public interest, in the national interest holds that there would be situation where the state concerned or the person concerned at the state level would so arrange matters that a consent to have the CBI enquiry will not be given. In such cases, the consent cannot act as a veto, or the requirement of consent cannot act as a veto. And therefore the court has held that wherever larger public interest remains the court is not powerless to direct the CBI whether it is high court or Supreme Court. I think it’s largely consistent with the government stand and that stand has been upheld. I think it is judgment to be welcomed in the public interest,” Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters outside Supreme Court.
Justices R V Raveendran, D K Jain, P Sathasivam and J M Panchal, who were also a part of the Constitutional Bench, said that such powers have to be used sparingly in exceptional and extraordinary circumstances in cases having national and international ramifications.
The CBI will otherwise be flooded with such directions in routine cases, said the Constitutional Bench, adding that such powers are vested with the apex court and High courts to ensure protection of fundamental rights of citizens under Article 21 of the Constitution.
The judgment was announced on a bunch of petitions filed by the eastern West Bengal state government, who argued that the CBI could carry out a probe only with the prior consent of the concerned government under the provisions of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act.

Smartphones are under a growing menace from cyber-criminals seeking to hack into web-connected handsets, but the mobile industry has contained the threat so far, security experts said.

Software security firms warned at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, that the increasingly popular smartphones could face an explosion of virus attacks in the coming years.

“Tomorrow we could see a worm on phones which would go around the world in five minutes,” said Mikko Hyppoenen, chief research officer at F-Secure, which makes anti-virus software for mobile phones.

“It could have happened already. It hasn’t, but it could happen. And I do think that sooner or later it will happen, but when? Well that I cannot tell you,” he told AFP.

But security companies, mobile operators and makers of operating systems have found solutions to limit the attacks so far and delay an onslaught of spam and viruses, he said.

“It won’t work forever, eventually we will see the first global outbreak. But we have been able to delay it by more than five years, at least,” he said.

The first mobile virus appeared six years ago, and so far F-Secure has detected only 430 mobile worms. This compares to millions of computer viruses.

Much like the first computer hackers of two decades ago, the people attacking mobile phones have been doing it as a hobby, Hyppoenen said.

“It seems that on any new platform, the first years, the first viruses are done by hobbyists just to show off and then later more professional money-making criminals move in,” he said.

One of the first viruses was called Skulls. Spreading through wireless bluetooth systems, a skull would appear on a phone’s screen and delete all its data, Hyppoenen said.

The few money-making “trojan” viruses that have been seen infiltrate a person’s phone and send text messages to premium numbers controlled by the hacker, he said.

Security companies have developped anti-spam and anti-virus software for mobile phones as well as anti-theft features that allow a phone’s owner to remotely block the device and even map its location.

But smartphones, with their email and Internet capabilities, will invite more break-ins, especially with the growth of mobile banking — financial transactions that can be done through applications, experts said.

“It is all about money,” said Eugene Kaspersky, founder and chief executive of software protection firm Kaspersky Lab.

“Malware is developed to make more money. It doesn’t matter if it’s computers or smartphones,” he said.

His company has detected an average of 30 mobile viruses per month over the past year, and believes that a wave of financial assaults are just around the corner.

It took more than 20 years for computer viruses to become a money-making industry, Kaspersky said.

“We expect that in mobiles it will take much less time,” he said. “This year and next year we expect to see the industrialisation of smartphone malware.”

Adam Leach, a mobile device expert at Ovum research firm, played down the threat, saying that the industry is staying on top of the problem.

“The threat hasn’t been as high as expected,” he said, adding that companies have learned from past experiences and have found ways to “minimise the threat.”

But he warned that the mobile industry should not let its guard down.

“I think it is something companies need to take seriously,” Leach said. “If it is not taken seriously, it has the potential to have a big impact on (mobile phone) users.”

NEW DELHI: Indian President Pratibha Patil’s husband has been accused of illegally procuring land belonging to a farmer in western India, reports said Thursday.

The allegations came to light when a court in the president’s home state of Maharashtra ordered the names of Patil’s husband Devisingh Shekhawat, and five other family members, to be struck off the local land records.

The order came in response to a petition filed by farmer Kishore Bansod, who said the Shekhawats had fraudulently added their names to the title deed of a 3.2 acre (1.3 hectare) site he had refused to sell them.

“The Shekhawats own almost 200 acres in the village and were interested in owning this land too,” Bansod’s lawyer, Sunil Gajbhiye, was quoted as saying by the Hindustan Times newspaper.

“My client wasn’t willing to sell the land. So the Shekhawats got it fraudulently transferred in their names.”

There was no comment from the president’s secretariat or India’s ruling Congress party which nominated Patil for the post of president in 2007.

But Shekhawat rubbished the charges of fraud saying: “The land officers measured the land in a wrong manner and showed it as ours when my father bought it.”This is not the first time Patil has been embarrassed by accusations of corruption.
Prior to her appointment as India’s first woman president, she was accused of protecting her brother in a murder probe and shielding her husband in a suicide scandal.

There were also charges of nepotism and involvement in a slew of financial scams.