Election Commission ordered govt for 150 IRS officers for Election Duty

NEW DELHI: Election Commission today ordered the transfer of the Returning Officer of  five states – Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Assam, Kerala and West Bengal – set to go to polls over the next one year, the Election Commission has asked the finance ministry to provide at least 150 Indian Revenue Service  (IRS) officers to be deputed as election observers to keep watch on poll expenditure of candidates and ensure free and fair polls.
The EC communication also for the first time formally expressed its desire to complete the electoral process in these states by the first quarter of next year. The EC also asked the ministry to ensure that all IRS officers deputed should be taint free and not the ones who were drafted by the government in the recent past as election observers. These observers will be selected from 1983 to 2005 batches.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has agreed to spare five officers each from Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kochi, Pune, Guwahati and Nagpur while 10 officers each will be provided from other charges. Officers involved in investigation and time-barred sensitive assessment cases have been kept out of this process.

SaiBaba’s Health, Doctors said Good condition

Sri Satya Saibaba admitted to Hospital pacemaker implanted

Doctors said Good condition 
While a huge number of devotees from India and abroad prayed for his speedy recovery and well-being, the health condition of godman Sri Satya Saibaba continued to be critical on Sunday though the doctors attending on him claimed that he was stable.

“Saibaba is on ventilator. Dialysis was done to assist his kidney function,” said A N Safaya, director, Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. He said Baba’s respiration had improved since morning. Following serious lung and chest congestion, Saibaba was put on ventilator. “His response to the treatment is satisfactory,” doctors said. The 85-year-old Saibaba was admitted to Satyasai super-speciality hospital here on March 28 following pneumonia and respiratory problems.
Currently Sri Satya Saibaba is on ventilator support for assisting respiration and his response to the treatment is satisfactory, doctors attending on him said today.

85-year-old Satya Saibaba was admitted to the super-specialty hospital at Prashantigram at Puttaparti

T20 IPL 2011 Online Ticket Booking, Official website

Fans can buy tickets for home matches of Mumbai Indians online five to seven days in advance before they go on sale to the general public during IPL 4 of the T20 League commencing on April 8.

 T20 IPL Online Ticket Booking:


On can buy Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) IPL T20 matches tickets to be held at Kochi in the official website www.kochiteam.com or at http://www.kyazoonga.com/ Special counters will be opened outside the stadium to deliver the tickets bought online.


Tickets will be sold at stadium counter 3 days before the match and through the Federal Bank counters from April 5 2011 (Tuesday)



 T20 IPL Ticket Rates:


 T20 IPL  games tickets cost starts at Rs. 400 (tier 3), 1000, 1500, 3,500 and 5000. Highest Rate is Rs. 15,000. (luxury, a Grand Stand seat). There will be a 15% discount for season tickets.


Kochi Matches:


Kochi Tuskers plays 5 matches at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Kochi and last 2 games at Indore.


April 9 2011 - Saturday - 8 pm - Kochi vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) 


April 18 2011 - Monday - 8pm - Kochi vs Chennai Super Kings (CSK)


April 27 2011 - Wednesday - 8 p.m. - KTK vs Deccan Chargers (DC) o


April 30 2011 - Saturday - 4pm - Kochi vs Delhi Daredevils (DD)


May 5 2011 - Thursday - 4pm - Tuskers vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)


May 13 2011 - Friday - 8 pm - Kochi vs Kings XI Punjab 


May 15 2011 - Sunday - 8pm - KTK vs  Rajasthan Royals (RR) 

IPL 2011 Ten Teams Players List, Auction Rate

Chennai Super Kings Squad

• Batsmen: Suresh Raina (retained), M Vijay (retained), Michael Hussey ($425,000), S Badrinath ($850,000), George Bailey ($50,000)
• Bowlers: Doug Bollinger ($700,000), R Ashwin ($850,000), Ben Hilfenhaus ($100,000), Joginder Sharma ($150,000), Nuwan Kulasekara ($100,000), Sudeep Tyagi ($240,000), Suraj Randiv ($80,000), Faf du Plessis ($120,000)
• Allrounders: Albie Morkel (retained), Dwayne Bravo ($200,000), Scott Styris ($200,000)
• Wicketkeepers: MS Dhoni (retained), Wriddhiman Saha ($100,000)
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Deccan Chargers Squad

• Batsmen: Kevin Pietersen ($650,000), Cameron White ($1.1m), JP Duminy ($300,000), Shikhar Dhawan ($300,000), Michael Lumb ($85,000), Chris Lynn ($20,000)
• Bowlers: Ishant Sharma ($450,000), Dale Steyn ($1.2m), Pragyan Ojha ($500,000), Amit Mishra ($300,000), Manpreet Gony ($290,000), Rusty Theron ($85,000)
• Allrounders: Dan Christian ($900,000)
• Wicketkeepers: Kumar Sangakkara ($700,000)

Delhi Daredevils Squad

• Batsmen: Virender Sehwag (retained), David Warner ($750,000), Aaron Finch ($300,000), Venugopal Rao ($700,000), Travis Birt ($20,000), Colin Ingram ($100,000)
• Bowlers: Morne Morkel ($475,000), Ajit Agarkar ($210,000), Ashok Dinda ($375,000), Umesh Yadav ($750,000), Robert Frylinck ($20,000)
• Allrounders: Irfan Pathan ($1.9m), James Hopes ($350,000), Roelof van der Merwe ($50,000), Andrew McDonald ($80,000)
• Wicketkeepers: Naman Ojha ($270,000), Matthew Wade ($100,000)

Kings XI Punjab Team

• Batsmen: Shaun Marsh ($400,000), David Hussey ($140,000)
• Bowlers: Stuart Broad ($400,000), Praveen Kumar ($800,000), Ryan Harris ($325,000), Piyush Chawla ($900,000), Nathan Rimmington ($20,000)
• Allrounders: Abhishek Nayar ($800,000), Dimitri Mascarenhas ($100,000)
• Wicketkeepers: Adam Gilchrist ($900,000), Dinesh Karthik ($900,000)

Kochi Squad

• Batsmen: Mahela Jayawardene ($1.5m), VVS Laxman ($400,000), Brad Hodge ($425,000), Owais Shah ($200,000), Michael Klinger ($75,000)
• Bowlers: Sreesanth ($900,000), RP Singh ($500,000), Muttiah Muralitharan ($1.1m), Ramesh Powar ($180,000), Vinay Kumar ($475,000), Steve O’Keefe ($20,000)
• Allrounders: Ravindra Jadeja ($950,000), Steven Smith ($200,000), Thisara Perera ($80,000), John Hastings ($20,000)
• Wicketkeepers: Brendon McCullum ($475,000), Parthiv Patel ($290,000)

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad

• Batsmen: Gautam Gambhir ($2.4m), Manoj Tiwary ($475,000), Eoin Morgan ($350,000)
• Bowlers: L Balaji ($500,000), Brett Lee ($400,000), Jaidev Unadkat ($250,000), James Pattinson ($100,000)
• Allrounders: Yusuf Pathan ($2.1m), Jacques Kallis ($1.1m), Shakib Al Hasan ($425,000), Ryan ten Doeschate ($150,000)
• Wicketkeeper: Brad Haddin ($325,000)

Mumbai Indians Squad

• Batsmen: Sachin Tendulkar (retained), Rohit Sharma ($2m), Aiden Blizzard ($20,000)
• Bowlers: Harbhajan Singh (retained), Lasith Malinga (retained), Munaf Patel ($700,000), Clint McKay ($110,000)
• Allrounders: Kieron Pollard (retained), Andrew Symonds ($850,000), James Franklin ($100,000), Moises Henriques ($50,000)
• Wicketkeeper: Davy Jacobs ($190,000)

Pune Warriors Squad

• Batsmen: Robin Uthappa ($2.1m), Yuvraj Singh ($1.8m), Graeme Smith ($500,000), Callum Ferguson ($300,000)
• Bowlers: Ashish Nehra ($850,000), Murali Kartik ($400,000), Wayne Parnell ($160,000), Jerome Taylor ($100,000)
• Allrounders: Angelo Mathews ($950,000), Mitchell Marsh ($290,000), Jesse Ryder ($150,000), Nathan McCullum ($100,000), Alfonso Thomas ($100,000)
• Wicketkeeper: Time Paine ($270,000)

Rajasthan Royals Squad

• Batsmen: Ross Taylor ($1m), Rahul Dravid ($500,000)
• Bowlers: Shane Warne (retained), Johan Botha ($950,000), Shaun Tait ($300,000), Pankaj Singh ($95,000)
• Allrounders: Shane Watson (retained), Paul Collingwood ($250,000)

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad

• Batsmen: Virat Kohli (retained), Saurabh Tiwary ($1.6m), Cheteshwar Pujara ($700,000), Tillakaratne Dilshan ($650,000), Mohammad Kaif ($130,000), Luke Pomersbach ($50,000), Rilee Rossouw ($20,000), Jonathan Vandiar ($20,000)
• Bowlers: Zaheer Khan ($900,000), Dirk Nannes ($650,000), Abhimanyu Mithun ($260,000), Charl Langeveldt ($140,000), Nuwan Pradeep ($20,000)
• Allrounders: Daniel Vettori ($550,000), Johan van der Wath ($50,000)
• Wicketkeepers: AB de Villiers ($1.1m)

UConn Vs. Kentucky, Final Four 2011 Live Streming

HOUSTON - When the options boil down to winning or heading home, nobody's better than Kemba and Connecticut.

Connecticut's Kemba Walker smiles after hitting a shot. Walker led the Huskies past Kentucky on Saturday night. Kemba Walker scored 18 points Saturday night to lift UConn to its 10th straight victory since finishing off a .500 Big East regular season, a 56-55 win over cold-shooting Kentucky that moved the Huskies a victory away from their third, and most improbable, NCAA title.

Walker, a quick-handed junior from the Bronx, added seven assists and six rebounds to help the young UConn team (31-9) extend a winning streak that started with a five-wins-in-five-nights leg-drainer at the conference tournament and now includes five more at the tournament that really counts.

UConn's youth (and Kemba Walker, of course) beat Kentucky's youth, despite a freshman mistake by Jeremy Lamb late. And it's DeAndre Liggins, a junior, who will be the Wildcats' sickest player tonight.

A Shabazz Napier turnover gave Kentucky a chance to take the lead with 16 seconds left, but the Wildcats were only able to get a deep DeAndre Liggins three on the ensuing possession. Liggins missed, Napier came up with the rebound, and the Husky freshman hit his free throws to ice UConn's third NCAA Tournament final appearance.

In those last two trips to the last men's college basketball game of the season, Jim Calhoun is 2-0.

Yuvraj Singh Glamorous Girl friends Past and Present

Yuvraj Singh has created a name for himself as an outstanding cricketer of the Indian Cricket Team. He joined the team in the year 2000 in the ODI. The first test match played by him was in 2003. He proved his talent in cricket which soon catapulted him to become the vice captain of the ODI team from the latter part of 2007 to the latter part of 2008. He further added a feather to his cap by hitting six sixes in the World Twenty 20 in 2007 in one over against Stuart Broad of England, an accomplishment obtained only thrice before in India and the only one in any international cricket match.

He is well known for his several girlfriends. His first crush was Kim Sharma, a beauty of Bollywood silver screen. They went steady for four years before they broke up in 2007. The breakup came because of Yuvraj’s mother who did not approve of an actress daughter-in-law and Yuvraj, being a ‘mamma’s boy’ obeyed her

Yuvraj Singh’s latest girlfriend is Aanchal Kumar, a ramp and video supermodel. She is the ex-contestant of the ‘Bigg Boss’ Contest. It is learnt that she got selected for it because of her relationship with Yuvraj. They were first spotted in Bangalore at the IPL party where they both danced till late into the night. She has acted briefly alongside Abhishek Bachchan in the title song of the movie Bluffmaster. She is the ex-girlfriend of Anupam Mittal, the CEO of Shaadi.com.

Sachin Tendulkar Doctorate to be Conferred | Sachin Wife , Kids Photos

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born in Mumbai on April 24, 1973. His father Ramesh was a novelist, and a young Sachin was encouraged to play cricket by his older brother Ajit. Tendulkar began his cricketing career at Sharadashram Vidyamandir High School, under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar.

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar will not travel to Mysore on April 10 to accept the honorary doctorate to be conferred to him by the University of Mysore at its annual convocation.

In a letter to vice-chancellor of the University, Prof V G Talwar, Tendulkar's wife Anjali Tendulkar thanked him for proposing to honour her husband with an honorary doctorate degree but said the champion batsman has decided not to accept honorary doctorates while being active in cricket.