The Indian cricket board has announced a 30-member list of probable’s for the Twenty20 World Cup which is scheduled to be held in West Indies.
The T20 world cup will be played in April-May 2010 after the third season of the Indian Premier League.
Three new faces were added to the list which includes Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey and his fast bowling teammate R Vinay Kumar and the Madhya Pradesh wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha.
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South African Captain Graeme Smith has said that South African players are still concerned about the security issues for the Indian Premier League.
Players remain concerned about the security issues for IPL”—he said.
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The Australian newspaper has reported that ex cricketers Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Mathew Hayden have clashed with Ricky Ponting in terms of participation in the IPL.
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Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) Director Ram Gopal Varma claims “Phoonk 2″ is scarier than “Phoonk” and says that the person who can watch the film without getting scared can win Rs.500,000.
“I am sure ‘Phoonk 2′ is very, very scary and I am sure no one would leave the theatre without getting scared. So we will do a contest under some scientific observation,” said Varma.
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A recording of an emergency call that’s being reported as a transmission from the paramedics who took Michael Jackson to UCLA on the day he died has been exposed as a hoax.
The recording, which has emerged online, was believed to feature a Los Angeles Fire Department medical worker calling the UCLA hospital.
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Canadian film director James Cameron’s sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’ has won a number of trophies at the inaugural Lumiere Awards.
The movie was awarded for best Live-Action 3D Feature, best 3D character (Neytiri, played by Zoe Saldana) and achievement for marketing 3D content, among others, at the 3D Society’s first annual ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on February 23, reports the Daily Express.
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WARNING STOP. INCOMING TSUNAMI STOP. Giant waves might one day send scientists such an underwater telegram via telecommunication cables on the ocean floor.
Ocean water interacting with Earth’s magnetic field could create strong enough signals in the underwater cables to alert scientists that a tsunami is on the way, a paper in the February Earth, Planets and Space argues.
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In the heavyweight division, immune cells embedded in fat pack some extra disease-causing punches, a new study shows.
Those punches involve potentially dangerous proteins linked to inflammation, heart disease and diabetes. Something in the adipose tissue, or fat, of overweight people primes immune cells called macrophages nestled within the tissue to release the proteins when the cells sense high levels of fat in the bloodstream, researchers report in the Feb. 24 Science Translational Medicine. The discovery may lead to treatments that could block disease formation in overweight or obese people.
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New close-ups of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a November flyby and released by NASA February 23 provide fresh evidence that the moon’s interior may be hospitable to life.
Cassini observed some 30 small jets of water vapor and water ice spewing from the southern hemisphere of Enceladus, about 20 more than previously seen. In addition, the most detailed infrared map of one of the south pole’s fissures, where jets emanate, indicates that the surface temperature there might be as high as 200 kelvins (-73º Celsius), or about 20 kelvins warmer than previously estimated.
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New revelations of a big hole in the moon don’t revive the notion that our cosmic companion is made of Swiss cheese. Instead, scientists say, the unusually proportioned feature is most likely a portal into an underground cavern that once held flowing lava.
Analyses of high-resolution images taken by a moon-orbiting probe suggest that the 65-meter-wide, nearly circular feature is between 80 and 88 meters deep, says Carolyn H. van der Bogert, a planetary geologist at Westphalian Wilhelm’s University Münster in Germany. Typical impact craters of this size, she notes, are less than 15 meters deep.
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University of California, Berkeley, engineers have created energy-scavenging nanofibres that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles. The nanofibres can convert energy from mechanical stresses and into electricity, and could one day be used to create clothing that can power small electronics. These nano-sized generators have “piezoelectric” properties that allow them to convert into electricity the energy created through mechanical stress, stretches and twists.
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SAN DIEGO — Rigid pathways in brain cell connections buckle and break when stretched, scientists report, a finding that could aid in the understanding of exactly what happens when traumatic brain injuries occur.
Up to 20 percent of combat soldiers and an estimated 1.4 million U.S. civilians sustain traumatic brain injuries each year. But the mechanics behind these injuries have remained mysterious.
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NASA has released its first iPhone game, as the agency continues its relentless conquest of new media
Starting Monday, you can virtually drive a fictional Lunar Electric Rover on a future lunar outpost. The game is free and available through the iTunes store.
Noted for its use of Twitter and educational iPhone apps, NASA has been at the forefront of government engagement with new media of all types. This one grew out of the agency’s video podcast show, NASA Edge.
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Stars shine amidst a luminous, cotton-candy nebula in this new image of NGC 346, the largest star-forming region in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud.
The star cluster, located about 210,000 light-years away and measuring around 200 light years across, is home to a group of brilliant stars.
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Another team is headed for the grid at the TT Zero electric motorcycle race, this one a Nordic outfit led by an experienced road racer modifying a Honda race bike.
The Swedish Electric Racing Team follows MotoCzyzs in committing to the TT Zero, which recently split from the TTXGP to take over the race first held last year on the Isle of Man. The team was founded by Lars “Lasse” Nilsson, a former motocrosser and road racer who also worked as a mechanic spinning wrenches for race teams.
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Music
Coding for background music is one special feature you can use to set your website apart from others. However, if you decide to add music to your site the real trick is to decide where and how to place the code.
* Do you want music that plays automatically when your page loads?
To have background music start automatically, place the code after the HEAD tag. When you add music to your site, consider that not everyone will want the music to play. If it starts automatically, you give your visitor no choice other than to mute or leave your site.
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If you want snow on your page this is the right code for you.
// Set the number of snowflakes (more than 30 – 40 not recommended)
var snowmax=35
// Set the colors for the snow. Add as many colors as you like
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Sachin was here: this is what the Captain Roop Singh Stadium should be re-christened to. Having left a timeless imprint on a lesser known international venue, Sachin Tendulkar, after scoring ODI cricket’s first ever double century, revealed that if at all anyone were to lay his hands on the latest record, he would like an Indian to claim it.
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London: Former England captain Nasser Hussain is convinced that Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman the game has ever seen, better than even the iconic Don Bradman.
“I have never liked comparisons between great players, but after Wednesday’s incredible game it must be said Sachin Tendulkar is the greatest batsman of all time,” Hussain wrote in his column for The Daily Mail.
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New Delhi, Feb. 22 — Today, with all the emphasis on academic excellence, children are feeling the pressure to do well in their exams.
This is when the brain is taxed to cram maximum information in the shortest time. The supply of nutrients is of utmost importance for the student to perform well.
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