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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

'Ronaldo voted Europe's top footballer'

The results of the survey, carried out by Uruguay's El Pais daily and released Tuesday, showed 89 of the 144 reporters queried named the Real Madrid forward as the region's top player, reports news agency.

German goalie Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich) and Argentina's Lionel Messi (Barcelona) came in distant second and third places, with 19 and 16 votes, respectively.

Ronaldo "was again the grand star (of Real Madrid), winning the coveted Champions League title for the tenth time," the daily said.

Real Madrid also lead the Spanish League's 2014-2015 season with a total of 25 goals, the daily added. In other categories, the title of Europe's best coach went to Argentina's Diego Simeone, who coached Atletico Madrid to victory in the Spanish 2013-2014 season and the final of the UEFA Champions League.

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Dhoni led by example not by rhetoric: Rahul Dravid

"He was a captain I enjoyed playing under," Dravid said.

"One of the things I liked about MS was, what you saw was what you got. Very uncomplicated, always led by example. One of the things I really liked about playing under MS was that he never asked you to do anything that he himself didn't do," he explained.

Dhoni retired from Test cricket at the end of the third Test against Australia, which ended in a draw yesterday. The retirement was a bolt from the blue given that Dhoni had dropped no hint of such a big decision leading up to the match.

Dravid said Dhoni earned the respect of his teammates by setting an example with his own performance.

"The reality was he was having to transition a senior group of players and build a younger group who were coming through," Dravid said.

"In a sense he was not the most communicative of captains, but he tried to earn your respect by walking the talk. He never took a backward step, and led more by example than by rhetoric or by words. More by actions," he added.

Dravid said Dhoni deserves credit for inspiring a whole generation of small-town cricketers.

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Mixed response to Dhoni's retirement from test cricket in Jharkhand

"It is a right decision, but coming at the wrong time. He should have resigned when the team was doing well in Test cricket or should have waited, taking the BCCI into confidence, for another series before bowing out with a series win," opined Rakesh Kumar, who played with Dhoni in Ranchi Cricket League.

Daval Sahay, who gave several sportspersons employment opportunities in the Central Coalfields Limited when he was the Director (Personnel), however, said Dhoni should have taken the ultimate decision only after the World Cup.

Dhoni was one of the players in the CCL team that played Sishmahal Cricket tournaments and other tourneys.

"His decision is neither right nor having come at the right time or right place," claimed Sahay, whom Dhoni acknowledges as one of the three coaches who mentored his career during Dhoni’s formative years.

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Ranji Trophy: Bengal openers get a start after following-on vs Mumbai

After being bowled out for 210, 55 runs short of magic figure of 265, Bengal scored 129 for no loss in their second essay with Arindam batting in company of a very sedate Rohan Banerjee (44, 139 balls).

Bengal are looking for a point from this fixture after giving away 204-run first innings lead.

Earlier, youngster Abhimanyu Easwaran scored a career-best 85 before Bengal were bundled out for 210 losing their last four wickets for an addition of 80 runs.

It was a frustrating day for Mumbai especially after Shreyas Iyer dropped Das batting on six at the gully off Shardul Thakur's bowling.

The reprieve cost Mumbai badly as the senior opener went about his innings without taking any risk while the wicket had little to offer.

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Harbhajan, Yuvraj refuse to comment on Dhoni's retirement

"I will not say anything as I have nothing to say," said Harbhajan, who is leading Punjab against Saurashtra in the ongoing Ranji Trophy group B match here.

His teammate Yuvraj Singh was tight-lipped when reporters asked for his reaction at the end of the third day's Ranji Trophy match.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday surprised the cricket world with his sudden announcement of immediate retirement from Test cricket, making way for Virat Kohli to don the mantle of captaincy.

Announcement of Dhoni's retirement after the wicketkeeper-batsman had played in 90 Test matches, 60 of them as captain, was made immediately after India lost the current Test series to Australia following a drawn third Test here.

"One of India's greatest Test Captains under whose leadership India became the No. 1 team in the Test Rankings MS Dhoni, has decided to retire from Test Cricket citing the strain of playing all formats of Cricket," the BCCI said in a statement.

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OPPO launches ultra-thin 4G enabled smartphone R5 at Rs 29990 in India

"We used cutting edge manufacturing techniques to create a phone that fits perfectly into the users' hands," said Tom Lu, chief executive officer, OPPO India, said in a statement.

The highlight of the phone includes its measurements at just 4.85 mm and weighing 155 gram, which is considered one of the thinnest phones in the world.

The R5 is equipped with an octa-core Qualcomm MSM8939 and comes with a 5.2-inch AMOLED screen.,.

Another major feature of the phone is the adoption of higher-strength stainless steel. Oppo R5, which is available in gold and silver colour, sports a 13 megapixel camera and 5 megapixel front camera.

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Samsung Galaxy Note Edge up for pre-order on Amazon India

Galaxy Note Edge has a separate screen on the edge of phone equivalent to breadth of a pencil and runs parallel along with screen. This screen can display SMS or email text, alarm, time, etc as customised by user.

Powered by the Android 4.4 KitKat mobile operating system, the Galaxy Note Edge has a quad-core 2.7GHz Qualcomm QCOM +0.1% Snapdragon processor and sports 5.6-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen (2560 x 1440 resolution).

It also feature a 16-megapixel rear-facing camera (8x digital zoom) and a 3.7-megapixel front-facing shooter. The device supports 4K video recording, GPS, NFC, IR Blaster, LTE/HSPA+, S Health 3.5, Bluetooth, WiFi, microUSB.

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Gone in seconds! 40000 Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G smartphones sold out in just 6 seconds

Priced at Rs 9,999, Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G will have 5.5-inch 720p display and 13 MP rear camera with LED flash.

Also, it has 5 MP front snapper and the smartphone will work upon 1.6 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 processor, 2GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable internal storage.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4G comes with a 3,100 mAh battery and has only one SIM card slot unlike its 3G version which has dual-SIM slot.

Xiaomi which entered Indian market in July has received good response in the country. The company has managed to sell one million smartphones in India by the end of year, via Flipkart.

Manu Kumar Jain Head of Xiaomi operation in India took to social networking site Twitter to announce the news.

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Microsoft to replace Internet Explorer with new browser: Reports

The browser, codenamed Spartan, will be shown off on January 21 when Microsoft demonstrates its new Windows 10 operating system.

Microsoft is gearing up for further consumer demonstration of Windows 10; an operating system that promises to banish all of the things that people hated about Windows 8 on January 21 next year.

Microsoft is set to host a large-scale event scheduled on January 21 and it is set to cover not just PCs and notebooks, but also how Windows 10 will improve the way smartphones, tablets and the Xbox One work.

Developers have already had a taste of Windows 10's capabilities and the most interesting and innovative new feature is something called Continuum.

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Xiaomi, other smartphone brands don't breach privacy rules: Taiwan

Handsets made by China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp, Apple Inc, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, LG Electronics Inc and Sony Corp also do not breach the laws, the National Communications Commission said.

Taiwanese mobile phone makers HTC Corp and Asustek Computer Inc, were also among the dozen brands tested and cleared by the NCC.

Xiaomi's market value hits USD 45 billion: Founder

Chinese smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi's market value is estimated to have reached USD 45 billion after it completed the latest round of fundraising last week, company's founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Lei Jun said.

Last week was the fifth round of fundraising by the firm and raised USD 1.1 billion, Lei said in an entry posted on microblogging site Sina Weibo.

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E-lerter App sends emergency alerts to your smartphone

According to its developer Jamie Brandt from the Alberta-based firm Stony Plain, the notification banner will not vanish until it has been acknowledged.

"That means you will not miss any important warnings," he added.

The app users can also specify which area to scan for emergency alerts so that they would only receive local-specific news. According to Brandt, E-lerter makes sense as people have become more reliant on their mobile devices.

Mobile app 'Ziman' launched for women and children safety

With an aim of preventing rising crimes against women and children in the country, a new mobile application called 'Ziman', a 24x7 virtual protector, was launched by an IT company.

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Ashadha, eid milad un nabi in 2015 year

साल 2015 में दो आषाढ़ और दो ईद मिलादुन्नबी होंगी। मांगलिक कार्यों के लिए 86 शुभ दिन मिलेंगे। दो सूर्य और दो चंद्र ग्रहण होंगे। मौजूदा वर्ष की तुलना में पहले छह माह के दौरान त्योहार 10-11 दिन पहले आएंगे, जबकि बाद के छह माह में 10 से 20 दिन बाद। यह देरी दो आषाढ़ के कारण होगी। पहला आषाढ़ मास 3 जून से 2 जुलाई और दूसरा 3 जुलाई से 31 जुलाई तक रहेगा। 17 जून से 16 जुलाई तक अधिक मास होगा। वहीं मुस्लिम समाज पैगंबरे-इस्लाम की पैदाइश का दिन भी साल में दो बार मनाएगा। ईद मिलादुन्नबी पहली बार साल की शुरुआत में 4 जनवरी और दूसरी बार 24 दिसंबर को मनाई जाएगी।

शुभ मुहूर्तों की संख्या

जनवरी में 11, फरवरी में 17, मार्च में 9, अप्रैल में 8, मई में 19, जून में 8, नवंबर में 4 और दिसंबर में 10।

पहले छह माह में

वसंत पंचमी 24 जनवरी, महाशिवरात्रि 17 फरवरी, होली 6 मार्च, गुड़ी पड़वा 21 मार्च।

बाद के छह माह में

रक्षाबंधन 29 अगस्त, जन्माष्टमी 5 सितंबर, गणेश चतुर्थी 17 सितंबर, शारदीय नवरात्र 13 अक्टूबर को, दशहरा 22 अक्टूबर, दीपावली 11 नवंबर।

ग्रहण

सूर्य : 30 मार्च और 13 सितंबर

चंद्र : 4 अप्रैल और 28 सितंबर

32 माह 16 दिन में

Source: Daily Horoscope 2015

Monday, December 29, 2014

3rd Test: Kohli falls after tea, India four-down against Australia

Kohli struck another gritty half-century to remain unbeaten on 54 off 98 balls with seven fours and added 85 runs for the fourth wicket with Rahane (33 batting) after India were left struggling at 19 for three losing Shikhar Dhawan (0), Murali Vijay (11) and KL Rahul (1).

Earlier, Australia declared their second innings at 318 for 9 at lunch, taking a 383-run lead, thanks to Shaun Marsh's 99 off 215 balls with 11 fours and two sixes.

When India started their second innings, Dhawan was out leg before in the second over to Ryan Harris. In his second Test innings then, debutant KL Rahul (1) was promoted to number three as a strategic decision, with the Indian team management denying any injury to Cheteshwar Pujara.

Much like in the first innings, Rahul played a poor shot to get out, this time pulling a wide rising delivery from Mitchell Johnson (1-24) as Shane Watson (0-10) ran back from first slip to complete the catch.

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3rd Test, Day 4: Australia 261/7 againt India at stumps, lead by 326 runs

Leading 2-0, Australia need only draw the Melbourne match to wrap up the four-match series and India face a Herculean task to keep the contest alive for the final test in Sydney next week.

The highest successful fourth innings chase at the MCG was achieved by England in 1928-29, when they compiled 332 for victory.

Though India's batsmen have proved the equal of Australia's bowlers for much of the series, the flat MCG wicket began to show signs of uneven bounce late in the day and the hosts laboured to 261-7 at the close.

Perhaps mindful of India's first innings 465 completed earlier in the morning, Australia opening batsman David Warner said his team would seek more runs on the final day's play, which will have an extra six overs to compensate for a one-hour rain delay after lunch.

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Ranji: Punjab score 659/7 against Saurashtra, Sehwag's ton takes Delhi to 425/6 against Gujarat

Punjab's young right-hander Mandeep, who registered his second double century in his first class career, joined Yuvraj when the team's scoreboard read 100 for three on Sunday and the right-left combination forged a 379-run partnership to put the visitors in command.

Young Gurkeerat notched up his second century. Saurashtra at the end of the second day's play were 27 without loss.

In Delhi, Sehwag showed his class to guide the hosts to a commanding position. He hit 14 fours. Mithun Manhas (44) and Sumit Narwal (39) also contributed to push their team's total to 425 for six before skipper Gautam Gambhir declared the innings. Gujarat reached 34 for one at stumps.

At the Chaudhary Bansi Lal Cricket Stadium in Lahli, Rohtak, Odisha took a crucial 105-run first innings lead as the visitors reached 232 for nine. Openers Natraj Behera (39) and Girija Rout (39) provided a good start but off-spinner Jayant Yadav's six for 92 helped Haryana remain in contention.

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Kohli's aggression can be counter-productive: Gavaskar

Australia have taken a massive 326-run lead at the end of the fourth day in Melbourne and look the more likely winners on Tuesday.

A dash of drama has been added to the match due to the constant exchange of words between the hosts and most prominently Kohli, who lambasted Steve Smith's men in a press conference as well.

Asked if Kohli was merely returning fire with fire, Gavaskar felt the feisty batsman could well have done without it.

"I thought the press conference should have been about cricket rather than what went on the field. Generally, what happens on the field stays on the field. I am not too sure it was the wisest thing to do," Gavaskar said.

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Xiaomi's market value hits USD 45 billion: Founder

Last week was the fifth round of fundraising by the firm and raised USD 1.1 billion, Lei said in an entry posted on microblogging site Sina Weibo.

Investors in the company's latest round of financing included All-stars, DST, GIC, Hopu Investment and Yunfeng Capital.

The results have demonstrated investors' recognition of Xiaomi's achievements after more than four years of ventures and will open a new chapter for the company's development, Lei was quoted in the state-run Xinhua news agency as saying.

Lei also said Xiaomi will unveil a new heavyweight flagship product in January, without disclosing further details.

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Google's Gmail blocked in China

Large numbers of Gmail web addresses were cut off in China on Friday, said GreatFire.org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group. Users said the service was still down on Monday.

"I think the government is just trying to further eliminate Google's presence in China and even weaken its market overseas," said a member of GreatFire.org, who uses a pseudonym.

"Imagine if Gmail users might not get through to Chinese clients. Many people outside China might be forced to switch away from Gmail."

Google's own Transparency Report, which shows real-time traffic to Google services, displayed a sharp drop-off in traffic to Gmail from China on Friday.

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Facebook apologises for grief caused by 'Year in Review' posts

The automated feature brings to the front of a member's timeline a series of images and posts from 2014, just to show how brilliant a twelve-month period it's been but makes no allowances for those unfortunate posts that bring back the most painful and haunting memories possible.

The feature coupled with a tag line saying "it has been a great year" brought grief to a web designer expert who named the app as "inadvertent algorithmic cruelty" as it forced him to relive the pain of his young daughter's tragic death.

"This is not a deliberate assault. This inadvertent algorithmic cruelty is the result of code that works in the overwhelming majority of cases, reminding people of the awesomeness of their years, showing them selfies at a party or whale spouts from sailing boats or the marina outside their vacation house," Eric Meyer wrote in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty," Eric Meyer in an article titled "Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty."

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Airtel drops plans to charge extra for VoIP calls

"In view of the news reports that a consultation paper will be issued shortly by TRAI on issues relating to services offered by OTT (over the top content) players including VoIP, we have decided not to implement our proposed launch of VoIP packs," Bharti Airtel said in a statement.

The operator had earlier decided to charge VoIP calls on pay as you go basis, at standard data rates of 4 paise per 10 KB on 3G network and 10 paise per 10 KB on 2G network.

Besides, it had also announced special VoIP packs.

"We have no doubt that as a result of the consultation process a balanced outcome would emerge that would not only protect the interests of all stakeholders and viability of this important sector but would also encourage much needed investments in spectrum and roll out of data networks to fulfil the objective of digital India," Airtel said.

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Twitter goes down for some Android users

There have been several complaints from users of logging out of their Twitter accounts from Android apps and some third part accounts like TweetDeck. Users who tried to log into Twitter were met with an error message and were not be able to get access to their account, GeekWire reported.

TweetDeck users reported that all their tweets show as 365 days old. On social networking site Reddit, several users wrote they could not log in and some thought that their account had been hacked.

Only Apple iOS devices were working fine for logging into Twitter. According to Twitter, "some users are currently having trouble signing in to twitter. Our engineers are currently working to resolve this".

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iPhone to help you track your tweets

"You need to sign in to the Twitter analytics page with your account so that the company can start collecting the mobile analytics data," said Ian Chan, a software engineering manager at Twitter.

Make sure you have upgraded your Twitter iPhone app to the latest version. Open the app, and tap any tweet you have posted, CNET reported.

At the bottom of the tweet, you will see a link that says "View Analytics Details". Now tap that link.

In response, Twitter shows you the analytics for that specific tweet. The total impressions displays the number of times people saw your tweet, while the total engagements reveals the number of people who actually retweeted or favorited your tweet.

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Cyber crooks scouting for vulnerabilities in Apple Pay: Report

Even though no actual attacks on Apple Pay have been reported yet, Trend Micro's 'Security Prediction for 2015 and Beyond' warned that cyber criminals will increase attacks on mobile payment systems.

"It's safe to assume that as early as now, the bad guys are already looking for vulnerabilities to exploit in Apple Pay. They will continue to scrutinise NFC (Near Field Communications) as well," Trend Micro said.

Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple Inc. It lets certain Apple mobile devices make payments at retail and online checkout.

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Turn your skin into a smartphone display

Basically, your arm essentially becomes a fully interactive display - swipeable, touch-sensitive and full-colour - that allows you to make or receive phone calls and read and send emails, the Entrepreneur reported.

The promo video explains that the device uses an embedded system that includes a microprocessor, a memory card, a micro USB port, a small battery, a Bluetooth chip, a wi-fi chip as well as a LED light.

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Flashback 2014: Cars that ruled roads!

Audi launched the A3 Sedan with an eye on the Indian luxury car market. The diesel A3 is available in four variants, namely, Attraction at Rs. 22.95 lakh, Premium at Rs. 25.95 lakh, Premium + at Rs. 29.95 lakh and the top-end Technology Pack at Rs. 32.66 lakh. All prices are indicative of ex-showroom Delhi.

The petrol fueled Audi A3 sedan is available only in a single Premium + variant that is priced at Rs. 28.95 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

The petrol Audi A3 sedan is powered by a 1.8 litre, 4-cylinder, turbocharged engine generating 182.5PS of power @ 5,100 rpm and 6,200 rpm and 250Nm of torque between 1,250 rpm and 5,000 rpm. The engine is mated to a seven-speed double clutch automatic gearbox.

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Big B plans to start campaign for Hepatitis B

The 72-year-old actor, who is also a UNICEF Global Ambassador for polio eradication, met doctors recently to strategies the plan."Wish to start a campaign on awareness of Hepatitis B...Met some committed doctors and shall strategise... Detect and cured asap!," Bachchan posted on Twitter.

Apart from his social works, Bachchan is also excited to release the first song of his upcoming release 'Shamitabh' after unveiling the film's first audio poster. "#Shamitabh... Next for the song of the film... Wait wait
wait. You see the whole country of the system..!!," he tweeted.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

3rd Test, Day 4: Shami scalps Jhonson, Australia seven-down

Shaun Marsh (15) and Joe Burns (eight) were at the crease when the second session ended, whose commencement was delayed for an hour and 25 minutes by rain.

Australia were 90 for one at lunch, with an overall lead of 155 and were seemingly in control but India dismissed Shane Watson (17), in-form skipper Steven Smith (14) and the well-set opener Chris Rogers (69) in the delayed post-lunch session to check Australia's charge.

Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took two wickets to play a leading role in halting Australia's march.

The visitors would have had all the more reason to be happy had they hung to a chance given by the Rogers right after the resumption of play.