Three Targets For Congress

Congress has been facing more criticism than appraisal in the past few months. Let us face the truth, there are in face people from every economic section who have been displeased with the policies of the Congress party. If the party wishes to remain in power after the 2014 general elections, it has to deal with at least three strategies. Three Targets For Congress Party

Power shortage, scarcity of basic commodities like drinking water and high inflation of essential goods. This was revealed by a survey from the intelligence department of a private agency in Hyderabad which is not a big surprise at all. Power shortage is the most felt loss unanimously all over the state.

Three hours of no power on average per day through out the state is a huge burden. Basic amenities are poor like water supply etc. If the government cannot workout a proper strategy for the same, they should expect a gaping void in the vote bank. With the prices of day-to-day commodities rising higher to prohibitory prices has only put off the crowd who blame the government for not being able to control the prices of the most basic requirements.

The only fact that Congress is still in the fray is the Re 1 per kilo of rice scheme that has been fetching it a lot of support for the party. Even opposition parties' criticism is not stopping them from the continuation of the scheme due to its acceptance in the public. The same can be said for Indiramma housing scheme.

The people however disgruntled with the government after the fee-reimbursement scheme is no longer as attractive. With Rajiv Yuva Kiranalu, Kiran Kumar Reddy's favorite project, not being as well received, Congress has a lot of ground to cover before the next General Elections.

(AW- Anil)

Happy Birthday Sachin

On Wednesday, Sachin Tendulkar turned 40 with cricket administrators and his fans lining up a series of events to celebrate the senior Indian batsman, who will also appear in an IPL match.

Moreover, the Mumbai Indians batsman, who happens be to here for his IPL team's clash against Kolkata Knight Riders, will begin the day with a customary cake-cutting ceremony at the team hotel.

In a course of action, the Cricket Association of Bengal celebrated Tendulkar's birthday a day in advance by cutting a 10-pound cake in the presence of 100 blind students. Visually challenged students from Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission Blind School and Light House for the Blind cut the cake in the evening.

A message from the CAB read that they are overwhelmed with joy and they want Tendulkar to live 100 years.

Interestingly, on Wednesday, 40-pound cake cutting ceremony will be a private affair near the dressing room and Tendulkar's wife Anjali joined him on Tuesday night along with team owner Nita Ambani for more celebrations.

The chocolate cake will be made up from special cocoa from Ghana and Madagascar while it will have an image of Tendulkar and it could genuinely be that of the World Cup-winning moment of April 2, 2011.

Fact-fully, in a career spanning 24 years, Tendulkar has got almost all the batting record to his name other than Brian Lara’s Test highest of 400 not out.

Tendulkar, who has called it quits from the ODI format to prolong his Test career, has a gigantic 18,426 runs from 463 matches with 49 hundreds at an average of 44.83. In fact, in the leading run-getters list of Test matches, Tendulkar is sitting on 15837 runs with 51 hundreds, way ahead of South African veteran Jacques Kallis who with 13128 runs is the only playing batsman to be in the race at fourth place.

As a concluding fact, Tendulkar has played only one T20 for India as he has limited his Twenty20 ambition to his franchise Mumbai Indians in the IPL.

Have a splendid Birthday, Sachin Tendulkar!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)

Chris Gayle Creates Records

Gayle's record fastest ton, Bangalore's biggest win

Chris Gayle Creates Records

#Royal Challengers Bangalore's 130-run triumph over Pune Warriors India is their biggest in terms of runs at the IPL 

# Bangalore (263/5) have recorded the highest total in the IPL history, eclipsing the 246 for 5

# Bangalore became the first team to register 200 runs through boundaries in an innings in T20s - 210 runs (21 fours and 21 sixes)

# Bangalore reached 100 runs in 7.5 overs - the quickest by a team in the history of the IPL.

# Chris Gayle's unbeaten 175 is the highest individual innings in Twenty20, surpassing Brendon McCullum's 158 not out for Kolkata against Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008.

# Gayle's tally of 17 sixes in an innings is a record in any format.

# Gayle is the first batsman to register four hundreds at the IPL.  His tally of eleven hundreds is a record in Twenty20.  No other batsman has even recorded six hundreds.  The second place is shared by two batsmen - five each by Brendon McCullum and David Warner.

# Gayle's tally of 163 sixes is an IPL record.  Also his overall tally of 383 sixes is a record in Twenty20.

# Gayle is averaging 55.90 while managing 2236 runs in 51 matches. No other batsman has recorded even an average of 46.00 at the IPL.

# Gayle has become the first batsman to register 150-plus runs in boundaries in an innings.  His tally of 154 runs through boundaries (13 fours and 17 sixes) is a record in Twenty20.

# Gayle's 30-ball hundred is the quickest in the history of Twenty20, outstripping the 34-ball hundred by Andrew Symonds during his innings of 112 off  43 balls for Kent vs  Middlesex at Maidstone on July 2, 2004.

# Gayle had reached his fifty off 17 balls, emulating Adam Gilchrist's IPL record.

#  Chris Gayle and Dilshan were involved in a stand of 167 - Bangalore's highest opening partnership at the IPL - their second highest for any wicket next only to the 204 (unbroken) for the second wicket between Gayle and Kohli against Delhi at Delhi on May 17, 2012.

# The 167-run stand is the highest opening stand in the history of the IPL, surpassing the 163 (unbroken) between Sachin Tendulkar and Dwayne Smith for Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur on May 20, 2012.

# Gayle is the first batsman to manage 400 runs in the IPL 6 -432 at an average of 108.00 in eight innings.

Gayle Ball To Ball Score

# Gayle (175 not out plus 2/5) is the first all-rounder to post a hundred and capture two wickets or more in an IPL game twice.  No other all-round could do so even once.  Gayle had first recorded the feat against Punjab at Bangalore on May 6, 2011 - 107 and 3/21.

# Gayle has been adjudged the Man of the Match 29 times - a record.  His tally of 15 MOM awards at the IPL is a record.

# Gayle is the third player after Amit Mishra and Michael Hussey to have received three MOM awards each at the IPL 6.

Jokes On  Chris Gayle

IPL 6 Gayle Records Fastest Century In T20 Hhistory

Chennai trumped Rajasthan who had a high scoring game with impressive performance by Shane Watson who scored a ton. However, Hussey and Raina both came together after the team stumbled initially with Murali Vijay's dismissal. Match winner Michael Hussey was give the Man of the match after his instrumental innings scoring 88 runs.

Chennai vs Rajasthan, 30th Match, Chennai

Chennai: 186/5 (19.5 Ovs)
Rajasthan: 185/4 (20.0 Ovs)
Chennai won by 5 wkts

Pune warriors are only fighting a losing game for honor after Chris Gayle mercilessly thrashed every bowler left right and straight. 17 sixes in an innings, 30 balls for a century, and highest score for an individual in T20 were all laurels Gayle earned at the homeground with his breathtaking performance with the willow scoring 175 of just 66 balls. He is also the orange cap with over 400 runs to his name, while others trail by at least 100 runs. Pune on the other hand have given up all hope losing wickets in rapid succession.

Bangalore vs Pune, 31st Match, Bengaluru

Pune: 139/9(20.0 Ovs)
Bangalore: 263/5 (20.0 Ovs)
Pune need 222 runs in 86 balls

(AW- Anil)

Gayle's record fastest ton, Bangalore's biggest win

Chris Gayle Creates Records

#Royal Challengers Bangalore's 130-run triumph over Pune Warriors India is their biggest in terms of runs at the IPL 

# Bangalore (263/5) have recorded the highest total in the IPL history, eclipsing the 246 for 5

# Bangalore became the first team to register 200 runs through boundaries in an innings in T20s - 210 runs (21 fours and 21 sixes)

# Bangalore reached 100 runs in 7.5 overs - the quickest by a team in the history of the IPL.

# Chris Gayle's unbeaten 175 is the highest individual innings in Twenty20, surpassing Brendon McCullum's 158 not out for Kolkata against Bangalore at Bangalore on April 18, 2008.

# Gayle's tally of 17 sixes in an innings is a record in any format.

# Gayle is the first batsman to register four hundreds at the IPL.  His tally of eleven hundreds is a record in Twenty20.  No other batsman has even recorded six hundreds.  The second place is shared by two batsmen - five each by Brendon McCullum and David Warner.

# Gayle's tally of 163 sixes is an IPL record.  Also his overall tally of 383 sixes is a record in Twenty20.

# Gayle is averaging 55.90 while managing 2236 runs in 51 matches. No other batsman has recorded even an average of 46.00 at the IPL.

# Gayle has become the first batsman to register 150-plus runs in boundaries in an innings.  His tally of 154 runs through boundaries (13 fours and 17 sixes) is a record in Twenty20.

# Gayle's 30-ball hundred is the quickest in the history of Twenty20, outstripping the 34-ball hundred by Andrew Symonds during his innings of 112 off  43 balls for Kent vs  Middlesex at Maidstone on July 2, 2004.

# Gayle had reached his fifty off 17 balls, emulating Adam Gilchrist's IPL record.

#  Chris Gayle and Dilshan were involved in a stand of 167 - Bangalore's highest opening partnership at the IPL - their second highest for any wicket next only to the 204 (unbroken) for the second wicket between Gayle and Kohli against Delhi at Delhi on May 17, 2012.

# The 167-run stand is the highest opening stand in the history of the IPL, surpassing the 163 (unbroken) between Sachin Tendulkar and Dwayne Smith for Mumbai Indians vs Rajasthan Royals at Jaipur on May 20, 2012.

# Gayle is the first batsman to manage 400 runs in the IPL 6 -432 at an average of 108.00 in eight innings.

# Gayle (175 not out plus 2/5) is the first all-rounder to post a hundred and capture two wickets or more in an IPL game twice.  No other all-round could do so even once.  Gayle had first recorded the feat against Punjab at Bangalore on May 6, 2011 - 107 and 3/21.

# Gayle has been adjudged the Man of the Match 29 times - a record.  His tally of 15 MOM awards at the IPL is a record.

# Gayle is the third player after Amit Mishra and Michael Hussey to have received three MOM awards each at the IPL 6.

Google Celebrates Earth Day 2013

Absolute interestingly, this year's Earth Day is being celebrated with an interactive Google doodle.

Furthermore, featuring on the search engine's homepage, as usual, users can play and pause a moving 'sun' or 'moon' on four different images.

As a matter of fact, Earth Day is held every year on April 22 to highlight green issues. In fact, events are held around the world to illustrate support for environmental protection.

The first ever Earth Day was held in 1970, although the name and concept was pioneered a year earlier by activist John McConnell.

As a concluding fact, planting trees in the most common way people support the day.

Let us plant more trees and make the world a much better place to stay!

Image source: Earth Day 2013 Google doodle

(AW:Samrat Biswas)

Left Bandh Evokes Poor Response

The Left parties have called for a statewide bandh today to mark a protest against the increase of surcharges. The bandh reportedly evoked low response especially in twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Buses in the city were plying normally and all commercial establishments rolled up their shutters as usually.

Despite many leaders appealing to Left parties for withdrawing their bandh calls, Left leaders are going ahead with the bandhs. In fact, the leaders hit the roads in the early hours of Tuesday and tried to obstruct the traffic. In fact, CPI state secretary Narayana and CPM state secretary Raghavulu were arrested by the police at MG bus station in Hyderabad. The leaders, when they were arrested, told the media that they would continue to fight until the government roll backs its prices.

(AW Phani)

Dont Drag Me Into Controversies NTR

Dont Drag Me Into Controversies NTR

Young NTR who has been allegedly dragged into controversies by setting up the flexis by YSRC leaders and subsequent warnings of Balakrishna threatening him with dire consequences if he's not going to respond/condemn on using his photographs in flexi, NTR finally came before the media and responded on the issue. NTR has said that he would not support any political party except TDP as it was founded by his grandfather NT Rama Rao.

Mr NTR who took part in the success meet of Baadshah last night has made it clear that he would extend his support to TDP always. Also, he urged not to drag him into controversies and said it would not be right to talk politics in movie success meet. Much before NTR's success meet, his father Hari Krishna spoke to the media and said that anyone who loves legendary NTR can use his photo and questioned as to why his son and family should suffer because of someone's actions. Also, he subtly found fault with Balakrishna and termed those statements (threatening with dire consequences) as unfortunate.

Anyway, now that young NTR finally came and cleared the rumours in the air, the flexi row seemed to be curtained.

(AW Phani)

Best Videos For The Weekend

Video Wishesh: Best Videos for the weekend (or two)!

Hey, guys! First of all, apologies for the missed weekend last time. I know it was a disappointment but we had to choose between a wonderful weekend at Leonia resorts and compiling a moderately enjoyable post of merely 6 videos that last less than 30 minutes. The choice was obvious and here we are

But, we are now back with better than the best. Videos in the past week that were sheer brilliance for the entertainment quotient. Take a look

Video of the week: Unbelievable American Football Tackle:

I must admit that I know little to nothing of American Football but I couldn't just pass up this amazing tackle by a player who ran literally from one side of the field to another to tackle a guy.

As always, there are more videos that follow. They are all internet's gold too but not as high quality as the winner. The following five are

Dog's got Talent

A dog that is capable of understanding commands and also performing mindblowing tricks at the same time? The dog's got talent, yo!

Saxophone Battle in NYC train

Watch another fellow passenger challenging a performer on train, improptu. Now, that's real smooth (Criminal) we cannot just let that opportunity slip. Sorry!

South Korean See-Saw

Just as the name suggests, this is not just any otherseesaw. It's South Korean. Crazy as they are this is plain cool! I wouldn't try it though!

Space efficiency in a room

This is one of those magical tents in Harry Potter where the actual thing looks very small and yet there is inconceivably large room for activities inside. What if you could hide all your furniture and accessories into the walls?

Swimming in a Hallway

Swimming on land? I wish I could say I'm lying but this guy has done it for real. Mad props to that guy who polished and buffed the floor to the greatest possible smoothness. It now worries me if walking without losing traction on this floor is possible.

(AW- Anil)

Padma Awards Given Away At Rashtrapati Bhawan

Padma award function is conducted at Rashtrapati Bhawan today in which Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Minister for Home Susheel Shinde and others attended.

Rahul Dravid from sports, Ramanayudu, Sridevi, Sharmila Tagore, Bapu and many others were given away the Padma aswards through the hands of the President of India, Pranab Mukherjee. 

Dr.Daggubati Ramanaidu and film star Sharmila Tagore and Cricketer Rahul Dravid were given Padma Bhushan Award while Sridevi is honored with Padma Shri. 

Other persons belong to Andhra Pradesh to receive awards in differenct fields are, Legend artist Sattiraju Laxinarayana popularly know as Bapu, Gajam Anjaiah, handloom artist, Surabhi Babji stage artist, Dr.M.Ramakrishna Raju and Dr.Jayaraman Gowri Shankar in Science and Engineering category, Dr.Venkata Sundara Ram for medicine, Dr.Radhika for literature.

No one from Andhra Pradesh received Padma Vibhushan award.

AW-SriJa

Badminton Sensation Turns Down Rs.1.5 Cr Offer

All the admirers of Jwala Gutta, here's some exciting piece of information to you! Badminton sensation Jwala Gutta, who in an interview said she doesn't mind getting into films, surprised everyone by sticking to her words and shaking legs with a young hero in the upcoming film. With her super hot looks and all, producers thought personality has now come to set silver screens on fire but the young woman disappointed all of them.

Jwala Gutta recently turned down a proposal of Rs. 1.5 crore. She was actually invited to be a judge of a reality show which demands around 40 days and that too weekends and the offer was 1.5 crore rupees. She right away said no without even a second thought. And it's not because of remuneration but just for her dedication towards badminton.

Jwala said badminton comes first to her and anything comes after that. Now that she's totally occupied with training stuff for the upcoming event, chances are very grim for producers to approach her for dates. That's probably why Jwala Gutta is being looked upon by many...More than her hot looks, her dedication makes anyone go gaga over her! Great going Jwala...Good luck!

(AW Phani)

Jayapradha Curtains Confusion Among Observers!

MP Jayapradha seems to be joining YSRC if we have to go by what analysts say. In fact, she hailing late YSR on Wednesday itself gave strength to the speculations that have been rife over Jayapradha's political future. While observers were seriously wondering as to which party Jaya Pradesh would jump into, she interestingly came out with a set of praises that brought smiles on YSRC activists and leaders. Wouldn't this be enough to come to conclusion that she would join YSRC, questioned observers when Andhra Wishesh asked them whether Jayapradha would join which political party.

Observers, while ruling out her chances of joining TDP, have said that Jayapradha was once in TDP and she came out only because of the differences she apparently had with its supremo Chandrababu Naidu. In fact, she recently told the media that Samajwadi party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and TDP surpremo Chandrababu Naidu were opportunists. So there are absolutely grim or no chances of her going back to TDP or SP for that matter.

Therefore, there are only two options available before her-one being BJP and the other one being YSRC. While the confusion was high among observers, Jayapradha almost curtained the confusion by hailing YSR and even his daughter Sharmila over her padayatra.

Will Jayapradha win if she contests from Andhra Pradesh for Lok Sabha constituency from any party for that matter? People seemed to have almost forgotten her. Anyway, lets wait and watch as to what future has to offer her!

(AW Phani)

Have you tried Google Nose

Google has been expanding exponentially over the past few years. It has brought into the services a variety of options, Google Docs, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Earth and many more that can be listed on andon.

Every time there was something revolutionary about the services offered, and this time the quality of the services has hit a new level of never being heard before. Google Nose, is a completely novel technology which allows you to sense different kinds of smells with just a few key strokes.

The interface also shows you what are the most searched smells on the internet and the recently searched smells. Just type in the smell on the search bar and hit enter. Keep your nose close to the screen of your laptop and there will be a few chemical changes triggered in the monitor that will allow your screen to generate the distinct smells from the screen directly.

If you want it put more technically, (I'm talking to you, geeks), Google explains the phenomenon by the process of intersecting photons with ultrasound waves to temporarily realign the molecules to emulate a particular scent.

Google Now integration for Android 4.1 and above will allow them to submit smells to find out what it is. The details of all various smells are stored in Google Aromabase where specific smells are stored distinctly. A safe-search mode can be enabled. The scents in Aromabase were all collected by Google Street Sense vehicles that went around thousands of streets in every city picking up the aromas. SMELLCD 1.8+ high-resolution gives you the best precise and controlled odours.

Are you ready to try the services?

In your dreams....... fools! Happy April Fools Day!

(AW- Anil)