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Recession or not, Asia-Pacific continues to rack up impressive subscribers numbers.

Indian telecom regulator Trai revealed that the number of fixed and mobile subscribers had crossed the 500 million mark in September, a year ahead of schedule.

The number of telephone subscribers stood at 509.03 million at the end of September this year. This includes 471.7 million cellphone users and 37.31 million landline users -taking the country`s overall teledensity to 43.5%.

Nobody does solos better than Sachin Tendulkar, nor, perhaps, has anyone endured as much heartbreak during those solos. It was India of the 90s all over again: Tendulkar almost chased 351 on his own but, with the target in sight, he got out and the rest choked, falling short by three runs with two balls still to go. In Chennai in 1998-99, Tendulkar, having played an innings as incredible as this, left the last three wickets 17 to get tonight he left them 19 off 17.

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Lazily switched on TV on that Saturday morning and started flipping channels. My toddler in her baby-talk asked me `haddhya kyaa hai`. Surprised and wondered.... I tried to reason out why she wanted to know the meaning of murder.

Lakshmi Rai the leading South Indian actress was yet again paired with Dhoni. Lakshmi Rai who was spotted at IPL Chennai Super King matches as a brand ambassador for the team was fully made with rumors. at that time she was shy to speak about the nights with Dhoni but after that she explains their relationship at many nights. Lakshmi Rai first met Dhoni for a match but he doesn`t know about me much. Soon Dhoni was introduced and she says Dhoni is a good guy if he is in the mood he always tries to dance and mimic other actors. He is a good bike rider too because both Lakshmi Rai and Dhoni night rides at the beaches near the Star Hotel were Dhoni stayed.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for the Union Government`s final stand on whether a shorter sea route around India`s southern tip could be built along an alternate alignment, sparing any damage to the mythological Ram Setu.

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan, Justice RV Raveendran and Justice JM Panchal sought the Union Government`s stand on having alternate alignment for the Sethusamudram channel, while hearing a plea by former union minister Subramanian Swamy for scrapping the project.

Clutter-free and aesthetic walking spaces are an important aspect of urban design. By redesigning the promenade along the Marina beach front, the Corporation of Chennai has taken a step in the right direction. Two years since it went on stream, the project is nearing completion. Everything has been done. It is time for Nature to take over and make the lawns verdant, says K. Raghuraman, the landscape architect who has given the promenade its unique contours and character (K. Raghuraman Landscape Architects has been engaged in the design of 10 other beach promenades around the coasts of South India).

If reports given by fishermen, that Chinese men in Lankan fatigues are jointly patrolling the seas with the Lankan navy are true, then India`s security seems to be at threat.

According to the fishermen from Ramanathapuram district, who have been attacked by the Lankan navy at mid sea, the Sinhalese are being accompanied by men who have Chinese features and who talk in a different language.

The Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar, according to the fishermen, have been converted into a more sensitive zone after the elimination of the LTTE.

Chief of Defence Staff General Sarath Fonseka, now on a private visit to the United States, has been told to face a voluntary meeting with the Department of Homeland Security, prompting fears in Colombo that Washington is asserting its legal authority over the war crimes report released last week.

Reports reaching the highest levels of the Government say US Department of Homeland Security officials want to interview him on Wednesday (November 4) in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gen. Fonseka, who is a US Green Card holder, has a residence in Oklahoma. His visit is in connection with renewing his Green Card which affords him residency in the US. This is a prelude to US citizenship

Trisha , Siddharth in Movie Ayutha Eluthu Directed by Mani Ratnam & Music by AR Rahman.

Very nice Photography, Choreography & Locations in the Song !

For several months during and after the end-game of the decades-long civil war between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Sri Lanka`s government brushed off Western criticism of its abusive practices. It has relied instead on moral and financial support from states less concerned with such matters, such as China and Pakistan

The ball was full, but not quite a half-volley. The shot that followed was something of a topspin forehand hit on the half-volley, bouncing close to the baseline. The knees were not bent like a tennis player`s but the bigger bat and massive twirl did the job, depositing the ball wide of long-on for one of the flatter sixes you`re likely to see. MS Dhoni can still play those shots.

That he does not do as freely or as often as he used to is not lost on fans and colleagues alike. When Dhoni hits big shots in the nets, Virender Sehwag is usually quick to point out, in banter, `MS, yahan to bade-bade lag rahe hain, match mein kya ho jata hai? [Where do these big shots disappear in the matches?]`

The European Union boosted pressure on Sri Lanka Tuesday over human rights and called for those committing abuses on the island to be investigated.

`It is essential to put an end to impunity and to all human rights violations,` EU foreign ministers said in a statement after talks in Luxembourg.

The ministers said they were `seriously concerned` about reports of abductions, disappearances and extra-judicial killings, as well as restrictions on the media, in relation to the long-running conflict there.

Is the motherland going to be destroyed? I will involve changing the dire situation` said the Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka on Sunday (25) in Washington. He said this while he was visiting the Buddhist temple in Washington.

The Sri Lankan ambassador to the US Jaliya Wickramasooriya and the Defence attache Maj. General Samantha Sooriyabandara abstained from the event. The Chief monk Maharagama Dharmasiri Thero gave the blessings to the former army chief General Fonseka.

It was an unusual drama at the Chennai Airport in the early hours of Saturday when a Sri Lankan girl with a deportation order refused to board a Colombo-bound flight. According to sources, Hanifa Nisha Rani was directed to return to Sri Lanka with an emergency visa by a court in Andhra Pradesh after completing a two-year jail term there for entering India with a fake Indian passport two years ago. Rani lived in Kuwait and reportedly fell in love with an Andhra boy there. When he returned to India for good, Rani reportedly took a fake passport to land in India in search of her lover, to eventually get united with him.

I`m not speaking to you today as I would have done before, for security reasons , he said as we sat down to an interview, among other things, he recalled what he had gone through a few months ago. On the 1st of June Poddala Jayantha, secretary of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) was abducted and brutally assaulted. The assault has left him in a dire anxiety for the security of his family, while he has himself been in crutches ever since.

I was in hospital for 29 days. I maybe able to keep my feet properly on the ground in a month or two but doctors say that I would be limping for the rest of my life , he continued, pointing at the steel plates that were inserted into his foot.