Friday, May 15, 2009
Hayden steers Chennai to top of Indian Premier League standings
Matthew Hayden's swashbuckling knock of 89 helped propel the Chennai Super Kings to a 12-run victory over Kings XI Punjab that put them top of the Indian Premier League standings on May 7.
Chennai joined Rajasthan Royals, who had thrashed the Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in the first match at Centurion, on 11 points but they lead the table with a superior net run rate.
Rajasthan produced an excellent bowling display with seamer Amit Singh and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja ripping through Bangalore to claim seven wickets between them.
Singh (four for 19) and Jadeja (three for 15) helped skittle out Bangalore for just 105 before rookie wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha stepped forward to hit 52 not out off 38 balls to guide Rajasthan home with five overs to spare.
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Chennai joined Rajasthan Royals, who had thrashed the Bangalore Royal Challengers by seven wickets in the first match at Centurion, on 11 points but they lead the table with a superior net run rate.
Rajasthan produced an excellent bowling display with seamer Amit Singh and left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja ripping through Bangalore to claim seven wickets between them.
Singh (four for 19) and Jadeja (three for 15) helped skittle out Bangalore for just 105 before rookie wicketkeeper-batsman Naman Ojha stepped forward to hit 52 not out off 38 balls to guide Rajasthan home with five overs to spare.
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Labels: bangalore royal challengers, centurion, chennai super kings, international cricket players, ipl standings, naman ojha, Rajasthan, wicketkeeper
Saturday, October 4, 2008
At least 168 dead in stampede at Rajasthan temple
At least 168 people were trampled to death and more than 425 were injured in a massive stampede at a Hindu temple in Jodhpur city, officials said, the third such tragedy in India in three months.
With no crowd control, more than 12,000 people had gathered at dawn to celebrate Navratra, a nine-day Hindu festival to honor the Mother Goddess, Jodhpur Police Superintendent Malini Agarwal told reporters. Witnesses said the early morning stampede began as false rumors of a bomb spread among the crowd.
"Everyone was yelling, `there's a bomb, there's a bomb,' then I heard horrible screaming. It was the sound of total panic," said Vikki Koshi, who manages Yogi's Guest House very close to the temple.
The temple's floor had become slippery when devotees in a male-only line broke hundreds of coconuts for offerings, officials said.
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With no crowd control, more than 12,000 people had gathered at dawn to celebrate Navratra, a nine-day Hindu festival to honor the Mother Goddess, Jodhpur Police Superintendent Malini Agarwal told reporters. Witnesses said the early morning stampede began as false rumors of a bomb spread among the crowd.
"Everyone was yelling, `there's a bomb, there's a bomb,' then I heard horrible screaming. It was the sound of total panic," said Vikki Koshi, who manages Yogi's Guest House very close to the temple.
The temple's floor had become slippery when devotees in a male-only line broke hundreds of coconuts for offerings, officials said.
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Labels: Chamunda Devi temple, crowd control, Hindu temple, Jodhpur city, Navratra, Rajasthan, Rajasthan temple, trampled
Monday, May 19, 2008
Nine bombs ripped through Jaipur streets - 63 killed
Nine bombs ripped through the crowded streets Jaipur on May 13 evening, killing around 63 people in markets and outside Hindu temples.The bombs, many strapped to bicycles, exploded within minutes of each other in Jaipur's pink walled city, a magnet for foreign tourists.
It was the deadliest bomb attack in India in nearly two years. Around 216 people were wounded and local television stations broadcast appeals for blood donations.
Television channels quoted government and intelligence officials as blaming Pakistani or Bangladeshi Islamist militant groups.
"At around 7.30[p.m.] there was a big noise and suddenly I found people in a pool of blood," said Govind Sharma, a priest at a Hindu temple, through tears. "I've lost my father in the bomb blast."
Officials said the apparent motive for the bombs was to undermine a peace process between India and Pakistan or foment communal violence in India.
Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee is due to visit Islamabad in just over a week to review the four-year-old peace process, his first since a new, civilian government took over in Pakistan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm. The British and U.S. governments said there could be no justification for killing innocent people.
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Labels: Bangladeshi Islamist militant groups, blast, hindu temples, HuJI, injuried, Jaipur streets, Nine bombs, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rajasthan, ripped, suspected
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Can Rajasthan's Ranthambhore support tigers it has now?
T he Ranthambhore national park in Rajasthan, one of India's oldest and best known, now has over 40 tigers. This is good news in a country where only an estimated 1,411 are left in the wild. But experts are divided on whether the forest can support this number.
With 14 cubs spotted at water holes inside the national park during a recent state government conducted tiger census, the number has definitely gone above the carrying capacity of the national park, former Project Tiger chief P.K. Sen said on May 6.
But another eminent wildlife expert, Belinda Wright, pointed out that in the early 1980s Ranthambhore had even more tigers.
Sen, who now works with the voluntary organization Ranthambhore Foundation, said unless steps were taken to increase the area of the national park by including the adjacent Sawai Man Singh sanctuary, these cubs would push the older tigers out of the forest once they grew up.
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With 14 cubs spotted at water holes inside the national park during a recent state government conducted tiger census, the number has definitely gone above the carrying capacity of the national park, former Project Tiger chief P.K. Sen said on May 6.
But another eminent wildlife expert, Belinda Wright, pointed out that in the early 1980s Ranthambhore had even more tigers.
Sen, who now works with the voluntary organization Ranthambhore Foundation, said unless steps were taken to increase the area of the national park by including the adjacent Sawai Man Singh sanctuary, these cubs would push the older tigers out of the forest once they grew up.
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Labels: National Parks, older tigers, Rajasthan, Ranthambhore Foundation, Ranthambhore national park, state government, Tigers
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