At Forty-seven He Is Forty-forth And Youngest!

The man who said, “There is not a black

America and white America and Latino
America and Asian America – there's the
United States of America.” In the 2004
Democratic Convention has won a historic
victory after appearing to have collected
enough electoral votes to defeat Senator
John McCain and become the first black
President of the United States. “The election
of Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama as
America's 44th president is astounding,
historical, implausible, improbable and
completely without precedent in the history
of the United States,” reported The
Huffington Post. The forty-seven years old
Barack Obama is also the youngest
president of The United States of America.

“President-elect Barack Obama will soon be

one of the most heavily guarded men in the world, if he is not already. For the
next four years and beyond, Obama will be followed everywhere he goes by the
secret service, a crack team of security agents known for their large physiques,
stony countenances, dark suits and radio earpieces. As the first African American
to be elected president, Obama is likely to face unprecedented threats on his life.
Indeed, police and federal officials have already broken up at least two
assassination plots, although it is unclear how serious either was. The secret
service began guarding Obama in May 2007, the earliest ever in an election
season,” said The Guardian.

Read More At: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/index.html?hp

It Keeps Getting Ugly!

It was well one of the worst terror strike ever in the country. It killed at lest
sixtyone people and left over 300 injured. Unidentified terrorists detonated 11
bombs in four districts – Kamrup (Guwahati city), Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon,
Barpeta – of Assam. The blast site is one kilometer away from the chief minister's
office in the state capital complex at Dispur. No one has so far claimed
responsibility for the bomb blasts, which security analysts said appeared to be
coordinated. Assam has been a focus of a separatist insurgency for decades, but
it has also recently suffered
bomb attacks blamed on
Islamist militants from
neighbouring Bangladesh. The
United Liberation Front of
Asom (ULFA), Assam's major
separatist group often blamed
for attacks, denied
involvement. “I am confident
that the people of India will
rise unitedly against these
attempts to disturb peace and

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harmony and to destroy our social fabric,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
said in a statement. A wave of bomb attacks has hit India in recent months,
killing more than 125 people. Police have blamed most of those attacks on Muslim
militants. Security analysts and military intelligence officials said the Assam
blasts, bore the hallmarks of strikes by Islamist militants.

Read More At: http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080070561

Anand is World Champion Again!

Playing white, twenty four moves is all Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand took to
retain his world chess championship crown after drawing with Russian challenger
Vladimir Kramnik in the 11th game, closing in on a extraordinary conquest in
Bonn. Kramnik could not repeat his show from the tenth match or put it this way
Anand did not let him. With the black pieces he turned out to be a graceful loser
in the end. Anand finished the match with an overall score of 6.5-4.5 points,
which means a two point lead
for the Chess ace in the 12-
game match. Anand won three
while Kramnik won one game in
the 11 games played in the
match while rest of the games
were a draw. "It's easier to get
a draw with white when you
don't want to", Said Anand,
clearly indicating that it was
much easier to get the half a
point when playing for a win
with white. Kramnik did not get
any chance as he stood a little
bad shape in the middle game
itself. Once the queens got
traded, the Russian sought
peace in a draw proposal as he
simply did not have any
winning chance.

Read More At: http://sports.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-3652758,flstry-1.cms

Pt. Bhimsen Joshi is conferred upon Bharat Ratna.

The legend Hindustani classical
music, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi,
was awarded the Bharat Ratna,
the country's highest civilian
award. This felicitation comes to
any Indian after a gap of seven
years. Prior of this it was only in
2001 that Lata Mangeshkar and
Ustad Bismillah Khan were
conferred upon with the honor.
The honor for the 86-year-old

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vocalist, who belongs to 'kirna' gharana, commemorates a distinguished career
spanning more than seven decades since he first performed at the age of 19.
"The President has been pleased to award the Bharat Ratna to Pandit Bhimsen
Joshi", a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said the evening award was
announced. "I am extremely happy to accept this award on behalf of all the
maestros who have contributed to 'khayal gayaki' of Indian classical music," the
legendary maestro said. A recipient of several awards including the Padma
Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and Padma Shree, Joshi has added his own
distinctive style excelling in gamakar, meend and tanakriya and adapting
characteristics from other gharanas to create a unique vocal idiom.

Read More At:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/Bharat_Ratna_honour_on_Pt_Bhimsen_Joshi/articles
how/3677996.cms

I Miss You So Much… It Hurts!

After Dada, in a surefire surprise,
Anil Kumble, the leg spinner who
sure does spin the ball – Jumbo, as
we popularly know him, – decided
to bid adieu to international
cricketing at his favorite cricket
ground, Ferozeshah Kotla, where
he took 10 wickets in an innings
against Pakistan in 1999; the
ground which put him in equal with
Jim Larker of England. "Delhi has
been special for me and I thought it
fitting to finish my career here," he
said amid loud applause from the
Kotla crowd. "I was a very tough
decision particularly after playing
competitive cricket for the last 18
years. But the body gave the
decision. This injury probably
helped me take the decision," "It
was yesterday I decided to retire. I
won't be 100 per cent fit in Nagpur
and it is no use going in Nagpur
without 100 per cent fit, so I thought it is my time to go," Kumble added. The 38-
year-old leg spinner has captured 619 scalps in 132 Tests to be third in the list of
highest wicket-takers after Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.

Read More At: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/02/indiacricketteam-cricket Also:

http://cricket24x7.blogspot.com/2008/11/anil-kumble-retires.html

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