I am watching this live program on CNN IBN channel about the Cash for Votes issue and it is amazing how Amar Singh is still in office and the UPA government in power after such an expose! It is quite evident from the video footage that the three BJP MPs were offered money by Sanjeev Saxena on behalf of Amar Singh of SP.
More on Tapes of Cash for Votes here.
Saina Nehwal beat the fourth seed, Chen Wang of Hong Kong to enter the Quarter finals of the Olympics. She played brilliantly to beat the higher ranked player, 21-19, 11-21, 21-11 in 52 minutes.
What a day it is turning out to be for India!
She now has a pretty good chance of making it to the Semi-finals as she plays an unranked player Maria Kristin Yulianti of Indonesia who upset the sixth seed Tine Rasmussen of Denmark. Saina, if she wins the next game will then probably have to face the second seed, Ning Zhang of China.
Tune in for more updates from the Olympics!
Abhinav Bindra, that's a name that created history today at the Beijing Olympics. He becomes India's first sports person to win an individual Gold medal at the Olympics, EVER! What an achievement!!
Abhinav claimed the Gold medal in the Men's 10m Air Rifle. Bindra shot a total score of 700.5. He did it in style too, soaking up all the pressure and delivering when it mattered most. Going into the last shot, Bindra and Hakkinen (bronze medal winner) were tied for first place, but Bindra secured the gold medal with his best shot of the final, an outstanding 10.8. Way to go, Abhinav!
Here is a photo of the hero! Read more details here.
The 2008 Olympic Games start today in Beijing. The games will last till August 24, 2008. It's going to be an exciting few weeks from now till the end of the games. There are going to be some amazing clashes…FedEx vs. Rafa, US basket ball team vs. Chinese BB team, Mark Phelps going for 8 gold medals (will be a record if that happens), Brazil vs. rest of the world in soccer, I could go on. From an India perspective games to lookout for would be shooting, tennis and badminton.
India has sent a 57-member contingent and its support staff of 42! Gone are the days however of the Indian hockey team dominating the Olympics. In fact, if you leave out the exploits of the Indian hockey team, India has done miserably at best in the Olympic Games. We have managed to win all of 1 silver and 3 bronze medal's since 1928! The Hockey team has won us 8 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals since 1928.
There are 302 medals each (gold, silver and bronze) to be won at the 2008 Olympics. Let's hope we do better than our current strike rate!
The car's (Santro) NOC will finally be done and available around the 14th of August. All of us are going to be in Hyderabad this Independence Day to spend time with Baba. There are a few things to close from the movement perspective as well and the weekend will be spent in that.
Discussion right now is around how to get the car to Pune from Hyderabad? Do we drive it down here or get it moved through packers and movers in a truck. The distance is about 548 kms (good site to check distances between two cities in India, http://www.mapsofindia.com/distances/) so driving down is quite feasible.
This is a test blog posted from within Microsoft word. One of the templates provided in Word 2007 is for Blogs. You can type up the blog in word and publish it from within word itself. You can configure the blog server that you use. Let's see how this works!
Other features include being able to edit previously published blogs. You can also have multiple accounts setup. Pretty cool I think. One feature that I am still trying to locate is tagging.
