Kim Sharma Married Ali Punjani Secretly

Bollywood actress Kim Sharma has secretly married business tycoon from Kenya, Ali Punjani, media reports.

The marriage ceremony was organised in Mombasa, Kenya, last week which was attended by close friends and relatives of Kim and Ali.

Kim Sharma debuted in bollywood with Aditya Chopra's directorial venture Mohabbatein in 2000. She has acted in many bollywood movies including Tumse Achcha Kaun Hai (2002), Fida (2004), Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav (2005), Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story (2005), Zindaggi Rocks (2006), Nehlle Pe Dehlla (2007), Heyy Babyy (2007) etc

Kim's name was earlier heard associated with Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh.

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Match Fixing Scandal Hits IPL?

According to a report in The Australian daily quoting two unnamed IPL officials, "a leading batsman had played so suspiciously that they could not explain his behaviour."

The team found the player's performances puzzling, particularly scoring slowly towards the end of an innings and had to change his batting order.

However the player has not been named.

For the last two weeks the cricketing world is filled with the news about the spot fixing scandal from the Pakistani players, now the much money spinning Indian Premier league IPL is going to be hit. It is interesting to note that the last edition of the IPL did not involve any one of the Pakistan players

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Dancing RObot

Two students from Chennai Kaustubh Sridhar and Sathya Narayanan studying in 8th and 9th standard respectively has built a robot which can perform Bharathanatyam.

The two has created this dancing robot at the Indian Robot Olympiad.

The skeletal structure of the robot is made using Lego blocks (interlocking plastic bricks) and 10 mini motors. The robot dances similar to Bharatanatyam when played with classical music.

Hope superstar Rajinikant will use the robot to perform dance in his latest movie Endhiran.

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Nokia 5MP Camera WIth Wireless FM Launched

Nokia India has launched the Nokia X2 multimedia mobile phone in India.

Nokia X2 is a midlevel 5 megapixel, 2.2-inch QVGA candybar phone.

The phone is one of the rarest wireless FM radio phones with stereo speakers available from Nokia Dedicated keys for music and FM radio is also available.








Other features include

Display Size: 2.2"
Resolution: 320 x 240 pixels (QVGA TFT)
Up to 260,000 colours
Five-way Navi™ key with soft keys, call and end keys
Dedicated camera key
Dedicated music keys
Ringtones: mp3, AAC, eAAC, eAAC+, WMA and 64-tone polyphonic
Video ringtones
BL-4C 860 mAh Li-Ion battery
Talk time: up to 810 mins
Standby time: up to 540 hours
MicroSD memory card slot, hot swappable, up to 16 GB
Internal memory: 48 MB
GPRS
EGPRS
TCP/IP support
Capability to serve as data modem
Stereo Bluetooth version 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate
USB charging
Ovi Store
My Nokia
Flickr
Opera mini browser
Facebook
5 megapixel camera (2592 x 1544 pixels)
48 MB internal memory, up to 16 GB additional memory with microSD card

The X2 will be priced at Rs 5,999 which makes it a good price for a camera phone.

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Missles Test Fired by India List

India successfully test fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from Chandipur, Orissa today.

Brahmos missile is jointly designed by India and Russia and is capable of carrying conventional warheads upto 200-300 kg and have a range of 290 km.

Till today India has test fired more than 25 missiles which include Air to Air, Surface to Surface, Surface to Air, Cruise Missiles, Ballistic missiles etc.

Here is the list of Missiles available in the armory of India.


Air-to-air missiles
Astra

Anti Ballistic Missiles'
Prithvi Air Defence Missile (Exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile)
Advanced Air Defense Missile (Endo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile)

Surface-to-surface missiles
Short Range Ballistic Missiles
Prithvi I
Prithvi II
Prithvi III
Dhanush
Agni I
Shaurya

Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles
Agni-II
Agni-IIAT
Agni-III

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
Agni V
Surya(under development/not confirmed)

Cruise Missiles
Subsonic Cruise Missiles
Nirbhay

Supersonic Cruise Missiles
BrahMos

Hypersonic Cruise Missiles
BrahMos II

Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles
K-15 Sagarika
K-XX

Surface-To-Air Missiles
Trishul
Akash
Maitri
Barak2

Guided Missiles
Anti-Tank Guided Missiles
Nag Anti-tank guided missile

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Tournament Format of IPL-2011

The IPL governing council meeting held today has taken decisions regarding the tournament format in the forthcoming IPL 2011 season.

The fourth edition IPL will see the following changes:

Total number of matches increased from 60 to 74

10 Teams will play in two groups

Each team will play a minimum of seven matches

A total of four players can be retained by each franchise, which includes a maximum of three Indian players.

The auction for new players will be held in the 2nd week of November, 2010.

Sahara Warriors Pune, and Kochi Rendezvous teams are the two new franchises which will take part in the tournament. If each team had to play in the league format which will make 94 matches with home and away games.

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