Teen queen Akanksha Mansukhani is in Miss India 2008

Akanksha Mansukhani is well known in Indian ad media. At the age of 14 she came to contact with the media with the consent of her family. Her family helped her in every step. Although the Femina Miss India 2008 is a new field but she won the Title of Teen queen Middle East 2002, Teen Queen Middle East.

The Vital Status of Aakansha Mansukhani

Age : 22

Height : 5.6"

weight : 48 Kg

Bust : 34"

Waist : 26"

Hips : 34"

Trouser lenghth : 40"

Hair Color : Black

Complexion : Fair

EyesColor : Brown

Shoe size : 7

What got you into FMI?

My family got me into modelling when I was only 14, the rest just followed. FMI was always on my radar.

What is the toughest part of the preparation for FMI?

The toughest judges. Also the talent round in Mumbai where I’d be pitched against some of the best talents in the country.

Hobbies?

Working out and bowling with friends. I have an adopted daughter Angela, 9, who takes up a lot of my time. I have been looking after her since I was 14, but I only legally adopted her last year. My daughter has made me more responsible and far more matured for my age.

Does that make Sushmita Sen your role model?

No. I think I should be a role model for Sushmita because she adopted the baby after she got the crown. She lives with her mother while my mother lives in India which means I take care of both my daughter and my dad here in Dubai. That is not to say what she has done is not great. My dad is my role model for what he has done and still does for me.

What will you do if you win?

The first thing I’d like to do is adopt another baby. Then perhaps focus on Bollywood.

What are your long-term goals? Is Bollywood on your radar?

I want to get into Bollwyood anyway. I am clear about that. I have friends in Bollywood who have been urging me to give it a go. So, whether FMI title happens to me or not, my focus will be Bollywood.

If the judges asked you about the one thing you wished you could change in the world and why...

I will end scourges like wars and terrorism. Life is too short to waste on violence. Let’s make the most of our lives by spreading peace and happiness around us.

Here is an interview of Aakansha Mansukhani which she met with http://www.bindaaspoll.com.

Tapasee Pannu, a contestant form Punjab in the Miss India 2008

Tapasee Pannu is second highest popular contestant of the Miss Femina India 2008 who is from Ludhiana, Punjab. The beauty pageant is organized by Femina, a women’s magazine and Pantaloons, a multi format retailer in India. She is well known in electronic media as a model. The 20 old loves to dancing, love trying my hand and any kind of sport. Her height is 5' 7.6" and status 32-26-36. She is the contestant number 29

“I come from a typical Sikh family and the idea of getting into modelling didn’t go down well with my father and my grandparents. But after showing them the output of my work, their anger kind of mellowed down,” says Pannu. The reason why modelling is becoming increasingly popular among Punjabis, she feels, is because they like to make money and as this is a glamourous way of doing so, they opt for it. “However, one must always complete studies and have a fall-back option as models have a short shelf life,” she says.

The beauty queen is getting more votes from her fans. So it should possible to won the Miss Femina India 2008. you can visit her personal website http://www.tapasee-pannu.com

Manisha Yadav the top most popular contestant of India 2008

Manisha Yadav is one of the contestants of Miss India 2008. She is form Gujarat. The 20 years girl is on the top of web survey. Femina Miss India 2008, the beauty pageant is organized by Femina, a women's magazine and Pantaloons, in India. Although it is not a complete profile about her but it will help the fans to know about Manisha Yadav.

Here is the vital status of Manisha Yadav:

Age: 20 yrs

Height: 5' 8.08"

Stats: 32-24-36.5

Hobbies: Reading, writing, traveling, teaching, playing badminton and table tennis and swimming

According a web survey she is the highest vote holder and got 34.6% vote.

Femina & Pantaloons Miss India 2008

Miss India, a beauty pageant organized by Femina & Pantaloons annually. The Times Group is well known in media, is the part of Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. the largest media group in India. Sahu Jain family is the owner the group. Femina & pantaloons organized Miss India produced international quality pageants. It was started more that 45 years ago. If you find, you will easily find the name who won the crown of Miss World and Miss Universe. Sushmita Sen, Aishwarya Rai, Lara Dutta, and Priyanka Chopra are the best example.

The grand final of the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2008 will take place on 5^th April 2008. The first entries called for 10 jan 2008- 7^th February. 29 Contestants will take part in the final.

www.jeetegakaun.in made an online poll for the visitors and asks for the comments, who will win the crown of Miss India 2008. Manisha Yadav has occupied the top position by getting 1216 votes out of 3569. Tapasee Pannu, Tanvi Vyas and Pragya Jaiswal are the next position in the lists.

Here are the lists of the contestant who will take part in the Pantaloons Femina Miss India 2008:

Sonia Aiyappa, Kajal Jain, Sweety Chaturvedi, Alisha Pekha, Sangeeta Bora, Aditi Singh, Karishma Gupte, Harshita Saxena, Rupali Khandare, Aakanksha Mansukhani, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Pragya Jaiswal, Malavika Rane, Nupur Sharma, Kavya Barli, Sangeeta Chauhan, Sujata Das, Shruti Dilip, Tapasee Pannu, Lekha Anatharaman, Tanvi Vyas, Manisha Yadav, Shireen Farooq, Simran Kaur, Mundi     Farah R. Parvaresh, Parvathy Omanakuttam, Esha Sinha, Radha Bhrahmbhatt,     Akshamma Bais.

Shoaib Akhtar has been banned for five years

Rawalpindi Express Shoeb Akter has been banned for five years for the violations of the playersr code conduct, PCB Chairman Nasim Ashraf told it to the press conference. You all know that Shoeb Akher was first banned during the Twenty20 inaugural world cup which was took place in South Africa by misbehaving with his teammate. Although he was punished just for a short time but now, it is a five years sentence.

The Hindu reported that "Shoaib can't play for Pakistan or anywhere in Pakistan. But he is free to play in the Indian Premier League which is not in our jurisdiction," Ashraf said. "Shoaib's presence damaged Pakistan cricket at every level and he has been banned from playing in any form of cricket. PCB has lost confidence on Shoaib," Ashraf said in a strongly worded decision by the Board.

After forcing the punishment Shoeb Akater will not allow to play any kinds of cricket in Pakistan but it will not make any barrage playing IPL.

Sachin Tendulkar will not play in the second match

After Australia test, Sachin Tendulkar's physio, John Gloster advised him to take a proper rest. Although he got a little bit time but that was not sufficient. Even hi advised to take rest for two-weeks. During the first test he was totally unfitted even he did not doing fielding well first, second and fourth day.

Tendulkar was advised two-weeks rest after the Australia tour and the then physio, John Gloster, in his fitness report, warned against the injury entering a chronic phase. Kaif last played a Test for India during the 2006 tour of the West Indies. He enjoyed an impressive domestic season for Uttar Pradesh and Central Zone, finishing fourth in the list of run-getters, scoring 993 runs in 13 first-class matches at an average of 58.41.

Mohammmad Kaif was selected for the second test instead of Tendulkar. Dear reader do you think is it right? I think tendulkar's bad performances are the main cause of drop out for the team??

Indian Premier League (IPL) match Schedule

ICC backed and BCCI established IPL will be started from 18 April 2008. It is the first and inaugural twenty20 tournament. Still now, IPL has to face trouble to collect the players. It is clear that the matches will be exciting because it has been set up to defeat ICL and ICC indirectly helping it. So, match time schedule (Fixture) is important to all. This time schedule I mention according to the local time and GMT.

Indian Premier League (IPL) Match Schedule

Fri 18

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kolkata Knight Riders

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat 19

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Chennai Super Kings

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sat 19

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Rajasthan Royals

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Sun 20

09:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Sun 20

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Deccan Chargers

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Mon 21

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Kings XI Punjab

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Tue 22

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Delhi Daredevils

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Wed 23

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Mumbai Indians

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Thu 24

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Rajasthan Royals

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Fri 25

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Mumbai Indians

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sat 26

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Rajasthan Royals

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat 26

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Riders

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun 27

09:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Deccan Chargers

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Sun 27

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Delhi Daredevils

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Mon 28

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Chennai Super Kings

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Tue 29

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Mumbai Indians

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Wed 30

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

May 2008

Thu 1

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Kings XI Punjab

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Thu 1

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Kolkata Knight Riders

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Fri 2

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Delhi Daredevils

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sat 3

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Sat 3

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Kolkata Knight Riders

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sun 4

09:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Sun 4

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Chennai Super Kings

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Mon 5

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Kings XI Punjab

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Tue 6

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Wed 7

13:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Rajasthan Royals

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Thu 8

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Chennai Super Kings

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Thu 8

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Fri 9

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Deccan Chargers

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Sat 10

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sat 10

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Kings XI Punjab

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun 11

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Kolkata Knight Riders

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Sun 11

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Delhi Daredevils

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Mon 12

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Tue 13

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Delhi Daredevils

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Wed 14

09:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Chennai Super Kings

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Wed 14

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan Royals

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Thu 15

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Deccan Chargers

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Fri 16

13:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight Riders

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Sat 17

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Kings XI Punjab

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Sat 17

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Bangalore Royal Challengers

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Sun 18

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Sun 18

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Chennai Super Kings

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Mon 19

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Tue 20

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Rajasthan Royals

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Wed 21

09:30 GMT Mumbai Indians v Kings XI Punjab

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Wed 21

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Bangalore Royal Challengers

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Thu 22

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Kolkata Knight Riders

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Fri 23

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Kings XI Punjab v Deccan Chargers

Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

Sat 24

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai Indians

Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

Sat 24

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Chennai Super Kings v Rajasthan Royals

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun 25

15:00 local, 09:30 GMT Bangalore Royal Challengers v Deccan Chargers

M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Sun 25

20:00 local, 14:30 GMT Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab

Eden Gardens, Kolkata

Mon 26

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Rajasthan Royals v Mumbai Indians

Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

Tue 27

19:00 local, 13:30 GMT Deccan Chargers v Chennai Super Kings

Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad

Fri 30 1st Semi-Final - TBC v TBC

Venue TBC, Mumbai

Sat 31 2nd Semi-Final - TBC v TBC

Venue TBC, Mumbai

June 2008

Sun 1 Final - TBC v TBC

Venue TBC, Mumbai