A few months ago, India played a test series and a Commonwealth Bank Tri-Nation Series during the tour of Australia. On October 2008 Australia is coming India to play a four matches Test Match in India grounds. Among these four matches no match will be held at EdenGardens. This is not good news for the Bengal fans. Another bad news is for them that the Bengal Tiger Sourav Ganguly has removed his mane from the International Cricket.
2nd Test Match, Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh
Live action starts from: 04:00 GMT (09:30 IST)
29 Oct 2008Australia vs India
3rd Test Match, Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi
Live action starts from: 04:00 GMT (09:30 IST)
06 Nov 2008Australia vs India
4th Test Match, Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur
Live action starts from: 04:00 GMT (09:30 IST)
I thing the whole world will enjoy the matches because the champion will meet each other. And the other important thing is that the umpiring decision controversy during the tour in Australia will make the matches enjoyable.
On September 11, 2008, Indian Hotels Co. Ltd.,(BOM:500850) a subsidiary of Tata group announced to a launch a new brand called “Gateway.” Under the new brand, 50 properties will be included in the next three years. The company already has two other luxury brands: Ginger and Taj.
Raymond Bickson, Managing Director, Indian Hotel Co. Ltd., told reporters, that sixteen properties of the “Taj brand” would be included to the new brand and ten more have been signed up. Officials are negotiating for another fifteen. He also added that the leisure segment in the country is growing at a healthy pace and the new brand would target the emerging guest profile.
The new brand will be included in the luxury segment and room charge would be the same to those of the Taj Brand depending on the location. The hotels will have special menus for health conscious consumers and other round the clock facilities like laundry, in-house dining. The company is going to invest Rs. 4-5 million per room.
On September 10, 2008, Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE:S) revealed its fall season product line up in the ongoing CTIA Fall show.The line up includes LG Lotus or LG LX 600, a messaging phone. The most interesting feature of this cell-phone set is its design. The pictures will give you a feel that it is a square chubby phone but it is the opposite in reality. For this unique design, LG Lotus even received Red Dot design award. Other major Sprint Nextel products are: HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro, Samsung Highnote, Samsung Rant, and
Motorola i576. LG Lotus, Samsung Highnote and Samsung Rant are the three products to sport Sprint Nextel’s “One Click” user interface.
Dimension:
Length: 3.3 inch
Breadth: 2.4 inches
Width: 0.7 inches
Weight: 3.7 ounces.
Color: LG Lotus LX600 comes in satin black and textured purple.
The purple colored version also comes with embossed design on the surface which makes it ideal for the ladies.
Features:
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with a fold out QWERTY key board. The bubble-like keys with raised surface make the LG LX 600 an ideal messaging machine.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with ‘One Click.’ It is a customizable user interface that allows the user to organize eight shortcut tiles on the internal screen.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with EV-DO support which allows the user to access SPRINT’s broadband and entertainment services such as SPRINT TV, SPRINT Radio, SPRINT Music Store and so on.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus has a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with a music player with external controls.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus has a microSD card slot that enables user to expand the phone memory up to 12GB.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with SPRINT Navigation.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus supports stereo Bluetooth.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus supports SMS voice and text messaging.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus has a back ground music mode. The user can listen to music while writing message or surfing web.
The LG LX 600 /LG Lotus comes with two displays.
The external display of LG LX 600 /LG Lotus measures 2.1 inches diagonally and supports 65,000 colors.
The internal display of LG LX 600 /LG Lotus measures about 2.4 inches diagonally and supports up to 262,000 colors.
Price:
LG LX 600 Lotus will be released in October and it will cost $149 with a two year service agreement.
Partnership with ‘Project Runway’ winner Christian Siriano:
On the same day, LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A, Inc. also revealed its partnership with the winner of Bravo Network’s award winning fashion reality show, Project Runway, Christian Siriano. Christian Siriano is the winner of Project Runway 4th season and he has designed exclusive scurf for LG LX 600/LG Lotus. The scurf has been unveiled today at the New York City Fashion Week. Ehtisham Rabbani, Vice President, Product Strategy and Marketing for LG Mobile Phones, said:
"Similarly, we believe mobile phones have the same ability and have become a fashion accessory within their own right. We are very excited to partner with Christian Siriano and look forward to seeing his unique accessory inspired by the LG Lotus on the runway at Fashion Week."
After winning Project Runway, this is the first fashion show of Christian Siriano. The attendees of the show will use the LG LX 600 /LG Lotus to take photos of the collection. They will be able to send the photos via message which will appear on large LG screens above the runway.
About the scurf, Siriano said that it is a fabulous scurf with a little pocket to carry a phone. The pocket is designed according to the square of shape of LG LX 600 / LG Lotus. Following the show, the scurf will be displayed along with Siriano’s fall 2008 collection in various events.
The final score was Australia 1- Uzbekistan 0. Australia defeated Uzbekistan last night in Tashkent in a world cup Asian group A qualifying match. It was a very hard-fought match, but good win for Australia. Uzbekistan played very good too and it was not a one-sided match. I was impressed with the performance of Australia in Uzbekistan. The match as played at night, but the stadium was almost full with 35,000 spectators coming to support the home team. They were shouting all the time whenever Uzbekistan was in attack. Such environment is very difficult place to play and Australian players could handle the pressure very well.
It took Australia 26 minutes in the match to get a goal. Scot Cheperfield scored the goal from a cross. In the second half, Uzbekistan played very well and attacked a lot, but could not get any goal. In fact, Uzbekistan tried to score a goal 12 times, but they could not get one. On the other hand, Australia got a easy chance just after the second half started, but could not capitalize it. This win will surely help Australia a lot. It is still very early days in group A of Asian region. However, Australia now has won both of the matches and Australia will play against Qatar at home next month. On the other hand, Uzbekistan has lost both of their matches and thus are in pressure.
In order to start its solar energy business, South Korea’s second largest electronics producer, LG Electronics Inc. (SEO:066570) is planning to buy up the solar cell unit of Conergy AG (FRA:CGY), the second largest solar company of Germany.
LG Electronics spokeswoman told Reuters that the company is planning to start its solar energy business and it is studying the market and considering various options but it does not have any acquisition plan.
LG Electronics and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEO: 005930) are two of the biggest electronics producers of South Korea and both the companies gave up external take over in favor of “organic growth.” LG’s last took over Zenith, a US-based electronics company, in 1995.
LG revealed its interest to enter into the solar energy industry in May 2008. LG CEO said that his company was reviewing various options. On September 4, 2008, The Maeil Business Newspaper said that the buy up of the Conergy solar unit was “imminent.” The take over will cost LG $183.3 million.
'Ru-Ba-Ru' is the upcoming Bollywood flick slated for release on 12 September 2008. The movie casts Randeep Hooda, Shahana Goswami, Rati Agnihotri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Jayant Kriplani. 'Ru-Ba-Ru' is the directorial debut for Arjun Bali. The romantic thriller portrays the love relationship between an ambitious advertising agency owner and a theatre actress. It is about their love through which they reach their destination.
About the movie, actress Shahana Goswami, who plays the female lead role in the movie, said that that it is about the live-in relationship of a couple. Randeep Hooda said that he plays the male lead role opposite Shahana Goswami. Satyadev Barman and Samirrudin composed the songs with lyrics by Shuja Haider, Soumik Sen, Aditya Narayan, Arjun Chandramohan Bali and Akshay Verma.
A number of singers including Shuja Haider, Ranjit Barot, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala, Vijay Prakash, Suzanne D' Mello and Shreya Ghosal sang the songs of the movie.
Reports out in the media suggest Randeep Hooda and Sahana Goswami starrer, Ru Ba Ru, is inspired by Hollywood film If Only, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Paul Nicholls. Recently the promos of the movie was released and it is pretty clear that Ru Ba Ru is inspired by 2004 Hollywood film If Only, directed by Gil Junger. The story of the movie Ru Ba Ru has striking similarities with the story of If Only.
When asked if Ru Ba Ru was inspired by If Only, Randeep did not give a direct answer like Yes or No. According to Hooda, there is nothing like an original thought and every film is inspired by another film. However, he asked all to wait until the release of the movie before taking anything for granted.
Smiles Randeep, “Well, let me just say that wait and watch for the film to arrive this Friday. Till then let the speculations go on. In any case, I don’t think that there is anything like an original thought. After all, every film is inspired in some way or other. There have been films around ‘before and after’ aspect of life and there will be more films like those in future too. So why point only at ‘Ru-Ba-Ru‘?”
Ranbeep says his performance in the movie is intense, but the intensity of the movie is expressed through romance, not through action scenes like he did in his previous action thrillers like ‘D’ and ‘Risk’. Hooda believes that romance can be intense too. Randeep Hooda plays the role of an ambitious owner of an advertising agency who has love interest with a theater actress, played by Sahana Goswami.
