Srinivasan can contest election for ICC president

SC declines to entertain plea to restrain N. Srinivasan for ICC president

New Delhi: BCCI president N Srinivasan can go ahead and participate in the election for ICC president as the Supreme Court on Thursday declined to entertain a plea by the Cricket Association of Bihar to restrain him from joining the polls.
Declining to pass any order, the apex court bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice C Nagappan said the earlier "order of the court was clear and there was no conflict".
The election of the International Cricket Council (ICC) is scheduled for June 27

The court was referring to an apex court's earlier order by which it appointed legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar as the interim president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India to look after Indian Premier League 2014 and asked BCCI senior vice president Shiv Lal Yadav to look after other affairs of the board.
The court has divested Srinivasan from functioning as the BCCI president in the wake of the allegation of betting and spot-fixing against several people, including some cricketers and his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan.
On May 22, the apex court declined to entertain Srinivasan's plea for restoration of his power to functions as the chief of the apex cricketing body in India.
Srinivasan sought the modification of the order divesting him from discharging the functions as the BCCI's head. By its March 28 order, the court named Gavaskar as the interim president to look after the IPL 2014 and Yadav to take care of other affairs of the board.
The court by its May 16 order, while appointing Justice Mukul Mudgal to probe the allegations of betting and spot-fixing, said it would hold further hearing on the matter in September and till then Gavaskar and Yadav would continue to exercise the powers of the BCCI president.

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AirAsia launches First Flight In India

AirAsia launches first flight into loss-making India

BANGALORE (Reuters) - AirAsia Bhd's Indian joint venture launched its debut flight on Thursday, promising the budget airline would buck the trend of accelerating losses that is hurting rivals and break-even around October.
High costs, low fares and a highly competitive market have left all but one of India's big airlines losing cash. Jet Airways Ltd and SpiceJet Ltd last month reported record losses as a price war intensified.
But Chief Executive Mittu Chandilya believes his airline can break-even "in four months".
"India is a huge potential. My goal would be to scale up as soon as possible. We're looking at bringing in maybe an aircraft a month," Chandilya told reporters in Bangalore hours before its first Indian flight - to the coastal state of Goa - took off.
Chandilya declined to give specifics on its cost base - key to profitability in the cut-throat Indian market - but said AirAsia's cost structure was one of the lowest in the industry.
AirAsia India will have to juggle some of the highest fuel costs in the region, an array of local and national taxes, and heavy price discounting by rivals desperate to win market share.
Competition is set to increase further too, when Singapore Airlines Ltd's joint venture with the Tata Group starts flying in India later this year.
Chandilya said AirAsia India, a three-way venture between the Malaysia-based low-cost airline, India's Tata Group and investment firm Telestra Tradeplace, would hike its investment in its aircraft fleet to $20 million from a current $15 million.

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Anushka Secret love Affair

Anushka Shetty Secret love Affair

Anushka Shetty, one of the most beautiful and talented actress in South India. She is well known for her performance as Jejamma in ‘Arundathi’. Here comes a latest news about this beauty. Gossips moving in South industry about the new love affair of this multi talented actress. We already know about the past affairs of Sweety with King Nagarjuna, his son Chaitanya, Rebelstar Prabhas etc. But it was not clear how far those affairs were true and now Anushka is linked with another hero and the hero is none other than Tamil actor Arya.         Anushka and Arya are acting in an upcoming romantic drama “Irandam Ulagam” which is directed by Selvaraghavan. Anushka told the reporters that “Arya is one actor I envy the most. I envy his dedication and wonder how can someone work with no hang ups and manage to do different kind of films. He is so relaxed off the set, but extremely committed on the sets”. She started praising him every now and then n the two people are found together in many public places and in public functions even. Arya accompanied Anushka to the function of Singham 2 also. Looks like Arya and Anushka are in deep love. Will this relation continue for a long time

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Hollywood Calling For Shah Rukh Khan

Hollywood Calling For Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan touted to be the second richest actor in the world, SRK clearly has won hearts not just in India, but the world over. Hollywood director Brett Ratner has expressed a desire to work with Shah Rukh Khan and has now put Shah Rukh Khan among his favourite actors.

Ratner recently tweeted, “My favorite actors ever are John Cazale, Sterling Hayden, Peter Sellers, Timothy Carey, John Cassavetes, and of course Shah Rukh Khan, Robert Deniro and Al Pacino!”

SRK returned the compliment by re-tweeting on the trailer of Ratner’s upcoming film, Hercules, saying, “wow…a man with a cause…”

Ratner also tweeted to SRK saying, “I would love to work with you one day!! Big fan!!!.”

To which, Shah Rukh Khan replied: “It would be my honour. I am an avid follower of ur work & a huge fan of ur films. Would love to come and see you work on sets one day.”

Brett Ratner is known for his films like the Rush Hour series and X-Men: The Last Stand and is all geared up for his film Hercules. Hercules is an adventure film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Dwayne Johnson (in multiple roles), Ian McShane, Reece Ritchie, Ingrid Bolso Berdal, Joseph Fiennes, and John Hurt.

The film is based on the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars and is slated to release on July 25, 2014.

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Aaradhya Bachchan's Nanny Is Spilling Secrets

Aaradhya Bachchan's Nanny Is Spilling Secrets

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Aaradhya Bachchan

Uh oh. I hear BetiB aka Aaradhya Bachchan has some sleep issues. My Industrywalla says her nanny was recently heard complaining how baby B stays awake till 3am on some nights and keeps everyone else awake too! (Although I’m sure Aishwarya Rai & Abhishek Bachchan and even granddaddy B - Amitabh Bachchan - don’t mind the extra playtime

Amitabh, Aishwarya, Aaradhya and Abhishek Bachchan

Apparently she’s not a crier but just loves to watch TV and listen to music late at night so just won’t sleep! I mean who can blame her? She has about 180 (that’s 4 decades!) of Big B films/music to get through alone no? Plus mom, dad, grandma… forget sleep and pass me the popcorn

Aaradhya’s First Birthday

Aaradhya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan

Aishwarya, Aaradhya

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PM Modi's Tough love Energises India's Bureaucrats

Narendra Modi's Tough love Energises Bureaucrats

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi has told India's civil servants to throw out dusty files, clear clutter from corridors and may even demand that they work a six-day week.
The apparatchiks? They are apparently loving it.
Within days of taking office, Modi issued 10 administrative commandments. The first: Build Up Confidence in the Bureaucracy.
"This is unprecedented. Power has been shifted," said Suhaib Ilyasi, editor of Bureaucracy Today, a professional journal.
"The bureaucrats are feeling happy - even though they will have to work harder," added Ilyasi. In a readers' poll, more than 70 percent backed Modi's shakeup.
It's a huge turnaround for a state apparatus that, despite recruiting its top cadres through tough competitive examinations, has been ranked Asia's worst by one political risk consultancy.
In a two-pronged attack, Modi has targeted slovenliness in government offices - often grimy places where red spit from chewed betel nut stains walls, toilets are rarely cleaned, and discarded furniture and rotting files clog corridors.
In an edict seen by Reuters he demanded "hygiene and cleanliness". Offices must be "cleared and spruced up"; each department should scrap 10 archaic rules; and forms should be no longer than one page.
Change has been dramatic at government buildings across the colonial-era heart of New Delhi. Outside the Agriculture Ministry, unused files and old computers were piled up to be taken to a junk yard. Missing ceiling tiles have been replaced in passageways to cover loose cables.
The Health Ministry issued a statement saying that 35 steel cabinets, three water coolers and 40 chairs had been cleared from its corridors. The Ministry of Women and Child Development has launched an tender to auction off "obsolete/unusable/unserviceable items".
Modi also wants bureaucrats to think creatively and take risks to overcome administrative paralysis that set in over the past decade as the previous government became engulfed in a series of corruption scandals.
He has abolished a slew of cabinet committees, concentrated power in the Prime Minister's Office and is expected to overhaul a Soviet-style Planning Commission.
Modi's gruelling schedule has ministerial secretaries - the top-ranking civil servants - rushing to keep up.
And for some, old habits die hard.
"I too want to clean my room," said one senior bureaucrat, surveying an office table covered with stacks of files. "But there is a fear I may lose a document which could prove fatal.


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