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phase poll has been plannedto deal with possible violenceby Naxalites. The EC fears

there could be renewedattacks on supporters of

Salwa Judum. Results in all

states will be declared onDecember 8, whereas theseven-phase polls for the 87-seat Jammu and Kashmirassembly which will be

spread for over more than amonth the first phase ofpolls will be held on

November 17, followed byNovember 23, November 30,

December 7, December 13,December 17 and December24. Results for Jammu ansKashmir will be announced onDecember 28. The model

code of conduct comes intoeffect immediately.

As they say Lies, damned

lies, and statistics, the Mathon this looks a littlecomplicated. More than 150 Million voters will exercise their fundamental right todemocracy in this election. Three of the poll-bound states Madhya Pradesh,

Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh BJP Ruled and Congress success in overthrowing itsrival will help it erase the psychological pressure it has accumulated from asequence of losses. BJP, which hopes to exploit Congresss sitting in Delhi, will

appear the favorite for the LS polls if it manages to hold on to the states where it

is in power. BJP also hopes to gain at Congress expense in Jammu after thecommunal division of the vote bank over the Amarnath issue.

Read More At:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Assembly_poll_dates_announced_for_5_states/articleshow/3593841.cms

Sachin breaks Laras Test Record in Mohali!There were celebrations for Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar named after legendarymusic director Sachin Dev Burman by his father in Mohali as he overtook the

West Indian legend, Brian Lara's,world record of 11,953 Test runs,and then became the first man in

history to go past the 12,000-mark. Twice over. The 35-year-old batting whiz is already theworld's top-scorer in One-DayInternational [ODIs] with over16,360 runs to his name and has

the most centuries in Testmatches, thirty nine to date, and

in One-dayers too with fourty two


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till date.

It was a delight watch Tendulkar play. It always is. But however Tendulkar, this

time could not add the statistical milestone he really wanted to; that of a fortiethcentury in his 152nd Test. possibly the most moving congratulation came fromRicky Ponting, the Australian captain, who must be measured the man most likely

to eventually surpass Tendulkar's run aggregate - if anyone ever does. Also he isa year younger to Sachin and Australia plays more test matches a year than Indiadoes on an average.

Sachin made his Test Cricket debut at a tender age of 16 against Pakistan in

1989 in Karachi. From there on the little master of world cricket has never lookedback. "The journey over the last 19 years has been fantastic," Tendulkar said."There are stones thrown at you and you turn them into milestones. When I got

out in Bangalore a few guys made it a point to remind me about the record.Today the focus was just to watch the ball. I tried to continue and not loseconcentration." He Added.

Read More At:http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/oct/17/sachin-tendulkar-test-record

Watch It At:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7K4EXTRH4

Glory. High Up!India launched its first unmanned mooncraft to orbit the moon, part of an effortto avow its muscle in space and aver some of the business opportunities there.Chandrayaan-1 is an unmanned lunar exploration mission by the Indian SpaceResearch Organization (ISRO), India's national space agency. The spacecraft willnot land on the moon, though it is supposed to send a small impactor probe to

the surface. The mission also includes a lunar orbiter. The spacecraft waslaunched by a modified version of the PSLV [Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle] onOctober 22, 2008. The launching of Chandrayaan-1 comes about a year afterChinas first moon mission.

Indians moon mission is scheduled to last about two years, whilst it[Chandrayaan-1] would prepare a three-dimensional atlas of the moon and scenethe lunar surface for possibly available natural resources, including uranium, a

coveted fuel for nuclear power plants [Who knows it better than India?].

Reactions from across the

world have alreadystarted pouring in. mostof then being very warmand positive. Britain has

hailed India's successfullaunch of Chandrayaan,"Bravo, we are delighted

to see it (the successfullaunch of India's firstmission to the Moon),"Lord Malloch Brown,Foreign andCommonwealth Office minister in charge of Africa, Asia and UN has said. After the

successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation isplanning to send its second lunar odyssey, Chandrayaan-2, an Indo-Russian joint

venture, likely by the end of next year or early 2010.


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Read More At: http://www.hindu.com/seta/2008/10/23/stories/2008102350011500.htm

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