Kapil Dev attacks Saurav Ganguly

Kapil Dev attacks Saurav Ganguly, Laxman, and Gavaskar over Yo-Yo test and makes a controversial statement

The World Cup-winning skipper and former Indian all-rounder Kapil Dev made a controversial statement about the yo-yo test ahead of England tour. He cited that it can't be considered as the sole criteria for selection.

Kapil Dev made a further statement over the VVS Laxman, Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly regarding Yo-Yo Test which has become crucial parameter for selection in Indian cricket team.

 As repoted in Sportskeeda, the Indian cricketing legend cited that "If a player is match fit, he should be playing and there should not be any other criteria

] "Sunil Gavaskar may not have enjoyed running more than 15 minutes as a part of his fitness drill but he could bat for three days. Even the likes of Anil Kumble, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly may or may not have cleared this version of the Yo-Yo test but they turned out to be some of the best players India has produced.

 Further he added that "Even football legend Diego Maradona wasn't the fastest runner but whenever he had the ball, he was the fastest. Similarly, every cricketer has a different way of responding to fitness drill.

 "A bowler can perhaps clear the Yo-Yo test easily than a batsman. But this isn't the ultimate test to judge a player. It comes down to your performances on the field and cricketers should be judged only on the basis of their on-field performances," Kapil said.

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सदी का सबसे लंबा ग्रहण 27 जुलाई की रात, इन राशियों के लिए

सदी का सबसे लंबा ग्रहण 27 जुलाई की रात, इन राशियों के लिए 

  27 जुलाई 2018 आषाढ़ पूर्णिमा को सदी का सबसे लंबा चन्द्रग्रहण लगने जा रहा है। इससे पहले 31 जनवरी को इस साल पूर्ण चन्द्रग्रहण लगा था जिसमें करीब 1 घंटे 16 मिनट का खग्रास था। अब 27 और 28 जुलाई की मध्य रात्रि में लगने वाले चन्द्रग्रहण में करीब 1 घंटे 43 मिनट का खग्रास रहेगा।

1/5 ह चन्द्रग्रहण शुरू होने से अंत होने तक करीब 4 घंटे का रहेगा। खगोल वैज्ञानिक मान रहे हैं कि यह 21वीं सदी का सबसे लंबा चन्द्रग्रहण होगा। इस चंद्रग्रहण को पूरे भारत में देखा जा सकता है।

रत के अलावा यह चन्द्रग्रहण संपूर्ण एशिया, यूरोप, आस्ट्रेलिया, अफ्रीका, दक्षिण अमेरिका, प्रशांत, हिंद और अटलांटिक महासागर क्षेत्र में देखा जा सकेगा। ग्रहण का आरंभ 27 जुलाई की मध्य रात्रि में 11 बजकर 54 मिनट पर होगा और इसका मोक्ष काल यानी अंत 28 जुलाई की सुबह 3 बजकर 49 मिनट पर होगा।

 ज्योतिषशास्त्र के अनुसार जिस राशि में चन्द्रग्रहण होता है उस राशि के लोगों को कष्ट का सामना करना पड़ता है। ग्रहण मकर राशि में होने के कारण इस राशि के लोगों को कई तरह की परेशानियों का सामना करना पड़ सकता है।

ग्रहण से जहां कई राशियों को अशुभ फल मिलने की आशंका है वहीं कुछ राशियों को लाभ और शुभ फल भी मिलने वाला है। ज्योतिषीय गणना के अनुसार मिथुन, तुला, वृश्चिक और मीन राशि के लिए यह ग्रहण शुभ रहेगा।

राजनीतिक दृष्टि से यह ग्रहण ब्लूचिस्तान एवं कश्मीर में राजनीतिक अपद्रव को बढाने वाला है। इन क्षेत्रों में आतंकी घटनाएं हो सकती हैं। सफेद वस्तुओं और चांदी, मोती एवं घतुओं के दाम बढ़ेंगे।

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Anupam Kher dedicates award to struggling actors

IIFA Awards 2018: Anupam Kher dedicates award to struggling actors

 bollywood Veterean Anupam Kher with the Outstanding Achievement in Cinema honour at the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) gala, has dedicated the award to strugglers who try and find their feet in the showbiz world without having a godfather.

“Thank you IIFA for honouring me with Outstanding Achievement In Cinema Award. I really feel honoured and energised. Thank you the people of Bangkok for your love, warmth and hospitality. I dedicate this award to all the struggling actors who have to make it without godfathers,” Anupam tweeted on Monday.

The actor received the honour at the 19th edition of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards gala on Sunday night. While Anupam’s long-time friend and co-actor Anil Kapoor gave an insight into the Saaransh actor’s life and career, the trophy was handed over to him by Viacom18’s Group CEO Sudhanshu Vats.

“Thank you my dearest friend Anil Kapoor for introducing my Outstanding Achievement In Cinema Award at IIFA with so much love, warmth. Selflessness and grace. You are a priceless and a unique friend. Your words moved me,” wrote Anupam.

The 63-year-old actor made his debut in 1984 with Saaransh. Later he became part of many iconic films like Lamhe, Chaalbaaz, Khel, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Daddy and Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara. The actor has also made appearances in many critically acclaimed international films such as Golden Globe-nominated Bend It Like Beckham, Ang Lee’s Golden Lion-winning Lust, Caution and David O. Russel’s Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook. He was recently honoured with a BAFTA nomination for his role in the British television sitcom The Boy With The Topknot. Even after doing 500 films in his more three-decade-long career in showbiz, the actor believes it is his second innings in the industry and has no intention to stop just yet.

“It is a great feeling when your own peers celebrate your achievements and as I have been saying, this is just the interval point of what I am doing and my second half of journey starts now. It started with my 500th film. I told myself this is the interval point with The Big Sick and after that, I have done 15 films in the last one year both international and national,” Anupam had said.

Anupam Kher has also been awarded the Padma Shri in 2004 and Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution in the field of cinema and arts. 

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Missing Messi fan found dead in Kerala:

Why would an average person kill himself just because a celebrity he has only watched on TV loses a game?

During the last couple of weeks, Indian social media cried over suicide of Anthony Bourdain and gossiped about Bhayyuji Maharaj shooting himself.

Their tragic suicides did remind us, yet again, about the inner melancholy of the rich and famous, but as these men were extremely successful celebrities, their stories have little to offer to most of us who are living our mundane normal lives away from the glory and glamour they enjoyed.

Unfortunately, this week we have another suicide story of a man just like you and me that may have something deep for us to learn from, especially if we juxtapose it with suicides of these celebrities.

A thirty year old accountant from Kerala, a fan of Lionel Messi who himself had never played football, left his home to commit suicide after watching Messi-led Argentina lose 3-0 to Croatia on TV.

As his dead body is now discovered, if this story turns out to be true, we have a strange question at hand.

Why would an average person kill himself just because a celebrity he has only watched on TV loses a game?

The first and foremost realisation that hits us hard from this tragedy is about the delusion-creating power of new media like TV and internet. They seem to impersonate reality to such an extent that they have now become a real part of our lives.

The so-called football fever that has gripped India, a nation currently ranked 97 in FIFA rating with no real football-playing culture, is a completely bogus fabrication successfully built by business houses who have turn football-watching into an emotional frenzy only through intense and well-directed media campaigns.

This suicide proved that emotional button-pressing of these media campaigns have the power to forge a completely baseless and yet strong enough emotional delusion that it can even mislead a person into executing such a tragic act of self-destruction.

But, this emotional delusion created by media is not the real cause of this suicide.

More important is the fact that this young man saw such a little value in his existence that he could sacrifice it for such a trivial reason. It is this phenomenon that needs our serious attention, especially because most of us average people are sailing in the same boat.

Today modern media has captured the attention of humanity to such an extent that it has become a real context of human life. As this media thrives on human stories, celebrities and their lives is the main fodder that it feeds on and regurgitates for us to consume.

The net outcome is, our lives look mundane and meaningless compared to the lives of the rich and famous that we see pouring out of media streams that we are constantly immersed into. It is entirely possible that this phenomenon has a strong psychological impact on an average person living a normal life to evaluate his/her own life to be worthless and meaningless compared to that of a celebrity.

The tragic hero of our suicide tale could throw away his life on finding a defeat of his icon emotionally unbearable (while Messi himself will sleep over without too much trouble in next few days) only because, in his mind, his own life was dwarfed into insignificance against that of larger-than-life image of Messi that he had constructed due to being subjected to constant and well-directed media hype around football and Messi.

It is likely that the tragic suicide of this young man from Kerala will be forgotten as an anomaly, but I prefer to take it as a warning about the future where media business will be creating even more hype around celebrity lives.

While they use celebrities knowing fully well that humans are extremely interested in other humans and their lives, this process has a hidden danger of it providing a completely false context to most people like us living average lives.

There could be more people, if not going to the extreme extent of committing suicide, surely finding their own lives colourless and not worth enjoying. It will be a tragic blow for the society if this malaise spreads, as we can end up having a lot of unhappy people for no real reason.

One way of dampening the damaging power of celebrity flood that we are experiencing is to return to the stories of Anthony Bourdain and Bhayyuji Maharaj, as they tell us the real truth about celebrity lives.

They tell us that one may be a great success, even be a Messi, a Ronaldo or a Virat Kohli, life remains the same. Be it an accountant or a Bollywood star, there is always some rain and some sunshine in every life, and going by the celebrity examples that we see, it is entirely possible that being a celebrity may get him/her more rain than an average person like you and me.

If this reality is communicated to people, they can see that their life is just as valuable as that of anyone on this planet and thus not worth throwing away while comparing it with other more successful people they see on TV and internet.

Let us realise that we all are superstars of our lives. Our worth can’t be decided by comparing it with a mostly fake people created by forces of commerce.

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बारात में बारातियों के साथ नाची स्कॉर्पियो

बारात में बारातियों के साथ नाची स्कॉर्पियो, आनंद महिंद्रा बोले- नाच मेरी जान

Mahindra Scorpio, Anand Mahindra: उद्योगपति आनंद महिंद्रा ने एक वीडियो शेयर किया है जिसमें स्कॉर्पियो बारात में डांस कर रही है.

उद्योगपति आनंद महिंद्रा सोशल मीडिया पर काफी एक्टिव रहते हैं. वो ट्विटर पर कई ऐसे वीडियो शेयर करते हैं जो काफी वायरल होते हैं. कुछ वीडियो तो वो ऐसे शेयर करते हैं जिसको देखकर लोग हंस-हंसकर लोट-पोट हो जाते हैं. अब ट्विटर पर डांसिंग महिंद्रा स्कॉर्पियो एसयूवी का एक विडियो जमकर वायरल हो रहा है. इस वीडियो को ट्विटर पर शेयर किया गया है. इस वीडियो को विमल पटेल नाम के यूजर ने शेयर किया है. जिसको आनंद महिंद्रा ने रि-ट्वीट किया है.

इस आदमी का VIDEO देख दंग रह गए आनंद महिंद्रा, बन गए फैन नंबर वन.

वीडियो में देखा जा सकता है कि स्कॉर्पियो को लाइट से सजाया गया है और वो उचक रही है. पास ही खड़े बाराती उसके साथ डांस कर रहे हैं. सोशल मीडिया पर ये वीडियो काफी वायरल हो रहा है. ट्विटर यूजर विमल पटेल ने वीडियो शेयर करते हुए लिखा- ''महिंद्रा स्कॉर्पियो को मॉडिफाय किया गया और शादी में नचाया गया.'' जिसके बाद महिंद्रा के चीफ आनंद महिंद्रा ने रिस्पॉन्स दिया. उन्होंने लिखा- ''क्या कहना! नाच मेरी जान…मैं इस बारे में पक्का नहीं हूं कि ऐसा हम फैक्ट्री से बनकर निकलने वाले मॉडल में दे सकते हैं या नहीं.''

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WhatsApp to stop working on these phones in 2018

WhatsApp to stop working on these phones in 2018: What you should know

Earlier this week, WhatsApp updated its mobile devices support page. The company updated the list of devices that it no longer supports as well as the ones that will lose support by the end of 2018 and more.

In the beginning of this year too, WhatsApp ended support for a range of older smartphone operating systems. Announcing this in a support note on its website, the Facebook-owned company said, “These platforms don't offer the kind of capabilities we need to expand our app's features in the future. If you use one of these affected mobile devices, we recommend upgrading to a newer iOS version, or to a newer Android running OS...”

So, here’s all you need to know about the devices that will lose WhatsApp support this year as well as a recap of the the phones that WhatsApp has already stopped updates for.

WhatsApp will stop support for all devices running on Nokia S40 platform by the end of this year. Some of the popular Nokia Asha series smartphones run on this platform. Users on this platform, however, can no longer create new accounts, nor re-verify existing accounts. Another platform that is no longer supported is Nokia Symbian S60.

WhatsApp has stopped updates for all smartphones running on Android 2.1 (Eclair), Android 2.2 (Froyo).

Among iPhones, WhatsApp has stopped support for iPhone 3GS and devices running on iOS 6.
Users with smartphones running BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 10 and older platforms too will not get WhatsApp going forward. Devices running BlackBerry 10 got grace period of two weeks in January this year.

Users with smartphones running Windows Phone 8.0 too will not get WhatsApp updates this year. The messaging app also does not support Windows Phone 7.
Users of Android versions 2.3.7 (Android Gingerbread) will continue to get WhatsApp updates for two more years. The Facebook-owned company has announced that it will stop supporting the device after February 1, 2020.

Users on the older platforms listed above cannot transfer their chat history to new devices. There is currently no option to transfer chat history between platforms. However, WhatsApp provides the users the option to send their chat history attached to an email.

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FIFA World Cup 2018: France beat Australia 2-1

 FIFA World Cup 2018: France beat Australia 2-1

FULL TIME: France open their World Cup campaign with 2-1 victory over Australia in the opening Group C match at Kazan Arena.

 Five minutes of stoppage time added

81' GOAL! Right footed shot from Pogba from the centre of the box drops just behind the line off the crossbar. France 2-1 Australia.

76' Corentin Tolisso becomes the French player to be shown the yellow card after he downs Juric in the midfield. 

71' Second substitution for Australia. Rogic is off the field, Irvine joins in the middle.

70' After scoring for France, Griezmann makes way for Giroud while Fekir comes in place of Dembele.

63' Australia make the first substitution of the match. Tomi Juric replaces Andrew Nabbout.

61' GOAL! Jedinak draws level for Australia as he converts the penalty.

61' Referee again consults VAR and Australia get the penalty.

58' GOAL! Griezmann converts the penalty to give France 1-0 lead over Australia.

55' France awarded penalty kick after referee uses the VAR for the first time in the World Cup.

49' Hernandez gets injured after colliding with Leckie in the air.

48' France's Lucas Hernandez wins a free kick early in the second half.

Second half gets underway. Both teams retain the same eleven.

Half-time: France were held 0-0 at half-time by Australia in their World Cup Group C opener as their expected domination failed to materialise at the Kazan Arena on Saturday. One minute of injury time added

43' Griezmann makes a good run off the back and takes Dembele's cross from the right flank but Sainsbury is quick enough to stop the ball.

40' Five minutes remaining in the first half with both teams looking to break the deadlock.

37' Antoine Griezmann of France makes a foul.

33' Australian defence come to the rescue once again . Lucas Hernandez hits a left footed shot from the left side of the box but misses it.

28' Mooy takes a free kick and France keeper Lloris easily grabs it to keep the scoreline 0-0.

28' Australia get a free kick after Pogba makes a foul.

23' Demebele is on the attack from the left flank single-handedly but Aussie player manages to stop him.

17' Australia miss a golden opportunity after being awarded a free kick. Aaron Mooy's free kick takes slight deflections off teammate Leckie and France's Corentin Tolisso, forcing Hugo Lloris to tip the ball away.

13' Australia's Mathew Leckie gets a yellow card for a bad foul.

12' Australia had their first chance at the goal, but Leckie fails to open the account as his header goes high over the post.

8' Another free kick for France, Mbappe takes it, but Australian keeper Ryan comfortably saves it to deny France an early lead.

6' Ryan makes another good save, dives low to his left, and denies a shot from the edge of the box by Griezmann

5' France get a free kick, Pogba takes it and goes straight to the Aussie goalkeeper's hands. 2' France off to a great start, control the possession early in the game. Mbappe attacks from the left flank, hits it towards the post.

Group C opener between France and Australia gets underway at Kazan Arena.

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