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Actor R. Madhavan will for the first time play a character with "grey shades" in Bollywood in Teen Patti. While he is a professor in the forthcoming film
, the actor will also be seen sporting "six different avatars" in the thriller that also features Amitabh Bachchan and Hollywood star Ben Kingsley.
"I have different looks in the film. I'm playing a professor, but when I go to different areas, I'm dressed up as different characters," Madhavan told IANS in an interview.
"There's one (scene) with a very suave, high-end party look; then there is one for the low, scum areas. Another one's of a mid-level thug; there is the professor's look of course and all sort of stuff leading to even a casanova's and an Italian' look," he explained.
"In Hindi films, this will be my first grey kind of character as one who wants everything very fast in life," the 39-year-old added.
"In Teen Patti, I'm playing a professor who believes he deserves a lot more than what life is offering him at that point of time. He decides to take certain steps which land him in a web of greed, lust and defeat - and how much of a heavy price he pays for those decisions."
The multilingual actor is not apprehensive about the audience's reaction to the transition from his chocolate-boy image.
"When the film is wholesome and you are playing a character, they (audiences) will accept you in any case," he said.
"Even Mr. (Amitabh) Bachchan and Shah Rukh (Khan) have done that. It's very important to play different kinds of roles and I am very excited about it. I am very keen to see how the audiences will react to it," he added.
Releasing Feb 26, director Leemna Yadav's Teen Patti is about greed and deception set in the backdrop of high stake gambling.
After his hit 3 Idiots was dragged into a controversy for apparently promoting ragging, Madhavan is playing safe and insists Teen Patti doesn't glorify gambling but is inspired by mathematics.
"If there is anything that Teen Patti will provoke, (it) is mathematics. It deals largely with mathematics in our lives and youngsters' desire to get anything 'now and today' in no time," Madhavan told IANS.
"Youth today want everything fast which is kind of an instant gratification and they want to live life on the fast track and that is what is shown in the movie with the magic of mathematics," he added.
Saira Mohan, Raima Sen and newcomers Shraddha Kapoor, Siddharth Kher, Viabhav Talwar and Dhruv Ganesh also portray pivotal roles in the movie. Teen Patti also boasts of special appearances by Ajay Devgn, Jackie Shroff, Mahesh Manjrekar, Ranjeet, Shakti Kapoor and Tinnu Anand.
Teen Patti reportedly has some passionate scenes between Madhavan and Saira Mohan but the actor steers clear of controversies and says it has been approved by the censor board.
"I'd like to say that on record that the film has a very large U certificate so there will be nothing explicit about it," Madhavan said.
And what about the kissing scenes with Saira?
"These aren't anything to talk about. All that you see (in the movie) is completely universal. The censor board doesn't give you a U certificate if there is a large number of kissing or other such stuff," he said.
Forty thousand Sydneysiders Saturday night clapped and cheered as the 'Mozart of Madras' A.R. Rahman and his troupe provided a spectacular
A.R. Rahman
musical extravaganza to salute India-Australia friendship.
Seamlessly blending the traditional with the modern, the music spanned the differences of language, enthralling old and young, touching the very heart strings at a time when Australia-India bilateral relations have come under strain following attacks on Indians in this country.
Music transcends boundaries and Saturday night it did, as Sydneysiders were taken on a journey of peace and joy by Rahman and his amazing troupe of nearly 40 musicians, dancers and supporting artists over 2-1/2 hours even as ominous clouds threatened to give way. A steady drizzle began as the sonorous sounds of "Khwaja Mere Khwaja" filled the cool night air.
It being one of the most anticipated concerts staged as part of the three-week Sydney Festival, people had begun securing places as early as 12 p.m. to get up and close with their music idol at the Parramatta Park, in the western Sydney suburb of Parramatta which has the largest population of Indian and South Asians in Australia.
She said: "This event is a celebration of Indian culture, music and dance and acknowledges the invaluable contribution that the Indian community has made to the social fabric of NSW. It sends a clear message that NSW is a welcoming place for people of every country to study, live and work."
For the 20 young boys and girls, who got a chance to perform with the world renowned maestro, it was the most exhilarating experience.
"It was a mind blowing opportunity that comes probably only once in a lifetime. We had intense rehearsals for five days and were really nervous, but once on stage, the energy and power of the music just consumed us all," Akshita Mohan, 18, a resident of suburban Westleigh who was one of the supporting dancers, told IANS.
It is not often that an artiste of Rahman's calibre performs for free, but that is typical of the man and his music.
"The concert is a gesture of friendship and goodwill between the two countries. I hope this solidarity continues to grow and blossom through the coming years," said Rahman amidst deafening applause.
For those who couldn't brave the crowds, the concert was telecast live by Australian Broadcasting Corporation to 44 countries with Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden, who plays for Chennai Super Kings as one of the hosts.
Rahman, who flew back home Sunday morning, was a guest of the NSW state government and Sydney Festival, which is Australia's largest annual cultural event, showcasing a broad spectrum of Australian and international dance, theatre, visual arts and music.
As festival director Lindy Hume told IANS: "There are only a handful of living artists in any genre whose work is instantly and easily embraced in both eastern and western cultures - and one of them is A.R. Rahman. The message of this concert is one of harmony and cultural understanding between Australia and India, two countries who share so much more than a national day (Jan 26) and love of cricket."
The mesmerising performance, enhanced by state-of-the-art digital projections, ended on a high with the magical power and vitality of "Jai Ho" reaching a crescendo in "Vande Mataram" as fireworks lit the night sky
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Against the backdrop of concerns over hacking of crucial official websites, central security agencies have again warned the government about the use of multi-tasking blackberry instruments by some of the officials working in sensitive ministries including the Prime Minister’s office.
Agencies have also cautioned against the practice of connecting official computers and laptops with unsecured internet connections by some bureaucrats thus compromising security.
With hackers mainly from China very active and having penetrated deep into the cyber space, the security agencies had asked all ministries especially the Defence, External, Home and the PMO to separate their official computers with those used for internet connection.
The recommendations of the central security agencies seem to have gone unheeded. An official maintained that their suggestion was only recommendatory in nature. The National Technical and Research Organisation (NTRO) also circulated the Do’s and Don’ts to key ministries recently after attempts from hackers were noticed.
A quick random check was carried out during which it was found that some of the officials in the Prime Minister’s Office were using Blackberry services and had linked their official emails on the handset, which is not allowed.
A PMO official said there were routine attempts to hack various systems. The PMO has its own system in place to protect against such attempts, the official said, adding, there has been no security breach.
Intense negotiations were held prior to the starting the Blackberry services in India and finally the Department of Telecom in 2008 decided to side-step the opposition of the intelligence agencies and permit the services, being operated by Canadian-firm Research-In-Motion (RIM).
Another problem dogging the cyber space in the country was constant use of official computers by the officials in key ministries despite a warning from security agencies not to link them with the internet.
Security of many of the computers in the Ministry of External Affairs and its Missions abroad was compromised with forcing a security audit of the machines and segregating the virus-affected ones out of the system.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has a separate server for its computers and there have been no attempts to hack its system since it has another server with internet facility. A surprise check of all the computers was being carried at regular intervals.
The National Informatics Centre, the organisation responsible for maintaining government servers and providing internet and intranet facilities to various key ministries, had also faced hacking problem. According to a Canadian firm SecDev Group, which investigated the hacking of the Dalai Lama's computer in late 2008, as many as 12 computers of NIC had been affected by the Chinese hackers.
The group also surprised the government when it mentioned that computers in nine Indian Missions abroad which included key countries like the US and the UK had been affected by the Chinese hackers.
Giving details, the report said the GhostNet system directs infected computers to download a Trojan, known as ghost RAT, which allows attackers to gain complete, real-time control. These instances of ghost RAT are consistently controlled from commercial internet access accounts located on the island of Hainan, People's Republic of China.
"Our investigation reveals that GhostNet is capable of taking full control of infected computers, including searching and downloading specific files, and covertly operating attached devices, including microphones and web cameras.
“China is actively developing an operational capacity in cyberspace, correctly identifying it as the domain in which it can achieve strategic parity, if not superiority, over the military establishments of the United States and its allies.
“Chinese cyber warfare doctrine is well developed, and significant resources have been invested by the People's Liberation Army and security services in developing defensive and offensive capabilities," the report said.
According to them, an email message arrives in the target's inbox carrying the malware in an attachment or web link. The attackers' objective is to get the target to open the attachment or malicious link so that the malicious code can be executed, it said.
Keywords: Blackberry, Prime Minister's Office, government, hacking, NTRO, National Informatics Centre
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New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said Pakistan "needs to do much more" to address India's concerns over continuing cross-border terror before dialogue can resume between the two neighbours.
When asked about the recent spate of terrorist attacks, rockets attacks and repeated firing across the international border in Kashmir from the Pakistan side, Rao said that Pakistani groups are involved, possibly with support from the Pakistani authorities.
"Terrorism directed against India continues from territory under Pakistan control and from Pakistan," Rao told Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN’s show Devil's Advocate.
"All the events you have seen over the last few days basically point to the basic and undeniable fact that the infrastructure of terrorism which operates out of Pakistan and territory under Pakistan control has not been dismantled...," she said.
"...and it continues to be directed against the Indian people. It affects ordinary people," she added.
"Look at what has been happening in Srinagar over the last few weeks. Look at the incidents of infiltration that have gone up despite the fact that this is cold weather," she said.
"In winter traditionally we have not had so many incidents of infiltration, but those continue. They clearly point to the continuation of efforts directed against our territory, directed in order to foment violence in Kashmir and terrorist incidents," Rao said.
She indicated that the recent attack at Lal Chowk in Srinagar and increased cross-border incursions are being directed with support from elements in Pakistan.
"Let me put it this way. I think the experience over the last two decades would make it very clear to us that this has been an instrument of state policy which has been pursued by agencies within Pakistan," she replied when asked about the involvement of Pakistani agencies in these attacks.
"We have very little or no evidence to suggest otherwise," she added.
Critical of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's assertion that his government is committed to fulfilling his father-in-law Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's pledge for a thousand-year war to "liberate" Kashmir, Rao said militancy and violence in Kashmir has been accompanied by rhetoric directed against India and all forms and means of propaganda that comes across from the Pakistan side.
"So, rhetoric, militancy and violence, together they make a very combustible combination," she said, adding that it poisons people's minds.
Asserting that India has never turned its back on dialogue, Rao said that terrorism affects the climate of dialogue and the progress of this dialogue. "And when Pakistan refers to the need to resume composite dialogue, we say you have to create the right atmosphere for that dialogue to move forward," she said.
"We wait and we hope Pakistan can do more," Rao replied when asked whether Pakistan is effectively responding to the terror India faces which emanates out of Pakistani soil.
Rao's comments come close on the heels of a telephonic conversation during which External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi to expedite probe into the Mumbai attacks and bring terrorists linked to the carnage to justice.
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President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday led the nation in mourning the death of veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu. Tributes poured in from politicians across the country.
While Patil said "the nation has lost a veteran and eminent public figure," Manmohan Singh said Basu was a politician to whom he often turned for "sagacious advice".
Basu was a leader "who displayed his abilities as a leader of the people, an able administrator and eminent statesman", the president said in a statement.
"In the years after he relinquished the chief ministership, he continued to be looked upon as an elder statesman, whose advice was sought by many political leaders in the state," she added.
The 95-year-old leader died in Kolkata Sunday after a prolonged illness.
In a message to Jyoti Basu's son Chandan, Manmohan Singh said: "He was a powerful regional voice in the national political scene and helped to strengthen Indian federalism... He was a man of great integrity with a deep commitment to secular values."
"I have personally had a very long association with Basu. On many occasions in my career, I turned to him for his sagacious advice on all matters, whether they related to West Bengal or to issues of national importance," he added.
Vice President Hamid Ansari said Basu had left behind a void that would be difficult to fill. "His sagacity and leadership at both the state and the national level have been a source of inspiration and guidance," Ansari said in a statement.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) that Basu led for several years expressed "profound grief", saying he was a Marxist who was not dogmatic.
"Jyoti Basu was a Marxist who never wavered in his convictions. He was a Marxist who was not dogmatic and continued to learn from his vast experience in charting out the course for the party," the CPI-M politburo said.
"There will be none like Jyoti Basu again," was how CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat Sunday saluted a man he prevented from becoming the prime minister in 1996.
Karat, who influenced the CPI-M to block Basu from taking charge of the United Front government in 1996, said that the former West Bengal chief minister "was a great leader of the CPI-M, the Left movement and India. With his passing away, an era has passed".
Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D. Raja paid glowing tributes to the Marxist patriarch, saying he could have proved to be a great prime minister.
"He (Basu) proved that the coalition of Left parties would work successfully and serve the people greatly. He could have proved to be a great prime minister also," Raja said.
Former Lok Sabha speaker and Communist leader Somnath Chatterjee said he had lost someone like his father.
"When things started to go bad (in Left front), he was sad. He was sad about what happened with me. I used to consult him on all matters. For the second time, I have lost somebody like my father," said an emotional Chatterjee.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said he would miss a well-wisher.
"In his death, I lost a great well-wisher, the country has lost an able administrator, an outstanding parliamentarian and a charismatic political leader," Mukherjee told reporters.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee called for a 72-hour mourning in West Bengal.
"He was the first and last chapter of the Communist movement in India," she said after emerging out of the AMRI hospital in Kolkata. "He (Basu) will be remembered for his political achievements because of his pioneering role in the country's Left movement."
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the staunchest anti-Communist force in the country, mourned the death of the Marxist leader, describing him as a "role model for Indian politics".
In a moving tribute, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley told reporters here that Basu, who was West Bengal's chief minister for 23 long years, was one of the "tallest leaders" in Indian politics with "high credibility".
"He was devoted to his ideology and played the longest innings in Indian politics," Jaitley said.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram told reporters in Kolkata: "He was a colossus who straddled India's political scene for many decades. Not only the leader of West Bengal, but of India. He was a great patriot, great democrat, great parliamentarian and great source of inspiration. He served the people of India to the best," he said.
Former prime minister and senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee said Basu's demise had "ended a chapter in the country's politics".
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Director: Ken Ghosh
Actors: Shahid Kapoor, Genelia D’Souza
Rating: *1/2
A popular perception of Bollywood films in the West is that they’re musicals. This notion is only partly correct.
Many are left disappointed to learn that the stars of these films can’t sing. They lip-sync. Fine vocalists behind those songs rarely get their due. Few know music composers by face. Dance steps that movie-stars perform to aren’t the toughest to imitate either. The leading man of our cinema is often not even the best actor of his own film crew. He is just the better looking.
This makes the Bollywood star, hogging all the attention and money alone, the most over-rated figure of any pop-culture.
To be fair, Shahid Kapoor can dance. He can certainly move his body, even if his performances don’t move you much. This claims to be a dance film entirely. On paper, the proposition doesn’t read half as brain-dead as it appears on the big screen.
Since he was born, gauging by his looks, everyone assumed the boy in this film would be a hero one day. He began to believe in the myth.
We’re meant to follow the struggles of this wannabe, determined as he is to make it in showbiz. Even if this show-town looks anything but the grimy human factories of Lokhandwala the filmmakers know better. The Delhi, the hero considers back-home, is a mini Punjab full of Sikhs.
He rehearses dance on the giant Mumbai wooden floors Jennifer Lopez may have practiced on before. Govinda, Hrithik Roshan, Shiamak Davar, he says, are the legends of his field. His tiny apartment from the inside may well be the shanty of big-city America. When we weren’t looking, and he had hardly dough for breakfast, the hero also packed in for himself the 8-pack abs.
He does the multiple rounds of film auditions. The journey, and its conclusion, is predictably known. The music should take care of the rest. It doesn’t.
Songs don’t take the motionless picture forward. This is not a musical. The filmmaker here is merely a director of music videos, and there is one after half a dozen others: “Back straight. Attitude. Feel the music.” Sure.
Between those patchy, over-decorated music television tracks, the banal hero fails a courier boy’s job; sleeps in a car (when he could’ve moved in with his girl); joins a school to teach dance; enlists kids to win a competition; enlists himself to win a talent hunt… The show goes on, and so on, and so forth. As does the refrain: “Tu star ban sakta hai. Tu star ban gaya. Mein star banaunga….” (Whatever that means).
We may as well fear for the minor effect on li'l Gauravs and Sameers taking such silliness vaguely seriously. Seeking 'nautanki' fame is anyway turning into a bit of a national disease.
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The ‘Mozart of Madras’ who won two Oscar awards for the soundtrack to the hit movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ revealed that the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker was keen on making music with him, The Daily Telegraph reported.
“I met him two months before he died and he expressed an interest in working with me,” Rahman said.
“Meeting him was everything and changed my life. He loved stuff I did and I loved stuff he did. He was such a nice person,” he added.
Jackson was planning to collaborate with Rahman for a unity anthem that the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker wanted to use in his planned O2 concert series, the musician had earlier said in his blog.
“He was praising the chord progression of Jai Ho’s chorus. He asked me to compose a unity anthem on the lines of ‘We are the World’ for him. I nodded in awe,” Rahman had written in his blog while paying tribute to the pop icon after his sudden death in June last year.
Rahman who has also been nominated for this year’s Grammys’ is set to perform to about 80,000 people at his free concert on Saturday at Parramatta Park, as a part of 34th Sydney Festival.
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The film depicts life in an elite engineering institute and though there is no explicit reference to IITs, Five Point Someone, the novel written by Chetan Bhagat on which the film is based, talks about life on an IIT campus.
As soon as the institute re-opened after the winter vacation on December 30, a demand for screening the film was placed at the Gymkhana, IITs students' body. So, the Technology Film Society, as the film club of the institute is called, got in touch with the distributor of the film in Kolkata, Kapurchand, who agreed to pull off the film from a city hall for a week so that the institute could hold its shows. "We will have to shell out quite a bit, but it would be worth the effort," said Pulak Banerjee, manager of film club.
Almost all of the 9000-strong student body of the institute, along with the 550-strong faculty and 1200 strong staff wish to see 3 Idiots. The film club is having a trying time as the auditorium has only 900 seats.
Ironically, there's hardly a student who has not watched the film. But students are more than enthusiastic for a repeat viewing with their IIT mates. "I have seen the film but nothing compares like seeing it on campus with my friends. It is like seeing campus life getting enacted by popular actors," said Shubham Matah, student vice-president of the institute.
Abhiradhika Agarwal, an architecture student cancelled her plans to spend the weekend in Kolkata to see the film on campus.
Even teachers sound excited. "I wanted to see the film as newspapers are full of praise for 3 Idiots. However, going to Kolkata to watch the film in a multiplex is a tall order. Now that the film would be screened in the campus, I would not miss the chance," said
V K Tewari, faculty member of the institute. Manish Bhattacharya, a teacher of chemistry and the president of the Gymkhana, confesses that while he is not exactly a film enthusiast, he is happy with the screening "because the film is based on a story on the IITs."
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After declaring a crusade against Maoists last week, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee made a virtual volte face during Friday’s rally at Jhargram.
Making all possible efforts to woo Naxals, she invited them for talks on development and even offered to mediate with the Centre. And her offer was accepted ¿ at least by the People’s Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA). But much to her chagrin, their choice of mediator was her estranged parliamentarian Kabir Suman.
“We welcome the call by Mamata, but we want to talk to Trinamool MP Kabir Suman only. We believe him and think that he is above politics,” said Dhanapati, PCAPA leader.
Dhanapati’s response came after Banerjee asked them “with folded hands” to shun violence. “I am ready to touch your feet. Give up arms and talk about development,” she said at the sparsely-attended rally. “If you want expansion of railway projects, job opportunities, schools and hospitals, you are free to hold talks.”
Banerjee’s comments were in stark contrast to what she had said about a week ago in Kolkata, when she had virtually announced a war on Maoists.
On Friday, she made it clear that she will do everything for the development of Jangalmahal.
“I want to build railway tracks till Belpahari and connect the area with the rest of the state,” she said. “I have plans to run two pairs of trains between Midnapore and Jhargram. I am considering a proposal to ensure a stoppage of the Bhubaneswar-Delhi Rajdhani Express at Jhargram. If necessary I can convince the Centre to prepare a special package for the overall development of Jhargram and Jangalmahal.”
India has agreed to provide an additional 30 MW of electricity to Nepal, which is facing an acute power shortage.
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Nepal currently imports 20 MW of electricity from India from the Tanakpur barrage situated in the Indo-Nepal border.
Besides the additional 30 MW of power which India has agreed to provide, Nepal has requested for another 30 MW of electricity to deal with the power deficit, Bhattarai said.
At present, Kathmandu and other major cities of the country are going through an eight-hour electricity cut daily due to the low level of water in the reservoirs of the major power stations of Nepal.
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KOLKATA: Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu's condition was "extremely" critical on Saturday and he was put on maximum ventilator support, doctors
"Basu's condition is extremely critical and he has been put on maximum ventilation today. His blood pressure had dropped last night (Friday) and later it was managed with high volume of medicines," the afternoon medical bulletin released by the AMRI Hospital said.
The 95-year-old Communist leader's urine output had also dropped in the night.
"The doctors will conduct a slow-low efficiency daily dialysis (SLEDD) on Basu on Saturday. This special dialysis process will continue for almost eight hours," the bulletin said.
The former West Bengal chief minister suffered multi-organ failure Friday evening.
According to doctors, the level of carbon dioxide in Basu's body increased after which he was given more ventilator support.
"He is now under round the clock medical observation," the medical report added.
Earlier, cardiologist A K Maity, who heads the eight-member medical board treating the Basu, said his heart and liver function had deteriorated and the sensorium of the brain was also very low.
According to hospital sources, the medical board will again meet in the evening to review Basu's health condition and issue a medical bulletin at around 7pm.
Basu was hospitalized after a pneumonia attack and admitted in the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit (ICCU) of the Salt Lake-based private hospital on January 1.
Born 1914 in Kolkata, Basu became chief minister of West Bengal in June 1977. He stepped down voluntarily on health grounds in November 2000.
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Released : Dec 11, 2009
Genre : Drama
Starcast : Ranbir Kapoor, Shazahn Padamsee, Sharon Prabhakar
Desc :
Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) has just graduated, and his marks are, well, let’s say a little embarrassing. But marks never stopped him from dreaming of an exciting and adventurous career, and they never will. He takes a deep, positive breath and dives into the world of sales, rumoured to be an ultra cool career for all smart people blocked from entering medical, engineering or business schools by brainless entrance exams. It’s everything he dreamt of, with its smooth dressing, smoother talking men and women who can sell ice to an Eskimo, dreams to an insomniac, and a lifetime mobile connection to a dying man. But soon, his idea of success begins clashing with the strange ways of these ‘professionals’ he looked up to. “Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year” is the sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the ‘professional’ way, and the way of his heart – and stumbling upon a crazy way which turned his world upside down, and his career right side up. Welcome to the world of sales boss!
MUMBAI/PUNE: Bajaj Auto, India’s second-largest motorcycle maker, on Tuesday said its fiscal third quarter net profit almost tripled, as strong
sales buoyed by an improving economic scenario more than offset a sharp rise in input costs. The Pune-based Bajaj group flagship said net profit in the October-December period rose to Rs 475 crore, from Rs 164 crore last year. Its revenue in the same period surged 57% to Rs 3,295 crore.
The quarter saw an increase in cost of raw material, mainly steel and in the price of components. “However, due to higher volumes and by leveraging fixed cost and cost management, we were able to achieve operating margin at 22% during the third quarter, against 14.5% last year,” said finance vice-president Kevin D’sa.
Bajaj Auto, which competes strongly with market leader Hero Honda in the high margin two-wheeler market, sold 809,218 units in the third quarter, a 64% jump over the previous year. The robust sales reflected a turnaround in the economic situation, which had been hit adversely in 2008, as tight liquidity and slow demand dented auto sales.
Analysts said this has been Bajaj Auto’s best quarter, surpassing even the second quarter. The strategy to focus on ‘bigger and sportier’ motorcycles helped the company grow its market share, they said. “The results weren’t surprising and reflects the underlining efforts of the company in regaining lost market share,” said Mahantesh Sabarad, an analyst at Centrum Broking.
Apart from increased market share, Bajaj Auto has been able to boost its cash flow. Mr D’sa said it has surplus cash and cash equivalents of Rs 2,625 crore, against Rs 933 crore as on March last year. Shares of Bajaj Auto ended 1.7%, up at Rs 1,698.10 on BSE on Tuesday. After countering the slow demand scenario last year, Indian two-wheeler makers have focused on the growing rural market through bigger products, which has helped in increasing volumes and margins.
A Bajaj Auto executive said while the shift away from 100cc economy motorcycles initially did put pressure on sales, it has paid in terms of market share and profitability. Industry sales in the motorcycle segment rose by 37%, while Bajaj Auto sales rose 72% at 7.11 lakh units. The newly-launched Pulsar 135 LS is expected to add to the company’s market share in motorcycles and enable the Pulsar brand reach one million-a-year in sales. During the third quarter, Bajaj Auto also launched upgraded versions of its three-wheeler passenger carriers. Exports rose 27% to 2.73 lakh units.
source-http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
Mumbai:Indian equity indices continued their southbound journey, falling the most in the three months, after witnessing volatility throughout the trading session. Even the strong industrial production numbers that was released on Monday and the surprisingly positive result of IT major Infosys could not cheer the market. Weak cues from the European and Asian markets coupled with selling in the realty and metal stocks led the markets to end the day on negative terrain.
There were concerns that Indian Industrial Production (IIP) which rose to 11.7% for November also indicated that central bank will tighten monetary policy in its review on January 29. Vaibhav Sanghavi, a director at Ambit Capital reckons, "It raises concern that the Reserve Bank of India may start phasing out the stimulus package. We may see some tightening of rates soon."
The Sensex of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) lost 104.20 points, or 0.59%, to end the day at 17,422.51 points. The broader S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was down by 39 points, or 0.74%, to close the day at 5,210.40 points. The BSE IT index showed a positive close of 3.91% as the results of Infosys Technologies surprised analysts with a 2.7% jump in net earnings. "It feels like 2004 all over again as Infosys results point to a major up-cycle in outsourcing, driving earnings upto levels not imagined till recently," said a report generated by CLSA's research team.
CHENNAI: Discussions on Tamil, Tamil literatures and release of several books would mark the ‘Tamil Sangaman’, a six-day meet to be organised as part of Chennai Sangaman, beginning this Tuesday. On the inaugural day at Film Chamber Theatre, a book titled, Kavidhai Courtallam, a compilation of about 125 poems recited by young poets at the previous year’s Tamil Sangamam, will be released.
The details of the programmes for the next five days are: seminar on Jeyakandhan Endra Tamil Aallumai (Wednesday), release of the book Dravida Iyakka Valarchiyil Kalaingarin Nadagangal (Thursday), seminar on Tamil Isai Karnadaga Sangeethamana Varalaru kuritha Aivarangam and release of book Karunadaga Sangeedhathin Aadhi Mumoorthigal Tamilisai (Friday), a discussion on 100 Kavidhaigalum 25 Kavinjargalum (Saturday) and a poet meet titled Penmmai Vazhgavendru Koothiduvomada and release of book Maa Manan Rajarajan (Sunday).
Kanimozhi, Member of Parliament and coordinator of the event briefed mediapersons on Monday.
source-expressbuzz.com
PURPLE PATCH: Virat Kohli came up with another match-winning effort, his unbeaten century propelling India to a comfortable win against Bangladesh on Monday.
MIRPUR: Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 95-ball 102 took India past Bangladesh’s 247 for six with plenty to spare in the final league match of the tri-series here on Monday.
Kohli’s splendid, well-paced hundred included 11 boundaries and kept India in firm control of the chase.
Man-of-the-Match Kohli was involved in crucial stands with Yuvraj Singh and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. which put the visitor on the right track.
Good start
Openers Gautam Gambhir and Dinesh Karthik added 64 as India made a solid start. Following their dismissals, Kohli and Yuvraj put on 46 for the third wicket.
Dhoni and Kohli took India closer to the target with a 68-run fourth-wicket stand.
Kohli was confident and composed, and found good support from Suresh Raina (18 off 18) as India eased home in 43 overs.
India, which had already qualified for the final, will take on Sri Lanka in the title clash on Wednesday.
Earlier, Shakib Al Hasan and Mohammad Mahmudullah scored fighting half-centuries to take the host to 247 for six after it was reduced to 95 for five.
Tyagi impresses
Nehra was the highest wicket-taker for India with two for 58 off 10 overs. New ball bowler Sudeep Tyagi was easily the most impressive, conceding just 24 off six overs and taking the wicket of opener Imrul Kayes.
India captain Dhoni praised Virat Kohli for charting a morale-boosting six-wicket win over Bangladesh before Wednesday’s final against Sri Lanka.
“He is learning quickly from his mistakes and shaping out well. Early on, in his career, he had committed a few mistakes and failed to carry on his innings after a good start. But since the Australia series, he has picked up well which is evident from his performance,” Dhoni said after the match.
Dhoni, however, reminded that it was the all-round performance of the team which was responsible for the good show.
Meanwhile, a disappointed Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan blamed his team for the defeat. “I thought with no dew today we would do better, but that did not happen. We failed to deliver,” he said.
However, he praised young Mohammad Mahmudullah and hoped he would improve in future.
SCOREBOARD
Bangladesh: T. Iqbal c Tyagi b Nehra 17, I. Kayes c Kohli b Tyagi 9, Mohd. Ashraful b Sreesanth 4, R. Hasan (run out) 28, Shakib Al Hasan c Dhoni b Nehra 85, M. Rahim c Raina b Yuvraj 7, Mohd .Mahmudullah (not out) 64, N. Islam (not out) 22; Extras (lb-2, nb-3, w-6): 11. Total (for six wkts. in 50 overs): 247.
Fall of wickets: 1-10, 2-15, 3-60, 4-67, 5-95, 6-201.
India: D. Karthik c Rahim b Shafiul 34, G. Gambhir b Naeem 41, V. Kohli (not out) 102, Yuvraj lbw b Naeem 13, M.S. Dhoni c Kayes b Shakib 32, S. Raina (not out) 18; Extras (lb-6, w-3): 9. Total (for four wkts. in 43 overs): 249.
Hrithik Roshan and Farhan Akhtar celebrated their birthdays together at a posh Juhu lounge on Saturday night. Incidentally, while Farhan was already 36 when the party began, Hrithik reached the mark at the stroke of midnight.
Duggu, who arrived looking a bit tired straight after a shoot for Guzaarish, perked up considerably in the company of Sussanne, his family and his Bollywood friends.
Meanwhile Adhuna and Zoya Akhtar grooved to the music while Farhan Akhtar grouped up with Shah Rukh, Gauri, Karan Johar, who were later joined by Abhishek and Aishwarya. Vivek Oberoi was among the guests - he arrived on a bike.
Kareena Kapoor and boyfriend Saif Ali Khan were also spotted enjoying the party and discussing some forthcoming project. Among the notable absentees were Akshay Kumar (though wife Twinkle Khanna was present), Salman Khan (who was represented by Sohail, Arbaaz and their respective wives) and Katrina Kaif. Priyanka Chopra tweeted her belated wishes the next morning. “Farhan’s co-star Deepika Padukone was also missing,” pointed out a source.
The single’s club for the night included Zayed (minus Mallika), Riteish (no good friend Genelia in sight), Hrithik’s Guzaarish co-star Monikangana Dutta (who came in with a female friend and was overheard complaining about how absurd she found her reported linkups in the media... and then spent considerable time chatting up Aditya Roy Kapoor). Also seen was Pratik, who walked out hand in hand with Soniya Mehra. The party carried on till early morning and then shifted to Shah Rukh’s residence.
source-movies.indiatimes.com/
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