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Indians Air their Views on Steve Jobs’ Resignation from Apple

SAN JOSE: Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple has stepped down due to health reasons with Timothy Cooks, COO, taking helm.

Known as the guy who revolutionized the computer industry along with Steve Wozniak, a computer club guru and brilliant

Steve Jobs talking to Timothy for Apple

computer engineer he ran into at Hewlett Packard, their destiny was tied together from day one.

Attributed as a global visionary, Steve Jobs has pioneered and made Macintosh products - the ipod, ipad, itunes, iphone - a counter culture lifestyle, something that has bordered on becoming a technology cult following of sorts - associated with romance, youth and creative inspiration. Apple has changed the world culture by its innovative and stylish devices. Apple shares today are at $383.58 with over 11 million shares being traded daily. The company has an annual $1.58 billion profit, and sits on about $18 billion surplus with zero debt.

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to benefit its readers and advertisers. We are sad to see him resign due to health reasons.

Born on February 24, 1955, Steve Jobs was born to Joanne Simpson, a speech therapist and Abdulfattah “John” Jandali, a Syrian Political Science Professor.

Given up for adoption by his parents, he was adopted by a lowermiddle class couple, Paul a machinist from the Midwest and Clara Jobs, under the guarantee they send him to college. Steve Jobs credits Imogene Hill his 4th grade Cooks now CEO teacher who engaged and inspired him in real learning experiences.

Steve Jobs Joined Atari the first videogame company in 1974, created by Nolan Bushnell in 1972.

He got his boss to fund his trip to India to gain spiritual enlightenment. To his dismay, he found the guru to be a conman. Two years later, just 21, Steve Jobs along with Wozniak started Apple. This was mainly inspired by his cultivating apples at the All-One farm having joined a hippie community.

Steve Jobs released the first computer the Apple I and marketed it at $666.66 each that earned them $774,000. Three years later, Apple II, increased sales to 700 percent making him $139 million, making Steve Jobs a millionaire by the age of 25. By 1980 Apple publicly traded and was valued at $1.2 billion on the first day of trading.

Apple has had its share of ups and downs, failures, and faced stiff competition from IBM. Samsung, Google and Microsoft have

taken turns eclipsing Apple from time to time. Somehow, Apple has kept bobbing back up vowing its fans with better and fascinating devices.

Steve Jobs’ genius was to diversify revenue streams right from the start. Purchasing an Animation studio from George Lucas and renaming it Pixar Studios, he poured in $50 million of his own money to get it going. It started making realistic animation forays accomplishing Toystory, Cars, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles. Pixar movies helped Jobs net $4.1 billion. Disney which paired with Pixar Studios and had major successes in revenue wanted to acquire Pixar, making Steve Jobs the single largest shareholder in Disney.

Steve Jobs has resigned before in the 90s leaving his CEO position to start a Hardware and Software company, NeXT Inc. Apple soon bought NeXT for $429 million in 1997 to help with research and development into new, out of this world products.

Diagnosed with a rare form of Pancreatic cancer - a neuro endocrine tumor which Steve Jobs had to have surgically removed in 2004, and a liver transplant in

A younger Jobs holding his company logo, a real apple.

2009, Jobs has been very guarded about his health condition.

Neehar, a previous employee of Apple for eight years, says “I am saddened to see Steve Jobs leave.

I know he will guide the company as far as his health permits. Steve Jobs is a visionary and the products he has created are phenomenal. The culture he has created will survive for ages.

Indians have been a vital part of Apple’s fabric and not only to Apple but in contributing skills to many of the world corporates in design, technology, and management.

Neehar is now with AppExchange, an online marketplace for cloud computing applications, an original partner to Salesforce.com Many Indians have spoken on facebook, twitter and social media about Steve Jobs’ resignation: Blogger “Ankur” noted on “iphonehelp” that Apple’s image is closely associated with Jobs, the company might find it hard to cope without him. “Jobs is iconic, has numerous fans and is considered a wizard. Apple products sell because he holds them high.”

On Rediff.com “Rohit Bajaj” says Jobs is his “hero” “always ahead of his time… his extraordinary intuition has defined the computer industry for years.”

Neeraj, another reader says, “Steven Paul Jobs is a great inspiration for me and of course for all youngsters … A true worker and an innovative man, wishing him a quick recovery.”

Surbhi Jain a reader of Hindustan Times, lamented Mr. Jobs’ decision to stand down: “I’m sad… and will miss the novelties in apple devices.”

“Mulkeet Shah” draws a parallel between Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian cricketer and Steve Jobs saying, “iextremely sad will miss an iconic figure a lot! SteveJobs!

The SachinTendulkar of the gadget industry!”

Arvind Malhotra, an associ-

ate professor at the University of North Carolina, and an expert on Apple’s strategy says, “They’re sitting on a cash pile,” Jobs always grew from within. If [the] lack of his vision and availability causes the future pipeline not to be there, that’s when the acquisition model comes into play.”

In an email to all employees, Cook said: “I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change. I cherish and celebrate Apple’s unique principles and values. Steve built a company and culture that is unlike any other in the world and we are going to stay true to that—it is in our DNA. We(will) continue to make the best products in the world that delight our customers and make our employees incredibly proud of what they do.” He also paid tribute to Jobs: “Steve has been an incredible leader and mentor to me, as well as to the entire executive team and our amazing employees.

We are really looking forward to Steve’s ongoing guidance and inspiration as our Chairman.”

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An Orange Dividing Line in South Asia Seen from Space WASHINGTON (Dawn): The distrust and fear that divide India and Pakistan can also be seen from the space — a bright orange line snaking through hundreds of miles across the earth’s surface.

The line occupies a centre space in an image of the Indo-Gangetic plain the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) released this week.

in the view. This is the fenced and floodlit border zone between India and Pakistan.

The ISS crew took the image with a Nikon D3S digital camera, using a 16 mm lens, which provides the wide field of view, as the International Space Station was tracking towards the southeast across India.

This space picture of northern

subcontinent’s horizon as the “rampart of the realm of Hindustan”, noting that “the sky bows down to kiss your forehead.”

Deprived of “the turban of honour” that, in Iqbal’s words, crowns the snow-covered Himalayas, the humans decorated their boundary wall with thousands of electric lights that hurt eyes.

Gracefully, Pakistan has no contribution to erecting these hideous floodlights across the border.

They were put by the Indian government.

In 2003, the Indian government sanctioned a proposal to fence and illuminate the border to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking.

In total, the Indians plan to cover 2009 km of A bright orange line for hundreds of miles is the fenced and floodlit border zone the 2900 km Indiabetween India and Pakistan, to prevent smuggling and arms trafficking. India has Pakistan border erected these floodlights, not Pakistan. 1861 kms (1163.2 miles) of the border have with floodlights. been floodlit so far. Plans are underway to cover a total of 2009 kms with lights.

Officials have so The crew of Nasa’s International far erected floodlights along 460 Space Station Expedition 28 took India and Pakistan also shows km of border in Punjab. numerous cities, large and small. the picture on Aug 21.

The extensive floodlighting Of the hundreds of clusters, continues for 1,022 km across Expedition 28 is the current, long-duration expedition to the the largest are those of Islamabad Rajasthan, 176 km across Jammu, International Space Station, and New Delhi, separated by 700 and 202 km through Gujarat. So l a u n c h e d f r o m B a i k o n u r kilometres, and Lahore. The lines far 1,861 km of the border have Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on of major highways connecting the been floodlit.

May 23 and is expected to return cities also stand out.

Plans are in place to erect a total The Himalayas, nature’s indelible 2,043 km of fencing along the to the earth later this month.

One of the images the crew sent mark on the Indo-Gangetic plain, is border. The Indian government to the earth station shows a line also visible, even at night, showing hopes to complete the floodlight of lights, with a distinctly orange its subtle but definite presence from operation by March 2012. hue, snaking across the centre of the clouds.

A similar fenced border zone Allama Iqbal aptly described operates along India’s eastern the picture.

It appears to be more continuous this towering presence on the border with Bangladesh. and brighter than most highways

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Dhaka And Delhi Seal Deal On Several Border Issues

By vaRGHeSe K. GeORGe play down the issue.

DHAKA (HT): By resolving a Resistance from West Bengal festering border tangle and seeking chief minister Mamata Banerjee to reduce the trade imbalance, India had forced the government to go and Bangladesh on Tuesday gave back on the water-sharing pact. a fresh momentum to bilateral “We have decided to continue relations, which have been on discussions to reach a mutually an upswing since Sheikh Hasina acceptable, fair and amicable became Prime Minister of Bangladesh in January 2009.

On the first day Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka - the first after AB Vajpayee’s in 1999 - both sides agreed to exchange 162 enclaves in each other’s territory, settle all issues related to adverse possessions, and demarcate the last stretch of 6.5 km of the 4,096-km border.

There were some last-minute glitches that almost derailed the border agreement but it was pulled back The major issues on the 2,560 mile border from the brink.

“There were some between India and Bangladesh were a crucial issues but we resolved subject the two leaders Manmohan and Hasina t h e m , ” f o r e i g n discussed among others including duty-free s e c r e t a r y R a n j a n access for Bangladesh goods to the Indian market to even the balance in trade.

Mathai said.

On the trade front, 61 more items arrangement for the sharing of from Bangladesh will get duty-free river waters,” Singh said. access to Indian markets, to cut Singh, who received a rousing down the trade imbalance. reception at the airport, sought India exported to goods worth to compensate Bangladesh’s $4,586 million to Bangladesh disappointment over water-sharing against imports of $512 million in by declaring a zero-duty regime for 2010-11, leaving a huge imbalance 61 more items rather than a mere in India’s favour. reduction in duties.

Of the 61, textile-related items Sheikh Hasina said, “We account for 46. Textiles constitute have come a long way towards 75% of Bangladesh’s total materialising our common vision exports. into reality. But we still have a long While border and trade were the way to go.” highlights of Singh’s visit, India’s Singh said at a banquet hosted inability to deliver on a treaty for by Hasina in his honour, “There is sharing the waters of the Teesta and a national consensus in India that Feni rivers somewhat dampened India must develop the best possible spirits, though both sides sought to relations with Bangladesh.”

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CHENNAI (Hindu): The 96-year-old family-owned $ 700 million Welch Allyn, Inc. of the U.S., a well-known global name in the field of frontline diagnostic products, has set its eyes firmly on the burgeoning Indian healthcare market.

As a part of its five-year business plan for India, Welch Allyn has inked a partnership agreement with Chennai-based Garuda Med Equipments. The objective of this partnership arrangement is to consolidate its product marketing efforts in India under the Garuda platform.

Welch Allyn has already had an alliance with BPL. With its tie up with Garuda, the American company has not only re-jigged its game plan, but also conveyed seriousness about its strategy in India.

“We see a lot of growth opportunity in India, which will be a focus country for us,” said Con Hickey, Senior Vice-President (Asia Pacific) of Welch Allyn.

Addressing a press conference

here on Tuesday, Mr. Hickey said Welch Allyn had for decades been developing state-of-the-art products designed to meet the needs of the primary care market place. Though not big in size, the American company, he said, had been a dominant supplier of diagnostic

products related to eye and ear care. Given the size of population and the growing awareness among people for wellness, India presents

Welch Allyn a huge opportunity. At the moment, the diagnostic product requirements of India are met from its overseas production bases, he said. To a question, he said a production facility in Asia could be considered if the business volume picked up in the region.

Garuda, according to its Director L. Muthu Krishnan, is in the process of setting up 40 region-wise dealers across the country. “Each state will have a minimum of one service point,” he added. Welch Allyn has named Garuda its exclusive distributors for frontline diagnostic products, cardiopulmonary and low end vitals (SPOT, SPOT LXi and ProBP). Welch Allyn also launched CP 50 ECG (electrocardiograph) and Connex ProBP 3400 digital blood pressure device in the Indian market. “These are simple and smart products with connectivity features,” explained Francis Sim, Director (Regional Sales) of Welch Allyn.

BP Confident of Raising Gas Production from KG D-6

Amid growing concern over the these things take time; it may take in March last year and 70.39 mscmd continued decline in gas production a couple of years,” Mr. Mukundan RIL had projected in the field from the KG-basin D6 block development plan in 2006. The owned by Reliance Industries present output is made up of Limited (RIL), British company 37.7 mscmd from Dhirubhai-1 BP plc on Tuesday expressed and 3, or D1 and D3, gas fields confidence of raising production and 7.1 mscmd from MA oil from the block which had great field in the same block. potential.

Mr. Mukundan said D1 and BP plc India Head Sashi D3 were not the only fields in Mukundan said the block off the KG-D6. “There are 16 other Andhra Pradesh coast had a lot fields and we will work on all of of potential and BP would work them. A team of 30 specialists closely with RIL to exploit it. from BP will be joining RIL The continued decline in this month to jointly address output from the D-6 block has issues like drop in reservoir created complications for the pressure and water ingress in government and the private BP India Head Sashi Mukundan feels wells,” he said. sector in allocating the scarce Andhra Pradesh coast has a lot of Besides looking at drilling commodity. “We have just potential. new wells on D1 and D3, BP received the approval to acquire will assist Reliance in putting stake in KG-D6 and 20 other blocks said on the sidelines of the World in place a viable development plan of RIL. We are studying the data. Energy Policy Summit here. for the satellite discoveries in the We are confident that there is more The current production is less KG-D6 block. gas and output can be raised. But than 61.5 mscmd output achieved

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‘Bol’ Gets Indians Talking - Riveting Story Line, Multiple Societal Issues

By Ravinder Bawa DELHI (Dawn): Facing stiff competition from Salman Khan’s Bodyguard on Eid, Pakistani film Bol is managing to hold its own thanks to word of mouth publicity.

Dealing with multiple issues ranging from misogyny to prostitution to fanaticism, Bol is director Shoaib Mansoor’s second offering after Khuda Ke Liye.

Bol was released alongside mega blockbuster Bodyguard, ‘That girl in yellow boots’ and ‘Mummy Punjabi’. Bol offers a riveting storyline and great acting, with people publicising the film more than the PR agencies.

For starters, there is actress Vidya Balan who says, “Loved Bol! Love the performance of the father. The boy who played Saifuddin was cute. My heart went out to him.”

Tushar Pahwa, from the audience, puts it, “Bol is a ubiquitous filmwhether a Muslim family in Lahore or a Hindu family in Bihar, everyone can relate to it. Women and transgenders are disrespected in India and Pakistan both. A good gift for Eid indeed.”

Many gave tickets to family and friends in beautiful gift envelopes as eidi. “This was my eidi to my sister The film’s message has been well received. I felt my sister must see this movie as an example,” says Shahnawaz Siddique, a shop keeper.

Film critic Taran Adarsh says, “I think the word of mouth publicity is

doing the film a lot of good.”

Liye but this film has gone beyond sense to appreciate good movies Even the distributors are happy that.” like Bol. I think we should support with the increasing popularity of People are already watching it good cinema whether it is from Bol. Amita from the corporate twice. Sunita Sinha, another movie India or Pakistan.” c o m m u n i c a t i o n s o f E r o s buff says “For me the film has a There is a buzz about Bol in International, the distributing strong message and inspires me Bollywood also. Many screenings company, explains, “Media across to be brave. I can actually watch of the film were done before its the board has liked the film and been extremely supportive of the film. It was the company’s strategy for a worldwide release on Eid. In the middle east the film is doing very well.”

Even Salman Khan fans have expressed their liking for Bol. Pankaj Mishra, a Bol a film from Pakistan of finer sensibilities dealing with fragile and sensitive movie buff who societal issues captures the hearts of many in the audience watched both Bodyguard and Bol on the same day it again.” commercial release. Naseeruddin explains, “There is no comparison The reason the movie is from Shah, icon of Indian cinema, who between the two. One is a masala Pakistan is one of the main was to play the role of the father movie for the masses, the other is a attractions. Anshu Sondhi, a film in Bol, praised the film. In an serious issue based film. It is sad but student, supports the film, “Bol’s interview to glamsham.com, an true that masala movies always do concept is different and the actors entertainment magazine website, he well in India as they are over hyped are good. It gives us an insight into admires the film, “Bol is absolutely and well marketed. Good cinema the Pakistani society. We, Indians the kind of film that Khuda Ke gets left behind. Bol is a brilliant always want to know more about Liye should be followed up by. It film and off late Pakistani movie Pakistan. We want to understand deals with faith and empowerment makers are doing a good job.” the country and the people beyond of women. I have seldom seen Adarsh also emphasises the what politicians want us to believe a statement made with as much brilliance of the film, “I think it is and see. Movies like Bol bring us power and feeling as this film. I one of the most amazing films to closer to our neighbors.” can only find myself wishing I was have come out of Pakistan. Shoaib Kritika Rai, a businesswoman a part of this film.”

Mansoor excelled in Khuda Ke says, “We Indians don’t have that Bollywood has welcomed the

movie from across the border and have supported the idea of art beyond boundaries. Samir Soni, who acted in films like Kabhie Khushi Kabhi Gham, Fashion and others explains, “To coexist and prosper we need to have a better understanding of each other and issues that affect us. We notice we are similar and this ends fear and resentment. Cinema is perhaps the most important medium that brings us closer and removes political boundaries.”

The social theme of the movie has attracted the intelligentsia.

Rukmini Sen, a senior entertainment journalist, describes the film as “rebellious, brave and original”.

She adds, “Bol talks about the state of the third gender in Pakistan.

Condition of women and third gender is pathetic in most parts of Asia so the film represents the silence of many of us. Bol deconstructs issues of sexuality and sexual identity very sensitively. It sees the issue in its larger context of patriarchy, feudalism, religion and nation state.”

The treatment of the story is much talked about. Satish Sharma, a painter by profession, appreciated the director’s strokes. “It was a joy to see how the director puts some of the old world wisdom in the right perspective. Whenever the father of the actress tried to escape a situation by quoting old quotes, she would correct him by putting his lines in the correct perspective. I thought it was intelligently handled.”

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Toyota to Hire 1,500 People in India by 2012 Ford Motors to Build $1 Billion

NEW DELHI (ET): Japanese car-maker Toyota today said it will hire about 1,500 people for its Indian operations by next year as it gradually expands its production capacity in the country.

The company, which is present in India through a joint venture with the Kirloskar Group, is investing Rs 1,650 crore to ramp up its production capacity by one lakh units and for increasing localisation of components by 2014.

“We will be hiring about 1,500 permanent employees by 2012 to meet our expansion demand. In addition to this, we will hire some contract workers a l s o , ” To y o t a Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Deputy Managing Director (Commercial) Shekar Viswanathan told PTI on the sidelines of an Automotive Component Manufacturers Association (ACMA) summit here.

The company will hire people across various disciplines as the expansion programme gradually unfolds, he added.

TKM currently employs around

4,500 employees at its two facilities in Bangalore, of which 70 per cent are permanent employees.

At present, the company is expanding the combined capacity of its two facilities in Bangalore to 2.1 lakh units from 1.5 lakh units

by 2012.

Subsequently, the capacity at the first plant will be hiked further to 1,00,000 units from 90,000 units, while the output at the second plant will be increased to 2,10,000 units from 1,20,000 units.

The firm invested Rs 3,200 crore to set up its second manufacturing facility, with an initial installed

capacity of 70,000 units per annum, which is now being expanded to 1.2 lakh units annually.

The company had also announced plans to set up an engine plant and expand its transmissions capacity at a combined investment of Rs 500 crore to cater to demand for its Etios and Liva models.

The company will launch the diesel variants of its small car Liva and sedan Etios in India on Friday.

The firm had introduced the petrol version of the Etios last year, while the Liva model was rolled out in June this year.

At present, the company has capacities in place to manufacture 6,000 units of the Etios and Liva every month. It will ramp up the production volume to 6,800-7,000 units per month by October, including the diesel variants.

Earlier, the company had said it plans to sell 60,000 units of both the Etios and Liva this year, of which over 20,000 units are likely to be the Liva model.

The company has so far sold about 30,000 units of the two models since their respective launches.

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Manufacturing Complex in India

GUJARAT (BB): US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said Tuesday.

The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 jobs, and will be able initially to produce 240,000 vehicles a n d 270,000 engines a year, Ford said.

The first vehicles and engines are due to come off the line in 2014.

The complex highlights the automaker’s plan “to aggressively grow the Ford brand in India,” said Ford India president Michael Boneham.

The new manufacturing facilities are targeted at helping Ford reach its goal of increasing worldwide sales by nearly 50 percent by the middle of the decade to eight million vehicles a year.

“We are aggressively expanding in markets around the world that have the most growth potential,” said Joe Hinrichs, president of Ford Asia Pacific and Africa.

Ford has made several moves to support its aggressive expansion plan in India, with the company’s total investment in the country to date now at $2 billion.

Rising incomes and rapidly expanding young populations have turned Asia into a battleground for global car manufacturers such as Ford, GM and Toyota, which hope to grow revenues b y steering towards t h e AsiaPacific region and Africa.

Ford began selling its cars in 1996 in India and in China one year later, but it only recently stepped up its game as it emerged from recession and restructuring in the United States.

Last year, Ford announced it will bring eight new vehicles to India by mid-decade, the first one being the Fiesta, launched in July.

The Detroit firm still has a long way to go to make the region a significant revenue generator. Ford is a comparative minnow in China and India with only three percent of the markets -- the two fastestgrowing globally.

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Shahid Kapoor Turns Weatherman for Mausam Promotion

MUMBAI (HT): Mausam actor to learn tricks of the meteorological department for a day. You will soon see Shahid Kapoor donning a completely novel avatar that of a weatherman. In keeping with the theme of his upcoming film Mausam, the Kapoor boy will soon join the India Meteorological

Department (IMD) for a day. To help promote his new film also starring Sonam Kapoor, Shahid will become an employee of the department for a day and like a typical weatherman, will be involved in weather forecasts.

The IMD, which is in charge of providing the country’s weather forecast, will get Shahid to learn the tricks of the trade too.

“Mausam is about seasons of love and not exactly about t h e w e a t h e r.

However, the marketing team came up with this unique idea and everyone loved it.

We are working on getting the required permissions for it now. I’m sure it will be interesting,” says director, and Shahid’s father, Pankaj Kapur.

Since Mausam happens to b e K a p u r ’s directorial debut, Shahid is believed to be very hands-

on about coming up with innovative initiatives to promote it.

So even as the makers plan a musical event to celebrate the success of the film, Kapur, who has sung a song in the film, will also hit the stage to perform live for a public audience.

He will sing the track Saj Dhaj Ke..., which he has sung with singer Mika Singh in the film. Meanwhile, the film is also in the news for its

five promotional trailers, which are apparently pending clearance with the censors on humanitarian grounds, as one of them features a cow. Apparently, the Censor Board has now asked the film’s producers to obtain clearance from the Animal Welfare Board, since a sequence shows a cow passing by in a frame.

The film is a star-crossed tale of a Punjabi Indian Air Force pilot and a Kashmiri girl.

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SOUTHAMPTON (ZN): When team India takes the field at The Rose Bowl, Southampton for the

Tuesday, there would hardly be any player sitting in the dressing room.

Zaheer Khan had a hamstring pulled on the first day of the England tour followed by an ankle injury. Harbajan has had a stomach injury, Yuvraj and Rohit Sharma fractured their fingers, and Gautam Gambhir has concussion with vision problems, Sachin is also out with an inflamed toe, that leaves most of the valuable players out

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Half of the original squad is out of the series and have flown back and some of them have been asked to join the team from India.

The ODI series is a chance at redemption for the men in blues but putting up a fit XI seems to be bigger task than the one at redemption.

Interestingly, Indian team would have only six batsmen to choose from the squad to play in the XI if the likes of Tiwary, Jadeja and Badrinath fail to reach in time.

Though, it has been confirmed that Manoj Tiwary has just landed in time for the match. At least, India team can afford to choose out of seven now.

It has been a wretched series for India so far, not only because of the performance but the untimely injuries and the rain interruption in the first ODI where India could have put up a good show.

The injury list started swelling on a daily basis right from the start of the series and out of the original squad seven players have been ruled out so far.

Vi r e n d e r Sehwag is out with hearing problem and failing to recover from the shoulder injury.

Zaheer Khan, who opted out of West Indies tour, in a cruel twist of fate, had hamstring pull in the very first Day of the England tour.

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Tendulkar, Dravid Move up in ICC Test Rankings

DUBAI (Samachar): Senior batsmen Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid gained a place each in the latest ICC player rankings for Test batsmen, which is being headed by South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis.

While Tendulkar improved from fifth to fourth, Dravid rose a rung to ninth from tenth position.

fifth after scoring only 10 and 17 in the recently completed Test against Australia.

Kevin Pietersen and Jonathan Trott are other batsmen in the top-10. England now boast of four bowlers and equal number of batsmen in the top 10.

Australia’s Shane Watson and Ryan Harris, Rangana Herath of Sri

Tendulkar has moved to fourth while Dravid is at number nine.

Among Indian bowlers, pace spearhead Zaheer Khan gained a place to be at sixth despite being ruled out of the recently concluded four-match Test series between India and England after sustaining hamstring injury on the very first day of the opening match at the Lord’s.

As England claimed the title of number-one Test side in the world with a 4-0 series victory, four of their batsmen made it to the top10, with Ian Bell being the most notable.

Bell and Alastair Cook have jointly claimed the second position after Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara slipped three places to

Lanka and Pakistan’s Mohammad Hafeez and Misbah-ul-Haq have achieved career-best rankings in the latest list, which was released after the completion of the Galle Test between Sri Lanka and Australia and the one-off Test between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in Bulawayo.

The player rankings will now be updated after the second Test between Sri Lanka and Australia, which starts on Thursday in Pallekele, while the Test Championship table will be updated after the conclusion of the third and final Test between the two sides which starts in Colombo on 16 September.

has put him out of cricket for nearly 8 months. His availability for the all important Australia series is also in doubt.

Ishant Sharma also has an ankle niggle and has wisely decided to sit out.

Harbhajan had a stomach injury, Yuvraj and Rohit Sharma fractured their fingers and Gautam Gambhir

is suffering concussion and vision problems.

The Master Blaster also has been ruled out with inflammation on the toe.

It seems Sourav Ganguly might as well be ready to pad up to complete the playing XI.

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