Tuesday, November 30, 2010
IPL auctions: Sachin, Dhoni base-priced at Rs 1.84 crore
IPL auctions: Sachin, Dhoni base-priced at Rs 1.84 crore
Around 62 Indian cricketers will be up for auction for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the legendary Sachin Tendulkar in the top-bracket of cricketers valued at Rs 1.84 crore.
However, Tendulkar and Dhoni are likely to be retained by their respective franchises -- Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.
Former India captains Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid along with VVS Laxman are in the third bracket which has a base price of Rs 92 lakh.
The cricketers who will command the highest base price of Rs 1.84 crore are Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh.
The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 specialist Yusuf Pathan finds a place alongside speedster Zaheer Khan and the talented Suresh Raina.
Similarly stand-in ODI captain Gautam Gambhir, who didn't have a great IPL-II and III, has been priced in the third bracket at Rs 92 lakh along with the likes of Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and veterans such as Ganguly, Kumble, Dravid and Laxman.
The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh which consists of domestic cricketers and the fringe India players who have represented the country since 2005.
Bengal players Wriddhiman Saha, Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda along with Saurashtra's Cheteshwar Pujara are some of the players in the fourth bracket.
The fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh where there are India discards such as Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Sridharan Sriram to name a few.
The five brackets of base price:
1st: Rs 1.84 crore;
2nd: Rs 1.3 crore;
3rd: Rs 92 lakh;
4th: Rs 46 lakh;
5th bracket: Rs 23 lakh
List of Players Up for auction (In alphabetical order)
Andhra: Yelakka Venugopal Rao;
Assam: Sridharan Sriram
Baroda: Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Munaf Patel;
Bengal: Sourav Ganguly, Manoj Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashok Dinda;
Delhi: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma
Gujarat: Parthiv Patel, Siddharth Trivedi
Haryana: Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra
Hyderabad: VVS Laxman, T Suman, Pragyan Ojha
Jharkhand: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Saurabh Tiwary
Karnataka: Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa
Kerala: S Sreesanth
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Abhishek Raut, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar
Madhya Pradesh: Naman Ojha
Punjab: Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manpreet Gony, VRV Singh
Railways: Murali Kartik
Rajasthan: Pankaj Singh
Saurahstra: Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara
Tamil Nadu: Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath, R Sathish, R Ashwin, M Vijay, L Balaji
Uttar Pradesh: Mohammed Kaif, Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, Piyush Chawla, Rudra Pratap Singh
Vidarbha: Umesh Yadav.
This information is taken from this link:http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/story/cricket.yahoonews.com/ipl-auctions-sachin-dhoni-basepriced-rs-184-crore-20101129/
Around 62 Indian cricketers will be up for auction for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the legendary Sachin Tendulkar in the top-bracket of cricketers valued at Rs 1.84 crore.
However, Tendulkar and Dhoni are likely to be retained by their respective franchises -- Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.
Former India captains Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid along with VVS Laxman are in the third bracket which has a base price of Rs 92 lakh.
The cricketers who will command the highest base price of Rs 1.84 crore are Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh.
The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 specialist Yusuf Pathan finds a place alongside speedster Zaheer Khan and the talented Suresh Raina.
Similarly stand-in ODI captain Gautam Gambhir, who didn't have a great IPL-II and III, has been priced in the third bracket at Rs 92 lakh along with the likes of Virat Kohli, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and veterans such as Ganguly, Kumble, Dravid and Laxman.
The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh which consists of domestic cricketers and the fringe India players who have represented the country since 2005.
Bengal players Wriddhiman Saha, Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda along with Saurashtra's Cheteshwar Pujara are some of the players in the fourth bracket.
The fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh where there are India discards such as Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Sridharan Sriram to name a few.
The five brackets of base price:
1st: Rs 1.84 crore;
2nd: Rs 1.3 crore;
3rd: Rs 92 lakh;
4th: Rs 46 lakh;
5th bracket: Rs 23 lakh
List of Players Up for auction (In alphabetical order)
Andhra: Yelakka Venugopal Rao;
Assam: Sridharan Sriram
Baroda: Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Munaf Patel;
Bengal: Sourav Ganguly, Manoj Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashok Dinda;
Delhi: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma
Gujarat: Parthiv Patel, Siddharth Trivedi
Haryana: Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra
Hyderabad: VVS Laxman, T Suman, Pragyan Ojha
Jharkhand: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Saurabh Tiwary
Karnataka: Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun, R Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa
Kerala: S Sreesanth
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Abhishek Raut, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar
Madhya Pradesh: Naman Ojha
Punjab: Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manpreet Gony, VRV Singh
Railways: Murali Kartik
Rajasthan: Pankaj Singh
Saurahstra: Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara
Tamil Nadu: Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath, R Sathish, R Ashwin, M Vijay, L Balaji
Uttar Pradesh: Mohammed Kaif, Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, Piyush Chawla, Rudra Pratap Singh
Vidarbha: Umesh Yadav.
This information is taken from this link:http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/story/cricket.yahoonews.com/ipl-auctions-sachin-dhoni-basepriced-rs-184-crore-20101129/
Friday, November 19, 2010
Smoking can damage your fertility
Smoking|fertility
Smoking
Smoking can damage your fertility (IndiaPhotos)
Here's another reason for you to kick the butt – smoking may not just harm your fertility but that of the next generation, according to scientists.
Men who smoke have a lower concentration of proteins in the testes that are essential for producing sperm, while women who smoke during pregnancy may be sowing the seeds of infertility in their unborn child, as two separate studies.
In one of the studies, researchers obtained 24 testes, from 37 to 68 day embryos after legally terminated pregnancies.
They found that the number of germ cells – responsible for forming eggs and sperm – was reduced by 55 per cent in fetuses from women who'd been smoking while pregnant. They also found a 37 per cent reduction in the ordinary or somatic cells in the embryos.
"We were very surprised that smoking so early in pregnancy has such profound effect on the number of germ cells in the gonads," New Scientist quoted co-author Claus Andersen from the University Hospital of Copenhagen in Denmark, as saying.
Results from a previous study on female fetuses showed a slightly lower corresponding reduction of germ and somatic cells – of 41 and 29 per cent respectively.
The researchers believe the reason the male embryos they studied showed higher sensitivity was because they were, on average, exposed to more cigarettes per day.
The authors do not known whether the reduction of germ cells is permanent – raising the question of whether women who smoke during pregnancy could harm the future fertility of their fetus.
Anderson says the next step is to expose cultured fetal testes to components of smoke thought to be harmful.
"We could expose the culture for a couple of weeks, and then continue [to develop] the culture without exposure and see if the cells are able to recover," he said.
In a second study, Mohamed Hammadeh from the University of the Saarland in Germany, and colleagues, examined the concentrations of two proteins called protamines P1 and P2, which are crucial to the formation of chromosomes during cell division. Changes in the concentrations of these protamines can have negative effects on male fertility.
The study, which compared sperm samples from 53 men who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day with sperm from 63 non-smokers, found that smokers have 14 per cent lower concentration of P2, and a higher ratio of P1 to P2 overall.
They also found an increased level of "oxidative stress" in smokers – a chemical imbalance that is known to harm sperm DNA.
Read more: Smoking can damage your fertility - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Smoking-can-damage-your-fertility/articleshow/6529825.cms#ixzz15j2XsFPh
you want more information pls see this website:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Smoking-can-damage-your-fertility/articleshow/6529825.cms
Smoking
Smoking can damage your fertility (IndiaPhotos)
Here's another reason for you to kick the butt – smoking may not just harm your fertility but that of the next generation, according to scientists.
Men who smoke have a lower concentration of proteins in the testes that are essential for producing sperm, while women who smoke during pregnancy may be sowing the seeds of infertility in their unborn child, as two separate studies.
In one of the studies, researchers obtained 24 testes, from 37 to 68 day embryos after legally terminated pregnancies.
They found that the number of germ cells – responsible for forming eggs and sperm – was reduced by 55 per cent in fetuses from women who'd been smoking while pregnant. They also found a 37 per cent reduction in the ordinary or somatic cells in the embryos.
"We were very surprised that smoking so early in pregnancy has such profound effect on the number of germ cells in the gonads," New Scientist quoted co-author Claus Andersen from the University Hospital of Copenhagen in Denmark, as saying.
Results from a previous study on female fetuses showed a slightly lower corresponding reduction of germ and somatic cells – of 41 and 29 per cent respectively.
The researchers believe the reason the male embryos they studied showed higher sensitivity was because they were, on average, exposed to more cigarettes per day.
The authors do not known whether the reduction of germ cells is permanent – raising the question of whether women who smoke during pregnancy could harm the future fertility of their fetus.
Anderson says the next step is to expose cultured fetal testes to components of smoke thought to be harmful.
"We could expose the culture for a couple of weeks, and then continue [to develop] the culture without exposure and see if the cells are able to recover," he said.
In a second study, Mohamed Hammadeh from the University of the Saarland in Germany, and colleagues, examined the concentrations of two proteins called protamines P1 and P2, which are crucial to the formation of chromosomes during cell division. Changes in the concentrations of these protamines can have negative effects on male fertility.
The study, which compared sperm samples from 53 men who smoked more than 20 cigarettes per day with sperm from 63 non-smokers, found that smokers have 14 per cent lower concentration of P2, and a higher ratio of P1 to P2 overall.
They also found an increased level of "oxidative stress" in smokers – a chemical imbalance that is known to harm sperm DNA.
Read more: Smoking can damage your fertility - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Smoking-can-damage-your-fertility/articleshow/6529825.cms#ixzz15j2XsFPh
you want more information pls see this website:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Smoking-can-damage-your-fertility/articleshow/6529825.cms
Friday, November 12, 2010
Is 30 the New Deadline for Marriage?
My mum was married at 24, and then had her eldest child (ahem, me) when she was 25. Come to think of it; when I was 25, I was still living in PG apartment (paying guest) with a roommate in Mumbai and barely made ends meet with my meagre salary. And marriage was nowhere in the picture. I was single, mingling and loving my life (with all the financial problems intact).
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While most of us, married or not, dread the big 3-0, thinking it to be some invisible over-the-hill, I remember a very good single friend of mine who recently turned 30. On her birthday, she was ecstatic. She exclaimed in joy, “My life just got started!”
Another friend was telling me about her 27-year-old cousin whose mother thinks he is “just a boy” and does not need to get married until he hits his 30s.
Are we moving the ‘I dos’ for later in life? What is the new deadline for getting married? Tell me your stories.
So Don,t Miss UR Age.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Carefull About Your Mobile
It may be time for you to put you cellphone aside before going to bed for it might affect your sleep and moods, according to a new study.
Text messaging and other electronic communication media were linked to excessive movement during sleep, insomnia, and leg pain at night in students ages 8 to 22, Dr. Peter G. Polos of JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., and colleagues found.
The report linked "high rates of daytime cognitive or mood problems ... including ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties," with late-night usage of mobiles and other electronic media.
"Attempts at limiting use at bedtime appear to be reasonable," ABC News quoted the researchers as saying.
They suggested that parents set appropriate times for text messaging and other technology use and take proactive steps like moving computers out of the bedroom.
The participants averaged 33.5 text messages or e-mails sent per night to an average of 3.7 people for a total of 3,404 text messages per person per month.
These occurred from 10 minutes to four hours after bedtime.
Text messaging and other electronic communication media were linked to excessive movement during sleep, insomnia, and leg pain at night in students ages 8 to 22, Dr. Peter G. Polos of JFK Medical Center in Edison, N.J., and colleagues found.
The report linked "high rates of daytime cognitive or mood problems ... including ADHD, anxiety, depression, learning difficulties," with late-night usage of mobiles and other electronic media.
"Attempts at limiting use at bedtime appear to be reasonable," ABC News quoted the researchers as saying.
They suggested that parents set appropriate times for text messaging and other technology use and take proactive steps like moving computers out of the bedroom.
The participants averaged 33.5 text messages or e-mails sent per night to an average of 3.7 people for a total of 3,404 text messages per person per month.
These occurred from 10 minutes to four hours after bedtime.
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