Kanpur, kanpur test news update, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat against Sri Lanka in the second cricket Test at Green Park stadium here Tuesday. India made two changes to their side. Fast bowler Ishant Sharma has been replaced by S. Sreesanth while leg spinner Amit Mishra makes way for left arm spinner Pragyan Ojha who will be making his Test debut. Watch Live Cricket Match Sri Lanka has brought in mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis in place of injured Dammika... Read Full Story

KARACHI, Pakistan news update: 24th November, is the birthday of legendary Urdu poet, Parveen Shakir. She started writing at an early age, initially under the pen name of Beena, and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu, to great acclaim, in 1976 and won Pakistan’s Adamjee Award. She received two undergraduate degrees in English literature and linguistics. She was Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan. Shakir was born on 24th November, 1952 in Kar... Read Full Story

Washington: news update, Warning of “phenomenal consequences” if the advance of terrorists in Pakistan was not controlled, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the world community to pressurise Islamabad to do much more to bring to book those responsible for the “horrible” 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. “We don’t want Pakistan to fail and emergence of democracy in Pakistan is something we welcome,” he said at the Council on Foreign Relations, a leadi... Read Full Story

KARACHI,Pakistan News update: State Bank of Pakistan Governor Saleem Raza has said that new monitory policy will be announced on Tuesday. According to details, he said foreign exchange reservoirs had reached to the stage of five months from three weeks. State Bank Governor maintained that national economy was improving, adding that exports and credit demand were increasing. He told that foreign exchange reservoirs are enough to fulfill the needs for five months. SBP to Announce New Policy Mon... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES, News update: The ‘Twilight’ vampire romance sequel ‘New Moon’ took a record-breaking bite out of the North American box office this weekend, final figures showed on Monday. The second big-screen installment adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s phenomenally successful books raked in an astounding 142.8 million dollars in three days, the third biggest opening of all time, Exhibitor Relations said. Only Batman sequel “The Dark Knight” with 158.4 ... Read Full Story

SYDNEY news update: Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna have left intensive care as they continue their remarkable recovery from surgery to separate their conjoined heads, the hospital said. The two-year-old girls, rescued from a Dhaka orphanage, moved to a shared room on the normal ward on Monday, just a week after the 32-hour operation to disconnect their fused skulls, brains and blood vessels. “They are sharing a room together and settling into their new environment,” Melbour... Read Full Story

MUMBAI, News Update: Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty, who recently tied the knot with her NRI beau Raj Kundra, looked stunning in a red designer lehenga-saree on her wedding day. But, a look at her reminded one of Aishwarya Rai’s. From the jewellery to the hairdo, Shilpa looked similar to Ash in all respects. While it was designer Neeta Lulla for Aishwarya on her D-Day, Shilpa Shetty zeroed in on her good friend Tarun Tahiliani. Ash adorned with Kundan jewellery had worn a golden saree o... Read Full Story

BRASILIA News Update: Visiting Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad said that US and Israeli military threats against Iran were a thing of the past, and that, in any case, “they don’t have the courage” to attack Iran. “The age of military attacks is over, now we’ve reached the time for dialogue and understanding. Weapons and threats are a thing of the past,” the Iranian told a joint press conference with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, closing his one-... Read Full Story

Jean Val Jean Emmanuel Delcour , Emmanuel Delcour: If you are wondering, yes, Emmanuel DelCour is Jean Val Jean (pictures above). Emmanuel DelCour on Bravo’s Chef Acadmey is Jean Val Jean, notable film “actor”. In fact, Emmanuel DelCour background as Jean Val Jean is starting to sound like the same Bravo publicity machine of recent months. Note to Bravo – it’s getting old, very old. Enough is enough. Bravo is back to the same storyline of “one of our stars has dirt on the net, can you f... Read Full Story

WANA, News Update: Three militants were killed and eight others injured in ongoing operation Rah –e- Nijat in South Waziristan. The clashes occurred between militants and security forces in Asman Manza, Makeen and Ladha areas, said sources. Three militants were killed and eight others wounded during these clashes. Security forces took control of more then 100 hideouts of militants whereas huge arms cache and explosives were also recovered and at least 600 militants have been killed so far dur... Read Full Story