India beat Pakistan as Kohli's 183 wins the day

                                                           
It was meant to be a massive total which would take the match to the wire. In the end, India's vice-captain Virat Kohli made it his night and helped his team to a 7-wicket win in a rather simple manner despite the target of 330.
Pakistan bowlers were systematically dismantled as the chase reflected India's perfect planning after conceding runs by the dozens. The chase may have begun disastrously as Gautam Gambhir fell in the first over. It however brought Kohli to the middle to partner Sachin Tendulkar (52). The two stabilised the innings and struck together 133 runs for the 2nd wicket.
It helped India build a solid foundation from where the attack was a natural consequent. Tendulkar edged Saeed Ajmal but was replaced by Rohit Sharma whose cautious approach was more of a boon for the rather aggressive Kohli at the other end. The two hit 172 runs between each other before Sharma fell to Umar Gul on 68.
The damage though, had been done as Kohli gave direction and purpose to his mighty heaves, leaving Pakistani fielders with only dropping shoulders to show for their efforts.
Although Kohli was eventually dismissed by Gul, the win was sealed by  Suresh Raina and MS Dhoni who completed the formalities.
India now rake in eight points from three matches, a point behind Pakistan. Had India won the match before or in the 40th over, a bonus point could have been earned. The men in blue though, will take this win with open arms.

Hyderabad airports top complaint list

                                                         
New Delhi: Over 2,800 complaints were registered at various airports for issues like poor service, bad food, lost luggage or other problems, with Delhi and Hyderabad topping the list.
Out of 2,888 complaints, around 587 complaints were registered at the Delhi airport while Hyderabad stood second with 236 complaints, followed by Bangalore and Nagpur airports with 186 and 170 complaints respectively.
Of the six private-run airports, Mumbai and Cochin registered the lowest number of complaints with 32 and 34 complaints respectively, official figures show.

Similarly, the airports run by Airports Authority of India were also not far behind.
Of the AAI-run airports, most number of complaints were received at Ranchi, Madurai, Ahmedabad, Calicut and Jaipur airports. Ranchi topped the list with 190 complaints followed by Madurai and Ahmedabad with 144 and 141 complaints. 117 at Calicut and 112 were registered at Jaipur and Calicut airports.
Of the metro airports, 82 complaints were registered at the Chennai airport while the least of 10 at the Kolkata airport, official figures show.
In 2009 and 2010, 2,503 and 2,220 complaints were received by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

YSR Congress stages dharna

                                                                   
YSR Congress party leaders staged a dharna at RTC Complex here on Saturday and burnt an effigy of UPA Government in protest against the ‘anti-poor and pro-rich' budget. P. Sambasiva Raju, convenor of the party, said the increase in service tax, excise duty, and railway freight charges would jack up prices of essential commodities and burden the common man.

Heavy bandobust for Kovur by-election

All arrangements have been made for the Kovur by-election on Sunday with the authorities starting transportation of electronic voting machines and other polling material and staff to respective polling stations from tonight.

So far, 225 liquor cartons had been seized since the electioneering began. Ten mobile teams consisting officials from the excise, police and the revenue departments seized 60 liquor cartons from 5 p.m. on Friday to this morning. The teams would keep a watch throughout the night on the given routes, according to excise deputy commissioner P. Nageswara Rao.

Heavy bandobust arrangements have been made with the deployment of three additional SPs, 12 DSPs, 50 CIs, 131 SIs, 335 ASIs and HCs, 1,245 constables, 84 women constables, 285 home guards, 300 each of armed reserve force and APSP battalion and five companies of central paramilitary forces.

Over 30 cases were filed in different places against some persons for distributing cash and liquor and also gifts. The gifts included silver ornaments, watches and cricket kits.

Collector B. Sridhar, Guntur range IG Harish Kumar Gupta, SP B.V. Ramana Kumar and other officials supervised the arrangements for distribution of polling material and its transportation from Polytechnic College in Kovur town.

Since Friday night, officials intensified vigil all over segment. In Indukuripeta mandal, officials seized 1,081 watches and 1,452 silver lamps, all worth Rs. 20 lakh. These were reportedly meant for distribution among voters. Five other cases were registered and cash amounting to Rs. 50,000 was seized in same mandal.

Jagan wants justice for displaced

                                                         
Opposing the laxity of Uranium Corporation of India (UCIL) in redressing the grievances of the villagers whose lands have been acquired for the project, the YSR Congress chief and Kadapa MP, Mr Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, came down heavily against the officials.
Taking part in a meeting with the UCIL officials at the R & B Guest House here on Saturday, Mr Jagan said that the fate of the displaced was left in lurch though they were running from pillar-to-post to get compensations and job opportunities for the last five years.
He questioned the rationale behind giving jobs to the people of other districts and other states.
Saying that he will boycott the meetings till the displaced were provided justice, Mr Jagan walked out of the meeting.
Knowing this on phone, the district collector, Mr Anil Kumar, directed the Jammalamadugu RDO, Mr Venkataramana Red-dy, to cancel the meeting.

Jagan boycotts public hearing on UCIL's Kadapa project

                                                                          
YSR Congress Party president and Kadapa Member of Parliament Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy dared the director of Uranium Corporation of India's (UCIL) Thummalapalle project, Behl, and other officials on Saturday to resolve the problems of farmers.
Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy them with being indifferent to the problems of the displaced.

The MP walked out of the meeting after giving a warning that a public hearing would not be allowed for establishing a second uranium mining unit until promises given to displaced farmers were kept. Other members of the grievance committee too announced boycott of the meeting and walked out along with the MP. Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy alleged that police were registering cases if the aggrieved farmers protested demanding fulfilment of promises. He alleged that an “emergency-like situation” was prevalent in Pulivendula constituency.

Expressing ire at the UCIL officials in a grievance committee meeting convened at the Roads and Buildings guest house in Pulivendula, he questioned Mr. Behl and the UCIL officials on convening the meeting with 42 members on establishment of a second uranium mining unit without disbursing ex-gratia to the kin of deceased workers and giving jobs to the displaced persons. Irked by the stoic silence maintained by the UCIL officials,

The YSR Congress leader declared that he would launch a movement against the second uranium mining unit until the issues such as compensation payment and employment to the kin of displaced farmers and villagers were settled. No alternative arrangements were made to overcome the problem of rapid depletion of groundwater and water pollution caused by the plant, he lamented. Telugu Desam Party MLC S.V. Satish Kumar Reddy alleged that the problems were not resolved during YSR's rule, but Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy was raising a hue and cry now. Congress MLC C. Narayana Reddy participated.

Earlier, Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy elicited problems during an interaction with party functionaries and people in his residence at Pulivendula. In the evening, he unveiled two statues of his father and former Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy put up by YSR Congress Party members at Vempalle in Pulivendula segment.

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh discharged from hospital

                                                                        
Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has been discharged from hospital after three rounds of chemotherapy. After coming out of the hospital Yuvraj Singh informed through tweet that he was out of the hospital and will start the process of recovery. He also thanked his fans for the support. "3rd chemo cycles over, back from hospital n I am free. Road to recovery starts now. Can't wait to be back home. Thank you 4 all ur love n wishes from the bottom of my heart I'm sure they have worked well with the doctors therapy," Yuvraj wrote.
Yuvraj Singh was undergoing chemotherapy in Boston for a rare germ cell cancer.
3rd chemo cycles over, back from hospital n I am free. Road to recovery starts now. Can`t wait to be back home," Yuvraj wrote on social networking site twitter.

Thanking his supporters, Yuvraj said, "Thank you 4 all ur love n wishes from the bottom of my heart I`m sure they have worked well with the doctors therapy #livestrong yuvstrong."

Yuvraj Singh, who played a stellar role in India`s ODI World Cup triumph last year, has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment in the United States.

The 30-year-old left-hander, Yuvraj, was Player of the Tournament in the World Cup last year with 362 runs, 15 wickets and four Man-of-the-Match awards.e.

Who’ll send Dinesh Trivedi off the rails?

                                                                  
On the night of the rail budget, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had demanded railways minister Dinesh Trivedi’s ouster in a fax message sent to the prime minister.
A few days after, a new crisis has arisen. What will now be the manner in which Trivedi will be asked to quit office? More exactly, who will ask him to leave?
If Trivedi can be made to lose his Cabinet berth without affecting his primary membership of the party, he has to obey party whip and discipline. In that case, even if he remains an MP he can do no harm. It comes as no surprise then that Trivedi is keenly aware of what is preventing Mamata from asking him to resign and is thus daring her to do so.
It is obvious that Mamata doesn’t want to give Trivedi any political space and that is the reason why she is relying on the Prime Minister to get rid of the railway minister. But, understandably, the Prime Minister is hesitant. Congress sources argue that Dinesh Trivedi did, after all, present this government’s rail budget after due consultation with the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee.
That budget carries the stamp of approval of the Manmohan Singh government. Trivedi cannot be punished for doing the right thing.
It is learnt that Pranab Mukherje, who is doing the talking with Mamata Banerjee on the UPA government’s behalf, has already told her more than once that Trivedi would have to be allowed to remain in office till the budget session goes into recess on March 30.

According to highly placed Congress sources, prime minister Manmohan Singh is reluctant to ask for Trivedi’s resignation. He wants Trivedi’s party boss, Mamata Banerjee, to perform the unpleasant task and direct the railway minister to demit office.
Trivedi — unlike A Raja — has, after all, not come under a cloud of suspicion for any alleged wrongdoing. And it looks ethically unpleasant for the prime minister to throw a colleague out simply because of “unfair” coalition demands. What has also aggravated matters is Singh’s firm opposition to the elevation of Mukul Roy as a Cabinet minister.
In fact, Manmohan Singh’s reservations about inducting Mukul Roy into the highest echelons of the government are so strong that the government is checking Roy’s antecedents extremely carefully.
Apparently, the prime minister’s dislike for Mukul Roy dates back to almost a year ago when he attended a Cabinet meeting as minister of state for railways, soon after Mamata Banerjee was sworn in as West Bengal chief minister. At that meeting, Singh had asked him about his vision for the railways and Mukul Roy hadn’t been able to say anything in response. Roy had also angered the PM when he refused to visit an accident site despite being asked to do so by the PM’s office.
For now, however, the PM has on his hands the unenviable task of axing his present railways minister. Sources say that Mamata is adamant that Singh take upon himself the responsibility of dropping Trivedi because, according to her, “a minister’s continuance in office is decided by none other than the prime minister”.
The real reason, though, for Mamata Banerjee not directing Trivedi to leave office is because she is afraid that evicting a defiant railway minister might snowball into her throwing him out from the party, in which case Trivedi would survive as an MP for the remaining two years of the Lok Sabha term without having to obey the party whip. He would enjoy the luxury of conducting himself as an unattached MP.
According to existing laws, an MP continues to remain an MP even if she or he is thrown out by the party. They retain their right to behave according to their own free will and thereby embarrass their former political bosses if they so choose.

Even if Mamata is insisting on an earlier date of removal, Mukherjee has been asked by the government to convince the Trinamool chief that she should allow Trivedi to continue in office till the end of this month.
Of course, the government knows that they cannot go on protecting Trivedi for long and that he would have to bow out of office.
The government does know that it will inevitably have to surrender to coalition compulsions but this impasse shows that the relationship between Congress and the TMC has officially turned into one of mutual suspicion and has now started bordering on paranoia.
Even if this crisis finally blows over, such a degree of hostility between allies doesn’t augur well for the health and longevity of the coalition.