A letter by Sachin to all his fans

Dear fans,

I am saddened as I write this letter. I know I have disappointed you with the series loss against England and my performance isn’t what you have always expected of me. I have always given my best for the team, but the results are not in my favour this time around. People are clamouring for my retirement and I can’t agree more with them. I have not been living up to the standards that I have set for myself through the years and I am indeed answerable to the fans.

Sachin Tendulkar announces his retirement from ODI's

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A sad day for all the cricket lovers across the World. Sachin Tendulkar announces his retirement from ODI's.

!! BIDS GOODBYE !! 

"I Have Decided To Retire From ODI Format Of Game. . I Feel Blessed To Have Fulfilled my Dream Of Being a Part Of WC winning Indian Team. . I Wish All the boys A Very good luck for upcomng future" ---Sachin Tendulkar

Words Form A LEGEND Which SHOOK The NATION :(

Team England creates history

Team England creates history by ending their 28 year drought to win a series in England. The loss at Ahmedabad was a minor aberration from the well defined path England had planned.
A Marathon innings by Cook in the first test raised hopes for the English men.The result is, they levelled the series in Mumbai.In the bowling department James Anderson played a key role throughout the series.
Finally after David Gower in 1984-85, It is Cook who cherished the dream for England.

Srinivasan stopped Dhoni's sacking: Amarnath

BCCI president N Srinivasan, who is also the owner of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings that MS Dhoni captains, overruled the sacking of the Indian skipper after India's eight consecutive overseas Test defeats in 2011-12.

For more details checkout the below link

Zaheer Khan,Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh dropped 4 the Nagpur Test

Zaheer Khan,Yuvraj Singh and Harbhajan Singh dropped 4 the Nagpur Test

Abdul Kalam's quote

Where there was righteousness in heart there was beauty in character; where there was beauty in character there was harmony at home; where there was harmony at home there was order in the nation and where there was order in the nation there was peace for the world.

A small article on 'Religions'

Some Interesting Facts about Religions 

Whether you are a believer or not is a secondary matter; the following facts say some sensible things, which all literate persons must admit.

India lose by a run

Supreme Court upholds Kasab's death sentence

• The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack convict Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, saying that waging war against the country was the primary and foremost offence committed by the Pakistani terrorist.
• A bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice C.K.Prasad dismissed the plea of 25-year-old Kasab challenging his conviction and death sentence confirmed by the Bombay high court.

"Very Very Special" Laxman announces retirement from International Cricket

Veteran Indian batsman V V S Laxman announced on Saturday that he would be retiring from international cricket with immediate effect. 

"It's been 16 years since I have made my international debut for India and I think it is the right time to move on.As a youngster it was dream to represent India and it took lot of pride to wear India cap. I would like to give youngsters an opportunity to prove themselves. I am grateful to almighty for blessing me to live my dream of playing cricket." said an emotional Laxman after announcing his retirement in Hyderabad. 

SatyamevJayate Wraps up

The show went on air May 6 and in episodes after episode, Aamir brought forth unknown facts related to child sex abuse, medical malpractice, manual scavenging and dowry.

He followed it up off the screen by meeting concerned leaders to ensure the problems are resolved.

Pranab Mukherjee is India's 14th President

Pranab Mukherjee was today elected as the 14th President of India, marking a new journey for the veteran Congress leader after over four decades of life in active politics.

In a virtually one-side election that saw divisions in the opposition NDA, the 76-year-old UPA nominee secured a vote value of 7,13,763, garnering 69.3 per cent of the total 10,29,750 valid votes polled.

Aamir Khan meets Manmohan Singh

• Bollywood actor Aamir Khan on Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Social Welfare Minister Mukul Wasnik to highlight the concerns of manual scavengers in the country.

Mark Boucher retires from International Cricket

Veteran South Africa wicketkeeper Mark Boucher announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday after undergoing eye surgery following a severe injury this week.

Federer wins Wimbledon & reclaims his No.1 spot

Federer reclaims No.1 ranking by posting a win against Andy Murray in the Wimbledon final. Federer beats Murray 4-6,7-5,6-3,6-4, to win the title.

Hurray! It's Fedex in the Finals

Good news to all the Fedex fans. Finally, It's Federer in the Wimbledon finals.
Six-time Champion Roger Federer beats Novak Djokovic 3-6,6-3,6-4,6-3 to reach Wimbledon Finals.

SS Rajamouli's 'Eega' a huge Success

Finally the much anticipated movie 'EEGA' directed by SS Rajamouli gives him a huge success.


Here are the ratings of various popular movie websites :


SuperGoodMovies:-(3.5/5)

GreatAndhra:-(3.5/5)

Google's Nexus7 launching in India in October

• Nexus7, the tablet made by Google in partnership with Asus will be launched in India in the month of October this year.It was announced in Google I/O on June 27.
• The model with 8GB internal storage is priced at $199 & the one with 16GB is priced at $250.
• The Nexus7 announced by Google is powered by a Quad-Core 1.3GHz processor and runs on the latest Android Version, Jelly Bean.It has 1GB RAM and a 1.2MP front camera.

Nadal out of Wimbledon

Rafael Nadal's nightmare on Centre Court was looking like Andy Murray's dream Wimbledon scenario on Friday as the All England Club came to terms with one of the biggest shocks in its 126-year history.

World number two Nadal, the champion in 2008 and 2010, and 11 times a Grand Slam title winner, was knocked out of Wimbledon by world number 100 Lukas Rosol, 6-7 (9/11), 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in a Thursday night sensation.

The greatest speech ever made by Charlie Chaplin-The Great Dictator

I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that.

We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone.

The way of life can be free and beautiful.

Microsoft unveils its 'SURFACE' tablet

Microsoft has introduced its own line of tablets,marking a major strategic shift for the software giant as it struggles to compete with Apple and re-invent its aging Windows franchise.

The new tablet line,named Surface is designed to compete with light weight laptops.

KKR are the champions of IPL-5

Petrol price raised by Rs7.54PL in steepest ever hike

 Petrol price raised by Rs7.54PL in steepest ever hike.The below mentioned are the prices in Andhra Pradesh.

nonstoptimes wishes Sachin on his 39th birthday

The legend of Cricket, "Master Blaster" Sachin Tendulkar born on April24th 1974 is celebrating his 39th birthday. Let's wish him on his birthday.
He recently completed 100 Tons in his career.Expecting 100 more tons from the God of Cricket.

Today's Cartoon

In Lok Sabha, a congress MP during his speech told a story.....

"There was a father who gave 100 rupees each to his 3 sons and asked them to buy things and fill up a room completely.

First son bought hay for Rs. 100 but couldn't fill the room entirely.

Second son bought cotton for Rs. 100 but couldn't fill the room entirely.

Third son bought a candle for Rs. 1 and lit it up and the room was filled with light completely."

The MP added "Our Prime Minister is like the third son. From the day he has taken charge of his office, our country is filled with the bright light of prosperity"

A voice from the backbench asked "Where is the remaining Rs. 99??"

Sachin announces his retirement

Sachin announces his retirement here at Mukesh Ambani's residence Antilia.Today is considered to be a sad day in World Cricket. Sachin said"I would like to thank my parents,family,coaches & all my teammates.I know that this day will come but it has come too early.I'm leaving with sadness but also with pride" on his retirement.

Mr.Dependable's "WALL" of fame

I've created a small document on THE WALL OF FAME with the help of yahoo.
Please have a look at it  Download

Rahul Dravid's Career Stats

Competition	Test	ODI	FC	LA
Matches	164	344	298	449
Runs scored	13,288	10,889	23,794	15,271
Batting Average	52.31	39.16	55.33	42.30
100s/50s	36/63	12/83	68/117	21/112
Top score	270	153	270	153
Balls bowled	120	186	617	477
Wickets	1	4	5	4
Bowling Average	39.00	42.50	54.60	105.25
5 wickets in innings	0	0	0	0
10 wickets in match	0	0	0	0
Best bowling	1/18	2/43	2/16	2/43
Catches/stumpings	210/0	196/14	353/1	233/17

The Wall retires from the International Cricket

March 9th 2012 will be considered as a bad day for the Indians as Rahul Dravid retires from the International Cricket.

The media room at the Chinnaswamy stadium (venue of Dravid’s exit press conference) had the national press trickling in much before the scheduled start.  The mood was already nostalgic and the Karnataka State Cricket Association contributed by greeting everyone with despondent instrumental music from ‘Veer Zaara’ (Tere liye, hum hain jiye, honton ko siye…Dil mein magar, jalte rahe, chaahat ke diye).

Shortly after, in walked the man of the moment - Rahul Sharad Dravid with his father, wife and young sons by his side to be part of his farewell. 

Rahul Dravid's retirement speech

I would like to announce my retirement from international and domestic first-class cricket. It has been 16 years since I first played a Test match for India, and I feel it's time for me to move on. Once I was like every other boy in India, with a dream of playing for my country. Yet I could never have imagined a journey so long and so fulfilling. I have had a wonderful time, but now it is time for a new generation of young players to make their own history and take the Indian cricket team even further.

Australia wins CB series

Clint Mc Kay's five-wicket haul helps Australia seal the CB series against Srilanka here at the adelaide oval on March 8th 2012.Australia won the tri-series for the first time since their triumph in 2005-06.In the previous two finals in 2006-07 and 2007-08, Australia had lost to England and India.

Srilanka and Australia in the CBS finals

Despite Dale Christian's hattrick(5-31) , Srilanka managed to keep a total of 238 on the scoreboard.Dinesh Chandimal(75) and Kumar Sangakkara(64) made Srilanka reach that comfortable total.
David Hussey(74) and Australian Captian Shane Watson (65) managed to keep Australia on the winning side,when they were out of the chase with 3 wickets falling for just 26 runs.David Hussey is the only withstanding brick in the falling heap of stones.The tail-enders did well to hang around with him but were short of nine runs from the target.Lasith Malinga is back to his form with his bowling figures (10-0-49-4).
Man of the Match goes to Dinesh Chandimal for his 75 off 84 balls which includes 3 4's and 2 6's with a strike rate of 89.29 

Sehwag ruled out of Asia Cup

The national selection committee picked the squad for Asia cup in Bangladesh starting mid March.
Contrary to reports M.S.Dhoni will lead the side for Asia Cup Tournament.Kohli is named as his deputy.
The squad is  M.S.Dhoni (Captian),Virat Kohli (ViceCaptian), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma,Irfan Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja,Praveen Kumar,Vinay Kumar,Ashok Dinda,Suresh Raina,R.Ashwin,Parthiv Patel,Yusuf Pathan, Rahul Sharma, Manoj Tiwary

Virendar Sehwag,Zaheer Khan and Umesh Yadav has been rested on fitness grounds.

Djokovic and Ajarenka are the winners in Australian Open

Djokovic beats Nadal to win Australian Open

Novak Djokovic wore down Rafael Nadal in the longest Grand Slam singles final in the history of professional tennis Sunday, winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5 after 5 hours, 53 minutes to claim his third Australian Open title.

NonStopTimes wishes A.R.Rahman on his 47th birthday

Today, A.R.Rahman is a name known world over, thanks to Slumdog Millionaire and the awards  and nominations its bagged. Like everyone here in India, I have known him and his music right from the time Roja was released in 1992  thats a good 18 years.

Everyone speaks of his music, and what he eats, sleeps, drinks and what he does when he is free and so on so forth. But really, there are things much beyond that that one needs to know and learn from the legend that A.R.Rahman is. With so many many people who speak so high of him at all times, there are some things that are unsaid and certain things that we so easily ignore about Rahman, that makes him stand apart from the clutter.