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It has been a bittersweet last few days for Ranadeb Bose. The former Bengal pacer, veteran of 91 first-class games, is delighted at the way his former ward Mustafizur Rehman is performing on the international stage. However, the fact that these good performances have come against his own country India has left Ranadeb a tad bit disappointed. Ranadeb, who almost broke into the Indian playing XI during the tour of England in 2007, spent two years in Bangladesh, coaching young fast bowlers at the National Cricket Academy. It was here that he first came across a young, 17-year-old, Mustafizur Rehman. Surprisingly, the man who currently has the entire Indian batting line-up dancing to his tunes, did not leave a great first impression on his coach. "When I first saw him, he was a very thin boy from a small village. The first thing that came to mind was that he is malnourished, probably because he came from a humble background. I thought he wasn't even strong enough to play in t...

Uttar Pradesh will get to nominate maximum number of cities to be developed as 'Smart Cities', followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Ahead of the mega launch of NDA government's flagship urban projects, the government has assigned number of cities each state/union territory can nominate under the 100 Smart Cities project as well as those to be developed under the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation scheme, PTI reported. UP leads the pack as it has been given the opportunity to nominate 13 cities to be developed as smart cities, while 54 cities in the state have been identified under AMRUT scheme, according to a senior Urban Development Ministry official. Tamil Nadu comes second with the allocation of 12 smart cities and 33 AMRUT cities. While Maharashtra has been alloted 10 cities to nominate under the smart city project, Gujarat and Karnataka are eligible to develop six cities each. Under AMRUT scheme, 37, 31 and 21 cities have been identified in ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 1 will launch the digital locker facility that will help citizens to digitally store their important documents such as PAN card, passport, marksheets and degree certificates. Here are some key features of the facility. /> DigiLocker is a dedicated personal storage space in the cloud to citizens, linked to each resident's Aadhaar number. It can be used to safely store e-documents as well as store Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link of e-documents issued by various issuer departments. e-Sign facility is provided as part of DigiLocker system which can be used to digitally sign e-documents. /> It will minimize the use of physical documents and will provide authenticity of the e-documents. It will provide secure access to govt-issued documents. It will also reduce administrative overhead of Govt departments and agencies and make it easy for the residents to receive services Digital Locker will reduce the administrative overhead of go...

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മലയാളികളുടെ ഒരു വലിയ പ്രശ്നം ആണ് കുടവയറും അമിത വണ്ണവും അതിനു ഒരു ലളിതമായ പരിഹാരം ഇതാ .പരീക്ഷിച്ചു നോക്കു ഫലം ഉറപ്പ് ആണ് .... വണ്ണം കുറക്കാൻ സഹായിക്കുന്ന ഒരു ജലം, അതിനെ കുറിച്ച് ആലോചിച്ച് നോക്കിയിട്ടുണ്ടോ…??? എന്നാൽ ഇതാ അത്തരം ഒരു വെള്ളം. സാസി (saassy water ) വാട്ടർ എന്നാണു ഇതിന്റെ പേര്. വണ്ണം കുറയ്ക്കാൻ ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നവർക്ക് ഇനി ഇതു മാത്രം ഒന്ന് ശീലമാക്കിയാൽ മതി. ചെറുനാരങ്ങ, വെള്ളരി ,ഇഞ്ചി, പുതിനയില എന്നിവ ചേർത്തുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന ശശി വാട്ടറിലെ ചെറുനാരങ്ങ ശരീരത്തിലെ വിഷാംശങ്ങളെയും മാലിന്യങ്ങളെയും പുറന്തള്ളി ശരീരത്തെ ശുദ്ധീകരിക്കാനും സഹായിക്കും. അത് മൂലം ശരീരത്തിലെ കൊഴുപ്പ് നീങ്ങി ശരീരം മെലിയുകയും ചെയ്യും. കക്കിരി ശരീരത്തെ തണുപ്പിക്കാൻ സഹായിക്കും. Recipe #1 ഒരു ഭരണിയിലോ ജഗ്ഗിലോ 8 ഗ്ലാസ്‌ വെള്ളവും ഒരു ടീസ്പൂണ്‍ ഇഞ്ചി ചെറുതാക്കി മുറിച്ചതും ഒരു ഇടത്തരം കഷണം വെള്ളരി മുറിച്ചതും, ഒരു ഇടത്തരം വലിപ്പമുള്ള ചെറുനാരങ്ങ ചെറുതാക്കി മുറിച്ചതും ഒരു ടീസ്പൂണ്‍ പുതിനയില ചെറുതാക്കി മുറിച്ചതും ചേർത്തു ഇളക്കി ഒരു രാത്രി മുഴുവൻ വെക്കുക. ഫ്രിഡ്ജിൽ വെച്ചാലും മതി. അടുത്ത ദിവസം ഉണ്ടാക്കി വെച്ച കൂട്ടിൽ നിന്നും ...

It was about a month ago that I heard the country's Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, boast that the Modi government's biggest achievement in its first year was a corruption-free administration and that there was no scam or scandal. Every leader in the BJP, big or small, parroted this line. They can't any longer. Sushma Swaraj, the Foreign Minister, has admitted that she helped ex-IPL commissioner, Lalit Modi, a fugitive in the eyes of the law. There is a blue corner notice against him, the Enforcement Directorate has been investigating him and not long ago his passport was revoked. There are serious charges of match fixing and embezzlement of 700 crores. Sushma Swaraj is a heavyweight politician and is widely respected by every section of the society. Before Narendra Modi won the Gujarat elections in 2012 for the third time in a row, she was considered the next prime ministerial candidate of the BJP. She was considered a favourite of the RSS and of Shiv Sena supremo Bal...

In October 2013, at a press conference in Jaipur, the then spokesperson of the BJP and the present Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman called Lalit Modi a fugitive. Angered by his tweets on the BJP, she asked, "Who’s he…? A fugitive from law, he cannot question the BJP, we abide by the law of the land." A year later, while her party is in power, her foreign affairs minister Sushma Swaraj went out of her way to get him travel documents from the British government because his passport had been revoked by the Indian government for his alleged violation of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). In connection with the case, the Enforcement Directorate also had issued a blue corner notice against him. When Sushma Swaraj assisted Lalit Modi with his travel documents, what in fact she did was to help a 'fugitive', as Sitharaman had dubbed him two years ago. He had run away from the process of Indian law and as a result was stripped off his Indi...