IPL Scoreboard: Kings XI Punjab vs Pune Warriors

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Calcutta News.Net
Thursday 12th April, 2012 (IANS)

The following is the scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Pune Warriors and Kings XI Punjab at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here Thursday.

Pune Warriors:

Jesse Ryder run out (Hussey/Gilchrist) 7

Sourav Ganguly c Marsh b Mascarenhas 16

Marlon Samuels b Mascarenhas 2

Robin Uthappa c Bipul b Mascarenhas 17

Angelo Mathews lbw Harmeet Singh 11

Mithun Manhas b Mascarenhas 31

Steven Smith b Chawla 13

Manish Pandey c Hussey b Harmeet Singh 0

Rahul Sharma c Mandeep b Mascarenhas 2

Ashish Nehra not out 2

Ashok Dinda run out (Awana) 2

Extras: (b 4, lb 3, w 5) 12

Total: (all out in 19 overs) 115

Fall of wickets: 1-13 (Ryder, 2.2 overs), 2-28 (Ganguly, 5.1), 3-29 (Samuels, 5.4), 4-51 (Mathews, 8.3), 5-77 (Uthappa, 12.1), 6-99 (Smith, 15.4), 7-100 (Pandey, 16.3), 8-108 (Manhas, 17.2), 9-110 (Sharma, 17.4)

Bowling:

Praveen Kumar 4-0-19-0

Parwinder Awana 4-0-18-0

Dimitri Mascarenhas 4-0-25-5

Harmeet Singh 3-0-23-2

Kings XI Punjab:

Paul Valthaty b Dinda 0

Adam Gilchrist c Smith b Mathews 21

Shaun Marsh not out 64

Mandeep Singh c Smith b Sharma 10

Piyush Chawla not out 21

Extras: 0

Total: (for three wickets in 17.4 overs) 116

Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Valthaty, 0.1 overs), 2-50 (Gilchrist, 7.6), 3-70 (Mandeep Singh, 11.4)

Bowling:

Ashok Dinda 3-0-18-1

Ashish Nehra 3-0-22-0

Marlon Samuels 3.4-0-27-0

Angelo Mathews 3-0-20-1

Jesse Ryder 2-0-12-0

Rahul Sharma 3-0-17-1

Toss: Kings XI Punjab, who chose to field

Result: Kings XI won by 7 wickets

Umpires: V.A. Kulkarni and SK Tarapore

TV umpire: Billy Bowden (New Zealand)

Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri Lanka)

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Tremors across eastern coast

Tremors were felt across eastern coast of the country following an 8.6 magnitude earthquake recorded in Aceh province, off Sumatra in Indonesia.

Tremors were felt in Chennai, Bangalore, Thiruvananthapuram and several other cities across South India following the 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia.

Areas near Marina Beach Road in Chennai have been alerted in the wake of several coastal regions of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Andaman and Nicobar Islands being put on alert, police said.

There were no immediate reports of damage to property or loss of lives.

In Kerala, people in Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi experienced slight tremors.

The country’s IT capital Bangalore also experienced mild tremors, police said.

People rushed out of houses and high rise office buildings in panic in these cities.

Kolkata and its neighbourhood were rocked by a mild tremor. Tremors were also felt in North 24 Parganas adjoining Kolkata and in the north Bengal town of Siliguri, officials said.

According to reports, some buildings on Park street in the metropolis developed cracks.

Metro Rail services in Kolkata were suspended from 2:42 p.m. and passengers were asked to vacate stations.

Tsunami alert sounded in Andamans

A tsunami alert has been sounded in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, although there was no

report of any loss of life or damage to property from any of the islands.

Official sources said a tsunami alert has been sounded in the Little Andamans, southern group of islands including the Great Nicobar, Campbell Bay, Katchal as well as the Andamans.

The Andaman and Nicobar Command of the armed forces has also been alerted about a tsunami.

Sources in the Disaster Management department said there was no report of any loss of life or property from any of the islands.

Mild tremors in Odisha

Mild tremors were felt in different parts of Odisha, including the state capital.

Apart from Bhubaneswar, places like Cuttack, Khurda, Nayagarh, Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur were shaken, official sources said.

People working in high-rises and multi-storeyed buildings moved out in panic as also from shopping malls and market places, they said.

There was no report of casualty or damage from anywhere in the state, the sources said.

Mild tremor in Assam

A mild tremor was felt in parts of Assam. Tremors were felt in Barak Valley in South Assam,

Guwahati and its adjoining areas, Tinsukia, Dibrugarh, Sibsagar and Jorhat districts in upper Assam and some districts of lower Assam, official sources said.

There was, however, no immediate report of any casualty, injuries or damage to property.

The tremor began at 2:16 p.m and three more tremors were felt at an interval of 20 seconds each.

A spokesman of the Seismological Centre at Shillong said that the epicentre of the earthquake was at Latitude 2.3 degree North and Longitude 93.0 degree East off the west coast of North Sumatra.

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Breaking News

India launches WTO case against U.S. steel duties

India has launched a trade dispute to challenge U.S. duties on certain steel products, the World Trade Organization said on its website on Thursday.

The WTO gave no details but said India had "requested consultations" with the United States - the first stage of a formal trade dispute - over U.S. countervailing duties. Countries impose countervailing duties to offset another country's subsidies suspected of giving an unfair trade advantage.

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No Tsunami? Why Earthquake Spared Indonesia Today

The powerful earthquake that struck off Indonesia Wednesday sparked a short-lived tsunami alert for much of the Indian Ocean—and panic in the streets of Aceh Province, in which a 2004 tsunami off Indonesia killed some 170,000 people.

Scientists say Indonesia's good fortune Wednesday has everything to do with the size of the quake and the motion of the ocean floor. The surprising strength and location of the earthquake, they add, make it "something new."

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the first earthquake had a magnitude of 8.6 and was quickly followed by an 8.2-magnitude aftershock. In Aceh hospitals were quickly evacuated, and residents fled to high ground in cars and motorcycles and poured into the streets to search for separated family members, according to the Associated Press.

The temblors also caused several countries in the region to issue tsunami watches, but the alarm was lifted after a few hours when no serious waves were observed.

"There was a tsunami, but the waves were just below 1 meter [3.3 feet]," said Emile Okal, a geophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. "That is significant, but it's not going to do much damage."

This is a sharp contrast to the December 2004 tsunami, when waves reached heights of nearly ten stories.

(Read a National Geographic photographer's account of the 2004 Indonesian tsunami aftermath.)

Quake Hit in Right Place, at Right Size—For Indonesians

There are two main reasons Wednesday's earthquake off Indonesia did not spawn a giant tsunami, Okal said.

First, the quake was of a smaller magnitude—8.6, contrasted with 9.3 for the temblor that struck off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2004. (See pictures of the 2004 Indonesia tsunami aftermath.)

Second, the quake was what's known as a strike-slip earthquake, where the motion is primarily side-to-side—like two ships sideswiping each other. In the 2004 quake, vast swaths of the seafloor thrust sharply upward, drastically disturbing the waters above.

On Wednesday "the amplitude of the tsunami was less than what it would have been had it involved more vertical motion," Okal said.

(Take a tsunami quiz.)

Indonesia Earthquake "Rather Interesting"

Wednesday's quake is interesting, Okal added, because it did not occur at a so-called subduction zone, where tectonic plates collide and one dives beneath the other into Earth's mantle.

Rather, the earthquake happened about a hundred miles (150 kilometers) from the nearest subduction zone, making the temblor an "intraplate" quake. Intraplate quakes tend to be much smaller, on the order of magnitude 6 or so, Okal said.

The combination of these two factors—a high magnitude for an intraplate quake and its strike-slip nature—makes Wednesday's earthquake "rather intriguing," Okal added.

"This is in a sense something new," he said. "It's something we've never seen at this level of size in this particular area."

More: "Photos: Where Will Next Mega-Tsunami Hit?" >>

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Battered baby dies: Afreen gives up her fight for life after being 'brutalised by her own father' for being born a girl

By Mail Today Reporter

PUBLISHED: 18:57 GMT, 11 April 2012 | UPDATED: 07:48 GMT, 12 April 2012

For about a week, she tried hard to hold on and fight hard. But allegedly brutalised by her father for being born a girl, she stood little chance.

Baby Neha Afreen died after a cardiac arrest in a government hospital in Bangalore on Wednesday morning.

The three-month-old baby was admitted to the Vani Vilas Hospital on Thursday night, April 5, with a severe head injury, dislocated neck and bite and burn marks on her body.

Baby Afreen: The three-month-old died at Vani Vilas Hospital in Bangalore after her own father allegedly beat her because she was born a girl instead of the son he desired

Her father Umar Farooq, a car painter, is accused of inflicting the injuries on her because he wanted a male child. 

Though Afreen had showed signs of recovery on Tuesday, her condition deteriorated by evening because of repeated convulsions.

'She was in semi-comatose state since Tuesday evening. We had put her on life support system. Unfortunately, she could not make it,' said Dr Some Gowda, medical superintendent of the hospital.

The hospital authorities were awaiting a team of doctors from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences for assistance because the baby had suffered internal head injuries.

Devastated: Mother Reshma Bano wails as she holds the body of her three-month-old daughter Neha Afreen outside a hospital morgue in Bangalore

Heartbroken: A relative cries over the body of three-month-old Neha Afreen after she died from injuries allegedly inflicted by her father

But Afreen could no longer fight. She had hurried respiration of 30-40 per minute against the normal 20-25 and also pathycardia, or increased heart rate.

She breathed her last at 11.10 am shortly after a cardiac arrest.

Neha's Mother Reshma was afraid to contact police after she claimed her husband attacked their daughter

The baby's mother, 19-year-old Reshma Banu, was inconsolable when the doctors broke the news to her. Afreen was her only child and she had been in a state of shock since Thursday.

Reshma claims that her 37-year-old drunkard husband used to beat her up since Afreen was born.

Last Thursday, he came home drunk in the evening and abused her again for giving birth to a girl.

When Reshma went off to sleep, Farooq is accused of stuffing clothes into Afreen's mouth to muffle her cries and hitting her with a blunt object.

Reshma, who woke up in the middle of the night, saw the baby suffering convulsions.

She informed her husband, who appeared uninterested. When the baby vomited blood, Farooq fled.

With the help of her neighbours, Reshma hospitalised Afreen. It's alleged Farooq had assaulted the child twice in the past but Reshma did not complain because she wanted to save the marriage.

Once, he had bitten the baby. On another occasion, Reshma found cigarette burn marks on her forehead and back.

Reshma was initially afraid of approaching the police. The hospital authorities informed the Child Welfare Committee, which prevailed upon her to lodge a complaint against her husband.

Farooq, who went absconding after the alleged assault of his own daughter, was arrested on Sunday and is now in judicial custody till April 21. He will now face murder charges.

The baby's death has outraged the civil society just weeks after the story of Baby Falak had shocked the country.

The Karnataka state commission for protection of child rights demanded that Afreen's death be treated as a murder case because the attack on the baby was intentional.

The state human rights commission has sent a notice to Bangalore city police commissioner B. G. Jyothi Prakash Mirji to personally oversee the case and report in two weeks.

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Shantha Sinha demanded speedy action against the father.

Killing of the female foetus and the girl child is rampant in India where even the educated and the rich are known to prefer male child.

According to the 2011 Census report, the sex ratio in India stands at 914 females per 1,000 males.

A Unicef report said sex selective abortion by unethical medical professionals has grown into a Rs 1,000-crore industry.

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Maruti Suzuki launches Ertiga, enters MUV market

By Indo Asian News Service | IANS India Private Limited – 9 hours agoNew Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Passenger car market leader Maruti Suzuki Thursday made an entry into the multi utility vehicle (MUV) segment, launching Ertiga, priced between Rs.5.89 lakh and Rs.7.30 lakh for the petrol variant and Rs.7.90 lakh and Rs.8.45 lakh for the diesel-powered one (ex-showroom Delhi).

"Ertiga is a major step forward for Maruti Suzuki. We will try and gain as much of volume (sales) as possible with Ertiga," S. Nakanishi, managing director and chief executive, said at the global launch of the car here.

The company said the MUV segment had emerged as the fastest growing sub-segment among utility vehicles (UV) and Ertiga will help consolidate its position in the market.

Maruti suzuki did not have a vehicle in this segment earlier. An MUV or multi-utility vehicle is a minivan -- people-carrier or people-mover -- that is designed for personal use.

Nakanishi said the firm's "prime focus" will be the domestic Indian market.

"We plan to start the CKD (completely knockdown) operations of Ertiga to Indonesia," he added.

The new MUV received its name from Indonesian language in which Ertiga means Three Rows.

The petrol variant of Ertiga is powered by a 1,373 cc K14 engine which can churn out power worth 95 ps at the rate of 6,000 rotations per minute (RPM) with a fuel efficiency of 16.02 km per litre.

The diesel variant is powered by a 1,248 cc D13 engine which produces 90 ps at the rate of 4,000 RPM with a fuel efficiency of 20.77 km per litre.

The company has spent a total of Rs.410 crore on the projects, including the money spent by the vendors.

The company said it had a current market share of about 38.8 percent. Segment-wise, it has a majority share of 55.2 percent in the petrol segment and 18 percent in the diesel.

The company is expecting the 2012-13 to be a good year in terms of sales, as it sees a rebound in consumer sentiment.

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India Temporarily Shuts Port On Tsunami Warning; Software Firms Evacuate Staff

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