Dez Bryant - Ireland issue: Matt Millen, Barkley offer their take

AFTER THE Dez Bryant - Jeff Ireland matter did the rounds in the football world on Wednesday, the matter has become the topic of discussion on several sports networks, with everyone from Charles Barkley to Matt Milen giving their persepective on how big the issue is, how well it was dealt by Dez Bryant, how much damage was dealt to Miami Dolphins and what should happen to Jeff Ireland.

Though the actual judge and jury on the matter, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are still out on what happened and how it should be dealt with, Charles Barkley from NBA and former Lions GM

Jake Pavelka elimination, Dancing with the stars April 27

LAST WEEK Kate Gosselin was the celebrity who got eliminated and this week at Tuesday night handsome hunk Jake Pavelka got eliminated from the dancing reality show "Dancing with the Stars". Jake Pavelka was not able to perform well with his partner Chelsie Hightower. 

Pavelka and professional partner Chelsie Hightower were fifth couple on the show who got eliminated and Jake Pavelka was disappointed when he got the news of elimination.

 

After Pavelka got eliminnated, he said "I didn't really expect that; that's kind of just how I felt," Pavelka said today on "Good Morning America." "It really meant

Lindsay Lohan is HIV positive, claims Michael Lohan on twitter

MICHAEL LOHAN, father of Lindsay Lohan tweeted on the micro blogging site Twitter that his daughter Lindsay Lohan not only had an affair with music mogul Tommy Mottola when she was 17, but also that she is HIV positive. However, it is claiming that on Tuesday morning, Michael Lohan’s account on twitter was reportedly hacked by a mysterious phantom that sent out a series of tweets about the 23-year-old actress Lindsay Lohan.

The feud between Michael and Lindsay Lohan heated up last Thursday when senior Lohan staged an intervention, barging into Lindsay L.A. home with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's

Hertz acquires Dollar Thrifty for $1.2 bn

IN A major deal today U.S car rental firm Hertz Inc agreed to buy Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group for an about $1.2 billion. This move will boost the Hertz's presence in the leisure rental category. The car rental industry is recovering from the crisis as global market is showing healthy sign of recovery.

 

The deal had been finalized in cash and stock offer of $41 per share at 5.5 premium on closing price of $38.85 on Friday. According to Reuters data, the value of the company is $1.17 bn on its share outstanding of 28.6 million as on 24 February.

Free bus travel for cops with Gallantry awards

WITH A view to encourage those policemen, who are the winners of Gallantry awards, the Haryana government has decided to provide free travelling facilities in Haryana Roadways buses to the policemen.

Disclosing this here today, the Haryana Transport Minister, O.P. Jain said that Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda had also accorded his approval to provide free travelling facilities to the policemen who were the winners of Gallantry awards in ordinary buses of Haryana Roadways.

 

Transport Minister said that it has been decided that the sponsoring department would ensure that a suitable budgetary provision could be made by it, towards

Tollywood star Venkatesh to endorse MAGFIL brand

TOLLYWOOD SUPER star Victory Venkatesh has signed with Manappuram General Finance and Leasing Ltd (MAGFIL), India’s largest listed, highest capitalised and highest credit rated gold loan company, as their brand ambassador for Andhra Pradesh.

"Victory Venkatesh is the most credible, marketable and hugely popular film star in this part of the world," V P Nandakumar, Chairman, MAGFIL said. “It is an honour to welcome Victory Venkatesh to help promote Manappuram."

MAGFIL is the first NBFC in India to get a short term rating of A1+ from ICRA (the highest short term rating awarded to any corporate in India by ICRA) and a long term rating of LA+ from ICRA

Shakti is the winnner of Dance India Dance 2

 

The Dance India Dance winner is Shakti Mohan. The much awaited results of the Dance Indian Dance season 2 (DID 2) are out. The grand finale of Dance India Dance started at 8pm at Worli Sports Ground in Mumbai. Millions of people watched the live telecast of Dance India Dance on Zee Tv.

 

There were four finalists this year in DID 2.

 

Shakti Mohan from Mumbai aged 24 was from Terrence ki Doli. She was a trained dancer and also used to teach dancing. She bagged the golden cap and is now the winner of Dance India Dance.

 

Punit

Girl Student Shows India to Respect its National Emblem

Girl Student Shows India to Respect its National Emblem

Chandigarh (ABC Live); Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to Union, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory Chandigarh to file their replies on May, 2010 on disrespect to National Emblem.

Chandigarh (ABC Live); Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday issued notices to Union, Punjab, Haryana and Union Territory Chandigarh to file their replies on May, 2010 on disrespect to National Emblem.

It is to mention that, a class tenth student of Chandigarh based Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Deepshikha Singh filed Public interest petition  in Punjab and Haryana High Court after reading English daily news report which showed labourer placing his feet on wheat bags carrying the national emblem in Punjab Mandis.

The Bench comprising

Mobile Phone Recovered From Rajiv Gandhi Killer Nalini Sriharan

Moible Phone Recovered From Jailed Nalini Sriharan

Chennai (ABC Live): The Vellore jail authorities have recovered a mobile phone from Rajiv Gandhi convicted killer Nalini Sriharan from her jail cell.

Chennai (ABC Live): The Vellore jail authorities have recovered a mobile phone from Rajiv Gandhi convicted killer Nalini Sriharan from her jail cell.

Furt5her information says that Nalini Sriharan had had made calls to Canada and London from recovered mobile phone.

Information and confirmation to mobile phone recovery from Nalini was made by ADGP (prisons) K R Shyam Sundar that, "Following a tip-off, we monitored Nalini's cell in Vellore for more than three days. On Tuesday morning, teams raided her cell. They recovered a new Nokia mobile phone and it was switched

RBI hikes repo, reverse repo rates, CRR

THE SHORT term lending rates have been hiked by Reserve Bank of India along with borrowing rates by 25 basis points each on Tuesday, April 20. In order to check inflation, the RBI has also hiked the portion of money banks deposit with it by 25 basis points.

 

RBI on Tuesday raised the repo, reverse repo rates to 5.25 and 3.75 per cent, while Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) has been fixed at 6 per cent as expected by the banking analysts. The CRR hike will take effect from April 24 and it will lead to absorption of around 12,500 crores of excess

Rafael Nadal beats Verdasco in Monte Carlo Finals

CLAY COURT King Rafael Nadal defeated his friend and country mate Fernando Verdasco in straight sets 6-0, 6-1 in the finals of Monte Carlo Championship. The match ended after one hour 25 minutes with lots of power hitting from both the players.

After losing the match against his dear friend, Verdasco said "When he plays like that," "no one can beat him." And the statement is pretty true because on the clay court he plays like god that no one can stand among his backhands and forehands.

After winning the Monte Carlo trophy Nadal seemed pleased and he will he will

India to adopt a new poverty line to indentify poor

A FEW months back there was a news that India will go for a new measurement of the poverty line. This news has now become a reality. The Government has accepted the Tendulkar Committee Report in this respect. Before we look at what it is let us look at some of the aspects of the poverty line, and then how it is measured and constructed.

 

There is a distinction between absolute poverty indices and relative poverty indices. Relative poverty indices are also known as inequality indices. Poverty line is thus measured in terms of absolute poverty. Absolute poverty line can be lower than the lowest income and higher than the highest income.

 

There are no restrictions placed on it. This line is conceptually extraneous to the distribution of income. Even in some approaches the distribution may be used for determining its magnitude. It must also be remembered that poverty in the ultimate analysis is a relative concept. It is era-relative as well as society specific. Poverty line differs from era to era, and also from area to area, and country to

Dogwood festival Atlanta 2010: shows, timings, all details

THE FESTIVE season is on as the Dogwood Festival, the Sweetwater 420 Festival is going on in the Candler Park.This festival will be full of enjoyment as the two days will be full of soothing music and  creative arts festival features live music of all different mind blowing categories with great food, and everyone’s favourite, SweetWater's lip smackin' brews.

 

The activities at the festival has already started at the venue with the SweetWater 420 Fest 5K Road Race today Saturday morning, and this exciting journey will continue on Sunday as well till evening which will be including environmental forums

ABDC Champions charity: Dance crew winners perform for charity

THIS WEEK America’s Best Dance Crews, ABDC was less of a battle on the dance floor, and more of a group effort with a single aim. The aim was to raise charity for different organizations that work for some noble cause. ABDC brought back the winners from the past five seasons to perform as well as contribute to a charity of their choice.

 

The winners of the last five seasons performed a dance after which they came up with a group dance and donated $10,000 to each charity. Each of the five dance crews chose a charity from the web based group dosomething.

Peter Steele died: Type O Negative band confirms

 Rockstar Peter Steele, member of heavy metal band Type O Negative has died as he was not keeping well since quite sometime. One of the member of Type O Negative band announced in the afternoon after the rumors in the morning that Peter had died at the age of 48.

 

Mike Renault member of his band wrote an e-mail to an news website that "Peter passed away last night. As of now it appears to have been heart failure," and included that,  "That's all the details we have right now."

 

On the official site of Type O Negative Web

Download Wiz Khalifa's Kush and Orange Juice Mixtape

PEOPLE ARE all over the net have been searching for Wiz Khalifa, Kush and Orange Juice mixtape, Kush and Orange Juice download, kush and orange juice, wiz khalifa twitter, kush and orange juice mixtape download etc.

 

Today, Kush and Orange juice is the hottest and the most searched thing on the net. Rapper Wiz Khalifa has come out with his new album called Kush and Orange Juice. It is believed that with the popularity Wiz Khalifa's album is gaining, it will be a record breaker this year.

 

The Kush and Orange Juice was released Wednesday morning, April 14. Wiz Khalifa

Tax Extension Form 2010: How to fill IRS extension form?

GOOD NEWS for all the people who want to pay their tax after sometime as there is one option available which can help you to delay your tax payment and that is the Tax Extension Form 2010. The Tax Extension Form or the IRS extension form, allows people to pay out their tax returns after getting some extra time.

Tax payers can pay their 2010 tax returns after at least six months with the help of the tax extension form. However, the IRS has clarified that it is "not an extension of time to pay" but it is for any balance due,

Bihar Demands Rs 27,000 Crore to Implement Right to Education Act

Bihar Demands Rs 27,000 Crore to Implement Right to Education Act

Patna (ABC Live): Bihar demanded Rs 27,000 crore to implement the Right to Education Act.

Patna (ABC Live): Bihar demanded Rs 27,000 crore to implement the Right to Education Act.

Demand to this effect was made by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar much beyond the state's internal resources, r  on Monday that, "The state will require Rs 27,000 crore to implement the Act in Bihar, which is far beyond its capacity."

"Look at the figure, the budgetary outlay for Bihar for 2010-11 is Rs 53,000 crore... Can it be possible to spare Rs 27,000 crore from it," he said.

Kumar said the Centre

Ignored 'Model Town' Sopore presents grim picture, authorities unmoved

CONTRARY TO the claims of authorities that model towns in the valley have been set up to ensure all basic facilities to the people but the model town Sopore popularly known as Chota London presents a grim picture.

The so-called model town is devoid of basic facilities including water supply, proper sanitation and the disarrayed electricity system in the town is posing dangers to human lives.

 

The dismayed locals alleged that the authorities least bother to provide the facilities to the locals. “We are suffering immensely due to very poor drainage system and lack of water supply. We hardly see pure water and if

Bill banning inter-district recruitment in J&K passed

AMIDST noisy scenes in the Legislative Assembly, a controversial bill seeking ban on inter-district recruitment in Jammu and Kashmir was passed in both Houses of the State Legislature yesterday.

 

Soon after the Lower House of the State Legisltaure assembled, Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Ali Mohammad Sagar moved an amendment to the Bill (L. A. Bill No. 1 of 2009) and which was sought by Panthers Party member Harshdev Singh and Congress legislator Ashok Kumar and Abdul Majid Wani.

 

The Government sought amendments in the Bill with regard to provision of 8 per cent reservation for the Scheduled

Elizabeth Taylor all set to marry for the ninth time?

 

ELIZABETH TAYLOR and her talent manager Jason Winters have now been linked for several years. It is rumored that they both will marry soon. The two were reportedly enjoying a vacation at Hawaii when they fell in love and decided to tie the knot. If the rumors turn out to be true, then it would be the ninth time that the actress would get married.

 

The actress has been married to a superstar, a filmmaker, a construction worker, a hotelier among the others, in the past. The lady has mesmerized the world with  her outstanding performances in classics.