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The Budweiser Cup pledges to provide amateur football players an once-in-a-lifetime chance to live their dream that they have been fostering ever since they got the sense of football for the first time. And for the 72 players who participated in the competition in Bangalore on Saturday, they certainly were doing that: living their dreams.

The matches commenced at half past eight in the morning with all the twelve teams participating in the competition grooving to wrestle with fate and charge forward like the Light Brigade.

Quite a number of spectators had swarmed to the famous RSI Grounds at MG Road right from the start and as the day progressed, several others joined in the fun.   The twelve participating teams had been divided into four groups: A, B, C and D. There were three teams each in the first three groups (A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, C1, C2, C3) and two in group D (D1, D2).  

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Lucknow, April 4 (IANS) Air Deccan announced here Friday that it has joined hands with ICICI Lombard General Insurance to launch a domestic travel insurance scheme covering accidental medical expense, ticket cancellation and lost baggage. The insurance scheme, which costs Rs.99 per person, was started April 1. It can be availed through the Air Deccan website (Airdeccan.net).

Ramki Sundaram, officiating CEO of Air Deccan, said: “We believe our joint offering with ICICI Lombard will help travellers evaluate their need for travel cover and avail a comprehensive and beneficial insurance package.”

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Recently Amitabh Bachchan shot a promo for the finale of Star Plus’ Chhote Ustaad with the two finalists-Aishwarya Majmudar and Anwesha Dattagupta. AB was in excellent mood, chatted with the girls and put them at ease immediately when he was introduced to them. He jokingly kept telling the camera person, “These are the stars of today, hum to junior artiste hai”. He noticed that Aishwarya was wearing a shirt too large for her size, he immediately adjusted her collar and said, “Ye mera shirt aapko kisne de diya”. He congratulated them on being the first two women finalists on a reality show in India. He also wished them luck to walk to final mile.

TV ratings get divine blessings

According to TAM Media Research, NDTV Imagine’s Ramayan is the channel’s top ranking programme with 26 per cent viewership. The channel has two other mythologicals/ period dramas on its list of top shows: Raajkumar Aaryyan and Dharam Veer.
The TV ratings of Zee TV’s Aladdin and Ravan hover at 2-3, “exceptionally good for an historical/fantasy show”, according to the channel. Prithviraj Chauhan, Sai Baba and Jai Maa Durga have been among the top grossers on Star TV, with the first show routinely crossing a TVR of 4.

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Mumbai: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif better known as Bollywood’s bold and beautiful couple are still very much together and in love.

The latest buzz of the couple heading for splitsville is nothing more than just another tiny rumour of the tinsel town. The news of Salman allegedly slapping Katrina in public at a Mumbai restaurant, followed a series of unconfirmed reports of the actor seeing another woman and Katrina going apartment hunting.

Though Salman decided not to comment on the subject, Katrina snubbed aside the slapping incident as just a silly rumour. But then again, the actor’s absence for the premiere of Katrina starrer ‘Race’ sparked further speculations.

But wait… do not arrive at conclusions so fast. We are told that Salman had a very strong reason for not being present at the premier. The actor was not in India, as he was busy shooting for his upcoming flick ‘Wanted Dead or Alive’. Though he was not present at the premier his entire family went to show their support and admiration for their potential bahu rani…

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Airtel yesterday announced the launch of “airtellive.com”, claimed to be an all-in-one Internet portal for its customers. This makes the company the first telco in the country to launch such a portal, it said.

The portal is looked upon as a milestone for Airtel; it builds upon the existing Broadband ecosystem to establish an Internet destination for Web applications, said Atul Bindal, president of Airtel Telemedia Services during the launch.

Airtel’s move is expected to give its customers easy access to Google’s simple yet powerful applications over the company’s fast and reliable Broadband network. At “airtellive.com”, Airtel customers will can access — for free — Google’s Applications messaging and collaboration Suite that includes email services, Google documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Services are co-branded and powered by Google and Airtel Broadband. Airtel claims it has also partnered the likes of shaadi.com, 24×7guru, and naukri.com to offer exclusive deals and discounts on its portal.

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Deccan launched 18 new services across various sectors on 29-Mar-08, marking the beginning of the summer schedule. Deccan has also added a new destination- Jorhat to its wide network. Bookings for the flights are open.
 
Ramki Sundaram officiating CEO Deccan said “Deccan continues to provide unparalleled connectivity across the length and breadth of India. In our new summer schedule we have introduced a slew of flights to new city pairs in addition to increasing operations on key routes. Travelers can look forward to timings that make for convenient business and leisure trips.”

About Deccan’s new flights:

Deccan has introduced first ever air connectivity between Bangalore and Indore and is the only airline connecting Bangalore to Indore and also Nagpur by convenient morning flights. The city pair of Indore and Nagpur too is connected only by the Deccan–Kingfisher combine.

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Leading e-Commerce Sites Increase Throughput, Reduce Response Times, and Save Operating Costs by Deploying High Performance Web Portals on Azul

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 2, 2008  /PRNewswire/ — Azul Systems, the award-winning innovator of server appliances that deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network service, today announced that leading e-commerce clients such as Circuit City, LimeWire, and CitiStreet are teaming with Azul to meet the demands of users by providing richer media content, more advanced functionality, and delivering outstanding Quality of Service (QoS).

Azul Systems’ solutions have proven successful in the retail space with Circuit City, who has achieved greater server infrastructure by partnering with Azul. Circuit City was searching for a solution to handle increasing holiday web traffic on circuitcity.com while simultaneously reducing user response times.  Since deploying on Azul, Circuit City has delivered fast and consistent user response times even on the busiest retail day of the year, “Black Friday.”

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Actress Maria Nafpliotou dressed as high priestess stands next to the cauldron with the Olympic flame at Athens’ Panathenian Stadium on Sunday, March 30, 2008.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Chinese spectators cheered Sunday as Greece handed off the Olympic flame for its journey to Beijing and relay through 20 countries. But protesters brandishing Tibetan flags stole the limelight.

Some two dozen activists chanted “Save Tibet!” and unfurled a banner reading “Stop Genocide in Tibet” before police intervened, detaining 21 protesters outside the Panathenian Stadium. Most were later freed.

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BHUTIA BOYCOTT: Bhutia conveyed his decision to the Indian Olympic Association on Monday. 

New Delhi: Indian football captain Baichung Bhutia has refused to carry the Olympic torch when it reaches New Delhi on April 17.

Bhutia conveyed his decision to the Indian Olympic Association on Monday after he was chosen to run with the Olympic torch on the India leg of its journey.

Bhutia, a Buddhist, said this was his way to show support and solidarity for the people of Tibet and their struggle.

He is not the first public personality to have distanced himself from the Beijing Olympics.
Last week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy had indicated France might boycott the games if the situation in Tibet worsened while German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will not attend the Olympics in Beijing.

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