Pankaj Advani has beaten Geet Sethi to won the world camptionship of Billiards three consecutive times. Advani in a full house hall beat sethi, former world champion by 6-1

At the age of 23 and with 5 world titles,advani does seems to have got alot. Geet sethi, the former World champion from India and a guru of pankaj advani didn't went down easily. But in the end, advani was too good for him as he was for others in the tournament.

The final score was (best of 11 frames): Pankaj Advani (Ind) bt Geet Sethi (Ind) 6-1 (150 (79 unf)-90, 151(145 unf)-0, 150 (90)-24, 150 (150 unf)-0, 86 (86)-150 (150 unf), 150 (63, 87)-72, 150 (143)-0.

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Sanjeev Nunda, grandson of former navy chief SM nanda and son of arms dealer suresh nanda has been sentenced for 5 years in jail over high profile hit and run BMW case.

On 10th January 1999, Sanjeev Nanda, in drunken state, ran over 6 people including 3 policemen. All 6 died on the spot. Sanjeev nanda was driving his sisters BMW and soon after incident ran away. He and his friend Rajeev Gupta were caught by Delhi Police on 11th of january in a farm house destroying the evidence.

The police had been often criticized for not taking strong stance against some other people who had helped nanda as well being very slow in case solving. Eventually it took the court almost 10 years to come up with a decision though Sanjeev Nanda will be filing in higher court for case renewal.

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Producers of Hari Puttar, a Hindi movies have been sued by Warner Bros who owns Harry Potter movies rights claiming that the name Hari Puttar resembles way too much with harry Potter and this has been done deliberately to use the brand of Harry Potter.

As per Warner Bros, the name is deceptive and created confusion in people's mind and they want the produces of the movie to change the title.

On the other hand, Movie Produces have said that the real name of the movie is "Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terror." and it has nothing to do with Harry Potter series. They were making this movie for some time now and the name makes perfect sense.

As per some reports, the movie story is about a 10 year old boy who goes to england. The movie's music is going to be released on 12th of september.

The decision of court about the movie's title is still pending.

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Maruti Udhyog who is under pressure after heavy hype of Tata nano and its dropping market ing small segment cars will be launching a small car named "A-Star" (Funny name?) with a new engine model. Maruti Alto will also be equipped with this new engine.

As per Maruti spokesperson, they are planning to launch another similar small car "Splash" in the next year.

Though Maruti (with 54% shares owned by suzuki) has repeatedly denied in getting involved with any kind of price war but its fairly obvious that India with 90% market for small cars, maruti can't afford to lose its grip. Maruti Suzuki has seen a drop of 9.2% in sales from last year including dip in sales in Alto and Zen.

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Government is seriously thinking of banning all kind of exit and opinion polls ahead of assembly election is six states as it feels such polls affects peoples opinion, specially if the polling is done in phases.

Its been a very long time since TV channels are showing exit polls (almost everyone has its own) as they are quiet a crowd puller even though historically the predictions made by such exit polls have far from being correct.

The cabinet has the support of all major parties like BJP, congress and left and the chances are that the ban may cover all kind of media, including print media.

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BCCI has warned Indian Cricket team coach for going public with statements like "Dhoni is ready to take captaincy of Test team too" which clearly means Kumble hanging his boots. BCCI asked Kirsten to keep away from media and avoid making such statements.

BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah in a press briefing also said that the decision of choosing who as a captain should be decided only by the selection committee. He went on to said that there is no need to hurry up on making Dhoni the captain of Test team. Kumble is doing fine and lets not overburden dhoni with the weight of captaincy. Dhoni in the past has complaint about fatigue and noticably had taken a break from India's test series against Sri Lanka.

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Google finally did something which was long awaited from them, they launched there own Browser named Chrome, You can download chrome from here

Uptil now, google had heavily promoted Firefox to hit at rival microsoft browser Internet explorer which is still used by the majority of net users thanks to it being pre bundled with Microsoft windows. Now Google which already owns some of the biggest web properties on net like youtube and blogger other than the world's most used search engine, with Chrome is looking to take more control of user web browsing.

Its pretty obvious that Google products and Google toolbar as well as other google product will be some what coupled with the Chrome browser.

The browser do looks to be good though on first looks and users have reported it being fast and with added features. Though it lacks some advertisement blocking features.

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Vijay Mallya is not very happy with 11:30 deadline put by authorities on party and beer loving bangaloreans. Yesterday while launching first flight of Kingfisher airways, Mallya showed his displeasure and said it doesn't make lot of sense when delhi and kolkata can have night life till 2am

He also said that problems with law and orders also do not make lot of sense when in other countries like spain, people party all night. Mallya is open to support for any "dharna" and protest against such rule.

Its worth noting that Bangalore bars have to stop serving after 11:00 pm and have to shut down by 11:30. The move has never got much appreciation from bangalore crowd which constitute mostly of IT people

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One of world's as well as India's Most surfed website IMDB.com has changed its layout and has gone more web 2.0 though this looks to be an ongoing changes made by IMDB to make the site more usable.

IMDB.com is worlds biggest resource on movies (including hindi and regional movies) as well as cast information. From last year onwards, they have added various other segments like FAQ and spoilers in movie pages.

According to alexa, IMDB.com is one of the top 25 most used website by Indians.

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As per World Bank, Russia can overtake India as the second fastest growing economy due to slowing down of Indian economy this year.

India has recorded a GDP Growth rate of 7.9% in the first quarter of this fiscal year which is slowed in the past 3 years. The dip is mostly due to High inflation and high interest rates.

The future is also not looking very bright as Investment banks like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs have predicted India's GDP Growth rate at around 7.5 and 7.9 respectively for Financial year 08-09.

Though Government is hoping on strong domestic demand to fuel up the market and on good monsoon.

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