I had blogged about this in the past too that why India needs its own blogging network and why we don't have one but finally TadkaNetwork has launched their tadka websites BollyTadka, Edutadka, MoneyTadka, SportsTadka and TVTadka where you can find latest news related to India.

Now the problem with this network is that they will find it difficult to get fresh unique content as competing with indian news sites which are already established wont' be easy. I personally feels there is still space for them if they, instead of putting same news and content as of indian news website, put different content.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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