The assaulters targeted a quondam part of Bayero University’s campus where people use a theater for worship services. Ibrahim Idris, the spokesman for Kano state police told that this attack left several others seriously injured. By the time the state police responded, the attackers left the place with their motorcycles.

After the assault, the soldiers and police cordoned off the university campus as the sound of gunfire echoed in the nearby streets. A spokesperson from the National Emergency Management Agency, Nigeria, told that soldiers stopped journalists to enter the university campus.

No group took the responsibility till now. Ibrahim Idris told that assaulters used explosives bundled in a aluminum soda cans for the attack, the same procedure that was used by Boko Haram, a radical islamist group that reportedly have connections with 2 other al-Qaida-aligned radical groups in Africa.

In recent times, Nigeria, with over 160 million people, has experienced growing anger over corrupt politicians and crushing poverty fueling rancor among the citizens.

Morkel bowled the 19^th over, in which he took the wicket of Brad Hodge – giving away only 3 runs. This left Royals with 12 runs in the last over. Visitors came very close to secure a win as they had to score 2 runs in the last ball, but Naman Ojha ran out Owais Shah and thus giving away the match to Delhi.

Batting first Delhi scored 152 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 6 wickets. Virender Sehwag was the highest scorer with 63 runs. In reply, Rajasthan Royals managed to score 151 in 20 overs, losing only three wickets. Ajinkya Rahane, for the visitors, made 84 in just 63 balls.

After the match the Rajasthan Royals skipper told the reporters that the game was in Rajasthan’s favor till the 18^th over; they did really well and had a lot of wickets. He also felt that they must have attempted to end the match quite early, but they were unlucky to miss this scope.

“We needed the points more than Delhi, they are sitting at the top of the table already. We are a young team, we have lost two ball games, it hurts, I feel bad for the boys, they are giving their best.”

“Every time we are under the pump we comeback strongly, we fight hard, we are clever with our plans. Our bowling today was superb. It was exceptional the way we bowled against a strong Delhi batting line-up. Our young bowling attack was terrific but I’m sure we’ll bounce back.” added Dravid.

In another match of the day, Mumbai Indians beat Deccan Chargers by 5 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium, in Mumbai, in a low scoring game.

In 1998, Nokia took on the top position from Motorola, but in this year’s first quarter, Samsung shipped 93m handsets whereas Nokia shipped around 83m handsets. The South Korean giant also reported their biggest quarterly profit which is $ 5.15 billion and assured that their Galaxy smartphones, which outsell Apple’s iPhone, will be upgraded in the coming week. The firm is also expecting this new device to be a worldwide hit in the mobile phone market.

The firm also added that their mobile communications and IT division that makes the smartphones, drew a 4.27tn operating profit during the time as revenues soared up 86% from earlier year.

Samsung’s head of investor relations Robert Yi told that they cautiously expect their earnings momentum to continue going ahead as competitiveness in their major businesses is increased.

Batting first, Daredevils openers shared a 135 runs partnership for the first wicket with Sehwag scoring 73 and Jayawardene scoring 55 runs. As soon as Jayawardene got out, Kevin Pietersen came in the scene and played a superb knock scoring 50 runs in just 26 balls. Losing 5 wickets in 20 overs, Delhi set a target of 208 runs for the visitors.

In response, Mumbai began their innings in a bad way as Aiden Blizzard got out for a duck in the very first over and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar lost his wicket in the third over scoring only 7 runs followed by Rohit Sharma (12). Mumbai lost their top three batsmen with just 19 runs on the board. Wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik and Ambati Rayudu tried to put Mumbai back on track by sharing a 96 runs partnership, with Karthik scoring 40 runs and Rayudu scoring 62. When both Karthik and Rayudu got out, all hopes were on Pollard, but he failed to deliver as S. Nadeem bowled him out when he was on 16. After that the visitors fell short of their target and finished their innings scoring 170 in 20 overs with the loss of nine wickets.

After the match, Delhi captain Virender Sehwag, who was declared man-of-the-match, told, “We batted well at the start. All our top order fired. I think I am in the best of form as far as IPL is concerned. I have scored around 350 in last few matches and that says about it.”

The decision was taken by the Defense Committee of the Cabinet chaired by Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Prime minister of Pakistan. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the Pakistan army chief, other service chiefs and important federal ministers also attended the meeting.

Pakistan closed the NATO supply routes in November last year after the NATO air-strike in which twenty-four Pakistani soldiers were killed. Pakistan Prime Minister asked for a parliamentary review of the US – Pakistan ties after the assault.

Gilani, in his address, told that the policies of rebuilding the US – Pakistan relationship include transparency in United States intelligence and diplomatic footprint in Pakistan, better inter-agency co-ordination, non-use of the territory of Pakistan to attack other countries and strengthening of border security.

The DCC (Defence Committee of the Cabinet) reach to the decisions regarding the resetting of US – Pakistan relationship after talking about guidelines for Pakistan’s security and foreign policies that were sanctioned by a joint parliament session on 12^th April.

An official statement read, “It was decided that a work plan may be developed for effective implementation of the parliamentary guidelines based on Pakistan’s national interests.”

In Jaipur, batting first, Deccan Chargers made 196 runs in 20 overs with the loss of 2 wickets. J. P. Duminy with 58 not out and Shikhar Dhawan, who score 52, were the top scorers for Deccan.

For Royals Ajinkya Rahane made 44 runs and skipper Rahul Dravid scored 42 runs. Brad Hodge scored 48 runs in just 21 balls with 6 fours and 2 sixes as they reach the target of 197 runs in 19.4 overs. Now, Rahane is the leading scorer of IPL with 304 runs along with a top score of 103 not out against Royal Challengers Bangalore. With 4 win from 6 games, Rajasthan is sitting at the top spot in the team’s standings.

In the other match of the, Sahara Pune Warriors made 182 runs with the loss of 6 wickets at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Uthappa with 69 runs was the top scorer for the visitors. Batting second, Royal Challengers reached sealed the victory in the last ball of the match. Gayle blasted 81 runs in just 48 balls with 4 fours and 8 sixes. Batting in the last few overs, AB de Villiers managed some superb predetermined shots and scored 33 runs. It was Bangalore’s 2nd win in 5 games and Pune stays on 3 wins out of 5 matches.

This new gadget comes with a display of 2048 x 1536 resolution and bunks on A5X processor. More than that it sports a 5 MP rear camera and a front camera called ‘Facetime camera’. It also has a back-illuminated sensor and a 5 element lens known as iSight. iPhoto is another interesting feature that helps the user in editing image. The device is capable of shooting HD (high definition) videos and at the bottom, there is a new key which activates the microphone on just a tip.

Apple iPad Price (Wi-Fi Models):

• 16 GB Model – Rs. 30500
• 32 GB Model – Rs. 36500
• 64 GB Model – RS. 42500

Apple iPad Price (Wi-Fi + 4G Models):

• 16 GB Model – Rs. 38900
• 32 GB Model – Rs. 44900
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On 27^th April, along with India, this new iPad will also be launched in South Africa, Colombia, Thailand, Montenegro, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Israel.

In countries like South Korea, Malaysia, Uruguay, Croatia, Cyprus, Guatemala, Panama, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Brunei, Venezuela and St Maarten, this gadget will be unveiled on 20^th April.

Along with cricket and hockey, Sahara already supports wrestling, boxing, shooting, archery, tennis, football and track and field game.

Subrata Roy, the chief of Sahara India Pariwar expected that this financial backing will help to motivate the volleyball players before the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Subrata Roy told that they see lot of scope to develop the game of Volleyball and therefore they have come forward to lend their support to the National Teams on the eve of Olympic 2012 so that these talented athletes are motivated to perform better to bring more laurels to the nation.

Volleyball Federation of India President B. Sivanthi Adityan told that they are honored and privileged to be associated with a sports loving and promoting group like Sahara. In a press release, he also added that they are quite confident this contract would encourage the volleyball players to perform better and also giving the federation a chance to build a strong Indian team for the forthcoming Qualifiers and other World Championships. 

McLaren’s Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton took the second and third position respectively. Mark Webber of Red Bull finished the race in 4th position and current world champion Sebastian Vettel took the 5th position.

After this incredible win, Rosberg told, “Unbelievable feeling, very cool, very happy, very excited. It’s been a long time coming for me and the team also. It’s amazing, and it’s really nice to see how quickly we are progressing, I didn’t expect to be that fast.”

“Thanks to whole team for working very hard also, and for improving the set-up. I was struggling in first two races with race pace but here it came good.” added the winner.

A spokesperson from the Afghan Interior Ministry told that the battle is over in the Afghan capital. All the places were cleared and all assaulters were killed. The spokesperson did not cater the details but he said that over twenty militants were killed. Afghan civilians and police personnel were also killed in the Taliban attack.

The battle finished at around 7:20 (local time) and now all the roads are open. Yesterday, Kabul and other three Afghan cities were experienced a series of suicide attacks with NATO bases and embassies falling under fire. Afghan security forces took on the lead in forestalling the assault.

The assaulters attacked the Kabul Star Hotel that is situated in the Wazir Akhbar Khan region of the capital and few even attempted to storm the Parliament of Afghanistan by firing rockets but they were stopped by security forces.

The Taliban assulters also came upon cities in 3 provinces – Paktia, Logar and Jalalabad.