Two months after its release, we were finally able to get a hold of the new phone when Vodafone India announced its “All-in-One” plan published in IB Times . After watching countless videos on YouTube, the phone certainly lives up to its functions. Some of its key features include a 13 MP camera, a powerful quad core processor, a TV/DVR remote, the ever popular NFC, user replaceable battery and a slot for your microSD. Some of the cutting edge additions include the Air View that gives you the ability to hover over an SMS and see a preview of the message, hand gestures that answers an incoming call and the very unique feature of editing out unwanted photobombers in your picture’s background. This new phone also has a Smart Pause that pauses any video you’re watching when your eyes divert from the screen. There are a lot of programs integrated in this new phone making it the perfect device for a modern home, letting you integrate your smartphone as a personal cloud device.

Apart from the nifty additions to this phone, the ability to connect via a 4G network enhances any of your online interactions. We decided to give it a test by going to poker sites like partypoker . Poker sites tend to be vibrant with colours that gives us a measurable gauge as to how good the screen resolution is and its interactive gaming system allows us to fully gauge a phone’s ability to navigate through browser interactions and measure its response time when making fast bets and raises. Since the partypoker’s website also has instructional videos, it’s definitely the ultimate proving ground for any new phones out there. It’s also one of the few that offers an Android app that lets us test its compatibility and playability with existing programs in the open market. Any phone that performs well in all of the website’s aspects deserve to pass our scrutiny with flying colours indeed.

The only downside that we can see on this new phone is the fact that it’s still made, predominantly, of plastic. Most of the high end phones we see on the market are often heavier and more resistant to physical breakage due to the fact that it’s mostly made of metal. While the plastic body certainly gives Samsung the convenience of having a user replaceable battery, it could benefit from sturdier material as well. Overall, it’s certainly the current phone to beat out there in terms of functionality and features.

Pages of the social networking sites of Tendulkar fans hold a storm of admiration and love through millions of posts wishing Tendulkar happy birthday.

Tendulkar playing in a Twenty20 match in India and also playing for his franchise Mumbai Indians in the IPL celebrated his birthday with his wife Anjali cutting a 5kg birthday cake at the ITC Sonar Kolkata on Wednesday, reports said.

Thanking his fans for “unconditional love”, Tendulkar said, “(I have) never been so tense actually while cutting a cake. Thank you everybody for this gesture. It’s really touching,” source added.

The world’s greatest batsman, made his debut as a 16-year-old in 1989, holding huge fantastic records confirmed his retirement from the ODI format last year but continues to play tests series.

Like Sachin , Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid and V.V.S. Laxman all step down over the past year.

In his 24 years career, Tendulkar has got all batting records to his name became the first batsman to complete 100 internationals centuries with his 49th in ODIs.

The sad news for Salman‘s fans is that they will miss their favorite star, Another is of Salman’s biggest rival Shah Rukh Khan might replace him, source said.

Super stylish Salman might be unable to entertain his audience this year again in the coming season of the show due to having busy schedule with his movies this year- one is of ‘Mental’.

Dabangg actor hosted last three seasons -the 4th, 5th and the 6th season of the popular show.

The 7^th season of Bigg Boss realty show is likely to start at the end of this year, and of all buzz are true then Bollywood Badshah will set on TV screen to make a successful hosting of the show.

As per media information, in a late night operation, two were arrested from Tirunelveli from a lodge in Chennai, while third was from Madurai.

Reports added that the trio had facilitated the blast while the main culprits were still at large.

The arrest is being held with the assistance of Tamil Nadu counterparts,  and now the suspects are taken to Bangalore for further investigation, sources added.

On April 17 when Karnataka top BJP leaders went to office for filing nominations for the Assembly elections, a bomb plotted on a parked motorcycle blast near the office, left 16 people injured.

The Pune German Bakery blast convict, charged with serious offences of murder and criminal conspiracy is the only one suspect who arrested.

As per media reports, Baig had role in the German Bakery blast in Pune’s upmarket Koregaon Park where 17 people left dead in February 2010.

After more than six months from terror attack, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad nabbed Baig from Udgir, reports added.

Baig was found guilty in the case, but it has to say that terrorist would move to Bombay High Court to challenge the verdict.

KKR beats DD by 6-wickets while chasing a mere total of 129 runs.

Captain of KKR, Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bowl first. Delhi lost its opener Unmukt Chand on the very first ball of the innings bowled by Brett Lee.

Mahela Jayawardene, captain of DD, was the only batsman who scored 66 runs, and helped his team to bring close to 130 runs in 20-overs play.

Sunil Narine, Man-of-the-match, was the pick of the bowlers for the Kolkata Knight Riders, taking 4 wickets for just 13 runs in his 4-overs spell.

Gautam Gambhir led his team from the from, making 41 runs with five fours and one huge six.

SCOREBOARD

Delhi Daredevils: Unmukt Chand b Lee 0 (1b), David Warner c Kallis b Narine 21 (19b, 4×4), Mahela Jayawardene c Narine b Lee 66 (52b, 8×4, 1×6), Manpreet Juneja c Shukla b Balaji 8 (9b, 1×4), Naman Ojha c Lee b Bhatia 9 (9b, 1×4), Johan Botha lbw b Bhatia 7 (6b, 1×4), Irfan Pathan c Tiwary b Narine 4 (7b), Andre Russell c & b Narine 4 (8b), Shahbaz Nadeem (run out) 4 (8b), Ashish Nehra c Shukla b Narine 0 (1b), Umesh Yadav (not out) 0 (0b); Extras (b-1, w-4): 5; Total (in 20 overs): 128.

Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Unmukt), 2-44 (Warner), 3-59 (Juneja), 4-79 (Ojha), 5-88 (Botha), 6-97 (Pathan), 7-113 (Russell), 8-125 (Jayawardene), 9-128 (Nehra).

Kolkata Knight Riders bowling: Lee 4-0-40-2, Kallis 3-0-23-0, Balaji 4-0-20-1, Narine 4-0-13-4, Bhatia 4-0-23-2, Shukla 1-0-8-0.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Manvinder Bisla c Chand b Nehra 4 (9b, 1×4), Gautam Gambhir lbw b Botha 42 (29b, 5×4, 1×6), Jacques Kallis c Unmukt b Nadeem 23 (20b, 5×4), Manoj Tiwary c Ojha b Nadeem 23 (23b, 2×4), Eoin Morgan (not out) 14 (15b, 1×4), Yusuf Pathan (not out) 18 (16b, 1×6); Extras (lb-2, w-3): 5; Total (for four wkts. in 18.4 overs): 129.

Fall of wickets: 1-5 (Bisla), 2-52 (Kallis), 3-93 (Gambhir), 4-99 (Tiwary).

Delhi Daredevils bowling: Pathan 2-1-15-0, Nehra 3-0-20-1, Umesh 3-0-23-0, Nadeem 4-0-22-2, Botha 3.4-0-23-1, Russell 3-0-24-0.

Man-of-the-match: Sunil Narine.

It is said under Article 72 of the Constitution, President has the power to ‘grant pardons, etc, and to suspend, remit or commute sentences in certain cases’.

Now, there is no mercy petition pending at the President office.

Following are the mercy petitions dismissed by President Pranab Mukherjee.

Gurmeet Singh of Uttar Pradesh, convicted for killing 13 members of a family on August 17, 1986.

Then comes, Dharampal from Haryana, he killed 5 members of the family of a girl he had raped in 1993.

Further, Daughter of ex-MLA from Haryana, Sonia, and her husband, Sanjeev, who killed eight of her family members in Hisar in 2001.

Suresh and Ramji from Uttar Pradesh, who were convicted for killing five members of their brother’s family.

Other cases which were on the President’s desk are as follows:

Jafar Ali from Uttar Pradesh, who was convicted for killing wife and five daughters in 2002.

Sunder Singh from Uttarakhand, who was convicted for rape and murder in June 1989.

Praveen Kumar of Karnataka, who was convicted for killing four members of a family on February 23, 1994.

Further, the social activist urged the people to elect representatives with clean image in next Lok Sabha polls.

Anna Hazare, whose Janatantra Yatra reached Jalandhar on Sunday evening, said, “Politicians are elected to serve the public but they take the role of robbers once they enter Parliament and state assemblies and rob people of their wealth.”

Then, talking about the importance of Lokpal Bill, Hazare said, “Jan Lokpal Bill is important for a corruption-free India and this is the reason the corrupt politicians won’t allow it to be passed…. Rise from your slumber. Don’t let them cheat you any longer.”

Hazare, however, urged people to vote for politicians with a clean image, who can serve the people instead of ruling them. He said, “163 members and 15 ministers are tainted in the present Parliament. It is for you to understand whether their priority will be to try to wash off their taint or serve you.”

Former Indian Army Chief, General VK Singh, also touring with Anna Hazare, said, “The country is corruption ridden. Politicians try to divide us on caste, religion and regional lines and we are foolish enough to fall prey to it. So it is important that we wake up and elect the right people who can serve the nation.”

Meanwhile, the ‘Janatantra Yatra’ arrived in Ludhiana on its 2nd day on Monday amidst tight security.

Talking to media, Hazare said that he will announce a ‘Jan Sansad’ in Delhi after 5 months to chalk out the future strategy of the movement.

Hazare said, “It (Jan Sansad) will have representatives of all sections of the society.”

He said, “Several important issues like the right to recall elected representatives, the role of the movement in the next Lok Sabha elections are part of his yatra. The basic unit of the Jan Sansad is the village.”

Earlier, social activist Anna Hazare visited the Namdhari Shaheedi Samark here where he paid rich tributes to the Namdhari (a Sikh sect) martyrs.