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World's Top 10 Supercomputers: Worlds Fastest Supercomputers

2011-06-28T10:19:00.001+05:00

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For those of us not in the know, "supercomputer" conjures up few images. One might be the 30 Rock episode where Jenna mistakes a prop from the failed 1975 series Supercomputer for creepy head page Donny. Or possibly a giant Star-Trek-like room emitting boops and beeps. Those in the know, like Horst Gietl, an executive consultant for the International Supercomputing Conference, will tell you that a supercomputer is simply a computer that has the most advanced processing speed and capability right now.

The computer you're using to read this is more powerful than supercomputers of yore. But today's supercomputers are so fast, the cool kids call them "slow." Take the processor in a laptop, multiply it by thousands, stack them in racks, link them through a lightning-fast network and you have a supercomputer.

"If an application on your laptop needs years to produce valuable results, then a supercomputer may solve the same problem in minutes," Gietl says. They have the ability to handle massive amounts of data for climate analysis, molecular modeling and even nuclear explosion simulation. This week, the annual list of the world's 500 most powerful machines was announced at the ISC in Dresden, Germany. Here are the top ten:

10. SGI Altix ICE 8200EX

The SGI Altix system in Pau, France, has a capacity of 106.1 teraflops (one teraflop = one trillion operations per second). This supercomputer is run by Total Exploration Production and is the largest system housed with an industrial customer, according to Top500.org. Total is a gas and oil company that uses its supercomputer to do seismic depth imaging in order to locate underground hydrocarbon reservoirs. The company reports that the massive heat from the computer is being used to warm some of the building at the center.

9. BlueGene/P at IDRIS

The BlueGene/P Solution system at the Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique in Orsay, France, is just one of many IBM systems on the list. IDRIS works in partnership with another supercomputer center in Montpellier to offer its capabilities to the national scientific community.

8. EKA

This is the second year a supercomputer in India has broken the top 10. EKA, which means number one in Sanskrit, runs on a Hewlett-Packard system at Computational Research Laboratories, a subsidiary of Tata Sons in Pune, India. Tata Group is the largest conglomerate in India, bringing in $55 billion annually. CRL is focused entirely on high-performance computing. EKA's power makes it ideal for molecular simulations, fluid dynamics computations and crash simulations.

7. Encanto

This system, at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was built by SGI. According to an article in the United Kingdom's Register earlier this year, Encanto was being housed at an Intel facility (Intel made most of the processors in the Top500 list). Apparently, politicians in New Mexico are considering making the 133.2 teraflops supercomputer available for businesses and academic institutions to rent.

5. Jaguar

The Jaguar supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn., was built by Cray. If the name sounds familiar, that's because Seymour Cray dominated the computing world from the 1960s through the 1980s. His Cray-2 was the fastest computer in the world for four years in the '80s. Earlier this month, Jaguar got a makeover, upping its speed to 260 teraflops. Like many other supercomputers on the list, Jaguar is used to conduct a variety of security and scientific research.

4. Ranger

Unlike the other supercomputers at the top of this list, Ranger is a system intended to be open. Sun Microsystems worked with the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas and a team of academic institutions to build Ranger, which has one-half a petaflop (the next step up from teraflop) capacity. Researchers at academic institutions in the United States whose hearts beat faster at the possibility of crunching "parallel algorithms" and doing "scalable visualization," can submit proposals to have the system run their numbers.

3. BlueGene/P at Argonne

Another Big Blue system is the BlueGene/P at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill. Argonne, along with Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Lawrence Berkeley, was part of the Manhattan Project, which developed the nuclear bomb in the 1940s. It's the first national laboratory in the country and one of the largest. Argonne still conducts nuclear research, but is also conducting research in environmental management, energy resources, and a variety of scientific fields.

2. BlueGene/L

IBM's BlueGene/L system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., is nothing to sneeze at. It can do 478.2 trillion operations in a second, which it does in collaboration with Los Alamos and Sandia. BlueGene/L can run nuclear computer simulations, replacing underground testing. Thankfully.

1. Roadrunner

Earlier this month, Roadrunner became the first computer ever to reach the one petaflop per second level. Translation: it can do one thousand trillion calculations in the blink of an eye. That's 15 zeroes. That's so fast, even analogies can't touch it. Roadrunner, named after New Mexico's state bird, is operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory. IBM designed and built the record-breaking system, which will be used to do energy, astronomy, climate, human genome research, and to keep the nation's nuclear stockpile safe.

6. JUGENE

This computer, at the Jülich Research Centre (FZJ for short in German), in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany is yet another that runs on IBM's BlueGene system. Back in the day, Jülich had three nuclear reactors for research, but they have all since been closed. Now the center has shifted its focus to broader scientific subjects and is participating in several grid computing projects in the European Union.

ULTIMATE BROTHERHOOD - JOURNEY WITH FRIENDS

2011-03-29T15:39:00.000+05:00

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ABOUT MY CITY

2010-06-25T13:23:00.000+05:00

Karachi (help·info) (Urdu: کراچی, Sindhi: ڪراچي) is the largest city, main seaport and the financial capital of Pakistan, and the capital of the province of Sindh. With a city population of 18.5 million, Karachi is one of the world's largest cities in terms of population,[4] 2nd largest urban agglomeration[5], the 4th largest metropolitan area in the world,[6] and the 2nd largest city within the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. It is Pakistan's premier centre of banking, industry, and trade. Karachi is home to Pakistan's largest corporations, including those that are involved in textiles, shipping, automotive industry, entertainment, the arts, fashion, advertising, publishing, software development and medical research. The city is a major hub of higher education in South Asia and the wider Islamic world.[7] Karachi is ranked as a Beta world city.[8][9]

Karachi enjoys its prominent position because of its geographical location on a bay, making it the financial capital of the country. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. It was the original capital of Pakistan until the construction of Islamabad and is the location of the Port of Karachi and Port Bin Qasim, one of the region's largest and busiest ports. After the partition of India and the independence of Pakistan, the city's population increased dramatically when hundreds of thousands of migrants from India, East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) and other parts of South Asia came to settle in the city.

Karachi city is spread over 3,530 km2 (1,360 sq mi) in area, almost five times bigger than Singapore. It is locally known as the "City of Lights" (روشنین جو شهر) and "The bride of the cities" (عروس البلاد) for its liveliness, and the "City of the Quaid" (شهرِ قائد), having been the birth and burial place of Quaid-e-Azam (Muhammad Ali Jinnah), the founder of Pakistan, who made the city his home after Pakistan's independence.

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Afridi asks selectors to inject young blood

2010-05-18T18:32:00.004+05:00

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Karachi: Unhappy with the performance of 'some' senior players, Pakistan's Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has requested the national selectors to inject some young blood in the team.

In an interview prior to the team's departure for London from St. Lucia, the Pakistan captain expressed his dissatisfaction at the performance of some of his senior players during the recently-concluded ICC World Twenty20.

'It is time for some senior players to go because we can't expect a good show from them anymore in future,' said Afridi.

Afridi feels that by grooming youngsters the team can get better results in the future.

'There is no dearth of talent in Pakistan especially in the T20 format; the youngsters should be given a chance in the national team.'

Defending champions Pakistan lost to Australia in a thrilling semi-final and Afridi still can't believe that Pakistan lost the game.

'I haven't seen such an unbelievable game in my career, the entire match changed in just 11 deliveries, the battle would long be remembered,' said.

Michael Hussey's magical knock of 60 off 24 balls enabled Australia chase down a huge target of 192 to win the semi-final last on Friday.

Counting the positives of the Caribbean safari, Afridi said unity among the players was the best he earned during the tournament.

'Every player was united and everyone was fighting for victory, which is a great sign for team,' he said.

ITS ALL ABOUT CRICKET - THE IPL (INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE)..

2010-03-22T18:10:00.005+05:00

The Indian Premier League

The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, Chairman & Commissioner for IPL. It presently includes 8 teams or "franchises" consisting of players from different countries. The number of teams would be increased to 10 in 2011. The first season of the Indian Premier League commenced on 18 April 2008.

The third season of IPL started in India on 12 March 2010 and is due to last over a period of 45 days.[3] Five new venues, Cuttack, Nagpur, Vishakhapatnam, Ahmedabad and Dharamsala, have been added[4][5]. Other changes include removal of icon players[6] and granting permission to players who were involved in the Indian Cricket League to play in the tournament.[7] Also, it will be the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website Youtube.[8]

History

[edit] Inaugural season
Main article: 2008 Indian Premier League
A Chennai vs Kolkata match in progress at the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium

The tournament started on 18 April 2008 in Bangalore and lasted for 46 days with 59 matches scheduled, out of which 58 took place and 1 was washed out due to rain. Each team played every other both at home and away in a round robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final. Rajasthan Royals emerged as the inaugural IPL champions.

Second season
Main article: 2009 Indian Premier League

The 2009 season coincided with the general elections in India. Due to concerns regarding players' security, the venue was shifted to South Africa. The format of the tournament remained the same as the inaugural one. Deccan Chargers came out as eventual winners of the tournament.

Third season

Main article: 2010 Indian Premier League

The third season opened in January 2010 with the auction for players. 66 players were on offer but only 11 players were sold[9]. No player from Pakistan was selected[10], leading to an international political row, with Pakistan interior minister Rehman Malik suggesting that the Pakistani players had been "insulted"[11]. Indian External Affairs minister SM Krishna clarified that "The government has nothing to do with the selection of players for sporting events."[11]. In this season, defending Champions Deccan Chargers will not play at their preferred home location of Hyderabad or Visakhapatnam due to the ongoing political crisis in the region. The new bases for the champions this season are to be Nagpur and Cuttack
Fourth season
Main article: 2011 Indian Premier League

On March 21st 2010 it was announced that 2 new teams from Pune and Kochi will be added to the IPL from next season. This will increase the number of franchises from 8 to 10 and the number of matches from 60 to 94.
[edit] Franchisees

The winning bidders for the eight franchises were announced on 24 January 2008.[12] While the total base price for auction was US $400 million, the auction fetched US $723.59 million.[13]

On March 21, 2010, Pune and Kochi were unveiled as the two new franchises for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League. The base price was $225 million. While Pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports Group for $370 million, the Kochi franchise was bought by Rendezvous Sports World Limited for $333.3 million. The process was to have been completed on March 7 but was postponed by two weeks after the bidders and the BCCI objected to stiff financial clauses.[14] The second franchise auction fetched total $703 million.

Main articles:

Royal Challengers Bangalore, Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Daredevils, Deccan Chargers, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, Mumbai Indians, and Rajasthan Royals

The first players' auctions were held on 20 February 2008. The IPL placed icon status on a select few marquee Indian players. These players were Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, and Virender Sehwag. VVS Laxman initially named an icon player, later voluntarily opted out of his icon status to give his team (Deccan Chargers) more money to bid for players.[15] For the second season, auctions were also held, but free signings taking place in the off-season by franchises led to calls for a draft-like system where the lowest ranked teams would be given a first opportunity to sign players. Nagpur
[edit] Television rights and sponsorships

The IPL is predicted to bring the BCCI income of approximately US$1.6 billion, over a period of five to ten years. All of these revenues are directed to a central pool, 40% of which will go to IPL itself, 54% to franchisees and 6% as prize money. The money will be distributed in these proportions until 2017, after which the share of IPL will be 50%, franchisees 45% and prize money 5%. The IPL signed up Kingfisher Airlines as the official umpire partner for the series in a Rs. 106 crore (1.06 billion) deal. This deal sees the Kingfisher Airlines brand on all umpires' uniforms and also on the giant screens during third umpire decisions.[16]
[edit] Television rights

On 15 January 2008 it was announced that a consortium consisting of India's Sony Entertainment Television network and Singapore-based World Sport Group secured the global broadcasting rights of the Indian Premier League.[17] The record deal has a duration of ten years at a cost of US $1.026 billion. As part of the deal, the consortium will pay the BCCI US $918 million for the television broadcast rights and US $108 million for the promotion of the tournament.[18] This deal was challenged in the Bombay High Court by IPL, and got the ruling on its side. After losing the battle in court, Sony Entertainment Television signed a new contract with BCCI with Sony Entertainment Television paying a staggering Rs. 8700 crores (87 billion) for 10 years. One of the reasons for payment of this huge amount is seen as the money required to subsidize IPL's move to South Africa which will be substantially more than the previous IPL. IPL had agreed to subsidize the difference in operating cost between India and South Africa as it decided to move to the African nation after the security concerns raised because of its coincidence with India's general elections.

20% of these proceeds would go to IPL, 8% as prize money and 72% would be distributed to the franchisees. The money would be distributed in these proportions until 2012, after which the IPL would go public and list its shares.[19]

Sony-WSG then re-sold parts of the broadcasting rights geographically to other companies. Below is a summary of the broadcasting rights around the world.

On 4 March 2010 ITV announced it had secured the United Kingdom television rights for the 2010 Indian Premier League. ITV will televise 59 of the 60 IPL matches on its ITV4 free to air channel.[20]
Winning Bidder Regional Broadcast Rights Terms of Deal
Sony/World Sport Group
Global Rights, India 10 years at Rs 8700 crores (revised)[17]
ONE HD Free-to-air HD and SD television in Australia. Owned by Network TEN. 5 years at AUD 10-15 Million.[21]
Sky Network Television New Zealand broadcast rights Terms not released
Astro Malaysia broadcast rights on pay channel Astro Box Office Sport 2. Terms not released
Arab Digital Distribution Middle East broadcast rights on ADD's CricOne channel. Will broadcast to United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan, Libya and Nigeria. 10 Years, terms not released.[22]
Willow TV Rights to distribute on television, radio, broadband and Internet, for the IPL in North America. 5 years, terms not released.[23]
DirecTV United States Exclusive broadcast rights on pay channel CricketTicket. Terms not released
SuperSport
South Africa, Central Africa and Nigeria broadcast rights Terms not released
GEO Super
Pakistan broadcast rights Terms not released
Asian Television Network
Canadian broadcast rights. Aired on Pay-per-view channel.Aired on XM Radio's ATN-Asian Radio as well. 5 years, terms not released.[24]
ITV
United Kingdom broadcast rights, broadcast on ITV4 Terms not released
[edit] Sponsorships

India's biggest property developer DLF Group paid US$50 million to be the title sponsor of the tournament for 5 years from 2008 to 2013.[25]
[edit] Revenue and Profits

The UK-based brand consultancy, Brand Finance, has valued the IPL at $4.1 billion.[26]

There are disputed figures for the profitability of the teams. One analyst said that four teams out of the eight made a profit in 2009.[27] While the London Times said that all but Kings XI Punjab made a profit.[28]

In 2010, the IPL expects to have 80 official merchandising deals. It has signed a deal with Swiss watchmaker Bandelier to make official watches for the IPL.[29]
[edit] Official IPL Mobile Applications

DCI Mobile Studios (A division of Dot Com Infoway Limited), in conjunction with Sigma Ventures of Singapore, have jointly acquired the rights to be the exclusive Mobile Application partner and rights holder for the Indian Premier League cricket matches worldwide for the next 8 years (including the 2017 season). Recently, they have released the IPL T20 Mobile applications for iPhone, Nokia Smartphones and Blackberry devices. Soon it will be made available across all other major Mobile platforms including the Android, Windows Mobile, Palm & others.[30]
[edit] Global following
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In India, the IPL has become one of the most popular events of the year[31]. In the first season, games were played every night (including weekdays) during Indian prime-time and were broadcast live. The IPL was the most watched TV program in India. [32] A lot of women who used to watch soap operas, tuned in to watch the IPL instead.

Around the world, reception has been mostly positive. In Pakistan the reception was described by Pakistani cricinfo editor Osman Samiuddin as "massive", suggesting that it attracted even non-regular cricket followers and that the popularity of the Kolkata Knight Riders was great.[33] GEO Super telecasted the matches live and also included a popular show called Inside IPL. A similar positive reaction was seen in Sri Lanka, with interest in the Mumbai Indians being large due to the presence of cricket hero Sanath Jayasuriya. Cricket followers in Bangladesh also reacted positively, despite only one Bangladeshi player being involved. The Knight Riders were the most popular team. These subcontinental countries were also helped with the fact that the time-slot of the matches fitted in with prime time in these nations.

South Africa has seen massive viewership of the IPL, with a large number simply supported Mumbai Indians because of the presence of Shaun Pollock. In England, the IPL did not obviously overcome the power of Premier League, but was generally considered to be popular. The tournament is especially very popular with the Asian population.

In the West Indies, the IPL became so popular that it, according to Vaneisa Baksh, threatened to overtake test cricket completely in 'certain sections of West Indian fans'. While free-to-air coverage has not been complete and it has not ignited passions, it has remained a popular watch.

The IPL was less popular in Australia and New Zealand, mainly due to the time zone differences. Nevertheless, the IPL consistently won its free-to-air time-slot of 8:30 P.M. and 12:30 A.M. Australian Eastern Time, and 10:30 P.M. and 2:30 A.M. New Zealand Time for subscription TV. A large number of people from both these Pacific countries watch the IPL matches in pubs and bars.

Snap polls indicated that more than 48 million people watched the telecast of the IPL 2008 final between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings), more than 40 million people saw the Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Daredevils match, whereas the second semi-final between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab attracted an audience of 29 million.[34]
[edit] Rules
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The official rules for the tournament are here.

There are five ways that a franchise can acquire a player. In the annual auction, buying domestic players, signing uncapped players through trading and buying replacements.[35][36] In the trading window the player can only be traded with his consent. The franchise will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new contract is worth more than the older one then the difference will be shared between the player and the franchise selling the player.[37]

Some of the Team composition rules are:

* Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio and a coach.
* No more than 8 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI.For the 2009 edition franchises are allowed 10 foreign players in the squad. The number allowed in the playing XI remains unchanged at 4.
* A minimum of 8 local players must be included in each team.
* A minimum of 2 players from the BCCI under-22 pool in each team.

The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $5m. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $20,000 while for others it is US $50,000.
[edit] Official website

The IPL negotiated a contract with the Canadian company Live Current Media Inc. to run and operate its portals and the minimum guarantee has been negotiated at US $50 million over the next 10 years.[38] The official website of the tournament is www.iplt20.com.

Incorporating popular forms of social media into the third season of the IPL, the website now contains a more holistic presence across all online mediums. The website apart from featuring new additions to empower user interaction, has encouraged a wider range of websites around IPL like IPL Tracker[1] and IPL Mag[2] amongst other more traditional reporting websites.
[edit] Statistics and records
Main article: List of statistics and records of Indian Premier League
[edit] Controversies

The BCCI had found itself in the middle of many conflicts with various cricket boards around the world as a result of the IPL. The main point of contention was that signed players should always be available to their country for international tours, even if it overlaps with the IPL season. To address this, the BCCI officially requested that the ICC institute a time period in the International Future Tours Program solely for the IPL season. This request was not granted at a subsequent meeting held by the ICC.[39]
[edit] Conflicts with the England and Wales Cricket Board

Because the inaugural IPL season coincided with the County Championship season as well as New Zealand's tour of England, the ECB and county cricket clubs raised their concerns to the BCCI over players. The ECB made it abundantly clear that they would not sign No Objection Certificates for players—a prerequisite for playing in the IPL. Chairmen of the county clubs also made it clear that players contracted to them were required to fulfill their commitment to their county. As a result of this, Dimitri Mascarenhas was the only English player to have signed with the IPL for the 2008 season.[40]

A result of the ECB’s concerns about players joining the IPL, was a proposed radical response of creating their own Twenty20 tournament that would be similar in structure to the IPL. The league — titled the English Premier League — would feature 21 teams in three groups of seven and would occur towards the end of the summer season.[41] The ECB enlisted the aid of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford to launch the proposed league.[42] Stanford was the brains behind the successful Stanford 20/20, a tournament that has run twice in the West Indies. On 17 February 2009, when news of the fraud investigation against Stanford became public, the ECB and WICB withdrew from talks with Stanford on sponsorship.[43][44] On February 20 the ECB announced it has severed its ties with Stanford and cancelled all contracts with him.[45]
[edit] Conflicts with Cricket Australia

The BCCI also experienced run-ins with Cricket Australia (CA) over player availability for Australia’s 2008 tour of the West Indies and CA’s desire for global protection of their sponsors. CA had feared that sponsors of the IPL (and its teams) that directly competed with their sponsors would jeopardize already existing arrangements. This issue was eventually resolved [46] and it was also agreed upon that Australian players would be fully available for the West Indies tour.
[edit] Conflicts with the Pakistan Cricket Board

Many players from the Pakistan Cricket Team who were not offered renewed central contracts (or decided to reject new contracts) decided to join the rival Indian Cricket League (ICL). Two such players—Naved-ul-Hasan and Mushtaq Ahmed also held contracts with English Counties. The PCB decided to issue No Objection Certificates for these players to play with their county teams on the basis that since they were no longer contracted to the PCB, there was no point in not granting them their NOCs. The latter did not sit well with the BCCI, as it went against the hard line stance they had taken on players who joined the ICL.[citation needed]

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, the Pakistan government deemed it unsafe for its players to travel to India for the IPL. However, when the IPL was shifted to South Africa, the Pakistani players requested the IPL organizers and Lalit Modi to allow them to play but they refused by reasoning that the squads had already been decided and there was no room for Pakistani players.[citation needed]

Recently in the 2010 IPL auction nobody bid on any of the Pakistani cricketers, despite having expressed an interest in them therefore having them put on the auction list. Initially they said that the decision was purely based on cricket implying that the Pakistanis were not up to standard, the Pakistani team had won the 2009 T20 World Cup. There was speculation that the Pakistanis might have been denied visas, so a team would waste money by recruiting them. After questioning, the IPL board members said that the reasoning behind none of the Pakistani players being selected was simply natural and unaffected by any outside influences.
[edit] Conflicts with other Boards

Smaller boards like the WICB and NZCB have raised concerns over the impact the IPL will have on their player development and already fragile financial situation. Since players from smaller cricketing nations are not compensated as much, they have more motivation to join the IPL.[citation needed]
[edit] Media restrictions

Initially the IPL enforced strict guidelines to media covering Premier League matches, consistent with their desire to use the same model sports leagues in North America use in regards to media coverage. Notable guidelines imposed included the restriction to use images taken during the event unless purchased from cricket.com, owned by Live Current Media Inc (who won the rights to such images) and the prohibition of live coverage from the cricket grounds. Media agencies also had to agree to upload all images taken at IPL matches to the official website. This was deemed unacceptable by print media around the world. Upon the threat of boycott, the IPL eased up on several of the restrictions.[47] On 15 April 2008 a revised set of guidelines offering major concessions to the print media and agencies was issued by the IPL and accepted by the Indian Newspaper Society.[48]

Even with the amended restrictions, specialist cricket websites such as cricinfo and cricket365 continued to be banned from providing live coverage from the grounds and from purchasing match images from press agencies. As a result, on 18 April several major international agencies including Reuters and AFP announced their decision to provide no coverage of the IPL.[49]
[edit] Conflict with Cricket Club of India

As per IPL rules, the winner of the previous competition decides the venue for the finals.[50] In 2009, the reigning Champions, Deccan Chargers chose the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai.[50] However, a dispute regarding use of the pavilion meant that no IPL matches could be held there. The members of the Cricket Club of India that owns the stadium have the sole right to the pavilion on match days, whereas the IPL required the pavilion for its sponsors.[51] The members were offered free seats in the stands, however the club rejected the offer, stating that members could not be moved out of the pavilion

PRINCE - THE FILM ( VIVEK OBEROI ) ACTION BOLLYWOOD FILM

2010-03-21T18:44:00.006+05:00

Prince (Hindi: प्रिंस) is an upcoming Bollywood film directed by Kookie V Gulati. Vivek Oberoi plays the title character in the film and Nandana Sen, Neeru Singh and Aruna Shields play the heroines.[1] The film is scheduled to released on 9 April 2010.[2] It was earlier titled as Prince of Thieves and Prince - Its Showtim

Synopsis

Prince is a fast paced slick action thriller, which will keep you on the edge of your seat with its twists and turns. Throw in a conspiracy that will send thrills up your spine and you will be on a ride that will redefine the word Extreme. One of the savviest thieves in the world commits the biggest heist of his life. He wakes up next morning to realize he has a gunshot wound on his arm that he doesn’t remember getting.

In his quest to find answers he discovers his name is Prince, he used to work for a man named Sarang and his girlfriend’s name is Maya. He is being hunted by the secret service of India- I Grip, the CBI and the biggest white collared criminals in the world. He is the most wanted man in the country because only he knows the whereabouts of the heist, which contains a secret that is linked not only to his loss of memory but threatens the future of the human race. Prince can rely only on his razor sharp instincts to salvage himself. The web of deception spins and Prince gets even more entangled. Nothing and no one can be trusted.

Cast

* [Vivek_Oberoi].....Prince
* Usama Kayani......DON
* Aruna Shields......Maya
* Nandana Sen......Maya
* Neeru Bajwa......Maya
* Isaiah......Sarang
* Sanjay Kapoor......Officer Khan
* Dalip Tahil......Colonel Khanna
* Manish Anand......Mike
* Mayur Puri......PK
* Rajesh Khattar......Sherry
* Mohit Chauhan......Agent Roy

Crew

* Director: Kookie V Gulati
* Producer: Renu Taurani, Kumar S Taurani
* Director Of Photography: Vishnu Rao
* Action Director: Allan Aamin
* Music By: Sachin Gupta
* Lyrics By: Sameer
* Background music: Sandeep Shirodkar
* Sound Engineering: Resul Pookutty
* Editor: Nicolas Trembasiewicz
* Media Relations: Nine Winds Media & Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
* Choreographers: Bosco-Caesar & Pony Verma
* Cassettes & Cds on Tips Music

Soundtrack

The music for the film is composed by Sachin Gupta. The songs are penned by Sameer. The album has 16 songs, including 7 remixes by DJ Suketu feat AKS.[3]

Tracklist

Track Song Artist(s)
01 "Tere Liye" Atif Aslam, Shreya Ghosal
02 "Aa Bhi Ja Sanam" Atif Aslam
03 "Kaun Hoon Main" Atif Aslam
04 "O Mere Khuda" Atif Aslam, Garima Jhingon
05 "Jiyara Jiyara" Alisha Chinai, Hard Kaur
06 "Ishq Mein" Monali Thakur
07 "Tere Liye (Unplugged)" Sachin Gupta
08 "Tere Liye (Dance Remix)" Atif Aslam, Shreya Ghosal
09 "Tere Liye (Hip Hop Remix)" Atif Aslam, Shreya Ghosal
10 "Aa Bhi Ja Sanam (Dance Mix)" Atif Aslam, Garima Jhingon
11 "Kaun Hoon Main (Dance Mix)" Atif Aslam
12 "Kaun Hoon Main (Lounge Mix)" Atif Aslam
13 "O Mere Khuda (Dance Mix)" Atif Aslam, Garima Jhingon
14 "Jiyara Jiyara (Bhangra Remix)" Alisha Chinai, Hard Kaur
14 "Prince (Mega Mix)" Atif Aslam, Alisha Chinai,Jhingon, Monali Thakur
16 "Prince Theme" Instrumental

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Gulshan-e-Hadeed

Gulshan-e-Hadeed (Urdu: گلشن هدید ) is a neighborhood of Bin Qasim Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan^[1].

Gulshan-e-Hadeed is a Sindhi dominated area. There are several ethnic groups living at Gulshan-e-Hadeed which include Punjabis (constituting majority), Sindhis, Muhajir, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras and Ismailis.

Located on the edge of National Highway, Gulshan-e-Hadeed is at 30 minutes drive from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport. The neighbouring areas of Gulshan-e-Hadeed include Steel Town, Pipri and Shah Latif Town.

Gulshan-e-Hadeed is divided in two phases (Phase-I and Phase-II)

Phase-I is a commercial and residential area. In Phase-I there is a centrally located main commercial market that comprises more than 30 shops and approximately 2500 houses are located all around. Jamiah Masjid “Dayyar-e-Habib” is the biggest mosque that gathers more than 5000 prayers at every Friday prayer. Peer Bazaar (Monday Bazaar) is held in Phase-I on every Monday.

Phase-II is mainly a residential area of Gulshan-e-Hadeed comprising of more than 4000 houses. For shopping purposes, phase II is also provided with local small markets in each neighbourhood designated as “L markets” which are 14 in number, scattered within the area of phase II.

Near the L-2 market is the Jamiah Masjid “Bab-e-Rehmat”, beside which is a huge ground where Bin Qasim Authorities are engaged in constructing Girls Degree College.

Famous Jamati Cricketer Mudassir also lives in phase - II. “Budh” Bazar is now held at KDA Line Ground on backside of L-7 Market. Two newly constructed main markets, one near Budh Bazaar ground and other near Doctor Cricket ground, have made phase II equally important in commercial activities like that of phase I. Near “Bab-e-Rehmat” Mosque is the PTCL Telephone Exchange which initially acted as a separate exchange but joined Karachi city Telephone Exchange few years ago and now has become fully digital and also provides D.S.L. Internet connections. On the backside of L-7 market is a Jamia Masjid named “Faizan-e-Madina”.

Couple of years back, the management of Pakistan Steel had planned to establish a new residential phase named Phase-III but move on this proposal has not been witnessed.

Gulshan-e-Hadeed is one of the most popular residential areas of Karachi. Most of the residents work in Pakistan Steel Mills. Gulshan-e-Hadeed is a relatively advanced living area of Bin Qasim Town. It provides almost all facilities regarding business as well as education.

Structure of Gulshan-e-Hadeed is wonderful. It was designed by Russian engineers, who designed it very calculated. Residential houses are built in such a way that the double road, which encircles all around the whole area, faces “C” block bungalows, which are the biggest area wise. Behind “C” block bungalows and facing the double roads that pass across the area are “B” block houses which are of middle size. The core of the area is made up of small sized “A” block houses which are largest in number. By now, the houses facing the main artery of the area have been commercialized by owners. So one would see shops on both sides of the main road that passes through whole the area.

The population of Gulshan-e-Hadeed has been growing tremendously over couple of years due to heavy immigration from interior of Sindh and other provinces. The area is densely populated. The double and tripple-storey houses seem to be increasing in number. Cost of houses ranges from approximately 3 million rupees to over 20 million.

Gulshan-e-Hadeed is also called a school town. According to one estimation, it is one of the towns in Pakistan which are having large number of schools and colleges. It is very beautiful and clean; streets and roads both are carpeted.

The people of Gulshan-e-Hadeed are highly educated and peace-loving. The People are fond of gardening. One would see a small lawn before each house. Most of the people belong to middle income group. The only drawback the residents of this area face is that this area is far away from the centre of Karachi city, almost more than 35 KM from centre of Karachi, so the people who work in Karachi city face transportation difficulties. Also the current UC 6 NAZIM is not doing anything for the town and the sewerage system is becoming worst and roads have only diges and speed breakers with no repairing in last 3 years. Current NAZIM's performance is poor and shameless.

There opened an office for online job program in Gulshan-e-Hadeed also in which youngsters specially University level students taking interest and they doing part time online jobs for earning their pocket money. It is believed that this area will be included in one of the prominent areas in near future as the planned textile, educational, i.t and media cities site area is near to this place. Also AGA KHAN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY and SIUT branch and CIVIC CENTRE 2 of Karachi will be in its neighbour which increases its importance.

Quaid-e-Azam Park is [located in Steel Town] at a distance of 2 KM from Gulshan-e-Hadeed, is a worth visiting beautiful park. On holidays, people of localities as well as from all over Karachi city arrange picnics to visit this place and enjoy leisure time.

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Pakistan Steel Mills

In 1968 the Government of Pakistan decided that the Karachi Steel Project should be sponsored in the public sector, for which a separate Corporation, under the Companies Act, be formed. In pursuance of this decision, Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation Limited was incorporated as a private limited company to establish and run steel mills at Karachi. Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation concluded an agreement with V/o Tyaz Promexport of the USSR in January, 1969 for the preparation of a feasibility report for the establishment of a coastal-based integrated steel mill at Karachi. In January 1971 Pakistan and the USSR signed an agreement under which the latter agreed to provide techno-financial assistance for the construction of a coastal-based integrated steel mill at Karachi. The foundation stone of this vital and gigantic project was laid on 30 December, 1973 by the Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The mammoth construction and erection work of an integrated steel mill, never experienced before in the country, was carried out by a consortium of Pakistani construction companies under the overall supervision of Soviet experts. Pakistan Steel not only had to construct the main production units, but also a host of infrastructure facilities involving unprecedented volumes of work and expertise. Component units of the steel mills numbering over twenty, and each a big enough factory in its own right, were commissioned as they were completed between 1981 to 1985, with the Coke Oven and Byproduct Plant coming on stream first and the Galvanizing Unit last. Commissioning of Blast Furnace No.1 on 14 August, 1981 marked Pakistan's entry into the elite club of iron and steel producing nations. The project was completed at a capital cost of Rs.24,700 million. The completion of the steel mill was formally launched by the then-President of Pakistan on 15 January, 1985. Pakistan Steel today is the country's largest industrial undertaking, having a production capacity of 1.1 million tonnes of steel. The real founders of Pakistan Steel Mills are Prof. Niaz Muhammad, Wahab siddiqui and Russian scientist Mickhail Koltokof. It was the hard work of Prof Niaz that thousands of scientists and technical staff got trained by him. His inspirations and innovations got him the highest award from president of Pakistan, and also from Russian Govt. The Govt of Pakistan has given him Pride Of Performance. His nomination for nobel prize was biggest respect what Pakistan achieved.

Location and site

Pakistan Steel is located at a distance of 40 km Southeast of Karachi at Bin Qasim near Port Muhammad Bin Qasim. It was found to be an ecologically preferable location, alongside a tidal creek and having a wind direction away from the city of Karachi. Pakistan Steel is spread out over an area of 18,660 acres (about 29 square miles (75 km²)) including 10,390 acres (42 km²) for the main plant, 8,070 acres (33 km²) for the township and 200 acres (0.8 km²) for the 110 MG water reservoir. In addition it has leasehold rights over an area of {convert|7520|acre|km2|0} for the quarries of limestone and dolomite in the Makli and Jhimpir areas of Thatta district.

Social obligations

Pakistan Steel, besides its core activities, has done a lot in making the environment in and around Pakistan Steel green and beautiful through the addition of three unique projects: the Quaid-I-Azam Park, The Quaid-I-Azam Cricket Park and the Quaid-I-Azam Beach. The Quaid-I-Azam Park, which spreads out over an area of 45 acres (180,000 m²), consists of a series of six interconnected lakes, lush green lawns and grassy terraces, colourful flower beds, fountains, life- size steel-made models of wild and marine animals, a jogging track, a bird sanctuary and mini-zoo, as well as a children's play and recreational ground and boating facilities. The other unique project, known as the Quaid-I-Azam Cricket Park, has been established amidst the picturesque surroundings of Steel Town, featuring sloping grassy terraces all around for spectators and four diagonally-located hillocks with seating arrangements to provide a panoramic view of the game. This is spread over an area of 32000 sq. meters and is equipped with all the necessary facilities, conforming to international standards. The third project, Quaid-I-Azam Beach, is being developed with the aim to provide a seaside recreational spot to the employees of Pakistan Steel, especially those residing at Steel Town and Gulshan-e-Hadeed. Mohammad Mushaffay Ahmed is majority times elected president of Pakistan steel mills union.

Pakistan Steel is also on its way to establish Quaid-I-Azam National Park over a vast area of 400 acres (1.6 km²) adjacent to Steel Town which shall be a tremendous contribution in the development of the environment.^{[citation needed]}. The organisation also has a football team Pakistan Steel FC that currently competes in the Pakistan Premier League.

Privatisation

In May 2006^[1], the government of General Musharraf privatised Pakistan Steel Mills. The consortium involving Saudi Arabia-based Al Tuwairqi Group of Companies submitted a winning bid of $362 million for a 75 per cent stake in Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation (PSMC) at an open auction held in Islamabad. the consortium of Saudi Arabia-based Al Tuwairqi Group of Companies, Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works and local firm Arif Habib Securities paid a total Rs21.6 billion ($362 million), or Rs16.8 per share, to take control of Pakistan's largest steel manufacturing plant. [1]

Tuwairqi Group of Companies, one of the Ieading business concerns in Saudi Arabia, also launched a $300 million steel mills project at Bin Qasim. The group will set up Tuwairqi Steel Mills (TSM), a state-of-the-art steel-making plant in the southern port city of Pakistan.

Suo moto notice

In response to wide spread public outcry and call for action the Chief Justice of Pakistan took a suo moto action against the privatisation citing irregularities in the process. The verdict was delivered on August 8, 2008.^[2]

The Supreme Court on August 8, 2008 held that the entire disinvestment process of the Pakistan Steel Mills reflected a haste, ignoring profitability aspect and assets of the mills by the financial adviser before its evaluation. The transaction was the outcome of a process reflecting procedural irregularities, said the 80-page judgment in the PSM case.

On June 23, a nine-member bench of the Supreme Court had annulled the sale of the country’s largest industrial unit to a three-party consortium and had directed the government to refer the matter to the Council of Common Interests within six weeks. It had declared the $362 million transaction with the Russian-Saudi-Pakistan investors as null and void.

Authored by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the judgment said the entire exercise reflected a haste by the Privatisation Commission (PC) and the Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCOP). The PC had processed the March 30 final report of the financial adviser the same day and a meeting of the PC board and a summary had also been prepared the same day when a six week time was mandatory to examine and fix a fair reference price for approval by the CCOP.

“This unexplained haste caste reasonable doubt on the transparency of the whole exercise and reflects CCOP’s disregard towards mandatory rules and materials, essential for arriving at a fair reference price,” it maintained.

The board had proposed to value the share of the mill at Rs17.43 but it was reduced to Rs16.18 without assigning any reason, the verdict said. The verdict said that keeping in view the annual net profit of the mill, its shares’ value should have been ascertained by offering 10 per cent equity of the mills on the stock exchange.

“A constitutional court would be failing in its duty if it does not interfere to rectify the wrong, more so when valuable assets of the nation are at stake,” the judgment said.

Worth of Steels Mills

The worth of Steels Mills calculated on 30 June 1999, including 4,500 acres (18 km²) of land and long term assets, came to $0.294 billion [2]. The worth of Steels Mills grew from 1999 to 2005 to become $349 million [3] and while a Saudi group Tuwairqi agreed to pay $362 million for Steels Mills. IN 1999, Steels Mills had loan of Rs.19.11 bn, which was being repaid and currently only Rs. 4 billion is left.

The government was privatizing Steels Mills in profit of $13 million and had not sold the access 14,500 acres (59 km²) of land of Pakistan Steel Mills and negotiations were on with the Sindh government to set up an Industrial Park on that land.[4]