Bagan go down to Mahindra United : finish second in I-League

Mohun Bagan missed an outside chance of winning the I-league title as they lost their final round to Mahindra United 1-2 and finished runners-up at the Ambedkar Stadium here Thursday.
Mahindra United’s Nigerian striker Edeh Chidi scored a brace to dash Mohun Bagan’s chance of a record fourth title. Substiute Branco Cardozo pulled one back for Mohun Bagan in the dying minutes of the game.
The Ambedkar Stadium had always been a happy hunting ground for Mohun Bagan, who have won 18 titles here including 16 Durand Cup. But on Thursday, a depleted Mohun Bagan side failed to put up an inspiring performance and went down tamely to the former champions, who finished fifth in the league.
A tired looking Mohun Bagan skipper Bhaichung Bhutia and Brazilian Jose Ramires Barreto could not make early inroads as Mahindra completely dominated the first half.
Chidi and Ivory Coast striker Douhou Pierre kept up the pressure upfront while midfilders Mohammed Rafi and Sushant Matthew gave them enough support.
Mahindra United were relentless with their attack and were awarded in the 42nd minute when Rafi found an unmarked Chidi in the box and the Nigerian shot it past Sangram Mukherjee to give the Mumbai team the lead. Chidi doubled the lead on the hour mark after he was again set-up by Rafi.
Braco pulled one in the injury time (93rd) from a goal mouth melee to restore some pride for Mohun Bagan.
Mahindra coach Derek Pereira was happy with the performance of the team.
‘We played to our plan and defended well. I expected a good performance from the boys today. It has been an average season for us. We lost first three-four matches and that put pressure on us,’ he said.
Mohun Bagan coach Karim Bencherifa rued missing four key players - midfielders Lalkamal Bhowmick, Rakesh Masih, Brazilian Marcos Pereira and defender N.S. Manju, who missed the game due to double bookings.
‘Mahindra completely dominated the first half, but we fought well in the second half. We lost the league because we lost first five matches,’ he said.
Bencherifa, a Moroccan, however said he was looking forward for the Super Cup, where the Kolkata team will face I-League champions Churchill Brothers. He also said that too much dependence on Bhutia and Barreto was not a good sign for his team.

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Katni (MP): A slipper was lobbed at BJP leader LK Advani by a former functionary of the saffron party during a public meeting in Katni (MP), the latest in the series of such episodes involving political leaders, but it did not hit him.
The slipper was hurled by former Katni district president of BJP Pawas Agarwal, who allegedly was aggrieved at the party leadership for being "removed from his post due to groupism within the party," police said.
He threw the slipper shortly after Advani reached the dais, they said.
Soon after the incident, he was taken to the rear of the stage and then whisked away by the police.
The incident comes close on the heels of a journalist throwing a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram during a press conference in New Delhi and a retired school headmaster lobbing a footwear at Congress candidate in Kurukshetra Navin Jindal during a poll rally.

BedRoom secrets by Salman Rushdie’s ex Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi (pictured), the former wife of Sir Salman Rushdie, has decided to remind him what he is missing in the latest edition of Allure magazine. Posing for a photograph that would not look out of place in a soft pornography magazine, the Indian-born model turned cookery writer revealed how she had prepared for the shoot.
"I exercised a little bit extra, but I actually think I look better when I have a little bit of weight on - my breasts are fuller and I'm curvier than when I'm at my thinnest."
Lakshmi, 38, who divorced Rushdie in 2007 shortly after he received his knighthood, is then asked if she sleeps naked, to which she replies: "I tend to sleep in the nude. I'm an innately tactile person and a very sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting! When I'm in my own private space, I do spend time with very little on."

He is BACK to Fight: Varun Gandhi out on Parole

The Supreme Court Thursday ordered "forthwith release" of BJP leader Varun Gandhi for two weeks to enable him to file his nomination for Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency and campaign for the polls.A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishanan, Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice J.M. Panchal ordered Gandhi's release, pending a final decision on his lawsuit challenging his detention under the National Security Act (NSA) by the Uttar Pradesh government.The bench ordered Gandhi's temporary release, dismissing the Uttar Pradesh government's stiff opposition.This will enable him to file his nomination by the deadline of April 24."The Bharatiya Janata Party welcomes the Supreme Court decision. Varun Gandhi is an active party worker. He will campaign for the party," BJP spokesperson Balbir Punj told reporters here."Where all he will go and for whom he will campaign will depend on Varun's comfort and demand from candidates to campaign for them - there are a lot of people who want him to campaign for them," he added.The court said Gandhi would be released Thursday after submitting an affidavit to Etah jail authorities, swearing that he will not make provocative speeches during the poll campaign. He would be filing a similar affidavit later to the Supreme Court by Monday.Authorities of the Etah Jail, where Gandhi has been lodged since April 1, said they were waiting to receive the court order to release him. MrV.R. Sharma, Etah jail superintendent says that he think that the court order will come through fax to Etah district magistrate and hence will be passed on to me. We are waiting for the court orders. "The apex court decision will be followed word by word the moment we receive the order and Varun Gandhi will be released within 10 minutes," he added.The Gandhi scion had been arrested after a series of campaign speeches vilifying Muslims, the tapes of which he said had been doctored. His lawsuit challenging invocation of the NSA against him will come up for hearing May 1."We believe when the Uttar Pradesh government's decided to slap the National Security Act, it was acting under vendetta. They grossly misused the act. We didn't trust them then and we don't now," Punj said."Justice has been done partially at least," he concluded, adding that "everything would become clear in the hearing".

India-Maoist: Boycott of All Elections

India general elections 2009 took off with a violent start as at least 17 people were killed as Maoist guerrillas mounted attacks on polling officials and security personnel across four insurgency-hit states.The states that were hit were Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Orissa, amongst the 17 states and union territories conducting elections in the first phase, where Maoists tried to implement their poll boycott in a hail of bullets and blasts.In Chhattisgarh, holding elections for its 11 parliamentary seats, five members of a zonal reserve polling team members were killed in a landmine blast detonated by Maoists in Rajnandgaon district.In the second incident, a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper was killed in Maroki village in the Maoist stronghold of Dantewada in an exchange of bullets with guerrillas.Maoist attacks sparked panic at six polling stations in southern Bastar region after the guerrillas opened gunfire soon after voting began, police said.About 20 tribals were in a queue outside the Mangnar polling centre in the interior of Dantewada when the attack took place, resulting in most voters fleeing in panic."Our forces exchanged fire with the Naxalites. The polling booths have been secured," Dantewada Superintendent of Police Rahul Sharma told Times Now news channel.Neighbouring Jharkhand, conducting elections over two phases, saw similar violence with seven Border Security Force (BSF) personnel heading to an election centre killed in a landmine explosion in Latehar district. The bus driver and his assistant were also killed instantly.After the mine exploded, the Maoists opened fire at the bus, triggering a gun battle that ended on a bloody note.The incident took place near a jungle near Aara village, Sarvendu Tathagat, the Latehar district deputy police commissioner, told a news agency over telephone.There were two other gun battles between security forces and Maoists in Jharkhand's Khuti and Palamau districts, disrupting voting in both places, police spokesman K.N. Pradhan said.A policeman and a Home Guard were killed in adjoining Bihar when over a dozen Maoists opened fire at a polling station in Bankebazaar in Gaya district.The rebels looted an electronic voting machine and four rifles. Two women voters in a queue at the polling centre were injured and were hospitalised.In Orissa, the Maoists raided four polling stations and set fire to voting machines and a vehicle in Malkangiri and Sundargarh districts, the authorities said.Three of the polling stations were in Malkangiri district and one in Sundargarh. The attacks disrupted polling, Inspector General of Police Sudhanshu Sarangi told the news agency."In one village, they burnt voting machines and an Election Commission vehicle," police officer Satyabrata Bhoi said.The outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist, which seeks to carry out an agrarian-based revolution, routinely calls for a boycott of all elections. It often enforces its boycott call with deadly attacks.

Mulayam try to Resolve: speak to Amarsingh & Azam Khan

Downplaying differences between his party colleagues Amar Singh and Azam Khan, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh on Wednesday said he would speak to both the leaders and resolve matters amicably.