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Friday, May 20, 2011

Arjun Vajpayee Conqered Mt Lhotse!




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Arjun Vajpayee has become a climbing sensation, really. This 17-year-old schoolboy from New Delhi, the youngest Indian to conquer Mt Everest, created a new record by becoming the youngest in the world to ascent Mt Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world! After an aborted attempt last week due to bad weather, Arjun Vajpayee, finally put his feet on the 8,516 m summit. The importance lies in the fact that Mt Lhotse had never been climbed solo by any Indian. He has just finished his Class XII board exams!
Arjun, who becomes the youngest climber in the world to conquer the technically difficult Lhotse, had set a mountaineering record last year when he climbed Mt Everest, which is 332m higher than Lhotse, at the age of 16 and became the youngest Indian to accomplish the feat.









Mt Lhotse was first conquered by Swiss Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger in 1956, three years after Mt Everest was tamed for the first time by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. Only the Indian Army ascended Mt Lhotse from the sub continent. It was in 2003, a joint India-Nepal Army Expedition led by Col Ashok Abbey from the Indian side saw the first Indian ascent of the mountain that has claimed over 20 lives.
Arjun with his parents



Now Arjun is seeking to go on an expedition to the South Pole. Besides the Poles, Arjun has a second dream to chase. He wants to follow in the footsteps of his hero, the legendary Italian climber Reinhold Messner, who became the first mountaineer to climb all the 14 peaks worldwide towering over 8,000m. Two of these peaks - Nanga Parbat and K2 - are in Pakistan as well.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Salim Kumar Wins National Award







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Malayalam film ‘Adaminte Makan Abu’ directed by Salim Ahmed won the 58th National Award for Best Feature Film. The 58th National Film Awards for the year 2010 were announced.
Vetrimaran won the Best Director for Tamil film ‘Aadukalam’. ‘Do Dooni Chaar’ directed by Habib Faisal was declared the Best Hindi Film. Abhinav Kashyap’s ‘Dabangg’ won the award for Popular film providing wholesome entertainment.
Salim Kumar in the film


LIST OF AWARDS
BEST FEATURE FILM:
Adaminte Makan Abu
INDIRA GANDHI AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT FILM OF A DIRECTOR:
Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
NARGIS DUTT AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE FILM ON NATIONAL INTEGRATION:
Moner Manush (Bengali)
BEST HINDI FILM:
Do Dooni Chaar
AWARD FOR BEST POPULAR FILM PROVIDING WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT:
Dabangg
BEST FILM ON SOCIAL ISSUES:
Champions (Marathi)
BEST FILM ON ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION/PRESERVATION :
Bettada Jeeva (Kannada)
BEST CHILDREN’S FILM:
Hejjegalu (Kannada)
BEST DIRECTION:
Aadukalam (Tamil)
Director: Vetrimaran
BEST ACTOR
Dhanush for Aadukalam (Tamil)
Salim Kumar for Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
BEST ACTRESS
Mitalee Jagtap Varadkar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
Saranya Ponvannan for Thenmerkku Paruvakkatru (Tamil)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
J. Thambi Ramaiah for Mynaa (Tamil)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Sukumari for Namma Gramam (Tamil)
BEST CHILD ARTIST:
Harsh Mayar for I Am Kalam(Hindi)
Shantanu Ranganekar &  Machindra Gadkar for Champions (Marathi)
Vivek Chabukswar for Baboo Band Baaja (Marathi)
BEST MUSIC DIRECTOR:
Vishal Bhardwaj for Ishqiya
BEST MALE PLAYBACK SINGER:
Suresh Wadkar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
BEST FEMALE PLAYBACK SINGER:
Rekha Bhardwaj for Ishqiya (Hindi)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Madhu Ambat for Adaminte Makan Abu (Malayalam)
BEST SCREENPLAY:
(Original) :
Vetrimaran for Aadukalam (Tamil)
(Adapted) :
Anant Mahadevan & Sanjay Pawar for Mee Sindhutai Sapkal (Marathi)
Dialogues :
Sanjay Pawar
BEST EDITING  :
T.E. Kishore for Aadukalam (Tamil)

Monday, May 16, 2011

Sri Lankan Premier League following IPL


Indian Premier League is going to have a replica in another cricket country in Asia, Sri Lanka. The news is that as many as 12 Indian cricketers, including Munaf Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin, are expected to feature in the first edition of the Sri Lankan Premier League (SLPL). SLPL is scheduled to commence from July 19, 2011.


The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has ensured the services of several  prominent overseas cricketers, including Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard, who are currently engaged in the Indian Premier League (IPL), as per the latest report. SLPL is also expected to feature Daniel Vettori, the captain of Royal Challengers.









Among the other Indian players on the SLPL, Praveen Kumar, who was recently selected for the Indian team for the West Indies tour, also is there. The other Indian players who figure in the list  include Dinesh Karthik, Irfan Pathan, Manish Pandey, Manoj Tiwary, Paul Valthaty, Ravindra Jadeja, Saurabh Tiwary, Umesh Yadav and Vinay Kumar.







The list, which in all features 33 overseas players so far, also includes the names of David Warner,  Albie Morkel, Herschelle Gibbs, Kevin O'Brien and Pakistan players like Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Akmal, and Tamim Iqbal.