First Masters Title

Indo - Pak Express known as Rohan Bopanna and Aisam - ul - Haq Qureshi pair has won the Paris Masters title. Bopanna and Qureshi on Sunday in the title match of the French duo Julian Benatu and beat Nicolas Mahut. Both players have the first Masters title.

Bopanna and Qureshi pair of French wild card entry only 65 minutes to win 6-2, 6-4 title was the third this season. Before the recent Gary Haber Open and last month won the Stockholm Open. In London last tournament of the season have already qualified for Bopanna and Qureshi won each of the ranking points to 1000. Both received the same time carries a cash prize of Euro 134 500. Bopanna and Qureshi made the occasion of the points from the start and took the first set break points in the third and fifth games, 4-1 in just 20 minutes took the lead. He was behind 0-30 on two occasions, but he lost his hold and easy to set it in your name.
With the score tied 4-4 in the second set but broke Bopanna and Qureshi after service of Mahut. The French player made double faults in the ninth game of his total was the sixth double fault. Bopanna and Qureshi also got the chance to gain a break point. The 'Indo-Pak Express' service on the set and match to your name.

The most powerful

CEO of ICICI Bank, India's business sector, the U.S. magazine Fortune has been named the most powerful woman. Joint MD of Sun TV Network magazine Kaveri Kalanidhi said the country's highest paid woman. Cauvery annual salary package of $ 1.3 million [about Rs 65.37 crore] is.

Taken together, the chairman of the Jindal steel industrialist Naveen Jindal, the highest paid. New to the annual salary package is $ 1.36 million. After her husband Kalanidhi Maran of Sun TV Network chairman and Kaveri is the number. His annual salary is $ 1.30 million.
Fortune's 50 most powerful women in business after Kochhar, ICICI's Shikha Sharma has been the exception. Axis Bank's MD and CEO Shikha's second largest. Mallika Srinivasan, head of Tafe Tractor Company in the third spot. Fourth Anniversary of India's CEO and Ajedbi Kepjemini the co - founder Zia Mody are ranked Fifth. Related women in the entertainment world is also made. Ekta Kapoor of Balaji Telefilms, Joint MD, 31 th and Threes Company - co-founder Farah Khan is ranked 42.

Prime Minister: Kib Interim

Libya in the National Transitional Council [NTC] the academic Abdurrahman Al - Kib the country's new interim prime minister is chosen.He is succeeded Mahmoud Jibril. Mahmoud was killed last October 20 at Gaddafi had resigned three days later.

Kib to 23 November, will set up an interim government, which will run the country for democratic elections. NTC's goal is to hold elections in the year 2013.
Kib said: "Our priority is to protect the human rights of Libiawasion. We are committed to build a nation where democratic values ​​are to be followed. "
The vote by the members of the NTC Tripoli resident Kib was elected prime minister. Academics with expertise in electric engineering Leaving the four other candidates in 51 of the 26 votes.
NTC Chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil NATO forces by the end of this year have applied to stay here. Gaddafi's supporters fear that can lead to still greater risk.Libiawasi now free and safe.
Abdul Rahim al-Kib who
- Born in 1950 in Tripoli after al-Kib bachelor's degree in higher education went to America in 1975.
- The United States has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Alabama.
- American University of Sharjah Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, in addition to his academic work has
- International Journal of Electrical Power Engineering on his many research papers have been published.
End of NATO operations in Libya
NATO's campaign against Gaddafi administration has been in the past seven months. Libya at the United Nations Security Council imposed no-fly zones have also been removed.
According to NATO officials, the NATO Airborne Early Tuesday in Libya Warnig and Control Aircraft [Adblyuesis] the final flight. The NATO campaign ended a historical chapter. NATO planes began to return to Germany on Tuesday. "

Goa Church

The Church has hit out at the Goa government for promoting 'questionable values' by holding events like the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) compared to religious events that promote 'love peace and harmony'.
The criticism comes ahead of the Nov 22-Dec 2 IIFI, which coincides with a popular saint's feast in Goa.
Fr Savio Barreto, the Rector of the Basilica of Bom Jesus, said the Goa government was dragging its feet over resolving the clash of dates of the feast of St Francis Xavier, Goa's patron saint, and IFFI.
'I personally feel this is a clash of values. Here we are trying to promote love, peace and unity, whereas the government is supporting events that promote questionable values,' Fr Barreto said.
'It is this clash of values that is destroying our religious heritage and is trivialising it. Why can't the government see this and change the dates?' Fr Barreto said.
IFFI is by far the biggest government organised event in Goa.
The Novena of the Spanish saint's feast begins Nov 24 in preparation for the feast Dec 3. The feast is by far Goa's single largest congregation of people with more than three lakh people congregating over a 10-day event, in memory of the saint who brought Christianity to Goa.
Fr Barreto claims he had first written to the government in 2006 seeking a change of dates saying the 'energy of the government' was directed towards IFFI whereas the energy of the people was on the feast.
He said that because of the film festival, the state runs out of metal detectors, forcing police to put up fewer gates open at the Basilica of Bom Jesus, the venue of the feast, leading to further crowds.
Goa has been the venue of IFFI since 2004. Since then, IFFI has been organised on the same dates as that of the novena of the feast of St Francis Xavier.
What has peeved the church authorities more is that prior to Goa being made the venue, IFFI in New Delhi was organised during the final week of October.
In a statement to the media, director of Information and Publicity Menino Peres said the dates were decided at the 'international level' and there was little the state government could do about it.

Smita's ghost

If you don't believe in ghosts, then this is not the story for you. There's an eerie story secretly doing the rounds among the cast and crew of 'My Friend Pinto'.
Smita and Prateik
Apparently a lot of the crew members, including Prateik, director Raghav Dhar and producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali, felt late actress Smita Patil's presence while shooting with her son Prateik.
'We don't know what it was. But we certainly felt something. Smita inspired me to sign Prateik. I was a big fan of hers,' Bhansali says.
Says a crew member: 'At times it was chilling. Not just Prateik or the director, many of us felt a presence. We don't know what or who it was. But there was definitely something there.'
Prateik has said in an interview to IANS that he would like to break away from the constant comparisons with his mother. However that seems unlikely considering Smita is a constant in her son's life.
'We felt as though she was watching over us all through. It was more than uncanny,' says a source close to the film.
'It came to a point where we began to feel she was physically present during the shooting. We don't know how close Prateik feels to his mother at other shootings. But here she was with us all through. We firmly believe Smita was watching over her son,' says the source.
For a sequence where Prateik's character had to talk about his mother, the young actor expressed reservations.
'Prateik didn't want to do the scene where his character talks about his mother. We convinced him it was necessary. When Prateik finally did the sequence he went into a kind of trance while speaking his lines,' says the source.
Speaking of the sequence Bhansali said: 'Prateik was so close to his own mother at that point that we could almost see her standing next to Prateik.'
'It was clear that he was addressing his own mother. He finally broke down while talking about his mother,' the source adds.
'Though I didn't have the good fortune of working with Smita, I saw her in every gesture in Prateik. He is uncannily like Smita. The title and Prateik's name in the film - Pinto - came from a Smita starrer 'Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hai'. Smita was there throughout the making of the film,' Bhansali says.

Sleep with me

It seems that the casting couch controversy is back to haunt many bigwigs of Bollywood yet again. ‘Dear Mr Bollywood’, a book which is being circulated in the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival has named many industry veterans. Written by a Jerusalem-born, New York raised woman Rina Golan, the book has named Subhash Ghai, Anup Jalota, Anees Bazmee and even Dr Ali Irani among others as asking for sexual favours.
Golan however claims that the book is not about about her bad experiences in Bollywood. She further claims that the book is about her favourite Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and how she fell in love with the industry because of him.

Consumer, tech stocks

The technology-heavy Nasdaq led U.S. stocks lower on Thursday as investors continued to fret about weakness in the global economy and Wall Street looked set to limp to its worst quarter in three years.

A vote by German lawmakers to beef up the crisis-hit euro zone's bailout package as well as better-than-expected data from the U.S. labor market did little to boost confidence beyond an early lift that eroded throughout the day.
The S&P consumer discretionary sector index led losses with sharp falls in luxury goods names Tiffany & Co, down 8 percent at $63.91, and Coach down 7 percent at $53.46 as investors worried about a slowdown in China. On Thursday, China's benchmark stock index ended at a 15-month low.
"The general sentiment is that things are not all said and done," said Joseph Greco, managing director at Meridian Equity Partners in New York. "There are still big concerns about the consumer, about the housing market and labor market, about Europe."
Chinese Internet search engine Baidu, down 10.8 at $108.30, and other U.S.-listed Chinese companies were among the biggest losers after a securities regulator said the U.S.
Justice Department was investigating accounting irregularities at Chinese companies listed on U.S. exchanges.
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 24.63 points, or 0.22 percent, to 10,986.27. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index shed 8.77 points, or 0.76 percent, to 1,142.29. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 49.94 points, or 2.00 percent, to 2,441.64.
Tech names pressured the Nasdaq, with Amazon.com Inc off 4.4 percent at $219.54 following a sharp rally in Wednesday's session. Advanced Micro Devices sank 16.2 percent to $5.15 after cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook, prompting many analysts to downgrade their views on the stock.
Other big-cap Internet names were also down. Netflix Inc sank 12.9 percent to $110.75 while Yahoo Inc lost 6.6 percent to $13.26.
Market volatility is likely to remain high as traders react to European headlines and attempt to gauge the commitment of governments and institutions as they work to prevent a Greek default. End-of-quarter repositioning will also influence market movement.
The benchmark S&P 500 index is expected to finish the year down for the first time in three years as an escalating European debt crisis and stalled U.S. economy led strategists to slash forecasts in the latest Reuters poll.

Gold holds gains

Gold jumped more than 1 percent on Friday after Germany's approval for expanding the euro zone bailout fund offered temporary relief to investors, but the precious metal was heading for its worst monthly decline in three years.

With the euro debt crisis unlikely to be resolved any time soon, investors have shifted their attention to Greece, which demands more far-reaching measures to prevent the crisis that started in Athens from spreading far beyond Europe.
Spot gold added $12.34 an ounce to $1,626.39 an ounce by 0328 GMT. Despite the gain, prices were headed for a monthly fall of 11 percent, their worst since October 2008 when they tumbled 17 percent after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
"It seems that there are still hurdles ahead before the European debt crisis is resolved," said Ong Yi Ling, an analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.
"By mid-October, Greece will start to run out of money and has to receive the next tranche of aid to avoid bankruptcy. I think the outlook for the euro zone is still uncertain. The successful German vote provides a temporary bout of optimism and more decisive policy action is still needed."
Gold rallied to a lifetime high around $1,920 an ounce in early September after the euro fell against the dollar on growing doubts about Europe's ability to solve its debt crisis.
Asian stocks steadied on Friday but investors could take profits after three days of gains, while the euro held its tiny increase following Germany's approval of the bailout fund expansion.
The euro hovered above a eight-month low versus the dollar after German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition party voted on Thursday to enhance the European Financial Stability Facility's powers.
U.S. gold rose $10.6 an ounce to $1,627.90.
Holdings of the largest gold-backed exchange-traded-fund (ETF), New York's SPDR Gold Trust, fell 0.80 percent, and those of the largest silver-backed ETF, New York's iShares Silver Trust dipped 0.23 percent from Wednesday to Thursday.
The physical sector saw a buzz of activity in Hong Kong, with jewellers from China stocking up before the Golden Week holiday next week. Premiums for gold bars were steady at a 7-month high at $3 an ounce.
"Buying interest is still strong and people are rushing to stock up a bit before the holiday in China. We don't have much stock of gold bars, though," said a dealer in Hong Kong.
"There's also Indian buying because of the wedding season."
In top consumer India, retail gold demand traditionally gains pace from the month of August, when the festival and wedding seasons start, culminating with Diwali, the Hindu festival of light.
Gold jewellery is an essential part of the dowry basket Indian parents give their daughters at weddings.
In other markets, Brent crude rose above $104 a barrel on positive economic news, but prices this quarter remain on track for their biggest drop in 15 months on concerns that a slowing global economy will undercut fuel demand.
London copper fell 1 percent on Friday, heading for its worst month in three years on concerns that a global economic slowdown will hit demand.

Nokia to cut 3,500 jobs

Nokia Oyj, the world's largest cellphone vendor by volume, is cutting 3,500 jobs in its second major restructuring in six months as it struggles with falling sales and profits.

Chief executive Stephen Elop, who took over at Nokia a year ago, unveiled the plans which include a factory closure and a new executive chairman for telecom gear joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, on Thursday.
The company said it would close the Cluj factory in Romania which opened just four years ago and manufactured more simple cellphone models, leading to 2,200 job losses.
The plant turnover was comparable to 1.3 percent of Romania's GDP last year, but Eastern European investment group Avaron said due to large component flows the value created at the plant was smaller, giving a rough estimate of around 0.25 percent of GDP.
Nokia said a further 1,300 jobs would be cut at its Location & Commerce business unit, which includes the world's largest digital mapping business Navteq.
Nokia said it was also evaluating the future of its plants in Finland, Mexico and Hungary and this would result in job cuts next year.
The latest redundancies come on top of cost cut plans set out in April which included laying off 4,000 staff. Thursday's cuts are included in Nokia's savings target of more than one billion euros, which was unveiled in July.
"This is very shocking. As if they had no policy at all in human resources, only lay-off talks rolling all the time. I wonder how people can work there, how people can focus at all," Pertti Porokari, the chairman of Finnish engineers' union (UIL), told Reuters.
"For sure the company is going through a massive reform, but it feels like the new direction is not quite under control."
Nokia has struggled this year with falling sales and profits after the group said in February it would switch to Microsoft Corp software for its smartphones, but the first of these models will reach the market only later this year.
"We are seeing solid progress against our strategy, and with these planned changes we will emerge as a more dynamic, nimble and efficient challenger," Elop, Nokia's first foreign chief executive, said in a statement.
Nokia's share price has halved since it announced the Microsoft deal on worries the company will lose so much market share before the new phones come out that it might never make up lost ground.
Nokia's quarterly phone sales to end-June dropped 20 percent at a time when market grew 10 percent, and its 15-year reign at the top of the smartphone market ended as both Apple and Samsung Electronics surpassed it.
"Now the volume has come down, clearly Nokia is looking for new saving targets," said analyst Jari Honko from Swedbank in Helsinki.
"I hope this extensive review does not mean that Nokia has lost so much scale that in-house production will no longer be competitive. It has been the most important strengths of Nokia," Honko said.
The shares were flat at 4.18 euros by 1100 GMT, in line with the sector.
Separately, Nokia supplier Digia said it had agreed to cut 170 jobs in its Finnish operations, and could cut up to 80 more as it revamped its business.
Nokia also said it and Siemens AG will both inject 500 million euros ($680 million) into their 50:50 telecom gear joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks.
Jesper Ovesen would take over as executive chairman of Nokia Siemens Networks, replacing former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, Nokia said.
Ovesen, who has worked as chief financial officer at many top Danish firms helped to turn Lego around during his spell as CFO of the toy group in 2003-2007 and took telecoms operator TDC public late last year.
Siemens and Nokia would like to take Nokia Siemens Networks public at some point, but the company has struggled to report profits, battling against aggressive rivals Huawei and Ericsson.
Separately, Nokia Siemens said it has won an order from Bharti Airtel to upgrade, build and manage networks in seven African countries.

Delays Second England-India One-Dayer

The second one-day international between England and India here on Tuesday was delayed by rain.

The 50-over match had been scheduled to start at 1400BST (1300GMT).
If the match does get underway, England will have Graeme Swann available after he shook off the virus that saw him miss the first match of the series in Durham, which also fell victim to rain.
But the tourists, who have had eight players injured this summer, will have to do without Sachin Tendulkar, who will miss the rest of the series with a toe injury.
Teams
England (from): A. Cook (capt), C. Kieswetter, I. Trott, I. Bell, E. Morgan, B. Stokes, T. Bresnan, S. Broad, G. Swann, J. Anderson, J. Dernbach, S. Patel, R. Bopara, S. Finn
India (from): M. Dhoni (capt), P. Patel, A. Rahane, R. Dravid, V. Kohli, S. Raina, P. Kumar, R. Ashwin, R. Vinay Kumar, M. Patel, A. Mishra, V. Aaron, R. Singh, M. Tiwary
Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WIS) and Rob Bailey (ENG) Third umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA) Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZ)
Series: 0-0
Results so far:
3 Sept 1st ODI Durham No result
To play:
9 Sept 3rd ODI The Oval
11 Sept 4th ODI Lord's
16 Sept 5th ODI Cardiff