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Way over the top, but—maybe an interesting blog-post? Sample (over the top) line:
“So really, when you talk about why things are heating up in the Punjab now, the real history-based answer is, what heating-up? This is a slow news day by Punjab standards.”

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Kent may lose the services of key all-rounder Ryan McLaren after he was named in South Africa’s first limited-overs squad of the new season.

McLaren is involved in the Twenty20 squad to take on Bangladesh and the one-day squad to face both Kenya and the Tigers from 31 October.

“It was Brahma himself who kidnapped Sita. Since Brahma, Vishnu and Shiv were themselves the victims of lust, it is a sin to consider them as gods.” (page 39)

Ricky Ponting, the Australia captain, believes the pressure on India’s “fab four” batsmen will hand Australia an advantage when the Test series begins on Thursday. Sourav Ganguly has already announced he will retire after this series, while Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman are also in the twilight of their careers.

India slipped two notches to 122nd rank, below neighbours,
including Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan in the ‘Doing Business
Report 2009’ recently prepared by the International Finance
Corporation and the World Bank.

Canine family film Beverly Hills Chihuahua was best in show in
the North American box office, according to early studio
estimates.

The comedy featuring Drew Barrymore’s voice as a pampered pooch
who gets lost in Mexico took $29m (£16.5m) in its opening
weekend.

Thriller Eagle Eye fell one place to number two, taking $17.7m
(£10.1m).

Equities were under tremendous pressure on Monday as funds and
investors resorted to square positions on concerns of slowing
global economy.
Realty, metals and power stocks were the worst affected.

Chris Martin has been ruled out of New Zealand’s upcoming Test series against Bangladesh and will be replaced by Mark Gillespie. Martin was already a late withdrawal from the ODI squad due to niggling hamstring and lower back injuries.

The Sensex opened with a negative gap of 379 points at 11,316 on the back of global meltdown. The index slipped deeper and broke the 11,000-mark in the first hour of trade on Wednesday.

Pakistan batsman Mohammad Yousuf will miss a four-nation Twenty20 tournament in Canada because of a delay in receiving a required visa.