Dec 11: The four host countries of the 2011 World Cup will ask the International Cricket Council (ICC) if they can hold the tournament over a shorter period of time, an official said on Tuesday.Representatives of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh met in Bangalore and have reached a consensus on a format for the 2011 tournament, which they will submit to the ICC for discussion and ratification, a Pakistan cricket board official said.“We want to have the eight-team quarter-finals directly after the preliminary round of matches between the two groups of seven,” he said.In 2003, the ICC had a super-sixes stage after the preliminary round, followed by the knockout stage matches. In the 2007 edition in the West Indies, the format of 16 teams drew criticism for lasting over a month.Pakistan and India also bemoaned the first-round format, which saw their teams eliminated from the competition after just two matches.“The format on we have reached a consensus will save time and also provide every team a chance to play a minimum of six matches in the preliminary round before the knockout stages,” the official added.The four countries also discussed having a single visa for visitors to the World Cup, which would enable them to go to all four countries on the same visa.
India scent series victory despite Misbah run spree : Bangalore Test heading for a draw
BY:SYED ISHTYAQ URRAHMAN ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID
RECENT DOUBLE TON OF WASIM JAFFER DID NOT REPEAT AGAIN AS HE GOES TO SIT IN THE PHOTO ,
BANGALORE, Dec 11: Misbah-ul-Haq continued his remarkable and incessant fairytale comeback to international cricket, posting his second straight century to help Pakistan avert the follow-on in the second consecutive Test, while leaving India on the brink of a historic series victory here on Tuesday the was hopeful.Misbah followed his unbeaten 161 in last week’s second Test in Kolkata with a successive 133 not out off 322 balls as Pakistan made 537 in response to India’s first-innings score of 626 on the penultimate day of the third and final Test at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore india.With a handy lead of 89 runs already in the bank, India then extended that advantage to 220 by finishing the day at 131-2 in their second innings, built upon an unbroken stand of 105 between former captains Rahul Dravid (35) and Saurav Ganguly (63) after openers stylish wonderman Wasim Jaffer and Gautam Gambhir had gone cheaply.the fast n last Shoaib Akhtar, who badly needs to redeem himself being limited to mere 10 overs in the first innings courtesy muscle spasms in his back, produced a torrid opening spell and finally picked up his first wicket of the match with a slower delivery that hit the top of Gambhir’s off stump.Jaffer departed in a replica of his first innings’ dismissal; leg-before-wicket in Yasir Arafat’s second over for 18, striking the opener’s toes as the ball kept low.But Dravid and Ganguly then negotiated the remaining overs in contrasting styles. Ganguly, the aggressive partner with scores of 48, 102, 46 and 239 in the past four innings of this series, slammed nine fours and a straight six off leg-spinner Danish Kaneria on his way to becoming only the fourth man to score double hundred and a fifty in the same Test against Pakistan.A nd His team-mate wasim Jaffer who achieved the double century’s pinnacle in Kolkata while others are former Australian captain Mark Taylor (at Peshawar, 1998-99) and New Zealand’s Mathew Sinclair (Christchurch, 2000-01).In fact, Pakistan might have further trimmed India’s lead had it not been for an inspired burst of pace bowling by Ishant Sharma who finished with his maiden five-wicket haul in only his second Test.After all Pakistan had achieved their objective in the first session, the interest in the match steadily fizzled out, making it a dull affair until Sharma struck four times in successive overs just before the tea interval as the Pakistan innings stumbled from a healthy 525-6, losing the remaining wickets for the addition of only 12 runs.To make a match of it, Pakistan needed to score quickly once the follow-on was saved. But Indian captain Anil Kumble countered that approach by spreading out his men in the field, especially whenever the impregnable Misbah was on strike.Earlier, after resuming Pakistan’s innings at 369-5, Misbah ul haque and Kamran Akmal revived the memory of their double-century partnership in the second Test, carrying their overnight stand of 81 to 144 before Kamran (65 off 114 balls in 174 minutes, 12 fours) was smartly stumped by his Indian counterpart Dinesh Karthik to give Harbhajan Singh his second wicket of the innings.Misbah, who has now top-scored for the third time in five innings while taking his series tally to 427 runs, moved at a leisurely pace towards his century after spending an agonising 40-minute lunch break on 99, having resumed at 54 this morning. The landmark arrived two balls into the afternoon session when the 33-year-old right-hander turned Harbhajan towards fine leg for a couple.explicable performance of Yasir Arafat celebrated his five-wicket haul on Test debut with a resourceful 44 (70 balls, seven boundaries) while helping Misbah add 93 in 164 balls for the seventh wicket in 97 minutes.Sharma then effectively booked his place in India’s squad for the tour of Australia, starting next week, getting rid of Yasir and the tail in space of 16 deliveries from the BEML End to finish with five for 118 in 33.1 overs.But the 19-year-old strapping paceman from Delhi was constantly bothered by the no-ball syndrome, and was called nine times for overstepping the popping crease.‘Mr Extras’ also played an influential role in increasing the Pakistan score substantially by no less than 76 and dubiously provided India with a world record that formerly belonged to the West Indies, who conceded 71 to Pakistan at Georgetown in April 1988 when that legendary fast bowler Curtly Ambrose began his Test career.Misbah ul haque, touted in the corridors of power as the next national skipper-in-waiting, batted 13 minutes short of seven hours during which he smashed 17 boundaries. During the course of his 27th ton in first-class cricket, Misbah also took his career average past 50 in 124 matches.The only way this game could generate some sort of excitement on the final day of the series on Wednesday would be if the Indians decide to make a sporting declaration.But such has been the benign character of this pitch – despite its tendency of the occasional low bounce – it is highly unlikely that India would risk their prospects of winning their first home series over Pakistan for 28 seasons.ScoreboardINDIA 1st Inns 626PAKISTAN 1st Inns (overnight 369-5)Salman Butt c Karthik b Ganguly 68Yasir Hameed lbw b Kumble 19Younis Khan b Harbhajan 80Mohammad Yousuf c Yuvraj b Pathan 24Misbah-ul-Haq not out 133Faisal Iqbal c Gambhir b Sharma 22Kamran Akmal st Karthik b Harbhajan 65Yasir Arafat b Sharma 44Mohammad Sami b Sharma 1Shoaib Akhtar c Gambhir b Sharma 1Danish Kaneria c and b Sharma 4EXTRAS: (B-35, LB-26, NB-15) 76TOTAL: (all out) 537FALL OF WKTS: 1-59, 2-149, 3-221, 4-227, 5-288, 6-432, 7-525, 8-527, 9-529BOWLING: Pathan 37-14-80-1, Sharma 33.1-10-118-5 (NB-9), Kumble 44-12-116-1, Ganguly 10-2-20-1 (NB-1), Harbhajan 38-7-131-2, Yuvraj 6-2-11-0 (NB-1)India 2nd InnsW. Jaffer lbw b Arafat 18G. Gambhir b Shoaib 3R. Dravid not out 35S. Ganguly not out 63EXTRAS: (LB-6, NB-6) 12TOTAL: (for 2 wkts) 131FALL OF WKTS: 1-17, 2-26BOWLING: Shoaib 9-2-21-1, Sami 11-1-36-0 (NB-1), Arafat 9-2-38-1 (nb1), Kaneria 8-0-30-0.UMPIRES: Rudi Koertzen (RSA) and Simon Taufel (AUS)TV UMPIRE: G. A. Pratapkumar (IND)MATCH REFEREE: Ranjan Madugalle (SRI)
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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December 12, 2007
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Zilhaj 1, 1428
China warning over US protectionism :
Legislation proposed by members of the US congress aimed at pressing China to speed up currency reform and rein in its trade surplus will "severely undermine" trade and damage bilateral relations, China's vice-premier has told US officials. Speaking at the opening of a high-level "strategic economic dialogue" on Wednesday, Wu Yi warned against resorting to the protectionist measures proposed by some in Washington. .
Seeking leaders, U.S. companies think globally
The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikram Pandit, a native of Nagpur, India, as its chief executive on Tuesday. Pandit joins 14 other foreign-born chiefs who are running Fortune 100 companies. The head of the Altria Group was born in Egypt, for example. PepsiCo's is from India, the Liberty Mutual Group's is a native of Ireland and Alcoa's was born in Morocco.
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Musharraf vows to work with elected government
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: President Pervez Musharraf pledged in an interview broadcast on Tuesday to cooperate with whoever wins January’s general election, saying that he was not a “trouble creator”.Opposition leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have accused Mr Musharraf of wanting to rig the polls, although both have declined to boycott the elections on the grounds that they do not want to leave the field open.But Mr Musharraf, who has pledged to lift a five-week-old state of emergency on Dec 15, told Al-Jazeera’s English channel that he was willing to work with the winners of the crunch polls on January 8.“I will try to work with anyone who comes to power after the elections,” Mr Musharraf said.“I interact with people quite well, I am not such a trouble creator.” Mr Musharraf’s relations with Ms Bhutto and Mr Sharif have been stormy.He had no conciliatory words however for the country’s deposed Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, saying that he had to impose emergency rule on November 3 because the judge was “illegally trying to remove me.”“What would have happened if we allowed this chief justice to have his own way? We would have landed this country into chaos,” Mr Musharraf said.Mr Musharraf meanwhile said that he would keep a close relationship with the military, despite quitting as army chief on November 28 and becoming a civilian president eight years after grabbing power.“My relationship with army is not direct, obviously. There is protocol obviously, there is the chief of army staff,” he said.remember them for quite some time to come,” he said.—
December 12, 2007
Wednesday
Zilhaj 1, 1428
China warning over US protectionism :
Legislation proposed by members of the US congress aimed at pressing China to speed up currency reform and rein in its trade surplus will "severely undermine" trade and damage bilateral relations, China's vice-premier has told US officials. Speaking at the opening of a high-level "strategic economic dialogue" on Wednesday, Wu Yi warned against resorting to the protectionist measures proposed by some in Washington. .
Seeking leaders, U.S. companies think globally
The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikram Pandit, a native of Nagpur, India, as its chief executive on Tuesday. Pandit joins 14 other foreign-born chiefs who are running Fortune 100 companies. The head of the Altria Group was born in Egypt, for example. PepsiCo's is from India, the Liberty Mutual Group's is a native of Ireland and Alcoa's was born in Morocco.
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Musharraf vows to work with elected government
ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: President Pervez Musharraf pledged in an interview broadcast on Tuesday to cooperate with whoever wins January’s general election, saying that he was not a “trouble creator”.Opposition leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have accused Mr Musharraf of wanting to rig the polls, although both have declined to boycott the elections on the grounds that they do not want to leave the field open.But Mr Musharraf, who has pledged to lift a five-week-old state of emergency on Dec 15, told Al-Jazeera’s English channel that he was willing to work with the winners of the crunch polls on January 8.“I will try to work with anyone who comes to power after the elections,” Mr Musharraf said.“I interact with people quite well, I am not such a trouble creator.” Mr Musharraf’s relations with Ms Bhutto and Mr Sharif have been stormy.He had no conciliatory words however for the country’s deposed Chief Justice, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, saying that he had to impose emergency rule on November 3 because the judge was “illegally trying to remove me.”“What would have happened if we allowed this chief justice to have his own way? We would have landed this country into chaos,” Mr Musharraf said.Mr Musharraf meanwhile said that he would keep a close relationship with the military, despite quitting as army chief on November 28 and becoming a civilian president eight years after grabbing power.“My relationship with army is not direct, obviously. There is protocol obviously, there is the chief of army staff,” he said.remember them for quite some time to come,” he said.—
China has accused the US of protectionism as talks on trade and currency issues start in Beijing.
China's product safety record, its massive trade surplus and what some in Washington see as Beijing's currency manipulation are high on the agenda.
About 14 agreements were sealed on Tuesday, aimed at broader market access, boosting tourism and investment as well as better product checks.
But the atmosphere turned frosty as China accused the US of protectionism.
It also said that product safety concerns had been "hyped" by the media.
Broad-ranging talks
There have been some disharmonious notes in China-US relations this year
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab and US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez took part in trade talks on Tuesday, while US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will join them on Wednesday and Thursday for a "strategic economic dialogue" which will focus on currency issues.
Some members of the US Congress want forceful action against China and its soaring trade surplus, which they blame on the country's weak currency that makes its exports relatively cheap.
China's trade surplus reached a near-record high in November and its US surplus is also heading for a new record.
But in China, officials are tired of what they see as a litany of complaints from a protectionist US, and sceptics question what the three-day meeting will really achieve.
Growing protectionism?
As the talks began, China's Vice Premier Wu Yi warned over growing protectionism in the US.
America and China must work together to stem the tide of protectionist sentiment in our nations
Carlos Gutierrez, US Commerce Secretary
"There have been some disharmonious notes in China-US relations this year. The inclination to politicise (trade) issues has increased," she said.
"Trade restrictions, and protectionist measures, can only hurt both sides."
Meanwhile, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez acknowledged that there were protectionist sentiments held by some in both China and the US.
"We have to continue opening global markets. America and China must work together to stem the tide of protectionist sentiment in our nations," he said.
"It is ironic that we have found that protectionism does not protect. The only thing that does protect is innovation and engaging with the world, competing, being more productive."
Product safety
Scandals over problems with products made in China - from toys to food - mean that safety of goods will be high on the agenda of the talks.
"How they (China) deal with these issues they've had with product safety is very important," Mr Gutierrez said.
"I would have to assume that the brand 'China' is very important to the Chinese."
However, Wu Yi said that the US media exaggerated Chinese quality problems.
"The US media hyped about the quality of Chinese exports, causing serious damage to China's national image," she said.
Last month, trade talks between China and the EU again raised concerns that China did not protect the intellectual property rights of European companies.
There was also concern about the vast trade surplus between the 27-nation block and China.
STORY LINE : FIND OUT IS IT TRUE:Over the following two decades he married four more times. One of his wives, a secretary named Helen Simmons, died of an Aids-related illness in 1989, which led to intimate details of the marriage being splashed across Australian tabloids. All five of the marriages added to Jah’s growing pile of litigation, as each successive wife demanded fabulous sums in alimony.In his absence, Jah’s unsupervised Hyderabad properties were looted and his possessions dispersed by a succession of incompetent, dishonest or unscrupulous advisers. When Jackie Kennedy came to Hyderabad on a private visit a few years later, she recorded her impressions of this collapsing and leaderless remnant in a letter to a friend: “We had an evening with the old noblemen of the court...” she wrote. “There were three ancient classical musicians playing in the moonlight, and the noblemen were speaking of how it was all disappearing, that the youth didn’t appreciate the ways of the old culture, that the great chefs were being taken by the Emirates... The evening was profoundly sad. My son, John, told me the next day that the sons of the house had taken him to their rooms because they couldn’t stand the classical music – and had offered him a tall glass filled with whisky and had put on a pornographic cassette in the Betamax, and the Rolling Stones on the tape deck. They wore tight Italian pants and open shirts...”In 1997, when I first visited Hyderabad, the plundering of the Nizam’s property was nearly complete. The drawing rooms of the city were still buzzing with stories of how precious jewels, manuscripts, Louis XIV furniture and chandeliers from the Nizam’s palaces were available on the market, for a price.Meanwhile, his various palaces were decaying – some sealed by order of court, some sold off or encroached upon. Between 1967 and 2001, the Chowmahalla estate shrank from 54 acres to 12, as courtyard after courtyard, ballrooms and stable blocks – even the famous “mile-long” banqueting hall – were acquired by developers, who demolished the 18th-century buildings and erected concrete apartments in their place.I visited the huge Victorian pile of the Falaknuma Palace, just to the south of the city. The complex, which stood above the town on its own acropolis, was falling into ruin, with every window and doorway sealed by red wax. Wiping the windows, I could see cobwebs the size of bedsheets hanging from the corners of the rooms. The skeletons of outsized Victorian sofas and armchairs lay dotted around the parquet floors, their chintz upholstery eaten away by white ants. Outside, the gardens had given way to scrub flats, waterless fountains, and paint-flaking flagpoles at crazy angles. It was a truly melancholy sight: a derelict Ruritania.In 2001, on another research trip to Hyderabad, I received a phone call from a friend. The first wife of the present Nizam, Princess Esra, had unexpectedly appeared in the city after an absence of three decades. With her, she had brought the celebrated Indian lawyer Vijay Shankardass. Esra, it seemed, had recently met her ex-husband at the wedding of their son, Azmet, in London. She was shocked to hear of the state of Jah’s affairs: he had been forced to sell his beloved sheep farm and flee his creditors. A partial reconciliation followed, and Esra was given the authority by Jah to try to save something for their son and daughter before what little remained in Hyderabad disappeared, too. It was her intention to settle the many outstanding law cases, open the palaces and lease Falaknuma to a hotel chain. She planned to turn Chowmahalla into a museum.Chowmahalla, dating from 1751, was one of the finest royal residences in India. After some negotiation, I was allowed to accompany the princess on her visit, and so was there at the breaking of the seals of some rooms that had not been opened since the death of the previous Nizam in 1967.What we saw was extraordinary, as if we were in the palace of Sleeping Beauty. In one underground storeroom, thousands of ancient scimitars, swords, helmets, maces, daggers, archery equipment and suits of armour lay rusted into a single metallic mass on a line of trestle tables. In another, album after album of around 8,000 Victorian and Edwardian photographs of the Nizam’s household was covered in a thick cladding of dust. A unique set of 160 harem photographs, dating from 1915, lay loose in a box. On the walls, dynastic portraits were falling out of their frames. In one room were great mountains of princely dresses, patkas, chaugoshia and salvars, drawers of Kanchipuram silk saris, and one huge trunk containing nothing but bow ties. There were long lines of court uniforms as well as sets of harem clothes once worn by the Nizam’s favourite wives. Almost 8,000 dinner services survived, one of which alone had 2,600 pieces.In the King Kothi palace, the Nizam’s dynasty’s complete correspondence since the mid-18th century filled three rooms floor to ceiling. When the archivists had been sacked in 1972, the archive, all 10 and a half tonnes of it, had been stuffed into the rooms and sealed. Other rooms were stacked with crates of French champagne.It looked an impossible task even to begin to sort out the mess and dilapidation. Yet remarkably, six years later, the Chowmahalla is now open to the public and 1,000 visitors a day are streaming through. A massive conservation project, unique in India, has restored and catalogued the best of what remains. The result is little short of incredible.In the story of how the Nizam’s inheritance was saved, Esra’s lawyer, Vijay Shankardass, plays the most extraordinary role. An urbane figure, Shankardass is the only lawyer who has both chambers in Lincoln’s Inn and a practice in Delhi. He is renowned for being as clever as he is honest and, as the man who represents Salman Rushdie, he is also celebrated for his courage and tenacity.I met him in the largest suite of Hyderabad’s grandest hotel, which he has occupied intermittently since beginning work on the Nizam’s estate in 1996: “I was contacted by Princess Esra’s lawyers in England,” he told me, “and asked if I could intervene in trying to sort out the jewellery trusts which the last Nizam had set up.”.
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China's product safety record, its massive trade surplus and what some in Washington see as Beijing's currency manipulation are high on the agenda.
About 14 agreements were sealed on Tuesday, aimed at broader market access, boosting tourism and investment as well as better product checks.
But the atmosphere turned frosty as China accused the US of protectionism.
It also said that product safety concerns had been "hyped" by the media.
Broad-ranging talks
There have been some disharmonious notes in China-US relations this year
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi
US Trade Representative Susan Schwab and US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez took part in trade talks on Tuesday, while US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will join them on Wednesday and Thursday for a "strategic economic dialogue" which will focus on currency issues.
Some members of the US Congress want forceful action against China and its soaring trade surplus, which they blame on the country's weak currency that makes its exports relatively cheap.
China's trade surplus reached a near-record high in November and its US surplus is also heading for a new record.
But in China, officials are tired of what they see as a litany of complaints from a protectionist US, and sceptics question what the three-day meeting will really achieve.
Growing protectionism?
As the talks began, China's Vice Premier Wu Yi warned over growing protectionism in the US.
America and China must work together to stem the tide of protectionist sentiment in our nations
Carlos Gutierrez, US Commerce Secretary
"There have been some disharmonious notes in China-US relations this year. The inclination to politicise (trade) issues has increased," she said.
"Trade restrictions, and protectionist measures, can only hurt both sides."
Meanwhile, US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez acknowledged that there were protectionist sentiments held by some in both China and the US.
"We have to continue opening global markets. America and China must work together to stem the tide of protectionist sentiment in our nations," he said.
"It is ironic that we have found that protectionism does not protect. The only thing that does protect is innovation and engaging with the world, competing, being more productive."
Product safety
Scandals over problems with products made in China - from toys to food - mean that safety of goods will be high on the agenda of the talks.
"How they (China) deal with these issues they've had with product safety is very important," Mr Gutierrez said.
"I would have to assume that the brand 'China' is very important to the Chinese."
However, Wu Yi said that the US media exaggerated Chinese quality problems.
"The US media hyped about the quality of Chinese exports, causing serious damage to China's national image," she said.
Last month, trade talks between China and the EU again raised concerns that China did not protect the intellectual property rights of European companies.
There was also concern about the vast trade surplus between the 27-nation block and China.
STORY LINE : FIND OUT IS IT TRUE:Over the following two decades he married four more times. One of his wives, a secretary named Helen Simmons, died of an Aids-related illness in 1989, which led to intimate details of the marriage being splashed across Australian tabloids. All five of the marriages added to Jah’s growing pile of litigation, as each successive wife demanded fabulous sums in alimony.In his absence, Jah’s unsupervised Hyderabad properties were looted and his possessions dispersed by a succession of incompetent, dishonest or unscrupulous advisers. When Jackie Kennedy came to Hyderabad on a private visit a few years later, she recorded her impressions of this collapsing and leaderless remnant in a letter to a friend: “We had an evening with the old noblemen of the court...” she wrote. “There were three ancient classical musicians playing in the moonlight, and the noblemen were speaking of how it was all disappearing, that the youth didn’t appreciate the ways of the old culture, that the great chefs were being taken by the Emirates... The evening was profoundly sad. My son, John, told me the next day that the sons of the house had taken him to their rooms because they couldn’t stand the classical music – and had offered him a tall glass filled with whisky and had put on a pornographic cassette in the Betamax, and the Rolling Stones on the tape deck. They wore tight Italian pants and open shirts...”In 1997, when I first visited Hyderabad, the plundering of the Nizam’s property was nearly complete. The drawing rooms of the city were still buzzing with stories of how precious jewels, manuscripts, Louis XIV furniture and chandeliers from the Nizam’s palaces were available on the market, for a price.Meanwhile, his various palaces were decaying – some sealed by order of court, some sold off or encroached upon. Between 1967 and 2001, the Chowmahalla estate shrank from 54 acres to 12, as courtyard after courtyard, ballrooms and stable blocks – even the famous “mile-long” banqueting hall – were acquired by developers, who demolished the 18th-century buildings and erected concrete apartments in their place.I visited the huge Victorian pile of the Falaknuma Palace, just to the south of the city. The complex, which stood above the town on its own acropolis, was falling into ruin, with every window and doorway sealed by red wax. Wiping the windows, I could see cobwebs the size of bedsheets hanging from the corners of the rooms. The skeletons of outsized Victorian sofas and armchairs lay dotted around the parquet floors, their chintz upholstery eaten away by white ants. Outside, the gardens had given way to scrub flats, waterless fountains, and paint-flaking flagpoles at crazy angles. It was a truly melancholy sight: a derelict Ruritania.In 2001, on another research trip to Hyderabad, I received a phone call from a friend. The first wife of the present Nizam, Princess Esra, had unexpectedly appeared in the city after an absence of three decades. With her, she had brought the celebrated Indian lawyer Vijay Shankardass. Esra, it seemed, had recently met her ex-husband at the wedding of their son, Azmet, in London. She was shocked to hear of the state of Jah’s affairs: he had been forced to sell his beloved sheep farm and flee his creditors. A partial reconciliation followed, and Esra was given the authority by Jah to try to save something for their son and daughter before what little remained in Hyderabad disappeared, too. It was her intention to settle the many outstanding law cases, open the palaces and lease Falaknuma to a hotel chain. She planned to turn Chowmahalla into a museum.Chowmahalla, dating from 1751, was one of the finest royal residences in India. After some negotiation, I was allowed to accompany the princess on her visit, and so was there at the breaking of the seals of some rooms that had not been opened since the death of the previous Nizam in 1967.What we saw was extraordinary, as if we were in the palace of Sleeping Beauty. In one underground storeroom, thousands of ancient scimitars, swords, helmets, maces, daggers, archery equipment and suits of armour lay rusted into a single metallic mass on a line of trestle tables. In another, album after album of around 8,000 Victorian and Edwardian photographs of the Nizam’s household was covered in a thick cladding of dust. A unique set of 160 harem photographs, dating from 1915, lay loose in a box. On the walls, dynastic portraits were falling out of their frames. In one room were great mountains of princely dresses, patkas, chaugoshia and salvars, drawers of Kanchipuram silk saris, and one huge trunk containing nothing but bow ties. There were long lines of court uniforms as well as sets of harem clothes once worn by the Nizam’s favourite wives. Almost 8,000 dinner services survived, one of which alone had 2,600 pieces.In the King Kothi palace, the Nizam’s dynasty’s complete correspondence since the mid-18th century filled three rooms floor to ceiling. When the archivists had been sacked in 1972, the archive, all 10 and a half tonnes of it, had been stuffed into the rooms and sealed. Other rooms were stacked with crates of French champagne.It looked an impossible task even to begin to sort out the mess and dilapidation. Yet remarkably, six years later, the Chowmahalla is now open to the public and 1,000 visitors a day are streaming through. A massive conservation project, unique in India, has restored and catalogued the best of what remains. The result is little short of incredible.In the story of how the Nizam’s inheritance was saved, Esra’s lawyer, Vijay Shankardass, plays the most extraordinary role. An urbane figure, Shankardass is the only lawyer who has both chambers in Lincoln’s Inn and a practice in Delhi. He is renowned for being as clever as he is honest and, as the man who represents Salman Rushdie, he is also celebrated for his courage and tenacity.I met him in the largest suite of Hyderabad’s grandest hotel, which he has occupied intermittently since beginning work on the Nizam’s estate in 1996: “I was contacted by Princess Esra’s lawyers in England,” he told me, “and asked if I could intervene in trying to sort out the jewellery trusts which the last Nizam had set up.”.
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DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE
State Capital
Hyderabad
Area of the State
2,75,100 Sq. Kms
Population (2001 Census)
7,62,10, 007
Male Population
3,85,27,413
Female Population
3,76,82,594
Density of Population
277 persons per Sq. Km
Sex Ratio
978 (Females per 1000 Males)
Urban Percentage
27.04
Districts (23)
Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam, Nellore, Chittoor, Ananthapur, Kadapa, Kurnool, Mahabubnagar, Ranga Reddy, Medak, Nizamabad, Karimanagar, Adilabad, Warangal, Khammam, Nalgonda and Hyderabad
Major cities
Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupathi, Warangal, Guntur, Kakinada, Nellore and Kurnool
Total No. of Households
1,70,04,305
Languages Spoken
Telugu, English, Urdu and Hindi
Coastline length
974 Kms
Major Rivers
Krishna, Godavari, Thungabadra
Religions followed
Hinduism, Islam and Christianity
CLIMATE
Maximum Temperature
44.8 °C during summers.
Minimum Temperature
11.3 °C during winters.
Annual Rainfall (Average)
940 mm
INFRASTRUCTURE:
Railway
Total Railway track length
5107 Kms.
Number of Railway Stations
620
Road
Total road network
1,78,747 Kms.
Number of National Highways(12)
4,014kms
State Highways
8,763kms
Airways
International Airports
Hyderabad, Shamshabad (under construction)
Domestic Airports
Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Tirupathi (Smaller air fields also available)
Air Connections
International
From:Hyderabad
To:Singapore, Sharjah, Kuwait, Muscat, Dubai, Malaysia, Germany and Malaysia
National
From:Hyderabad
To:Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Nagpur, Bhuvaneshwar, Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Calcutta, and Kochi
Sea Ports
Major Sea Ports
Visakhapatnam,Gangavaram deep water port under development
Minor Sea ports
Kakinada, Krishnapatnam, andMachilipatnam.
Communication
Number of Post Offices
16,190
Number of Telegraph Offices
118
Number of Telephone Exchanges
3,341
Power
Installed capacity (MW)
11,134
Units generated (MU)
25,482
Length of transmission lines (Kms)
6,70,800
No. of Substations
2,874
Average plant load power factor
85.20%
Per Capita Consumption
575 KWh
Capacity Addition
2207 MW
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS
Number of registered factories in the State
36,747
Large and Medium Industries
3,601
Registered SSI/Tiny units
1,46,142
Industrial Estates
272 (covering a total of 14,170 Hectares)
ECONOMY Constant prices (2005-06)
Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP)
1,17,434 Crores
Contribution of Secondary Sector to GSDP
23%
Manufacturing Sector
16,350 Crores
Per Capita Income
Rs. 13,135
Government of Andhra Pradesh Websites
Website Address
Department/Agency
http://www.aponline.gov.in/
Govt. of Andhra Pradesh Portal
http://www.appcb.org/
AP Pollution Control Board
http://www.apiicltd.com/
AP Industrial Infrastructure Corporation
http://www.incap.co.in/
Infrastructure corporation of Andhra Pradesh
http://www.apit.gov.in/
Department of Information Technology
http://www.aptranscorp.com/
Andhra Pradesh Transmission Corporation
http://www.apeasternpower.com/
State power distribution companies
http://www.apcentralpower.com/
http://www.apnpdcl.com/
http://www.apgenco.com/
Andhra Pradesh power generation corporation
http://www.ercap.org/
AP Electricity Regulatory Commission
http://www.apidc.org/
AP Industrial Development Corporation
http://www.eptri.com/
Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI)
http://www.apts.gov.in/
AP Technology Services Limited.
http://www.aptourism.in/
Department of Tourism
http://www.pedap.org/
Department of Public Enterprises
http://www.aproads.com/
Roads & Buildings
http://www.aptransport.org/
Transport Department
http://www.aphorticulture.com/
Department of Horticulture
http://www.hudahyd.org/
Hyderabad Urban Development Authority
http://www.hyd.stpi.in/
Software Technology Park of India – Hyderabad
http://www.ltinfocity.com/
L&T Infocity (Hitec City)
http://www.genomevalley.org/
Biotechnology Park
http://www.scclmines.com/
Singareni Collieries
http://www.hitex.co.in/
HITEX, Exhibition complex
http://www.scrailway.gov.in/
South Central Railway
http://www.ap.bsnl.co.in/
Bharat sanchar Nigam Limited
http://www.apsez.com/
Andhra Pradesh Special Economic Zone
http://www.apsfc.com/
Andhra Pradesh State Financial Corporation
http://www.spbiotechpark.com/
Biotechnology Park
THE EMINENT WORLD
WORLD'S ABLE-N-NOBLE FOR STABLE A COLLECTIVE SOURCE FOR INFORMATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SUCCESS BY SYED SIHTYAQ URRAHMAN ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID.
A1)PLATINUM VALUABLE THOUGHT BASED ON" AN EXPERIENCE": THE EXPERIENCE- SUPPORTS THE MATTER OF EXISTENCE.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID ]
2)P.V.T.BASED ON "KNOWLEDGE": COGNIZANCE MUST AGGRANDIZE OUR CERTITUDE.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
3)P.V.T.BASED ON "NATURE":THE ANSWER OF BEAUTY IS THE NATURAL BEAUTY.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
4)P.V.T.BASED ON "THOUGHTS":VALUABLE THOUGHTS ARE THE CRITERIA OF SMART ILLUSTRATION.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
5)P.V.T.BASED ON "THINGS":ANY THING IS NOT EVERY THING BUT EVERY- THING CAN BE ANYTHING[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID ABDUL MOID]
6)P.V.T.BASED ON "IDEAS":INNOVATIONS AND INVENTIONS ARE THE RESULTS OF CONCEPTIONS.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
7)P.V.T.BASED ON "EDUCATION": THE EDUCATION IS AN ARCHITECT WHICH MUST BUILD THE CITY AND COLONIES OF KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL ITS STUDENT.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
8)PG.V.T.BASED ON "LUMINOUS LIGHT":COGNIZANCE IS THE LUMINOUS LIGHT WHICH MUST ERADICATE THE DARKNESS OF ILLITRACY.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
9)P.V.T.BASED ON "MONEY" :THE MONEY IS ONLY POWER OF ALL BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]---->
10)P.V.T.BASED ON "DOMINATION": THE MONEY DOMINATES OVER HUMANITY THROUGH OPULENCE,AND FLAMBOYANCE.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
11)P.V.T.BASED ON "TONGUE": THE HUMAN TONGUE IS ALSO A GREAT TASTE-TAKER BUT IT DOES NOT TOLERATE A SINGLE HAIR.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
12)P.V.T.BASED ON "FACT":THE CONNISSIEUR HAS THE EFFICIENCY TO DECIDE WHAT IS SALUBRIOUS,AND WHAT IS INJURIOUS IN FOOD AND DRINK.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
13)P.V.T.BASED ON "THE-PEN": AS A MATER OF FACT THE PEN IS ACCURATE PROCESSOR OF SCRIPT.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
14)P.V.T.BASED ON "SOVEREIGN":THE PRESENCE OF A MONARCH MEANS THE ABSENCE OF THE REGENCY.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
15)P.V.T.BASED ON "CONFIDENCE": A MAN'S SELF DETERMINATION AND PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IS ENOUGH TO BECOME A MAN OF THE VICTOR.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
16)P.V.T.BASED ON "GENESIS": IF THE INCEPTION OF ANYTHING WILL BECOME PERFECTION WITH FORTUNE, CERTAINLY IT MUST EXUDE INCESSANT PRIMACIES.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID]
17)P.V.T.BASED ON "DEVICES": THE COMPUTERS, AND LOP-TOPS ARE NOT THE ULTIMATE STOPS.[SIR-ZULKHARNAIN ABDUL MOID.]
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