India's victory over Bangladesh in the second test
India’s victory over Bangladesh in the second cricket test at Dhaka is convincing enough though it can never overwrite the sting of the World Cup defeat a few days ago.
The Indian side beat their Bangladesh counterparts during the second test match rather easily without much resistance from the latter. In fact, in reply to a very resounding performance from the Indian top order (team India went into the record books with all the top four batsmen scoring a century in the same innings), the Bangladesh side collapsed like a castle of playing cards during both the innings.
Earlier, India also had a clean sweep in the one day series against Bangladesh. This confirms that Bangladesh is still a budding team with a good potential and its victory against India during the World Cup would rather be looked upon as a surprise package.
India’s performance during the Bangladesh tour would relieve its fans. It was good to see both the balling and the batting sides gave a good performance.
The success in the Bangladesh tour may allure the Indian Cricket fans to come back to the game and start building expectations again from their heroes who had utterly failed during the World Cup!
Labels: Cricket
The CFA imbroglio
At a point when experts are talking of making Mumbai as a major financial hub in Aisa, the decision of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) to ban the CFA exams in India is a retrograde step. The programme is highly respected among the investment analysts the world over. It serves as a common benchmark of knowledge about investment strategies.
AICTE’s decision is saddening and disgusting at the same time. The reason cited by the regulatory body is that the CFA institute had not registered its programme with the former before conducting exams in the country. Another local institute, Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts (ICFAI) had earlier filed a case against the CFA Institute for conducting educational programme in India without first notifying such an action to AICTE. In its defence, the CFA Institute had argued that it’s not offering any technical education, which is mainly the purview of AICTE.
However, the AICTE acts mentions management as one of the educational areas that are under its regulation. This, in fact, makes all the management institutes in the country to get an approval from AICTE.
What’s next? For the CFA Institute, India is becoming a major centre for CFA aspirants. Thus, it cannot ignore this potential market. It has two things to look after. First, it has to see through the successful conduction of it June 3 exam. For that, it is trying to bring a stay order on AICTE’s ban. With such a short time at hand, one wonders if this is possible. The other thing is about its presence in India. The easiest way out is to get an approval from AICTE. However, in this case, one fear lurks. Registration with AICTE may reduce the independence of the CFA Institute to set the curriculum or it may have to follow certain procedures and norms, which it may not be comfortable in doing so.
Labels: Policies
Not getting a network on your cell? Count your blessings!!
Have you ever thanked your mobile service provider for call drops or for not getting a network? Ask the people from Hyderabad. They must be thanking the hutch puppy profusely for not following them anywhere and everywhere and thus saving a few lives!
The aftermath of the Friday’s blast at a mosque in Hyderabad has revealed that the blast was triggered remotely from Bangladesh with the help of mobile network. A call was made to a cell phone attached to the bomb to carry out the explosion. Another blast was very much in the offing soon after the first one, which boomed at 1.22 pm. However, the call could not be completed this time due to a busy network, found out the investigators. A hutch prepaid card was found to be loaded in the Nokia phone that was attached to the second live bomb.
There are two things to be learnt from this hapless incidence. First, crime has gone really high-tech. Somebody sitting in Bangladesh and triggering explosion 1,200 miles away would have been a central plot of a Bond movie until recently. But, that has become a reality now. Second, crime can become howsoever high-tech, it still requires human help for execution. The blast might have been triggered by antisocial agencies but the prepaid cards which helped to trigger the explosion were supplied by some vendor in the Eastern part of India as per the details available with the news agencies. And, obviously, these cards were issued without verifying the identity of the customers, despite the fact that such validations have been made mandatory by the local telecom authorities. One doesn’t know how many more lives are needed to be taken before we as a nation become responsible about internal safety.
It happens again and again. For a few more rupees, we put national security and lives of many citizens at stake --- some times by issuing bogus passports and sometimes by renting homes to tenants without proper verification. Now with technology helping the antisocial elements, it’s high time that we behave as responsible citizens.
Labels: Society
Where the spirit in the Indian Cricket has all gone?
It seems that our veteran cricketers have become more conscious about their individual performance than ever. Look at the innings of Sachin Tendulkar and Saurav Ganguly in the first test match against Bangladesh. Both hit a century and got out soon after; Sachin on 101 and Saurav on 100. And both of them got out on a very loose (irresponsible may be a more suitable word!) shot.
Both these players had a good opportunity to play a long innings against a less experienced Bangladesh team. That would’ve pepped the team score as well as their individual records. But, both were bothered more about making a rather rash statement about their form.
Both these centuries have a common backdrop. There was a severe backlash on the senior players after the recent bad performance of the team in the World Cup. Questions were raised against the form of the veterans including Sachin and Saurav. And, eventually both the players lost their births in the one-day team for Bangladesh tour. Further, performance of the selected team, which mainly included new blood, was consistent and assuring against the Bangladesh team. The latter had earlier surprised the Indian side in a World Cup match.
The strange fall of wickets of both the erstwhile heroes of contemporary Indian Cricket during the first innings of the test match against Bangladesh is not s healthy sign. It indicates that the players are playing just to enhance their track record and secure their places in forthcoming matches. Moreover, Sachin’s reaction after his innings to whether he wanted to prove something was quite pompous. The player said that he had nothing to prove after playing for 17 years and hitting so many centuries.
If this is what the seniors are going to do then there would be still some more years and some more World Cups before India could dream of some really cherishing and worthwhile performance.
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