Monday, 2 March 2015
Saturday, 28 February 2015
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Wednesday, 25 February 2015
Great Pair Sharing Big Screen Again !!!
Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon will also be seen in the lead roles.But wait this is not it! Apparently, 17 big-ticket actors are expected to share screen space with these actors in the film. And not just for a song or special appearance."The only thing we are keeping under the wraps is the title of the film, which will have 17 actors in all." "I am old-school that way, maybe. I believe in documents and the paperwork to happen first.
It needs to be signed first before we talk about it. We should not announce it just because we had a talk about it with certain people and are keen to have them on board", he told in a press conference.Rohit Shetty will block Christmas for the film's release as all other big dates of 2015 are already taken. If that happens, his film with clash with other two big budget films, Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani.
Saturday, 21 February 2015
IPL 8 2015 Final squads after auction
| Chennai Super Kings (2015) | Rajasthan Royals(2015) | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| MS Dhoni (Retained Player) | Shane Watson (Retained Player) | Shikhar Dhawan (Retained Player) |
| Ravindra Jadeja (Retained Player) | James Faulkner (Retained Player) | Dale Steyn (Retained Player) |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (Retained Player) | Stuart Binny (Retained Player) | David Warner |
| Dwayne Bravo (Retained Player) | Ajinkya Rahane (Retained Player) | Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
| Suresh Raina (Retained Player) | Sanju Samson (Retained Player) | Karn Sharma |
| Faf Du Plessis | Steven Smith | Ishant Sharma |
| Dwayne Smith | Rajat Bhatia | Moises Henriques |
| Brendon McCullum | Tim Southee | KL Rahul |
| Ashish Nehra | Dhawal Kulkarni | Parveez Rasool |
| Mohit Sharma | Abhishek Nayar | Naman Ojha |
| Ishwar Chandra Pandey | Kane Richardson | Ashish Reddy |
| Samuel Badree | Ben Cutting | Ricky Bhui |
| Matt Henry | Karun Nair | Chama Milind |
| Mithun Manhas | Unmukt Chand | Kevin Pietersen |
| Ronit More | Iqbal Abdullah | Eoin Morgan |
| Baba Aparajith | Deepak Hooda | Kane Williamson |
| Pawan Negi | Dishant Yagnik | Ravi Bopara |
| Michael Hussey | Kevon Cooper | Laxmi Ratan Shukla |
| Rahul Sharma | Vikramjeet Malik | Praveen Kumar |
| Kyle Abbott | Ankit Nagendra Sharma | Trent Boult |
| Irfan Pathan | Rahul Tewatia | Hanuma Vihari |
| Pratyush Singh | Pravin Tambe | Prasanth Padmanabha |
| Ankush Bains | Chris Morris | Siddarth Kaul |
| Eklavya Dwivedi | Juan Theron | |
| Andrew Tye | Barinder Singh Saran | |
| Dinesh Salunkhe | ||
| Sagar Trivedi | ||
| Pardeep Sahu | ||
| Mumbai Indians | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Rohit Sharma (Retained Player) | Virat Kohli (Retained Player) | Gautam Gambhir (R’etained Player) |
| Lasith Malinga (Retained Player) | Chris Gayle (Retained Player) | Sunil Narine (Retained Player) |
| Harbhajan Singh (Retained Player) | AB De Villiers (Retained Player) | Robin Uthappa |
| Ambati Rayudu (Retained Player) | Mitchell Starc | Piyush Chawla |
| Kieron Pollard (Retained Player) | Varun Aaron | Yusuf Pathan |
| Corey Anderson | Ashok Dinda | Shakib Al Hasan |
| Aditya Tare | Parthiv Patel | Morne Morkel |
| Jasprit Bumrah | Nic Maddinson | Vinay Kumar |
| Josh Hazlewood | Harshal Patel | Umesh Yadav |
| Marchant De Lange | Vijay Zol | Manish Pandey |
| Pawan Suyal | Abu Nechim Ahmed | Chris Lynn |
| Shreyas Gopal | Sandeep Warrier | Patrick Cummins |
| Aaron Finch | Yogesh Takawale | Ryan Ten Doeschate |
| Pragyan Ojha | Yuzvendra Singh Chahal | Suryakumar Yadav |
| Mitchell McClenaghan | Dinesh Karthik | Andre Russell |
| Akshay Wakhare | Subramaniam Badrinath | Manvinder Bisla |
| Aiden Blizzard | Darren Sammy | Veer Pratap Singh |
| Hardik Pandya | Sean Abbott | Kuldeep Singh Yadav |
| Siddhesh Lad | Adam Milne | James Neesham |
| J Suchith | David Wiese | Brad Hogg |
| Nitish Rana | Jalaj Saxena | Aditya Garhwal |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | Sarfaraz Naushad Khan | Sumit Narwal |
| Shishir Bhavane | KC Cariappa | |
| Vaibhav Rawal | ||
| Sheldon Jackson | ||
| Kings XI Punjab | Delhi Daredevils | |
| Manan Vohra (Retained Player) | Mohammad Shami | |
| David Miller (Retained Player) | Nathan Coulter-Nile | |
| Mitchell Johnson | Quinton De Kock | |
| Glenn Maxwell | Manoj Tiwary | |
| George Bailey | Jean-Paul Duminy | |
| Virender Sehwag | Kedar Jadhav | |
| Rishi Dhawan | Mayank Agarwal | |
| Wriddhiman Saha | Shahbaz Nadeem | |
| Shaun Marsh | Saurabh Tiwary | |
| Beuran Hendricks | Jayant Yadav | |
| Thisara Perera | Milind Kumar | |
| Gurkirat Singh Mann | Angelo Mathews | |
| Sandeep Sharma | Yuvraj Singh | |
| Mandeep Hardev Singh | Amit Mishra | |
| Akshar Rajesh Patel | Jaydev Unadkat | |
| Parvinder Awana | Gurinder Sandhu | |
| Shardul Narendra Thakur | Shreyas Iyer | |
| Anureet Singh | CM Gautam | |
| Shivam Sharma | Dominic Muthuswamy | |
| Karanveer Singh | Albie Morkel | |
| Murali Vijay | Travis Head | |
| Nikhil Naik | Marcus Stoinis | |
| Yogesh Golwalkar | Kona Srikar Bharat | |
| KK Jiyaz | ||
| Zaheer Khan |
Champions League T20 Winners
Champions League T20 Winners
| Year | Winner | Runner | Host | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | New South Wales Blues | Trinidad and Tobago | India | Round Robin & Knockout |
| 2010 | Chennai Super Kings | Warriors | South Africa | Round Robin & Knockout |
| 2011 | Mumbi Indians | Royal Challengers Bangalore | India | Round Robin & Knockout |
| 2012 | Sydney Sixers | Highveld Lions | South Africa | Round Robin & Knockout |
| 2013 | Mumbai Indians | Rajasthan Royals | India | Round Robin & Knockout |
| 2014 | Chennai Super Kings | Kolkata Knight Riders |
India | Round Robin & Knockout |
IPL Winners List
| Season | Winners | Runner-up | Number of Teams |
| 2008 | Rajasthan Royals | Chennai Super Kings | 8 |
| 2009 | Hyderabad Deccan Chargers | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 |
| 2010 | Chennai Super Kings | Mumbai Indians | 8 |
| 2011 | Chennai Super Kings | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 |
| 2012 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Chennai Super Kings | 9 |
| 2013 | Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings | 9 |
| 2014 | Kolkata Knight Riders | Kings XI Punjab | 8 |
| 2015 | Mumbai Indians | Chennai Super Kings | 8 |
| 2016 | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 8 |
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
TCS Firing Big Time. Upto 30,000 Employees May Face Axe
Information coming in from TCS (and this letter) indicates that mid-level managers and consultants are being targeted for mass layoffs, which was never seen in TCS in recent history. AST or Assistant Consultants with Band D, who have shown little or no improvement in the last 2 years, along with ASOC (Project Managers) who are band C and above, and other middle to higher level managers are those which are in the firing line.
Employees and tech observers are actually surprised with such mass layoffs, considering that TCS is known for ‘job security’. The case become more curious considering that TCS has plans of hiring 35,000+ freshers for 2014-15 session.
A TCS spokesperson recently said: “We continue to be leading recruiters of IT talent across the world, not only in India. In this fiscal year, we have a total hiring target of 55,000 professionals and we are on track to meet it.”
Some employees, on condition of anonymity, revealed that TCS plans to fire mid-level managers who are drawing fat packages and under performing, and replace them with low-cost freshers and train them. Although this is a common practice in more of the IT services companies, firing 25,000-30,000 employees is certainly not normal.
In fact working conditions at TCS are so good that it experiences lowest attrition rates compared to other IT companies, and maybe this can be the reason that ‘old horses’ are being removed in order to shuffle the talent cards.
Another source informed us that broadly speaking, all those employees with more than 8 years of experience (with $70-100 / hour billing rates) and with no assigned projects are immediately fired. In fact, if we believe this source, then there is no issue of projects with TCS; but with costs-cutting as they have decided to get away with ‘excess fat’ and hire freshers on a mass scale to ‘keep the balance’. Scary situation indeed.
Why TCS Firing Is Bad Compared to Yahoo Layoff
In the month of October, Yahoo India fired around 500 employees from their Software Development Center (SDC) in Bangalore. Startups, which are in dire need of talented engineers quickly absorbed this shock, as most of the engineers were hired by them.
However, the case with TCS layoffs is different. Most of those who have been given pink slips are highly paid consultants and managers who have quit programming and chosen managerial positions. Yahoo engineers were programmers and developers, and even with a slight compromise on their annual take-home, they can be hired by start-ups.
But managers and consultants are specialties of MNCs, and a start-ups generally don’t require them.
Employees With Pink Slips Have Tough Road ahead
Most of the TCS employees who are in the line of fire are drawing packages upwards 20 Lakh per annum. They are the ones with 8-12 years experience and have got into a comfort zone.
These professionals are married, with kids – They have a family and mortgages to take care of. With so many people getting fired, the supply for such people is going to far outstrip (if there is) the demand.
They will now have to probably take up jobs with half their salary packages or even worst not get a job at all!
Source : http://trak.in/tags/business/2014/12/22/tcs-employee-firing-pink-slip/
Legendary director Balachander No more
Legendary director Balachander passed away in a private hospital in Chennai on Tuesday evening. He was 84.
The director was admitted to the hospital a few days ago and was taking treatment for fever and urinary tract infection. "His infection had heightened and his weakness did not help. The fever was under control but there was very little that we could do given his age," a hospital spokesperson told He was declared dead at around 7 p.m.
Balachander, popularly known as "Iyakunar Sigaram," has worked in more than 100 films in his illustrious career. The director is popular for his distinct style of film making. He introduced Rajinikanth through his film "Aboorva Raagangal" and was also a mentor to Kamal Haasan.
Born in 1930 at Nannilam in Tiruvarur district, Balachander was interested in theater and drama at a very young age. He regularly took part in stage plays while doing his graduation in Annamalai University. After working as a school teacher and as an apprentice clerk, he formed his own acting troupe. He became popular after he re-wrote the famous play "Major Chandrakanth" in Tamil.
Later, the director helmed several films and tasted success with many of them. Some of his notable films include "Aboorva Raagangal," "Moondru Muduchu," "Aval Oru Thodar Kathai," "Manmadha Leelai," "Avargal," "Ek Duje Ke Liye" and "Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu" among many others.
Balachander has won several prestigious awards including the Padma Shri and Dada Saheb Phalke award. He is survived by his wife, son Prasanna and daughter Pushpa. Meanwhile, many celebrities have condoled the death of the director.
The director was admitted to the hospital a few days ago and was taking treatment for fever and urinary tract infection. "His infection had heightened and his weakness did not help. The fever was under control but there was very little that we could do given his age," a hospital spokesperson told He was declared dead at around 7 p.m. Balachander, popularly known as "Iyakunar Sigaram," has worked in more than 100 films in his illustrious career. The director is popular for his distinct style of film making. He introduced Rajinikanth through his film "Aboorva Raagangal" and was also a mentor to Kamal Haasan.
Born in 1930 at Nannilam in Tiruvarur district, Balachander was interested in theater and drama at a very young age. He regularly took part in stage plays while doing his graduation in Annamalai University. After working as a school teacher and as an apprentice clerk, he formed his own acting troupe. He became popular after he re-wrote the famous play "Major Chandrakanth" in Tamil.
Later, the director helmed several films and tasted success with many of them. Some of his notable films include "Aboorva Raagangal," "Moondru Muduchu," "Aval Oru Thodar Kathai," "Manmadha Leelai," "Avargal," "Ek Duje Ke Liye" and "Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu" among many others.
Balachander has won several prestigious awards including the Padma Shri and Dada Saheb Phalke award. He is survived by his wife, son Prasanna and daughter Pushpa. Meanwhile, many celebrities have condoled the death of the director.
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