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Ind vs Eng: India defeat England by five wickets

Ind vs Eng: India defeat England by five wickets

After a complete washout in England, India finally exacted revenge with a resoundinChina nfl jerseys wholesaleg ODI series win at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Thursday. But more than avenging the defeat, it's redemption that has been achieved by the Indians.

Faced with a tough chase of 298 runs, India finally ended on the winning side but England,,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, for the first time in the series, gave a fight. India were comfortably cruising towards victory till the tipping point came in the form of three quick wickets of Gautam Gambhir (58), Virat Kohli (35) and Suresh Raina (0), that brought England back in the game.,Nike shox shoes, However, skipper MS Dhoni (35) and Ravindra Jadeja (26) squeezed through the crunch as England faltered in the final stages.

The seeds of victory were sown by rookie Ajinkya Rahane (91) who played a calculated innings to give India the edge early on. Playing with soft hands,,BlackBerry Wholesale, flicking and opening the face of the blade, he exploited pace of the English quicks. The Mumbai batsman late cut and chipped tweakers to steal singles.

His near-perfect timing was the standout feature of his batting as the English bowling looked clueless for a major part of the innings.

Earlier, Jonathan Trott (98 no, 116b, 8x4) put in all his might to keep England in the game, and in the series.china jewelry store With a knock that did good not only to his team but to his own place in the team as well, the underfire Warwickshire batsman held the innings together and helped put 298/4.

England skipper Alastair Cook reposed more faith in batsmen than bowlers by opting to bat first on a seamer-friendly wicket and the batting show justified the decision. Kevin Pietersen (64) and Craig Kieswetter (36) added their bit in augmenting the total. But it was Trott who cautiously walked the distance.

Lord Turner attacks EU as clampdown is unveiled

Lord Turner attacks EU as clampdown is unveiled

The chairman of the Financial Services Authority last night attacked heavy-handed European legislation in response to the financial crisis on the day the European Union announced a market clampdown.

In a speech at the Mansion House, Lord Turner said pending European rules could reduce the UK financial authorities' ability to act in Britain's interests.

He told his City audience: "European capital adequacy regulation should enforce minimum standards across the European Union,,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, but it should leave national authorities free to exceed and vary them above the minimum.

"The idea that securing the single marChina nfl jerseys wholesaleket requires the harmonisation of maximum as well as minimum standards is simply wrong and potentially harmful."

Lord Turner made his warning after Brussels unveiled tough new measures to rein in high frequency trading and exert more control over commodities, equities and off-exchange derivatives.Nfl teams jerseys shop

The long-awaited measures, known as Mifid, call for high-frequency traders to be properly regulated and for rules to limit them moving in and out of markets.Dolphins jerseys wholesale The use of computer programs to trade securities in an instant has been under attack for exacerbating market volatility.

Commodity traders have also been accused of driving up world food prices. Mifid proposes setting position limits for commodity derivatives across the region Epson Projector Lampif national rules were judged ineffective.

China starts building 1st spallation neutron device

China starts building 1st spallation neutron device

The CSNS is a tool to utilize neutrons to probe the structure of the microscopic world,,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, which "functions like the x-ray when scanning the human body," said Chen Hesheng, director of the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The device mainly consists of an H-linac and a proton rapid cycling synchrotron and is designed to accelerate China nfl jerseys wholesaleproton beam pulses to strike a solid metal target to produce spallation neutrons,Dolphins jerseys wholesale according to Chen.

The CSNS will help China's research into flammable ice and radiation therapy for tumors, said Chen.

"The building of CSNS will mutually benefit the already built synchrotron radiation source and advanced nuclear reactor in China and provide technical support for the country's cutting edge research,,Nike shox shoes," said Chen.

The CSNS is the first of its kind in developing countries and projected to be operational in 2018, with a budget of 1.,BlackBerry Wholesale,67 billion yuan (about 262 million U.S. dollars), according to the statement.

Jointly built by the CAS and the southern Guangdong Province, the CSNS is located in Dalang County of the city of Dongguan in Guangdong, about 125 km from Hong Kong.

The world's other three operating spallation neutron sources are in the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan.

France greets the birth of the First Baby with a yawn

France greets the birth of the First Baby with a yawn

Baby, what baby? France, or part of France, greeted the birth of President Nicolas Sarkozy's daughter with an ostentatious yawn yesterday.

The centre-left newspaper Libération ignored the happy event completely. The upmarket Le Monde, carried only a teasing article on page two,China nfl jerseys wholesale mocking the obsession of the twittosphere and foreign press with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy's pregnancy. It also led its front page with the story that the world population was now 7 billion, implying, perhaps, that one baby was incidental.Epson Projector Lamp

President Sarkozy was equally coy. He spoke of "very great happiness" but turned up at his wife's clinic yesterday morning with a sheaf of documents and departed after 40 minutes for an official engagement in western France.

There was some surprised comment in other French media at President Sarkozy's decision to skip the birth on Wednesday night in favour of eurozone crisis talks in Germany. Euro crisis talks are daily events after all.Dolphins jerseys wholesale The birth of a daughter is special.

Political commentators suggested that the President was trying to make a point. New father or not, he would remain focused on trying to rescue the European economy.Nfl teams jerseys shop Although some Sarkozy supporters have been hoping for a "baby bounce" in his poll ratings, the Elysée Palace insists that the birth is a private, not public, event. This may be tactical as well as principled. Much of his presidency has been dominated by his private life: his divorce, his marriage to Carla Bruni and his son's Jean's fast-track political career.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES, People would prefer what remains of Mr Sarkozy's mandate to be devoted to them.

Parkway Pantai's RM700m expansion plan

Parkway Pantai's RM700m expansion plan

Parkway Pantai Ltd, the healthcare group controlled by Khazanah Nasional Bhd, is investing some RM700 million to build new hospitals and upgrade existing ones in Malaysia to expand its business.

Parkway Pantai now has some 11 hospitals in Malaysia. It is building three new hospitals, a 300-bed facility in Johor, a 200-bed facility in Sabah and a 100-bed hospital in Perak. It is also expanding hospitals in Kuala Lumpur.

"The market for healthcare in the whole region is growing,,BlackBerry Wholesale," Parkway Pantai Group chief executive oChina nfl jerseys wholesalefficer Dr Tan See Leng told reporters at a briefing here recently.

The briefing was done ahead of a topping-up ceremony for the Parkway Novena Hospital,china jewelry store the group's latest addition in Singapore, yesterday.,wholesale POLO Ralph Lauren SERIES,

Parkway Pantai is the new investment holding company set up in March this year. It holds all of the shares in Singapore's Parkway Holdings Ltd and Malaysia's Pantai Holdings Bhd.

Parkway Pantai is 100 per cent owned by Integrated Healthcare Holdings Sdn Bhd,,Nike shox shoes, which in turn is 70 per cent held by Khazanah. The rest comes under Japan's Mitsui & Co.

Its Malaysian operations make up 30 per cent of the group's revenue for the first half of 2011 and a third of net profit in the same period.