श्रीरामनवमी

आज देश भर में श्रीरामनवमी बडी धूम धाम से मनाई जा रही है। इस पावन अवसर पर अभिषेक बच्चन और ऐश्वर्या राय के विवाह की तिथी घोषित की गई है। इन का विवाह १९ अप्रैल को निश्चित हुआ है।

भारत श्री लंका से हारा, World Cup 2007 से लगभग बाहर .......

विश्व कप में कल हुए मैच में भारत श्री लंका से ६९ रन से पराजित हुआ।अब भारत का विश्व कप से बाहर होना लगभग निश्चित है। अब अगर बर्मुडा बांगलादेश को हराता है तब ही भारत विश्व कप में आगे बड़ सकता है।
श्री लंका के गेंद बाज़ों ने भारतीय बल्लेबाज़ों की जैसे हवा ही उतार दी।धोनी एवम् तेन्दुलकर शून्य पर गिरे।उथ्थप्पा ने १८ तथा हरभजन ने १७ बनाए। अगरकर एवम् मुनाफ़ पटेल ने दस दस रन बनाए। केवल द्राविड ने ६० तथा सेहवाग ने ४८ रन बनाए। गांगुली ने केवल ७ रन बनाए।
भारत के समक्ष २५५ रन का लक्ष्य था परन्तु भारत केवल १८५ रन बना सका।

बॉब वूल्मर की मृत्यू - हत्या या आत्म-हत्या

पाकिस्तान की ऐयरलैण्ड से शर्मनाक हार के बाद पाकिस्तान के कोच बॉब वूल्मर रविवार, १८ मार्च २००७ को अपने कमरे में मृत पाए गए थे ।
जमैकन पुलिस के अनुसार बॉब वूल्मर की हत्या की गई थी वो भी गला दबा कर ।
पाकिस्तानी समाचार चैनल GeoTV के अनुसार जमैकन पुलीस ने एक व्यक्ति को पुछताछ के लिए हिरासत में लिया है । इस व्यक्ति का नाम जमैकन पुलीस आज बताएगी ।
उधर, पाकिस्तानी टीम जो शनिवार को वापस आने वाली थी, वो अब दो दिन बाद आएगी । पुलीस उन से भी पुछताछ कर रही है ।

India make the highest ever World Cup Total against Bermuda

India made 413/5 in their second match of the World Cup. The hapless Bermudians were belted black and blue by Sehwag (who appears to have regained his form), Ganguly, Yuvraj and later on by Tendulkar. Sehwag made his long-awaited century. He was out on 114 after facing 87 balls. Ganguly played a sedate knock of 89 off 114 balls before being stumped by the wicket-keeper Minors. Yuvraj was particularly severe hitting 7 sixes for his blistering 83 off just 46 balls. Tendulkar's cameo 57 off just 29 balls including 4 sixes and 2 fours ensured that India crossed 400 mark. The last ball of the Indian innings was despatched for a towering six by Rahul Dravid.
The Bermudians were bundled out for a paltry 156 off 43.1 overs. Hemp was the highest scorer, making a sedate 76 off 105 balls. Only two other players crossed into double figures - Borden (13) and Minors (21). There were 5 duck-outs in the Bermudian innings.
So it was a comprehensive victory by 256 runs for India. It remains to be seen how they fare against the Sri Lankans.

उगादी की शुभकामना

आज १९मार्च २००७,उगादी है, मेरा मन पसंद त्यौहार।
आज प्रत: 6:00 बजे से देश का कई हिस्सों में आंशिक सूर्य ग्रहण देखा गया। नव वर्ष का आरंभ सूर्य ग्रहण से होना शुभ नहीं माना जाता है।इस लिए कई लोग उगादी कल मना रहे हैं।

Bob Woolmer Dead

Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died on Sunday, 18th March, 2007, one day after Pakistan was knocked out of the World Cup by Ireland.
He was found unconscious in the bathroom of his hotel room and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead.
It appears as though he could not cope with the humiliating defeat of his team at the hands of the newbies - Ireland, but the question lingers on whether he died a natural death arising out the the shock of his team's defeat, or he committed suicide or whether he was murdered, a question only time will answer.
Bob Woolmer was born in Kanpur India. He played 19 tests for South Africa and went on to become the coach of South African cricket team.

Bangladesh humble India

India face the prospect of an early exit from the World Cup after we were comprehensively beaten by the minnows of the Cricketing World - Bangladesh on Saturday.
Electing to bat, India could make only 191 runs off 49.3 overs. Bangladesh achieved it by losing only 5 wickets.

Linux Tip

If scim/skim is not working in applications like firefox or gimp, even after following the steps mentioned earlier in my entry dated 8.03.07, then the following can be tried

$GTK_IM_MODULE=xim /usr/local/firefox/firefox

or even better, you can edit /usr/local/firefox/firefox and add the following lines to it

GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

West Indies make a winning start to their World Cup bid.

West Indies beat Pakistan by 54 runs in the Opening Match of the World Cup 2007 played yesterday, 13th March 2007

Linux Tip : SCIM

This is how I was finally able to get scim working on my Slackware 11.0 machine.
First, the following packages are to be downloaded -

1. scim
   
2. scim-m17n
   
3. scim-tables
   
4. m17-lib
   

The packages are to be untarred in a convinient location like /usr/local/
Set the variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH as

$export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/m17n-lib-xxx/src:/usr/local/scim-xxx

Then build scim, m17n-lib,scim-m17n, and then finally scim-tables.
After these packages are built, the following command was given as root

#gtk-query-immodules-2.0 > /etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules

Then the folowing lines are to be added to /etc/profile.d/lang.sh

export LC_CTYPE=hi_IN.utf8

export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM

export GTM_IM_MODULE=scim

export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

Care must be employed as the above commands are case-sensitive.
Then rebooted the system and started scim as -

$ scim -d

If everything goes smoothly, we should be able to enter text in Hindi.

Lunar Eclipse!

Today is Dhulendi. There was a lunar eclipse from 3:00 AM to 6:42 AM.

होली मुबारक!

रंगों का त्यौहार होली आप सब को मुबारक हो!