INDEPENDENCE YEARS

                                                                 INDEPENDENCE YEARS

660 BCE -  Japan
221 BCE -  China
301 CE -    San Marino
843 CE -    France
976 CE -    Austria
10thCentury CE - Denmark
1001 -      Hungary
1143 -      Portugal
1206 -      Mongolia
1238 -      Thailand
1278 -      Andorra
August 1, 1291 - Switzerland
1419 -     Monaco
15th Century - Spain
1502 -      Iran
June 6, 1523 - Sweden
January 23, 1579 - Netherlands
1650 - Oman
May 1, 1707 - United Kingdom
January 23, 1719 - Liechtenstein
1768 - Nepal
July 4, 1776 - United States of America
January 1, 1804 - Haiti
July 20, 1810 - Colombia
Sept. 16, 1810 - Mexico
Sept. 18, 1810 - Chile
May 14, 1811 - Paraguay
July 5, 1811 - Venezuela
July 9, 1816 - Argentina
July 28, 1821 - Peru
Sept. 15, 1821 - Costa Rica
Sept. 15, 1821 - El Salvador
Sept. 15, 1821 - Guatemala
Sept. 15, 1821 - Honduras
Sept. 15, 1821 - Nicaragua
May 24, 1822 - Ecuador
Sept. 7, 1822 - Brazil
August 6, 1825 - Bolivia
August 25, 1825 - Uruguay
1829 - Greece
October 4, 1830 - Belgium
1839 - Luxembourg
February 27, 1844 - Dominican Republic
July 26, 1847 - Liberia
March 17, 1861 - Italy
July 1, 1867 - Canada
January 18, 1871 - Germany
May 9, 1877 - Romania
March 3, 1878 - Bulgaria
1896 - Ethiopia
June 12, 1898 - Philippines
January 1, 1901 - Australia
May 20, 1902 - Cuba
November 3, 1903 - Panama
June 7, 1905 - Norway
Sept. 26, 1907 - New Zealand
May 31, 1910 - South Africa
November 28, 1912 - Albania
December 6, 1917 - Finland
November 11, 1918 - Poland
December 1, 1918 - Iceland
August 19, 1919 - Afghanistan
December 6, 1921 - Ireland
February 28, 1922 - Egypt
October 29, 1923 - Turkey
February 11, 1929 - Vatican City
Sept. 23, 1932 - Saudi Arabia
October 3, 1932 - Iraq
November 22, 1943 - Lebanon
August 15, 1945 - Korea, North
August 15, 1945 - Korea, South
August 17, 1945 - Indonesia
Sept. 2, 1945 - Vietnam
April 17, 1946 - Syria
May 25, 1946 - Jordan
August 14, 1947 - Pakistan
August 15, 1947 - India
January 4, 1948 - Burma
February 4, 1948 - Sri Lanka
May 14, 1948 - Israel
July 19, 1949 - Laos
August 8, 1949 - Bhutan
December 24, 1951 - Libya
November 9, 1953 - Cambodia
January 1, 1956 - Sudan
March 2, 1956 - Morocco
March 20, 1956 - Tunisia
March 6, 1957 - Ghana
August 31, 1957 - Malaysia
October 2, 1958 - Guinea
January 1, 1960 - Cameroon
April 4, 1960 - Senegal
May 27, 1960 - Togo
June 30, 1960 - Congo, Republic of the
July 1, 1960 - Somalia
July 26, 1960 - Madagascar
August 1, 1960 - Benin
August 3, 1960 - Niger
August 5, 1960 - Burkina Faso
August 7, 1960 - Cote d'Ivorie
August 11, 1960 - Chad
August 13, 1960 - Central African Republic
August 15, 1960 - Congo, Dem. Rep. of the
August 16, 1960 - Cyprus
August 17, 1960 - Gabon
Sept. 22, 1960 - Mali
October 1, 1960 - Nigeria
November 28, 1960 - Mauritania
April 27, 1961 - Sierra Leone
June 19, 1961 - Kuwait
January 1, 1962 - Samoa
July 1, 1962 - Burundi
July 1, 1962 - Rwanda
July 5, 1962 - Algeria
August 6, 1962 - Jamaica
August 31, 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago
October 9, 1962 - Uganda
December 12, 1963 - Kenya
April 26, 1964 - Tanzania
July 6, 1964 - Malawi
Sept. 21, 1964 - Malta
October 24, 1964 - Zambia
February 18, 1965 - Gambia, The
July 26, 1965 - Maldives
August 9, 1965 - Singapore
May 26, 1966 - Guyana
September 30, 1966 - Botswana
October 4, 1966 - Lesotho
November 30, 1966 - Barbados
January 31, 1968 - Nauru
March 12, 1968 - Mauritius
Sept. 6, 1968 - Swaziland
October 12, 1968 - Equatorial
June 4, 1970 - Tonga
October 10, 1970 - Fiji
March 26, 1971 - Bangladesh
August 15, 1971 - Bahrain
Sept. 3, 1971 - Qatar
November 2, 1971 - United Arab Emirates
July 10, 1973 - Bahamas
Sept. 24, 1973 - Guinea-Bissau
February 7, 1974 - Grenada
June 25, 1975 - Mozambique
July 5, 1975 - Cape Verde
July 6, 1975 - Comoros
July 12, 1975 - Sao Tome and Principe
Sept. 16, 1975 - Papua New Guinea
November 11, 1975 - Angola
November 25, 1975 - Suriname
June 29, 1976 - Seychelles
June 27, 1977 - Djibouti
July 7, 1978 - Solomon Islands
October 1, 1978 - Tuvalu
November 3, 1978 - Dominica
February 22, 1979 - Saint Lucia
July 12, 1979 - Kiribati
October 27, 1979 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
April 18, 1980 - Zimbabwe
July 30, 1980 - Vanuatu
January 11, 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda
Sept. 21, 1981 - Belize
Sept. 19, 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis
January 1, 1984 - Brunei
October 21, 1986 - Marshall Islands
November 3, 1986 - Micronesia, Federated States of
March 11, 1990 - Lithuania
March 21, 1990 - Namibia
May 22, 1990 - Yemen
April 9, 1991 - Georgia
June 25, 1991 - Croatia
June 25, 1991 - Slovenia
August 20, 1991 - Estonia
August 21, 1991 - Kyrgyzstan
August 24, 1991 - Russia
August 25, 1991 - Belarus
August 27, 1991 - Moldova
August 30, 1991 - Azerbaijan
Sept. 1, 1991 - Uzbekistan
Sept. 6, 1991 - Latvia
Sept. 8, 1991 - Macedonia
Sept. 9, 1991 - Tajikistan
Sept. 21, 1991 - Armenia
October 27, 1991 - Turkmenistan
November 24, 1991 - Ukraine
December 16, 1991 - Kazakhstan
March 3, 1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
January 1, 1993 - Czech Republic
January 1, 1993 - Slovakia
May 24, 1993 - Eritrea
October 1, 1994 - Palau
May 20, 2002 - East Timor
June 3, 2006 - Montenegro
June 5, 2006 - Serbia
February 17, 2008 – Kosovo

Ms Dhoni

Prime Ministers Of India Since 1947
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Jawaharlal Nehru
15 August 1947 - 27 May 1964





Gulzarilal Nanda
27 May 1964 - 9 June 1964
11 January 1966 - 19 February 1966




Lal Bahadur Shastri
9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966




Indira Gandhi
19 January 1966 - 24 March 1977
15 January 1980 - 31 October 1984




Morarji Desai
24 March 1977 - 28 July 1979




Choudhary Charan Singh
28 July 1979 - 15 January 1980




Rajiv Gandhi
31 October 1984 - 2 December 1989




Vishwanath Pratap Singh
2 December 1989 - 10 November 1990




Chandra Shekhar
10 November 1990 - 21 June 1991




P. V. Narasimha Rao
21 June 1991 - 16 May 1996




Atal Behari Vajpayee
16 May 1996 - 1 June 1996
19 March 1998 - 22 May 2004




H. D. Deve Gowda
1 June 1996 - 21 April 1997




Inder Kumar Gujral
21 April 1997 - 19 March 1998




Manmohan Singh
22 May 2004 - Incumbent

India premier League

Here is the list of players for all the 10 teams participating in 2011 Indian Premier League.

Chennai Super Kings Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

MS Dhoni (Cap), Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Michael Hussey, Scott Styris, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Albie Morkel, Tim Southee, Subramaniam Badrinath, George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Shadab Jakati, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Nuwan Kulasekara, Srikkanth Anirudha, Yo Mahesh, Sudeep Tyagi, Abhinav Mukund, Kuthethurshri Vasudevadas, Ganapathi Vignesh

Mumbai Indians Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Sachin Tendulkar (Cap), Kieron Pollard, Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma, James Franklin, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Munaf Patel, Davy Jacobs, Clint McKay, ADilhara Fernando, mbati Rayudu, Dhawal Kulkarni, Ali Murtaza, Abu Nechim, Aiden Blizzard, Yuzvendra Chahal, Moises Henriques, Sarul Kanwar, Rajagopal Sathish, Tirumalasetti Suman, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare (wk), Santosh Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav

Royal Challengers Bangalore Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Daniel Vettori (Cap), Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Saurabh Tiwary, Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohammad Kaif, Abhimanyu Mithun, Zaheer Khan, Charl Langeveldt, Dirk Nannes, Ryan Ninan, Asad Pathan, Luke Pomersbach, Rilee Rossouw, Johan van der Wath, Jonathan Vandiar, Mayank Agarwal, Sreenath Aravind, Arun Karthik, BN Bharath, Raju Bhatkal, Abrar Kazi, Nuwan Pradeep, Muralidharen Gautam

Delhi Daredevils Bangalore Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Virender Sehwag (Cap), David Warner, Naman Ojha (wk), Irfan Pathan, James Hopes, Colin Ingram, Andrew McDonald, Morne Morkel, Roelof van der Merwe, Venugopal Rao, Umesh Yadav, Ajit Agarkar, Varun Aaron, Travis Birt, Robin Bist, Unmukt Chand, Ajit Chandila, Ashok Dinda , Aaron Finch, Robert Frylinckl, Yogesh Nagar, Rajesh Pawar, Aavishkar Salvi, Sridharan Sriram, Vikas Mishra, Matthew Wade, Tejashwi Yadav, Vivek Yadav, Shahbaz Nadeem, Prashant Naik

Kolkata Knight Riders Bangalore Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Gautam Gambhir (Cap), Yusuf Pathan, Jacques Kallis, Brad Haddin (wk), Brett Lee, Shakib Al Hasan, Eoin Morgan, Jaidev Unadkat, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Iqbal Abdulla, Sarabjit Ladda, Rajat Bhatia, Manvinder Bisla, Shreevats Goswami, James Pattinson, Pradeep Sangwan, Shami Ahmed, Laxmi Shukla, Ryan ten Doeschate, Manoj Tiwary

Deccan Chargers Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Kumar Sangakkara (Cap/wk), Kevin Pietersen, Cameron White, Jean-Paul Duminy, Shikhar Dhawan, Michael Lumb, Ishant Sharma, Dale Steyn, Rusty Theron, Pragyan Ojha, Amit Mishra, Ashish Reddy, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Akash Bhandari, Bharat Chipli, Daniel Christian, Kedar Devdhar, Manpreet Gony, Harmeet Singh, Ishank Jaggi, Chris Lynn, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Jaydev Shah, Sunny Sohal, Arjun Yadav, Ishan Malhotra

Kings XI Punjab Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Adam Gilchrist (Cap/wk), Shaun Marsh, David Hussey, Stuart Broad, Piyush Chawla, Ryan Harris, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Praveen Kumar, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Abhishek Nayar, Ryan McLaren, Love Ablish, Siddharth Chitnis, Vikramjeet Malik, Nathan Rimmington, Nitin Saini, Shalabh Srivastava, Sunny Singh, Amit Yadav, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Paras Dogra, Paul Valthaty

Rajasthan Royals Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Shane Warne (Cap), Shane Watson, Ross Taylor, Shaun Tait, Rahul Dravid, Paul Collingwood, Johan Botha, Swapnil Asnodkar, Deepak Chahar, Aakash Chopra, Aditya Dole, Ashok Menaria, Pankaj Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Raut, Siddharth Trivedi, Dishant Harendra Yagnik, Ankeet Chavan, Nayan Doshi, Samad Fallah, Dinesh Salunkhe, Amit Singh, Stuart Binny, Deepak Chahar, Faiz Fazal, Sumit Narwal, Amit Paunikar, Pinal Shah

Pune Warriors Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Yuvraj Singh (Cap), Robin Uthappa, Graeme Smith, Jesse Ryder, Callum Ferguson, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra, Nathan McCullum, Angelo Mathews, Wayne Parnell, Jerome Taylor, Tim Paine (wk), Dheeraj Jadhav, Ganesh Gaikwad, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Kamran Khan, Harshad Khadiwale, Mitchell Marsh, Shrikant Mundhe, Alfonso Thomas, Eklavya Dwivedi, Mohnish Mishra, Manish Pandey, Sachin Rana, Rahul Sharma, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Harpreet Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mithun Manhas, Shrikant Wagh

Kochi Tuskers Kerala (IPL Kochi) Team/Squad for 2011 IPL4:

Mahela Jayawardene (Cap), Brendon McCullum, Michael Klinger, Owais Shah, VVS Laxman, Brad Hodge, Steve O’Keefe, Ravindra Jadeja, Balachandra Akhil, Deepak Chougule, Gnaneswara Rao, Raiphi Gomez, Parthiv Patel (wk), Muttiah Muralitharan, John Hastings, Sreesanth, Thisara Perera, Ramesh Powar, RP Singh, Steven Smith, Kedar Jadhav, Chandan Madan, Sushant Marathe, Prasanth Padmanabhan

World cup History

Cricket World Cup Statistical summaries

1975 England Lord's, London West Indies291 for 8 (60 overs) WI won by 17 runs Australia274 all out (58.4 overs)


1979 England Lord's, London West Indies286 for 9 (60 overs) WI won by 92 runs England194 all out (51 overs)


1983 England Lord's, London India183 all out (54.4 overs) Ind won by 43 runs West Indies140 all out (52 overs)


1987 India, Pakistan Eden Gardens, Kolkata Australia253 for 5 (50 overs) Aus won by 7 runs England246 for 8 (50 overs)


1992 Australia, New Zealand MCG, Melbourne Pakistan249 for 6 (50 overs) Pak won by 22 runs England227 all out (49.2 overs)


1996 Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Sri Lanka245 for 3 (46.2 overs) SL won by 7 wickets Australia241 for 7 (50 overs)


1999 England, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland Lord's, London Australia133 for 2 (20.1 overs) Aus won by 8 wickets Pakistan132 all out (39 overs)


2003 Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe Wanderers, Johannesburg Australia359 for 2 (50 overs) Aus won by 125 runs India234 all out (39.2 overs)


2007 West Indies Kensington Oval, Bridgetown Australia281 for 4 (38 overs) Aus won by 53 runs on D/L Method Sri Lanka215 for 8 (36 overs)

2011 India mumbai, India won by 6 wickets

Tamanna Bhatia

Name: Tamanna Bhatia
Sex: Female
Date of Birth: 21 Dec 1989
Place of Birth: Mumbai

Tamanna Bhatia (Telugu:తమన్న, Tamil:தமன்னா) is a south Indian model/actress who started her film career through her debut film in Hindi called Chand Sa Roshan Chehra.




Tamanna Bhatia entered into her teens and movies at the same time and has worked in some successful Tamil and Telugu movies.

Basics on Tamanna
Tamanna Bhatia was born on 21st December 1989 in Mumbai, India to Santhosh Bhatia and Rajni Bhatia. Her brother is Anand Bhatia. She is a student at the National College, Mumbai.

She also has experience as a model and has appeared in ads for Rajmahal Silks, Saravana Stores and Shakti Masala.

Tamanna Bhatiaâ??s Movies
Tamanna Bhatia got her first movie offer when she was thirteen. It was a Bollywood movie called Chand Sa Roshan Chehra (2005).

She found success with her Tamil debut Kedi (2006). The Telugu movie Happy Days (2007) was commercially successful. Her Tamil release Kalloori (2007) earned her a nomination for the Filmfare Best Tamil Actress Award.

Konchem Ishtam Konchem Kashtam (2009) was a story about a couple trying to bring together their parents. She was also seen in Ayan (2009) with Surya and that became a hit as well.

She has more releases in 2009 with Kandein Kadhalai and Paiyya.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Biography

Personal information

Full name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni
D.O.B: 7th July, 1981
Place of Birth: Ranchi, Bihar
Nickname: Mahi

Cricketing information

Role: Captain of the Indian ODI and Twenty20 team and Vice captain of the Test team
Batting style: Right hand batsman
Bowling style: Right arm medium
Field position: Wicketkeeper
Clubs played: Jharkhand

Cricketing profile

Mahendra Singh Dhoni started his first class career in the year 1999-2000. His one day international debut came after playing five years of first class cricket on the 23rd of December 2004 against Bangladesh. The venue of the match was in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Unfortunately, he was run out on the first ball he faced. It wasn’t a great debut for him where batting is concerned. Luck wasn’t on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day. Not only a good wicketkeeper but Dhoni proved himself to be a first class batsman too. He is one of the few finest wicketkeeper batsman India has seen after a very long time.

On the 31st of October, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur. Adam Gilchrist was the former record holder with 172 runs.

Before he started playing cricket, he was a football goalkeeper. Its said he drinks around four litres of milk everyday but he denied it by saying that has been exaggerated a bit. He said he loves milk and drinks around a litre on a daily basis.

On the 2nd of December 2005, Dhoni made his Test cricket debut against Srilanka which was played in Chennai, India.

Personal profile

Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father’s home town. His father’s name is Pan Singh and mother’s name is Devki Devi.

His hobbies and interests include:

* Hearing music, ghazals and songs by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar
* Loves to ride bikes
* Enjoys playing computer games and badminton

Not interested in:

* English songs
* Working out at gyms

Special qualities:

* Thinks positive
* Highly confident about himself
* Is aggressive on the field

playing Style:
Dhoni is a right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Dhoni is one of the number of wicket-keepers who have come through the ranks of junior and India A cricket teams to represent the national team

Dhoni Pictures:

Rocking Dhoni

What a Style??? Dhoni Rocking..

Yuvan Shankar Raja

Yuvan Shankar Raja Movie list

7g Rainbow Colony
Aegan
Agaram
April Maathathil
Arinthum Ariyamalum
Azhagaaai Irukiraai Bayamaai Irukkirathu
Baalaa
Billa (2007)
Bose
Chennai 600028
Daas
Deepavali
Dheena
Ethiree
Geethai
Junior Senior
Kaathal Konden
Kaathal Saamraajyam
Kalvanin Kaathali
Kanda Naal Muthal
Kannamoochi Yenada
Kedi
Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum
Kurumbu
Machakkaran
Manathai Thirudivittaai
Manmathan
Mounam Pesiyadhey
Muththirai
Nandha
Oru Kalluriyin Kadhai
Parattai Engira Azhagu Sundaram
Paruthi Veeran
Pattiyal
Perazhagan
Poovellaam Kettuppaar
Pop Carn
Punnagai Poove
Puthu Pettai
Puthukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan
Ram
Rishi
Sandai Kozhi
Saroja
Sarvam
Saththam Podaathey
Silambaattam
Siva Manasula Sakthi
Tamil M.A
Thaamirabarani
Thennavan
Thimiru
Thottaal Poo Malarum
Thulluvadho Elamai
Ullam
Unakkaga Ellaam Unakkaga
Vaamanan
Vallavan
Vazhthugal
Vel
Velai
Winner
Yaradi Nee Mohini

Slow and steady wins the race

One day a tortoise and a hare had an argument. The hare was bragging about how fast he could run. The tortoise challenged the hare and long story short – they both decided to have a race and decide the winner.


The race began and of course, the hare ran fast and was ahead of the tortoise. Midway, the hare stopped and looked back and realized that the tortoise was very far and was walking slowly. He decided to rest for a while and took a short nap.

Meanwhile, the tortoise did not stop and walked and walked and went past the sleeping hare. Very soon he was near the finishing line. The hare woke up and realized that the tortoise had gone past him. He ran as fast as he could but alas, the tortoise had crossed the finish line.

See, slow and steady wins the race.