The 2010 TIME 100

World famous 'Time Magazine', today announced the "100 most influential people" in the world. Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva headed the list in "Leaders" category ahead of U.S. president Barack Obama who was placed only at 4th place. India's Prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was placed 13th in the list of leaders.

Apart from Dr. Manmohan Singh, three nore indians found their places in the list of "Heroes". Aravind Eye Hospitals chairman Dr. P. Namperumalsamy who has done 3.6 million surgeries to date a record of a new one every 15 minutes tops the list of indians. Cricket world's Master Batsmen Sachin Tendulkar who recently broke the world record for scoring the most runs in a cricket match and India’s richest woman Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairman of Biocon were the other two. This year too, Oprah Winfrey made herself in the list under the "Artists" category.

Zimbabwe Wins Thriller

ICC World Twenty20 2010 is all set to start on April 30, 2010. Before the official league matches starts, all the teams got a chance to compete in a warm up match with some domestic teams in the Caribbean. Cricket Legends and experts say no one can predict a Twenty20 cricket game and anything can happen in it. Their words came true as Zimbabwe stunned Cricket World Champion Australia by defeating them by just 1 run.

Earlier, Zimbabwe won the toss and chose to bat. They didn't have a great start and lost few wickets. But Chigumbura (76 runs) and Ervine (39 runs) maintained a good partnership and managed to put on a decent score of 173 for the loss of 7 wickets. Australia’s pace bowler Mitchell Johnson took 4 wickets.

David Warner gave exactly the start Australia needed. He along with Michael Clarke put on 80 run partnership for the second wicket. But after the dismissal of Warner (72 runs) Zimbabwe bowlers started tightening the overs. Australians were in need of 13 runs in the final over. But the dismissal of Clarke confirmed Zimbabwe’s victory. In the end, Australia lost by a mere 1 run.

WWE Superstar 'Great Khali' to visit India

The WWE fans in India has now a reason to cheer. WWE Superstar 'The Great Khali' has expressed his desire to visit India by the last week of April. Born in India, Dalip Singh Rana (the real name of Khali) worked as a roadside labourer. Seeing his mammoth physique, the Punjab Police Department offered him a job. Taking a long leave, Khali joined World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2006. He was the first Indian wrestler to be in WWE. He had a great start in WWE defeating many superstars like The Undertaker, Triple H, Mark Henry, Shawn Michaels, Edge, Randy Orton and John cena. He won the WWE world heavyweight championship too.

The busy wrestler is now a Hollywood actor too. Having acted in hollywood films like 'The longest yard', 'Get Smart' and 'MacGruber', Khali is keen to work in Bollywood, the indian film industry too. Khali is planning to have a short break from the fighting world. He will return to his home town in India and spent some time with his children. He also has a plan to open a wrestling training school in Mumbai where he would train children. He has got a huge fan base in India and everyone are waiting to witness the tallest wrestler of WWE.

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South Africa to host Champions League 2

With the end of Indian Premier League 3, the cricketing world will now shift its focus on Champions League 2. Interestingly South Africa has been chosen to host Champions League 2. The Twenty20 tournament will run from September 10 to 26, 2010. The tournament is run by the cricket boards of India, Australia and South Africa.

Lalit Modi, the chairman of the tournament confirmed the selection of South Africa. The venues for the tournament will be announced next month. The tournament will feature 12 best domestic Twenty20 teams around the world. Out of the 12, three teams namely Chennai Super Kings(CSK), Mumbai Indians(MI) and Royal Challengers Banglore(RCB) confirmed their berth through IPL.

Hrithik Roshan, SRK & KJ for IPL awards

The Sahara IPL Awards which are considered as the "Oscars of the Cricketing world" is all set to honour some of the best players who performed well in the Indian Premier League. The function is going to be a star studded night as Bollywood stars are going to clash with the Cricket stars. Bollywood beauties are ready to add glamour quotient of the awards night.

Bollywood's 'King Khan' Shah Rukh Khan, his close friend and ace director Karan Johar has been roped in to host the inaugural function. The Oscar winning Indian music director AR Rahman, Rajastan Royals co-owner actoress Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood hotties Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra would perform at the stage. The latest Buzz is that, Cold war Enemies SRK and Hrithik Roshan are joining hands to shake their legs together for the first time. Due to a knee injury, Hrithik Roshan's performance is a little doubtful.

But the most surprising event of the evening will be the performances by the cricket players. Yes! The ipl cricket players who are good in dancing, playing musical instruments or singing will showcase their talents on stage. The function will be telecasted on Colors channel next month.

IPL 2010 award nominees

Best Batsman: Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa and Murali Vijay.
Best Bowler: Pragyan Ojha, R Vinay Kumar, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ryan Harris and R Ashwin, .
Best Debutant: Michael Lumb, Kieron Pollard, Faiz Fazal, MD Mishra, Shaun Tait, Ambati Rayudu, Doug Bollinger.
Most Dramatic Performance: Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Murali Vijay, David Warner, Juan Theron, Harbhajan Singh and Shane Warne.
Most Consistent Performance: Andrew Symonds, Irfan Pathan, David Warner, Shane Watson, Harbhajan Singh and Kieron Pollard.
Best Fielder: Suresh Raina, Keiron Pollard, AB de Villiers, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Yusuf Pathan and David Warner.
Best Breakthrough Performance: Adam Gilchrist, Brendon McCullum and Sohail Tanvir (for 2008-2009).
Best Stadium Experience: Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi.
Best Ground: chinnaswamy stadium - Bangalore, ma chidambaram stadium - Chennai, feroz shah kotla- Delhi, Eden Gardens - Kolkata, Brabourne Stadium - Mumbai, DY Patil Stadium - Mumbai, Mohali, Ahmedabad, Jaipur and Nagpur.

IPL awards 2010

The Sahara IPL Awards 2010 to honour the cricketers who performed well in the Indian Premier League will be held on April 23rd, 2010. The IPL Awards Jury includes the Chairperson of IPL Lalit Modi, Legendary Test cricketers Sunil Gavaskar and Westindian Brian Lara, Former Indian fast bowler Javagal Srinath, umpire Simon Taufel and commentator Harsha Bhogle.

This Jury will decide the IPL Awards for

• Best Batsman
• Best Bowler
• Best Fielder
• Best IPL Debutante
• Most Consistent Performer
• Most Dramatic Performance
• Breakthrough Performance
• Best Ground
• Best Stadium Experience

The IPL Viewers’ can also choose their favourites for the following Awards Categories:

• Best Batsman
• Best Bowler
• Best Captain
• Best Catch
• Best Fielder
• Most Stylish Player
• Most Fan Friendly Cricketer
• Best Commentator

The IPL Statistical Awards will decide the following awards:

• Fastest 100 runs
• Most Economical Bowler
• Maximum Runs Scored in Boundaries

IPL Captains’ Award:

• The player will be chosen by all captains for their team.

IPL Winners:

• Presentation ceremony for the winners of 2008 and 2009 IPL tournaments.

Voting Information for IPL Awards :
If you are a fan of IPL you can cast your vote at official site of the IPL Awards at www.iplawards.com or iplt20.com

Displays that boost your business

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The trade show exhibits are used at a variety of events to present your company products, ideas, build awareness and more. You can either print or you can Velcro graphics to them. They are extremely portable and utilize a shipping case that can be checked in as luggage and later converted to a podium.

The table covers used in events, come in variety of shapes and colors. Based on the color of your choice, your logo will be printed in it. These table covers can be displayed at trade fairs, job fairs, conventions, in stores and other events.

Another interesting way to display your logo is to use table top display . They are mostly similar to that of table covers, except the fact that they will be fitted on the top of a table. These will be displayed in panel systems, pop ups, banner stands, etc… Presenters should order table covers too.

One more way to promote your company logo is to use directors chairs that is used in film industry. Over the past 100 years these chairs were made of only of hardwood. These chairs can be used in trade shows for seating purpose so that your logos can be screened onto them.

Sehwag named Wisden's Leading Cricketer

Wisden introduced "The Leading Cricketer in the World" award in 2004. The judges include 4 Englishmen and an Aussie. Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Andrew Flintoff, Muttiah Muralitharan, Jacques Kallis and Virender Sehwag have won this award since 2004.

This year, Indian Star Batsmen Virender Sehwag was named "Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2009". This is the second consecutive year he is winning the prestigious award. The Striker bagged the award for his quick scoring rate in Tests or ODI's than any other specialist batsman in the world.

The 31-year-old Indian who is often compared with Test cricket Legend Sir Donald Bradman had a tough competition from over others in the race which included England captain Andrew Strauss and Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan.

In 2009, Sehwag had a strike-rate of 108.9 with an average of 70. In ODIs he averaged 45 with a whooping strike-rate of 136.5.

KKR to stay in semifinal race

April 7, 2010, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Daredevils by 14 runs to stay alive in the race for a semi-final berth. Earlier, KKR which won the toss decided to bat first and the decision didn't go in vain. Skipper Sourav Ganguly scored his sixth half-century (56 off 46 balls) in Indian Premier League. Ganguly and Chris Gayle (40 off 21 balls) added 94 runs in the first 10-odd overs to give the home side a perfect start. Angelo Mathews (46 off 28) and Manoj Tiwary (26) made a 70-run unbeaten partnership in the last seven overs to help the Knight Riders 181 runs in 20 overs with the loss of just 3 wickets. The Daredevils struggled early in the chase as Ashok Dinda, bowled explosive David Warner for a five-ball duck. But Captain Gautham Gambhir and Virendar Sehwag made things steady with a 98 run stand in just ten overs for the second wicket. After both of their dismissals, Ganguly was quick enough in making bowling changes which clicked just when the team required them. In the end, Delhi Daredevils managed to score only 167 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Ganguly was declared the man of the match.