Pradeep Sangwan was banned by Anti Doping Tribunal of BCCI

Delhi bowler Pradeep Sangwan was on 19 October 2013 slapped with an 18-month ban from cricket after being found guilty of consuming a banned anabolic steroid by the Anti-Doping Tribunal of Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Sangwan is only the second cricketer in the history of IPL after Pakistani speedster Mohammed Asif to have been found guilty of consuming banned drugs.

The Tribunal has found that the Player has committed an Anti-Doping Violation under Article 2.1 of the Code for the presence of the Prohibited Substance Stanozolol, an Anabolic Steroid.

The Tribunal has declared the player ineligible for a period of 18 months, commencing on 6 May 2013 and expiring at midnight on 5 November 2014, from participating in any capacity in any event or activity or competition authorised, organised or sanctioned by the BCCI or any of the other bodies referred to in Article 10.10.1 of the Rules.

About Pradeep Sangwan

Pradeep Sangwan is registered with the Delhi District Cricket Association and Contracted with the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL Team.

Pradeep Sangwan, who played a stellar role in India’s victorious U-19 World Cup campaign back in 2008 represented Kolkata Knight Riders during the last two editions of the IPL. He has taken 123 wickets in 38 first-class matches.

Sangwan, who hails from Najafgarh, played two matches in the IPL against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. He could not get a single wicket during the two games.

Anti-Doping Tribunal

Anti-Doping Tribunal is a panel of three persons appointed by the BCCI consisting of a Chair (who shall be legally qualified), and other lawyers and/or a medical expert and/or a technical expert with experience in anti-doping, to perform the functions assigned to the Anti-Doping Tribunal under the Rules. 

About the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is the national governing body for all forms of cricket in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as BCCI replaced Calcutta Cricket Club. BCCI headquarter is at Mumbai and the present president of BCCI is M.N. Srinivasan.

John d rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller, see John D. Rockefeller . Adjusting for inflation, he is often regarded as the richest person in history.Born poor, Rockefeller believed his riches demonstrated God's endorsement. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil as an Ohio partnership with his brother William along with Henry Flagler, Jabez Bostwick, chemistSamuel Andrews, and a silent partner, Stephen V. Harkness. As kerosene and gasoline grew in importance, Rockefeller's wealth soared and he became the world's richest man and the first American worth more than a billion dollars.

RAGS TO REFINERIES
In 1839, John Davison Rockefeller is born into a poor Cleveland family. As a young boy he sells sweets to local children to help his family as his father, a conman known as ‘Devil Bill’, doesn’t. He quits school early, becomes a bookmaker, works in dry goods, and bored, determines to risk all. He enters the oil business. He finds prospecting unpredictable and wasteful. He believes refining the crude oil into kerosene, the clear liquid that will light America, is where the money is.

In 1863, at just 24, he invests everything into his first refinery. By 27, he’s on the verge of bankruptcy. To not only survive, but thrive, he agrees to meet with the rail road magnate Vanderbilt, hoping to secure competitive transport rates. But Rockefeller narrowly misses his 6:25am train to New York.

The train crashes. Rockefeller would probably have been among the many dead. Already a religious man, he now sees his mission as ordained. When he does meet with Vanderbilt, he promises him 60 barrels a day in exchange for cheap shipping rates.

It’s a risky business; literally. Kerosene explosions are common. In 1870, to alleviate concerns, he creates Standard Oil, guaranteeing uniform quality. Rockefeller becomes the largest producer of refined kerosene in the country.

Rockefeller wants bigger and better shipping rates. He meets with Vanderbilt’s rival, Tom Scott, president of one of the largest rail lines, and his protégée, Andrew Carnegie. An oil and rail cartel is agreed. No paperwork is exchanged. Rockefeller relies on a man’s word.

THE PEOPLE VS STANDARD OIL
The Roosevelt court case concludes. It has heard of kickbacks, political bribes, predatory pricing and when all else fails, straightforward intimidation. After 444 witnesses and 12,000 pages of testimony, the court rules that Standard Oil’s unreasonable business practices violate the Sherman Anti Trust Act. Standard Oil has six months to break up.

In its place, 34 smaller companies are formed. These will later become Exxon, Mobil and Chevron but for now, the age of monopoly is over. The defeated Rockefeller is still left with a net worth, in today’s money, of $660 billion.

Before he dies, aged 97, he gives $100 billion of that away.

NALANDA - THE ANCIENT SEAT OF LEARNING

Towards the Southeast of Patna, the Capital City of Bihar State in India, is a village called the 'Bada Gaon', in the vicinity of which, are the world famous ruins of Nalanda University.

Founded in the 5th Century A.D., Nalanda is known as the ancient seat of learning. 2,000 Teachers and 10,000 Students from all over the Buddhist world lived and studied at Nalanda, the first Residential International University of the World.

A walk in the ruins of the university, takes you to an era, that saw India leading in imparting knowledge, to the world - the era when India was a coveted place for studies. The University flourished during the 5th and 12th century.

Although Nalanda is one of the places distinguished as having been blessed by the presence of the Buddha, it later became particularly renowned as the site of the great monastic university of the same name , which was to become the crown jewel of the development of Buddhism in India. The name may derive from one of Shakyamuni's former births , when hewas a king whose capital was here.Nalanda was one of his epithets meaning "insatiable in giving."

This place saw the rise and fall of many empires and emperors who contributed in the development of Nalanda University. Many monasteries and temples were built by them. Kingarshwardhana gifted a 25m high copper statue of Buddha and Kumargupta endowed a college of fine arts ere. Nagarjuna- a Mahayana philosopher, Dinnaga- founder of the school of Logic and Dharmpala- the Brahmin scholar, taught here.

The famous Chinese traveller and scholar,Hieun-Tsang stayed here and has given a detailed description of the situations prevailing at that time. Careful excavation of the place has revealed many stupas, monasteries,hostels,stair cases,meditation halls, lecture halls and many other structures which speak of the splendour and grandeur this place enjoyed,when the place was a centre of serious study.

A large number of ancient Buddhist establishments, stupas, chaityas, temples and monastery sites have been excavated and they show that this was one of the most important Buddhist centres of worship and culture.Regarding the historicity of Nalanda, we read in Jaina texts that Mahavira Vardhamana spent as many as fourteen rainy seasons in Nalanda.

Pali Buddhist Literature , too, has ample references to Nalanda, which used to be visited by Lord Buddha. During the days of Mahavira and Buddha,Nalanda was apparently a very prosperous temple city, a great place of pilgrimage and the site of a celebrated university. It is said that King Asoka gave offerings to the Chaitya of Sariputra at Nalanda and erected a temple there.Taranath mentions this and also that Nagarjuna, the famous Mahayana philosopher of the second century A.D.,studied at Nalanda.Nagarjuna later became the high-priest there.

The Gupta kings patronised these monasteries, built in old Kushan architectural style, in a row of cells around a courtyard.Ashoka and Harshavardhana were some of its most celebrated patrons who built temples and monasteries here. Recent excavations have unearthed elaborate structures here. Hiuen Tsang had left ecstatic accounts of both the ambiance and architectureof this unique university of ancient times.

Modern historians have tentatively dated the founding of a monastery at Nalanda as being in the fifth century.However, this may not be accurate. For example,the standard biographiesof the teacher Nagarjuna, believed by most historians to have been born around 150 AD, are quite specific about his having received ordination at Nalanda monastery when he was seven years old. Further, histeacherRahulabhadra is said to have lived there for some time before that. We may infer that there were a monastery or monasteries at Nalanda long before the foundation of the later Great Mahavihara.

At the time Hsuan Chwang stayed at Nalanda and studied with the abbot Shilabhadra, it was already a flourishing centre of learning. In many ways it seems to have been like a modern university.There was a rigorous oral entry examination conducted by erudite gatekeepers,and many students were turned away.To study or to have studied at Nalanda was a matter of great prestige. However, no degree was granted nor was a specific period of study required. The monks' time, measured by a water clock, was divided between study and religious rites and practice.There were schools of study in which students received explanations by discourse, and there were also schools of debate, where the mediocre were often humbled, and the conspicuously talented distinguished. Accordingly, the elected abbot was generally the most learned man of the time.

The libraries were vast and widely renowned, although there is a legend of a malicious fire in which many of the texts were destroyed and irrevocably lost.

During the Gupta age,the practice and study of the mahayana, especially the madhyamaka, flourished. However, from 750 AD, in the Pala age, there was an increase in the study and propagation of the tantric teachings.This is evidenced by the famous pandit Abhayakaragupta, a renowned tantric practitioner who was simultaneously abbot of the Mahabodhi, Nalanda and Vikramashila monasteries. Also Naropa, later so important to the tantric lineages of the Tibetan traditions, was abbot of Nalanda in the years 1049-57.

Much of the tradition of Nalanda had been carried into Tibet by the time of the Muslim invasions of the twelfth century. While the monasteries of Odantapuri and Vikramashila were then destroyed, the buildings at Nalanda do not seem to have suffered extensive damage at that time, although most of the monks fled before the desecrating armies. In 1235 the Tibetan pilgrim Chag Lotsawa found a 90 year old teacher, Rahula Shribhadra, with a class of seventy students. Rahula Shribhadra managed to survive through the support of a local brahmin and did not leave until he had completed educating his last Tibetan student.

Canada names street after gandhi

A street in Canada's Winnipeg city has been named after Mk Gandhi on the occasion of India's 67thIndependence Day

The street leading to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will now be known as Honorary Mahatma Gandhi Way.
At a ceremony on Thursday, Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz said it was appropriate the roadway leading to the museum be associated with an individual synonymous with the struggle for human rights. "Mahatma Gandhi was a spiritual and political leader whose influence is still felt today," Katz said.

bandoned dogs roam Detroit

As many as 50,000 stray dogs roam the streets and vacant homes of bankrupt Detroit, replacing residents, threatening humans who remain and overwhelming the city's ability to find them homes or peaceful deaths.

Dens of as many as 20 canines have been found in homes in the community of about 700,000 that once pulsed with 1.8 million people. One officer in the police department's skeleton animal-control unit recalled a pack splashing away in a basement that flooded when thieves ripped out water pipes. "The dogs were having a pool party," said Lapez Moore, 30. "We went in and fished them out."
The city of Detroit has gone through a major economic and demographic decline in recent decades. The city popuationhas fallen from a high of 1,850,000 in 1950 to 701,000 in 2013. The automobile industry in Detroit has suffered from global competition and has moved much of the remaining production out of Detroit. Some of the highest crime rates in the US are now occurring in Detroit, and huge areas of the city are in a state of severe urban decay. In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy  case in U.S. history.

Pentagon cuts F-35 operating estimate below $1 trillion

F35
US has slashed its estimate for the long-term operating costs of F35jets  by more than 20% to under $1 trillion, according to a senior defense official, a move that could boost international support for the programme. 

Pentagon has been under pressure for over a year to revise its estimate of maintaining a fleet of more than 2,000 F-35s over 55 years, with industry and military officials arguing that many of the assumptions were outdated and off base. 

The new estimate of $857 billion could help ensure the new plane turns out to be as affordable as advertised and comes days after South Korea determined that only a bid by Boeing Co for its F-15 Silent Eagle came in below a $7.4 billion price ceiling for its plan to buy 60 new fighter aircraft. 

Lockheed's F-35 and the Eurofighter Typhoon remain in the running, but Boeing's pricing marked a step toward winning the contract, according to sources close to the process. 

A final decision is expected in mid-September. 

It was not immediately clear what impact the lower F-35 operating estimate would have on the South Korean tender, but U.S. officials said Seoul could decide to restart the competition and ask for new bids. 

The Pentagon's revision reflects data about the plane's performance based on over 7,000 hours of test flights and revised assumptions about how it will be used and maintained, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly. 

Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in Wikileaks case

Bradley Edward Manning is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of several violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after releasing the largest set of restricted documents ever leaked to the public.

Born: December 17, 1987 (age 25), Crescent, Oklahoma, United States

Height: 1.57 m

Nationality: American

Parents: Brian Manning, Susan Fox

Education: Montgomery College, Tasker-Milward V.C. School

Judge Colonel Denise Lind, who last month convicted Manning of 20 charges including espionage and theft, could have sentenced him to as many as 90 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for 60 years.

The classified material that shocked many around the world included a 2007 gunsight video of a US Apache helicopter firing at suspected insurgents in Baghdad. Among the dozen fatalities were two Reuters news staff. WikiLeaks dubbed the footage "Collateral Murder".