Despite the fact that the Board of Cricket Control in India is ready to invest crores of rupees to build up stadium in Meghalaya, the State cricket association is still helpless, thanks to the casual attitude of the state government.
Over the past decade, many of India's star players have emerged from the cricketing hinterland but ironically, nobody from the Northeast region has donned India colors in any version of the game till date.
After granting its affiliation to the various Cricket associations in region, BCCI has categorically stated that if the government can come forward or the MCA can get a relatively flat ground of 18 to 20 acres immediately the BCCI is ready to invest Rs 40 to 50 crore and build Stadium with modern state of the art facilities.
However, the state authorities have made unheard the repeated appeal of the Association to give them land. While the state Government often crumbles upon on their stability issue the scope for development has become limited these days. In such case such a big offer from BCCI is bound to go unheard.
However, Meghalaya cricket association has repeatedly urged upon the state authorities to give them the unused lands which are lying vacant in the town but to add to the woes of MCA no helping hand has till date come forward.
This has become an important issue for MCA as the BCCI is all set to organize a weeklong camp in Shillong from the 17th of this month to scout for and nurture talent from the Northeast.
Barring Assam and Tripura, who are full members of the BCCI, five players each from Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Nagaland will be attending the Shillong camp to be conducted by National Cricket Academy.
The idea of the apex cricket body is to initiate activities at regular intervals, primarily to encourage more boys and girls, umpires and scorers to get involved with a platform to harness their talent in different aspects of the game.
BCCI to Construct Cricket Stadium in Meghalaya
New Faces of Immigration in North Texas
By Randy MCilwain
Many of the newest immigrants in North Texas aren't coming from south of the border.
More than 1,200 refugees from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, now call Lewisville home.
The Chin people, most of whom are Christian, face religious persecution in Myanmar, which is ruled by a military junta. Most of Myanmar is Buddhist.
"The army is mean," said Lydia Hiang, a grade-schooler who is just starting to learn English.
Refugees Settle in Lewisville to Escape Religious Persecution
Refugees Settle in Lewisville to Escape Religious Persecution
Her mother, Mang Hiang, puts it in more blunt terms.
"The army don't like Christians," she said.
"They began to kill the Baptist pastors and basically draped them over the church altars to intimidate people," said Becky Nelson, of the Chin Refugee Ministry with the First Baptist Church of Flower Mound.
Nelson has been working since 2007 to resettle as many of the Chin people in Lewisville as she can.
"The word spread that this is a safe place," she said. "That's all it took."
Nelson likened the situation in Myanmar to what happened in Bosnia between the Serbs and Croats. She said there are some 30,000 Chin refugees scattered around the world.
Nelson said all of the refugees in Lewisville are on the path to citizenship. Ninety-five of the adults are employed and looking to start their own businesses. The children are enrolled in schools and progressing well learning in English.
She said Lewisville has embraced its new residents. Three churches have already been established, a first order of business for people grateful for the opportunity to worship in peace.
"They think America is heaven," Nelson said. "It is not heaven; it's very, very difficult to live here, but it's a second heaven because we go to church and nobody shoots us."
Other North Texas cities also have significant Asian populations. Richardson has a long-established Asian community, and Asians make up 16 percent of Plano's population.
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Karimganj Dist Admin to Monitor Indo-Bangla Fencing Work
Henceforth to monitor the entire stretch and to see the quality of works, a team of officials of Karimganj district administration has been constituted with ADC (development), executive engineer PWD (rural roads), circle officer concerned to have on the spot verification of the ongoing fencing works and the report in this regard will be submitted to the Union Home Ministry for information and necessary action in the event of violation of specific standards and quality laid down.
The divisional forest officer has also been directed to monitor the works in reserve forest areas. BSF has been asked to take care of the border fencing works.
Karimganj shares almost 95 km border with Bangladesh and out of that 40 km is riverine and 55 km land mass. NBCC and NPCC are working for the border fencing works and almost 50 per cent progress has been achieved so far. The district administration has also sent a formal request to the Union Home Ministry to depute special team to thoroughly inquire into the entire fencing works in coordination with the Government of Assam.
Art of Living programme: A youth training leadership programme was organized by the Art of Living for the rural youth at Srikuna. At the end of the programme, the participants belonging to the various tribes such as Dimasa and Zemi Nagas & NC Hills, Hmar, Manipuri, Nepali and also from the Bengali community took oath to stop violence and bring peace to the region and make people realize that ‘unity is strength’.
Youth training leadership programme (YLTP) coordinator Nanda Sarma said that the purpose of the programme was to bring peace among all. Lots of changes were noticed in the physical, mental condition of the participant.
The YLTP is a holistic programme that works towards eliminating stress, the fundamental cause of all problems. In addition youths are also fought leadership and communications skills with emphasis on human values. The programs creates physically strong, mentally alert and morally responsible individuals who are ready to become role models for others. The participants expressed their profound feelings of gratitude.
The Art of Living Foundation has actively been involved in bringing about rapprochement between Zeme Naga and Dimasa tribes. In July 2009 near about 1000 tribal families belong to these tribes in NC Hills displaced during tribal violence were provided relief material by the foundation.
[ via The Assam Tribune ]
Ke$ha Claims Not To Use Autotune
Some stars can't get enough of the tune transformer, while others, like Jay-Z, hope for the "death of auto-tune."
A new YouTube clip from SoManyMP3s suggests Ke$ha may be a bit confused about where she stands.
The video shows Ke$ha talking about how she doesn't use auto-tune in her music--followed immediately by clips of Ke$ha songs that, to some, sound like they rely heavily on auto-tune.
"I don't use auto-tune," Ke$ha says. "I come from a country music-writing family."
She adds, "I'm not auto-tuning my vocals."
Taylor Swift, 20, Getting Into Hall Of Fame
The country starlet will receive the Hal David Starlight Award at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards on June 17 in New York City. The announcement was made Tuesday.
Swift, known for penning songs about her puppy love lapses, has written or co-written every song on her two multiplatinum-selling CDs: her 2006 self-titled debut and 2008's "Fearless," which won album of the year at this year's Grammy Awards, among other top honors.
Phil Collins and music producer Phil Ramone also will receive special awards at the event. Other inductees include Leonard Cohen, Jackie DeShannon, David Foster, Johnny Mandel, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Larry Dunn, Al McKay and Earth, Wind & Fire's Maurice White.
[ via songwritershalloffame ]
Hope Dworaczyk Named Playboy's Playmate Of The Year
The wait is over. Playboy has named Hope Dworaczyk Playmate Of The Year. Page Six reports that the Texas native lived in New York for eight years before moving to Los Angeles. "I guess you could say it was a pretty safe neighborhood for me."
She posted for the April 2009 cover with Seth Rogan and her other duties include hosting "Inside Fashion" for E! in Canada.
She posted for the April 2009 cover with Seth Rogan and her other duties include hosting "Inside Fashion" for E! in Canada.
On April 27th she tweeted: "I keep having dreams about Anderson Cooper. Must be watching way too much CNN."
Hottest Female Actions Stars: Who Got In The Best Shape?
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Jessica Alba in 'Fantastic Four'
Kate Beckinsale in 'Underworld'
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Halle Berry in 'Catwoman'
Milla Jovovich in 'The Fifth Element'
Raquel Welch in 'One Million Years BC'
Angelina Jolie in 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'
Lucy Liu in 'Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle'
Charlize Theron in 'Aeon Flux'
Zoe Saldana in 'Avatar'
Jennifer Garner in 'Elektra'
Sigourney Weaver in 'Alien'
Uma Thurman in 'Kill Bill'
Lucy Lawless in 'Xena: Warrior Princess'
Megan Fox in 'Transformers'
Jessica Biel in 'Blade: Trinity'
Linda Hamilton in 'Terminator 2'
Michelle Pfeiffer in 'Batman Returns'
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