Commentary on Yajur Ved now in Gujarati

October 14th, 2009 Thomson Reuters makes offer for Breakingviews.comNEW YORK — Financial information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. says it is offering to buy the business news and commentary site Breakingviews.com.

October 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Senior Gujarati journalist Hiren Mehta Saturday bagged the Lalit Essay Award 2008 of the Maharashtra Rajya Gujarati Sahitya Akademi, an official said. Akademi president Hemraj Shah said that Mehta, a senior editor with the leading Gujarati magazine Chitralekha, has bagged the prestigious award for his book Ajab Duniya Andaman-ni.

October 1st, 2009 AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI - A four-volume biography of Mahatma Gandhi, with intimate details penned by one who in his childhood played with the great man, has been translated from Gujarati into English and releases Friday, the 140th birth anniversary of the icon of peace and non-violence. When Narayan Desai, 84, published "Maru Jivan Ej Mari Vani" (My Life is My Message) in October 2003, it was immediately hailed as a milestone by Gandhian scholars.

October 1st, 2009 Sara Anjuli Forman, singer of the only Sanskrit rock band of the world Shanti Shanti, married John Patrick Gracey in a traditional Catholic ceremony in Reno (Nevada, USA) on September 26 evening. Acclaimed Hindu statesman Rajan Zed also blessed the couple after the Catholic ceremony held at Bishop Manogue Chapel.

July 18th, 2009 MUMBAI - "We shall overcome", the iconic anthem of the flower power generation -- sung in Gujarati -- greeted US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she arrived at the handicrafts outlet of the Self Employed Women Association (SEWA) here Saturday. Clinton, was visibly delighted as a crowd of women surrounded her to sing a translation of the legendary song.

July 1st, 2009 Google silences news commentary featureMOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google has quietly dropped a feature that allowed people mentioned in news stories to comment on the articles.

April 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, who was admitted to a hospital here for a stomach infection and exhaustion, has been discharged and is back on the sets of Ashutosh Gowariker's 'What's Your Rashee?'. The actress was Saturday admitted to Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital.

March 26th, 2009 NAPIER - Sky TV has ignored the objections of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) by including former New Zealand batsman and now part of the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) Craig McMillan in its commentary team for the second Test here at McLean Park. The BCCI has made it clear that it would have no links at any level with the ICL which has McMillan as the captain of its Kolkata Tigers team.

March 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian Premier League (IPL) matches will be telecast live at multiplexes in the country. Announcing this here Tuesday, IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said tendering for the telecast rights at multiplexes is in the process.

February 17th, 2009 SYDNEY - Legendary Australian captain and commentator Richie Benaud Wednesday said he will retire from cricket commentary next year, thus ending almost 50 years of his companionship with the microphone. Benaud began his first-class career for New South Wales against Queensland at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in January 1949 as an 18-year-old and by 1956 had taken up a job with the News of the World newspaper in London, first as a police reporter and later as a sports writer.

January 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - He was all of 17 when Jasdev Singh heard broadcaster Melville De Mellow give a marathon commentary on Mahatma Gandhi's funeral in 1948. So overwhelmed was he by that voice that he decided to become a radio commentator.

January 22nd, 2009 KARACHI - Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja was excluded from the commentary team for the ongoing one-day series between Pakistan and Sri Lanka on the instructions of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), a newspaper report said Friday. According to Urdu daily 'Jang', the PCB asked its broadcaster Ten Sports not to give the Pakistan-Sri Lanka series assignment to Ramiz.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tusshar Kapoor is following in the footsteps of Shah Rukh Khan. While the superstar was seen with a moustache in his recent hit 'Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi', Tusshar sports one in his forthcoming film 'Life Partner'.

January 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker is shooting his next venture 'What's Your Raashee?' across 65 locations in Mumbai and says shooting for the film is more challenging than his epic romance 'Jodhaa Akbar'. 'Shooting for 'What's Your Raashee?' has been far more challenging than 'Jodhaa Akbar'.

January 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Not many would know Vipul Shah by name here. At least not until you mention his hits 'Namastey London' or 'Singh is Kinng'.