Weekly News

Welcome to the weekly news. Here we provide a round-up of all the events happening around the world. This week's top stories are:-

Saurav Ganguly finally decides to retire. He played in the Indian team as a performing captain for two years and then as a non-performing captain for four years. After being removed from captaincy, he again played for three years. During this period, he performed well but was kicked out of the team on several occasions for the feats he performed as a non-performing captain. Thus, fed up of being tossed around like a football, he took the final step.

The N-deal goes through. BJP who had been opposing it in the parliament claims it as a big success and credits Atal Bihari Vajpayee for having the vision of starting work on this treaty during his term.

Paul Krugman gets the Nobel prize. Paul has been one of the biggest critics of Bush’s economic policy.There are allegations on nobel committee that it is trying to attribute the economy’s crash to Bush policies. Mr Bush says he is not concerned.
His concern is only with the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

MacCain dares Obama for final debate. Mr McCain has reminded people that he is the candidate. For the past few days, Internet and people’s Google Readers had been flooded with posts about Palin to such an extent that people had forgotten that she is MacCain’s running aide and they will have to vote for him in the elections.

Narender Modi says make voting compulsory. He is going to force people out of their homes on election days and fine them if they don’t come to vote.

Indian sailor free by pirates, heads home. The Indian Statistics Bureau has confirmed that everytime an Indian is in trouble overseas, there is 75% probability that he is from the state of Kerala.

Congress ex-minister joins BJP in MP. He is the sixth person to defect in this month and the 150th ovverall since BJP has come into power.

Vinod Kambli turns into a dancer. This is the reason why you should make your son a cricketer. In case he is kicked out of the team, he will still have a lot of career options – open a resturant, host a talk show, become an actor or a dancer, become a part of the expert panel of Aaj Tak etc etc.

Times of India has launched a new section called Graffiti in their sports pages.It looks like an assortment of the cover pages of the Cosmopolitan magazine. And the motto of the newspaper says “Because you deserve to know”

Nanavati Commision is finally bringing its report out. It had taken four years to prepare its report. After that, the High Court had stayed the Commission from bringing out its report for another two years. Finally the report is coming out. The committee is being lauded for bringing its report in just 6 years when the average time is 10 years.

IIT faculty quota to be implemented. This step has been taken to bring the downtrodden committees at par with the higher ones. It is also being thought that reservation should also be implemented in books. Of all the books being taught at IIT, 27% should be wriiten by SC’s and OBC’s

Suicide blast at Pakistan MP’s house kill 12 – We, Indians will like to sincerely express our deep sorrow at this incident. This incident cannot be justified and the prepators of this attack should be brought to justice immediately.