IPL 2012 5th SEASON

The 2012 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL 5 or the IPL 2012, will be the fifth season of the Indian Premier League, initiated by theBoard of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)^[2] in 2007 with the first season played in 2008. The opening and closing ceremonies will be held in M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai, the home venue of the reigning champions Chennai Super Kings.^[3] The tournament will begin on 4 April and end on 27 May 2012.^[4] This season the number of teams in the league went from ten to nine with the termination of Kochi Tuskers Kerala.

Group stage

All times local (UTC+5:30)

4 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H) 112 (19.5 overs)	v	Mumbai Indians 115/2 (16.5 overs)	Mumbai Indians won by 8 wickets M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai Player of the match: Richard Levi (Mumbai Indians)
	Suresh Raina 36 (26) Kieron Pollard 2/15 (4 ovres)		Richard Levi 50 (35) Dwayne Bravo 1/14 (3 overs)

5 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	in progress Eden Gardens, Kolkata

6 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 3 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

6 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 4 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

7 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 5 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

7 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 6 ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam

8 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 7 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

8 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 8 MCA Stadium, Pune

9 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 9 ACA-VDCA Stadium, Visakhapatnam

10 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 10 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

10 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 11 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

11 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 12 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

12 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 13 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

12 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 14 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

13 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 15 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

14 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 16 MCA Stadium, Pune

15 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 17 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

15 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 18 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

16 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 19 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

17 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 20 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

17 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 21 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

18 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 22 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

19 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 23 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

19 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 24 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

20 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 25 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

21 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 26 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

21 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 27 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

22 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 28 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

22 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 29 Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

23 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 30 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

24 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 31 MCA Stadium, Pune

24 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 32 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

25 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 33 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

25 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 34 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

26 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 35 MCA Stadium, Pune

27 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 36 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

28 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 37 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

28 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 38 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

29 April 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 39 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

29 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 40 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

30 April 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 41 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

1 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 42 Barabati Stadium, Cuttack

1 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 43 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

2 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 44 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

3 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 45 MCA Stadium, Pune

4 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 46 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

5 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 47 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

5 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 48 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

6 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 49 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

6 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 50 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

7 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 51 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

8 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 52 MCA Stadium, Pune

8 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 53 Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

9 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 54 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

10 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 55 Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

10 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 56 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

11 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 57 MCA Stadium, Pune

12 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 58 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

12 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Chennai Super Kings (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 59 M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai

13 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Pune Warriors India	Match 60 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

13 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Deccan Chargers	Match 61 Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh

14 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 62 M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

14 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kolkata Knight Riders (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 63 Eden Gardens, Kolkata

15 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Kings XI Punjab	Match 64 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

16 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Mumbai Indians (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 65 Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai

17 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Chennai Super Kings	Match 66 HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala

17 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Delhi Daredevils (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 67 Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi

18 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Rajasthan Royals	Match 68 Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

19 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Kings XI Punjab (H)	v	Delhi Daredevils	Match 69 HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala

19 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Pune Warriors India (H)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders	Match 70 MCA Stadium, Pune

20 May 2012 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Deccan Chargers (H)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Match 71 Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad

20 May 2012 20:00 (D/N) Scorecard	Rajasthan Royals (H)	v	Mumbai Indians	Match 72 Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur

NATIONAL AWARDS

The National Awards Winners for 2012 has been announced. The Hindi film industry won several awards; Vidya Balan bagged the Best Actress award for her superlative performance in ‘The Dirty Picture’. Onir’s I AM received the Best Hindi film award, Partho Gupte of Stanley Ka Dabba fame won Best Child Actor, while Salman Khan’s Chillar Party team won 3 National awards including Best Children’s film. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara won two – Best Choreography and Best Audiography. Ra One won an award in the Best VFX category.

Check out the full list of National Awards Winners for 2012 below.

Best Film – Kannada film ‘Byari’ and Marathi film ‘Deool’
Best Malayalam film – Indian Rupee
Best Bengali Film – Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na
Best Tamil Film – Vaagai Sooda Vaa
Best Marathi Film – Shaala
Best Hindi Film – I Am
Best Actor – Girish Kulkarni (Marathi film ‘Deool’)
Best Actress – Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture)
Best Child Actor – Partho Gupte (Stanley Ka Dabba) and Chillar Party kids
Best Supporting Actor – Appu Kutty (Tamil film ‘Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai’)
Best Supporting Actress – Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi (Manipuri film ‘Phijigee Mani’)
Best Director – Gurvinder Singh (Punjabi film ‘Anhe Ghore Da Daan’)
Best Children’s Film – Chillar Party
Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film by a director – Thiagarajan Kumararaja (Aranya Kandam)
Best Lyrics – Amitabh Bhattacharya (I Am)
Best Choreography – Bosco – Caesar for ‘Senorita’ (Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara)
Best Visual Effects – Ra.One
Best Costumes – Neharika Khan (The Dirty Picture) and Neeta Lulla (Bal Gandharva)
Best Makeup – Vijram Gaekwad (The Dirty Picture)
Best Screenplay – Nitish Tiwari, Vikas Bahl, Vijay Maurya, Rajesh Bajaj (Chillar Party)
Best Adapted Screenplay Writer – Avinash Deshpande
Best Dialogues – Girish Kulkarni (Deool)
Best Editing – Praveen KL (Aranya Kandam)
Best Audiography – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
Best Playback Singer Male – Anand Bhate
Best Playback Singer Female – Rupa Ganguly
Best Book – Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Balaji Vittal (RD Burman The Man The Music)
Best Film Critic – Manoj P Pujari
Special Mention – Director Shari for Malayalam film ‘Adi Madhyantam’ and Mallika Kannada film ‘Byari’
Special Jury Award – Anjan Dutta (Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na)

AKHILESH YADAV

Akhilesh Yadav

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 March 2012
Preceded by Mayawati
Member of Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office
2000
Preceded by Pradeep Kumar Yadav
Constituency Kannauj
Personal details
Born 1 July 1973
Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Political party Samajwadi Party
Spouse(s) Dimple Yadav
Children Aditi Yadav, Tina Yadav and Arjun Yadav
Residence Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
Alma mater University of Mysore
University of Sydney
Website www.akhileshyadav.com

Akhilesh Yadav (born 1 July 1973) is an Indian politician, chief minister elect of Uttar Pradesh and currently the Lok Sabha member for Kannauj. He is the son of Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and Malti Devi[1]. He was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj in a by-election in 2000. He retained his seat in the 2004 and 2009 general elections.[2], and shall swear-in as chief minister of UP on 15 March, 2012.

He has won three Lok Sabha elections since 2000. [3] He spearheaded the campaign to bring the Samajwadi Party back to power in the 2012 UP Assembly election.Contents [hide]
1 Short biography
2 Education
3 2009 By elections
4 2012 UP assembly elections

Short biography

Akhilesh Yadav was born to Mulayam Singh Yadav and his first wife Malti Devi on 1 July 1973 in the Saifai village of Etawah ditrict. Although he lost his mother but gained a lot in the short span of his life. Akhilesh is married and has three children – two daughters and one son.
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Education

He studied at the Military School Dholpur, Rajasthan. [4]He earned Bachelor degree in engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysore and later opted for a Masters in environmental engineering from the University of Sydney.[5][6]

2009 By elections

The Firozabad seat had been won by Akhilesh Yadav in the May 2009 general elections by a margin of 67,301 votes against Bahujan Samaj Party candidate SPS Baghel. Akhilesh Yadav, who also won from Kannauj, vacated the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat, leading to a by poll.
2012 UP assembly elections

His campaigning style (mostly used bicycle for campaigning, had an IT professional and an RJ amongst others in his team) and persona was a key role in helping the Samajwadi Party towards a victory in the Uttar Pradesh’s Assembly Elections held in 2012, with Samajwadi party winning 224 seats out of total 403, becoming the single largest party thus forming the government. He has been announced as the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He will be the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh at the age of 38 years.

ELECTION RESULTS

UP & UTTARAKHAND RESULTS 

Election results 2012: Thumbs up for Samajwadi Party and Akali Dal, Congress bruised

NEW DELHI: It was a day of grand wins and bruising defeats. As counting ended on Tuesday for elections in five states, the Samajwadi Party (SP) surged back to power in Uttar Pradesh and the Akali Dal broke a four-decade jinx to win another term in Punjab, leaving India’s ruling Congress battered with the solace of wins in Manipur and Uttarakhand.

The Congress suffered humiliating defeats in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Goa, but held on to Manipur and barely scraped through in Uttarakhand.

 

LIBRARY QUOTES

THOUGHTS

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

A library is thought in cold storage.
Herbert Samuel

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins

ELECTIONS IN INDIA

ELECTIONS IN INDIA

India has a quasi federal government, with elected officials at the federal (national), state and local levels. On a national level, the head of government, the Prime Minister, is elected in-directly by the people^{[citation needed]}, through a general election where the leader of the majority winning party is selected to be the Prime Minister. All members of the federal legislature, the Parliament, are directly elected. Elections in India take place every five years by universal adult suffrage.

In 2009, the elections involved an electorate of 714 million^[1] (larger than both EU and US elections combined^[2]). Declared expenditure has trebled since 1989 to almost $300 million, using more than one million electronic voting machines.^[3]

The size of the huge electorate mandates that elections be conducted in a number of phases (there were four phases in 2004 General Elections and five phases in 2009). It involves a number of step-by-step processes from announcement of election dates by the Election Commission of India, which brings into force the ‘model code of conduct’ for the political parties, to the announcement of results and submission of the list of successful candidates to the executive head of the state or the centre. The submission of results marks the end of the election process, thereby paving way for the formation of the new government.

REPUBLIC DAY

26th  JANUARY

The Republic Day of India commemorates the date on which the Constitution of India came into force replacing the Government of India Act 1935 as the governing document of India on 26 January 1950.^[1]

The 26th of January was chosen to honour the memory of the declaration of independence of 1930. It is one of the three national holidays in India. While the main parade takes place in the national capital New Delhi at the Rajpath before the president, the anniversary is also celebrated with varying degrees of formality in state capitals and other centres.

Republic Day
Soldiers of the Madras Regiment during the annual Republic Day Parade in 2004
Observed by	India
Type	National
Date	26 January
Celebrations	Parades, distribution of sweets in schools and cultural programmes