india's cricket schedule

June 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Wed 25		Hong Kong v India, Group B, 2nd Match, Asia Cup, 2008	Karachi (D/N)
Thu 26		India v Pakistan, Group B, 3rd Match, Asia Cup, 2008	Karachi (D/N)
July 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Fri 18 - Sun 20		Sri Lanka v India, Three-day warm-up match	Colombo
Wed 23 - Sun 27		Sri Lanka v India, 1st Test	Colombo (SSC)
Thu 31 - Mon 04		Sri Lanka v India, 2nd Test	Galle
August 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Fri 08 - Tue 12		Sri Lanka v India, 3rd Test	Colombo (RPS)
Fri 15		Sri Lanka v India, One-day warm-up match	Colombo (RPS)
Mon 18		Sri Lanka v India, 1st ODI	Dambulla
Wed 20		Sri Lanka v India, 2nd ODI	Dambulla
Sun 24		Sri Lanka v India, 3rd ODI	Colombo - RPS (D/N)
Tue 26		Sri Lanka v India, 4th ODI	Colombo - RPS (D/N)
Fri 29		Sri Lanka v India, 5th ODI	Colombo - RPS (D/N)
September 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Sat 13		Australia v India, Group A-2nd Match, ICC Champions Trophy, 2008	Lahore
Tue 16		India v West Indies, Group A-3rd Match, ICC Champions Trophy, 2008	Karachi
Sat 20		Pakistan v India, Group A-5th Match, ICC Champions Trophy, 2008	Lahore
October 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Thu 09 - Mon 13		India v Australia, 1st Test	Bangalore
Fri 17 - Tue 21		India v Australia, 2nd Test	Mohali
Tue 28 - Sat 01		India v Australia, 3rd Test	Delhi
November 2008
Date	Time (GMT)	Match Details	Venue
Wed 05 - Sun 09		India v Australia, 4th Test	Nagpur

Abdul saab

"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work"
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam)

Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is the undisputed father of India's missile program. He has breathed life into ballistic missiles like the Agni and Prithvi,it is too exhausting to track Dr Abdul Kalam's achievements to date. By the '90s Kalam emerged as the czar of Indian science and technology and was awarded the BHARAT RATNA.
Kalam's advice to the youngsters of the nation is to "DREAM,DREAM,AND DREAM AND CONVERT THESE INTO THOUGHTS AND LATER INTO ACTIONS."
"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength"
Website: www.abdulkalam.com
Write to Dr.Kalam :apj@abdulkalam.com

Kansas Turnpike

The Kansas Turnpike is a tolled freeway that lies entirely within the U.S. state of Kansas. The road runs in a general southwest-northeast direction from the Oklahoma border south of Wichita via Wichita, Topeka, and Lawrence to Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Turnpike Act defined the turnpike to be built from Oklahoma to Kansas City, Kansas. The turnpike is owned and maintained by the Kansas Turnpike Authority (KTA), headquartered in Wichita. The Kansas Turnpike was built from 1954 to 1956, predating the Interstate Highway System. The turnpike presently has 27 interchanges and two barrier toll plazas. Exit numbers are assigned by mileage from south to east. After passing the Bonner Springs interchange, exit numbers change to match the mileage of Interstate 70 east from the Colorado border. In the median at mile 97 is the Matfield Green Service Area, which contains a memorial to football coach Knute Rockne, who died in a plane crash near Bazaar, Kansas.

Victoria Cross

he Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. It takes precedence over all other orders, decorations, medals and postnominals. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service and civilians under military command, and is presented to the recipient by the British monarch during an investiture held at Buckingham Palace. It is the joint highest award for bravery in the United Kingdom with the George Cross, which is the equivalent honour for valour not "in the face of the enemy". The VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. Since then the medal has been awarded 1,356 times to 1,353 individual recipients. Only 14 medals have been awarded since the end of the Second World War. Due to its rarity, the VC is highly prized and the medal can reach over £200,000 at auction. There are a number of public and private collections devoted to it, most notably that of Lord Ashcroft, which contains over one-tenth of the total VCs awarded.

Tomb of Antipope John XXIII

The Tomb of Antipope John XXIII is the marble tomb monument for Antipope John XXIII, Baldassare Coscia, created by Donatello and Michelozzo, and located in the Florence Baptistry adjacent to Florence Cathedral. It was commissioned by the executors of Coscia's will after his death on December 22, 1419 and completed during the 1420s, establishing it as one of the early landmarks of Renaissance Florence. According to Ferdinand Gregorovius, the tomb is "at once the sepulchre of the Great Schism in the church and the last Papal tomb which is outside Rome itself". The tomb monument's design included three Virtues, Coscia's family arms, a gilded bronze effigy supported above a inscription-bearing sarcophagus, a Madonna and Child in a half-lunette, and a canopy. At the time of its completion, the monument was the tallest sculpture in Florence, and one of very few tombs within the Baptistry or the neighboring Cathedral. The tomb monument was the first of several collaborations between Donatello and Michelozzo, and the attribution of its various elements to each of them has been debated by art historians, as have the interpretations of its design and iconography