India No.1 in Test Ranking

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India secured top spot in the test rankings for the first time after handing Sri Lanka a second successive innings defeat and wrapping up their three-match series 2-0 on Sunday.
Zaheer Khan took three more wickets to record his eighth five-wicket haul as India won the third and final test by an innings and 24 runs on the final day.
"I think the real tough task from now on is to maintain this performance," said India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. "The real tough job starts from here."
Left-arm Zaheer dismissed overnight century-maker Kumar Sangakkara (137) caught behind in the day's opening over to kill off any hopes Sri Lanka had of saving the test.
Resuming on 274-6 and needing 60 runs to make India bat a second time, Sangakkara edged the third ball to wicketkeeper Mahendra Dhoni.
Zaheer then dismissed Rangana Herath (three) and overnight batsman Nuwan Kulasekara (19) in a fiery four-over spell to finish with five for 72.
"Zaheer is back in the rhythm and it was good to see the fast bowlers do well in India," Dhoni said.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh then dismissed Muttiah Muralitharan for 14 as India wrapped up the tail in 7.4 overs.
"It was tough but India outperformed us in all three departments of the game in the last two tests," Sri Lankan captain Sangakkara said.
"In this game, we nearly put 400 but (Virender) Sehwag came and took the game away from us."
LONG WAIT
The 2-0 series victory saw India jump from third in the rankings to displace South Africa at the top.
"Fantastic to be at this position," Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar told the official broadcasters.
"I have been waiting a long time to get to this position. In fact just not me, (the) entire nation."
Sri Lanka, who are still looking for their first test win on Indian soil, dropped from second place to fourth in the rankings, behind Australia.
Opener Sehwag, named player of the match and the series, scored a spectacular 293 and Dhoni cracked 100 not out to guide India to their highest innings total of 726 for nine declared.
Tillakaratne Dilshan scored a century and Angelo Mathews missed out on his maiden century by one run in Sri Lanka's first-innings 393.
India opened up 1-0 lead by winning the second test by an innings and 144 runs after the first test ended in a draw.
Sri Lanka will play two Twenty20 internationals and five one-day internationals starting on Wednesday.

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UNINOR Reveals now in Kerala and in India.

'Dubai crisis not to hit india's banking sector'

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According to the Reserve Bank of India ,those parts of the country are that receives inflows from the Gulf nations will be most affected.
"Some parts of the country are certainly more dependent on remittances from Dubai ,but overall i think its too early to say .There could be some impact obviously",RBI deputy Governor Usha Thorat said when asked about the impact of the crisis on the country.     

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Announcing his strategy for turning around the eight year war in Afghanistan , Obama pledged  to send 30,000 more troops to the battlefield,but set a timetable for a gradual US withdrawal starting in 2011 July.

He said in his speech that success in Afghanistan was "inextricably linked"to Pakistan,which saw a flood of militants enter its lawless borderlands after the Taliban were ousted from Afghanistan in 2001 .

There was no immediate official govt. reaction , but speaking to reporters in europe hours before Obama's speech. Foreign minister Shah Mehmood Quraishi expressed caution over the fresh deployment of US forces.

"Our issue is not that the US is  increasing its troops in Afghanistan or not  how they deploy them."

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     An RTI application by K V Babu ,a member of IMA , on the endorsement of  two Pepsi products by the IMA-Tropicana fruit juice and Quaker cereals-has stimulated the central information commission (CIC)to direct th MCI to take up the issue with their ethics committee.The CIC also asked the IMA to clarify without any delay how ethical it was for doctors to support commercial products.

 "The commission directs the MCI to place the issue before the ethics committee at its next meeting and to inform the appellant the decision taken.In addition,the CPIO of the IMA id directed to furnish the information to the appellant by 15 December and also to show cause why a penalty should not be imposed on him for not publishing reply",said information commissioner Annapurna Dixit in her verdict. 

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