Give a tribute to our heres

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan

Hemant Karkare

Vijay Salaskar

Ashok Kamte

Mohan Chand Sharma

And also those whoes profile is not added but killed in terrorist attack.

 

Mumbai Blast

10.20: We hear 3 loud voice of crackers. I guess India won the 5th ODI against England, so people celebrating the winning of TEAM INDIA and burnning the fire crackers.

10.30: No No I was wrong! There is something wrong around us. There is terrorist attack in Mumbai.

11.00: Some people returnd from CST railway station, they alert me don’t leave the office till situation is going cool.

11.30: I am again unable to communicate with my friend who goes to CST to pick a train for thane. We hear more blast and firing behind our office (Hotel oberai side).

Its now 12:20. I hear a loud voice of blast near my office and within 2-3 min we hear firing, we dont know these firing is done by police or terrorist. hundred of peoples (Raheja Center Nariman point) fears. My one friend traped in CST Railway station. He hears 3 blast and firing in CST.

12.45: Terrorist hijacked police vahicle and left that vahicle near Mantralaya (Free Press Journal Road). within 5 min we hear another blast. We are not permitted to leave our campus. (Terrorist uses the cop vehicle to fire near Raheja center). They also killed HEMAN KARKARE, VIJAY SALASKAL and ASHOK KAMATE.

12.58: Prashant Vengurlekar return to the office. He is fine but he is very affred, he show two peorsons were hited by bullet (one in back side neck and another in right thigh).

Actually Mumbai police was busy with only malegaon blast case and they ignored the safty of innocent people. Congress supports the terrorist and we are killed by terrorist. Why Congress not hanged the Afjal Guru, Why MUMBAI ATS is only investigate Malegaon Blast.

Mumbai police blocked various root and they counter attack on terrorist.

Death toll rises up to 110, 300 injured.

But still I am happy because I am live.

Don’t know where he is when you need him. We want him to go and save amchi Mumbai. Army, NSG commandoes are not marathi manoos….why should they fight and lay down their life for Mumbaikars.

Where is Raj Thackeray and his “brave Sena”? Tell him that 200 NSG commandoes from Delhi (no marathi manoos, all south and north indians) have been sent to Mumbai to fight the terrorists so that he can sleep peacefully tonight in Shivaji Park. Please forward this so it finally reaches the coward bully.

 

Chhat Puja 2008

I write the shedule of chhat puja because some one trying to search the Puja shedule.

2 November: Naha-Kha
3 November: Kharna.
4 November: Shanjhki Argha,
5 November: PARAN,

 

Chhat Puja 2008

I write the shedule of chhat puja because some one trying to search the Puja shedule.

2 November: Naha-Kha
3 November: Kharna.
4 November: Shanjhki Argha,
5 November: PARAN,

 

Chhath

 

Enemies of India

Enemies of India

(1) Pseudo-secular Hindus (these are the worst enemies, most of the Hindu politicians and their supporters fall into this categories)

(2) Communists

(3) Christians

(4) Muslims

(5) Congress.

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Jayanthi Natarajan joined Congress (I) during the 1980’s.

During the 1990’s, she defected to the Tamil Manila Congress (TMC) founded by G. K. Moopanar. She made several anti-Congress(I) remarks during that period. She shamelessly continued to be an MP of Rajya Sabha on Congress(I) ticket. Congress(I) threatened her with disqualification. Then she resigned from Rajya Sabha.

She was even a minister in the United Front government.

After the death of G. K. Moopanar, she jumped back to Congress(I).

There are several stories about her. It would be improper to write about them here.

She is one of the most unscrupulous politicians in India.

She is fit for ban from Indian politics for all the disservice she did to the people of India.

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Congress party is fit for ban.
Congress party is the most anti-Indian party.
Congress leaders are most corrupt and most unpatriotic people in the country.
Congress party has been systematically ruining our country.
Congress is the most COMMUNAL party in the country.

Indira Gandhi imposed emergency on this country.

Rajiv Gandhi (Gandu) reversed Shah Bano judgment of Supreme Court for his minority appeasement politics.

Manmohan Singh said Muslims have first right on country’s resources and he introduced 27% OBC quota. Several Congress state governments provided reservations for Muslims. Manmohan shamelessly says both India and Pakistan are victims of terror.

So far, Congress did not hang Afzal Guru, the terrorist who attacked the Parliament of India.

Several times, the Congess party bribed the Members of Parliament to stay in power at the centre.

Several times, the Congress party at the centre dismissed the non-Congress state governments by fraudulently imposing Article 356 on them.

Congress party indulged in pseudo-secular politics and destroyed the secularism of this country.

Congress party is anti-Hindu, pro-Islam and pro-Christian. Congress party is appeasing minorities and destroying the majority community. Congress is practicing divide and rule policy of Britishers in a much worse way.

Ban Congress party, the dirtiest political party on this planet.

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Y. Samuel Rajasekhara Reddy, the Christian Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, provided 4% reservation to Muslims.

He announced Holy Trip package to Christians on the lines of Haj pilgrimage of Muslims, so that the Christians can visit their holy places.

He also promised land for churches in every village in Andhra Pradesh, Rs. 5 lakhs monetary assistance for churches and free land for Christian pastors.

There is also a proposal to provide reservation for Christians.

Many Christians don’t reveal their true religion, while applying for jobs. They pretend to be Hindu SC and ST and steal the jobs that must normally go to Hindu SC and ST candidates.

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Christianity made you into an outstanding scoundrel and you believe all the lies spread by the Britishers and the cunning Christian missionaries.

Shame on you!

They successfully killed your soul.

A dead Christian soul!

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This kind of pseudo secularist tripe is not going to quell Hindu anger. Wherever we see, it is these other agents provoking the Hindus. Whether it is amarnath, ram setu, paininting of nude hindu deilties by a muslim, outright abuse of hindu gods by christian missionaries, killing of a swami or the king of them all, burning alive hindus in a train. this in a hindu majority country. and yet we have this pseudo scularist brigade trying desperately to equate hindu reaction to christian and muslim terrorists. why is there any doubt that this is a hindu country. the fathers of christian sit in france and make noises when christians cry foul, pakistan openly talks about indian muslims, but where is the hindu to go?

unless the borrowed and useless secularism of the west, which is built on basic christian values is replaced by a secularism that primarily respects hindu values, things will only get worse. cant b raman and his tribe see that?

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the author conveneintly did not touch much on conversions.apart from this the chieftain of the christianity opened up a challenge when he was on government visit to india that he will see to it that the entire asia is being converted into christianity.when Mr.Raman writes so many things he conveniently forgets about the cause.the effect simply follows every cause.because of the idiotic meaning taken by the government (specifically the congress governemernt) that secularism means anti Hindu every ,comer to India tries to attempt harming Hindus and Hinduism. the government because of its anti hindu and the so called secularism will not come to the rescue of hindus and what is the way out.so only this vhp and bajrang dhall are to be encouraged by Hindus. let the govvernment take a true secular stand.let it punishes the culprits right from the beginning for the bombing, parliamnet attack. godhra train fire, attacks on kashmiri pandits and also let it stop the conversion of Hindus by the other religions , let it stop encouraging illegal migrants to india , let it deport all the foreign nationals living in India without naturalisaation etc etc.
when these much of problems were accumulated by the congress government with dishonest motives and iancation on vital points this government does not have any proprietory right to ask for explanation from orissa and karnataka governments for the violences erupted in the states.
It shpould explain to the world in an appealing way
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Christians do not allow Dalit Christians into several churches all over India.

Dalit Christians are not allowed to bury their dead in the Christian burial grounds in Tamil Nadu.

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Congress (UPA) govt is an anti-national party that works against the interest of majority to appease the minority. The news spread by media is so biased and misreported that it blows things completely out of proportion. If one church is attacked in retaliation to the misdeeds of the unscrupulous missionaries (which include abusing native religion, desecrating places of worship by denigrating other’s faith), it is portrayed as if thousands were attacked and killed…why…the Vatican is silently supporting this impious propaganda against ‘hindus’ (followers of sanatana dharma) just b’coz they cannot outweigh their faith with ours on merit…that is why they downplay the importance of native religion to brainwash the natives from following their faith and converting to a fake religion emanating from the mind of the hyper-excited white man. Recently Karan Thapar’s interview on CNBC was so biased against hindus and supportive of Christians (with Mr Beggar – Alyque Padamsee squealing and bawling “Christians were the ones who gave us education!!”). Such is the state of media in independent Bharat!! What can be said o freedom…our freedom fighters must be lamenting for having foregone their lives to free us from the clutches of white man just to see us returning to the same fold through thw white mans tactics (enforced religion and consequent treason to State)!!

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Muslims and Christians have no tolerence. They are brutal, I am not telling this history clearly tells….crusades and jihad.

they never accepts any other religion.
narrow minded people…..kuvve ki mendak jaisa.

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Army and Special Operations Group of Jammu and Kashmir have killed a terrorist believed to be an Indian Mujahideen cadre hailing from Kovalam in Kerala.

Central agencies had been monitoring certain leads, which said a group of people hailing from Kerala along with Lashker-e-Tayiba’s support were trying to enter Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir through North Kashmir.

The information was shared with the army headquarters in the national capital and a plan was chalked out to nab the exfiltrating group with the help of the state police.

A terrorist identified as Shakeel Mohammed hailing from Kovalam was killed in the encounter that took place between Nine Para and Special Operations Group in Dever area of Lolab Valley in North Kashmir.

A hunt is on to track down terrorists who escaped after the encounter, sources said.

Shakeel is the first Keralite to have been killed in nearly two decades of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir.

A photo identity card was found from his pocket besides some religious writings written in Malayalam, the sources said.

A team of Kerala Police is scheduled to visit Kashmir valley soon for carrying out the identification process of killed terrorist.

 

Mission Olympic 2008

India Won 3 medals in Beijing 2008 olympic. Winners are Abhinav Bindra (Gold), Shushil Kumar (Bronze), Vijendra Singh (Bronze). The three great north Indians make a history aging in India.

Abhinav Bindra (Gold medalist): Men’s 10m Air Rifle.

Shushil Kumar (Bronze medalist): Men’s 66kg freestyle wrestling.

Vijendra Singh (Bronze Medalist): Men’s 75kg category Boxer.

Abhinav Bindra gave India its first individual Olympic gold medal, and ninth overall, when he won the 10 metres air rifle event at the Beijing Olympics on Monday morning. Before his feat India had won eight gold medals in hockey, six of them at successive Games, three silver medals (two in athletics and one in hockey) and five bronze medals from the Olympics. On Monday, Bindra was fourth after qualifying but had a brilliant final round and even hit a near perfect 10.8 on his last visit to pull in front of Henri Hakkinen of Finland, who dropped to bronze with a poor final shot of 9.7. A look at India’s medal winners at the Olympics: Medal Name Olympics Sport Event Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men’s 200 metres Silver Norman Pritchard 1900 Paris Athletics Men’s 200 metres hurdles Gold National team 1928 Amsterdam Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1932 Los Angeles Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1936 Berlin Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1948 London Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1952 Helsinki Field hockey Men’s competition Bronze Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav 1952 Helsinki Wrestling Men’s freestyle bantamweight Gold National team 1956 Melbourne Field hockey Men’s competition Silver National team 1960 Rome Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1964 Tokyo Field hockey Men’s competition Bronze National team 1968 Mexico Field hockey Men’s competition Bronze National team 1972 Munich Field hockey Men’s competition Gold National team 1980 Moscow Field hockey Men’s competition Bronze Leander Paes 1996 Atlanta Tennis Men’s singles Bronze Karnam Malleswari 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women’s 69 kg Silver Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore 2004 Athens Shooting Men’s double trap Gold Abhinav Bindra 2008 Beijing Shooting Men’s 10m Air Rifle Bronze Sushil Kumar 2008 Beijing wrestling Men’s 66kg freestyle Bronze Vijendra Singh 2008 Beijing Boxing Men’s 75kg category

Low-cost airlines SpiceJet on Friday announced boxer Vijender Kumar can fly for life in their domestic flights in recognition of his historic feat of winning a bronze in Beijing Olympics. Vijender became the first ever Indian to win an Olympic medal, a bronze in 75kg category in Beijing Olympics. The airlines has earlier honoured Abhinav Bindra and Sushil Kumar with the same offers after their gold (in shooting) and bronze (in wrestling) winning feats respectively. Vijender can now travel free on SpiceJet’s domestic network all his life, SpiceJet Chief Commercial Officer Samyukth Sridharan said in a release. “We are delighted to welcome Vijender into our family of SpiceJetters by offering him unlimited free personal travel for life along with Abhinav Bindra and Sushil Kumar. Sportsmen like Vijender Kumar, Sushil Kumar and Abhinav Bindra have made us proud and will help more people to focus on their dream,” Sridharan said.

 

Beijing 2008 Medal tally

Rank	NOC Name	Men				Women				Open/Mixed				Total
		G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T
1	CHN – China	24	10	8	42	27	11	19	57			1	1	51	21	28	100
2	USA – United States	20	13	20	53	15	23	15	53	1	2	1	4	36	38	36	110
3	RUS – Russian Fed.	12	8	20	40	11	13	8	32					23	21	28	72
4	GBR – Great Britain	11	8	7	26	7	5	6	18	1		2	3	19	13	15	47
5	GER – Germany	7	7	6	20	6	2	7	15	3	1	2	6	16	10	15	41
6	AUS – Australia	6	6	9	21	8	7	8	23		2		2	14	15	17	46
7	KOR – Korea	8	6	4	18	4	4	4	12	1			1	13	10	8	31
8	JPN – Japan	4	4	5	13	5	2	5	12					9	6	10	25
9	ITA – Italy	4	7	6	17	4	3	4	11					8	10	10	28
10	FRA – France	6	14	12	32	1	2	4	7			1	1	7	16	17	40
11	UKR – Ukraine	4	3	8	15	3	2	7	12					7	5	15	27
12	NED – Netherlands	1		2	3	5	4	2	11	1	1		2	7	5	4	16
13	JAM – Jamaica	3			3	3	3	2	8					6	3	2	11
14	ESP – Spain	4	6	2	12		3	1	4	1	1		2	5	10	3	18
15	KEN – Kenya	3	2	4	9	2	3		5					5	5	4	14
16	BLR – Belarus	3	3	5	11	1	2	5	8					4	5	10	19
17	ROU – Romania			1	1	4	1	2	7					4	1	3	8
18	ETH – Ethiopia	2	1	1	4	2		1	3					4	1	2	7
19	CAN – Canada	1	5	3	9	1	3	3	7	1	1		2	3	9	6	18
20	POL – Poland	3	4		7		2	1	3					3	6	1	10
21	HUN – Hungary	2	4	1	7	1	1	1	3					3	5	2	10
21	NOR – Norway	2	3		5	1	2	1	4			1	1	3	5	2	10
23	BRA – Brazil	1	3	5	9	2	1	3	6					3	4	8	15
24	CZE – Czech Republic	1	2		3	2	1		3					3	3		6
25	SVK – Slovakia	2	1	1	4	1	1		2					3	2	1	6
26	NZL – New Zealand	1	1	5	7	2			2					3	1	5	9
27	GEO – Georgia	3		2	5			1	1					3		3	6
28	CUB – Cuba	2	5	8	15		6	3	9					2	11	11	24
29	KAZ – Kazakhstan	2	2	5	9		2	2	4					2	4	7	13
30	DEN – Denmark	1	2	1	4			1	1	1		1	2	2	2	3	7
31	MGL – Mongolia	2	1		3		1		1					2	2		4
31	THA – Thailand	1	1		2	1	1		2					2	2		4
33	PRK – DPR Korea			1	1	2	1	2	5					2	1	3	6
34	ARG – Argentina	2		1	3			2	2			1	1	2		4	6
34	SUI – Switzerland	2		3	5			1	1					2		4	6
36	MEX – Mexico	1			1	1		1	2					2		1	3
37	TUR – Turkey	1		3	4		4		4					1	4	3	8
38	ZIM – Zimbabwe					1	3		4					1	3		4
39	AZE – Azerbaijan	1	2	3	6			1	1					1	2	4	7
40	UZB – Uzbekistan	1	2	2	5			1	1					1	2	3	6
41	SLO – Slovenia	1	1	1	3		1	1	2					1	2	2	5
42	BUL – Bulgaria			3	3	1	1		2					1	1	3	5
42	INA – Indonesia	1		2	3			1	1		1		1	1	1	3	5
44	FIN – Finland			2	2	1	1		2					1	1	2	4
45	LAT – Latvia	1	1	1	3									1	1	1	3
46	BEL – Belgium					1	1		2					1	1		2
46	DOM – Dominican Rep.	1	1		2									1	1		2
46	EST – Estonia	1	1		2									1	1		2
46	POR – Portugal	1			1		1		1					1	1		2
50	IND – India	1		2	3									1		2	3
51	IRI – Iran	1		1	2									1		1	2
52	BRN – Bahrain	1			1									1			1
52	CMR – Cameroon					1			1					1			1
52	PAN – Panama	1			1									1			1
52	TUN – Tunisia	1			1									1			1
56	SWE – Sweden		2	1	3		1		1		1		1		4	1	5
57	CRO – Croatia		1		1		1	3	4						2	3	5
57	LTU – Lithuania		1	3	4		1		1						2	3	5
59	GRE – Greece		2		2			2	2						2	2	4
60	TRI – Trinidad/Tobago		2		2										2		2
61	NGR – Nigeria		1	1	2			2	2						1	3	4
62	AUT – Austria		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
62	IRL – Ireland		1	2	3										1	2	3
62	SRB – Serbia		1	2	3										1	2	3
65	ALG – Algeria		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
65	BAH – Bahamas		1	1	2										1	1	2
65	COL – Colombia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
65	KGZ – Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2										1	1	2
65	MAR – Morocco		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
65	TJK – Tajikistan		1	1	2										1	1	2
71	CHI – Chile		1		1										1		1
71	ECU – Ecuador		1		1										1		1
71	ISL – Iceland		1		1										1		1
71	MAS – Malaysia		1		1										1		1
71	RSA – South Africa		1		1										1		1
71	SIN – Singapore						1		1						1		1
71	SUD – Sudan		1		1										1		1
71	VIE – Vietnam		1		1										1		1
79	ARM – Armenia			6	6											6	6
80	TPE – Chinese Taipei			2	2			2	2							4	4
81	AFG – Afghanistan			1	1											1	1
81	EGY – Egypt			1	1											1	1
81	ISR – Israel			1	1											1	1
81	MDA – Rep. of Moldova			1	1											1	1
81	MRI – Mauritius			1	1											1	1
81	TOG – Togo			1	1											1	1
81	VEN – Venezuela							1	1							1	1
Total:		165	165	202	532	127	128	141	396	10	10	10	30	302	303	353	958

 

Medal tally 21 August

Beware if you see Airtel (Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited (BTVL))

I am using Airtel mobile prepaid connection. But after a year I am really frustrated with the service of Airtel. On the midnight of 20 August Airtel automatically activate Value Added Service (VAS) and deducted 30 Rupees from my account and when I try to talk customer care executive they disconnect the phone but after trying several times I am able to talk with one executive but this time mother*uker put me on hold, and after that my call is bard. So I am not able to communicate with customer care executive. They never told what the service was activated last night. In the mid July Airtel suffers with some problem (Still we don’t know what the actual cause is) and hence the result is that all outgoing and incoming calls are bard by the Airtel in Mumbai region since 17 July to 28 July 2008. All Airtel consumers suffers for this f**king action (Airtel consumers didn’t get any compensation against these fault. Because these fault is Airtels internal fault not by the consumers so Airtel need to be compensate all consumers in Mumbai Region). But during this period I bought new MTNL card. One example: Suppose that If my validity expires today then after 12 O’clock midnight all incoming and outgoing calls are bard by Airtel they didn’t wait for next morning. After thinking lot I choose MTNL. I think IDEA and Reliance is also good service provider. Hutch (Vodafone) and Airtel are worse service provider in the world. So I suggest my entire known and unknown person to think 1000 times when you are going to buy a new Airtel (prepaid or Postpaid) connection… Your Valuable comment is appreciated…

Rank	NOC Name	Men				Women				Open/Mixed				Total
		G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T
1	CHN – China	20	7	5	32	25	8	15	48			1	1	45	15	21	81
2	USA – United States	14	8	14	36	12	18	14	44	1	2		3	27	28	28	83
3	GBR – Great Britain	9	7	4	20	7	4	5	16	1		2	3	17	11	11	39
4	RUS – Russian Fed.	7	5	14	26	7	9	4	20					14	14	18	46
5	AUS – Australia	3	5	7	15	8	6	6	20		2		2	11	13	13	37
6	GER – Germany	5	5	4	14	3	2	4	9	3	1	2	6	11	8	10	29
7	KOR – Korea	5	6	3	14	2	4	3	9	1			1	8	10	6	24
8	JPN – Japan	4	4	4	12	4	2	5	11					8	6	9	23
9	ITA – Italy	2	5	4	11	4	2	4	10					6	7	8	21
10	UKR – Ukraine	3	3	4	10	2	2	4	8					5	5	8	18
11	NED – Netherlands	1		2	3	3	4	2	9	1	1		2	5	5	4	14
12	FRA – France	4	11	11	26		1	2	3			1	1	4	12	14	30
13	ESP – Spain	3	2	1	6		2	1	3	1	1		2	4	5	2	11
14	JAM – Jamaica	2			2	2	3		5					4	3		7
15	ROU – Romania			1	1	4	1	2	7					4	1	3	8
16	POL – Poland	3	4		7			1	1					3	4	1	8
17	NZL – New Zealand	1	1	5	7	2			2					3	1	5	9
18	SVK – Slovakia	2			2	1	1		2					3	1		4
19	CAN – Canada	1	4	2	7	1	1	3	5		1		1	2	6	5	13
20	KEN – Kenya	1	1	2	4	1	3		4					2	4	2	8
21	BLR – Belarus	1	2	4	7	1	1	4	6					2	3	8	13
22	CZE – Czech Republic	1	2		3	1	1		2					2	3		5
23	DEN – Denmark	1	1	1	3			1	1	1		1	2	2	1	3	6
23	PRK – DPR Korea			1	1	2	1	2	5					2	1	3	6
25	ETH – Ethiopia	1	1		2	1			1					2	1		3
26	SUI – Switzerland	2		2	4			1	1					2		3	5
27	GEO – Georgia	2		1	3			1	1					2		2	4
28	CUB – Cuba	1		3	4		6	3	9					1	6	6	13
29	KAZ – Kazakhstan	1	1	2	4		2	2	4					1	3	4	8
30	NOR – Norway	1	2		3		1	1	2			1	1	1	3	2	6
31	ZIM – Zimbabwe					1	3		4					1	3		4
32	AZE – Azerbaijan	1	2	1	4			1	1					1	2	2	5
32	SLO – Slovenia	1	1	1	3		1	1	2					1	2	2	5
34	TUR – Turkey	1		1	2		2		2					1	2	1	4
35	BRA – Brazil	1	1	3	5			2	2					1	1	5	7
36	BUL – Bulgaria			3	3	1	1		2					1	1	3	5
36	INA – Indonesia	1		2	3			1	1		1		1	1	1	3	5
38	FIN – Finland			1	1	1	1		2					1	1	1	3
39	EST – Estonia	1	1		2									1	1		2
39	MGL – Mongolia	1			1		1		1					1	1		2
39	THA – Thailand					1	1		2					1	1		2
42	ARG – Argentina	1			1			1	1			1	1	1		2	3
43	IND – India	1		1	2									1		1	2
43	MEX – Mexico	1			1			1	1					1		1	2
45	BRN – Bahrain	1			1									1			1
45	CMR – Cameroon					1			1					1			1
45	PAN – Panama	1			1									1			1
45	TUN – Tunisia	1			1									1			1
49	HUN – Hungary		4		4			1	1						4	1	5
50	SWE – Sweden		2	1	3		1		1						3	1	4
51	UZB – Uzbekistan		2	2	4			1	1						2	3	5
52	AUT – Austria		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
52	GRE – Greece		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
52	LTU – Lithuania			2	2		1		1						1	2	3
55	ALG – Algeria		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	COL – Colombia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	CRO – Croatia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	KGZ – Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2										1	1	2
55	SRB – Serbia		1	1	2										1	1	2
60	CHI – Chile		1		1										1		1
60	DOM – Dominican Rep.		1		1										1		1
60	ECU – Ecuador		1		1										1		1
60	MAS – Malaysia		1		1										1		1
60	POR – Portugal						1		1						1		1
60	RSA – South Africa		1		1										1		1
60	SIN – Singapore						1		1						1		1
60	TRI – Trinidad/Tobago		1		1										1		1
60	VIE – Vietnam		1		1										1		1
69	ARM – Armenia			5	5											5	5
70	TPE – Chinese Taipei			1	1			2	2							3	3
71	AFG – Afghanistan			1	1											1	1
71	EGY – Egypt			1	1											1	1
71	IRI – Iran			1	1											1	1
71	ISR – Israel			1	1											1	1
71	LAT – Latvia			1	1											1	1
71	MAR – Morocco							1	1							1	1
71	TJK – Tajikistan			1	1											1	1
71	TOG – Togo			1	1											1	1
71	VEN – Venezuela							1	1							1	1
Total:		114	114	134	362	98	99	110	307	9	9	9	27	221	222	253	696

 

Boxer Vijender ensures another medal for India

Boxer Vijender ensures another medal for India

Vijender Kumar ensured another medal for India at the Beijing Olympics when he beat Carlos Gongora of Ecuador in the quarter-finals of the 75 kg category in the boxing competition on Wednesday. The victory assures him and India at least a bronze medal. Earlier in the evening, just as the country celebrated wrestler Sushil Kumar’s bronze medal victory in men’s 66kg freestyle event, another Indian pugilist, Jitender Kumar, went down fighting to Russia’s Georgy Balakshin in the quarter-finals of the 51 kg category. ‘The world is now scared to face Indian boxers’ The Bhiwani pugilist, one of India’s best medal hopes at the Games, was ahead in all the four rounds and deservedly clinched a 9-4 verdict. The Ecuadorean had no answer to the Indian’s flurry of punches and trailed 1-4 in the second round. Vijender repeatedly scored with left-hand jabs and uppercuts to which Carlos had no answer. With the score reading 7-2 in Vijender’s favour after the penultimate round, the Ecuadorean needed to go all out in the fourth and final round. Though he did narrow the gap, Vijender’s evading tactics and good defence clinched him victory. Vijender won the opening round 2-0, the second round 2-1, the third 3-2 and 2-1. He made it to the last eight stage after overwhelming Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand 13-3 in a lop-sided pre-quarter-final on Saturday night. Earlier in the competition, he thoroughly dominated his opening bout against Gambia’s Jack Badou, scoring a facile 13-2 win. If his recent performances are anything go by then expecting a medal from Vijender Singh at the Beijing Olympics should not come as a big surprise. After all, it was only a couple of months that the 22-year-old boxer thrashed reigning Olympic champion Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan (12:7) in the quarter-finals of the President’s Cup. The 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne saw Vijender come to the fore, as he won the silver medal. He followed it up with a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. A back injury threatened to put his preparations off track, but the youngster recovered in time to strike gold at the Olympics qualifier in Kazakhstan. With as many as four boxers having qualified for the Olympics, Vijender believes that the pugilists could be India’s best bet for a medal at next month’s Games. He lost in the first round at the 2004 Olympics at Athens, but is confident of erasing that nightmare with a top-notch performance. ‘I believe this time we boxers have the best chance to win a medal at the Olympics,’ Vijender claims. Tell us about your preparations for the Olympics? The preparations are going on quite well. The climate is very hot here in Patiala, where the boxers going to the Olympics are having a camp, but it does not bothering us. We are preparing well. All the boys are fit and training well. Can you tell us in detail what exactly is going on at the camp, since there are only a couple of weeks left for the mega event? We are following a rigorous training schedule leading up the Olympics. All our coaches and officials from the Indian Boxing Federation are giving us good support and looking after us well. We have been having sparring fights amongst ourselves everyday, since the last three weeks. We have three sessions of training daily to ensure that our intensity level is always high. We all have our individual coaches, who give us personal attention. At the same time, we also look to guard against injury or any type of sickness. We take care on the food we intake and water we drink. Care has to be taken in everything we do. Any injury at this time will be very harmful. What are your targets for the Games? My target is to do well at the Olympics. I am hoping to do well, because I have the necessary experience. I believe this time we have the best chance for us to win a medal at the Olympics. That is why all the boxers are extra-motivated in training and looking forward to it. You did not do well at the last Olympics in 2004. What went wrong? I did not do well the last time because then I was young and did not have the experience. I have just made it to the senior level and qualified for the Olympics. Now I have the experience. I have won medals at major tournaments like the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. Recently, I also beat the 2004 Olympic Games gold medallist [Bakhtiyar] Artayev [in the AIBA President’s Cup], so I have done quite well at the international level. So, definitely, everyone can expect a good showing from me in Beijing. How has your journey been since that disappointing showing in Athens? Now I have quite a lot of experience after competing at the international level regularly. I just want to say that Indian boxers are no longer a weak lot; all are doing well at the international level. Our boxing graph is going up all the time and the rest of the world is now scared to face Indian boxers. Did you ever think that you would register such an easy victory (12-7) against the current Olympic champion Atrayev at the President’s Cup recently? It is never easy against any boxer when you step in the ring, because they can also punch. There is nothing like an easy opponent, but definitely there is the question of confidence that makes you believe that you can beat your opponent. Against Atrayev, I was quite confident going into the match and it helped. In fact, I was gunning for revenge against him because I lost to him at the [2006] Asian Games. So, it was quite special to beat him. I think that victory is the biggest achievement of my career so far. You won bronze in the 2006 Asian Games and then lost in the semi-finals of the President’s Cup despite beating the current Olympic champion in the previous round. Do you feel nerves get the better of you ahead of important matches? There is definitely some nervousness, but it is mainly the quarter-final matches, when you are fighting to get into the medal round; those are real tough matches. Once you enter the semi-final stages, and are assured of a medal, you get a bit relaxed. The bouts which I have lost in important tournaments have all been quite close ones. So you cannot say that nervousness was the only reason, because I have performed well but lost by just a couple of points. If you see that semi-final bout in the President’s Cup, which I lost, it was definitely interesting. At one stage I was leading by around four points, but somehow I was made to drop those four points and I still don’t know why. If you do not believe me, you can ask our chief coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu. People can stand outside the ring and make analysis, but only if one enters the rings can they know how tough it is. So have you been working on your mental toughness? Yes, I have been preparing to get mentally tough. I have been doing meditation and visualisation of my fights. I am doing everything I can to get my mental focus on track. How was the stint you underwent in Germany recently, when you practiced with German boxers and also took part in a few tournaments? All the top boxers from around Europe participated in the tournament in Germany. It was a good experience. There also I did well and won a gold in one of the events. In the process I also beat a German boxer. Overall, the experience in Germany was quite helpful. How would rate the Indian boxing team? We will have four boxers fighting for medals. I am very confident that they will do well. Where there is hope, there is definitely a way to achieve it. We are under pressure as we are also trying to live up to the expectations of the Indian public. Indian boxers are doing well, making a name on the world stage, so it becomes necessary that we win a medal in Beijing. The cream of the boxing world will be at the Olympics, but we are prepared to do well against them. Our main opponents will be from Kazakhstan, Cuba and Russia ; we will need to guard against them. Vijender stuns Olympic champion Artayev India’s Vijender Singh stunned the boxing fraternity by comprehensively defeating Olympic gold medallist Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals of the AIBA President’s Cup boxing tournament in Taipei on Tuesday. Vijender won the bout on points 12:7 in the 75-kg category, thus proving that his recent performances have not been a flash in the pan. The first AIBA President’s Cup opened on Sunday in the Hsinchuang Stadium Taipei County in Sinjhuang City, Taipei. Only those who have qualified for the Beijing Olympics are eligible to participate. Many of the world’s top boxers are participating in the event, which finishes on May 31, some using the tournament as a final hit-out prior to the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. A total of 126 boxers from 26 countries are competing across the 11 weight categories with the semifinals and finals to be held after Thursday’s rest day on Friday and Saturday respectively. The Indian Contingent of four Olympic Qualified boxers had mixed fortunes at this prestigious run up to the Olympics. On the opening day Anthresh Lalit Lakra lost to Dmytro Bulenkov of Ukraine in the 57-kg category. On Tuesday, Jitender lost to Yunusov Anvar of Tajkistan on points 5:9 in a hard hitting exciting encounter. Dinesh Kumar is slated to meet Abbos Atoeve of Uzbekistan on Wednesday, who is the current world champion in 81-kg category. Vijender’s victory against the Olympic Gold Medalist is all the more sweet revenge as he had lost a very close bout against Artayev at the Doha Asian Games in December 2006 in the semi finals. However on Tuesday it was a different story. Vijender was leading throughout the four rounds and coach G S Sandhu was exuberant while describing Vijender’s victory. He stated that Vijender was as cool as a cucumber and flustered his famed opponent with deft movements and lightning fast straight punches and jabs to the front of the face and side of the body. The Kazakh could not read Vijender’s style and despite a last minute flurry and hectic trade of punches could not match Vijender in the ring. Vijender now meets Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand in the semi-finals on Friday.