New World's Richest Person

On Monday, 29th October, the share values in Mumbai Stock Exchange increased so much that it results in the new world's richest person, Mukesh Ambani. He owns Relliance Industries Limited, based in India.

He owns 63.20 Billion US dollars, earlier Bill Gates were the World's richest person from the past four years he has 62.29 Billion US dollars.

Interestingly Mukesh Ambani climbed up to the first position in one month from the fourth position. About a month ago he became the most richest person of India and the fourth in world instead of Lakshmi Mittal.

Lakshmi Mittal earned his money from his foreign businesses and he is permanently settled in UK whereas Mukesh Ambani lives in India and earned all the wealth from his indian businesses. Analysts say that stock market will go up more in the coming weeks.

Well done Mukesh, spent this money for the well being of poor indian peoples. Because, the rupee that is not used for useful purpose (i.e. to serve the humanity) is useless.

Dubai Downtown

A model of Downtown Burj Dubai is the centre of attention. Downtown has a development tag of $20 billion and will have the tallest building and largest shopping mall in the world.

Rivalries in Pakistan Cricket !

Pakistan has produced some of the world's greatest cricketers, but the history of their cricket is fraught with tales of rivalries between their top players. Individually they have contributed immensely for the team though they never got along each other.
In the sixties, Abdul Hafeez Kardar, the first captain of Pakistan, could not get along with Haneef Mohammad. In the Seventies Sarfraz Nawaz and Asif Iqbal were not in good terms. Then in the Eighties, Javed Miandad and Imran Khan were not the best of friends.Later on, Rashid Latif and Saleem Malek too turned enemies.
The latest of the rivalries was between Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif, resulting in Akhtar hitting Asif on his leg with a cricket bat.

GulfNews: Published: October 29, 2007, 23:51

I hated Waqar, reveals Akram

It was a revelation of sort from the Sultan of swing. Wasim Akram, the legendary left-arm pacer and former skipper of the Pakistan team revealed that he 'hated' his bowling partner Waqar Younis during their playing days.

"We hated each other so much that we were not even on talking terms both on and off the field; but the fact is that Pakistan benefited from our rivalry," remarked Akram, who was here to attend the HSBC Cricket Challenge. Their rivalry was so intense that "every time Waqar took wickets, I too would too get charged up to do the same," Akram revealed, while adding that it were the opponents who actually suffered from their rivalry.

Akram went on take 916 wickets from Test and one-day matches while Younis had 789 wickets from both forms of the game.

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Yes, age has sobered both of them now and Akram admitted that they were good friends now.

GulfNews: Published: October 29, 2007, 23:51