Attacks kill 6 in Iraq

Baghdad (CNN) -- Six Iraqi security forces were killed and eight others were wounded in two separate attacks on police and army on Saturday morning, police and health officials tell CNN.

One attack was in Kubessa, about 160 kilometers west of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi.

Gunmen attacked a joint checkpoint of Iraqi army and police with small arms fire on Saturday early morning. Four Iraqi soldiers and a police officer were killed and four soldiers and a police officer were wounded.

In Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier was killed and four people, including three soldiers, were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near an army patrol.

Overall violence in Iraq has dropped dramatically since the peak of the sectarian violence between 2005 and 2007 but car bombs, suicides bombers, and assassinations still occur.

Government figures show the death toll in Iraqi violence has been rising. In March, 247 Iraqis were killed and in February, 197 people died.

At least three Iraqi soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in the Anbar city of Falluja. In Tikrit, 57 people were killed and 125 others were wounded when gunmen stormed the provincial council building.

There has been unrest in Iraq over corruption, lack of basic services, unemployment and restriction on freedom of expression -- grievances now being aired in other countries across the Arab world.

Iraqi security forces from the army and police force increased their presence in Baghdad and in a number of the provinces because of planned protests.

Nearly 1,500 Kurdish demonstrators had gathered in the central square of the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya on Friday to continue their demands for political reforms and to protest corruption, a lack of basic services and unemployment, security officials said.

But the peaceful protest turned violence.

Security officials said angry protesters stormed shops, threw stones at Kurdish riot police and wielded sticks when police pushed back. At least 50 people were wounded, including 37 members of the riot police, police and health officials in Sulaimaniya said.

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Champions - World Cup 2011, Team India Shows World why They are Champions

Champions - World Cup 2011, Team India Shows World why They are Champions

The final show looking back at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and India's thrilling six-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in a closely-fought final in Mumbai.

28 years after Kapil Dev lifted the Prudential World Cup, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni did the honours in front of a packed Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. This after he led the chase for 275 runs as India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup final by six wickets.



India Win The ICC Cricket World Cup 2011

SATURDAY, 02 APRIL 2011 22:49

Source: ISPORT BUREAU (www.sport.in)

Brilliant performances by Gautam Gambhir(97) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni(91*) helped India chase 274 set by Sri Lanka to win the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup.

Indian needed 4 runs from the last 11 balls when Dhoni hit a six to win the match and end a 28 year wait for a second World Cup becoming the only third team after West Indies and Australia to win more than 1 World Cup. In the end India scored 277 for 4 wickets and won the match with 10 balls to spare.

India started off badly losing Virendra Sehwag for a nought on the second ball of the innings with no runs on the board, Sachin soon departed on 18 runs leaving India at 31-2. Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli led the fightback and further by Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh.

Earlier in the day, Sri Lanka made a slow start but finished with a flourish boosted by a century by Mahela Jayawardena who was 103 not out from 88 balls, helped by the captain Kumar Sangakkara and Kulasekara who made 48 and 32 runs respectively.

Full Scoreboard

Sri Lanka 274/6 (50 ov)

India 277/4 (48.2 ov)

India won by 6 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)

* ICC Cricket World Cup - Final
* Played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
* 2 April 2011 – day/night (50-over match)


Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR
WU Tharanga c Sehwag b Khan 2 30 20 0 0 10.00
TM Dilshan b Harbhajan Singh 33 87 49 3 0 67.34
KC Sangakkara*† c †Dhoni b Yuvraj Singh 48 102 67 5 0 71.64
DPMD Jayawardene not out 103 159 88 13 0 117.04
TT Samaraweera lbw b Yuvraj Singh 21 53 34 2 0 61.76
CK Kapugedera c Raina b Khan 1 6 5 0 0 20.00
KMDN Kulasekara run out (†Dhoni) 32 41 30 1 1 106.66
NLTC Perera not out 22 10 9 3 1 244.44
Extras (b 1, lb 3, w 6, nb 2) 12

Total (6 wickets; 50 overs; 246 mins) 274 (5.48 runs per over)
Did not bat SL Malinga, S Randiv, M Muralitharan
Fall of wickets1-17 (Tharanga, 6.1 ov), 2-60 (Dilshan, 16.3 ov), 3-122 (Sangakkara, 27.5 ov),4-179 (Samaraweera, 38.1 ov), 5-182 (Kapugedera, 39.5 ov), 6-248 (Kulasekara, 47.6 ov)


Bowling O M R W Econ
Z Khan 10 3 60 2 6.00 (1w)
S Sreesanth 8 0 52 0 6.50 (2nb)
MM Patel 9 0 41 0 4.55 (1w)
Harbhajan Singh 10 0 50 1 5.00 (1w)
Yuvraj Singh 10 0 49 2 4.90
SR Tendulkar 2 0 12 0 6.00 (3w)
V Kohli 1 0 6 0 6.00


India innings (target: 275 runs from 50 overs) R B 4s 6s SR
V Sehwag lbw b Malinga 0 2 0 0 0.00
SR Tendulkar c †Sangakkara b Malinga 18 14 2 0 128.57
G Gambhir b Perera 97 122 9 0 79.50
V Kohli c & b Dilshan 35 49 4 0 71.42
MS Dhoni*† not out 91 79 8 2 115.18
Yuvraj Singh not out 21 24 2 0 87.50
Extras (b 1, lb 6, W 8) 15
Total (4 wickets; 48.2 overs) 277 (5.73 runs per over)
Did not bat SK Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, MM Patel, S Sreesanth
Fall of wickets1-0 (Sehwag, 0.2 ov), 2-31 (Tendulkar, 6.1 ov), 3-114 (Kohli, 21.4 ov), 4-223 (Gambhir, 41.2 ov)


Bowling O M R W Econ
SL Malinga 9 0 42 2 4.66 (2w)
KMDN Kulasekara 8.2 0 64 0 7.68
NLTC Perera 9 0 55 1 6.11 (2w)
S Randiv 9 0 43 0 4.77
TM Dilshan 5 0 27 1 5.40 (1w)
M Muralitharan 8 0 39 0 4.87 (1w)
Match details
Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat
Player of the match Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Umpires Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and SJA Taufel (Australia)
TV umpire IJ Gould (England)
Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire SJ Davis (Australia)

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ITS India Deserve To be Winner of 2011 Cricket World Cup, Beat Srilanka in Final World Cup 2011

3 Apr, 2011, 06.41AM IST,PTI
India win World Cup 2011: India deserve World Cup glory: Imran Khan, Allan Border.

World Cup-winning legends Imran Khan , Allan Border and Vivian Richards today said that India deserved to taste World Cup glory as the team has been the team to beat in the last few years.

Imran, who led Pakistan to 1992 World Cup triumph, said India's triumph after a gap of 28 years was a no fluke.

"It is not that India suddenly came up to win the World Cup. There is a reason why they won it. They have been on the rise in the last few years. They have the all-round depth. India's World Cup victory was a no fluke," said Imran.

He said India's semifinal win over arch-rivals Pakistan had done a world of good to the confidence of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men.

"They went through a high pressure game against Pakistan. Today, there did not show any pressure. They were completely confident," he said.

Australia's 1987 World Cup-winning captain Allan Border agreed with Imran that India's victory was "no flash in the pan".

"It was not a flash in the pan. They have been preparing well. They played some tough games against South Africa and Australia," said Border.

"There is self confidence in the group. They are well-coached and they have a very intelligent captain. There is the blend of experience and youth.

Richards said for Sachin Tendulkar, who won the World Cup in his sixth appearance, it much be the icing on the cake in his illustrious career.

"It would be the icing on the cake for him as he has dedicated 21 years to cricket. I am proud of him," said Richards, who was in both the World Cup-winning squads of West Indies in 1975 and 1979.

"But India will have to begin from the scratch when they tour England later in the year. They have to do all over again and they will have to work harder to live to the expectations of being the top team and world champions," he said.

Richards praised Player of the World Cup Yuvraj Singh for resurrecting himself after being dropped from the Indian side.

"He was dropped but I remember he went back to the basics, play for Rest of India and came back to the Indian side. A player who hit six sixes (in Twenty20 World Cup) is an enormously talented player. I am happy for him," Richards said in a CNN-IBN programme.

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World cannot ignore India and China any more: Anil Ambani

WASHINGTON: World, in particular the developed world in the West, can no longer afford to ignore India and China at least in terms of their economic power, ADAG chief Anil Ambani has said.

Achieving a growth of 8-9 per cent per annum at a sustained pace on a long-term basis is a real possibility, Ambani said at a panel discussion on "The Shifting Global Economy and Implications for Trade" being held on the sidelines of the annual conference of the US Exim Bank here.

Achieving such a growth rate -- a reality in India and China -- is "impossible" in the United States and other developed countries of the world, Ambani said. At the same time, he said there are challenges which India has to address on a priority basis.

There is need of creating infrastructure, intellectual, physical and social, which would be the prime movers of India's growth.

Ambani said there is great opportunity for US companies to India. With nearly 100,000 Indian students coming to the US every year, Ambani said, in the years to come, a large number of Indian would think and live like Americans.

"Indian savings would go down and credit card economy would boom," he said, adding, in a globalised economy, Asia, in particular countries such as India and China huge business opportunities to US companies.

Arvind Subramanian, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, agreed and said the world can no longer ignore India and China, which by 2030 would be among the top three largest economies of the world.

"China is already the biggest economy, trader and net banker in the world. It's a world where the US can no longer take its economic preeminence for granted," Subramanian argued.

Ambani praised the Chinese effort of increasing its business and economic relationship with India. India, he said, is the largest trading partner of China, a place, which was earlier occupied by the US.

India is a young country as compared to China. In less than a decade from now, more than half a billion people would be less than 30 years of age, he said.

On Thursday Ambani met the Commerce Secretary, Gary Locke, during which they discussed the new momentum in economic relationship of the two countries, following the November visit of the US President Barack Obama to India.

Locke and Ambani expressed their desire to work together to accelerate the development of the bilateral relationship, sources told PTI.

It is believed that during the meeting Locke spoke to the momentum of the US-India economic relationship coming off of Obama's historic visit to India last November.

Both expressed desire to work together to accelerate the development of the bilateral relationship, sources said.

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Indian stock markets to give 15 pc return in 2011: Mark Mobius

NEW DELHI: Bullish on Indian stock markets, global investment guru Mark Mobius today said the market would give about 15 per cent return to investors this year as well.

"The Indian stock market will probably perform as good if not better than last year," Mark Mobius, Executive Chairman of Templeton Emerging Markets Group, said here.

The benchmark indices of the domestic stock markets, Sensex and Nifty, appreciated by about 15 per cent last year.

When it came to big names, Tata Group's Tata Motors turned out to be one of the best performers in 2010, by registering the highest rise of 75 per cent among the 50 stocks that make up the Nifty index.

Mobius said there was a change in perception of risks of investing in emerging markets, as "emerging markets like India are in a bullish phase ."

As far as long term investment outlook is concerned, Mobius believes India, because of its large youth population, has an edge over China.

"If you look at investment from a longer term point of view, the prospects in India are better as compared to China", he said.

Moreover, the trend of FII (Foreign Institutional Investor) money into emerging markets like India will continue this fiscal (2011-12), he said.

Foreign fund flows. including debt, into Indian capital market was to the tune of USD 39.4 billion, while equities alone attracted investment of USD 29.3 billion during 2010.

During the current year so far, foreign investors have parked USD 1.6 billion in both equities and debt market.

When asked about the sectors that one should invest in to get good returns from the stock market in India, Mobius said sectors like consumer and commodities were the best bet.

The consumer sector includes industries such as food producers, auto manufacturers, clothing companies, packaging producers and retailers.

On the performance of the greenback against other currencies, Mobius said the US dollar is "not a safe haven" as currencies have gotten strong against the USD.

While he was slightly overweight on Indian equities, Mobius said that "the Return on Assets (RoA) could actually get better".

However, he said there was a short term risk attached to investment in Indian market, as "there could be a slowdown in policy initiatives by the government", on various corruption cases (like 2G spectrum) coming to light.

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