Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Blog Post after 2 years - From Sify Desk Chennai - 28th June 2016.

Blog Post after 2 years - From Sify Desk Chennai - 28th June 2016.

Tamilnadu : AMMA returned to power in the 2016 May General Election for Tamilnadu Assembly held in the month of May (16th to be precise) 2016 by getting 132 seats. After MGR - 34 years - ruling party has come back to power in tamilnadu. Amma has done it.. DMK has bagged about 89 seats - in recent times an opposition has bagged good number of seats. Makkal Koottani - consists of DMDK, VC, CPI, CPI(M), TMC and Vaiko were trounced in the elections. Not able to win a single seat and nearly lost deposits in all the seats. PMK went alone and got trounced also. Seeman bragged but he also got decimated losing all the seats - deposits. Amma has started well by signing about 5 poll promises - Closing of 500 TASMAC Shops, 8 Gram gold for Marriage - to graduate poor girls (increase from 4 gm gold), Loan waiver for all types of Farmers, Educational Loans for Students..

In recent times - precise to be in last two weeks sudden increase in the Killings of individuals, families etc., Most horrendous crime is killing of an IT Techie from Infosys while she was waiting to board the train in Nungambakkam Railway station in broad daylight - 6:45 AM. Police has started raiding the rowdy dens and arresting the so called rowdies till yesterday arrested about 1150 people in chennai alone. The same has been done in other cities of Tamilnadu particularly in Madurai, Thoothukudi.

IPL 2016: IPL 8th edition was won by SRH captained by David Warner beating Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore. David and Virat were in excellent form especially virat scoring 900 runs in a season. Virat was in different league this time - may be the form of his life. He scored in all the matches may be two matches he would not have scored - also scoring 4 hundreds in this IPL which is a phenomenal record. Overall this IPL was better - game is changing bowlers are using different strategies Yorker on the leg stump, yorker and bowling outside the off, using the bouncers / short ball judiciously, Low full tosses etc., Batting also has improved considerably well - 15 - 18 runs in the last overs have become gettable targets.  MI floundered this time - last time winners not able to reach the semifinals / elimination rounds. With great strength and also having great backup team MI as usual promised much but delivered less.

National: MODI as usual done lots of overseas travels getting the support for India but NSG membership couldnot materialise. India's name was in the top of investment list - FDI improved but nothing great to show. Now in nearly 9 industries - Defence, Food Processing, Airlines etc. 100% FDI opened - we need to see how the investments are coming. Domestically nothing to show - BJP is showing some improvements by winning the ASSAM elections but still the polarisation is being propaganded in the states where the elections are being held - like in UP where the migration of people in Kairana were being projected but in reality nothing like that has happened - investigations have shown.

Cricket: New coach for indian cricket team has been announced - Anil Kumble. It was a very good decision. With 17 test matches this season with 13 home tests anil kumble experience would be very good both for bowlers and batters. Though his appointment is for 1 year only - but really this is a good appointment.

Other Sports : NBA Cleveland Cavaliers winning this year NBA title beating Golden State Warriors coming from behind 3-1 to win 4-3 - first time in NBA history team winning the title coming from behind. Real Madrid winning the UEFA champions league. Leicester City winning the EPL 2016. Olympics in Rio this year - let's see how india is going to fare this year. With Zika virus scare is spreading - we need to see how the Olympics is going to be as brazil is financially and politically in turmoil. UEFA euro 2016 is underway with major upsets of Spain and England going out of the tournament in the round of 16 losing to Italy and Iceland respectively.

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