Tonight sees the first game in the controversial Indian Premier League - a six-week Twenty20 tournament between eight teams comprised of Indian and international players. For purists it’s the end of the world and even those sympathetic to the game have their concerns.
A central issue is the availability of international players, with the Australian Cricket Board ruling that Australian Test players can only compete in the first two weeks of the tournament.
As only four international players can play for any team, it’s unclear whether any Australians will appear in tonight’s opening match between the Bangalore Royal Challengers and the Kolkata Knight Riders. Ricky Ponting and David Hussey are signed to Kolkata and Nathan Bracken to Bangalore but there are other international heavyweights on both sides.
What we do know is that Ten paid a lot of money for the rights to all 59 matches and will be praying the tournament strikes a chord with the punters, if not the purists.
April 17, 2008
Member National Assembly Pakistan is the best Job u want to do.
Salary & Govt. Concessions for a Member of NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (MNA)
- Monthly Salary: Rs. 120,000 to 200,000
- Expense for Constitution per month: Rs.100, 000
- Office expenditure per month: Rs.140, 000
- Traveling concession (Rs. 8 per km): Rs.48, 000 (For a visit to ISLAMABAD & return: 6000 km)
- Daily BETA during Assembly meets: Rs.500
- Charge for 1 class (A/C) in Train: Free (For any number of times) (All over PAKISTAN)
- Charge for Business Class in flights: Free for 40 trips / year (With wife or P.A.)
- Rent for Govt hostel any where: Free
- Electricity costs at home: Free up to 50,000 units
- Local phone call charge: Free up to 1, 70,000 calls.
- TOTAL expense for a MNA per year: Rs. 32,000,000
- TOTAL expense for 5 years: Rs.1, 60,000,000
- For 534 MNA, the expense for 5 years: Rs. 8, 54, 40,000,000 (more than 900 cores)
And they are elected by THE PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN, by the democratic process of this world, not intruded into the assembly on their own or by any qualification. This is how all our tax money is been swallowed and price hike on our regular commodities. Think of the great democracy we have.
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April 14, 2008
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