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The racing driver Armaan Ebrahim was adjudged the Best Sportsman Award for the year 2007 at a function held in Chennai at the Madras Cricket Club. Mr Armaan received the award from the club president S.K.A. Manickavasagam during the function.

In the 4th Vishy Anand – Hero Cycles Tamilnadu State level Interschool Children Chess Championship held on 19th and 20th April at G.K. Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Ambattur, Velammal School won the overall championship trophy by winning 4 first prizes, 3 second prizes and 3 third prizes. This is the 4th consecutive year of winning the trophy for which 400 students from all over Tamilnadu competed

The Indian Premier League faced its first on-field controversy with allegations that Harbhajan Singh hit Sreesanth, his India team-mate and IPL rival, after Friday’s match between the Kings XI Punjab and the Mumbai Indians in Mohali. While Yuvraj Singh, Sreesanth’s captain, said Harbhajan had apologised after the incident, it remains to be seen how the IPL will handle it as a disciplinary issue.
Sreesanth, who took two wickets for Punjab, was spotted in tears after the match - which his side won.
Sources close to him said that after the match a smiling Sreesanth walked up to Harbhajan - the captain of the losing Mumbai Indians - and said “Hard luck”. “That was enough for Harbhajan to lose his cool and hit Sreesanth under the eye,” said sources close to the fast bowler.
Harbhajan refused to answer questions on the incident at the post-match press conference. “Can we have questions on just cricket,” he said in response to questions relating to the incident. His opposing captain, however, was clear in his view. “This is really an ugly incident,” Yuvraj said, “this is totally unacceptable.” He added, though, that Harbhajan had visited the dressing-room after the match and apologised to Sreesanth.

Brazils Air Force has called off a search for a priest missing since he floated skywards in the weekend strapped to 1000 party balloons.
A 69 year old South Korean got a 10 year jail term for burning down on over 600 year old gate that had been named South Korea’s National treasure
Indianapolis, United States, Allan Kieta a 49 year old blind man and a Wrestler in High School held an intruder at knife point until the police arrived at the man’s house.
The U.S. Senate unanimously agreed to confer the congressional gold medal on Burma’s democracy icon 62 year old Aung San Suu kyi, the only imprisoned Nobel peace prize recipient.

“Sun set over the Atlas Mountains” a painting of a Moroccan sun set painted in 1935 by Sir Winston Churchill had been sold in a London auction for 3.50,000 dollors.
A Puli dog named “Fee” made quite a spectacle of itself as it jumped over a bar at a dog show in Dortment in Germany.
Sachin Tendulkar the little master celebrates his 35th birthday at Chennai in the company of the Mumbai Indian team with hundreds of reporters and photographers.
Zahi Hawass prominent archaeologists have revealed plans to uncover the 2000 year old tomb of the ancient Egyptions most famous lovers Cleopatra and the Roman General Mark Antony.

Four Children, 3 girls and 1 boy all below 10 Months old from Thiruvallur District died soon after they were given measles vaccine shots. Five other children who fell ill after the vaccine were admitted to hospital.
Scientists at Queen’s University in Belfast are developing a new Computer systems the Sensitive Artificial Listener”(SAL) which they claim will be able to speak to humans beings by simply reaching to signals.
According to reports from London the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced the embarrassment of being caught on train without tickets and without enough cash to pay for to ticket.
The confusion over the percentage of two new born babies at the Government RSRM Hospital in Royapuram ended with the result of the DNA test results. The Muslim couple have been declared as the parents of the male baby.

A U.S. journal reports that researches in the U.S. have found that eating two chocolate bars helps cut cholesterol levels and control high blood pressure.
In London Surgeons have fitted “bionic eyes to two blind men in their 50s to partially restore their eye sight. The two men are the first in Britain to have the artificial retinas.
Shiru, one of the country’s oldest lioness, over 22 years, died at the Tata Steel Zoological Park in Jamshedpur after a prolonged illness.
Jolo a popular Afghan T.V. station defied a government dead line to drop two hit Indian soap Operas deemed to violate Afghan culture saying that the order was willful.
Noted magician Samraj faints while performing dangerous stunt “ Mortuary trick’’ at Trivandram and he was rushed to the hospital by the police.

The South Korean customs official say that the world’s first cloned sniffer dogs have begun training and will be ready to report for duty during this year.
Kenya’s Robert Cheruiyot won his third consecutive Boston Marathon title and fourth in six years. Ethiopia’s Dire June won the women’s title.
A former mayor of a California high desert town and his wife have been sentenced to six month’s in jail for the theft of more than 20,000 dollars from little league cotters.
Noble Peace Prize winner, Al George has said that there had been no progress in the fight against climate change since his film on the issue was released.

Scientists from the University Of Manchester, England, have created the world’s smallest transistor measuring a little bigger than a molecule.
A woman from Christ Church, Wellington, won a promotional competition for the most stunning wedding dress modeled from toilet paper.
A farmer in Gujarat has developed a 48 carat cultured pearl weighing 15 gms which is awaiting approval, to be anchored shortly.

A Chinese billionaire spent a record 500000 US dollars on 27 bottles of red wine, indicating that the wine industry is immune to the global money crunch.
A study has revealed that doctors can sensitively relay a dementia diagnosis to their patients and it is not likely to prompt a catastrophic emotional reaction.
Chennai Corporation as a part of its cost cutting measure is planning to install solar powered street lights in narrow streets and slum areas.