Life begins after retirement! Perhaps this might sound true for former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly. Even after retiring from the international cricket, Ganguly’s appeal is still unrelieved.

The latest news is that the Bengal icon has appeared in the DYFI’s (CPM’s youth wing) calendar for 2009. The calendar was unveiled at Ganguly’s residence in Behala on Friday.

The DYFI's zonal committee at Rajarhat conceived the idea to honour the former Indian skipper.

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3) has taken a composite image of a region of moon about which very little was known and this has taken India's first lunar endeavor with the Chandrayaan to new heights.

Detailed compositional information regarding the moon is provided by the M3, which has been designed by the jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA. The name of the region which was mapped recently is Orientale Basin. New insight into the composition of the region is provided by the different wavelengths of light, captured in the image.

After much speculation, US retail giant Wal-Mart on Friday, finally confirmed that it will start selling Apple’s iPhone 3G beginning Sunday at about 2,500 stores, but not at the big discount which many had been anticipating.

The price, with a new two-year service agreement with AT&T (or qualified upgrade), is $197 for the black 8GB model and $297 for the black or white 16GB version, which are just $2 cheap than the usual retail price of the phone.

A crushing six-wicket haul by paceman Abhishek Nayar helped Mumbai restrict Himachal Pradesh to 250 in their first innings in their Ranji Trophy quarter-final match.

Nayar’s six for 45 in three spells helped Mumbai restrict Himachal to 250 after winning the toss.

Himachal's opening pair of Bhavin Thakkar and Sangram Singh — began cautiously and added 20 runs for the first wicket partnership.

However, Himachal batsman failed to maintain the momentum and in a quick succession of time, they lost three quick wickets to be reduced to 50 for three by the 25th over.

By-elections for eight constituencies of the Karnataka Assembly has started today at 7 AM under the strict vigil of around 9,500 security personnel. The defection by three Congress, four JDS members and death of JD(S) leader M S Siddaraju necessitated the by-election. A total of 13.69 lakh electorate would decide the entry of 8 contestants into the assembly.

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