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Australian cricket is in great shape ahead of their next two major assignments, winning back the Ashes and chasing a fourth-straight World Cup triumph, said Captain Ricky Ponting.

The Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting, as saying," We''re heading in the right direction in all forms of the game and with the exposure that we''ve been able to give a lot of the younger guys as well, a lot of them aren''t so young any more in terms of having games of cricket under their belts."

Annual budget for 2010-11 for Andhra Pradesh will be presented by Chief Minister K Rosaiah, who also holds the finance portfolio.

The budget will have an outlay of Rs 1.08 lakh crore--thus making it the third successive budget with over Rs one lakh crore outlay, as told by sources.

The Ahmedabad based contract research and manufacturing services (CRAMS) company, Dishman Pharmaceuticals has entered into a strategic alliance with a California-based biotech company Codexis.

The Rs. 1000 crore company announced on Thursday that the 5 year alliance would let the Ahmedabad based company use Codexis' proprietary enzymatic bio-catalysis technology in order to manufacture building blocks and intermediates. Reduction of chiral compounds in the APIs and the provision of low-cost, cleaner and greener processes of manufacturing is what the company is looking forward to with this alliance.

As the international players’ association has sent a warning that some members will not participate in the tournament as they are concerned about the Al-Qaida threat, the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is under siege.

Tim May, chief of the Federation of International Cricketers Association warned that players were agitated by Ilyas Kashmiri’s threat against players participating in sporting events in India, including the IPL.

The Commonwealth games are slated to begin in New Delhi later this year but the Commonwealth shooting championship has already begun in Tuglakabad at the Karni Singh Range. The start to this championship has already brought good news for Indian shooting fans when the duo of Gagan Narang and PT Raghunath won gold in the 10m Air Rifle pairs on Friday.

Another gold medal in the 25 m air rifle category was added in the kitty when Anisa Sayyed and Anurag Singh won on this category. India also had silver in their kitty when Virat Singh and Bapu Vanjare won in the 50 m air rifle category.

Owing to a positive vibe in the market and an expected decent budget hearing that is approaching, the fresh IPO of Man Infraconstruction Ltd. Has received a positive response from the market. Earlier a lot of analysts were quoted saying that the IPO was a good one if people were looking for a long term investment.

The IPO of MIL got a great response on day one of its opening and was over-subscribed by 3.10 times. Institutional and Non-institutional investors seemed to be supporting the new IPO.