The Greater Noida Authority and farmers of Patwari village in Noida Extension on Saturday reached an agreement to resolve the crisis that arose out of the Supreme Court's order on land acquisition.

According to Greater Noida Authority the agreement the farmers of Patwari will be paid an enhanced compensation. The compensation figure has been raised by Rs 550 per square metre to Rs 1400 per square metre, from the earlier figure of Rs 850.

The developed area has also now been raised from 6 per cent to 8 per cent.

Builders have also been allowed to construct more flats in giving land, which mean the investors would not be affected.

Rejoiced groups of builders of the ongoing projects have welcomed the breakthrough.

Amrapali Group CMD Anil Sharma said "It's a good news that a consensus between the authority and the farmers has been arrived. Some good policies have been announced that would definitely help the flat buyers".

Assuring that the home buyers would not bear the additional compensation to be given to the farmers, Sharma said, "The developers have already announced that they are not going to impose anything on buyers".

The government over rising prices of essential commodities, and said corruption was the biggest cause of inflation.

Initiating the debate on price rise in the Lok Sabha, BJP member Yashwant Sinha said the key to checking price rise was containing food inflation and checking corruption.

'Corruption is the biggest cause of price rise,' Sinha said.

Demigod to millions of cricket fans around the world, Sachin Tendulkar is perhaps the greatest batsman the world has seen after the great Sir Don Bradman. Playing international cricket from age 16, breaking and setting records all along, Sachin Tendulkar is indeed a gift to the cricketing world.
The Superman of Indian cricket, Sachin Tendulkar was born in Mumbai. His mother Rajni worked in the insurance industry,and his father Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.

Official Awards
1994: Arjuna Award Receipient for achievements in Cricket
1997: Tendulkar was one of the five cricketers selected as Wisden Cricketer of the Year
1997/98: India's highest sporting honour - Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
1999: Padma Shri - India's civilian medal of recognition
2008: Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award.


Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	179	294	32	14810	248*	56.52			51	60		64	107	0
ODIs	453	442	41	18111	200*	45.16	20980	86.32	48	95	1981	193	136	0
T20Is	1	1	0	10	10	10.00	12	83.33	0	0	2	0	1	0
First-class	283	447	48	23729	248*	59.47			78	106			175	0
List A	540	527	55	21663	200*	45.89			59	113			171	0
Twenty20	60	60	8	2069	100*	39.78	1659	124.71	1	13	268	26	23	0

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	179	135	4096	2388	45	3/10	3/14	53.06	3.49	91.0	0	0	0
ODIs	453	269	8044	6838	154	5/32	5/32	44.40	5.10	52.2	4	2	0
T20Is	1	1	15	12	1	1/12	1/12	12.00	4.80	15.0	0	0	0
First-class	283		7461	4280	70	3/10		61.14	3.44	106.5		0	0
List A	540		10220	8466	201	5/32	5/32	42.11	4.97	50.8	4	2	0
Twenty20	60	8	93	123	2	1/12	1/12	61.50	7.93	46.5	0	0	0

The 72-year-old social activist Anna Hazare and his team  met at  Shanti Bhushan's residence in the national capital to decide the strategy and the venue  for their  August 16 agitation to build pressure on the government  to bring strong Lokpal bill.

The government is trying to create misunderstanding in the minds of the people before our fast, which will be the second struggle for freedom, he said.

Hazare has vowed to launch a hunger strike from Aug 16 at Jantar Mantar in the heart of the capital.

It was after his first fast, which lasted five days and triggered widespead support in the country, that the government set up a 10-member panel to frame an effective Lokpal bill.

After Tuesday's last meeting between the government and the civil society, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal had said that while the government wanted a strong Lokpal, we cannot have a parallel government.

Hazare said it was also important to bring the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under the Lokpal to uproot corruption in the country.

The long list of victims in the five-year campaign include the governments of the United States, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Vietnam and Canada; the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the International Olympic Committee (IOC); the World Anti-Doping Agency; and an array of companies, from defense contractors to high-tech enterprises.

China behind biggest ever hacking attack on India,In the biggest ever series of cyber attacks uncovered to date, hackers were found to have broken into networks of the Indian government, United Nations and US defence companies, with security experts pointing to China as the culprit.