Gambhir undergoes MRI scan

Indian opener Gautam Gambhir underwent an MRI scan in London and a word is still awaited on his fitness ahead of the limited overs series against England starting with a one-off Twenty20 match on August 31.

The team management is keeping its fingers crossed as Gambhir is critical to India's plans in the ODIs now that his fellow opener Virender Sehwag has been completely ruled out for the five one-dayers and the one-off Twenty20 match.

Gambhir suffered a concussion after he backpedalled at mid-on in a bid to catch a miscued pull off Kevin Pietersen during the 4th and final Test at The Oval. The chance was fluffed as Gambhir fell back and hit his head on the ground with a thud.

The present series has been one of misfortune for Gambhir. He was hit on his right elbow while fielding at forward short leg during the first Test at Lord's last month.

He subsequently had to miss the second Test at Trent Bridge. He did play the third Test at Edgbaston and scored 38 and 14 in the two innings.

Bad luck again bedeviled him in the final Test where he scored 10 and 3 coming low down the order. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni revealed later that the opener was suffering from "blurred vision."

After three nights Police calm London Riots

On Aug-4 Police investigating gun crime in the black community shoot 29-year-old Mark Duggan after stopping him in a taxi in Tottenham, north London. He dies at the scene after the shooting. Britain's police watchdog opens an inquiry into the fatal shooting.

Rioters have looted shops, set fire to buildings and clashed with police in three nights of disorder in London.

Now London remained largely quiet with a heavy police presence on the streets but unrest spread across central and northern England on a fourth night of violence that has blighted the David Cameron government's image and ability to hold the 2012 London Olympics safely.

With 16,000 police officers deployed in London, the streets remained calm after three previous nights of rioting.

But there was unrest in Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Leicester and Birmingham with shops being looted and set alight.

So far 768 people have been arrested and 105 charged in connection with violence in the capital.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would recall parliament from its summer recess for a day on Thursday after rioting swept through London for three consecutive nights.

Talking tough, the Prime Minister, who rushed home after cutting short his vacation in Italy, said the culprits will be brought to bear the consequences of their actions and the government was determined to see that justice is delivered to the law abiding citizens.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Stephen Kavanagh said, never before fired to deal with riots in England - would be "considered carefully" in the event of further disorder. Sporadic violence has broken out in several cities around England last night.

London burns as youths run riot after shooting

In one of the worst riots in the UK, mob torched several vehicles and buildings and clashed with security forces in an economically poor area of London overnight , injuring 26 officers, after police shot dead a 29-year-old local.

The protest was against the Thursday killing of resident Mark Duggan by police teams dealing with gun crime in Tottenham, dominated by the Afro-Caribbean community . Over 26 police officers were injured as angry groups of people engaged in pitched fights with riot police.

The police said 42 people were taken into custody. Emergency services worked to restore order and the situation was brought under control by Sunday.
About 300 people had gathered outside a police station on the Tottenham High Road last evening demanding justice. The protest was initially peaceful but turned violent overnight as mobs went on a rampage outside the police station.

"The rioting in Tottenham last night was utterly unacceptable ," a Downing Street spokesman said. "There is no justification for the aggression the police and the public faced, or for the damage to property. There is now a police investigation into the rioting and we should let that process happen," the statement said.

The last time similar trouble erupted in the area was in 1985, when a police officer was hacked to death with a machete in Tottenham, after he was set upon by a mob.

Kevin Pietersen: Smashes double centuryin Lord's Ground

During the second day of the first Test match against India at Lord's Cricket Ground in London.

England's man Kevin Pietersen termed his double century as one of his best effort in trying conditions.

Kevin Pietersen said, An half an hour, it's right up with all the hundreds I have scored."

In the match, he expects that ball will seam and swing to put Indians in a spot of bother.

Emboldened with his success, Pietersen revealed his ambition to enter the 10,000 Test runs club now that he has completed 6,000 runs.
This is Pietersen's 18th century in his 75th Test but quite uncharacteristically, he never have had to graft in the manner he has done at Lord's over the last two days.

Pietersen also gave credit to Cook, Strauss and Trott for consuming a lot of overs.

Pietersen returned to speak about the Indians and Sachin Tendulkar around whom there is a huge expectation to get his 100th international century.

"There are a lot of great cricketers who haven't done well at Lord's - Warne, Ponting for example. We would try and make sure Sachin doesn't get a hundred."

He also didn't find fault with Harbhajan Singh's bowling who went wicketless but conceded over 150 runs in England innings.

It was tough going for India, who were without attack leader Zaheer Khan all day because of the hamstring strain that had forced him off the field on Thursday and who only had four frontline bowlers to start with.

Facebook to commit crime !

 

London, Dec 20 (ANI): Think giving out basic personal information on Facebook is harmless? You might need to rethink, as a reformed burglar has given details on how a criminal can use your user account as a tool for committing a crime.

"The information people give out on Facebook, when linked up with other information freely available on the internet, is an absolute -goldmine for criminals," the Daily Mail quoted Michael Fraser, a reformed burglar who presents the BBC's 'Beat The Burglar' programme, as saying.

"One year, you might have a party and give out your address. A while later, you might tell everyone that it is your 30th birthday.

"So, if you've accepted me as a friend of a friend, I know your name, your address and your birth date.

"From that, I can go to 192.com and on there I can find out what you do for a living, how much your home is worth - and whether you're likely to be worth burgling.

"I might have already made up my mind because you've posted party -pictures on Facebook and I can see what kind of valuables you have in the house - and which rooms they're in. Then you go and tell your Facebook friends how much you're looking forward to going on holiday next Tuesday.

"I can go on to Google Street View and see actual photographs of your home. I can see if you have a burglar alarm, or whether there are any bushes in the garden to hide in. And I can see all the alleyways I can escape down. And, of course, I know you won't be at home.

"Burglars only burgle homes if they think they can get away with it. All of this information is likely to leave them feeling much more confident that they can," added Fraser.

Co-operative Insurance company revealed that 36 per cent of users regularly make use of them to broadcast their whereabouts when they are away from home.

"Once you accept a stranger into your Facebook account, they can begin what we call social -engineering - -delicately asking questions to build up information about you,' said Jason Hart, -senior vice -president of -CRYPTOCard Network Security.

"And that can cause havoc. Let's say they got your email address, then they could go to your email account pretending to be you and saying you have -forgotten your password.

"The account will then ask a security question - something like your favourite food or your first pet. Over the following weeks and months, it isn't hard for them to work -conversations round to subjects like that on Facebook.

"Once they have that secret -information, the email account will let them in. And once they are in there, they can find lots of sensitive information, such as your Amazon and eBay account history.

"They can then go to those sites pretending to be you and saying you have lost your passwords, and guess what happens then?

"Those sites send the passwords to your email account - the one that they have already conned their way into.

"Crooks who do this usually use the credit card details you have stored there to buy online gift vouchers that can be traded on the internet. It is a form of instant -currency.

"Even worse, if you have a PayPal account and have credit in it, your so-called friend could clean it out.

"Effectively, they have become an electronic version of you, they can change all your passwords and begin stealing from you.

"The message is simple: you wouldn't invite a perfect stranger into your house simply because they knocked on your door and said they wanted a look around. So why do it on Facebook?," Hart added. (ANI)