Ojha adds to India’s aura

Sunday morning, sleepy Nottingham woke up to a steady drizzle. Dull, grey, windy and damp, the weather prompted faces to slip easily into fierce scowls, a complete contrast to the mood in the Indian camp.

India had beaten Bangladesh by 25 runs on Saturday night, a result as comprehensive as they come in this miniature format of the game, all but ensuring smooth passage to the Super Eights stage of the second edition of the World T20 championships.

In Robin Hood’s land, Bangladesh had threatened, briefly, to steal from the rich. Tamim Iqbal and Junaid Siddique had started off their pursuit of 180 in real earnest but then, in one over, Pragyan Ojha killed off their challenge.

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Now, India’s first weather channel

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) is set to roll out the country’s first, much-awaited weather channel early next year, if everything goes according to schedule.

Five leading private channels have come forward with expressions of interest, and IMD Director General Dr Ajit Tyagi has asked for a Request For Proposal (RFP) from them in the next two months to get the channel running by February-March 2009. The idea is to have the channel up before the next monsoon.

The channel will provide information on oceanic movements, temperature and rainfall, as well as warnings about natural disasters. “It will be a private-public partnership and we would be involved with the data collection while the entire funding would come from the private channel,” Tyagi said.

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