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This Was The Least-Watched Oscars Ceremony In 6 Years

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Sunday's Oscars turned out to be the least-watched ceremony in six years. According to early Nielsen estimates, 36.6 million viewers tuned in to see Neil Patrick Harris host the awards show. It was a 16 percent decrease from last year's broadcast, which Ellen DeGeneres hosted.
The last time the numbers were this low was in 2009, when 36.3 million viewers watched "Slumdog Millionaire" walk away with Best Picture and Hugh Jackman hosted.
But the numbers are in keeping with this year's other awards shows. The Oscars had 11.3 million more viewers than the Grammys, which attracted 25.3 million people. Only 19.3 million viewers tuned into January's Golden Globes.

ICC backs more power for 'Big Three' : England, India & Australia

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England, India and Australia now gain about new plans

 The International Cricket Council (ICC) says proposals for a structural overhaul that would benefit the 'Big Three' received unanimous backing.
However, representatives of Pakistan and South Africa reject that claim.
They insist nothing has yet been approved and say a final decision will be made on 8 February.
Plans to give more power to England, India and Australia were leaked last week and strongly opposed by the boards of South Africa and Pakistan, as well as the international players' union (Fica).
"The other countries have been ambushed by this. England, India and Australia have gone away quietly over the last six months and come up with this scheme. There are so many things to worry about here and, frankly, I can't see an awful lot of good for Test cricket to come out of it."
But following a heated six-hour meeting in Dubai, the ICC released a statement announcing the unanimous support for a set of principles relating to its "future structure, governance and financial models".
They included the formation of a new executive committee of five members, with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Cricket Australia (CA) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) all guaranteed a place.
The ICC's executive board - a panel on which all 10 Test-playing nations sit - currently agrees all major decisions.
Under the draft proposals, the executive committee was mooted to have only four members, so the inclusion of a fifth from outside the "Big Three" could be interpreted as a concession.
Among the other key principles are the scrapping of the planned World Test Championship and the introduction of a new two-tier system that could give ICC associate members the chance to play Test cricket.
The six leading associate members - Afghanistan, Canada, Ireland, Kenya, Netherlands and Scotland - currently have one-day international and Twenty20 status but are not able to play Test matches.
A special fund is also being created to help keep the five-day game alive.
And the ICC's 10 full members - Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe - will no longer be obliged to play each other regularly after the Future Tours Programme was scrapped in favour of bilateral agreements between nations to cover Test series between 2015 and 2023.
The Pakistan Cricket Board denied the principles had been unanimously backed, though, while Cricket South Africa said the support was subject to the approval of the respective boards of all member countries, after which a final decision will be taken at an ICC board meeting next month.
The key principles in full are:
  • An opportunity for all members to play all formats of cricket on merit, with participation based on meritocracy; no immunity for any country, and no change to membership status
  • A Test Cricket Fund paid equally on an annual basis to all full members (except the Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia and the England and Wales Cricket Board) to encourage and support Test match cricket
  • Mutually agreed bilateral tour agreements which will be legally binding and run during the ICC commercial rights cycle (2015-2023)
  • Recognition of the need for strong leadership of the ICC, involving leading members, which will involve BCCI taking a central leadership responsibility
  • The varying contributions of full members to ICC events to be recognised through 'contribution costs'
  • The establishment of an Executive Committee (ExCo) and Financial & Commercial Affairs Committee (F&CA) to provide leadership at an operational level, with five members, including BCCI, CA and ECB representatives
  • Three major ICC events in each four-year cycle, with the Champions Trophy replacing the World Test Championship
The ICC had planned the Test Championship, involving the top four teams in its Test rankings playing in a knockout tournament, to start in 2013 but this was shelved because of a lack of "support and consent" from the ICC's commercial broadcast partner.
It was rescheduled for 2017, to be held in England, but now appears to have been abandoned for good.
ICC president Alan Isaac said the proposed changes were important for the future of the game.
"It is extremely encouraging that the ICC board has unanimously supported a set of far-reaching principles that will underpin the long-term prosperity of the global game," said Isaac.
"The principles agreed today provide clear evidence that through the course of further discussions over the coming weeks we can be increasingly confident in achieving consensus."

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Tamim may be relieved vice captain.

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Tamim Iqbal upset about on the day he quit vice-captaincy.  

 Bangladesh Cricket Board's cricket operations chairman Akram Khan, who reportedly received the letter of resignation from Tamim, awaits the president's consent for the resignation's final approval and direction to the way forward. However, it is likely that Mushfiqur Rahim will get a new deputy.
While Tamim's reasoning behind the decision -- that he wants to put an extra effort on his batting and thereby come out of the lean patch -- holds good, many however feel that the decision to name Mashrafe Bin Mortaza as captain for the T20 series, in place of the injured Mushfiqur, could have had influenced his decision; and there are several other reasons supporting the latter argument.
Mashrafe is a capable leader, who has earned the respects of his players, over the years and naming him as captain was no doubt a positive move. On the contrary some of Tamim's decisions on the field during the second Test, when Mushfiqur was off, were criticised.
But the question here is not about who would be a better captain on the field. What the team management's decision depicts is their lack of confidence in Tamim as a leader.
If that be the case, then why was he named vice-captain -- that too right before this series -- in the first place?
Tamim's decision to step down could have been either an emotional outburst or like he officially put it, a wake-up call. Either way, if this were to happen to any other player, whereby the management eventually goes on to shrug him aside of his expected duties, it would only be natural for him to feel unwanted.


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controversial proposals approved by ICC

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The ICC Board has approved the ‘controversial’ proposal of three powerful boards on cricket governance, competition and finances.


An ICC press release said eight full Members including Bangladesh supported the position paper presented by India, Australia and England.

However, Pakistan and Sri Lanka abstained in the vote.

Last month, a meeting of the Test nations’ boards in Dubai had discussed the draft proposal of the three influential cricket bodies for a two-tier Test system and shelved it.

Then the ICC had said that all boards had agreed on many issues after some changes were brought to the draft.

The draft proposals leaked to the media last month had suggested the formation of a five-man executive committee, on which the boards of India, Australia and England would be guaranteed a place.

The two other positions would be selected by the ICC Board annually.

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Skipper for T20 series has select Mashrafe named

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 About Mashrafe is now skipper?



Ace Bangladeshi pacer Mashrafe Bin Mortaza will lead the hosts in their two-match Twenty20 international series in Chittagong

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has announced this on Saturday.

The regular skipper of the side, Mushfiqur Rahim, has been rested in the series as he sustained a hairline fracture on his left little finger on the first day of the second and final Test against Sri Lanka on Tuesday.

Tamim Iqbal, who captained the second day of the final Test in the absence of Mushfiq, has been retained as the vice-captain.

The Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong is set to host both the T20 matches on Feb 12 and 14.

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Lionel Messi The Barcelona star hopes to 'peak at right time'

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Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is confident of hitting top form for the title run-in and World Cup.





The 26-year-old returned last month from his second injury of the season.
He told BBC Football Focus: "I'm very well, full of energy and with a lot of hope. I was able to play again after a long time.
"I'm happy with my current form and slowly but surely I will be getting there to hopefully peak at the right time of the year."
He added: "I hope this could be a great year not only for me but also for Barcelona and for Argentina.
Lionel Messi has scored only nine league goals this season from 15 appearances
He scored 46 last season, 50 the year before that and exceeded 30 in the two preceding campaigns
"I think this World Cup arrives at a good time for Argentina. We have grown as a team on and off the pitch. We have a great bunch of lads that love to play for our country. I think we will get to Brazil in a great shape and with all the chances in the world.
"It will be extra special, well above all the other World Cups - it is in Brazil, with everything that means for us. Our supporters will be there in their thousands and with them behind us I'm sure we can achieve something very, very special."
Messi spent three weeks out with a thigh injury earlier in the season and then had another two months out with a hamstring problem before making his return in January.
Barcelona are second in La Liga, only three points behind Atletico Madrid, and face Manchester City in the Champions League last 16.
Leading Real Sociedad 2-0 after the Copa del Rey semi-final first leg, they are likely to face arch-rivals Real Madrid in the final.
"Every season is a new challenge," said Messi. "With Barcelona we always play for major honours and we are always asked to win them all.
"I still have a lot to learn and a huge deal to improve.
"I hope to keep performing at a high level all the way to the World Cup because we have a lot to play for with Barca, with a hard tie in the Champions League, and a very hard La Liga and Copa del Rey to deal with.
"To desire to keep winning things are my main motivation. I want to keep going and win them all."

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Amar’e Stoudemire Finds New Vigor,
As Knicks Fall Back,



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The Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire finished with 15 points and 7 rebounds in the Knicks’ 94-90 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. Ben Solomon for The New York Times
The loss was only seconds old when Amar’e Stoudemire, a towel draped around his neck, approached Giannis Antetokounmpo for a congratulatory handshake and some unsolicited advice.
Antetokounmpo, 19, had helped the Milwaukee Bucks defeat the knicks on Monday with a smorgasbord of post moves and up-and-under layups, and Stoudemire told him to keep working hard, a painfully tired trope among athletes — but a line that still means something to Stoudemire.
“Those are my motivational words to younger players,” he said after a recent practice. “Pretty simple, but it’s true.”
Stoudemire, 31, said he saw flashes of his former self in Antetokounmpo: the energy, the excitement, the easy athleticism, all of the familiar currencies of youth. The game was once effortless for Stoudemire, too, back when he was a teenage forward with the Phoenix Suns who turned the basketball court into his own trapeze set. Seldom celebrated for his defense, he was more than capable of making up the difference in other areas. He dunked. He dazzled. He dominated.

Wrapped in Urdu to Bangla

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 If March 1940 was a time when Pakistan appeared to be turning into an inevitability, there was too the question of what language the people of the soon to be constituted state would express themselves in.
It was pretty much obvious by July 1947, a month before the partition of India, that even as some well-known Muslim intellectuals went around suggesting that Urdu be the lingua franca of Pakistan, there were on the other side of the fence leading Bangalee scholars who believed tha Bangla should be the language of the state.
The Bangalees of eastern Bengal would, after all, constitute the largest component of the overall population of Pakistan. Dr Muhammad Shahidullah argued in an article in the daily Azad, published from Calcutta, that adopting Urdu as the only state language of Pakistan would undermine the Bangalees.
The argument in favour of Bangla really took off when Abdul Haq made it clear in articles in June and July 1947 that Bangla ought to be Pakistan's state language. In June 1947, the Abul Mansur Ahmed-edited weekly Millat in an editorial adopted a similar position. Likewise, quite a few other periodicals and daily newspapers articulated the idea, on the basis of the probable composition of the Pakistani state, that Bangla take pride of place as the language of the state. And that was not all. In the election manifesto of the Muslim League in 1946, Abul Hashim placed the case for Bangla in unequivocal terms. Similar was the position of the Gono Azadi League in July 1947.
The establishment of Pakistan on August 14, 1947 saw the swift rise of arguments in favour of Urdu and Bangla, depending on the ethnicity of those engaged in the debate, as the lingua franca of the state.
Aaj subh-e sadiq-e Dhaka'r hawai adda-e Pakistan-er ujir-e-khajana tashreef enechhen (this morning Pakistan's finance minister arrived at Dhaka airport). Notice the way it should have been in Bangla proper: aaj shokale Pakistan-er ortho montri Dhaka biman bondor-e eshe pouchechhen.
Many were the ways in which Bangla was beginning to be undermined. But while it is true that a concerted effort was on to get Bangla out of the way in favour of Urdu, there were the brave Bangalee voices who did not flinch from speaking for their people in places where they were certain to be heard. The Pakistan Constituent Assembly met for the first time after partition in Karachi on February 23, 1948. The deliberations of the House were, under the rules, to be conducted in Urdu and English.
On the day, Dhirendranath Dutta rose in the House to demand that Bangla be included as the third language of the House considering the fact that Bangalees constituted 44 million of Pakistan's population of 69 million. The suggestion was swiftly shot down by Pakistan's Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, who defended Urdu as a language that could keep Pakistan united as a state.
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