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Sourav Ganguly to be awarded Banga Bibhusan award

The former Indian captain is set to add another feather to his cap with yet another award

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly, Olympian duo P K Banerjee and Chuni Goswami, actor Mithun Chakraborty, dancer Thankamani Kutti and industrialist B K Birla were among 24 celebrities who would be conferred the prestigious Banga Bibhusan award on May 20.
The award would be given by West Bengal governor M K Narayanan at a function which would also be attended by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The other awardees include film director Ritoporno Ghosh, football legend Tulsidas Balaram, mountaineer Aung Narvu Sherpa, film actors of yesteryear Sandhya Roy and Sabitri Chatterjee, noted baul singer Purnadas Baul, veteran journalist Amitabha Chowdhury, painter Subhaprasanna and hockey olympian Gurbux Singh.
Ace tennis player Leander Paes, Grandmaster Dibyendu Barua, paddler Poulami Ghatak and former India women's cricket captain Jhulan Goswami were among those chosen for this year's "Bangabhusan award", official sources said.
Earlier, legendary playback singer Manna Dey, litterateur and human rights activist Mahasweta Devi, sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, dancer Amala Shankar and others were given the award instituted by the West Bengal government after Mamata Banerjee came to power in 2011.

Vigilance officer to accompany Team India

Under pressure after the spot-fixing scandal, BCCI will send a special officer from the ACSU to monitor Team India during the ICC Champions Trophy in England, starting June 6



Cornered after the recent spot-fixing scam in IPL-6, BCCI announced that a vigilance officer from the Anti-corruption and Security Unit will accompany the Indian team during the ICC Champions Trophy in England, according to NDTV reports.

India is not the first team which will be monitored during the Champions Trophy. Pakistan have already appointed an anti-graft officer to travel with the team to England.

PCB Chairman Zaka Ashraf told Reuters that steps were being taken to ensure the image of Pakistan cricket did not suffer again as it did when the spot-fixing scandal broke on Pakistan's tour of England three years ago.

Rs 50 Crores Deal for NTR!

Young tiger NTR is riding high after the success of his recently released Baadshah movie.NTR is currently acting in a film titled "Ramayya Vastavayya" in the direction of Harish Shankar and after that he will join in the shoot of his new film "Rabhasa" directed by Santosh Srinivas.

Now the latest buzz is that NTR has got a big deal from PVP production house,which is a leading production house in south.As per the sources NTR offered a big amount of RS 50 Crores for a three film deal from PVP Cinemas banner.But,NTR has to act all these three movies back to back after the script and director confirms by the actor.

Let’s wait and see how NTR acts on this big deal!!

Hero Gopichand Couple visits Tirumala

Telugu hero Gopichand got married with Reshma on May 12th in Hyderabad.The newly wedded couple Gopichand-Reshma visits Tirumala today (May 14, 2013) and offered prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple and sought Lord Sri Venkateswara Swamy blessings.

Reshma is a Tollywood hero Srikanth’s niece.Along with Gopichand couple, hero Srikanth also visits Tirumala with his family.

Ram Charan’s New Movie Heroines!

Hero Ram Charan is soon going to act in a new film in the direction of Koratala Shiva, who has earlier directed the Mirchi movie with Prabhas.Now the latest buzz is that Ram Charan is going to pair up with two hot beauties Samantha and Catherine Theresa  for this movie.However, it is not yet confirmed officially.Earlier Samantha roped as heroine for Ram Charan’s Yevadu movie but later she replaced with Shruthi Hassan.Catherine Theresa is presently acting opposite Allu Arjun in Iddarammayilatho movie and with Nani in Paisa movie.

So, if everything goes well then Ram Charan is going to romance with Samantha and Catherine.This movie will be produced by Bandla Ganesh Babu under Parameswara arts banner.More details are awaited.