MS Dhoni Retire from Test Cricket | MS Dhoni Retire

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team in the One Day International format. He is an attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper.

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One of India's greatest Test Captains under whose leadership India became the No. 1 team in the Test Rankings MS Dhoni the formal captain of Indian Team, has decided to retire from Test Cricket citing the strain of playing all formats of Cricket.


M S Dhoni has chosen to retire from Test Cricket with immediate effect in order to concentrate on ODI and T20 formats.

BCCI while respecting the decision made by  M S Dhoni to retire from playing all formats of test cricket, wishes to thank him for his enormous contribution to Test Cricket and the laurels that he has brought to India.

Virat Kohli will be the captain of the Indian Team for the Fourth & Final Test against Australia to be played in Sydney from the 6th of January 2015.

New Year | HAPPY NEW YEAR | Interesting Happy New Year Facts

New Year indicates an end of the 365 days of the present year or the running years & the start of a new year, yet again. New Year day is celebrated all over the world with the same zeal, vigor & enthusiasm. For “HAPPY NEW YEAR” there are lots of preparations undertaken for the event & it can be categorized as one of the occasions that the whole world celebrates together not only in country but all across the globe, cities are decorated and preplanned for the day. Most of the news channels get special reporters & correspondents geared up to show the live coverage of the celebration at their own efforts. For many it’s a new day, a new life & a new beginning from the day. Let us explore more about what makes New Year Day special.

Interesting Happy New Year Facts

• New Year is the oldest of all holidays, as it was 1^st observed in ancient Babylon as many as 4000 years ago. 
• Celebrating New Year on January 1^st is purely arbitrary, as neither it has agricultural significance nor astronomical.  So Many countries still celebrate it in the spring season, the season of rebirth of new crops.
• The Roman senate declared January 1^st as the New Year in 153 BC. However his date saw main tampering, it was Julius Caesar who again declared January 1^st in Julian calendar as the New Year day, in 46 BC.
• New Year day is still experimental as the Feast of Christ's Circumcision by some denominations till the date.
  
• The 1^st month of the year i.e. January has been named after God Janus in the Roman calendar. Janus is the God with 2 faces, 1 looking backwards and 1 forward, at the same time and marks the ‘spirit of the opening’.
• The Romans inaugurated a tradition of exchanging gifts on New Year's Eve, by giving one additional branches from sacred trees, for good fortune. The gift phenomenon is established from those times, till the date.
• January 1^st was revived as New Year day in 1582, by the Gregorian calendar and so celebrated by most of the countries till date.
• New Year day is celebrated like a festival all over the world and everyone around is in festive mood, partying, singing & dancing to ring out the old year and ring in the new year too.
• In Britain, when the clocks Big Ben strikes 12, every person gathers around to sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’, a Scottish song. Which was written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, literally meaning "old long ago," or simply, "the blameless old days", to remember old & new friends forever.
• It was once supposed that the first visitor on New Year's Day would convey either good luck or bad luck for the rest of the year, depending on who he/she was.
• Many cultures trust that anything given or taken on New Year day, in the shape of a ring is good luck, because it indicates "coming full circle".
  
• Many parts of the U.S. celebrate New Year day by consuming black-eyed peas and other legumes, as it has been measured good luck in many cultures.
• The tradition of making New Year day resolution dates back to the early Babylonians.
• Traditionally, it was supposed that people could alter the luck they would have throughout the coming year by what they did or ate on the first day of the new year. It has, thus, become important to celebrate first day of the New Year in the company of family & friends & enjoy every sorts of time.
• The Spanish ritual on New Year's eve day is to eat twelve grapes at midnight. The tradition is preordained to secure twelve happy months in the coming year.
• Noisemaking & fireworks on New Year's Eve day is supposed to have originated in ancient times, when noise and fire were thought to dispel evil spirits & bring good luck.

   Thus wish you all HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!  Hope all of us have a pleasure & all wish comes true in this New Year..

Christmas | Merry Christmas | Christmas Eve

Ø  The 1^st artificial Christmas Trees was made by the Germans of dyed goose Feathers.

Ø  More than 3 billion Christmas cards are send to U.S. alone each year during Christmas festivals.

  

Ø  Twelve Days of all the Christmas gifts would be equal to 364 gifts according to believes.

Ø  The word spelled “True Love” in   song “Twelve Days of Christmas” doesn’t means to a romantic couple, but refers to the Catholic Church’s code for God. The person who receives the Christmas gifts refers someone who has accepted that code for God.

Ø  December 25 was proclaimed by Pope Julius I, bishop of Rome in A.D. 350, was the official celebration date for Merry Christmas.

Ø  Christmas has 3 main Traditional colors and their meaning. Christmas Colors are Green, red & Gold. Green Color has long been a symbol of life & rebirth; red symbolizes the blood of Christ & gold represents light as well as wealth & royalty.

Ø  Most of Couples get breakup during the Christmas according to the Facebook data analyzed, even the Christmas Day is least favorite day for breakups for the couples.

Ø  During Christmas holiday suicide rates are comparatively low, Contrary to popular belief.

Ø  Christmas world’s largest stocking measured 106 feet and 9 inches (32.56 meters) long & 49 feet & 1 inch (14.97 meters) wide. Which weighed as much as 5 reindeer & held almost 1,000 presents. This Christmas Stock was made by the Children’s Society in London on 2007,December 14.

Ø   Since 1850, Christmas Trees was sold in U.S.

Ø  Christmas trees generally grow for about 15 years formerly they are sold.

Ø  Many European countries supposed that spirits, both good & evil, were active during the Twelve Days of Christmas Festival.

Ø  Bolivians party Misa del Gallo or “Mass of the Rooster” on Christmas Eve. People bring roosters to the midnight mass, a gesture that symbolizes the faith that a rooster was the first animal to declare the birth of Jesus.

Ø  The British dress paper crowns while they eat Christmas dinner. This crowns are kept in a tube called a “Christmas cracker”.

Ø  In Poland, spiders or spider webs are commonly used for Christmas trees decorations since according to legend, a spider cover a blanket for Baby Jesus. In fact, people reflect spiders to be symbols of goodness & prosperity at Christmas festival.

Ø  In 1836 Christmas was officially recognize in Alabama, first state in the United States.

Ø  Till June 26, 1870 Christmas was not declared an official holiday in the United States.

 

WISH U ALL HAPPY MERRY CHRISTMAS….