चेहरे पर दाग

* सूखी हल्दी की गाँठ को नींबू के रस में मिलाकर लगाने से भी दाग-धब्बे तेजी से मिटने लगते हैं।
* सूखी त्वचा के दाग-धब्बे मिटाने के लिए दूध में चंदन की लकड़ी घिसकर लगाएँ।
* तैलीय त्वचा के दाग-धब्बे मिटाने के लिए चंदन का बूरा गुलाब जल में मिलाकर लगाएँ। यह प्रयोग विशेष रूप से गर्मियों के लिए लाभकारी है।
*चोट के निशान पर लाल चंदन रोज पानी में घिस कर लगाएँ 20 दिन में फायदा नजर आने लगेगा।
* टमाटर में नींबू की दस-बारह बूँदे मिलाएँ इस मिश्रण को चेहरे पर मलने से दाग-धब्बे दूर होते हैं।
* अक्सर पेट की खराबी से चेहरे पर दाग-धब्बे नजर आते हैं अत: दिन में कम से कम तीन बार नींबू पानी पिएँ, कुछ ही हफ्तों में चेहरा चमकने लगेगा।

lose to wreck Afridi

Pakistan cricketers were ready to throw one-day internationals and Twenty20s in a bid to undermine then-captain Shahid Afridi and make "a hell of a lot of money" doing so, a London court heard on Tuesday.
Mazhar Majeed, an agent for several Pakistan players, told an undercover reporter last year that the players wanted Afridi replaced by then-Test captain Salman Butt -- and were prepared to throw matches to do it, Southwark Crown Court heard.
The court also heard how a shadowy Indian contact offered the agent $1 million (740,000 euros) if he got Pakistan cricketers to throw away a winning position in a Test match against England.
The jury in the trial of Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif saw video of meetings between Majeed and undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood.
The investigations editor for Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid was posing as a frontman for a Far East gambling syndicate. Prosecutors allege Butt and Asif agreed for no-balls to be bowled as part of a spot-fixing betting scam.
The pair have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments, and conspiracy to cheat at gambling.
The jury saw covertly-filmed footage of a meeting between the agent and the reporter at a London hotel, at which Majeed took 140,000 pounds from Mahmood and counted it out.
"A lot of the boys, they want to fuck up Afridi because he's trying to fuck up things for them," Majeed claimed.
"They all want Butt to be captain... They want to lose anyway. We're going to be making a hell of a lot of money in the Twenty20s and the one-days. Say for example Twenty20. I will tell you the bowlers, how many minimum runs they are going to concede, which is much more than usual. They are going to concede those runs."
"I'm going to tell you how many, say for the example, the two opening batsmen Salman and Kamran (Akmal) for example, you've only got 20 overs, they're going to waste two overs, three overs... The Twenty20s are the easiest."
The jury also saw footage of an earlier meeting in Majeed's London home, where the reporter recorded the agent on the telephone with an unidentified man in India, discussing deliberately throwing the England v Pakistan Test match at The Oval, which was under way at the time.
Majeed called his Indian contact and told him: "What offer can you give me for today's game? Tell me, just give me a figure now. There's a possibility, I'm just telling you that now, they're talking at least 1.2 (million) -- at least. In dollars."
The prosecution alleged that Majeed and the mystery contact were floating the possibility of Pakistan deliberately losing the game.
Referring to the Pakistan players under his wing, Majeed said: "Boss, you know how many I've got, you know that they do it. So of course that's not a problem. But you just give me the figure and I'm going to get back to you."
The Indian contact replied: "I give you one (million dollars). One I give you, but has to be a definite game score." In the event, Pakistan beat England by four wickets.
The court heard a secretly-recorded phone call later that day, in which the agent told Mahmood his players were offering to spot-fix elements of matches for 150,000 pounds.
The agent said they could not understand why he was reluctant to hand over that amount on trust, especially when the usual fee was 250,000 pounds.
Majeed said: "What they're saying is if this guy gives 150 we'll give him two brackets (periods of play during which elements can be pre-arranged), whatever he wants, for the next game. They're not willing to give you anything until you give a large, substantial amount."
The court heard how Majeed had tried to impress the reporter by name-dropping, claiming links to Pakistan cricket stars Waqar Younis, Shoaib Akhtar and Imran Khan, England footballer Rio Ferdinand, and former Ireland and Arsenal footballer Liam Brady.
Meanwhile Alan Peacock, a senior International Cricket Council anti-corruption investigator, dismissed Majeed's recorded claims heard Monday that the Australians were the biggest spot-fixers in the business.
"We have no evidence that the Australians had committed 10 brackets a game; or any brackets," he told the court.
Majeed and young Pakistan bowler Mohammad Aamer have also been charged with the same offences as Butt and Asif but are not standing trial alongside them.

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Run with polished effort

n a matter of minutes, what was promising to be a contest ended in humiliation for England, helping India end a winless streak of 11 matches in 2011, and four games in Uppal.
On a slow, low wicket at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, skipper MS Dhoni (87) and Suresh Raina (61) powered India to 300-8 with some intense hitting in the last 15 overs in which they made 150 runs.
England were on course at 111-2 before Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja blew a hole through their middle order that was clueless against the spinners' subtle variations.
The 126-run margin is India's second-biggest over England in ODIs, and didn't look likely given how evenly the game was poised during India's innings.
EXPLOSIVE FINISH
There were concerns about Dhoni's form through for long, but they can be buried for now. The Indian skipper posted his fourth ODI fifty on the trot, with scores of 69, 78 and 50 earlier in England.
With Graeme Swann hurtling through his overs, India's scoring had come to a crawl. But when the mandatory batting Powerplay was claimed in the 36th over, India's run-rate burst through the roof.
Suresh Raina overcame a scratchy start, completing a swift fifty by hitting Tim Bresnan over the sightscreen for a gorgeous six. He added 70 with Dhoni in 10 overs, and India's revival was underway.
Earlier in the innings, Ajinkya Rahane made a dull 15 (41b) after being dropped on zero. Parthiv Patel was run-out for 9. Gautam Gambhir batted positively for 32 but fell LBW to a loopy full-toss from Jade Dernbach. It left India tentative at 79-3.
Virat Kohli (37) and Raina sought relief by trying to punish Samit Patel. But Kohli was caught at long-off trying one time too many to push the scoring against the left-arm spinner. A score of 250 would have been respectable from hereon, but Dhoni and Raina exceeded all expectations.
That partnership provided India the impetus, but Raina fell on 61, trying to slog Steven Finn. Whatever hopes this breakthrough gave England were quickly quelled by Jadeja's hectic 27, and a 65-run stand with Dhoni in just seven overs, which brought India to the doorstep of 300.
Dhoni finished brilliantly, employing his helicopter whips and chips over cover. After a good start, England's seamers ended in waywardly.
ENGLAND SPUN OUT
With England skipper Alastair Cook moving to a smoothly paced 60, the chase was nicely set-up. India's pace attack with Vinay Kumar and Umesh Yadav was inexperienced. But their swift collapse to spin was classic. Starting with Jonathan Trott, successive batsmen failed to get forward and low to counter the turn and dip.
Cook holed out to deep midwicket off Jadeja. Trott missed the line trying to slog-sweep a straight ball in Jadeja's next. England struggled to read Ashwin's carrom ball and straighter ball.
Ashwin also accounted for the wicket of Kevin Pietersen, with a direct hit from mid-on. Pietersen was troubled plenty by Vinay Kumar, who caught on to his habit of walking down the wicket to pacers. Vinay bounced him a couple of times, once striking him on the arm and once giving him a painful blow on the fingers.
Dhoni had investigated the playing conditions here yesterday and found out there was plenty of dew. Hence he went with three pacers today.
Yadav wasn't always accurate, but ended up with two cheap wickets after the spinners had done most of the damage.
In a jiffy, England had lost 6-37, and the game was all but over in the 32nd over -- roundabout the time India began their fightback in the first innings.
This series began as a contest between India struggling to create momentum and England going through the form of their lives. At this rate, it may end up being a contest between India's classical strength -- spin -- and England's classical inability to counter it.