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Leander Paes and Marcin Matkowski on 28 September 2014 won the ATP Malaysian Open men’s doubles title.
The fourth seeded Indo-Polish duo defeated the second seed Briton-Australian partner, Jamie Murray and John Peers 3-6, 7-6(5), 10-5 in the summit clash played at Kuala
Lumpur.
This was the first title of the season for India’s tennis ace Paes and 54th ATP title of his career. The win gave 250 ranking points to Paes and 25065 US dollars as prize money.
For Matkopwski, this was second Malaysian Open crown. He first lifted the trophy in 2009 with Mariusz Fyrstenberg. The 33-year-old Matkowski’s 16th title.
Matkowski is the 98th different doubles partner for Paes, who helped him to clinch the 54th ATP title of his career.
Paes has won at least one ATP World Tour title each year since 1997 (54-37 finals record). Kuala Lumpur marked his first success since triumphing at the 2013 US Open with Radek Stepanek.
The 41-year-old Leander from India, owner of 14 Grand Slam titles from doubles and mixed doubles and his Polish partner played like seasoned team-mates as they came back from a set down to beat the British-Australian partnership of Jamie Murray-John Peers 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 10-5 at Putra Stadium.
The Ryder Cup is a biennial men’s golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States.
The competition is contested every two years with the venue alternating between courses in the USA and Europe.
The Ryder Cup is named after the English businessman Samuel Ryder who
donated the trophy.
The event is jointly administered by the PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe, the latter a joint venture of the PGA European Tour (60%), the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland (20%), and the PGA of Europe (20%).
Originally contested between Great Britain and the United States, the first official Ryder Cup took place in 1927 at Worcester Country Club, in Massachusetts, US.
The home team won the first five contests, but with the competition’s resumption after the Second World War, repeated American dominance eventually led to a decision to extend the representation of “Great Britain and Ireland” to include continental Europe from 1979.
The inclusion of continental European golfers was partly prompted by the success of a new generation ofSpanish golfers, led by Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido.
In 1973 the official title of the British Team had been changed from “Great Britain” to “Great Britain and Ireland”, but this was simply a change of name to reflect the fact that golfers from the Republic of Ireland had been playing in the Great Britain
Ryder Cup team since 1953, while Northern Irish players had competed since 1947.
Since 1979, Europe has won ten times outright and retained the Cup once in a tied match, with seven American wins over this period. The European team has included players from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.
The Ryder Cup, and its counterpart the Presidents Cup, remain exceptions within the world of professional sports because the players receive no prize money despite the
contests being high-profile events that bring in large amounts of money in television and sponsorship revenue.
The current holders are Europe who won for the third successive time at the Gleneagles Hotel in Perth & Kinross, Scotland in 2014. The 2016 Ryder Cup will be at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota from September 30 to October 2.
Europe on 28 September 2014 won the 40th Ryder Cup in Gleneagles, Scotland. Europe
defeated United States by 16½ points to 11½. The team captains were Paul McGinley for Europe and Tom Watson for the USA.
Europe has now won eight of the last 10 Ryder Cups. Europe was the defending cup holders, having defeated the USA in 2012 at Medinah.
This was the second time that Scotland hosted the Ryder Cup. First time, the competition was held at Muirfield in 1973.
At the end of the wedding party, her mother gave her a newly opened bank savings passbook, with $1000 deposited in it. She told her, “My dear daughter, take this passbook. Keep it as a record of your married life. Whenever something happy and memorable happens in your new life, put some money in. Write down what it’s about next to the amount. The more memorable the event is,the more money you can put in. I’ve done the first one for you today. Do the others with your husband. When you look back after years, you will know how much happiness you’ve both shared.’
She shared this with him after getting home. Both of them thought it was a great idea and couldn’t wait to make the next deposit! This is what the passbook looked like after a while:
– 7 Feb: $100, his first birthday celebration after marriage
– 1 Mar: $300, she gets a salary raise
– 20 Mar: $200, vacation to Bali
– 15 Apr: $2000, She’s pregnant!
– 1 Jun: $1000, He gets the big promotion
and so on…
However, as the years went by, they began fighting and arguing over trivial things. They didn’t talk much. They regretted that they had married the most nasty person in the world…There was no more love.
One day she talked to her Mother. ‘Mom, we can’t stand it anymore. We have decided to divorce. I can’t imagine how I decided to marry this guy!’
Her mother replied, ‘Sure, that’s no big deal. Just do whatever you want, if you really can’t stand it. But before that, do one thing. Remember the savings passbook I gave you on your wedding day? Take out all money and spend it first. You shouldn’t keep any record of such a poor marriage.’
She agreed with her. So she went to the bank, and was waiting in the queue to cancel the account. While she was waiting, she took a look at the passbook record. She looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joyful moments came back to her. Her eyes were filled with tears. She left and went home.
When she got home, she handed the passbook to him and asked him to spend the money before getting divorced.
So the next day, he went to the bank, and was waiting in the queue to cancel the account. While he was waiting, he took a look at the passbook record. He looked, and looked, and looked. Then the memory of all the previous joyful moments came back to him. His eyes were filled with tears. He left and went home.
He gave the passbook back to her. She found a new deposit of $5000. And a line next to the record: ‘This is the day I realized how much I’ve loved you throughout all these years. How much happiness you’ve brought me.’
They hugged and cried, putting the passbook back into the safe.
If you like this story then from now on give a print out of this story to every couple who is getting married along with a nice notebook to record their happy times…who know you may just be able to help them !! —
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1. Union Budget of India is referred to as the Annual Financial Statement in which ariticle of the Constitution of India ?
Ans: Art 112
2. Which Finance Minister presented the budget ten times, the most by any in Parliament ?
Ans: Morarji Desai (8 budgets and 2 interims)
3. Indian Government provides ____________crore for rehabilitation of displaced Kashmiri migrants as announced in Union Budget 2014-15?
Ans: 500
4. Crisis Management Center for women will be open at?
Ans: Delhi
5. Name the Finance minister of India who has presented the Union Budget 2014 in Parliament on 10th July 2014 ?
Ans: Arun Jaitley
6. Who has presented the First Union Budget of Independent India on 26th November 1947 ?
Ans: R.K. Shanmukham Chetty
7. Amount allotted for the project of developing 100 Smart Cities?
Ans: 7060 cr
8. Mandatory wage ceiling of subscription to EPS (Employee Pension Scheme) raised from Rs 6,500 to __________ ?
Ans: 15,000
9. Housing loan interest rate deduction limit has been increased to?
Ans: 2 lakhs
10. Finance Minister has put forth aim to achieve __________ per cent economic growth rate in next 3-4 years?
Ans: 7-8%
11. On which day the Union Budget presented in Lok Sabha normally ?
Ans: Last working day of the month February by the Finance Minister
12. Agriculture University announced in Budget will be set up at?
Ans: Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan
13. On 29th February 1964 and 1968, who became the only Finance minister to present the Unoin Budget on his birthday ?
Ans: Morarji Desai
14. Who were the three Prime Ministers who presented the Budget in Parliament as they were holding the Finance Ministry portfolio?
Ans: Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi
15. What is the targeted fiscal deficit for 2016 (year 2015-16) as announced in the Union Budget 2014-15?
Ans: 3.6% of GDP
16. How much fund was set aside for the proposed National Rural Internet and Technology Mission (NRITM)?
Ans: 500 cr
17. Investment limit under Section 80C has also been increased to ……. from existing 1 lakhs in Budget 2014?
Ans: 1.5 lakhs
18. When does the Budget come to effect every financial year ?
Ans: 1st April
19. How many new IIMs have been announced in Union Budget 2014?
Ans: 5 (HP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab and Odisha)
20. What does ‘Vote on Account’ deals with ?
Ans: Expenditure side of the Govt Budget
