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A disaster called Hockey (in) India

Our national sport is in a mess from a long long time, we all know. But this mess has been converted into a disaster, is now proved from ongoing stir between players and the so-called controlling authority of the game in India i.e. Hockey India. Players have not been paid their dues from quite some time despite sponsors are constantly giving money to HI. Its a hard truth that hockey players not as iconic as cricket players in our country. But, at least, they should be respected. Yet the game officials belonging not only to hockey, but to other sports also behave like maharajas . Player's rights and welfare have no meaning for them. Today Indian hockey is on its knees, yet officials are threatening to sack or suspend the players instead of addressing their concerns and finding some amicable solution. World cup is almost one month away and they have scraped the training camp. Future does not seem very bright. KPS Gill episode in not very old. And, what is happening to CWG preparation

SIGAI Workshop on Emerging Research Trends in AI, 2010

Artificial Intelligence has always been a challenging field providing lots of opportunities of research and development in no. of areas like language processing, multi-agent systems, web mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, optimization problems, pattern recognition etc. And, there is growing interest in the field in India between academia and industria both. Keeping this in mind, The Special Interest Group on AI (SIGAI) of Computer Society of India (CSI) announces a workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in AI” . The workshop will be organized and hosted by CDAC, Navi Mumbai , and is meant to encourage quality research in various aspects of AI, among the Indian academia/industry. For more details, see Call for Papers and visit: http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ertai-2010