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AGNI -II MISSILE

Indian scientists again proved their talent by successfully tested the nuclear capable Agni-II missiles from a defense base in Orissa. This surface-to-surface as missile with a strike range of up to 2,000 km was testing-fired in this morning from the Wheeler’s Island near Dhamara in the district of Bhadrak. It was a user trial conducted by the Army and scientists from Defense Research and Development Organization and the aim of this test was to give the army confidence to fire the missile on its own without the help of defense scientists. This missile after three successful trials by DRDO is ready for production. 20 meters long Agni II missile is a part of India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Program and it can be fired from both rail and road mobile launchers. It takes only 15 minutes for the missile to be readied for firing.

ABOUT AGNI -II MISSILE

Agni-II is the medium range ballistic missile. It has a range of 2,000–2,500 km. It was developed due to the security challenges from China and Pakistan. India started work on Agni-II in 1997. This missile is 20 m in length with a diameter of 1.3 m in the first and second stages, and it can be fitted with 150 or 200 kT yield nuclear warheads, in addition to chemical, high-explosive, and sub munition versions. The main strength of this missile is its relatively high accuracy, especially at close range, due to its combination of an internal guidance system, a Global Positioning Satellite system, and radar correlation. This missile was first tested on 1999 from Wheeler’s Island in the Bay of Bengal. The test was conducted from a rail car launcher. In 2001, the Agni-2 was tested from a mobile launch vehicle (TEL). At that same year, approximately five Agni-2 missiles became operational and 10 missiles yearly are produced from 2001. This missile always be in a ready-to-fire mode and can be launched within 15 minutes. Agni-II missiles are used by 555th Missile Group of the Indian Army. Today, 2,000 km range version of Agni-II missiles were successfully tested from a defense base in Orissa.

SANIA MIRZA

Sania Mirza is the rising tennis player of India. Now she became the fist Indian woman to win the senior grand slam tournament, when she gained the victory in Australian Open mixed double with Mahesh Bhupathi. She was born in Bombay and brought up in Hyderabad as the daughter of a sports journalists Imran Mirza and Nasima. She started to play tennis at the age of six under the training of her father. She gained her graduation from St. Mary’s College. In 2003, she made her entry as a professional in India Fed Cup team by winning all three single matches. She also won junior doubles title in Wimbledon Championship in this year and became first Indian female to win at the Wimbledon Junior. In 2005, she became the first woman to reach the fourth round of grand slam tournament at U.S open championship. She won the silver in the women’s single’s category and the gold in the mixed doubles with Leander Paes in 2006 Doha Asian Games. In 2007 is the good year of her career. She reached third round in 2007 U.S open and reached in a quarterfinal in mixed doubles with Mahesh Bhupathi. She also reached in the quarter final in women’s doubles with Bethanie Mattek.She creates a history in Indian tennis by becoming the first ever Indian to break into the top-50 WTA rankings. She is the highest ranked female tennis player in India by holding 27 th rank in singles and 18th in doubles. Sania Mirza is a successful Indian tennis star. She has defeated some big players like Svetlana Kuznetzova, Martina Hingis, Nadia Petrova. She won a WTA single title one time and WTA double title 7 times. Year 2008 is the bad year of her career because of her wrist injury. She was withdrawing from many famous matches due to this injury. However, she makes a wonderful comeback with victory in Australian Open mixed doubles in 2009 with Mahesh Bhupathi. They defeated Andy Ram of Israel and Natalie Dechy of France with a score 6-3, 6-1 score in the final. She also participated in singles and doubles in Australian Open, but she failed in both games. She was honored with Arjuna award by Indian Government in 2004 and with prestigious Padma Sri award in 2006 for her outstanding contribution to tennis. She also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from MGR Educational and Research Institute University in Chennai. She gained many criticisms from Orthodox Islamic groups for her dresses used in the tennis court. However, her style, fashion, appearance etc creates a big wave in Tennis courts.

SANIA MIZA BLOG

The rising tennis player Sania Mirza is different from other Indian players, because she start a blog of her own. The blog address is http://mirzamania.blogspot.com/. In this blog we can see collection of her beautiful picures, wallpapers, viewers comments, her experience in WTA tour etc. Also we can communicate and share her interests and feelings. This site also includes Sania Mirza’s biography, profile, awards & achievements, quotes etc. She has also a fansite. It’s address is http://saniamirza.blogspot.com/. In this we can see this rising stars up and downs in tennis life, thoughts of fans about her etc. Many people also wrote blogs about her. For example, http://saniam.blogspot.com/. In this we can see latest events, pictures, interviews, photos, wallpapers etc. Sania-Mirza.info is another fan site of Sania. This site is dedicated to all fans of her and can search all informations about her. It is full of pictures and informations about her. Also this site has a discussion forum where all the fans can interact and discuss about Sania Mirza. Sania did not make many achievements in 2008. In 2008 Beijing Olympics, she retired in the round of 64 in singles and lost in the round of 16 in doubles. But she made tremendous comeback in 2009 Australian Open Championship. She started in good by defeating Poland’s Marta Domachowska with score 6-1, 6-4 in first round of singles. But she failed in rest of the rounds of singles and doubles. But the Dream pair Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi won the Australian Open 2009 mixed doubles. I think that in recent years she will be very popular due to her great talent, her fashion sense and attitude towards life.

UPDATES

Now this tennis star is playing in Indian Wells Tennis held at California. Today, she entered in second round by defeating 96th ranked Koryttseva of Ukraine with 2-6,6-3,6-2. She faced the Koryttseva for the first time and she failed to gain first set of the match. But this 22 years old charming lady bounced back to win the other two sets and closed the match in 89 minutes. In the second round, she will face world No. 15 and 12th seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta.