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KALYAN KUMAR MAHATA The true appellation of Apu.

I lived in Kanpur, an industrial city on the bank of the Ganges in north India during 2004 to 2006. I stayed at Gowaltoli area in Shiva Sahai Lodge. I pursued Master of Arts in English Literature  in Dayananda Anglo Vedic College affiliated to Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University.

                                     Administer Building, C.S.J.M.U. Kanpur

Chhatrapati Sahu Ji Maharaj University

                                                                       

Ghanta ghar

Me Kalyan Kumar Mahata receiving after degree certificate

Kanpur Central Railways Station 

KALYAN KUMAR MAHATA The true appellation of Apu.

         Broadcasting the magic of the Games across the world

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23/02/2014

Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), responsible for the international television production and provision of services for rights-holding broadcasters, plays a key role in ensuring that fans around the globe can watch and listen to all the sporting action of the Games.

During the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, OBS has used more than 450 cameras to produce over 1,300 hours of live sport, ceremonies and Olympic News Channel coverage. This coverage is being distributed by more than 80 rights-holding broadcasters across the world. These Games will reach an unprecedented 200 countries, more than any other Olympic Winter Games. 
To implement and manage this vital broadcasting operation, the OBS team increased from 150 full-time employees to a workforce of approximately 3,200 by the start of the Games. Assisting the Organising Committee throughout the planning phase for Sochi, OBS has also been working in close collaboration with rights-holding broadcasters at competition venues, the International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and the Mountain Broadcast Centre (MBC). These Games saw more than 7,500 broadcast professionals working across all of these areas.



Located in the Main Media Centre in the Coastal Cluster, the IBC is the main hub for television coverage of the Games. Encompassing more than 40,000 square metres and operating 24 hours a day, the IBC has welcomed more than 55 rights-holding broadcast organisations with a presence in the facility (including sub-licensees). The MBC is a 9,000 square metres facility situated in the Mountain Cluster and offers rights-holders the opportunity to use their post-production facilities within a short distance of all skiing and sliding competition venues.

Providing a service on behalf of the IOCBroadcast coverage is the principal means for people across the globe to experience the magic of the Olympic Games. The IOC owns the global broadcast rights for the Olympic Games – including broadcasts to television, radio, mobile and internet platforms – and is therefore responsible for allocating Olympic broadcast rights to media companies throughout the world. In 2001, it established Olympic Broadcasting Services, which serves as the permanent host broadcaster for the Olympic Games.

The IOC funds the operations of OBS at the Games, removing the financial burden from the organisers, while ensuring that high quality Olympic broadcast programming is delivered to rights-holding broadcast partners to air over various media platforms throughout the world.

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         Olympic champions Bjørndalen and Wickenheiser elected as newest IOC members

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23/02/2014

Olympic icons Ole Einar Bjørndalen and Hayley Wickenheiser were elected and officially sworn in as IOC members during a ceremony at the 126th IOC Session on the final day of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games today. They will be officially introduced as IOC members at the Closing Ceremony.

It was the latest in a long list of common threads that intertwine the two athletes’ Olympic histories. Both made their Olympic debuts at Nagano 1998, for example, and both have appeared in each edition of the Olympic Winter Games since. Both are legends in their respective sports -- he in biathlon, she in ice hockey. And both are multiple medal winners, sharing no fewer than 18 pieces of Olympic hardware between them, including 12 gold.
The similarities continued here in Sochi earlier this week when Bjørndalen and Wickenheiser were elected by their peers as the newest members of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Commission. Fittingly, the athletes made their way to the voting booths in record numbers -- 80.87 per cent of the 2,871 eligible athletes cast their votes. Bjørndalen received 1,087 of the votes, followed by Wickenheiser with 758.
What a way to cap an already memorable Games for both athletes. Having added another two gold medals to his Olympic treasure chest, Bjørndalen became the most-decorated Olympian in Winter Games history (8 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze). Similarly, Wickenheiser won her fourth-straight gold medal as captain of Team Canada, adding still more clout to the argument that she is one of the world’s all-time greatest women’s hockey players.
The duo will represent the athletes as IOC members for a period of approximately eight years. The IOC Athletes’ Commission is currently composed of 22 members who are past or active Olympians. They are the voice of the athletes within the Olympic Movement, and are tasked with defending their interests. As the link between the athletes and the IOC, the Commission members are involved in all key IOC activities, including the process to evaluate candidate cities seeking to host the Olympic Games, the composition of the sports programme for the Games and the fight against doping.

The Athletes’ Commission also advises peers in the important issue of career transition and oversees the IOC Athlete Career Programme as well as the newly launched MOOC. The Commission’s chairperson, a position currently held by Claudia Bokel, also sits on the IOC Executive Board.
Learn more about the IOC Athletes’ Commission here.

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         Russians edge out Germany to clinch a dramatic gold in the men’s biathlon relay

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22/02/2014

Russia took gold in a dramatic men's biathlon team relay at the Laura Cross-Country Ski & Biathlon Centre. Their quartet of Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Ustyugov, Dmitry Malyshko and Anton Shipulin produced a winning time of 1 hour 12 minutes 15.9 seconds.

Germany (Simon Lesser, Arnd Böhm, Daniel Peiffer and Erik Schempp) finished 3.5 seconds later to take silver, after a thrilling race for the line between Shipulin and Schempp.
Austria (Christoph Sumann,Daniel Mesotitsch, Simon Eder and Domenik Landertinger) came in a further 26.3 seconds back to take the bronze, denying defending champions Norway a place on the podium.

Going into the final leg, four teams were neck-and-neck. However, Norway's anchorman Emil Hegle Svendsen produced a poor final standing shoot, missing three out of five targets that effectively put his team out of contention for the podium.
Ole Einar Bjørndalen went into the relay knowing that victory for the Norwegians would give him a record-breaking ninth gold medal. And for much of the contest that looked like a distinct possibility.
Having completed a solid third leg, after missing no targets in both the prone and the standing positions, Bjørndalen handed over to Svendsen in pole.
But his team-mate then suffered a rare lapse on the shooting range which cost him a penalty circuit and pushed Norway out of the top three. At the finish he cut a distraught figure as he was consoled by his team-mates.
“I'm very sad. It was my fault,” said a distraught Svendsen. “I have no explanation.”
“It's very hard, of course, and I think it's most disappointing for Tarjei Bø and Johannes Thinges Bø who got us so high up,” he added, referring to the Norwegians’ first two legs, during which they had built a commanding lead.
Bjørndalen, meanwhile, was quick to come to his team-mate’s defence. “We'll try to support him,” said the 40-year-old.
“The fact that this happened to Emil who was so well prepared, shows it can happen to everyone, and it can happen to the best of us.”
For Russia, by contrast, there was unfettered joy, as their quartet delivered a first biathlon gold, for the hosts, who had gone into Sochi 2014 with especially high expectations.
Meanwhile, though Bjørndalen finished without another medal, he bowed out from Sochi 2014 having taken his overall Olympic tally to 13, setting a new outright record, and sharing the record of eight gold medals with his compatriot, cross country skier Bjørn Daehlie.

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         Flying Dutchmen break Olympic record to claim gold in team pursuit

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22/02/2014

The Dutch trio of Jan Blokhuijsen, Sven Kramer and Koen Verweij stormed to gold in the men’s pursuit at the Adler Arena, finishing over three seconds clear of the Korean team in the A Final, to set a new Olympic record time of 3 minutes 37.71 seconds.

The latest triumph for the Dutch speed skaters underlined their dominance of the speed skating events at Sochi 2014, taking their medal count at the Adler Arena to 22.
The electric pace of the Dutch was simply too hot for the Korean trio, whose silver represented a first men’s speed skating medal for their team in Sochi 2014.
By contrast the Dutch team had between them already claimed one gold (Kramer in the 5,000m) and three silvers (Kramer in the the 10,000m, Verweij in the 1,500m and Blokhuijsen in the 5,000m) in the individual events.

In the B Final, Poland (Zbigniew Brodka, Konrad Niedzwiedzki and Jan Szymanski) beat defending champions Canada to take the bronze.

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         Anything you can do… Dutch women match men with gold in speed skating pursuit and new Olympic record

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22/02/2014

Minutes after watching their male counterparts take the pursuit title and set a new Olympic record, the Dutch women’s team stepped onto the ice at the Adler Arena and repeated the feat.

The men had won by a margin of three seconds for their new record. That was impressive enough… But then the women’s trio of Marrit Leenstra, Jorien Ter Mors and Ireen Wüst did just the same in their A Final against Poland, but in even more emphatic style.

In taking gold, the Dutch raised the Olympic benchmark to 2 minutes 58.05 seconds, which was a full 7.5 seconds faster than the beaten finalists.
For Wüst in particularly the win completed a hugely successful Games, following her three silvers in the individual 1,000m, 1,500m and 5,000m and her gold in the 3000m.
“It's an incredible feeling and I can't really believe it yet,” said the 27-year-old, who took her overall medal tally to eight. “In these Olympics alone I have five medals. It's a little bit crazy.”
“We have a lot of great skaters. There's a lot of high-level competition and that’s why we keep improving," she added.

Ter Mors meanwhile, attributed their incredible success to pure hard work: “We train very hard. We are always focused, and if you do that, then this is the reward.
“It's always very nice to win a medal with a team," she added. “Here we practised every morning. We really tried to skate and work together as a team.”
Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus, Katarzyna Wozniak and Luiza Zlotkowska completed a successful afternoon on the Adler Arena for Poland, whose men claimed a pursuit bronze.
Russia (Olga Graf, Yekaterina Lobysheva and Yuliya Skokova) won the B Final against Japan to take the bronze, in a fast time of 2 minutes 59.73 seconds.

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         Matt finish: 34-year old Austrian becomes oldest ever Olympic Alpine skiing champion

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22/02/2014

Austria's Mario Matt became the oldest skier in history to win an Alpine gold at the Olympic Winter Games, clinching the men’s slalom in a startling climax to a scintillating competition.

The 34-year-old clinched the title ahead of his compatriot and hot favourite Marcel Hirscher, who is ten years his junior.
Though a two-time slalom world champion, Matt’s recent showings on the FIS World Cup circuit had done nothing to indicate he would be in contention for the podium in Sochi.
However, in the two runs at Rosa Khutor he proved unbeatable, finishing with a combined time of 1 minute 41.84 seconds to provide the Alpine skiing programme at Sochi 2014 with a suitably dramatic finale.

Hirscher, the reigning world champion, finished second at 0.28 seconds, with young Norwegian sensation Henrik Kristoffersen also coming out of nowhere to take bronze at 0.83 seconds.
Matt overtook Norwegian legend Kjetil Andre Aamodt as the oldest winner of an Alpine event. At the other end of the age spectrum, 19-year-old Kristoffersen became the youngest ever male skier to finish on an Olympic podium.
It completed a remarkable weekend for skiers at both ends of the age spectrum, after US teenager Mikaela Shiffrin had smashed the record for youngest ever Olympic slalom champion the day before.
Kristoffersen, who had won the last slalom going into the Olympics, was 15th after the first run but showed off a commanding performance to take the lead in the second.
But his lead didn't last long as Hirscher, with his typical attacking style, stormed down the course.
The Austrian slalom World Cup winner had made a faultless first run, but had then found himself in ninth place before battling back in impressive fashion.
The challenging course, set by Ante Kostelic -- father of 2010 Olympic silver medallist Ivica, who finished joint-ninth in Sochi -- caused problems for several of the favourites.
Felix Neureuther (GER) and Alexis Pinturault (FRA) both failed to complete the two runs, as did newly crowned giant slalom champion Ted Ligety (USA) and defending Olympic champion Giuliano Razzoli (ITA).

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