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India's Raw Star was an Indian singingcompetition series created by Gajendra Singh of Saibaba Telefilmswhich began airing on Star Plus from 24 August 2014. It was hostedby model-actress Gauahar Khan and mentored by singer-rapper Yo YoHoney Singh. Rituraj Mohanty won the first season on 30 November2014 with Darshan Raval (Artist) and Mohit Gaur finishing secondand third respectively. Arjun Kapoor and Himesh Reshammiya madeguest appearances in the show. India's Raw Star' witnessed singerslike Kailash Kher, Mohit Chauhan and Shaan perform in the finalepisode with finalists Rituraj, Mohit and Darshan. The finalistssang the final face off song composed by Sachin and Jigar on theoccaion, while Arjun Kapoor, promoted his film Tevar. RiturajMohanty, Darshan Raval (Artist) and Akasa Singh were promisedbollywood songs by Himesh Reshamiya

Christmas (which means "Feast day of Christ")is a Christian holiday that honors the birth of Jesus (whomChristians believe is the Son of God), and a cultural holiday fornon-Christians.The day known as Christmas Day is celebrated on the 25th day ofDecember. It is one of the most important days of the year forChristians, along with Easter when the death and resurrection ofJesus are celebrated. The season of preparing for Christmas iscalled Advent and begins on a Sunday about four weeks beforeChristmas. The Christmas Season (called Christmastide) ends onJanuary 6 or the Twelfth Day of Christmas, in which Epiphany isremembered.Christmas is celebrated all over the world, as a religiousholiday or as a time of celebration by Christians andnon-Christians alike. The traditions are different from country tocountry, but they nearly always include a feast, giving gifts orcards, and enjoying church or public festivities such as singingChristmas carols and songs. Santa Claus is a tradition in manycountries of the world.Christmastime, as it is often called, is in the winter of theNorthern Hemisphere, at a time when there were already ancientfestivals. Some of the traditions that are used for Christmas areolder than Christmas, or come from other non-Christian traditionssuch as Yule. Modern traditions of Christmas often focus on thegiving of gifts. The season for retail stores to sell gifts, food,greeting cards, Christmas trees, and decorations begins the dayabout a month before Christmas Day.

Christmas is an annual festivalcommemoratingthe birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly onDecember 25 asa religious and cultural celebration among billionsof peoplearound the world. A feast central to the Christianliturgical year,it is prepared for by the season of Advent or theNativity Fast andinitiates the season of Christmastide, whichhistorically in theWest lasts twelve days and culminates on TwelfthNight; in sometraditions, Christmastide includes an Octave.Christmas Day is apublic holiday in many of the world's nations, iscelebratedculturally by a large number of non-Christian people, andis anintegral part of the holiday season.The celebratory customs associated in various countrieswithChristmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, andsecularthemes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holidayincludegift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Adventwreath,Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, anexchangeof Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, andthedisplay of various Christmas decorations, includingChristmastrees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands,wreaths,mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely relatedandoften interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus,FatherChristmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associatedwithbringing gifts to children during the Christmas season andhavetheir own body of traditions and lore. Because gift-giving andmanyother aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightenedeconomicactivity, the holiday has become a significant event and akeysales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impactofChristmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the pastfewcenturies in many regions of the world.While the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, bytheearly-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church hadplacedChristmas on December 25, a date later adopted in theEast,although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of theolderJulian calendar, which, in the Gregorian calendar,currentlycorresponds to January 7, the day after the WesternChristianChurch celebrates the Epiphany. The date of Christmas mayhaveinitially been chosen to correspond with the day exactlyninemonths after the day on which early Christians believed thatJesuswas conceived, or with one or more ancient polytheisticfestivalsthat occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Romanwintersolstice); a further solar connection has been suggestedbecause ofa biblical verse[a] identifying Jesus as the "Sunofrighteousness".

South Asian sweets are the confectioneryanddesserts of South Asia. Thousands of dedicated shops inBangladesh,India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka sell nothing butsweets;however, outside of these countries, South Asian sweet shopsareuncommon.Sugarcane has been grown in India for thousands of years, andtheart of refining sugar was invented there. The English wordsugarcomes from a Sanskrit word sakhar, while the word candy comesfromSanskrit word khand (jaggery) - one of the simplest raw formsofsweet.Over its long history, cuisines of the IndianSubcontinentdeveloped a diversified array of sweets. Some claimthere is noother region of the world where sweets are so varied, sonumerous,or so invested with meaning as the IndianSubcontinent.In India's diverse languages, sweets are called bynumerousnames, one common name being Mithai . They include sugar,and avast array of ingredients such as different flours, milk,milksolids, fermented foods, root vegetables, raw and roastedseeds,seasonal fruits, fruit pastes and dry fruits. Some sweetssuch askheer are cooked, some like burfi are baked, varieties likeMysorepak are roasted, some like jalebi are fried, others likekulfi arefrozen, while still others involve a creative combinationofpreparation techniques. The composition and recipes of thesweetsand other ingredients vary by region. Mithai are sometimesservedwith a meal, and often included as a form of greeting,celebration,religious offering, gift giving, parties, andhospitality in India.On Indian festivals - such as Holi, Diwali,Eid, or Raksha Bhandan- sweets are homemade or purchased, thenshared. Many socialgatherings, wedding ceremonies and religiousfestivals ofteninclude a social celebration of food, and theflavors of sweets arean essential element of such acelebration.

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ( born 24 April 1973)is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded to be thegreatest cricketer of all time. He took up cricket at the age ofeleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan inKarachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbaidomestically and India internationally for close to twenty-fouryears. He is the only player to have scored one hundredinternational centuries, the first batsman to score a doublecentury in a One Day International, holds the record for mostnumber of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, the only player tocomplete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket.In 2002 just half way through his career, Wisden Cricketers'Almanack ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time,behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI batsman of alltime, behind Viv Richards.Later in his career, Tendulkar was a partof the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup, his first win insix World Cup appearances for India. He had previously been named"Player of the Tournament" at the 2003 edition of the tournament,held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketerincluded in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150thanniversary of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstandingsporting achievement, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997,India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma Shri and PadmaVibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively, India's fourth andsecond highest civilian awards. After a few hours of his finalmatch on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's Office announcedthe decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highestcivilian award. He is the youngest recipient to date and the firstever sportsperson to receive the award. He also won the 2010 SirGarfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the upperhouse of the Parliament of India. He was also the firstsportsperson and the first person without an aviation background tobe awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian AirForce. In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order ofAustralia.In December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs.He retired from Twenty20 cricket in October 2013 and subsequentlyannounced his retirement from all forms of cricket,retiring on 16November 2013 after playing his 200th and final Test match, againstthe West Indies in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Tendulkar played 664international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs.

There is no rule stating a team must play awicket-keeper. On 5 June 2015 during a T20 Blast game between theWorcestershire Rapids and the Northamptonshire Steelbacks,Worcestershire chose not to play a wicket-keeper in the 16th overof the match. Their keeper, Ben Cox, became an extra fielder at flyslip while spinner Moeen Ali bowled. The umpires consulted witheach other and agreed that there was nothing in the rules toprevent it from happening.A keeper's position depends on the bowler: for fast bowling hewill crouch some distance from the stumps, in order to have time toreact to edges from the batsman, while for slower bowling, he willcome much nearer to the stumps (known as "standing up"), topressure the batsman into remaining within the crease or risk beingstumped. The more skilled the keeper, the faster the bowling towhich he is able to "stand up", for instance Godfrey Evans oftenstood up to Alec Bedser.Wicket-keeping is a specialist discipline and it requirestraining consistent with the level expected of a specialist batsmanor bowler. However, the modern-day keeper is also expected topossess reasonable batting skill, suiting him for the middle orderat least. Wicket-keepers who are also capable of batting at the topof the order are known informally as keeper/batsmen.Since there is only room for one keeper in a cricket side,selectors (especially at the international level) are often facedwith a difficult choice between two or more skilled keepers. Often,one of the two keepers is an exceptional keeper, but only anaverage batsman, whereas the other is a keeper/batsman who isclearly better at batting, but not quite as good a keeper as hisrival. One such selection dilemma was that faced by Englandselectors in the 1990s between Jack Russell (the pure keeper) andAlec Stewart (the keeper/batsman). They were never able toconsistently choose between the two until 1998, when Russell beganto fade: prior to that, they had regularly swapped the role, oftenwith Stewart maintaining his place when not wicket-keeping thanksto his batting skill.The keeper may also have a captaincy role. Uniquely, they areusually involved in every delivery of an innings, and may be in aposition to see things that the captain misses. They can frequentlybe heard encouraging the bowler, and may also indulge in thepractice (not meant to be overheard) of "sledging" the batsman withwell timed comments about their skill, appearance or personalhabits.The keeper is the only fielder allowed to touch the ball withprotective equipment, typically large padded gloves with webbingbetween the index finger and thumb, but no other webbing. Theprotection offered by the gloves is not always adequate. TheEngland keeper Alan Knott sometimes placed steaks inside his glovesfor added cushioning. Wicket-keepers also tend to wear leg pads anda box to protect the groin area.Wicket-keepers are allowed to take off their pads and bowl,though this rarely happens but is not uncommon when matches aredrifting to draws or a bowling team is desperate for a wicket. Twokeepers have removed their pads and taken hat-tricks in first-classcricket: Probir Sen for Bengal v Orissa at Cuttack in 1954–55 andA.C. (Alan) Smith for Warwickshire v Essex at Clacton in 1965;Smith was a most unusual player in that he was primarily awicket-keeper, but was sometimes selected as a frontlinebowler.

Amitabh Bachchan (born 11 October 1942) isanIndian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early1970sfor movies like Deewar and Zanjeer, and was dubbed India'sfirst"angry young man" for his on-screen roles in Bollywood, andhassince appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanningmorethan four decades. Big B is widely regarded as one of thegreatestand most influential actors in the history of Indiancinema. Sototal was his dominance of the movie scene in the 1970sand 1980sthat the French director François Truffaut called him a"one-manindustry. Big B has won many major awards in his career,includingthree National Film Awards as Best Actor, a number ofawards atinternational film festivals and award ceremonies andfourteenFilmfare Awards. He is the most-nominated performer in anymajoracting category at Filmfare, with 39 nominations overall.Inaddition to acting, Big B has worked as a playback singer,filmproducer and television presenter. He also had a stint inpoliticsin the 1980s.The Government of India honoured him with thePadmaShri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and thePadma Vibhushanin2015 for his contributions to the arts. The Government ofFrancehonoured him with its highest civilian honour Knight of theLegionof Honour in 2007 for his exceptional career in the world ofcinemaand beyond. Big B made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with TheGreatGatsby, in which he played a non-Indian Jewish character,MeyerWolfsheim.

Fast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling,is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport ofcricket. The other is spin bowling. Practitioners are usually knownas fast bowlers, fastmen, pace bowlers, quicks, or pacemen,although sometimes the label refers to the specific fast bowlingtechnique the bowler prefers, such as swing bowler or seam bowler.The aim of fast bowling is to bowl the hard cricket ball at highspeed and to induce it to bounce off the pitch in an erraticfashion or move sideways through the air, factors which make itdifficult for the batsman to hit the ball cleanly. A typical fastdelivery has a speed in the range of 137–153 km/h (85–95 mph).

Spin bowling is divided into fourdifferentcategories, depending on the particular physical techniqueused.There is virtually no overlap between the two basicbiomechanicaltechniques of wrist spin and finger spin.Off break - Right-handed with finger spin technique.(e.g.Muttiah Muralitharan)Left-arm orthodox spin - Left-handed with finger spintechnique.(e.g. Daniel Vettori)Leg break - Right-handed with wrist spin technique. (e.g.ShaneWarne)Left-arm unorthodox spin - Left-handed with wrist spintechnique.(e.g. Brad Hogg)Depending on technique, a spin bowler uses either predominantwristor finger motion to impart spin to the ball around ahorizontalaxis that is at an oblique angle to the length of thepitch. Thissort of spin means it is also possible for the Magnuseffect tocause the ball to deviate sideways through the air, beforeitbounces. Such deviation is called drift. The combination ofdriftand spin can make the ball's trajectory complex, with a changeofdirection at the bounce.This variety of trajectories achievable by a spin bowlercanbewilder inexperienced or poor batsmen.Spin bowlers are generally given the task of bowling with anold,worn cricket ball. A new cricket ball better suits thetechniques offast bowling than spin bowling, while a worn onegrips the pitchbetter and achieves greater spin. Spin bowlers arealso moreeffective later in a game, as the pitch dries up andbegins to crackand crumble. This again provides more purchase forthe spinning balland produces greater deviation.

Christmas is an annual festivalcommemoratingthe birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly onDecember 25 asa religious and cultural celebration among billionsof peoplearound the world. A feast central to the Christianliturgical year,it is prepared for by the season of Advent or theNativity Fast andinitiates the season of Christmastide, whichhistorically in theWest lasts twelve days and culminates on TwelfthNight; in sometraditions, Christmastide includes an Octave.Christmas Day is apublic holiday in many of the world's nations, iscelebratedculturally by a large number of non-Christian people, andis anintegral part of the holiday season.The celebratory customs associated in various countrieswithChristmas have a mix of pre-Christian, Christian, andsecularthemes and origins. Popular modern customs of the holidayincludegift giving, completing an Advent calendar or Adventwreath,Christmas music and caroling, lighting a Christingle, anexchangeof Christmas cards, church services, a special meal, andthedisplay of various Christmas decorations, includingChristmastrees, Christmas lights, nativity scenes, garlands,wreaths,mistletoe, and holly. In addition, several closely relatedandoften interchangeable figures, known as Santa Claus,FatherChristmas, Saint Nicholas, and Christkind, are associatedwithbringing gifts to children during the Christmas season andhavetheir own body of traditions and lore. Because gift-giving andmanyother aspects of the Christmas festival involve heightenedeconomicactivity, the holiday has become a significant event and akeysales period for retailers and businesses. The economic impactofChristmas is a factor that has grown steadily over the pastfewcenturies in many regions of the world.While the month and date of Jesus' birth are unknown, bytheearly-to-mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church hadplacedChristmas on December 25, a date later adopted in theEast,although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of theolderJulian calendar, which, in the Gregorian calendar,currentlycorresponds to January 7, the day after the WesternChristianChurch celebrates the Epiphany. The date of Christmas mayhaveinitially been chosen to correspond with the day exactlyninemonths after the day on which early Christians believed thatJesuswas conceived, or with one or more ancient polytheisticfestivalsthat occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Romanwintersolstice); a further solar connection has been suggestedbecause ofa biblical verse identifying Jesus as the "Sunofrighteousness".