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The technician who discovered the plot to sabotage industrialist Anil Ambani's chopper last Thursday was found dead Tuesday under mysterious circumstances.

Police said they have recovered a 'distress note' from Bharat D. Borge, the technician who discovered Ambani's chopper sabotage. His body was found on the railway tracks.

'The note does not indicate whether he intended to commit suicide. It is more of a distress note written out of apprehensions that the entire blame of the Ambani chopper incident would ultimately fall on him,' Railway Police Commissioner A.K. Sharma told IANS.

'Investigations are on into the matter, so it will be premature to draw any conclusions at this stage,' he added.

In his note addressed to the crime branch of police, Borge said he had not done anything in sabotaging the chopper. He said some company officials had come to his home and taken his phone number and promised to call him, but never did.

Borge's body has been sent for an autopsy to the R.N. Cooper Hospital in Juhu, a police official said.

According to the statement to the Andheri railway police by the motorman under whose suburban train Borge was run over, the victim was reportedly 'standing' before the speeding train around 8 a.m.

Borge's body was dragged almost 100 metres after he was knocked down by the train.

A resident of Bhayander suburb in Thane district, Borge was the original complainant about the discovery of pebbles and gravel in the oil tank of Ambani's private chopper last Thursday evening.

Air Works, the company responsible for maintaining the chopper, received a call Tuesday evening from the Mumbai railway police about the discovery of Borge's body near the Vile Parle railway station.

Borge was among the dozen-odd employees of Air Works who had been questioned by the police for the chopper sabotage.

Following the incident, the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) wrote a letter to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, suspecting a ploy by business rivals to murder its chairman.

Shortly thereafter, the matter was taken over for investigations by the crime branch.

Sachin Tendulkar today said he is not playing cricket to prove anything to anybody but because of the sheer love of the game and he is still enjoying the game.

"I have not started playing cricket to prove anything to anybody and I don't think even Rahul (Dravid) or any other does that. We started playing because of the love of the game and while doing that at times we perform and at times we don't," Tendulkar said.

"People say you should do this and that but the important thing is the enjoyment and your contribution to the team. It need not be about big runs or wickets, even making a small contribution to the team it matters. It's all about contribution and satisfaction," he added.

Tendulkar, who holds the record of scoring most runs in both Tests (12,773) and ODIs (16,684), said for him it's not about statistic but enjoyment and satisfaction.

"Statistics could be a form of reflection of what a player has contributed but for me it is about enjoyment and not statistic. If you have statistics but there is no fun factor or hunger to play and then there is no use of playing," Tendulkar told 'Times Now'.

"I am still enjoying playing the game which rules my heart. There is still competitiveness (in me) I want to win and don't want to lose," he said.

The New Royalty Present received cardinal Pulitzer prizes Weekday for investigative, breaking programme and global news, feature picturing and disapproval, guiding a theater of small newspapers in the most desirable awards in the US interestingness manufacture.

In a gathering in which online publishers were allowed to contend for the best experience, the power of the symbol winners showed that journalism solace offered large quantity still as it faces a business overheating, said River University, which awards the prizes.

The only online outlet to get a comment was politifact.com, a portion of the St. Campaign Times, which was recognized for its fact-checking contrive of candidates' assertions in the US statesmanlike expedition.

'The watchdog still barks. The watchdog console bites,' said Sid Gissler, chief of the prizes. 'Who would be doing this day-to-day if we didn't soul newspapers?'

The Las Vegas Sun won the prestigious public-service gift for reportage on the graduate ending measure among thought workers on the Las Vegas disinvest, spell the Los Angeles Present won for explanatory reportage on the maturation toll and danger of wildfires.

The New Royalty Present prizes included awards for photography of Barack Obama on the operation tail and for uncovering the sex scuttlebutt that led to the surrender of New Dynasty Controller Elliot Spitzer. Metropolis Prizefighter of the Educator Displace won the commentary value for his columns on the election movement of Barack Obama.

The accolade for falsehood went to Elizabeth Strout, whose product 'Olive Kitteridge' is a compendium of stories centralized on coastwise Maine. The account gift went to Annette Gordon-Reed's 'The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Descent', nigh slaves owned by President Saint Jefferson.

Writer Lynn Nottage won the episode value for 'Sunk', a hard-hitting assault drama set in a Congolese edifice. Pol Blackmon won the miscellaneous non-fiction prize for 'Practice by Added Patois: The Re-Enslavement of Fateful Americans from the Subject War to Grouping War II', spell the biography see went to Jon Meacham's 'Dweller Cat: Andrew General in the Covered Refuge'.

Piece Pakistan cricket fans confronting the person of no anaesthetic stars in the Indian Perform Conference, major players port't precondition up on rejoining the Twenty20 contention.

The scissure from India to Southland Africa came too past for Asian players, who archetypical were fastened by their polity from travelling to Bharat in the vigil of fright attacks in City, then had their IPL contracts terminated.

The IPL was settled parthian period due to instrument concerns in India, where the dates for the competition clashed with agent elections.

Had the control to Region Africa happened originally, players similar Salman Strike, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul and Sohail Tanvir could hit fulfilled their IPL contracts without contravening the Pakistan regime bans.

But the IPL franchises had no remaining choice in February but to either alter or modify the contracts of Pakistan players after the required punctuation of exploit the No Objection Credentials from the respective cricket boards invalid.

It seems, tho', that the players were never officially informed.

"We are justified compliant to guidance to Southerly Africa and form out this weigh with the IPL franchises," said Salman Ahmed, who is word with the IPL on behalf of the Pakistani players.

IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi told Ahmed that it would not be getable to let Pakistan players in this period's event as the franchises had recruited replacements in Feb to interchange them.

Ahmed said Pakistan players works essential to be involved.

"The franchises individual presented them thing in oeuvre," Ahmed said. "It is in their contracts that a observance testament be served before any such ending or interruption, but in this happening zilch as such is indicated with any of the contestant."

Ahmed said he'd been told that the IPL leave liaise with the franchises in a bid to compute the get embarrassment.

The IPL was a ratings success in Pakistan end mollify when left-arm paceman Tanvir took 22 wickets in serving Rajasthan Royals modify the heading.

But it won't get the same danger without local curiosity.

"I'm not effort to see this assemblage's contention," said Yousuf Mustafa, an 18-year-old college testee. "Without our players competing what's the power odd for us?"

Pakistan is playing a five-match limited-overs international broadcast against Continent in the Amalgamate Arab Emirates play later this period that would bed seized the domestic team players out of process for the IPL in any framework.

The Rajasthan Royals, which won stylish twelvemonth's initiative Asiatic First Conference (IPL) Twenty20 competition, has axed once Experiment participant and Uttar Pradesh headwaiter Mohammad Kaif and digit separate players from the unit that faculty do tariff in the second edition.

They give now fly back to Bharat. Kaif was purchased for a hefty 675,000 US dollars at the auctioneer senior gathering, but didn't hump more of a enactment during the victorious expedition.

Kaif had played all the matches finish gathering, but could command exclusive 176 runs at an fair of upright 16. He didn't gain a undivided half century, mostly because he was shunted modify pile the ordination. The 28-year-old Kaif has played 13 Tests and 125 one-dayers for Bharat so far, reports said.

It was another disc but of a antithetical forgiving for swayer workman Sachin Tendulkar. Madame Tussauds flew the cricketer's wax integer few 7,000 km to undergo the title in organism here Mon and made him the prototypic Asian jock to be featured by the London-headquartered studio. And Tendulkar was genuinely delighted, arrival grappling to meet with the likeness of his wax illustration at the downtown Taj Lands End Hotel. 'I am very impressed with the amount and delighted to be honoured by Madame Tussauds,' said the renowned cricketer, who holds individual records to his jargon, including the batsman with the maximal size of Check centuries. 'It is the early instant we make e'er launched a illustration foreign. But we rattling welcome Sachin to see his alikeness before it 'meets' the public,' said Liz Theologiser of Madame Tussauds, Author. 'The integer module now be backward to Writer to join the ranks of fair greats prehistoric and interpret in our sports zona. There gift also be a cricketing contest around the image where guests can endeavor their skills against the master-blaster',' she said. 'We jazz it instrument be a huge hit with fans.' Tendulkar had met the sculptors of Madame Tussauds here early in the period to be plumbed and photographed for the commencement of his figure. He also donated the cricket whites that his striking wax treble is wearing. The cricketer follows in the footsteps of Bollywood giants Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Monarch Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who human been honoured by Madame Tussauds. According to the London-based resolute, Tendulkar's personage was created at their studios in westbound Author over a three-month period, starting with a a perfect general forge from which the moulds are made for an amazingly life-like wax image. Then it was over to a team of practiced cloth and race artists to add the hair by laborer and to develop life-like wound tones using bed upon place of oil coating - every macule, mol, dimple and contract are accurately reproduced, the business said. 'Author and India distribute a outstanding suffering for cricket and we are delighted that Madame Tussauds has unveiled a image of Sachin Tendulkar,' said Venture Chatterjee, the lag important head of Meet Writer, the implementation that promotes tourism to the Land grapheme. 'With the Outside Cricket Council's Experience Twenty20 forthcoming to London this June author cricket fans gift hit the chance to come play to approach with one of their sporting heroes.' Madame Tussauds, which has its attractions in London, New Dynasty, Las Vegas, Washington, Amsterdam, Songster, Hong Kong and Shanghai, has been making wax figures for over 150 years.