Origin	Mumbai, India
Company name	Zapak Digital Entertainment Limited
Headquarters	Mumbai, India
Company type	Limited
Foundation	2005
Location city	Mumbai
Location country	India
Key people	Rajesh Sawhney, PresidentRohit Sharma, CEOArun Mehra, CMO
Owner	Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
Industry	Casual games, Online games
Homepage	http://zapak.com/

Zapak.com is a privately-held, online gaming portal, with browser games in India (services provided Globally), promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's subsidiary company Reliance Big Entertainment. Launched in 2006, the site provides a very large collection of casual games, including some famous games like Bejeweled from PopCap Games & Diner Dash from PlayFirst. They claim to host the largest collection of online casual games, compared to any gaming website in India and are also among the top 50 portals according to Alexa ratings. This gaming site is meant for all kids and teenagers between the age of 8-25 years.

History

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Reliance Big Entertainment got the idea of a mass gaming website when its designers noticed the Internet boom in China since 2001. The number of Chinese people using wireless rose phenomenally to about 85 million.

This ongoing surge also meant that China saw a huge increase in the number of gamers. About 2,00,000 Internet cafes opened up.

Reliance Big Entertainement brought this gaming Revolution to India in 2006. In its way, India had "walked the path of the Chinese". The number of Indian mobile phone users was near 90 million in 2005 and about 1,05,000 Internet cafes. So, to cash in on India's developing and booming gaming industry, Reliance Big Entertainment launched Zapak.com in November 2006.

Present Popularity

Zapak is considered to be the largest online casual gaming website in India, after Miniclip.com. Zapak hosts more than 600 games, and has a unique policy of adding a new game everyday. Thus the increase in the number of games. Zapak is also a highly visited site, currently having over 6 million registered users and over 60 million visitors, with an estimated potential of 20 million registered users by 2010.

Categories for Games

Zapak features a wide variety of game categories, to suit the various needs of different types of gamers. Zapak is known to be the host of several world famous games like Bejeweled, Diner Dash series, Sewer Run, Meter Down Racing etc. But these games are from different categories - Bejeweled is a Puzzle game; Diner Dash is a Strategy game; Sewer Run and Meter Down Racing are Racing games.

Recently Zapak also launched RuneScape, which is the world's most popular free MMORPG in India, in association with Jagex Ltd.

External links

Zapak

Zapak Racing Games

Zapak Girls

Zapak Cricket

Zapak Website Profile

References

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Playername	Rohit Sharma
Caption	Rohit Sharma |
Country	India
Fullname	Rohit Gurunath Sharma
Living	true
Dayofbirth	30
Monthofbirth	4
Yearofbirth	1987
Placeofbirth	Nagpur, Maharashtra
Countryofbirth	India
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm off spin
Role	Batsman
International	true
Odidebutdate	23 June
Odidebutyear	2007
Odidebutagainst	Ireland
Odicap	168
Lastodidate	28 August
Lastodiyear	2010
Lastodiagainst	Sri Lanka
T20idebutdate	19
T20idebutyear	\0
T20idebutagain07st	England
T20icap	17
Lastt20idate	11 May
Lastt20iyear	2010
Lastt20iagainst	Sri Lanka
Club1	Mumbai
Year1	2006/07–present
Club2	Deccan Chargers
Year2	2008-2010
Club3	Mumbai Indians
Year3	2011-present
Deliveries	balls
Columns	4
Column1	ODIs
Matches1	54
Runs1	1155
Bat avg1	28.87
100s/50s1	2/5
Top score1	114
Deliveries1	221
Wickets1	3
Bowl avg1	59.66
Fivefor1	0
Tenfor1	n/a
Best bowling1	2/27
Catches/stumpings1	21/–
Column2	FC
Matches2	37
Runs2	2,677
Bat avg2	53.54
100s/50s2	8/11
Top score2	309*
Deliveries2	762
Wickets2	8
Bowl avg2	50.50
Fivefor2	0
Tenfor2	0
Best bowling2	3/76
Catches/stumpings2	24/–
Column3	List A
Matches3	105
Runs3	2770
Bat avg3	33.37
100s/50s3	5/13
Top score3	142*
Deliveries3	732
Wickets3	13
Bowl avg3	48.30
Fivefor3	0
Tenfor3	n/a
Best bowling3	2/27
Catches/stumpings3	39/–
Column4	T20I
Matches4	19
Runs4	335
Bat avg4	33.50
100s/50s4	0/3
Top score4	79*
Deliveries4	30
Wickets4	1
Bowl avg4	37.00
Fivefor4	0
Tenfor4	n/a
Best bowling4	1/22
Catches/stumpings4	6/–
Date	11 October
Year	2010
Source	http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/74/74266/74266.html CricketArchive}}

Rohit Gurunath Sharma (Marathi:रोहित गुरुनाथ शर्मा, Telugu:రోహిత్ శర్మ) (born 30 April 1987, in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra) is an Indian cricketer. Sharma is a right-handed middle-order batsman and occasional right-arm offbreak bowler. Having started his international playing career at the age of 20, Sharma quickly exhibited his athletic fielding and cool temperament to compliment his graceful strokeplay. He is pegged by many analysts to be a permanent fixture on the Indian cricket team in the next decade.

Early life

Rohit Sharma was born to Telugu speaking parents from Andhra Pradesh. His mother Purnima Sharma hails from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. Sharma completed his primary education at Our Lady Of Vailankanni High School, Mumbai. He was later enrolled in the Swami Vivekanand International School on a scholarship, after his talent was noticed by the school's cricket coach Dinesh Lad at a summer camp. He was enrolled as a student at Rizvi College, Mumbai, before he was called up to the national side.

Playing career

List A

Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy in March 2006, at Gwalior. It was his unbeaten innings of 142 in 123 balls against North Zone at Udaipur in the same tournament, that brought him into the limelight. Performances for the India A sides in Abu Dhabi and Australia followed, leading to him being selected for the 30 member probables list for the Champions Trophy, He made his Ranji Trophy debut for his First-class side Mumbai in the 2006/2007 season. Though he was unable to contribute much in the initial matches, he scored 205 off 267 balls in the match against Gujarat.

International

Sharma was first selected for the limited-overs matches on India's tour to Ireland in 2007. He made his One Day International debut against Ireland at Belfast,although he did not bat in the match. Sharma eventually made his mark at the international stage on 20 September 2007, when he led India to victory by scoring an unbeaten 50 (which came off 40 deliveries) against South Africa in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20. The win reserved India a berth in the semifinals of the tournament. At one stage India were 61-4, but his partnership of 85 runs with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni helped India to post a total of 153-5.

Sharma scored his maiden ODI half-century against Pakistan, at Jaipur on 18 November 2007 and was selected as part of India's 16-man squad for the CB series in Australia. Here, he scored 235 runs at an average of 33.57 with 2 fifties, including his score of 66 in the 1st final at Sydney partnering Sachin Tendulkar for most of India's successful runchase.

However, Sharma's ODI performances suffered a downturn after this and his middle-order position was taken over by Suresh Raina, and eventually, Virat Kohli took his position as the reserve batsman.

In December 2009, Sharma scored a triple century in the Ranji Trophy and was recalled to the ODI team for the tri-nations tournament in Bangladesh as Tendulkar was being rested. However, Kohli and Raina were selected ahead of him in the playing eleven, and he did not play in any of India's five matches. In the meantime, he missed the Ranji Trophy final.

He scored his maiden ODI century (114) against Zimbabwe on May 28, 2010. He followed it up with another century in the next match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka on May 30, 2010 by scoring 101 not out.

Indian Premier League

Sharma was signed up by the Deccan Chargers franchise for a sum of US$ 750,000 a year. He was one of the leading run scorers in the 2008 IPL season with 404 runs at an average of 36.72. He also held the coveted Orange Cap for a brief period.

In the 2009 IPL season he was appointed the vice-captain of the Deccan Chargers. In a match against Kolkata Knight Riders where 21 was required off the last over, Sharma scored 26 off the over from Mashrafe Mortaza to seal a win. He was named the best under-23 player of the tournament. In the 2011 IPL auction, he was sold for $2m to the Mumbai Indians.

Injury prevents Test debut

Sharma was called into the Indian Test team in February as the only reserve batsman, and when V. V. S. Laxman failed to recover from an injury, he was set to make his debut, but injured himself playing soccer in the warm-up on the first morning. It was too late to bring in a replacement batsman, so the reserve wicket-keeper Wriddhiman Saha had to play as a specialist batsman.

Since then, Suresh Raina and Cheteshwar Pujara have overtaken him and made their Test debuts in the middle order.

Career Best Performances

as of 11 October 2010 {|class=wikitable style="font-size:90%" |- !rowspan="1"| !colspan="4" rowspan="1"|Batting !colspan="4" rowspan="1"|Bowling |- ! !Score !Fixture !Venue !Season !Score !Fixture !Venue !Season |- |ODI |align="center"|114 |India v Zimbabwe |Bulawayo |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|2-27 |India v West Indies |Kingston |align="center"|2009 |- |T20I |align="center"|79* |India v Australia |Bridgetown |align="center"|2010 |align="center"|1-22 |India v Sri Lanka |Nagpur |align="center"|2009 |- |FC |align="center"|309* |Mumbai v Gujarat |Mumbai (BRA) |align="center"|2009 |align="center"|3-23 |Mumbai v Rest of India |Jaipur |align="center"|2010 |- |LA |align="center"|142* |West Zone v North Zone |Udaipur |align="center"|2007 |align="center"|2-27 |India v West Indies |Kingston |align="center"|2009 |- |T20 |align="center"|101* |Mumbai v Gujarat |Mumbai (BRA) |align="center"|2006 |align="center"|4-6 |Deccan Chargers v Mumbai Indians |Centurion |align="center"|2009 |}

References

External links

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Bgcolour	red
Name	Jiah Khan
Birthname	Nafisa Khan
Birthdate	February 20, 1988
Yearsactive	2007–present
Occupation	Actress
Spouse	None
Parents	Ali Rizvi Khan & Rabiya Amin.

Jiah Khan (Hindi: जीया ख़ान, Urdu: جیا خان), born 20 February 1988, is a British-born Indian actress who appears in Bollywood movies.

Raised in Chelsea, London, Jiah Khan is the daughter of Ali Rizvi Khan, an Indian American, and Rabiya Amin, a Hindi film actress in the 1980s from Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India and most remembered in Tahir Hussain's Dulha Bikta Hai.

Education

Jiah Khan completed her A levels in film studies and literature in London. She also studied at the Lee Strasberg Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, though she quit upon receiving a movie offer from Mumbai.

Career

A sixteen-year-old Khan was to debut in Mukesh Bhatt's Tumsa Nahin Dekha, but backed out when she felt the role was too mature for her and was immediately replaced by Dia Mirza. Two years later in 2006, she debuted in the controversial Nishabd, where she acted opposite Amitabh Bachchan. The film was released in March 2007 to mixed reviews, though Khan was noted for her confidence, attitude, and sex appeal. She also got a "Filmfare Best Debutant" Nomination for her Acting skills.

She appeared alongside Aamir Khan in A.R. Murugadoss's Ghajini, the Hindi remake of its Tamil namesake. She shot for a significant portion of the Ken Ghosh directed film Chance Pe Dance opposite Shahid Kapoor, but was replaced by Genelia D'souza. Despite this, UTV Motion Pictures (who are backing Chance Pe Dance) subsequently signed the actress for a two-film deal; Ghajini producer Madhu Mantena signed her for a 3-film deal shortly after. Khan also appeared as a supporting actress in the Sajid Khan's Housefull as Devika, a woman who cheats on her husband with the boyfriend she wanted to get married to but could not because her father would not approve of a non-Indian son-in-law.

She was seen as a child artiste in Dil Se, portraying Manisha Koirala's childhood role.

Filmography

As Actress

References

External links

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