New Delhi | 23 days ago
British PM brings sports icons like Coe to India
New Delhi, July 26 - Olympic medal-winning athletes and sports icons like the legendary Sebastian Coe will be part of British Prime Minister David Cameron's 100-plus entourage when he arrives here Tuesday.Accompanied by top cabinet ministers, business honchos and sports stars, Cameron arrives here late Tuesday for a three-day visit clearly aimed at adding that extra spark to a long standing relati ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
Special train to promote Games flagged off
New Delhi, June 24 - Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday flagged off a special exhibition train to promote the Commonwealth Games across India. The train will Friday reach Amritsar, where the Queen's Baton Relay will arrive from Pakistan.A message from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh read at the function said: 'This effort will help in spreading the message of Games and India's progress in IT ... read more

New Delhi | 1 month ago
President confers IAF group captain rank on Sachin
New Delhi, June 23 - President Pratibha Patil has conferred the honorary rank of Indian Air Force - group captain on Sachin Tendulkar in recognition of the laurels the batting maestro has brought to the nation, an official statement said Wednesday.'The president - the supreme commander of the armed forces of India is pleased to confer on Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar the honorary rank of group captain,' ... read more

Hyderabad | 4 months ago
Shoaib-Sania marriage may be postponed
Hyderabad, April 6 - As events around the wedding between Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and tennis ace Sania Mirza get murkier by the day, the Indian sports icon's family was 'keeping all options open', including postponing the wedding, indicated a close family friend.Andhra Cricket Association's former secretary V. Chamundeswaranath, a close friend of Sania's family, told reporters late Monday ... read more

6 months ago
Destroying Mumbai's cosmopolitansim: Citizens must speak out
After Sachin Tendulkar, it is Mukesh Ambani who has said the obvious - Mumbai belongs to all Indians. That it takes a sports icon and a business magnate to articulate a virtual axiom points to the deplorable context in which such truisms have to be emphasised. Nothing can be more damaging to Mumbai's reputation than the need for such assertions because Tendulkar's and Ambani's statements point to ... read more

6 months ago
Controversial ad: Was it meant to be Rajyavardhan Rathore?
New Delhi, Jan 24 - Who did the creators of the controversial ad have in mind when they in an apparent goof-up pasted a former Pakistan Air Force chief's photo along with those of Indian heroes in a government advertisement? Could it be Olympian Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, a sports icon from the Indian Army? 'The ad makers must have been looking for someone from the Indian armed forces who has a ... read more

1 year ago
Threat to Dhoni family: Fan club lodges complaint
Ranchi, Jan 6 - Fans of Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Tuesday formally lodged a police complaint against unidentified people after his family recieved an extortion letter. 'We have lodged an FIR - against unknown persons threatening Dhoni's family and seeking Rs.5 million in extortion,' Jitendra Singh, president of the Dhoni Fan Club here, told IANS. Singh handed over a complaint ... read more

1 year ago
Warm homecoming for Sourav Ganguly
Kolkata, Nov 11 - Hundreds of fans mobbed local hero Sourav Ganguly, who returned to the city Tuesday, a day after bidding adieu to international cricket. Bouquets in hand, the cricket buffs shouted slogans eulogising the former Indian captain and constantly cheered 'Dada', 'Dada' - as Ganguly is lovingly known. They held aloft the tricolour, Ganguly's photographs and waved posters thanking him ... read more

1 year ago
Bengal sports minister makes oblique remarks about Ganguly
Kolkata, Nov 10 - Even as West Bengal was singing paeans to home-grown cricketing hero Sourav Ganguly, whose international career ended Monday, state sports minister Subhas Chakraborty sang a different tune at a programme here. Attending a media meet where the itinerary of soccer legend Diego Maradona's visit was announced, Chakraborty made oblique remarks about Ganguly when asked whether the cr ... read more

1 year ago
Small Car's long drive to Gujarat
New Delhi, Oct 7 - The following is the timeline of events surrounding the small car project of Tata Motors, that finally resulted in the company pulling-out of Singur and relocating to Gujarat: 2006 May 18: Tata group chairman Ratan Tata announces small car project at Singur, 40 km from Kolkata, on the day when Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was sworn in the state's chief minister. May 25: Angry demon ... read more