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ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 – What’s up for Sale?
Grand sporting tournaments can support a whole lot of industry around them – be it merchandise sales, infrastructure upgrade or ticketing revenue; and boost ancillary sectors such as tourism and hospitality. At first, it was the FIFA World…
IPL 4 Player Auction prices – Full Details!
Every IPL throws up some big surprises and this time it is no different. Imagine shelling out more than 11 crore rupees for a single player for IPL season. This time the player prices hit the record and Gautam Gambhir got the maximum price…
IPL 4 Auctions : What’s in it? Who will be the Newsmakers?
Hey you! Its time for Indian Premier League (IPL) auctions again. Unfortunately, the IPL newsmaker of the year 2010, Lalit Modi, is no more associated with the good part of the game; but as they say the show must go on – the larger than the…
Commonwealth Games Corruption – Its Time to Ask Harsh Questions !
The CWG Games are over. Now its time to do the clean up act - An investigation into the commonwealth LOOT of the tax-payer’s money! The horror that the prelude happened to be gradually turned into appreciation as the Games went through…
Commonwealth Games Closing ceremony – Better than Opening ?
The curtain is set to fall on the trending Commonwealth Games 2010 today. The grand sporting event has been a witness to both bitter-sweet incidents ranging from the chaotic arrangements at the CWG Village to a pompous opening ceremony held…
A Tale of 3 Scorching Bull Runs – Sensex, Gold and CWG Medal tally!
The Bull run is on! – seems to be a trending phrase these days for the Indians.
Sensex – Optimism at its Best!
At first, it was a dramatic surge in the bellwether stock index - Sensex from 8000 points to 20000 points – almost kissing the…
CWG Opening ceremony – One of the all time best!
The Commonwealth Games opening ceremony was one of the best I have ever seen yet. India displayed that it has the prowess of getting things right, when it mattered most. The grand success of CWG opening ceremony has to be heartily…
Media’s stand against Commonwealth Games- Good or bad? [Media Monday]
Commonwealth Games is in news for all the bad reasons and it would be unfair if we don’t cover this over here and present our views regarding the same! No. We don’t want to cover the illness of games or the Media’s exposure of Corruption,…
Why should you host international games?
By international, I mean games where participants are from more than 40 countries like the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Asian Games , (our infamous) Commonwealth Games etc. These games are under the lens of camera and whole world watches this…
Commonwealth Games – 41% people think it will be World Class…WoW !
Couple of weeks back Mr. Suresh Kalmadi had announced that Commonwealth Games would be World’s best and at par with Beijing Olympic Games. Personally, I was taken by surprise with that statement. I would be happy even if we are able to host…
Weekly Wrap-up: Indian Rupee Symbol, Android App inventor, Social Media Policy, Stock Market, Epic…
The biggest news of last week undoubtedly was the finalization of new Indian Rupee Symbol. India has now joined the ranks of Elite countries who boast a unique currency symbol of their own. Although, we have a new symbol now, the process in…
Minister says Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 will be World’s best yet – Do you agree? [Poll]
I just came across the interview given by Mr. Suresh Kalmadi, the President of the IOA. The man who is heading the organization of this event. Hosting of Commonwealth games has been marred by controversies, especially due to the…
Media Monday: Rise of sports viewership other than Cricket in India
During first two days of FIFA World cup 2010, viewership data read a whopping 20 Million viewers according to TAM in India, a 35% rise from World cup of 2006. This may be nearly half of IPL-3’s first 3 days viewership of 37.1 million…
Buzzing News of the Week – World Cup, Octopus, Indians vs Americans, Tax Collections, Brand…
The last week has been packed with surprising events wherein the laggards have made a sort of amazing comeback – be it Re-rating of the depressed Telecom Sector or even FIFA World Cup Favorites having been shown the door by the minnows (not…
Fifa World Cup Final – Spain Vs Dutch – Paul the Octopus rules !
Fifa World Cup has its 2 finalists – Spain & Netherlands, but there is already a star winner of this World Cup, it is “Paul the Octopus”.
If you are living under a cave and don’t know who “Paul the Octopus” is, here it is -…
Mukesh Ambani Bets Big On Sports,Reliance To Foray Into Basketball !
Basketball Really? Even i was surprised but when the name Reliance is involved it does not take long to believe, does it. RIL group has signed an agreement with sports agency IMG for the formation of Indian Professional Basketball League…
ICC Cricket World Cup Tickets are on Sale – Get them as low as Rs. 9 Online !
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 is getting close - The ‘Big Daddy’ of Cricket ! Cricketing news is refusing to die down. After the IPL mania and than the T20 World Cup, it’s the turn of Big Daddy of them all - the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.…
WTF ! Commonwealth Games Costs rise to 30,000 crore from estimated 1899 crore…
This is ridiculous – I am not sure how concerned people did budgetary allocations when they bid for commonwealth games, but it seems to be a joke now. The bid which was made in 2003 for hosting Commonwealth Games was put at 1,899 crore…
Maximum IPL Merchandise sold in Mumbai – Most Popular team is Deccan Chargers [Ebay Report]
The popularity of Indian Premier League has gone up few notches this year. While IPL season 2 in South Africa was witness to partially deserted stands, the scenario this year is quite different. The spectator stands in IPL season 3 are…