Mass agitations are not particularly uncommon in India. But a mass agitation led by an environment-related issue that has gone out of hand is not something that can be easily recalled.
The Deodhar Trophy is scheduled to begin at various centres of the Central Zone later this month.
The slender 14-run first innings lead in the final against Bengal sufficed for Uttar Pradesh to claim their maiden Ranji Trophy crown.
The ace off-spinner will leave for Melbourne next week to correct his bowling action under Bruce Elliot.
The Zimbabwe side would comprise some Test players along with a bunch of promising cricketers.
'Even among scientists and technology mavens -- typically communities that tend to view the world through the lens of logos or reason and not mythos, there is a shiny-eyed enthusiasm for the mythical world,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
National Awards jury head Sudhir Mishra explains why the films that won did.
The BCCI's Tours and Programmes and Fixtures Committee felt an NCA team lacks the experience to play at the inter-zonal tournament.
Dissatisfied with the performance of 'weak' foreign squads, the BCCI is planning to include a side comprising National Cricket Academy trainees as the sixth team.
Finding that the draft common minimum programme was "inadequate", the central trade unions on Monday said it was not "acceptable" to them and laid out over a dozen demands to the new government headed by Prime Minster Manmohan Singh.
Gautam Dasgupta said that the tournament would help teams prepare for next year's U-19 World Cup
The decision to suspend Ganguly was taken after he breached the ICC Code of Conduct for the second match in succession.
The empowered committee of state finance ministers on Monday said the Value-added Tax will be implemented from April 1, 2005, even if Uttar Pradesh does not fall in line.
Ravi Kant Shukla of Uttar Pradesh will lead India Under-19 team against Australia in a five-match ODI series
Sony Entertainment Television is understood to have approached the government for permission to acquire SET Satellite Singapore and consequently hike its total foreign shareholding to about 90 per cent.
Seeking to allay fears of the trading community, the Empowered Committee on Value Added Tax on Thursday said there would no 'inspection raj' when the new state-level tax regime comes into effect from April 2005.
'This year, it may be pertinent to look at some of the myths that invoke her warrior form, where she manifests herself as Shakti, the underlying strength in all humanity,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
'All of us wear multiple faces, multiple masks. but who are we really?', J J Valaya, designer and photographer, asks K S Shekhawat.
Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag will lead India Seniors, India A and India B respectively in the tournament, in Mumbai from February 7 to 10.
The meeting of the Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories began with some states demanding that they be allowed to charge service tax on certain items pending a decision on the implementation of VAT.
Various opposition parties like the Congress, the Trinamool Congress, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Nationalist Congress Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Communist Party of India, and the Communist Party of India-Marxist raised vociferous protests in the upper house while opposing the resolution and the bill.
All India Trade Union Congress General Secretary Gurudas Dasgupta said the Common Minimun Programme was 'inadequate' and not 'acceptable'.
The growing rift among the Board members of National Cricket Academy (NCA) came out in the open on Monday with a key functionary questioning the "restructuring policy" as well as the working procedure at the academy.
The severity of air pollution and dense Smog cover in the capital on Sunday led to the cancellation of the Ranji Trophy encounter between Bengal (rpt Bengal) and Gujarat at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on the second day itself. Both Bengal and Gujarat teams will be leaving Delhi on Monday for Kolkata and Ahmedabad respectively. The situation is not expected to improve for a few more days which effectively ruled out any chance of play. Match referee P Ranganathan, in consultation with BCCI and the respective state associations, decided that there is no point in waiting for two more days.
Enterprise software maker Oracle said on Monday it will continue to hire aggressively in India at the rate of 250 people a month.
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Friday, by a majority judgement of 2:1, dismissed the petition filed by cellular operators challenging government's decision.
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