Former India captain Rahul Dravid believes that the on-field behaviour of cricketers has improved in the last few years but the increasing media reporting of incidences of code of conduct violation has made it look otherwise. Dravid said he does not consider sledging against the spirit of the game.
Match referee Alan Hurst says the pitch for the fifth and final ODI between India and Sri Lanka did not meet the requirements for an ODI match.
Regardless of what happens on Tuesday -- or maybe even Monday -- can anybody ever accuse Manmohan Singh of being "India's weakest PM since independence" again, as L K Advani so effortlessly did eight months ago?
Addressing the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here today, the actor also described politics as "one of the most self-sacrificing kind of jobs" and apologised on behalf of the film industry for having "caricatured" politicians in movies.
Having made it clear that it would be "unwise" to comment on Lodha Committee recommendation as the Supreme Court verdict is still pending, Sachin Tendulkar came out in support of BCCI stating that the parent body has "done a lot for the game in the country".
Journalist Chandan Mitra, who passed into the ages on Wednesday night, will be missed for his courage to go against the grain, mourns Dr Sudhir Bisht.
Chief Minister Narendra Modi stunned his audience at a summit on Friday by claiming he believes in the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Both Mahatma Gandhi and his idea of Ram Rajya are relevant for me," he said in an interaction at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi on Friday. Modi said that he also believed in Gandhi's idea of Gram Swarajya, according to which village-level representatives should be appointed unanimously as elections led to violence.
India fielding coach Robin Singh will be fired before the home Test series against South Africa starting next week, local media reported on Wednesday. Gary Kirsten, who has taken over as India coach before the series against his home country, has told the Board of Control for Cricket in India that Singh's services will not be required.
Paula Samore, an American citizen who was at the Taj hotel, recounts two extraordinary days.
Exuding confidence that India had the 'resources and the wisdom to grapple and deal' with the crisis, the prime minister said all instruments of public policy -- monetary, fiscal, public investment and exchange rate -- 'will be deployed' to tackle it.
Petroleum and oil marketing companies raised the price of commercial liquid petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders by Rs 350.50 per unit and domestic LPG cylinders by Rs 50 per unit with immediate effect from Wednesday.
Tendulkar suggests 'radical changes in Ranji Trophy cricket and suggests home and away series to determine fair result
"Steep rise in Sensex sometimes surprises me, sometimes worries me. I don't think fundamentals of economy changes day-to-day. Sensex is driven by corpus inflow of funds," he said while speaking at Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi..
The meeting lasted for half an hour with Khushwant taking his legendary chair by the fireplace and the President, the chair meant for the guests.
The government on Friday said the foreign direct investment norms in the retail sector would be liberalised further to ensure that investment flows into post- harvest agriculture activities.
The Befikre actor's fitness journey is all the inspiration you will need.
"Have you heard him singing Rinkiya ke papa," Kejriwal talked about Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari.
El-Sisi welcomed Modi, who is on a two-day state visit to Egypt, at the Presidential Palace where the two leaders were closeted for one-on-one meeting after which the two sides signed a memorandum of understandng.
In a move aimed at checking the revenue loss stemming from Indian shoppers purchasing luxury brands abroad, the government on Friday said it could rationalise import duties."India has high tariffs and we recognise that if you go abroad and buy, then it is a revenue loss for India. So we are working on both duties and countervailing duties," Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said.
India's cricket board hopes to keep offensive language and rude gestures out of the Indian Premier League by having the eight team captains take a pledge to abide by the "spirit of cricket".
India on Thursday approved capital acquisition of a plethora of indigenously-developed military hardware including indigenous BrahMos missiles, marine diesel engine, artillery gun system, electronic warfare suits and utility helicopters at a cost of Rs 70,584 crore as part of a mega procurement plan.
The last year has seen public sector undertakings (PSUs) outperforming the Nifty50, albeit by a small degree. But PSU valuations are still, on average, less than half of private sector peers at price-to-equity or PE 8.7x for the Nifty PSU Index versus 20.9x for the Nifty50. There are several reasons for lower valuation.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said he will formally make the request at the ICC chief executive committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur next week.
Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh wants the focus firmly on his bowling and not his behaviour when the home Test series against Australia starts on October 9. India will rely heavily on the 28-year-old, their second most successful Test spinner, who is nine short of taking 300 wickets, while hoping he would avoid the kind of drama that marred their previous trip Down Under.
'For our traditional membership base, it would be an access to disruptive ideas,' FICCI President Subhrakant Panda tells Asit Mishra/Business Standard.
Lakme, India's first make-up and beauty brand, turned 70 this year and is also present in Hindustan Unilever's club of brands with a turnover of over Rs 1,000 crore. Over the past seven decades, the brand has evolved and is no longer just a beauty brand, but has also transformed into a skincare brand. Lakme has increased its digital presence as well as innovations and now sees a third of its growth come from new innovations.
We got the same Diwali bonuses. We ate together. We carried equipment together on shoots. And when the odd reporter tried to throw her weight around and leave the camera person to carry bags of equipment, cables, the camera and tripod down the stairs and to the shoot location, Prannoy would step in, take the tripod off the shoulders of the colleague silently, lightening the load, recalls Revati Laul.
The actor was issued a legal notice by an NGO for smoking in public during the two recent events -- the Twenty20 cricket match in Mumbai and Hindustan Times Summit in Delhi.
Despite poor governance, the BJD-BJP alliance may win an other term, since the main opposition Congress is in disarray and has no credible leaders.
Do you think restricting single women from entering pubs and malls will help bring down crime?
Stocks ignored better-than-expected double digit industrial production figures in August to snap a three-day rally on profit-booking after Finance Minister P Chidambaram said he was "surprised and worried" by the sharp rise in stock prices.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Friday clearly stated that she was against early elections and ruled out any confrontation with the Left Front over the India-United States nuclear agreement. "No, we are not in favour of early elections. As the prime minister has said, the deadline is 2009. We are going to do all that we can to see that we implement our programmes till 2009," she said. Gandhi said that the govt will be working towards reaching a consensus with the Left.
Designed in-house by Orra, a jewellery house that specialises in diamonds, the IPL trophy is pure bling.
Democrat leader John Edwards is a a likely presidential candidate for 2008.
The Indian ace was called in to speak about 'Influencing Public Policy -The Role of the Celebrity'
Market regulator SEBI on Tuesday said it would ease norms for public offers and delisting of shares shortly, but step up market surveillance.
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