The report paints a picture of financial privation among many of the sport's 15,000 professionals, with many at the lowest level struggling to cover the costs of competing. This, the report said, made betting on matches more attractive to players, many of whom admitted knowledge of match-fixing.
Officials evacuated people from coastal belts and asked them not to go anywhere near the sea.
Rs 5 lakh from the total money was donated to an orphanage.
Kumaratunga will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
The necessary instrumentation will be installed by DOD within two years. The government has already sanctioned Rs 1,250 mn for the purpose.
Jayalalithaa has written to the PM complaining about FM's unilateral move on tsunami relief.
The National Criminal Intelligence Service has warned people of cheats out to make a quick buck by proclaiming they are raising money for tsunami victims.
The Planning Commission will soon set up a core group to coordinate relief work in areas affected by the December 26 tsunami disaster that left over 10,000 people dead and damaged property worth $ 1.5 billion.
Such a centre would psychologically reassure the coastal population, she said in her letter to the PM.
Ronaldinho and Andriy Shevchenko will lead two teams on Tuesday in a benefit match to raise funds for victims of the Asian tsunami.
Banks in the tsunami-hit Nagapattinam district have opened 1200 new bank accounts in the last two weeks to enable the victims deposit the relief money distributed by the government.
If a student from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands wants to take his test in, say Chennai, the CBSE will definitely consider it, Chairaman Ashok Ganguly said.
It committed $1.6 million towards relief. Earlier, it committed $1.5 million.
The sporting world, from football giants Manchester United to glamorous tennis star Maria Sharapova, has united to help raise money for victims of Asia's tsunami disaster.
A tsunami warning has been issued in north-eastern Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck off the east coast of Honshu. The Japan meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning for a wave of up to one meter.
Muizzu's request came when India's Union Minister Kiren Rejiju paid a courtesy call on the new president at the latter's office, the Maldivian President's Office said in a press release.
The fisherfolk had resumed full-fledged fishing activities on Monday. It's been almost four months since they had ventured into the sea.
The plot will be handed over to a nongovernmental organisation -- SOS Children's Villages of India -- which is expected to begin work in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Narendra Modi has proved through execution of this event in Ayodhya that amongst all his contemporaries in politics he knows ordinary Indians like none other, notes Sheela Bhatt.
A mission to study the Sun, and launching a climate observation satellite, a test vehicle as part of Gaganyaan human space flight programme and an Indo-US synthetic aperture radar.
The Auditor General estimates that only 13.5 percent of foreign aid was propoerly utilised.
Terming the recent monsoon fury in Maharashtra as a national calamity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said tsunami aid norms would be made applicable for relief and rehabilitation in the rain ravaged state.
The Chhattisgarh government will take up reconstruction of houses and provide basic needs, like hospital, school and community centres, in the villages it proposes to adopt, Chief Minister Raman Singh said.
NRI steel baron Laxmi Mittal has donated $2 million for the Tsunami Recovery and Relief Fund, set up by former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush for overseeing United States' rebuilding efforts.
Japan sits at the juncture of four tectonic plates - or moving slabs of the earth's outer crust - and is one of the world's most quake-prone regions.
"We will use these resources to provide assistance to affected nations in rebuilding vital infrastructure that re-energises economies and strengthens societies," Bush said
According to sources in the CPWD, which has been assigned the work of giving technical support to the construction work, the project could have been finalised much earlier but for the resistance shown by some voluntary organisations.
3 teams have already been dispatched to Port Blair and have started identifiying representatives of various voluntary agencies there who can be trained, said NIMHANS
The Indian ace will lead the MCC side while the International XI will be captained by the West Indian.
It will also organist blood donation camps to raise 100 pints of blood for the victims, a party spokesman said.
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