Kolkata: Manvinder Bisla struck a magnificent 51 not out off 44 balls to keep Kolkata Knight Riders in contention for the play-offs as they beat Kings XI Punjab by six wickets here at the Eden Gardens on Friday. This was Kolkata's third win in eight matches, while Punjab suffered their fourth loss in eight matches. In pursuit of 150, Kolkata got their chase off on the wrong foot with former...
11:19 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Kolkata: Struggling to repeat their last year's performance, defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders were dealt further blows as Jacques Kallis and Manoj Tiwary sustained injuries during their game against Mumbai Indians here on Wednesday. "Kallis has twisted his right knee while taking a dive. We will take a call on him in next 24 hours. As for Tiwary, he has had about three to four stitches after splitting the webbing...
01:52 PM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: While he relished the big wicket of Sachin Tendulkar on the senior batsman's 40th birthday, Kolkata Knight Riders mystery spinner Sunil Narine admits that the defending champions will have to get their acts together quickly to keep alive their hopes in IPL 6. Narine came out victorious in the much-anticipated battle against Tendulkar on Wednesday by crashing through the senior batsman's gate with a classic off-spin delivery, but eventually...
01:04 PM, Apr 25, 2013
This is not something that the team management of Kolkata Knight Riders had expected when they began their defence of the IPL title. Though they started their campaign with a win, they are in the middle of an extremely bad phase - losing five of their next six matches. And in spite of having world class limited-over spinner in the form of Sunil Narine, they are not ending up in...
11:33 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Mumbai Indians' opener Dwayne Smith, who lead his team to victory against Kolkata with a match winning knock of 62 in 47 balls at the Eden Gardens on Wednesday said that he wanted to play out Sunil Narine as he was in a wicket-taking form and wanted to get himself in and pick up the pace after judging the nature of the track. Chasing a tricky 160 to win on...
10:11 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Entertainer of the week There is but one man who can thrill the senses in the most unbridled way - Christopher Henry Gayle. Anyone who witnessed Gayle's audacious assault on the hapless Pune Warriors bowling in Bangalore on Tuesday will testify to having seen the most amazing innings played in Twenty20 cricket. Gayle slammed an unbeaten 175 off 66 balls, in the process breaking a spate of records [LINK TO...
08:15 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: Observing that 160 was a defendable target, Kolkata Knight Riders' spinner Sunil Narine Wednesday rued the absence of all-rounder Jacques Kallis, who could not turn up to bowl after getting injured while batting against Mumbai Indians in their IPL encounter at the Eden Gardens here. "The target of 160 was defendable but we fumbled at the end. Kallis is a world class bowler and his absence badly hurt our...
02:16 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Kolkata: The fans that thronged to Eden Gardens on Wednesday hoping to see a special innings from Sachin Tendulkar on his 40th birthday were sent home disappointed doubly disappointed, as the master batsman flopped and Kolkata Knight Riders were beaten in another last-over match. Set a target of 160, Mumbai won with five wickets off the penultimate delivery thanks to Dwayne Smith's bullish 62 and two stabilizing innings from stand-in...
11:49 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has cracked down on the Saradha group in the chit fund scam. The Mamata Banerjee government has frozen about 35 bank accounts belonging to the Saradha group, while 36 cars belonging to Saradha Chairman Sudipta Sen and his company have been seized. Four office buildings in and around Kolkata belonging to the Saradha group have also been seized along with hundreds of land documents. The...
02:48 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Cricket fans offer sweets to poster of cricket player Sachin Tendulkar, depicted as Hanuman, ahead of his 40th birthday in Allahabad. In Kolkata, blind students along with their teachers cut a cake to celebrate Tendulkar's birthday. PTI Photo. ...
11:13 AM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday ordered Saradha Realty India and its MD Sudipta Sen, accused in the West Bengal chit fund scam, to wind up all its collective investment schemes and refund money to the investors within three months. The SEBI order said that Saradha Realty and its chief were barred from the securities market till all the money was refunded to the...
10:24 PM, Apr 23, 2013
The Saradha chit fund scam has left hundreds of investors and agents in the lurch in West Bengal. ...
10:02 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: Welcoming batting legend Sachin Tendulkar to the club of 40, former India skipper and Mumbai Indians mentor Anil Kumble on Tuesday said a win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday will be the best way to celebrate April 24 - the maestro's birthday. "I welcome Sachin to the club of cricketers past 40 and wish him all the best. The best way to celebrate his birthday would be a...
07:27 PM, Apr 23, 2013
SEBI chief UK Sinha said people have tendency to invest in schemes of fast money making. ...
07:12 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar may want muted celebrations for his 40th birthday on Wednesday but the city of joy is all set to throw a huge party for the veteran Indian batsman. Tendulkar, who will be in the city for his Mumbai Indians' clash against Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday, will begin the day with a customary cake-cutting ceremony at the team hotel. "We have arranged a special programme way ahead...
01:35 PM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: With her government drawing flak after the Saradha Group downed shutters, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday blamed the erstwhile Left Front regime for the mushrooming of chit funds, alleging it had not even acted on presidential advice for a strong legislation to contain the menace. Breaking her silence on the issue days after the firm went bust, affecting lakhs of agents and distributors who had parked...
05:38 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Kolkata: As the chit fund meltdown is spreading like a contagion in rural Bengal, a 50-year-old woman, who had deposited Rs 30,000 in Saradha Group, on Sunday, succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire. The woman set herself on fire on Saturday evening at her home after coming to know that the company had gone bust. Meanwhile, the Mamata government is on the defensive with the Left...
08:42 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Asim Dasgupta on Sunday urged the central government to step in and launch a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the collapse of chit fund-funded company Saradha Group. Dasgupta, a noted economist who held the finance portfolio for 24 years during the Left Front rule, also rejected allegations that chit fund companies had flourished during the LF regime. "My question...
04:23 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Kolkata: A 50-year-old woman, who had deposited money in chit fund company Saradha Group, on Sunday succumbed to her injuries after she set herself on fire, while a man tried to poison himself, even as political parties traded charges over the scandal. Urmila Pramanik, a resident of Baruipur in South-24 Parganas district, who had invested Rs 30,000 with the chit fund company, set herself on fire on Saturday evening at...
10:23 PM, Apr 21, 2013
