New Delhi: MV Sridhar was on Wednesday appointed manager of the Indian cricket team for the tri-series in the West Indies starting on June 28. A former Andhra cricketer, Sridhar is presently the secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association.
BCCI had earlier announced the same 15-member squad, currently playing in the Champions Trophy, for the tri-series involving the hosts and Sri Lanka besides India. While Arindam Ganguly will be the manager of the under-19 team that will be participating in a tri-series in Australia from later this month, BCCI said in a release.
Support staff of the Indian team: Duncan Fletcher (Coach), Joseph Dawes (Bowling Coach), Trevor Penney (Fielding Coach), Nitin Patel (Physiotherapist), R Srinivasan (Trainer), Amit Shah (Yoga and Massage Therapist), CKM Dhananjai (Video Analyst), Ramesh Mane (Masseur), M A Satheesh (Logistics Manager), R N Baba (Media Manager).
Support staff of the under-19 team: Bharat Arun (Coach), Anand Date (Fitness Trainer), Sreeniwas Rao (Physiotherapist), Ashutosh Dandige (Video Analyst)....
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01:25 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced more than a dozen sops in the past one year with an eye on the Assembly elections. He's announced everything from laptops, shoes and umbrellas to free mobile phones for over 15,000 farmers. With laptops, mobiles, shoes, umbrellas, blankets, cycles and Re 1 per kg of rice, Patnaik is on a distribution spree in Odisha. Since the aborted coup by his former...
09:30 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday distributed 5,000 mobile phone sets among farmers while launching the scheme. "The farmers can access the market information related to agriculture through the mobile phones," Patnaik said, adding that they would get voice calls and SMS in Odia language. Inaugurating the Digital Bazaar programme at Exhibition ground in Bhubaneswar, Patnaik said about 15,000 beneficiaries will get the free phones in the first...
01:41 AM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: The BCCI selection committee on Monday put faith in the 15 players currently in England for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy, naming an unchanged squad for the tri-series to be played in the West Indies from June 28. India have qualified for the Champions Trophy semi-finals after being South Africa, West Indies and Pakistan respectively. Their campaign has been highlighted by excellent fielding and strong performances from the...
03:09 PM, Jun 17, 2013
London: Scientists have developed a pair of shorts that charge your mobile while you take a stroll wearing them. The shorts use the energy generated by an average person when they are on the move to power up a battery for four hours. Along with the shorts, researchers have also developed a sleeping bag that charges your phone while you sleep. The Power Shorts are made using a fabric which...
05:55 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has backed Formula One's governing body for their handling of a tyre testing controversy involving rivals Mercedes. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has summoned Mercedes and tyre supplier Pirelli to its international tribunal in Paris on June 20 on charges of breaking the rules by testing in Spain last month. "We have faith in the FIA," Montezemolo is quoted as saying by the Ferrari website....
02:54 PM, Jun 12, 2013
Ferrari backed Formula One's governing body on Tuesday for their handling of a tyre testing controversy involving rivals Mercedes. The International Automobile Federation (FIA) has summoned Mercedes and tyre supplier Pirelli to its international tribunal in Paris on June 20 on charges of breaking the rules by testing in Spain last month. "We have faith in the FIA," president Luca di Montezemolo declared at the opening of the new Ferrari...
10:37 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The BCCI confirmed the Indian cricket team's tour of the West Indies starting later this month for a tri-series as well as a series against Zimbabwe following that in its emergent working committee meeting on Monday. The tri-series, also involving Sri Lanka, will be held between June 28 and July 11. The Indian team will also tour Zimbabwe in July-August for a Test and ODI series. The other...
04:44 PM, Jun 10, 2013
London: Vodafone Group Plc said it paid no corporation tax in Britain for the year to March 2013, prompting fresh criticism from campaigners who have made the UK mobile telephone group a target in the debate on corporate tax payments. Revelations of profit shifting by big companies have provoked anger among austerity-weary citizens across Europe and political leaders have pledged to act. Vodafone's annual report published on Friday said the...
09:29 AM, Jun 08, 2013
It was 2005-06, and the mobile value added services market that I had single-handedly curated in India was collapsing, leading to bullying and pushing. That was my moment of 'maximum pain' and made me realise what I had to do. Before India, we had created a mobile SMS platform, Mobile2Win, in China. In order to engage customers using TV as a medium, we created SMS-based campaigns around branded content. Coca-Cola...
02:30 PM, Jun 06, 2013
New Delhi: For effective governance and providing affordable access to communication, the Union Cabinet Tuesday decided to install mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states, including Chhattisgarh where the rebels killed several Congress leaders May 25. The approval to the project was given by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held here. Mobile towers would be installed at 2,199 locations in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya...
10:21 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Taipei: Intel Corp is ramping up its efforts to have more of its chips used in mobile devices, a market it was initially slow to respond to, as officials said they expect more than 30 tablets using its processors hitting the market this year. Samsung Electronics Co announced it will use Intel's processors to power a new version of one of its top-tier Android tablets, while Asustek Computer Inc also...
03:14 PM, Jun 04, 2013
New Delhi: Telecommunications carrier Bharti Airtel Ltd has submitted its final bid for a telecoms licence in Myanmar, a company spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. Myanmar, one of the world's last major untapped mobile markets, has called bids for two mobile licences and short-listed 12 international consortia. Vodafone and China Mobile, which were among the 12 to reach the short-list, last week pulled out of the race saying the conditions...
11:45 AM, Jun 04, 2013
London: Pirelli's 'secret' Formula One tyre test with Mercedes this month was nothing of the sort and the team were not favoured either, the Italian company said on Friday as the governing body weighed up possible action. Pirelli denied asking Mercedes to use their current car at the May 15-17 Barcelona test, which caused a storm when details leaked out only last weekend, and said they planned further tests with...
08:22 PM, May 31, 2013
Paris: The player who used his phone to snap a photo of a ball mark during a French Open match has been fined $2,000 (about 1,500 euros). Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine was cited for unsportsmanlike conduct for setting aside his racket and taking a picture of the spot in the red clay where a shot landed near a line in his 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 loss to seventh-seeded Richard Gasquet at...
11:16 PM, May 30, 2013
New Delhi: India now has the second largest telephone network in the world, next to China. Telephony in India has witnessed phenomenal growth in the last decade. According to the latest statistics released by the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, teledensity has risen from 7.04 percent to 73.07 per cent and average call rates dropped to 47 paise from Rs 2.89 in less than a decade and these figures...
12:27 PM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: The average cost of mobile phone call has declined by a sharp 83 per cent to 47 paise in the last nine years, the government claimed today. Wireless subscriber base on the other hand has expanded about 25-fold to over 86 crore, it said. "The average tariff for each outgoing call per minute for GSM services dropped from Rs 2.89 in March 2004 to 47 paise in December...
11:06 AM, May 29, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from Idea Cellular Ltd (ICL) and its chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on a contempt petition against the telecom major for allegedly disobeying its earlier order by providing 3G services to new customers in circles where it lacks the requisite licences. Justice Rajiv Shakdhar asked the telecom company and five others including Birla to file their response within four weeks and...
06:32 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Reliance Communications has raised basic rates for both GSM and CDMA pre-paid mobile-to-mobile calls by 33 per cent to 2 paise per second from 1.5 paise per second. According to details on the company's website, it will charge base rate of 2 paise per second for mobile-to-mobile calls. The base rate, or the headline tariff, applies to customers not covered under any special scheme offered by their telecom...
08:51 AM, May 27, 2013
