Indian Grand Prix organisers on Wednesday dismissed media speculation that they may not host a Formula One race next year as "totally baseless and malicious".
"Our agreement with Formula One Management is to hold F1 races at Buddh International Circuit (BIC) till 2015, and we are fully committed to do that," Askari Zaidi, spokesman for Jaypee Sports International, said in a statement.
"There is no reason for us to give up hosting F1 races," he added, reacting to reports on some international websites that suggested the race could be dropped after this year. Zaidi said the circuit, at Greater Noida to the south of New Delhi, wanted to host more international events including motorcycling.
This year's Indian Grand Prix on October 27 will be the 16th race of the 19 round championship. The 2014 calendar has yet to be issued but new races in Russia and New Jersey are due to make their debuts, taking it to a potential 21 rounds if none are dropped....
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07:37 PM, Jun 19, 2013
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12:26 AM, Jun 19, 2013
Prague: Is it a bike? Is it a plane? Three Czech companies have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that successfully took off Wednesday inside an exhibition hall in Prague and landed safely after a remote-controlled, five-minute flight. Looking like a heavy mountain bike, it weighs 95 kilograms (209 pounds). It has two battery-power propellers in the front, two in the back and one each on...
01:28 PM, Jun 13, 2013
Chennai: Pained by continuing internal bickering in his party, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday made a fervent appeal for unity, saying he was grieved over the fact that there was enough squabbling in the ranks that would harm the party more than any external factor. With less than a year left for the next Lok Sabha polls, considered crucial for the DMK after being drubbed by arch-rival AIADMK in...
02:15 AM, May 20, 2013
Moscow: A 23-year-old man beaten to death in Volgograd in south Russia was the victim of a homophobic gang, Russian investigators have said. The naked body of the man with various injuries, including to his genitalia, was found in the courtyard of an apartment building May 10. The victim's skull was smashed with a 20-kg rock and he appeared to have been raped with beer bottles. The suspects also tried...
10:09 AM, May 14, 2013
Dubai: An expatriate Indian man and his three-year-old daughter in Bahrain have been forced to rough it out in the open for the last six months after a business deal went sour. A desperate Mohammad Sikandar Samrat and his daughter Sara have been living in a park, mosque and car since November 2012 as his daughter does not have a passport and he is yet to get 65,000 Bahraini dinars...
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02:19 PM, May 13, 2013
Hyderabad: Chennai Super Kings bowling coach Andy Bichel hopes that the team would bounce back in Wednesday's match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, after the huge loss to Mumbai Indians in their last Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter. "Its probably the loss we needed. It has put us in position of working hard and fight the way we have won seven matches in a row," he said after the team had a...
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New Delhi: Three Delhi Police personnel, including a constable and two head constables, were beaten up by two drunk men and five men dressed as advocates in two separate incidents in New Delhi, police said on Friday. In the first incident, a 58-year-old head constable was thrashed by five unidentified men dressed as advocates at around 10 am on Thursday at Tis Hazari Court campus. Head Constable Sumer was beaten...
05:10 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Some Indian cricketers let their hair down after their historic whitewash of Australia by zooming and careening around the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) at Greater Noida on Monday morning. ...
05:21 PM, Mar 25, 2013
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05:28 PM, Mar 10, 2013
An eight-member Pakistani cycling team arrived on Saturday for the ongoing Hero Asian Cycling championships. ...
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04:32 PM, Mar 04, 2013
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