Rampur: The daily trip to high school was expensive, long and eventually, too much for Indian teenager Nahid Farzana, who decided she was going to drop out. Then, the state government gave her a bicycle. Two years later, she is about to graduate from high school and wants to be a teacher. Bihar has been so successful at keeping teenage girls in school, the bike giveaways have spread to neighboring...
06:16 PM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: Bicycle-maker Firefox Bikes launched one of the costliest cycles in the country, priced at Rs 4.25 lakh. The cycle - TREK ELITE 9.9 SSL - which is a full carbon frame bike, weighs only 10 kg. "Elite 9.9 SSL, a boon for hi-end bikers, being one of the best in its category, it's a bike for bike lovers who appreciate precision and quality," Firefox Bikes Managing Director Shiv...
02:45 PM, Jan 07, 2012
Mumbai: A driver in a white sedan being chased by two cops on bicycles. Half-an-hour into the chase, the two cops on the cycles catch the accused in the car and good overcomes evil. While this would make for the perfect end of a high-adrenaline action movie, this was an incident in real life at Santacruz. Late on Saturday night, head constable Chaganlal Ghule and constable M Lad from Santacruz...
03:26 PM, Jul 28, 2011
Kolkata: Is the beleaguered West Bengal Chief Minister looking to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for inspiration? As the CPIM faces the prospect of losing office this elections, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee seems to have taken a cue from his Bihari counterpart by distributing bicycles to girl students. Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said, "I hope with these cycles the girl students can go and study more as now they will have a proper means...
09:38 AM, Feb 22, 2011
Bangalore: Happy days are here again as a group of young bicycle enthusiasts are silently and slowly reviving the love for bicycles in the IT capital of the country and turning the simple pleasure of bicycling into an attractive and healthy holiday alternative. "The Art of Bicycle Trips" (ABT), a group founded by three youths, has begun packaging the simple pleasures that bicycle trips offer as a healthy and attractive...
03:31 PM, Jan 18, 2011
Bhopal: A man was forced to carry the body of his 16 year old daughter on his bicycle for 14 kilometres, for an autopsy in Madhya Pradesh. Bakshu Singh's daughter committed suicide by consuming poison at her house in village Dudhmania. The Police refused to allow Bakshu Singh to perform the last rights of his daughter until the postmortem was done. But they refused to take the body to the...
11:38 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Just five minutes of riding a bicycle each day can help a younger woman keep the pounds off. ...
04:59 PM, Jun 29, 2010
Khusboo pedalled five km every day to the school and went on to stand second in the Bihar Class 10 board exam. ...
06:45 PM, Jun 09, 2010
The 7-time Tour de France winner insisted he had no real hope of winning. ...
06:42 PM, Jan 13, 2009
State HRD Ministry gave an order denying cycles to minority schools. ...
01:51 PM, Jun 25, 2008
CNN-IBN's cricket experts review Kolkata Knight Riders' easy win against Mumbai Indians in IPL 5 on Wednesday. ...
12:21 PM, May 24, 2008
The suspect had parked a cycle near Hawa Mahal before the blasts took place. ...
12:51 PM, May 16, 2008
Kolkata: Riding high on the platform set by Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid hit his 36th century (119 off 207 balls) as India posted an imposing 346/5 on the first day of the second Test against the West Indies at the Eden Gardens here on Monday. Dravid, who came to the crease when Sehwag departed after scoring a whirlwind 38 off 33 balls, first stitched an 83-run partnership...
03:17 PM, Mar 19, 2008
London: England coach Andy Flower has said there is no technical flaw in the batting of England captain Andrew Strauss who is struggling for form in the series against Sri Lanka. Strauss was twice dismissed by left arm seamer Chanaka Walegedara in the Lord's Test. In the first innings, Strauss was out for 4 lbw by Walegedara and in the second innings he was out on a duck by the...
07:58 PM, Feb 02, 2008
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