Mumbai: The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) on Wednesday appointed former India opener and state captain Sudhir Naik as the chairman of the selection panel after national chief selector Sandeep Patil had resigned from the post in April.
The 67-year-old former India opener, Naik, was named the chief selector for the senior and U-25 teams with Karsan Ghavri, Deepak Jadhav and Raju Sutar as his colleagues on the panel, according to a statement issued by MCA. He is also the curator of the Wankhede Stadium.
Sulakshan Kulkarni, who coached the Mumbai senior team to victory in the last Ranji season, has been retained as the coach till March 31, 2014.
Vinayak Samant will coach the under-25 side till March 31, 2014, replacing 70-year old Vilas Godbole who guided the Under-25 team to three titles in four years....
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09:06 PM, Jun 19, 2013
Hardwar: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday reiterated that the administration was facing no shortage of funds or resources in carrying out relief and rescue operations in the flood and landslide ravaged areas of the state. Even as the death toll crossed 100, Bahuguna said that he was not in a situation to give the exact estimate of the people killed in the calamity. Speaking on the wide scale...
05:29 PM, Jun 19, 2013
New Delhi: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat, who will be in the national capital on Monday evening, is expected to meet senior BJP leader LK Advani on Tuesday. The meeting is likely to take place even as Advani continues to voice his grievance over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's elevation as poll panel chief. RSS chief had played peacemaker earlier and averted the Bharatiya Janata Party's crisis by...
10:15 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan admitted that Indian economy suffers due to slow decision making processes in the government. Rajan also incised the Indian economic system for creating barriers to improve the business environment in the country while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Here is the full transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. How adequately has the government responded to the sharp...
09:05 PM, Jun 16, 2013
New Delhi: Chief Economic Advisor Raghuram Rajan has admitted that Indian economy suffers due to slow decision making processes in the government. Rajan also incised the Indian economic system for creating barriers to improve the business environment in the country while speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is an excerpt of the interview: Karan Thapar: The government knows it needs to act, fails to act and is well...
07:46 AM, Jun 16, 2013
Kadapa: There were over one lakh duplicate voters in the voters list in Kadapa district, state Chief Election Officer Banwar Lal said on Saturday. Kadapa is the native district of YSR Congress president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Addressing a meeting of political parties and officials at the Collectorate today, he said that about 50,000 duplicate voters were noticed in the list of Kadapa Municipal Corporation itself. He directed the officials...
10:09 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Hyderabad: The Kharif agricultural season is progressing well in Andhra Pradesh, thanks to good rains in the first fortnight of this month. The state as a whole received 88 mm of rainfall since June 1, which is 69 per cent more than the normal 52.1 mm. This is seen as a good tiding for the state which reeled under drought last year and had deficient rainfall in 2011, vastly affecting...
06:58 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Nawada: Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi on Tuesday hailed Narendra Modi's anointment as the poll campaign chief of BJP and said that the decision will boost party's prospects in the Assembly polls in several states as well as in the next General Elections. "The BJP stands to gain immensely in the ensuing Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Chhatisgarh, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, besides the next General Elections following the Gujarat...
05:25 PM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Finance Ministry on Tuesday said it will take steps to increase foreign investment flows into the country to strengthen rupee and the regulators will act at appropriate time to contain the fall in domestic currency that touched a record low of 58.96 to a dollar. "We will continue to implement measures to ensure that portfolio investor inflows are enabled and encouraged and some of these measures will...
04:50 PM, Jun 11, 2013
The Congress has hit out at the Central Information Commission for proposing to bring political parties under the Right to Information Act. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari said CIC's order is "a bit of a stretch." He was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is the full transcript of the interview: Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to Devil's Advocate. Why does the Congress party object to...
11:34 AM, Jun 11, 2013
New Delhi: Punching hole in the claims of state Chief Minister Narendra Modi, a Planning Commission working paper said that Gujarat has underperformed in health and education sectors. According a Planning Commission's paper on 'Refining State Level Comparisons in India', "Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra have each underperformed in two of the three sectors analysed." The working paper 2012 series has analysed the performance of the...
10:55 PM, Jun 10, 2013
New Delhi: Stunned by party patriarch LK Advani's decision to quit key posts, BJP's top decision-making body Parliamentary Board on Monday night rejected his resignation, insisting that the party needs his "guidance more than ever before". The Board held an urgent meeting at the residence of party chief Rajnath Singh hours after Advani resigned from Parliamentary Board, National Executive and Election Committee to protest Narendra Modi being made Campaign Committee...
10:45 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Washington: President Barack Obama on Monday will nominate longtime adviser Jason Furman to be his new chief White House economist, an administration official said. Furman, who will replace economist Alan Krueger as chair of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), has a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University and has advised Obama since his 2008 election campaign. Furman has been instrumental in formulating administration policies on taxes, the...
04:39 PM, Jun 10, 2013
Panaji: Handed over the charge of BJP's campaign in the next Lok Sabha polls, Narendra Modi on Sunday virtually sounded the election bugle as he targeted the UPA government over various fronts and asked party cadres to work for "Congress-free Bharat Nirman". In his first comments on the new role which in effect makes him the party's face in the elections, Modi said BJP will work out a strategy to...
09:24 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Narendra Modi has now taken centre stage in the national politics after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chose the Gujarat Chief Minister to be its poll panel chief, thrusting him on to a bigger role for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The party took the plunge on day-two of its crucial National Executive meet in Goa, ignoring reservations from senior leaders like LK Advani, who stayed away from...
08:33 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: The much talked-about NCTC may be a non-starter but the government has rejected the demand of non-Congress Chief Ministers for a law to set up the anti-terror body. Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said his Ministry was not exploring the option of bringing a bill in Parliament for the purpose. "No, we have no such proposal," Shinde told reporters when asked about the possibility of bringing a law...
08:00 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Narendra Modi's elevation as BJP's campaign chief for 2014 Lok Sabha elections on Sunday has strengthened his political legitimacy after struggling to shed the "communal" tag that has haunted the Gujarat Chief Minister since the 2002 riots. Often called the BJP's poster boy, Modi is seen as India's most divisive politician - loved and loathed in equal measure - but winning a record third term as Chief Minister...
06:50 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday sounded dismissive of Narendra Modi's anointment as BJP's campaign committee chairman for 2014 Lok Sabha polls, and took potshots at the opposition party over the "apparent divide" within its top brass on the issue. "Modi's appeal is limited to Gujarat. We have seen the hollowness of his campaign in Karnataka elections. He is popular only among people, who like communal politics and communal personalities. But...
06:10 PM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress has hit out at the Central Information Commission for proposing to bring political parties under the Right to Information Act. Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari has dismissed the suggestion saying an amendment to the Income Tax Act would work better towards bringing transparency. He was speaking to Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate. Below is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Karan Thapar:...
08:03 AM, Jun 09, 2013
New Delhi: Ten days after the deadly Naxal attack in Chhatisgarh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has called an internal security meeting of the Chief Ministers of all states. Gujarat CM Narendra Modi, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, Madhya Predesh CM Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik and Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah are the non-Congress CMs who will be attending the meet on Wednesday. Some...
08:35 AM, Jun 05, 2013
