Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hi-tech 3D campaign extravaganza has come under attack from the Opposition and the Congress has decided to move the Election Commission seeking a probe on its source of funding. Opposition parties have criticised the 3D holographic projection campaign using which Modi on Monday addressed four election rallies in as many cities simultaneously. "This extravaganza could have been avoided. The cost involved, as per our...
08:16 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress too, it seems, has come into the attack mode. On Saturday, while campaigning for the party in Gujarat, that goes to polls in December, Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar took a dig at Chief Minister Narendra Modi, calling him 'Lahu Purush' over the 2002 riots. This is the first time during this campaign that a Congress leader has targeted Modi over the 2002 riots. "Gujarat has...
07:16 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Ahmedabad: Election Commission on Thursday relaxed the norms for enforcement of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) with regards to seizure of more than Rs 2.5 lakh cash in transit. "Election Commission has decided to put farmers and business enterprises in the exemption category for the enforcement of the norms for carrying Rs 2.5 lakh or more cash while in transit," said Chief Election officer, Ahmedabad Vijay Nehra on Thursday while...
08:19 PM, Oct 25, 2012
Vadodara: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked the voters to reject the Congress, which is contesting the coming Assembly election with the promise of changing 'dasha' and 'disha' (conditions and direction) of the state. Addressing a huge rally at Bodeli in the district, Modi said, "Sonia Gandhi-led Congress party is chanting 'change direction, change conditions', but people of Gujarat will force Sonia Gandhi to change both 'disha' and...
09:10 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Jasdan: Criticising the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government for its "failure" to keep its 2009 pre-poll promise on inflation, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday questioned Congress president Sonia Gandhi's "silence" on the issue. "Sonia Gandhi criticised Gujarat's development but never said a word on the pre-poll promise made by UPA in 2009 to bring down inflation within 100 days if voted to power," Modi said at a party...
07:31 PM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday announced that Gujarat will have Assembly elections in two phases - December 13 and 17 and the counting of votes will take place on December 20. Campaigning has already started and the state is witnessing a lot of action with both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the Congress leaving no stones unturned to mobilise their supporters. Chief Minister Narendra Modi...
07:03 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: The battle for Gujarat has been kicked off as the Election Commission on Wednesday announced that the voting for the Assembly elections in the state will be held in two phases. While the first phase of the voting will be held on December 13, the second will be on December 17. Addressing a press conference in the national capital on Wednesday, Chief Election Commissioner VS Sampath said that...
04:53 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Results of by-elections in seven assembly seats will be announced. ...
09:43 AM, Sep 14, 2009
Karachi: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi, who is the leading wicket-taker in the ongoing World Cup with 14 wickets, today said his success as a bowler has a lot to do with his changed mindset. "There is no magic involved in my bowling now it is just that I have now started seeing myself as a bowling all-rounder rather than a batting all-rounder. I am now paying a lot of attention...
06:27 PM, Dec 27, 2007
CNN-IBN's cricket experts discuss the prospects of Bangladesh-West Indies and New Zealand-Zimbabwe games. ...
01:41 PM, Dec 25, 2007
Karachi: Pakistan's One-day captain Shahid Afridi wants the International Cricket Council (ICC) to consider increasing the number of Umpire decision review system (UDRS) appeals allowed to a particular team. Unlike his Indian counterpart Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is not happy with the UDRS, Afridi said the system had worked well for most teams in the World Cup. The use of the UDRS is a positive development and it would not...
01:34 PM, Dec 25, 2007
Ahmedabad: New Zealand are preparing to face a versatile Zimbabwe spin attack led by the experienced Ray Price in a key Group A match for both sides at the World Cup on Friday. Zimbabwe scored an impressive 175-run victory over Canada on Monday, with left-arm spinner Price bagging 3-16 and legspinner Graeme Cremer taking 3-31. New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori is well aware of the stakes in their third match...
09:07 PM, Dec 24, 2007
New Delhi: Ireland's Kevin O'Brien smashed the fastest World Cup century in 50 balls against England in a Group B match on Wednesday. O'Brien hit six sixes and 13 fours in his swashbuckling innings of 113 off 63 balls as Ireland stun England by 3 wickets. The honour of the fastest World Cup ton earlier belonged to Australia's Matthew Hayden who scored his century off 66 balls against South Africa...
06:51 PM, Dec 24, 2007
New Delhi: Former captain Kapil Dev on Wednesday came to the rescue of under-fire Indian bowlers' after their poor show in the World Cup, saying these were the same bowlers who won India many matches in the past two years. India's batting was phenomenal in their first two games against Bangladesh and England, but bowling was a big let down with the bowlers getting smashed all over the park. In...
03:29 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Bangalore: Ireland's Kevin O'Brien hit a sensational 113 from 63 balls to give his team an improbable three-wicket win over England and one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history. Ireland looked down and out at 111-5 in reply to England's 327-8 but O'Brien clubbed six sixes and 13 fours to power his side to victory with 329-7 — smashing Matthew Hayden's record for the quickest World Cup century...
01:42 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Bangalore: Senior players, including Sachin Tendulkar, chose to give training a miss but eight other members of India's World Cup squad had a one-hour training session at the National Cricket Academy here on Wednesday. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was among the eight who trained during the optional session ahead of the March 6 Group B clash against Ireland. Those who chose to stay back at the hotel included pace spearhead...
01:05 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Mohali: South Africa take on Netherlands in the World Cup on Thursday with the Dutch side's South African-born batsman Ryan ten Doeschate looking forward to facing his former compatriots in the Group B contest. Thursday's match will be the first of the tournament at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali and Netherlands are unlikely to mark the event with a maiden victory over the Proteas. South Africa have had...
12:37 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Colombo: You cannot miss Lasith Malinga. He is the Sri Lanka slingshot shock weapon with the fancy goldilocks highlights in his hair. He is also on up on the Australian pace trio of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson. Two World Cup hattricks on the Malinga CV makes him special and is why a battle of sharp-edged pace is expected to explode in Khettarama on Saturday night. This is...
11:25 AM, Dec 24, 2007
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga became the first man to pick up two hat-tricks in World Cups when he skittled out three Kenyan tailenders in their Group A match on Tuesday. Malinga, who missed his side's opening two matches with a sore back, fired back with 6-38 including the wickets of Tanmay Mishra (0), Peter Ongondo (0) and Shem Ngoche (0) with successive, full deliveries - the latter two clean...
07:49 AM, Dec 24, 2007
Bangalore: Ireland captain William Porterfield has urged his side to be "cricket-smart" when they face England in a World Cup clash here on Wednesday. The Irish, who knocked Pakistan out of the 2007 World Cup, were on course for another victory over a Test nation when they held Bangladesh to 205 runs in their opening match of this tournament. But a batting collapse saw a side featuring several players with...
04:04 AM, Dec 24, 2007
