New Delhi: Franchises with a strong Sri Lankan presence are slowly building up pressure on the Governing Council of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to shift their play-off and knockout matches out of Chennai. Four franchises IANS spoke to were confident that the issue would be sorted out by the time the Twenty20 tournament reaches its business end. Their contention is that there should be a level playing field among...
10:09 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Kolkata: If the slam-bang T20 cricket is for dynamic youngsters, reigning Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have to look at the age of their squad with some concern. The average age of the KKR squad is 28.52 years and it has 11 players in their 30s - the most among all IPL teams. New entrants Sunrisers Hyderabad (SH) have the youngest squad with an average age...
07:24 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Hyderabad: In a midnight crackdown, Hyderabad police forcibly shifted fasting leaders of the main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to a state-run hospital after their condition deteriorated. Policemen lifted 29 TDP legislators into waiting vehicles and shifted them to Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), where they were forcibly given medical aid. A police team arrived at the Old MLA Quarters shortly after midnight and shifted the fasting leaders. Police...
11:21 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Hyderabad: A team of National Investigation Agency and forensic experts today visited the sites of February 21 twin blasts at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad, as a part of the ongoing probe. "Forensic experts of Gujarat FSL visited the scene of offence along with NIA officials," police sources said. Hyderabad branch of NIA has already lodged two first information reports with regard to the case. The first FIR is about 'unknown persons'...
10:14 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Speaking to CNN-IBN, Sunrisers Hyderabad's coach Tom Moody said that the new franchise are all set and raring to go in IPL 6. ...
08:21 PM, Mar 29, 2013
It is that time of the year again when 'tracer bullet' will be heard every other minute and gems like 'As you grow older you get better, unless you are a banana' will be bandied about every evening. A six from MS Dhoni on TV will not be followed by a replay, but by a frolic of skimpy clad cheerleaders cheering the shot and the fall of Sachin Tendulkar's wicket...
04:10 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Hyderabad: Australia's Simon Helmot has been named as the assistant coach of the new IPL franchise, Hyderabad Sunrisers, for the upcoming edition of the Twenty20 league. Sunrisers have also appointed Jade Roberts as their trainer, Theo Kapakoulakis as physio and Sankapani the team manager apart from Helmot. The 41-year-old Helmot is the coach of Victoria Bushrangers in the Ryobi one-day Cup, Australia's domestic one-day competition, and of Melbourne Renegades in...
09:00 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Hyderabad: A student, pursuing a degree course at a religious college at Shamshabad in Hyderabad, has accused three male students of ragging and teasing her on the campus. Following the complaint, Shamshabad Police on Sunday arrested Abhishek, E John and Andrews for allegedly ragging and teasing the girl, police said. The victim, pursuing Bachelor of Divinity course at the college, lodged the complaint with police on Saturday claiming that the...
01:40 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Rajya Sabha and Congress MP KVP Ramachandra Rao will be questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday in connection with the Jagan Reddy disproportionate assets case. Ramachandra Rao was the chief adviser to Jagan's father, the late CM of AP YSR Reddy. ...
09:20 AM, Mar 23, 2013
Mayank Agarwal's 111 and Manish Pandey's all-round heroics helped Karnataka beat Hyderabad by 12 runs to top the South Zone leg of the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy. ...
07:46 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The Telangana Political Joint Action Committee is set to organize a 'Sadak Bandh' on the Hyderabad-Bangalore highway today. This despite permission denied by the police. ...
09:05 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Pro-Telangana parties and organisations would enforce a 'sadak bandh' (road blockade) on the Hyderabad-Bangalore highway on Thursday though police has denied permission for the protest. Demanding that the Centre accept the separate statehood demand immediately, they would block traffic at various places along the highway in Telangana region. ...
05:01 PM, Mar 20, 2013
New IPL entrant SunRisers Hyderabad are likely to be without their injured opener who has been ruled out for six weeks, according to the BCCI ...
01:21 PM, Mar 20, 2013
An ecstatic Shoojit Sircar did what he described as a 'sperm dance' in his room in Hyderabad after he heard his film Vicky Donor has shared the Best Popular Film for providing wholesome entertainment with Ustad Hotel (Malayalam). ...
04:44 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The 11th Metropolis World Congress-2014, featuring about 2,000 delegates from 100 metropolitan cities from around the world, will be held Hyderabad in April 2014, said an official statement on Saturday night. ...
02:45 AM, Mar 17, 2013
A Delhi court on Saturday granted NIA four-day custody of two alleged Indian Mujahideen operatives to further interrogate them in connection with the Hyderabad twin blasts that left 16 dead. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A person was nabbed on Friday for allegedly uploading morphed obscene photos and videos of a young woman on several websites including Facebook after she refused his marriage proposal, police said. ...
06:30 AM, Mar 16, 2013
In the wake of the application moved by the National Investigation Agency, which is probing the February 21 Hyderabad twin blasts, seeking further custodial interrogation of Indian Mujahideen operatives Syed Maqbool and Imran Khan, the Tihar Jail authorities were on Friday directed by the court to produce the duo before it on Saturday. ...
06:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The Hyderabad branch of National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday lodged two first information reports (FIRs) in connection with the February 21 twin blasts. The development follows Centre's direction for hand-over of the case to NIA, sources said, adding that NIA, which had already started its probe, would continue it. FIRs (one for each blast) were registered under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code and other Acts. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 14, 2013
