Dubai: With an aim to develop more competitive teams among its full, associate/affiliate members, the ICC has allocated USD 422,000 for the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) from the its Targeted Assistance and Performance Programme (TAPP).
It was decided during the second of the four board meetings of the ICC and IDI (ICC Development International, the commercial arm of the cricket's governing body) held here on April 16 and 17.
"The ICC introduced a TAPP fund of USD 12m in January 2012 to help develop more competitive teams at the highest level by targeting the lower ranked full members and higher ranked associate/affiliate members for assistance," the world body said in a statement.
"The Board had previously received applications and made awards to Cricket Ireland, Cricket Scotland, Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (Netherlands), New Zealand Cricket, West Indies Cricket Board and Zimbabwe Cricket."...
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08:00 PM, Apr 17, 2013
New Delhi: With an eye to promote the sport at the grassroot level, Hockey India on Monday formed a High Performance and Development Committee for the year 2013-14 to be headed by its secretary general, Narinder Batra. The 15-member committee includes Olympians, international players and chief coaches while Sports Authority of India will be an invitee member. The Committee will prepare blueprints and ensure that same pattern of coaching is...
03:54 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Suspected activists of Shiv Sena and Hindu Sena on Saturday night disrupted a performance by Pakistani Sufi singer Sanam Marwi here before staging a protest against the participation of the artistes from the neighbouring country at the Sufi festival in New Delhi, police said. ...
12:32 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Allegedly depressed because of her poor show in a board exam, a class 12 student committed suicide in New Delhi on Friday , police said. Kalpana, 19, residing in east Delhi's Usmanpur area had not performed well in her accounts exam held on Friday and feared that she might fail. ...
02:08 AM, Mar 16, 2013
A Delhi court dealing with a CWG related corruption case on Monday said two of the accused had paid Rs 71.73 lakh for actor Shilpa Shetty's performance in the closing ceremony of 2008 CWG Youth Games at Pune "merely to fulfil the last moment wish" of Suresh Kalmadi. ...
09:06 AM, Feb 05, 2013
India's largest private sector lender ICICI Bank's third quarter (October-December) standalone net profit jumped more than 30 per cent year-on-year to Rs 2,250 crore, driven by robust net interest income, which increased 29 per cent to Rs 3,500 crore. Other income too climbed 17 per cent to Rs 2,215 crore adding to the profit margin. ...
02:38 PM, Jan 31, 2013
Hockey India on Thursday appointed legendary Dutch coach Roelant Oltmans as high performance director, who will oversee the affairs of its senior and junior national teams. ...
07:02 PM, Jan 17, 2013
The Bristol Hotel in Gurgaon has cancelled rapper Honey Singh's event that was planned for the New Year's evening after there was an outrage over offensive lyrics of his songs. An FIR was also lodged in Lucknow against the popular Punjabi singer. ...
09:01 PM, Dec 31, 2012
MCA hosted England's Performance Programme squad's practice session at its D Y Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai without seeking the BCCI permission. ...
12:34 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Artists and the general audience at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012 will hear Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam, M.I.A as she is popularly known, perform for the first time in India on Dec 11 at the event's inauguration. ...
09:44 AM, Dec 03, 2012
The Shah family performed plays based on Chughtai's short stories, 'Chuui Mui', 'Mughal Bacha' and 'Gharwali'. ...
02:59 PM, Dec 02, 2012
New Delhi: While Microsoft on the one hand is overwhelemed with the response to the recently-launched Windows 8, analysts and experts, on the other hand, seem to be totally disappointed with a radical redesign of Microsoft's world-dominating Windows operating system, named Windows 8. Launched almost a month back with the view to regain ground lost to Apple and Google, Microsoft's latest Windows 8 OS fail to woo experts. Jakob Nielsen,...
02:20 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Gurgaon: Spanish pop sensation Enrique Iglesias tonight took his fans on a roller coaster ride with his hour-long performance, as he belted out his hits like 'Hero', 'Baby you like it' and 'Bailamos'. Though the singer kept his fans waiting for more than two hours, the audience did not seem to mind the delay as seen in the roaring response he got after entering the stage and greeting everyone with...
10:21 AM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana, who is set to make his maiden trip to India, will perform at the F1 Rocks concert on October 28. Santana will be the headlining International Act at F1 Rocks to be held in Greater Noida, close to the Formula 1 track right after the race. His performance will encompass and showcase the 'Greatest Hits' tour for India, complemented with spectacular production. The 65-year-old...
11:20 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ruled that the details of a person's income tax returns and performance of an employee are "personal information" which cannot be divulged under the provisions of the Right to Information Act unless a larger public interest is involved. The apex court added that under the transparency law, information pertaining to the performance of an employee or officer cannot be made public as it is...
04:34 AM, Oct 05, 2012
New Delhi: Put your house in order first - that's the message that Power Minister Veerappa Moily sent to the power companies on Tuesday when he said that the debt restructuring package announced by the government to bail them out would be performance-linked. "We want to ensure they don't go into debt trap again. The package is performance-linked. States discoms need to come up with a concrete plan to improve...
03:23 PM, Sep 25, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Kingfisher Airlines, whose losses widened by a whopping 147 per cent in the last quarter, on Tuesday told aviation regulator DGCA it had curtailed its flight operations due to the grounding of six of its 17 aircraft fleet and pilots' strike. Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal made a presentation on the airline's performance, severely impacted by financial distress, before DGCA chief Arun Mishra in New Delhi, official sources...
08:03 PM, Aug 21, 2012
Chennai: Girls continued to outshine boys in the Class XII examinations conducted by the state government, results for which were announced on Tuesday. Students hailing from Namakkal district bagged the top three ranks from among nearly 8.20 lakh students who appeared for the exam conducted in March. Girls continued to dominate by registering a pass percentage of 89.7 while 83.2 per cent of boys cleared the exams. Incidentally, this time...
12:49 PM, May 22, 2012
CHENNAI: Poor academic performance coupled with mental stress and parental pressure has taken away the lives of 12 students in Chennai this year alone.According to data available with the Greater Chennai City Police, 19 students have ended their lives so far this year in the city. Of these, 12 were due to academic stress and parental pressure. And of the total 19, 11 were college students, while the rest were...
08:12 AM, Apr 18, 2012
