BCCI invited bids for the title sponsorship for IPL. ...
10:32 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Amsterdam: Dutch bank Rabobank ended its multi-million euro backing of professional cycling on Friday, the latest sponsor scared away by a doping scandal that has engulfed seven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. The bank is the biggest backer of the high profile Dutch Rabobank team, with total sponsorship worth 15 million euros a year in a cycling-mad nation with as many bikes as people. The decision shows the damage...
10:25 PM, Oct 19, 2012
Bhopal: Hundreds of survivors of the deadly 1984 Bhopal gas leak held a "Special Olympics" on Thursday with children suffering birth defects in an effort to shame Olympic sponsor Dow Chemical Co. on the eve of the London Games. Survivors say Dow owes them compensation for the world's worst industrial disaster and have campaigned to have the chemical giant dropped as a sponsor of the Olympics. Dow says it has...
02:00 PM, Jul 26, 2012
London: Barclays has agreed to pay almost 50 per cent more to renew its title sponsorship of the English Premier League, while the bank is embroiled in an international rate-fixing scandal. The league will receive 120 million pounds ($185 million) over three years from the 2013-14 season, a jump from the 82 million (then $135 million) pounds under the current terms. Britain's third largest bank has held naming rights to...
02:11 PM, Jul 13, 2012
London: London politicians called on Olympic officials to rethink their sponsorship contract with Dow Chemical on Wednesday, saying the company's links to the 1984 Bhopal disaster damaged the reputation of this month's Games. Members of the London Assembly, the body which oversees the work of the capital's mayor, said London Olympic organisers (LOCOG) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) should give more weight to environmental, social and ethical records of...
08:21 AM, Jul 12, 2012
Acting chief executive Jacques Faul confirmed that sponsorship deal with a financial institution was imminent. ...
02:32 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Their association with cricket might have gone sour but Sahara Group is set to renew its long-term sponsorship deal with Indian hockey by signing a five-year agreement with Hockey India, the modalities of which have been worked out. Under the agreement, expected to be signed in the next few days, the country's men's and women's hockey teams at both the senior and junior level will get the financial...
01:22 PM, Feb 07, 2012
BCCI president N Srinivasan is hopeful of resolving all issues with Sahara India through dialogue, after the latter backed out of sponsorship of Team India and the Pune Warriors on Saturday. ...
10:27 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Panaji: Politicians in Goa have suddenly begun sponsoring pilgrimages to Hindu and Christian religious sites with gusto - possibly hoping for "divine intervention" in the March 3 polls. Both aspiring candidates as well as Election Commission officials acknowledge that Hindu and Christian voters were being sponsored for pilgrimages to Shirdi in Maharashtra - known as the destination of Sai Baba devotees - and to Vailankanni in Tamil Nadu, a famous...
02:53 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: In what could be a severe jolt to the crisis-ridden Commonwealth Games, the Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today said his ministry has asked PSUs to hold back sponsorship money totalling up to Rs 260 crore for the event. "We have already asked PSUs to hold on. Instructions were issued by DPE secretary to hold on (to) the funds," Deshmukh said. As such, NTPC and...
06:45 PM, Aug 19, 2010
New Delhi: The second round of the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy season gets underway across the country on Friday, after an engaging first round of matches in which there were five outright wins and gripping, hard-fought draws at Indore and Nadaun. Round two sees three additional teams open their campaigns Goa, Maharashtra and Saurashtra. Heres a look at the Group B matches starting November 9. Maharashtra v Uttar Pradesh at Pune:...
12:56 AM, Jul 17, 2008
London: Andrew Strauss, who stepped down as England Test captain in August, has said that the reconciliation between Kevin Pietersen and other England players will not be easy and that it could lead to further problems in the dressing room. It [reconciliation] will be difficult, Strauss told the Guardian. “One of the problems is that there are two separate sections. One is going on in meeting rooms between KP and...
04:11 PM, Jul 10, 2008
New Delhi: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar's name has been recommended for Bharat Ratna by the Prime Minister's Office, sources have told CNN-IBN. However, sources also add that there is some reservation on conferring Bharat Ratna on Tendulkar as he is considered too young for the highest civilian award of the country. Those opposing his name also say that as the maestro received Padma Vibhushan just two years back and it...
10:52 PM, Dec 03, 2007
Giving competition to the Goddess in an effort to grab eyeballs are ads. ...
03:40 AM, Oct 18, 2007
There is a sad dearth of Indian heroes on Everest, with sponsors favouring cricket over all other sports. ...
05:00 PM, May 04, 2007
