New Delhi: The deadlock between electronic media and ICC over coverage of Wednesday's Indo-Pak World Cup cricket semifinal got resolved on Tuesday, following a request from the Indian Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Ambika Soni. Ambika Soni proposed a 24-hour 'truce' in a dispute created by Indian non-rights holders (NRH) breaching the terms and conditions they had agreed to follow when they were awarded accreditation for the ICC Cricket World...
10:51 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Watch the war paint, drumbeats and over-the-top nationalism ahead of the mother of all battles. ...
10:10 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: A dust-storm, thunder and lightning lashed Chandigarh, followed by mild rains on Tuesday evening just a day ahead of the crucial India-Pakistan semi-final match on Wednesday. The rain gods can dampen the spirits of tens of thousands of cricket fans and play spoilsport in the eagerly awaited World Cup semifinal at Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) Stadium on Wednesday. The weatherman has predicted clouds to prevail in this region...
09:44 PM, Mar 29, 2011
When it comes to cricket craze, Pakistanis don't want to be left behind traditional rivals India. While Indian model Poonam Pandey has vowed to go nude if India win the cup, Pakistanis are taking a less risque route. They are churning out videos to boost the morale of their team and fans. Sometimes with hilarious results.A video titled 'Boom Boom World Cup', posted on YouTube, has gone viral. Sung by...
09:34 PM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: Mixing cricket and diplomacy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will host his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday over dinner in the Mohali cricket stadium on the margins of the World Cup semi-finals between the two countries. An indication that the Congress party is also backing him in his latest peace initiative can be seen as Sonia Gandhi will also be witnessing the high-voltage cricket encounter possibly along...
08:28 PM, Mar 29, 2011
A music band in Patna cheers Team India by singing a specially composed song. ...
12:57 PM, Mar 29, 2011
Islamabad: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is going to India primarily to witness the Pakistan-India World Cup semifinal and "not to discuss the Kashmir issue", says a minister. Gilani will be visiting India to watch the crucial cricket match on the invitation of his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh. The trip is being described as cricket diplomacy. The match will be held in Mohali on March 30. Information Minister Firdous Ashiq...
11:40 AM, Mar 29, 2011
Media agencies say broadcaster ESPN Star is demanding between 15 to 18 lakh rupees per 10 seconds. ...
11:01 AM, Mar 29, 2011
PMO sources said the two leaders will discuss bilateral issues over dinner. ...
08:37 AM, Mar 29, 2011
New Delhi: After Pakistani premier Yousuf Raza Gilani agreed to play ball with India and watch the semifinal with Dr Manmohan Singh, sources say the two leaders will discuss bilateral issues over dinner. But will this dialogue deliver any result? Manmohan and Gilani's date at Mohali will be all pleasure not business, that's the word from sources in the Indian Prime Minister's Office. Sources indicating that while the programme is...
06:55 AM, Mar 29, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai asks cricket experts is match fixing deep-rooted enough to fix an Indo-Pak encounter. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Mumbai: The Clash of the Titans at Mohali is a godsend for the bookies. Call it patriotism or sound business sense, the money is firmly behind India to put it past Pakistan in the semi-final. While the whole country is gearing up to witness the mother of all cricket encounters at Mohali on Wednesday, bookies are right on their phones, working over time before this massive clash. The Men in...
09:11 PM, Mar 28, 2011
One of India's most popular astrologers, Bejan Daruwalla has a penchant for trying his hand at foretelling anything from the fate of Bollywood flicks to election results. With cricket being India's uniting religion, he has, over the years, made many a cricketing prediction. We picked a sample of his most famous predictions to calculate the strike rate of the veteran fortune teller. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 28, 2011
The cyber crime branch of the Chandigarh police on Monday, arrested a software engineer who was trying to sell Mohali match tickets online. He was trying to sell five tickets of Rs 250 each for Rs 1,20,000 each online. ...
04:46 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Mohali: The cyber crime branch of the Chandigarh police on Monday, arrested a software engineer who was trying to sell Mohali match tickets online. He was trying to sell five tickets of Rs 250 each for Rs 1,20,000 each online. The software engineer has been taken into custody and has been sent to 14-days judicial remand. The tickets of the India-Pakistan semi-final are sold out in Chandigarh and Mohali, but...
04:30 PM, Mar 28, 2011
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Everybody and their mother-in-law is doing a blog post on the big cricket match on Wednesday. It does take superhuman effort or an utter dislike/extreme ...
01:07 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief the cabinet on his visit to India where he will meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh, a media report said on Monday. Dawn reported that final touches were being given to the arrangements for Gilani's visit to watch the Pakistan-India cricket World Cup semi-final in Mohali on Wednesday. Informed sources said that a special meeting of the cabinet had been convened...
12:57 PM, Mar 28, 2011
Speacial bus services will be provided, so the Pakistanis can be picked and ferried to Mohali. ...
10:29 AM, Mar 28, 2011
Mohali: It's more than three days now since tickets were sold out in Chandigarh and Mohali, but fans are still waiting in a hopeless quest for tickets at the Mohali stadium. "I have come from Andhra to watch this match, but there is no ticket here. I have been waiting here since morning, but there is nothing available yet," said a cricket fan from Andhra Pradesh. All in all, 16,000...
10:41 PM, Mar 27, 2011
If you dont have a ticket yet for the Indo-Pak World Cup semifinals in Mohali, the odds are that you would probably be sitting at home watching the match on your television. Tickets are sold out at the venue and those available are in black and could cost you as much as one lakh rupees. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 27, 2011
