Sports
Sony acquires Ten Sports from Zee for $385 mn
01 Sep 2016
Lodha report: Supreme Court orders ministers, bureaucrats out of BCCI
18 Jul 2016
The Supreme Court today said no politician or bureaucrat would hold an office in the Board of Control for Cricket in India, nor can a person be simultaneously an office-bearer of a state cricket association as well as the BCCI
Messi retires from world football after Chile beat Argentina
27 Jun 2016
Lionel Messi sensationally announced his retirement from international football at East Rutherford, USA on Sunday after Argentina crashed to an upset defeat against Chile in the final of the Copa America
Chinese electronics retailer Suning to buy majority stake in Italian soccer club Inter Milan
06 Jun 2016
SC again slams BCCI for ‘corrupting’ its members
06 Apr 2016
With the cricket board continuing to stonewall on implementing the Lodha Committee recommendations, the Supreme Court said it was functioning like a ‘mutual benefit society’ and ‘practically corrupting’ its members
Fall in line with Lodha panel, SC tells cricket board
05 Feb 2016
Saying there is “no reason to disagree” with the Justice Lodha Committee’s recommendations to reform the BCCI, a Supreme Court bench told the cash-rich board to report in four weeks’ time about their implementation
Sahara seeks SC nod to sell hotels, 42% stake in F1 and 4 aircraft for Subrata Roy's release
03 Feb 2016
Srinivasan’s run as global cricket chief ends
09 Nov 2015
With his exit as ICC chairman, N Srinivasan is now left with just one position as head of a cricket body — the president of Tamil Nadu Cricket Association
Nike targets revenue of $50 bn by 2020
15 Oct 2015
Nike, the world's largest sports apparel brand, which reported a revenue of $30 billion, yesterday set a target of $50 billion in revenue by 2020
Cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya dies at 75
21 Sep 2015
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya, died at a hospital in Kolkata on Sunday at around 9 pm. He was aged 75
Sweat-activated cooling apparel introduced
31 Jul 2015
India wins three titles at Wimbledon
13 Jul 2015
Sania Mirza and her Swiss partner Martina Hingis breezed through to a women's doubles win, before Leander Paez and Hingis won the mixed dolubles
175 grams: the disc that broke barriers
16 Feb 2015
Former Jaguar Land Rover and Ford Motor executive Aravind Iyer, director of the Sundance film festival award winner 175 grams and Ram Kumar founder and coach of Fly!Wild talk to Swetha Amit about the emergence of ultimate frisbee as a popular sport
SC thwarts Srinivasan's hopes of BCCI comeback
22 Jan 2015
While ruling that former cricket boss N Srinivasan cannot contest for a BCCI post as he has a commercial interest in the game, an apex court bench gave Srinivasan a clean chit on allegations of covering up misdeeds in the sixth Indian Premier League
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Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
