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If Gurunath, Kundra bet, BCCI should throw the book at them
by Tariq Engineer
Jun 07, 2013

, a baseball legend and one of the sports most celebrated players.Roses crime: betting on baseball, including on games played by his own Reds team.As ESPN #Sports # BCCI # India # Cricket # Rajasthan Royals # IPL # Chennai Super Kings # Spot fixing # Gambling # Raj Kundra # IPL 6 # Gurunath Meiyappan
Indian-American Arvind Mahakali wins Scripps National Spelling Bee
May 31, 2013

is reflected in an ESPN broadcast that gets more sophisticated each year. In the semifinals, Amber got to watch herself featured on a televised promo that also #ThingsWeLike # Indian-American # National Spelling Bee # Arvind Mahakali # Scripps
Why Arun Jaitley should have stood up against Srinivasan
by Anant Rangaswami
May 27, 2013

a resolution against the president right now, reports ESPN.The political heavyweights in this play include Arun Jaitley, leader of the opposition in the upper #Sports # Anna Hazare # BCCI # India # Cricket # Congress # BJP # Arun Jaitley # Rajiv Shukla # N Srinivasan # Spot-fixing scandal # IPL 6 # Gurunath Meiyappan
IPL spot-fixing: The answer is to legalise betting in India, says Boycott
May 24, 2013

-- but we're getting too many at the minute -- is this business of making betting legal in India. It's illegal, so people do it," Boycott told ESPN #
David Beckham: the man who made me choose football over cricket
by Pulasta Dhar
May 17, 2013

glare get to him. As Iain Macintosh writes for ESPN, other sportsmen would have ended up crying on Oprah Winfreys sofa with this sort of attention #Sports # David Beckham # football # Manchester United # KickingAround # Real Madrid # PSG # Beckham retirement
News Corp results beat Wall St estimates, publishing biz spin-off on track
May 09, 2013

Carey said the company will invest to build new cable networks, with the launch in August of Fox Sports 1, a competitor to Walt Disney Co.s ESPN, and FXX #
News Corp results beat estimates, spin-off on track
by FP Staff
May 09, 2013

Co's (DIS.N) ESPN, and FXX, aimed at young adults, in September. The company intends to spend "a couple hundred million and change" over #
Twitter verse: Ronaldo, Nistelrooy and other reactions to Fergie's retirement
by FP Sports
May 08, 2013

— Ruud van Nistelrooy (@RvN1776) May 8, 2013An institution retired today. #SAF— Janusz Michallik (@JanuszESPN) May 8, 2013Thanks for everything #
NBA center Jason Collins announces he is gay
by FP Sports
Apr 30, 2013

, Minnesota Timberwolves, Atlanta Hawks, Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards. His brother, Jarron, also played in the NBA for ten seasons.According to ESPN #Sports # NewsTracker # NBA # basketball # Jason Collins
Star claims highest TV ratings for Ind vs Aus series in 4 yrs
Apr 08, 2013

played by India in the past four years.ESPN STAR Sports' commitment for enhanced viewer engagement with the introduction of Hindi commentary simulcast #NewsTracker # Australia in India 2013 # Television ratings

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Lok Sabha polls 2014: Back to basics for Congress and BJP

With the playing field level, from now on it will be a battle of strategies for the Congress and the BJP
Chidu's 'Ferrari' of reforms has an autorickshaw engine

A slew of economic reforms has been promised this month, but one should not expect anything more than fancy footwork from the FM.
From a fed-up, die-hard fan: An open letter to SRK

Forget all this surrogacy business. The reason we love Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s been one of Bollywood’s smarter actors. But of late, SRK’s been a bit disappointing, complains a fed-up, die-hard fan.
Dhoni has Ganguly's touch but with a difference

Rohit, Kohli, Raina, Jadeja, Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar, Umesh – that’s the core of the Indian team today and perhaps it wouldn’t be wrong to say that they are Dhoni’s boys.

Vajpayee, Advani, Modi: Every leader has given Hindutva a twist

From Vajpayee to Advani to Modi –the Sangh Parivar has come a long way, presenting before India every few years a Hindutva face rendered presentable through a shrewd makeover
Why Nitish 'really' dumped the Modi-led BJP

While prima facie it might seem to be a clash of two strong personalities i.e. Modi and Kumar, there is much more to the split than that.
3 Indias at war: Sensex India, Maoist India, and Bharat

The current tensions in India can directly be traced to three visions of India – one of which will involve breaking the country
Last man standing: Why it's easy to feel sorry for Misbah

Sympathy for a Pakistani cricketer, especially a batsman, is a novel emotion for those of us coming from the 90s.

Fear of the unknown grips the BJP in Bihar

Although the party is maintaining a brave face, the eventuality of a split has left many leaders on tenterhooks.
In Mamata's Bengal: Zero tolerance for rape or protesting against rape?

Bengal tops the list in violence against women. There have been several reports of gang rape in the past few weeks. The Mamata government has taken quick and stern action – against the women protesting the rapes in front of the CM’s residence.
Food security: For poor’s sake, jholawalas must speak up

The subsidy to the rich accounts for more than 7 percent of the GDP while that for the poor, with the food security act, would account for 1.1 percent.
Patients get HIV in Assam hospital after blood transfusion, panic spreads

Many patients who were administered blood from the same blood bank fear the worst.

Why a BJP-JD(U) split will be good for India

Neither UPA nor NDA is an alliance. And the BJP and JD(U) were mere power-sharers, not allies. To grow, alliances have to be built around principles not just power-sharing
Chidu takes comfort in Fitch upgrade, but where are real reforms?

At a press conference, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, however, did not reveal any concrete steps but promised more reforms by August. He said the rupee’s decline is in line with that of the currencies of other countries with high current account deficit like India.
Why cutting interest rates will have little impact on industrial production

The index of industrial production (IIP), a measure of the industrial activity in the country, grew by a meagre 2% in April 2013, in comparison to the same period during 2012. The index was expected to grow by around 2.4% (source: India: Weak growth and sticky retail inflation. Sonal Varma and Aman Mohunta, Nomura). In [...]
Why 'Sir' Ravindra Jadeja is a people's genius

If one was simply to go by numbers, young and jolly Jadeja is on course to be a great. That’s not overrating him — it’s the simple logic of statistics one cannot argue against.

The Aurangzeb factor: 5 lessons from Modi-Advani tussle

Political parties need to have a process for electing leaders. This problem relates more to cadre-based parties such as BJP and CPM.
Why 55-60 to the dollar may be the new normal for rupee

A drop in the US dollar index does not seem to help the rupee; this shows that the Indian currency seems to be marching to its own gloomy beat.
Critics split on Apple iOS 7: Hideous, unoriginal or a thing of pure beauty?

The new design has sparked debates over whether Apple stole the design from Android or Windows 8 or just created an unholy union of the two. We take a look at what the critics are saying:
Is Putin the Salman Khan of international politics?

Is Vladimir Putin the Salman Khan of world politics? Our new columnist, stand-up comedian Gursimran Khamba pontificates.

Advani wins: No free hand for Narendra Modi just yet

What was the senior leader’s specific problem? Well, one is the indecent hurry in which Modi’s is being shoved down the throats of other leaders in the party.
Obama's second innings? As a junior engineer in govt service in India

Is Barack Obama about to sit for an exam for a junior level engineer in India? A man in Rajasthan says he’s got an admit card with Obama’s picture on it from the Staff Selection Commission. Actually on second thought that might not be such a bad second career for the President.
How US industries are trying to use 'treaties' to arm twist India

US companies are blatantly violating international agreements or purely lying, when they accuse India of using TRIPS flexibilities. Americans have spoken the same language against other countries such as Brazil and Thailand, but failed.