Taking notes

R Venkataraghavan comes away from a holiday to Kochi angry and upset at the all-round callousness towards the city's source of livelihood -- water. I have a question.An important one, for that matter. Every good question has a story behind it, so sit straight and focus. So with the start of the second month of the new year, my father wanted to go for a short holiday somewhere, anywhere. So with Google, an old and trusted ally or sometimes foe, we decided on one of the calmest and picturesque ...

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NEW DELHI The cricket fraternity in India on Friday expressed shock at the omission of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Don Bradman in the all-time Test eleven named by former English umpire Dickie Bird with some former cricketers calling his ...

Sports News: BANGALORE: Picking the side for a British daily ahead of his 80th birthday on Friday, Bird suggested he has no issues leaving out Aussie legend Donald Bradman too. Curiously, the top-10 run makers in Tests don't figure in Bird's ...

It's not just players and support staff who are raking in extra moolah from the IPL, but umpires too are getting a lucrative deal. Whereas the on-field umpires are paid `60,000 for officiating in a four/five-day domestic fixture, they get as much as ...

Once Again, a Bangalore-based NGO, collects items you don't use anymore, sells it at a minimal price to the underprivileged and uses these funds to empower them through various sustainable projects. To maximize youth-participation in this cause with ...

This year, India will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the 1983 World Cup win. But the victory which gave Kapil Dev's team the self belief to beat the all-conquering West Indies team was achieved exactly today 30 years ago — at the Albion Sports ...