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Mumbai is Tendulkar-town, Delhi is Sehwag-ville. In a cricket-insane nation, sports stores in the metros, as a rule, stock up on cricket gear, even secondary accessories like pads and gloves routinely outselling tennis rackets and the like. Things changed the week before our 60th Independence Day. Suddenly, the national game was fashionable. The demand was for hockey sticks. "It was two weeks after the film released," remembers Govind Lele, owner of a suburban Mumbai sports store. "And all o read more »
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Kangana Ranaut is all set to go bald for her latest film, Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion. After much discussion and debate, Bhandarkar decided her final look as he wanted the actress to fit into former model Geetanjali Nagpal's look. Fashion is based on Nagpal (inset), who was recently in the eye of much controversy. Once a successful model, Geetanjali lost herself to drugs and alcohol, and was found begging on the streets of Delhi in September. read more »
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Tall fast bowlers have been a rarity in Indian cricket. Ishant Sharma, 6'4" and still growing, touches the 130kph mark consistently and also possesses a sharp and deceptive bouncer delivered from a high-arm action that leaves batsmen on their toes. He started to play serious cricket at 14, rose quickly through the ranks and played Ranji Trophy one-dayers for Delhi this season, and a Deodhar Trophy game as well. His relatively frail physique is a worry but if he is looked after, he could well read more »
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"As the raid van patrols the streets of Delhi, officers watch expectantly through the windows as a hunchbacked young man in rags hobbles around a corner, his withered left leg dangling between his crutches, a memento of childhood polio. The man stopped at a roadside kiosk and stretched out a hand. The kiosk owner took pity. "He gave him money, let's go!" shouted A.M. Pandey, head of the Delhi's beggar raiding team, as he and a colleague hurtled out of the van towards the man, who was caref read more »
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In a bid to improve connectivity to its township and malls, real estate giant DLF Ltd is planning to run its own metro rail in Gurgaon covering about four km at an estimated investment of up to Rs 375 crore.
DLF, the country’s most valued real estate developer, plans to run its own metro rail as feeder service to Delhi-Gurgaon metro line being constructed by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation for providing better connectivity. read more »
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NEW DELHI: Hours after the Presidential assent to a bill enabling his removal, the government on Friday sacked eminent cardiac surgeon P Venugopal as AIIMS Director with whom Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss was locked in a long-running turf war in the prestigious institution.
T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
The dismissal of 66-year-old Venugopal came shortly after Presid read more »
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T D Dogra, who heads Forensic Medicines and Toxicology Department and is next to Venugopal in seniority, was appointed AIIMS' acting chief.
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New Delhi: Almost a week after an earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter Scale rattled Delhi, experts have now predicted a much bigger earthquake to hit the nation’s capital within the next ten years. More than one lakh residential buildings could get destroyed if the tremor warnings were to come true.
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New Delhi: From the dysphoria in the West Indies to the euphoria of the Twenty20 World Cup, Indian cricket oscillated between beauty and banality in yet another roller-coaster year that saw as much drama on-field as much off it.
The country that plunged into a mass depression after their heroes were hanged, drawn and quartered in the World Cup in the West Indies erupted in unbridled joy when its next generation cricketers returned home with the Holy Grail from the Twenty20 World Cup in South read more »
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With the winter fog getting denser everyday, passengers at Delhi airport need to be prepared for more nerve wracking moments as only three private airlines, besides the national carrier are capable of flying in dense fog, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
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