New Delhi: Taming the mighty Mount Everest by climbing the world’s highest mountain peak is no longer a feat. Apparently, hurtling down its icy, steep, rugged peaks is. A six member team of the rugged Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a specialized para-military force which was created to guard the Indo-Tibet border, is all poised to [...]
NEW DELHI: Indian ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar wants to keep his oath taking ceremony in the Rajya Sabha “under wraps.” Tendulkar, according to media reports here, has officially asked the secretariat of India’s Upper House to facilitate his oath taking ceremony in private in the room of the Rajya Sabha chairman. Media reports also said [...]
NEW DELHI: An Australia cricketer playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been booked for attempting to rape a 27-year-old US citizen of Indian origin at a five star hotel here. 27-year-old Australian player Luke Pomersbach has been accused by the victim of trying to rape her in her own hotel bedroom and beating [...]
NEW DELHI: Denied permission to celebrate, a drunk Shahrukh Khan got into a messy scrap with a Mumbai stadium’s cricket officials, after the former’s team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat the Mumbai Indians. Shah Rukh and his entourage which religiously follows the matches of their team the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), had wanted to celebrate [...]
HANOI: Ho Chi Minh City will play host to the 2012 ASEAN Football Federation Women’s Championship to be held September 13-22. The move is expected to boost women’s profiles in the country and improve the construct of women and sport, activists and women’s rights advocates told Bikyamasr.com. The tournament will be divided into two groups, [...]
New Delhi: In the rest of India, playing cricket can fetch you fame and glory. In the conflict ridden Jammu and Kashmir state, playing cricket can get you bullet. Asking for the return of cricket ball, which landed accidentally into a university vice chancellor’s house, was reason enough for the police shoot in the air [...]
NEW DELHI: It’s not just boxing greats who like to bite off ears, amateur cricketers love to tear off earlobes too it appears. In a scene reminiscent of the infamous bout between former World heavyweight boxing champions, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, an auto driver in the suburbs of Chennai bit off the ear of [...]
NEW DELHI: A company promoted by Australian cricket hero, Steve Waugh, is linking up with real estate developers to design and plan sports facilities and spaces in upcoming housing townships in India. More than a business idea, the move is aimed at providing leisure and sports grounds to a growing number of middle and upper-middle [...]
CAIRO: The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) decided to dispatch a military plane to carry the mission members of al-Ahly football team from Mali after Bamako airport was reopened for air traffic movement. In a press release on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Amr Roshdi, informed Bikyamasr.com that coordination between the Council and the [...]
New Delhi: We know he’s ‘smoking’ hot, but Shahrukh Khan is fast turning out to be the bad boy of Bollywood, at least during cricket matches. After being taken to task over smoking during a cricket match at the popular Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2009, Khan’s lighting of the [...]
New Delhi: India’s iconic cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has been hand-picked by the president of India for a seat in the country’s house of Elders, the Rajya Sabha. Tendulkar, who turned 39 on Tuesday and became the first person to score 100 centuries at the international level this year, has already been tipped as one of [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Ismailia Criminal Court has adjourned the stadium massacre trial until May 5 and ordered that defendants be remanded in custody. The court will hold successive sessions starting on May 5 through May 9, to hear testimonies by the chief forensic doctor and prosecution witnesses. Defendants are accused of killing 73 and injuring 254 [...]
NEW DELHI: Promoting India as an incredible tourism destination is India’s ‘goal’ at the 2014 World Cup scheduled to be held in Brazil. According to India’s tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahai a promotional media blitzkerg showcasing brand ‘Incredible India’, will be splashed all over the South American landscape. Sahai, said the government was looking at [...]
NEW DELHI: With no money to repair her house, India medal winning archer has been forced to sell her bow for a few thousand rupees. Archer Nishi Rani Dutta’s (21) story echoes several other sports stars, who have been ignored by India’s sports officials and industry, which has been almost exclusively backing cricket as the [...]
CAIRO: The “Professional Football Against Hunger” campaign is coming to hundreds of European football stadiums with the message that action is needed now to avert a humanitarian disaster in the Sahel region of Africa, where a food and nutrition crisis caused by drought, chronic poverty, high food prices, displacement and conflict is affecting millions of [...]
DUBAI: Seven Emirati men have been arrested following an assault on members of the Kuwaiti Jet Ski team taking part in the fourth round of the UAE Jet Ski Championship at Umm Suqeim Beach. His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, instructed police [...]
CAIRO: Violence has once again erupted in Egypt’s Port Said, following the funeral of the 13-year-old boy who was killed by security forces on Friday evening in violent clashes. According to eyewitnesses, massive amounts of tear gas has been launched at angry protesters and reports of clashes in the city are taking places in Egypt’s [...]
DUBAI: Spain’s Real Madrid football club has announced that it will develop a 4.6 million square foot resort island in the United Arab Emirates. The club showed plans on Thursday for the luxury facility. It will include a number of sporting facilities, a marina, luxury hotels and villas, an amusement park, a club museum and [...]
CAIRO: At least one protester in Egypt’s Port Said city was shot dead on Friday night as fans of the local club team clashed with security forces after the club was banned for two seasons. One eyewitness told Bikyamasr.com that “it was really chaos and scary as the guns were heard. I thought we all [...]
Damascus (dpa)- Syria’s Olympic team, led by Portuguese coach Rui Almeida, will be trying to put the country’s political troubles behind them by taking a step next week towards qualification for the Olympic Games in London. The squad is on its way to Vietnam where they will take on Oman on Sunday in the Asian [...]
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