Many political luminaries, among them Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, winged their way to Kolkata Thursday to look up ailing Marxist veteran Jyoti Basu, in a critical condition at AMRI Hospital following a pneumonia attack.
Manmohan Singh paid a 22-minute visit to the nonagenarian former chief minister, who is on ventilator support at the Salt Lake-based private [...]
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and the city police seem on a collision course over fixing responsibility for the Dec 24 light fiasco during the India-Sri Lanka one dayer at the Eden Gardens.
While CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya virtually rubbished the report of a seven-member committee probing the matter, saying it [...]
Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Having drawn a flak for the light fiasco during Dec 24 India-Sri Lanka one-day match at the Eden Gardens, the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) Wednesday said it would henceforth buy or hire generator and take charge of power distribution during day-night engagements.
‘We will buy or hire a new generator. We [...]
Kolkata, Dec 25 (IANS) Emergency meetings are being held and probe committees formed as the authorities Friday grappled to identify the cause of the floodlight failure during the India-Sri Lanka one dayer at the Eden Gardens here Thursday.
The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) formed a seven-member committee, the state Public Works Department (PWD) announced a [...]
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Play in the fourth one-day international (ODI) between India and Sri Lanka was disrupted for 26 minutes Thursday after one of the four floodlight towers at the Eden Gardens here went off triggering a blame game among the various agencies.
Sri Lanka were 307 for six in 49.2 overs (at 5.58 p.m.) [...]
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) So stringent was the security at the Eden Gardens that even cricketing legend Sunil Gavaskar was denied entry to the ground for not carrying his pass during the fourth India-Sri Lanka one day match here Thursday.
Gavaskar, who is on a commentary assignment with official broadcaster Neo Sports, was asked to show [...]
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) Pretending to be cricket fans in search of tickets, Kolkata policemen in plainclothes have arrested 17 people allegedly involved in selling at exorbitant prices the complimentary tickets for the fourth India-Sri Lanka one-dayer at the Eden Gardens Thursday.
Polcie said the touts were rounded up in the vicinity of Eden and 17 [...]
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) A win away from clinching the series, India will bank on their explosive batting line-up as they battle history and injury in the fourth One-day international against Sri Lanka at the half-filled Eden Gardens here Thursday.
The rollicking form of seasoned campaigners Sachin Tendulkar (208 at 104 average) and stand-in-skipper Virender Sehwag [...]
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) For the first time, Indian and Sri Lankan players would be driven straight to the Eden Gardens dressing room during practice and Thursday’s One-day International match as part of heightened security following reports of Taliban-trained terrorists sneaking into the city.
A senior city police officer said that in a departure from the [...]
Kolkata, Dec 20 (IANS) The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) could incur a loss of up to Rs.2.5 crore from gate sales as there will not be a single priced ticket during the fourth India-Sri Lanka one dayer at the Eden Gardens Dec 24.
‘Our collection from the gate sales could have gone up to Rs.2.5 [...]
Kolkata, Dec 8 (IANS) Indian Premier League (IPL) commissioner Lalit Modi may have visited the city Tuesday officially to inspect the Eden Gardens, but sources in the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) say the daylong trip could be a precursor to a new equation in the cricket board politics.
Modi and CAB president Jagmohan Dalmiya may [...]
Kolkata, Nov 22 (IANS) In what may be a first in India, there will not be a single priced ticket during the fourth India-Sri Lanka one dayer at the Eden Gardens Dec 24.
Disclosing this, a Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) official Saturday said only 53 percent of the seats in the 83,635-capacity stadium were available [...]
Kolkata, Nov 14 (IANS) Apart from clobbering bowlers all over the park, Sachin Tendulkar relishes lobsters – specially those cooked Bengali style.
While Tendulkar’s enormous appetite for runs during 20 long years of international cricket has earned him plaudits the world over, his love of Bengali food is known only to a privileged few, who hosted [...]
Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS) Avik Chowdhury, a Bengal cricketer, was among six people injured in a car accident here Sunday. Chowdhury was in critical condition and on ventilator support in a private hospital after sustaining multiple injuries, a doctor said.
Five others in the car that hit a road divider on the eastern metropolitan bypass were [...]
Kolkata, Oct 9 (IANS) Eden Gardens will host the fourth game of the coming One-Day International (ODI) series against Sri Lanka, its first big match involving national sides in two years.
The match will be played tentatively on Dec 20, Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Jagmohan Dalmiya said, describing the development as triumph of the [...]
