It’s that time of the year, when Delhi gears up to come together and run on a common platform. Come November 1, Delhi will experience the joy of running while celebrating the 2nd edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.
We are adding a little boisterous cheer to the gentlemen’s game. A free drink with every drink you order. Lucky draws. Cricket on the big screen. And for the semi finals and finals, a true stadium experience with cheer leaders, body paints, team t-shirts and the inevitable spirited rooting.
Even as the fun and games of the Indian Premier League start
today, an unseemly and far graver issue of Pakistani cricketers and cricket in
general is drawing attention.
The six-lane Yamuna Expressway (erstwhile Taj expressway) is all set to get ready for commuting before the Commonwealth Games. The project, scheduled for completion by April 2013, is being speeded up on orders of CM Mayawati who wants CWG visitors to get a fast ride to Agra, which will cut Delhi-Agra travel time by an hour and ease congestion on the Mathura Road route.
P7 News Channel is the official media partner of FIH World Cup Tournament-2010. The Tournament has started from 28th February and will go on till 13th March 2010 at Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, India. The 2010 World Cup will be the 12th installment of the tournament and the second to be held in India.
I know that I am not imparting any news that one did not
know anyway; the fact that Sachin Tendulkar has gone where no man has gone
before; scoring the hitherto elusive double hundred in one day internationals
against the South Africans yesterday. Not only is his feat unprecedented, the visible
euphoria in the media as well as among the hoi polloi is also unprecedented.
Last night, as the Indian cricket team battled the South Africans
in an absolute cliffhanger to emerge victor, one was reassured that ‘Aal ijh
well’ with one day international cricket.
With Commonwealth Games now just a little over seven months away, all fingers remain crossed on whether Capital is well prepared to host the mega event by completing all the required infrastructure development and the supporting facilities before the deadline.
As the countdown to Commonwealth Games 2010 has already started and the games are just 228 days away, it is time to take an account of how well the Capital is prepared for the D-day.
International Airport Pvt. Ltd (DIAL), the private operator of the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, has successfully raised Rs 1,472 crore from the sale of 45 acres of land to developers. This is well above the Rs 912 crore it had expected to raise from the sale last year.
Some would uncharitably say, it’s only Bangladesh, so what if he scored his 44th test century. Well to put that 44th test century into perspective, the total score was only 243 (Sachin was the only one who remained not out), only one other batsman scored more than 50 (Virender Sehwag scored 52) and 5 batsmen did not even reach double figures.
A host of hotels in Capital to be built on land allocated to airport developer DIAL are likely to start functioning only in 2011, well after the curtains to Commonwealth Games 2010.