Bollywood star Vidya Balan has made it clear that she has not yet decided whether to become the brand ambassador of newly formed Kochi IPL team. “As no one has approached me about that, I have no clue about it” says Vidya .The actress who is a Malayalee by birth belonging to a Palakkad Brahmin family, is the most expected celebrity to endorse the team, as it is supposed to be from Kerala though with non Malayalee owners With the presence of Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta and Shilpa Shetty are team owners, Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone as the ambassadors of various teams, the IPL has already become the most glamorous event of Indian sport. Tags: Kochi IPL, Vidya Balan, Shashi Tharoor, kochi ipl, kerala ipl, new ipl team kerala, kerala new ipl team, kochi new ipl team, cochin ipl team, trivandrum, kerala ,latest news, ipl news, mohanlal, wallpapers
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Not decided about Kochi IPL-Vidya Balan
End of innings for Tharoor
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has accepted the resignation of Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor, as per reports. His meeting with the Prime Minister lasted for over thirty minutes.
Official word is awaited from the Prime Minister's office early morning on Monday.
The minister who became popular more for his tweets than political moves has been embroiled in the controversy around the new IPL Kochi team.
Tharoor drove to the prime minister's 7, Race Course residence in his private vehicle soon after after Manmohan Singh held a meeting of the Congress core committee including Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
The meeting was held to decide the minister's future in the government in the wake of controversy over an ugly IPL franchise row in which his friend Sunanda Pushkar was given a sweat equity worth Rs.70 crore.
Tharoor, who has been in the firing line of a united opposition demanding his removal, met Manmohan Singh earlier in the day for over 50 minutes to explain his side of the story.
BJP's first reaction says that it's the 'victory of truth.' Congress maintains that there is no deliberate attempt to delay Tharoor's resignation.
The parliament on Monday is set to see some fireworks as Tharoor's resignation puts opposition on the back foot. Some of the important bills including the Finance Bill are likely to come up for debate.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Kochi and Pune are two new IPL teams
Sahara Adventure Sports Group was the highest bidder at $370 million (Rs.1,702 crore) and bagged Pune as the host city. Kerala-based consortium Rendezvous Sports bid $333.33 million (Rs.1.333.33 crore) to get Kochi as the other franchisee to make the IPL a 10-team affair from 2011.
"There were five qualified bids and the bidding was extremely competitive. I hope they make good business," IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said, announcing the bid results here Sunday.
In the first IPL auction three years back, eight teams were sold for Rs.2,840 crore while this time the two new teams fetched an astronomical Rs.3,035.53 crore.
"It only shows there is no recession for the IPL and it is in the upswing," Modi said.
Two other bidders in fray, Adani Enterprises and Videocon, who were part of the cancelled bidding process March 7, lost out.
Modi said the Sahara Group had the option of choosing from Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune as their home. The corporate from Lucknow picked Pune as its host city.
"Sahara bid for Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Pune and was asked to settle for one city. The franchisees is given for the next 10 years," Modi said.
He said the base price for bidding was $225 million. He also said that the franchisee fee for the two new teams was for 10 years.
The two new teams will join eight franchisees that have been part of the IPL for three years: Mumbai Indians, Delhi Daredevils, Kolkata Knight Riders, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers, Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab.
With 10 teams, the next edition of the IPL will have a total of 94 games under the existing format, which now has 60 matches involving eight teams.
