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[DLF IPL T20 2010] Opening Ceremony Navi Mumbai, New sponsorships & Updates

Just a day to go…to kick off the IPL Opening ceremony and the first match of IPL T20 Deccan Chargers Vs Kolkata Knight Riders.
Here are few updates on whats going on in IPL T20

Opening Ceremony will be on live in Set Max on 12th April, Friday from 6.00pm onwards
It is also live streaming in YouTube [...]

Fresh bidding for 2 new IPL team franchise – rules relaxed – Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan in bidding fray now

..strict rules made many of the above interested parties to back out. It was said that on March 8th the bidding tenders would be opened and the 2 new IPL team owners would be announced. But, it is heard that the IPL committee has received only 3 bids so far (they expected at least 20) and one was disqualified by late submission Bidders so far : 1. Saif Ali Khan + Kareena Kapoor + Karishma Kapoor + Videocon + Panchshil Group from Pune 2. Adani Enterprise 3. JP Group (bid disqualified citing late submission) …

Who is buying 2 new IPL teams – Amitab Bachan, Adani, Muthoot Group, Hero Honda, Sharad Pawar ? – New Franchise teams for IPL 4

One of the richest cricket body in the world – IPL, is planning to increase the franchise teams from 8 to 10 for the next IPL season – IPL 4, 20111. The run away success story of IPL has made Indian Cricket Story an incredible one… IPL is aiming high with its 2 new teams and has proposed strict bid rules. Each new IPL team is base priced at USD 225 million (~ Rs. 1040 crores ). Yeah, in just 3 years, IPL team base price have multiplied by 3 times. Also, Bidder networth should be over $1 Billion (~ Rs. 4500 crores). Also, interested parties should submit a bank guarantee of Rs. 460 crores to participate in the bidding process…. only four bidders are in the race now for the 2 new teams are starred in the above list…

Good news: Hikes on way at Infosys, TCS, HCL, Mahindra Satyam

As the services companies realing under recession from a long time have started to rebound, a number of them are planning to raise wages for their employees.

Infosys Technologies has announced a raise in annual pay for its employees starting April 1st. Last year, Infosys had deferred the salary hike and provided the same in October [...]

Fake Dome for new TamilNadu Assembly Building during opening ceremony – a 2 crore replica

With just few more days to go for inauguration, the new assembly building is barely ready and the dome structure is totally unbuilt. The building designers seemed to have sacrificed few building structures just for making the dome nicely lighted and visible from all angles. But for the inauguration without the dome is a serious state issue , …. by erecting a complete fake dome just for the function day..The fake dome is raised by a well known art designer Thotta Tharani (is a popular art director in tamil cinemas and involved in many successful movies down south) at the cost of 2 crores. The dome, whose original construction is suppose to be done by a Bangalore based firm Geodesic for 25 crores is now being replicated with wooden planks and fake structures just for the inauguration day (WTF) …

God of Cricket – Sachin Tendulkar

God of Cricket – That is how even the God Almighty calls him. What more a cricketer can achieve in his career?

Highest Individual Score in ODIs (200*)
Highest Run getter in ODIs (17,598 Runs at the rate of 45.12)
First batsman in history to score over 50 centuries in international cricket. He now has 93 centuries (47 [...]

Bollywood,Kollywood,Tollywood fear IPL – Indian Cinemas in defence mode

Wondering why so many films getting released across the country this Feb, 2010 ? It’s all because of the “Indian Premier League” (IPL) that is going to kick-off in the 2nd week of March. Even the biggest super stars of the woods (B/K/T) both ON the screen and OFF the screen released their movies in this month to avoid any disinterest being created by IPL T20 matches..People would not have forgotten about the first IPL period. Most of the theaters, beaches, shopping malls, recreational centers were close to empty because of IPL matches. Only the pubs …

Cloud Computing kickoff in India – CloudCamp.org technology tour and UnConference in Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune and Hyderabad

… Reasons why Cloud Computing Vendors thinking serious about India ..Amazon Web Services (AWS – includes plethora of cloud computing tools) recently appointed Simone Brunozzi as an evangelist for the Asia Pacific region. Its the first time .. Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform Windows Azure is sponsoring a number of the cloud computing events in the region…Yahoo!’s R&D group will hold the first India “hadoop Summit,” on February 24 at the event in Bangalore…Zoho.com, a cloud computing vendor has a huge development force in India. ….simple Cloud tools like Online Office Suites, Project Managements, Meeting Centres etc…All signs signal cloud computing is growing as rapidly in India as other parts of the world. If not already, CloudCamp.org forth coming initiatives should kick off the technology in this land…

Tamilnadu Schools – S.S.L.C Examination Time Table March/April 2010, model question papers, blueprint

The critical stage of every student’s life in TamilNadu starts at the standard of Ten, where they appear for Public or Board Exams. This is the deciding phase of one’s students life to choose the career-path like Medicine or Engineering or Accoutancy. Out of 9.5 Lakhs students appeared for Xth standard last year in Tamilnadu, [...]

IPL 3 2010: Business lessons to be learnt

We wrote about the business of Indian Premier league here and that the top B-schools have accepted it as a very good business model here. And now, the third season of the Indian Premier league is here. Hence, we thought we would try to analyze why is IPL such a huge success and what are [...]