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Friday, July 4, 2008

City prepares to party with Bollywoodi hottest

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Who would turn down an opportunity to party with John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Sameera Reddy and Neil Nitin Mukesh? If the response to HT City's 'Party with Bollywood' contest is an indication, Dilliwalas have their minds set on winning the 75 tickets to the mega party featuring their favourite stars, as well as thousands of other prizes up for grabs.

Day One saw a flurry of SMSes -15,000, no less - of which 8,000 correct entries have already won a prize. The five mega winners are student Harneet Suri, engineering service consultant Sanjeeb Banerjee, software engineers Ujjwal Singh and Satish Kumar Singh, and just-out-of university Shaili Bhatia. All five were on cloud nine. "As soon as I got the call, I told my wife I'll meet Deepika," said Banerjee excitedly Satish Singh was first time lucky - 'Party with Bollywood' is the first contest he has participated in. Now that he knows he'll meet Deepika in person, he says, "I've to prepare questions to ask her".

Other winners are planning for the big day too. "I'm going to wear a black shirt gifted by my sister," says Suri. Bhatia knows exactly what she'11 ask John: "How do you work out?" HT City has made life more colourful for these contestants

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Monday, June 2, 2008

Jaipur Triumph

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Too often and too loosely events in cricket are described as historic or epochal. When the Indian Premier League began, fans weren't sure what to make of it, cricketers weren't clear if they were making enough from it and the media didn't quite know how to cover it.

At the end, everyone agreed on one thing this will change the way cricket is governed and consumed around the world. Is that good? Is it the worst thing ever? Time will tell, but it's crystal clear that change is here.

When franchises sit down with their balance sheets after the dust has settled and the cheerleaders have gone home, we'll know more about whether the financial model is robust enough - profits in the first year may just be expecting too much.

For the tournament to be a hit, two things were crucial the players had to take the games dead seriously, and the fans had to buy into the concept.

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Friday, April 18, 2008

Torch passes in peace, Delhi pays the price

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The Indian government and Delhi Police ended Thursday with a sigh of relief, but Delhi was gasping for breath long after the Olympic flame had left for its next destination, Bangkok.

With a staggering 17,000 policemen and commandos swarming the heart of New Delhi, the torch completed its 2.3 km journey down Rajpath that had been sanitised from even the somnolent babus of the many sarkari buildings around.

The widely feared Tibetan protests were largely non-violent; the police still arrested as many as 267 people for trying to disrupt the run.

"No protester could manage to breach security anywhere in the city," Rajan Bhagat, Delhi Police spokesman, announced at the end of the day "All attempts to create trouble were thwarted."

In fact, all of Delhi was thwarted.

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