NEW DELHI, Aug 24 (Reuters) – English Premier League club
Liverpool launched their first soccer academy in India on
Wednesday and said the club would have similar “footprints” in
every continent by 2014.

“We want to have footprints in every continent in the next
three years,” Steve Turner, head of Liverpool FC International
Football Academy, told reporters after signing a contract to set
up the Indian academy on the outskirts of Delhi.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – If the early response is anything to go by, the organisers of the Indian Grand Prix should have little to worry about over the turnout for the country’s inaugural Formula One race on the outskirts of Delhi on Oct. 30.

Tickets worth 12.5 million rupees ($273,768) were snapped up in the first three hours of sales on Saturday, leaving Ashish Hemrajani, head of race ticketing partner Bookmyshow.com, in no doubt that there will be a full house at the Buddh International Circuit.

NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (Reuters) – If the early response is
anything to go by, the organisers of the Indian Grand Prix
should have little to worry about over the turnout for the
country’s inaugural Formula One race on the outskirts of Delhi
on Oct. 30.

Tickets worth 12.5 million rupees ($273,768) were snapped up
in the first three hours of sales on Saturday, leaving Ashish
Hemrajani, head of race ticketing partner Bookmyshow.com, in no
doubt that there will be a full house at the Buddh International
Circuit.

NEW DELHI, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Organisers of the inaugural
Indian Grand Prix and home-grown Formula One drivers believe
there will be a full house for the Oct. 30 race at the
120,000-capacity circuit on the outskirts of Delhi.

Sameer Gaur, managing director and chief executive of race
promoters JPSI, announced the start of ticket sales on Saturday
and handed the first two to Narain Karthikeyan and Karun
Chandhok.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – As India cries out for a pace bowler to add some much-needed bite to its depleted attack, one man in the frame to become a future new ball spearhead believes speed alone cannot guarantee success.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni may be Jharkhand’s most notable contribution to Indian cricket but Varun Aaron was able to share some of the skipper’s limelight earlier this year when he bowled what many believe to be the fastest delivery by an Indian.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – As India cries out for a pace bowler to add some much-needed bite to its depleted attack, one man in the frame to become a future new ball spearhead believes speed alone cannot guarantee success.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni may be Jharkhand’s most notable contribution to Indian cricket but Varun Aaron was able to share some of the skipper’s limelight earlier this year when he bowled what many believe to be the fastest delivery by an Indian.

NEW DELHI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – As India cries out for a pace
bowler to add some much-needed bite to its depleted attack, one
man in the frame to become a future new ball spearhead believes
speed alone cannot guarantee success.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni may be Jharkhand’s most notable
contribution to Indian cricket but Varun Aaron was able to share
some of the skipper’s limelight earlier this year when he bowled
what many believe to be the fastest delivery by an Indian.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hailed the circuit for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix in October as “one of the nicest” on the calendar and predicted the series to take a serious hold in the world’s second-most populous country.

Announcing telecom giant Bharti Airtel as title sponsor of the October 30 race at the Buddh International Circuit on the outskirts of New Delhi, the 80-year-old entrepreneur fully expects the F1 bug to bite the cricket-crazy nation.

NEW DELHI, Aug 18 (Reuters) – Formula One supremo Bernie
Ecclestone has hailed the circuit for the inaugural Indian Grand
Prix in October as “one of the nicest” on the calendar and
predicted the series to take a serious hold in the world’s
second-most populous country.

Announcing telecom giant Bharti Airtel as title
sponsor of the Oct. 30 race at the Buddh International Circuit
on the outskirts of New Delhi, the 80-year-old entrepreneur
fully expects the F1 bug to bite the cricket-crazy nation.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Every time she leaps to shoot, 21-year-old basketball player Pratima Singh considers herself lucky that all she has to defy is gravity.

For her four elder sisters, two of them former national captains and another India’s offensive lynchpin, a stronger drag was the country’s notorious gender bias.