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Change Of Umpire
Subhash Chandra is back on the cricket pitch, with some help from the new "chief umpire" at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Sharad Pawar. After a protracted legal battle with BCCI, Chandra's sports channel, Zee Sports, managed to get the cable and satellite telecast rights of the ongoing India-Sri Lanka series. Sure, it was the Delhi High Court's decision (to invite fresh bids for the series and award the rights to the highest bidder) that helped, but the new BCCI President, Pawar, was good enough not to go in for an appeal-something that may well have happened had Jagmohan Dalmiya's nominee Ranbir Singh not been ousted in the recent BCCI elections. "We are entering a new era of solidarity with the BCCI," says a close aide of the Zee Chairman. But didn't Chandra say not too long back that he's had enough of cricket? He did, but simple economics must have convinced him otherwise. For instance, Zee is said to have paid Rs 19 crore to acquire the telecast rights, but it could pull in Rs 50 crore from advertising alone.See the full content of this document
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Change of Umpire
Academia Beckons
Even for a man who has donned many hats, including those of the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Defence, External Affairs and Finance Minister in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee gover...See the full content of this document
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