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Ludhiana

Type: City

Name: Ludhiana

Country: India

Latitude: 30.91

Longitude: 75.839996

population: 1,545,476

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1125 articles

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Ranbir Kapoor

Legendary footballer Drogba to set foot on Indian soil to coach football team

Chelsea player and present captain of Ivory Coast, Didier Drogba will set foot in India in June to coach a football team. He will visit India for a football event organized by Pepsi under the name Pepsi T20 football. The tentative date is 16 June 201 ... [ Published May 23 2012 by News Track India ]

Entities: Didier Drogba, Pepsi, Ranbir Kapoor, Ludhiana, India

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Didier Drogba

Drogba to visit India

New Delhi: Chelsea striker Didier Drogba will be in the capital on June 17 to attend the final of a youth tournament organised by a top soft drink company.The Ivory Coast player, who recently guided Chelsea to the Champions league title in Munich, will ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Calcutta Telegraph ]

Entities: Didier Drogba, India, New Delhi (India)

First Reported May 21 2012 - Updated May 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Azlan Shah

Overcoming the blues?

Less than a year into the job, coach Michael Nobbs has given Indian hockey reasons to be optimistic. He is being credited for bringing together feuding players and reintroducing attacking hockey, once Indias forte. The team has acknowledged his contribution ... [ Published May 21 2012 by DNA India ]

Entities: India, Azlan Shah, Ludhiana, London

First Reported May 18 2012 - Updated May 18 2012 - 1 Documents

DLF Indian Premier League

Down with IPL fever, doctor writes song

LUDHIANA: The Indian Premier League (IPL) fever has this time caught a doctor in the city. A fan of all things cricket, Dr Vikram Bhatia, , Chandigarh Road, was inspired to write and sing a song on the tournament. He has also uploaded it on YouTube.Vikram, ... [ Published May 18 2012 by Times of India ]

Entities: DLF Indian Premier League, Mika Singh, YouTube LLC, Ludhiana, Chandigarh

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

Cricket

Ludhiana enjoys gully cricket league

LUDHIANA: The country might be going crazy over Indian Premier League (IPL), but Ludhianvis are cheering for gully cricket whose stars are its own home-grown industrialists, businessmen and professionals. Inspired by the big Twenty20 league, Ludhiana ... [ Published May 15 2012 by Times of India ]

Entities: Ludhiana, Cricket, Talwalkars

First Reported May 12 2012 - Updated May 12 2012 - 1 Documents

‘It is difficult to spot ball on blue surface’

Can you lead us through the maiden experience of playing on a blue pitch and the problems faced?We did not have too much time to practice on the new turf before the Olympic Test event in London.We only had 3-4 sessions on it before the event. But we improved ... [ Published May 12 2012 by New Delhi Pioneer ]

Entities: London Olympics 2012, London, Ludhiana

First Reported May 10 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 2 Documents

Sandeep Singh

Blue test for national hockey team ahead of Olympic return

Having played only on the traditional green-tinged synthetic turf, the Indian hockey team will be "going blue" in the next two months as it gears up for the London Olympic Games. Hockey in London will be played on Polygras Olympic blue turf with yellow ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Hindustan Times ]

Entities: Sandeep Singh, Ludhiana, Shivendra Singh, Tilaknagar Industries

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Cricket fever to rejuvenate corporate sector

LUDHIANA: The rising excitement in the Indian Premier League has not left anyone untouched, as even the busy corporate sector in the city is gearing up for a corporate cricket league, which will kick off on Thursday.The entry to the Corporate Cricket ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Times of India ]

Entities: Hosiery, Cricket, Jaswant Singh, Ludhiana

First Reported May 05 2012 - Updated May 05 2012 - 1 Documents

Ludhiana T20 football tourney final today

After T20 cricket, it is now a T20 football tournament that is being organised in the city by Pepsi. ... [ Published May 05 2012 by Indian Express ]

Entities: Ludhiana, Pepsi, Cricket

First Reported Apr 28 2012 - Updated Apr 28 2012 - 1 Documents

A unique football finale whose final will be held inside a cage

As part of its 'change the game' campaign, the soft drinks brand Pepsi has organised one of its kind football competitions across the country. The T20 way of football, as called by Pepsi, has 64 teams from a city comprising of 7 footballers (7-a-side ... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by Meri News ]

Entities: Pepsi, Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Ludhiana, India, PepsiCo Inc

First Reported Apr 28 2012 - Updated Apr 28 2012 - 1 Documents

Ludhiana residents want Sachin Tendulkar as sports minister

LUDHIANA: Hailing Central government's decision of nominating the Master Blaster as a member of the Rajya Sabha, his fans in the city, particularly sportspersons, want Sachin be made the sports minister of the country. They expect the cool headed master ... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by Times of India ]

Entities: Ludhiana, Sachin (India), Sachin Tendulkar

First Reported Apr 26 2012 - Updated Apr 26 2012 - 1 Documents

Aligarh, Ludhiana, Appolo win group matches

In group matches of Sprite Lahore Cricket, Aligarh beat Model Town, Ludhiana beat Muslimabad Gymkhana and Appolo beat Baqa Jelani club.At Ittefaq Ground LCCA Aligarh beat Model Town club by 20 runs with the method of better run rate. Model Town scored ... [ Published Apr 26 2012 by Pakistan Today ]

Entities: Aligarh, Ludhiana, Model Town, Imran Ahmed, Lahore

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Drogba (34) is set to leave Chelsea when his contract with them expires on June. He confirmed it by posting in club's website "I wanted to put an end to all the speculation and confirm that I am leaving Chelsea" . He has been with them since 2004

Legendary footballer Drogba to set foot on Indian soil to coach football team [News Track India - May 23 2012]

...Drogba, who has been a Pepsi brand ambassador since 2009, played a leading role in Chelsea's Champions League triumph over Bayern Munich. "To take the excitement around our grassroots initiative, Pepsi T20 Football to the next level, we are proud to bring one of the world's most exciting footballer, Didier Drogba to India Homi Battiwalla, Category Director -- Colas, Hydration and Mango Based Beverages, PepsiCo India said. 'Over 448 teams have played the 20-minute knock-out matches over the last few weeks. The winning teams across cities are now gearing up for the national finale scheduled to take place on 17th June here,' he added. Drogba's visit is part of Pepsi's first football campaign in the country that was launched by a fun and irreverent television commercial starring actor Ranbir Kapoor. It was followed by a unique amateur initiative, Pepsi T20 Football, a revolutionary new format for youngsters, which combines the excitement and fun of T20 style of playing cricket with the speed, thrill and spirit of football. Played in a unique metallic cage, the initiative is being organised in major Indian cities including Chennai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Mumbai, Lucknow, Ludhiana and Delhi with phenomenal response. A total of eight teams, including one winning team from each city and one wild card entry will compete to emerge as 'Game Changers'. They will then get the opportunity to be coached by Didier Drogba before they face the Indian Cricket Stars for a game of Pepsi T20 Football at the Grand Finale. UNI TBA SB1622 NNNN"

Chelsea star Drogba to visit India... [NetIndia123.com - May 22 2012]

Homi Battiwalla, Category Director - Colas, Hydration & Mango Based Beverages, PepsiCo India said, "To take the excitement around our grassroots initiative, Pepsi T20 Football to the next level, we are proud to bring one of the world's most exciting footballer, Didier Drogba to India. His visit is a further testimony to our ultimate objective of popularizing the game of football in the country"

Pepsi to bring Didier Drogba to India for Final of T20 Football [The Sports Campus - May 22 2012]

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Down with IPL fever, doctor writes song [ Published May 18 2012 by Times of India ]
Ludhiana enjoys gully cricket league [ Published May 15 2012 by Times of India ]
‘It is difficult to spot ball on blue surface’ [ Published May 12 2012 by New Delhi Pioneer ]
Blue test for national hockey team ahead of Oly... [ Published May 11 2012 by Hindustan Times ]
India to play on blue turfs in run-up to Olympi... [ Published May 10 2012 by Deccan Herald ]
Cricket fever to rejuvenate corporate sector [ Published May 09 2012 by Times of India ]
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Poison drones new Olympic threat [ Published May 06 2012 by Indo-Asian News Service ]
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A unique football finale whose final will be he... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by Meri News ]
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Nobbs very clear about what is in store [ Published Apr 26 2012 by The Hindu ]
Aligarh, Ludhiana, Appolo win group matches [ Published Apr 26 2012 by Pakistan Today ]
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