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It would not be all that easy to take away Kanpur's status as an international venue following an adverse report on its "poor" pitch provided for the third Test against South Africa, a top Uttar Pradesh cricket official said on Thursday. The five-day Test ended within three days, largely due to undue assistance to spinners from the pitch, with India winning by eight wickets to draw the series 1-1. Incidentally, the second Test in Ahmedabad had also ended inside three days, with South Africa... Read Full Story

It would not be all that easy to take away Kanpur's status as an international venue following an adverse report on its "poor" pitch provided for the third Test against South Africa, a top Uttar Pradesh cricket official said on Thursday. The five-day Test ended within three days, largely due to undue assistance to spinners from the pitch, with India winning by eight wickets to draw the series 1-1. Incidentally, the second Test in Ahmedabad had also ended inside three days, with South Africa... Read Full Story

Common Entrance Examination for Design ( CEED ) is a Qualifying Examination for Admission to Master of Design (M.Des.) Programmes at IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Kanpur, and Ph.D. Programmes in Design in some Institutes, for the Academic Year 2008- 2009. Programmes: CEED is a qualifying examination for the following postgraduate programmes in design. (a) Master of Design Programmes IISc Bangalore: M.Des. in Product Design and Engineering* IIT Bombay: M.Des. in... Read Full Story

indian win by 8 wicket, india won the third and final Test against South Africa at the Green Park stadium by eight wickets to level the series 1-1. It was only the eighth Test in Kanpur (out of 20) to have produced a result with India winning five of them and preserved the home team's record of having not lost a Test match here. The series ended in a 1-1 draw, with the visitors having won the second Test at Motera by an innings and 90 runs and the first Test at Chepauk having ended in a tame... Read Full Story

Reacting sharply to the political and economic resolutions passed in the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee convention at Kanpur, she said the Centre has not taken any decision regarding the Rs 80,000 crore package demanded for removal of economic backwardness of the Purvanchal and Bundelkhand areas of the state. "It shows how Congress was serious regarding the problems of the state," she said. Read Full Story