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...Here and there a few pioneering, kite-friendly lodges have opened, which can be reached by 4x4 or a fishing boat....
...These include catering, alcoholic drinks, confectionery, crisps and savoury snacks, hot food, sports drinks, hot takeaways, ice cream, soft drinks and mineral water....
...Swiggy and fantasy sports platform Dream 11 were among the sponsors of Indian Premier League cricket....
...As incomes rise, Indian drivers are opting for more expensive sport utility vehicles and sedans over hatchbacks....
...The Warner Bros deal expands Viacom18’s offering from sport to high end entertainment, after the company beat Disney to secure rights to stream the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition....
...Its team-based format was inspired by the Formula One car racing series and newer competitions such as the Indian Premier League, which has become a driving force in cricket since it began in 2008....
...It’s safeguarded from its other major income stream, commercial fishing.”...
...New rights package records were also set this year for the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, which netted $6.2bn for distribution from 2023-2027, the second-most expensive globally on a per-match...
...Rights for Major League Soccer and Indian Premier League have fetched record sums, while enlisting emerging media partners like Apple and, in the IPL’s case, selling streaming privileges to a start-up joint...
...Dressed in sports attire, she was spotted by a cricket coach and asked if she might be interested in the sport....
...The Apple and MLS deal follows another blockbuster media rights package for the Indian Premier League, which this week parcelled out broadcast and streaming privileges to Disney and Viacom18, respectively...
...“In their gestures we recognise poses from yoga, which for me are not only mesmerising but inherently Indian.”...
...ESPN, Disney’s sports platform, is set to lose MLS rights and the House of Mouse also appears to have suffered a setback in India, where it has won television broadcast rights to cricket’s Indian Premier...
...It has said it also hopes to emulate the Indian Premier League cricket tournament, which has attracted institutional investors....
...This book blends personal reminiscences from a life-long passion for fly fishing with a digressive meander through assorted angling history....
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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 16. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The sport should ditch sponsors that encourage fans to take financial risks, the FT’s Chris Cook writes....
...In the early days, both Scaringe and his father mortgaged homes they owned and invested the proceeds in Rivian, which is a blend of the words “Indian River”, a lagoon near where Scaringe grew up in Florida...
...These include Pou Chen, Feng Tay Enterprises, Eclat Textile, Changshin and Sports Gear. Nike and Adidas had good reasons to switch to Vietnam over the past decade....
...He forecasts it will drop off in the summer of 2023 as indoor sports make a full comeback and the market soaks up the huge volume of bikes....
...Star Sports, the Indian network developed by Rupert Murdoch and bought by Disney, was another pioneer....
...The pristine red-brick mansion blocks and luxury emporia of Mayfair bask in a glorious Indian summer’s day. “Not a cloud in the fucking sky,” Cohen says....
...“They wake up at 4am to watch an [Indian Premier League] match,” said Satyan Gajwani, an executive at Times Group, India’s largest media company, and one of the co-founders of Major League Cricket....
...Dream11’s chief executive Harsh Jain tried to draw a line under the issue, calling his company “a proud homegrown Indian brand that is made in India, by Indians and exclusively for Indian sports fans”....
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