Thiruvananthapuram, July 19(BPNS) Olympian Sebastian Xavier was one of the prominent faces of Indian swimming in the late eighties and early nineties and has to his credit 75 gold at the national level and 40 gold medals at the International level. A participant of the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 and a winner of the prestigious […]

M.M. Somaya or Maneyapanda Muthanna Somaya, the 62-year-old Arjuna Award-winning hockey player was the former Captain of the Indian Hockey team in the Seoul Olympics of 1988. He has represented the country in the 1984 Los Angels Olympics as also was part of the Gold medal-winning Indian Hockey team of the 1980 Moscow Olympics under […]

Thiruvananthapuram, July 18(BPNS) Billionaire Non-Resident Keralite businessman M.A.Yusuf Ali has announced that he would settle the dues of a woman, Prasanna,54 who was evicted by the Greater Chennai Development Corporation (GCDA) from her shop at Kochi for non-payment of her rent.  The woman had to pay 13,800 rupees per month as rent and due to […]

Chennai, July 16(BPNS) The Tamil Nadu handloom weavers cooperative society or Co-optex is planning organic wear for children and to scout for global markets. The cooperative which has more than 1000 handloom weaver societies under it is planning to branch out as the sale of traditional sarees which the cooperative have been producing has come […]

Chennai, July 16(BPNS) Padmashri V. Bhaskaran was the former Indian hockey team captain and Team India had won the hockey gold under his captaincy in Moscow Olympics. A decorated coach and an Arjuna award winner, Bhaskaran was a senior Sports official with the Indian Railways prior to his retirement. A highly skilled center-forward for the […]