News channels allowed maximum of 5.5 minutes of ‘fresh footage’ per match per day, including not more than 4.5 minutes (of deferred live coverage of match play) and not more than 1.5 minutes of deferred in-stadium entertainment footage.

Percept, the official marketing partner for Indian Boxing Federation, has roped in DLF Housing as the associate sponsor and Siyaram’s as co-sponsor fro the Commonwealth Boxing Championship, this is in addition to the recently launched XXX energy drink, which is the title sponsor.

Cycling Federation of India says the Indira Gandhi Sports Complex velodrome in Delhi will take another one or two months to complete; saddened that all sponsorships are going to IPL and cycling is being neglected.

The government has made it clear that these establishments will provide only beds and breakfast, the latter free of cost, and offer no lunch or dinner, neither shall they help customers find taxies; two specific conditions that home owners find impossible to meet

Sports marketing agency Frontiers Group of India plans to launch a Rajasthan Premier League in April with as many as eight franchises at a minimum of Rs 5 million for each city team.

Signing the deal with broadcaster Sony Max at the last minute due to delays in Sony's getting uplinking clearance has left DTH service provider Sun Direct short on time as far as riding the IPL wave in order to sell its HD product to consumers is concerned.

The ICC chief executives’ committee, which met in Dubai on 9 and 10 March, is mulling the use of Decision Review System for the upcoming Cricket World Cup in the sub-continent.

Total Sports Asia secures agreement with the China Badminton Association to distribute media rights for the Badminton Asia Championships in 2011 and 2012, which will take place in China.

International Centre for Sports Studies has designed the first international executive programme specifically for public sector officials working in the area of sports strategy and policy. The one-week course will be held from 16 to 22 May in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.