Mumbai Marathon

US lawmakers seek more internal-security cooperation with India

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday May 21, 2013

Ahead of the second US-India Homeland Security dialogue in Washington today, the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian-Americans has sought expanded cooperation between the two countries on internal security issues.

Pressure cooker bombs: How Boston blasts are similar to Mumbai 7/11 train bombings

Rashmi Rajput | Friday April 19, 2013

The twin blasts at the Boston Marathon this week, that left three dead and over 170 injured, show how devastatingly effective pressure cooker bombs can be.

Boston marathon blasts: Tata Consultancy Services participants safe

Press Trust of India | Tuesday April 16, 2013

Software services firm Tata Consultancy Services today said all of its employees and participants associated with Boston Marathon are safe.

Boston Marathon blasts eyewitness recalls Mumbai attacks

Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday April 16, 2013

A woman who saw the horror unfold at the Boston Marathon compared it with the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, where she was visiting when Pakistani terrorists went on a killing spree.

Mumbai marathon winners Lyngkhoi, Babbar to represent India in Asian Marathon

Press Trust of India | Monday February 18, 2013

A total of 41 top Asian marathoners from 21 countries will compete in the Asian Marathon Championship, which will be a part of the 17th Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.

At the Mumbai marathon, celebrities, businessmen and dabbawallas run for a cause

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday January 20, 2013

Actors, businessmen, doctors and dabbawallahs, environmentalists, sportspersons including many foreigners and others joined over 40,000 enthusiasistic citizens at the 10th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon here, braving the Sunday morning chills.

2013 Mumbai marathon unveiled

NDTV.com | Saturday December 22, 2012

The 10th edition of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon was unveiled at a function in Mumbai on Friday.

For media crews, mosquitoes and marathon nights outside Matoshree

Written by Saurabh Gupta; edited by Mala Das | Friday November 16, 2012

Odomos and news. Two things that were competing with each other to be the most precious for news crews on vigil outside Matoshree, the home of the ailing Bal Thackeray, for the last couple of days and nights.

Milind Soman sets off on 1,500-km Greenathon

Indo-Asian News Service | Friday April 20, 2012

Milind Soman, who left for a 1,500 km long marathon from New Delhi to Mumbai, says the world can be happier and healthier if each person does his bit.

Marathon winner donates prize money to tea stall worker

Mid-Day.com | Tuesday April 10, 2012

Ashok Patil, a tea vendor at Mumbai's Crawford Market area had a special visitor to his stall yesterday. A visitor called Jean-Benoit Jaouen who also participated in the Mumbai Marathon last January albeit in different categories. Frenchman Jaouen pr...

Marathoner snubs luxury to realise Olympic dream

Mid-Day.com | Monday January 16, 2012

Ram Singh finished the Mumbai marathon in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 59 seconds -- well within the IAAF prescribed 2:18 'B' standard qualifying mark for this year's London Olympics -- to emerge the fastest Indian in the ninth edition of the Mumbai Ma...

99 and still going strong, meet Mumbai's oldest marathoner

Mid-Day.com | Monday January 16, 2012

Unless you ask him, it's difficult to guess Dattatrey Krishna Balse's age. He was one of the eldest participants at the ninth edition of the Mumbai Marathon. For the record, Balse is 99 and was among the 1,251 participants in the Senior Citizens' Run...

Marathon champ shuns 5-star suite to realise Olympic dream

Mid-Day.com | Monday January 16, 2012

India's veteran marathoner, hawaldar Ram Singh Yadav was truly a man on a mission in Mumbai on Sunday. After almost a year of meticulous planning that culminated in an almost 'top-secret' movement of location 48 hours before the Standard Chartered Mu...

Stars join in at Mumbai Marathon's dream run

Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday January 15, 2012

The six-km-long Dream Run event of the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2012 Sunday saw many Bollywood celebrities and television actors.

Mumbai Marathon: Moiben, Abeyo emerge winners

Press Trust of India | Sunday January 15, 2012

African domination continued at the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon as Kenya's Laban Moiben and Ethiopian Netsanet Abeyo bagged the top honours in men's and women's categories in the ninth edition today.