Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 25 (ANI/PNN): Mumbai Metro One has launched its self-service WhatsApp eTicketing on the 24th of November 2022.

As per the Roadmap, the winners of the 2022-23 and 2023-24 I-League seasons will stand a chance to gain promotion to the ISL without any participation fee.

The FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup 2022 scheduled to take place on 11-30 October 2022 will be held in India as planned.

The meetings concluded that the next steps should be the ratification of the AIFF Statutes in line with the FIFA/AFC principles of good governance and the holding of an Electoral Congress to choose the next AIFF leadership.

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), May 31 (ANI): The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on Tuesday issued an Expression of Interest (EoI) invitation to all the AFC Member Associations (MAs) to host the AFC Asian Cup 2023.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 13 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Building on its vision of expansion, India's largest Workplace furniture manufacturing solution company - AFC Furniture Solutions announced its acquisition of brands Xbench, Vibrant, and Livo designed and owned by the furniture business of Wipro Enterprises.

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 30 (ANI): Taking forward his vision for the growth and development of the game, Jay Shah, President of the Asian Cricket Council has initiated an ambitious plan aimed at taking the game globally by opening up new avenues. Shah is keen on reviving the Afro-Asian Cricket Project which was first mooted in 2005 by the late Jagmohan Dalmiya but ended prematurely in 2009.

New Delhi Feb 27 PTI The Delhi Metro has set the ball rolling on a visionary project that seeks to integrate its regular services with e-commerce via cutting-edge digital platforms with the DMRC hiring a top consulting firm to work on the plan official sources said According to the vision for instance a rider may be able to order a product online while travelling in a metro train and will be able to get it at the destination station through advanced digital platforms of the urban transporter We have started working on this vision and a top consulting firm McKinsey has been hired to work on the plan that we have envisioned a top official source told PTI However the project is still in its infancy and this is just a broader vision to upgrade our digital platforms so that commuters can also access e-commerce services while riding a Delhi Metro train he said The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation DMRC had recently launched its revamped website and mobile app giving commuters more facilities and ease while using metro services DMRC chief Mangu Singh at the launch had also said that the urban transporter is planning to integrate its digital platforms with e-commerce in a big way to allow commuters to get other services in the course of their journey In the next two-three years we think this is likely to go on a next level he had said According to sources the plan is to let a commuter also access e-commerce services via DMRC digital platforms while on the go According to the vision once a commuter ends his or her journey the order placed say for grocery or something else can be completed at the destination station where there could be arrangements for say a digital locker which could be accessed with an OTP received on mobile or something like that Though its all in infant stage as of now the source said The DMRC had earlier claimed that its upgraded website is among the worlds most feature-rich and advanced interactive digital platforms on metro railway Riders of Delhi Metro using its newly-revamped mobile application can now get a prior alert notification when the next station on the route of the train journey is their destination officials said Also using the newly-upgraded website anyone can get real-time information on their planned journey route including as to whether if their is any snag or interruption on the route ahead and will even suggest an alternative route Giving a major push to Digital India Delhi Metro has started the process to upgrade all its existing Automatic Fare Collection AFC systems to be compliant with the National Common Mobility Card NCMC services and the work is expected to be completed by June 2023 The DMRC has entered into a contract with a consortium for executing the NCMC along with upgrade of complete ecosystem consisting of AFC system which will also enable travel though QR-based tickets account based ticket and near field communications NFC media the DMRC said on Friday On December 28 last year Prime Minister NarendraModi had launched theNCMCservices on theAirportExpress Line This service also enables passengers from any part of the country to use theirNCMC-compliant RuPay debit card for seamless travel The same card can also be used for shopping banking transactions etc across the country DMRCs system will be able to accept transactions from 23 banks through the RuPay debit card issued by them officials had then said PTI KND CK

Mumbai Jan 26 PTI India womens football team head coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday claimed that two AFC staffers could have been infected with COVID-19 and rued that the organisation does not seem interested in sharing information India were on Sunday forced out of the AFC Womens Asian Cup after a dozen COVID-19 cases among their players led to the cancellation of a group match against Chinese Taipei minutes before kickoff in Navi Mumbai Apart from the COVID cases two players were also laid low by injuries which made it impossible for the hosts to field a team given that two of their footballers were already out of contention after being infected by the virus a few days ago And honestly now later on we heard from others other sources that also two AFC staff were infected but we dont know exactly but there is a chance that we dont have the right information from AFC the experienced Swede said at a virtual press conference here But from my side the biggest problem is that AFC were not at all interested to have a discussion he further claimed Dennerby squarely blamed the AFC for the countrys ouster from the ongoing Asian Cup alleging that the bio-bubble set up by the continental body wasnt foolproof as the home team players got affected due to COVID-19 positive hotel staff We were all negative of COVID when we reached the hotel and after the arrival tests The first positive case came on the day we went out of hotel for training and the day later seven hotel staff tested positive It is not rocket science to know how the outbreak came he told PTI after the conference Moreover seven hotel staff tested positive on January 17 tests and they informed about it one day later What was AFC doing for whole one day we dont know The hotel staff was not tested every three days just like the teams The staff were being tested after six days we dont know the reason an angry Dennerby alleged He maintained that AFC kept asking them to refer to a certain article of the special rules which led to the teams ouster The only answers we get when we are trying to have a dialogue along with them AFC is we are following all the protocol read article 41 of special rules no AFC staff at the hotel are infected but how do we know if it true or not added Dennbery in the press conference The head coach also revealed that as of now there were 19 players and six support staff who have tested positive for COVID19 This means that as of now they will return home and only four players are not infected with the virus PTI NRB AT AT

Mumbai Jan 26 PTI Indian womens football team coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday blamed the AFC for the countrys ouster from the ongoing Asian Cup alleging that the bio-bubble set up by the continental body wasnt foolproof as the home team players got affected due to COVID-19 positive hotel staff We were all negative of COVID when we reached the hotel and after the arrival tests The first positive case came on the day we went out of hotel for training and the day later seven hotel staff tested positive It is not rocket science to know how the outbreak came he told PTI after a virtual media interaction Moreover seven hotel staff tested positive on January 17 tests and they informed about it one day later What was AFC doing for whole one day we dont know The hotel staff was not tested every three days just like the teams The staff were being tested after six days we dont know the reason an angry Dennerby alleged He said since the COVID-19 breach happened at the bio-bubble maintained by the AFC it should have found out a solution Honestly we are not happy with AFC tournament organisation and lack of solution oriented dialogue We think that in one way that destroyed our dream But we are not blaming the role of the AFC organisation not all all AFC is a good organisation in total Since the COVID breach was not our fault the AFC should have found out a solution It was an exceptional situation and AFC could have taken steps like say postponing the matches by a few days PTI PDS PDS KHS KHS