GoM nod to merge Central schemes
In line with the Budget announcement by the Union finance minister P. Chidambaram, the group of ministers (GoM) headed by Sharad Pawar on Thursday agreed to merge the existing 147 Centrally-sponsored...
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Power struggle intensifies in BJP
The power struggle has intensified within the BJP between Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s supporters and detractors, especially after the opinion polls predicting advantage for the saffron party...
View ArticleMHA, IB had alerted C’garh a month ago
Top security officials said slain Congress leader Mahendra Karma was a Z-plus protectee and it was the responsibility of the Chhattisgarh government to provide him adequate security cover. Notably,...
View ArticleNarmada bachao andolan to sit on 5-day fast
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) on Saturday announced that thousands of oustees of the Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar, Maheshwar, Man and Upper Beda dams, who are facing repression, indifference and...
View ArticleCops may initiate steps to bring back Pak umpire
The Mumbai police may soon initiate the legal procedure to bring back Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf, who has fled India, as arrested actor and bookie Vindoo Dara Singh has made some stunning revelations...
View ArticleBookie claims film inspired him
Accused Chandresh Patel, a bookie arrested by the special cell of the Delhi police, turned bookie after he watched Emraan Hashmi-starrer Jannat which released in 2008.“Patel told the cops that he was...
View ArticleGovt mulls new law to check menace
With the spot-fixing scandal rocking the IPL’s current season, the UPA government on Saturday said that a new law will soon be enacted to deal with match fixers and others found indulging in illegal...
View ArticleA sinister hue to IPL fixing racket
With even big punters being served summons by investigating agencies to come and explain their bets, sources of money, etc., the current IPL betting, spot- and match-fixing scandal has become the...
View ArticleHow did CSK enter five of six finals?
“Before every game, Dhoni, Fleming and I exchange our elevens at 5.45 pm (for the night matches),” Mr Gurunath Meiyappan had proudly disclosed in an interview to a national daily a couple of years ago....
View ArticleGuru won most bets on CSK: Cops
After Gurunath Meiyappan’s arrest, the police claimed on Saturday that more skeletons were tumbling out of the closet. Investigators of the Mumbai crime branch said they suspect Mr Meiya-ppan not only...
View Article‘Napoleon’ makes brazen stand
BCCI president N. Srinivasan has brazenly refused to step down in the wake of the arrest of his son-in-law, Chennai Super Kings boss Gurunath Meiyappan. He said he would not be “bulldozed or...
View ArticleNaxals kill Cong leaders; V.C. Shukla critical
Naxals carried out a barbaric and audacious attack in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, killing at least three senior Congress leaders, including former state home minister Mahendra Karma and 10 security...
View ArticleBetting on the dead is a tradition here
Bizarre though it may sound, people are making a quick buck by betting on the dead. Betting and fixing, apparently, is not restricted to cricket alone and in Varanasi’s famous Manikarnika Ghat, the...
View ArticleCops get custody of Sree 2 more days
A Delhi court Sunday remanded cricketers S. Sreesanth and Ajit Chandila and bookies Chandresh and Ashwani to two more days in police custody, while cricketer Ankeet Chavan and three other bookies —...
View ArticlePolice searches Gurunath’s Chennai house
A four-member Mumbai crime branch team on Sunday conducted an exhaustive search at the Chennai home of BCCI president N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, whose role in IPL betting and nexus...
View ArticlePolice searches Gurunath’s Chennai house
A four-member Mumbai crime branch team on Sunday conducted an exhaustive search at the Chennai home of BCCI president N. Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, whose role in IPL betting and nexus...
View ArticleWoolwich killing was not a lone wolf attack: May
The murder of British soldier Lee Rigby, who was killed in southeast London on Wednesday, was not a “lone-wolf” attack, Britain’s home minister Theresa May said on Sunday as three more men were...
View ArticleBodies of abducted PCC chief, son found; toll 28
Eleven more bodies of Congress leaders, including those of abducted Chhattisgarh PCC president Nand Kumar Patel and his son Dinesh, were recovered Sunday from Jiram Ghat in Bastar region, where Naxals...
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Srini ducks all key ‘fix’ issues
Making a categorical statement that he intends to stay on as BCCI president, N. Srinivasan skirted the most critical issues of moral responsibility, accountability and culpability that any person...
View ArticleMain Dantewada suspect behind Congress attack?
Rattled by the brutal Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh which has left 28 persons dead, the Centre has decided to hold a high-level inquiry to probe lapses and fix responsibility. A...
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