The BCCI today suspended Chennai Super Kings' CEO Gurunath Meiyappan, arrested for his alleged involvement in the betting case, pending an inquiry into his role in the spot-fixing scandal that came as a rude shock to Indian cricket.
Seemingly wary of complicating the fragile Afghan security situation, India is unlikely to directly supply military equipment, including helicopters and ammunition, to Kabul despite President Hamid Karzai re-submitting the hardware list. Shishir Gupta reports.
The looming fear has turned into a reality. The body of Chhattisgarh Congress president Nand Kumar Patel was found on Sunday morning not very far from the same spot at Darbha in Jagdalpur where the Congress convoy was attacked.
Ejaz Kaiser reports.
A man and his daughter were arrested for allegedly sacrificing a four-year-old boy at Naheri village in UP, police said today.
A 24-year-old engineering student on Friday married his friend, a 22-year-old woman, who was reportedly gangraped in Bihar’s Banka district in his presence, last week. Rai Atul Krishna reports.
Counterterrorism police are questioning a friend of Michael Adebolajo, one of two men suspected in the savage killing of a British soldier.
Though the crime branch is yet to decide on whether they would be making Rauf an accused in their case, officials said they were aware that he was known as 'Dada' was a friend of bookies Pawan Jaipur, and also of Vindoo Dara Singh.
Rahul Mahajani reports.
India is likely to get a fresh waiver from the sanctions imposed on doing business with Iran, a top the US official said here on Friday as she praised "tremendous progress" India made in reducing imports of oil from the Persian nation.
On a day the government announced a new law to deal with “dishonest practices” in sports, the Mumbai Police said Gurunath Meiyappan had passed on team information and strategies of the Chennai Super Kings to bookies.
Charul Shah &
Rahul Mahajani report.
Ousting Srinivasan won’t be easy | Why Srinivasan must goIn order to curb the menace of unsolicited commercial calls (UCC), telecom regulatory authority of India (TRAI) has asked the service providers to disconnect all the telephone numbers and internet connections of the persons or the companies from where the pesky UCC emerge.
R.K. Mathur, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Manipur-Tripura cadre, took over as defence secretary today.
Two men were arrested from aboard a Pakistan International Airways (PIA) plane on Friday following a security alert that saw British fighter jets scramble and escort it to Stansted airport in southeast England. Dipankar De Sarkar reports.
BCCI president N Srinivasan said on Friday night that his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan's arrest by the Mumbai Police was an attempt to target him and he has no intention to resign from his post.
Veil of secrecy on CSK abode