New Delhi: The BCCI is in the dock after the Enforcement Directorate issued 19 show cause notices for foreign exchange contraventions. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the government probe reports conducted in the working of the BCCI and the management of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The Enforcement Directorate has issued 19 show cause notices for various FEMA violations involving amounts totaling upto Rs 1077.43 crore. According to the...
03:01 PM, Nov 29, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has issued a notice to the BCCI for alleged breach of foreign exchange rules in the Indian Premier League Season 2, according to reports. The notice has been sent for alleged FEMA violations pertaining to an amount of Rs 16,500 crore. The season 2 of IPL had to be shifted to South Africa due to security concerns. ...
03:35 PM, Nov 28, 2011
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06:45 PM, Oct 07, 2011
New Delhi: On the eve of Daughters Day, the matrimonial website Shaadi.com had conducted a survey to gauge the acceptance of a girl child in modern India. The survey which received over 6000 responses from the website members across India highlighted the preference for a girl child and the maturity of the next-generation Indian parents. When asked if they would prefer a girl or a boy child, over 50% of...
03:30 PM, Sep 23, 2011
New Delhi: Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev on Saturday said he has not received any notice under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) from the Centre. Addressing a press conference, Ramdev alleged that this is an attempt by the Government to force him to stop his campaign against corruption and black money. "This is an attempt by the Government to force me to stop my campaign against corruption and black money,"...
06:35 PM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday registered a foreign exchange violation case against Baba Ramdev and his trust. The Directorate has found evidence of Ramdev and his trusts receiving financial aid from the USA, Britain and New Zealand. Ramdev and his trust reportedly received Rs 7 crore from Britain. The ED has formally registered a case under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). Investigations by the...
11:55 AM, Sep 01, 2011
New Delhi: As the 10-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival kicks off on Thursday, the final touches are being given to a Ganpati idol. Leena Shinde is perhaps one of the few female sculptors of Ganesh idols in Maharashtra "This is my sole source of income," said Leena Shinde, idol maker. The all female Ganesh mandal in Pimpri Chinchwad near Pune has managed to break into the traditionally male dominated Ganpati...
07:34 AM, Sep 01, 2011
A 19-year-old in Tripoli says she was part of Muammar Gaddafi's renowned female militia and was forced to become an executioner. ...
10:08 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Varanasi: Minor girls being sold for sex trafficking in the holy city of Varanasi, but Ajeet Singh decided to take on the police-pimp nexus. Girls, as young as 10 years of age, are bought and sold. "Right from the moment a girl is trafficked and brought into a red light area, the rate is fixed. For every new girl they will get Rs 1 lakh to 50000 and we let...
09:07 AM, Aug 03, 2011
Jalandhar: In a state infamous for female foeticide, Prakash Kaur is mother to 60 abandoned girls in Jalandhar. She has given them a life to look forward to, when their own parents wished they were dead. No one knows when they were born. But for Sheeba, for little Zeinab and their 60 sisters, April 24 is special as it is their birthday. Prakash doesn't like to look back. Sixty years...
09:09 AM, Aug 01, 2011
Washington: TV commercials feature a young man set upon by a bunch of frenzied, good looking girls, overpowered by the heady fragrance that he has sprayed himself with. Male birds, too, deploy a similar tactic when they release their cologne or preen oil, secreted from a gland at the base of their tail. It draws the attention of not only female birds, but unwittingly also that of males, researchers said....
04:55 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Washington: Female teens may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of binge drinking. Heavy alcohol use has been linked with diminishing mental processes among both adults and adolescents, particularly in tasks of spatial working memory (SWM). SWM is the ability to perceive the space around you, which is critical to logical thinking and reasoning, said study co-author Susan F. Tapert, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San...
11:43 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Dera Ismail Khan: The Pakistani Taliban say they used a female suicide bomber for the first time in an attack on a police station in northwestern Pakistan that killed 10 people. The woman was one of two attackers who threw grenades and sprayed machine gun fire inside the police station in Dera Ismail Khan on Saturday before both blew themselves up. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan told on Sunday that...
12:38 PM, Jun 26, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed self-proclaimed godman Chandraswami to deposit Rs 25 lakh within a week as the first tranche of penalty in several FEMA violation cases registered by the Enforcement Directorate. A vacation bench of justices B S Chauhan and Swatanter Kumar directed Chandraswami and his associate Vikram Singh to deposit the money in the four matters in which ED has slapped a penalty. The ED...
06:22 PM, Jun 15, 2011
Parli, Maharashtra: Amidst the concerns of deteriorating sex ratio, nine female foetuses have been found in a drain in Maharashtra's Beed district. Police have registered an FIR against unknown persons after the story was first reported on IBN Lokmat. The shocking discovery comes amid concerns that Beed district has the lowest child sex ratio in Maharashtra with 801 girls per 1000 boys, while the state's average stands at 883 girls...
07:49 AM, Jun 11, 2011
Mumbai: In a reprieve to noted Pakistani singer Adnan Sami, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed him to travel abroad whenever he wishes to till the end of the trial against him under the FEMA. The court while hearing an appeal filed by the singer seeking permission to travel to Dubai, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to perform shows, has directed Sami to submit two sureties of a...
05:28 PM, Jun 07, 2011
London: Newly discovered documents indicate that the British government concealed how often it administered so-called "virginity tests" to female immigrants from India hoping to enter the country in the 1970s on marriage visas. The documents, unearthed by legal researchers Marinella Marmo and Evan Smith from Australia's Flinders University, showed that the tests meant to prove that women coming into Britain to marry were virgins had been administered more than 80...
10:24 AM, May 10, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said it was a "national shame" that the practice of female foeticide was continuing in the country despite women breaking existing barriers to prove their worth in every sphere. "The provisional population totals for Census 2011 have been released recently. While most of the news appears to be good, the falling child sex ratio is an indictment of our social values," he...
01:38 PM, Apr 21, 2011
