New Delhi: Ongoing interrogation of the players and bookies arrested on charges of spot-fixing has revealed that two more Rajasthan Royals' players - one is Indian, the other international - could be under the scanner for their alleged role in spot-fixing during last season of the IPL, sources told CNN-IBN. Sources told CNN-IBN that Delhi Police, who are interrogating Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Ajit Chandila along with several bookies, have...
03:55 PM, May 17, 2013
Dharamsala: Hitting out at the scandal-hit IPL's critics, BCCI Joint Secretary Anurag Thakur on Friday said former players, who are lambasting the event in the wake of the ongoing spot-fixing controversy, are themselves minting money from the cash-rich league. "Even ex-cricketers are earning crores of rupees...they are getting handsome amounts from it and still criticising it. If they consider it bad money, they should not receive it," said Thakur when...
03:40 PM, May 17, 2013
Actor Vidya Balan is a part of the Cannes Film Festival's nine-member jury that hands out the prestigious Palme d'Or trophy. ...
03:30 PM, May 17, 2013
Port Louis: Facing allegations of being a route for round-tripping of funds and money laundering by Indian entities, Mauritius says it is fully committed to remain a credible financial centre and there has been 170 cases of exchange of information with Indian authorities in the past three years. Allaying the perception of Mauritius being a tax-haven, the government's investment promotion agency Board of Investment (BOI) also said that Mauritius on...
02:48 PM, May 17, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: A man in Thiruvananthapuram is on a mission to ensure the poor do not go hungry. Feeding over a 100 people every day for the past 30 years, Suryalayam is known as the messiah of the hungry. Every morning in a small restaurant on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, a 100 meals are cooked, packed and then handed over to Suryalayam Raveendran. He then takes off on his bike looking...
02:32 PM, May 17, 2013
The IBN18 Editor-in-Chief reflects on the latest IPL spot-fixing scandal on his video blog 'Directly Rajdeep Sardesai'. ...
02:26 PM, May 17, 2013
Ankeet Chavan's brother claims that he is innocent and is being framed in the IPL spot-fixing. ...
01:52 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: BCCI has called an emergency meeting of its Working Committee on Sunday to discuss the IPL spot-fixing saga that has returned to haunt Indian cricket, while dismissing cricketer-turned-bookie Amit Singh, one of the several bookies arrested by Delhi Police along with three Rajasthan Royals' players. "The President, BCCI, has convened an Emergent Working Committee Meeting at 11:00 am on Sunday, 19 February 2013, at the Park Sheraton, Chennai,"...
01:50 PM, May 17, 2013
Kochi: As more details pour in about the IPL 6 spot-fixing probe, there is shock and dismay among cricket fans, especially in Kochi. The fans still can't believe that their boy, S Sreesanth, is involved. Sreesanth, the man who was once Kerala's pride, may have let his team, his state and his profession down. But his family believes the troubled cricketer is innocent. In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal,...
12:48 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi police on Friday claimed that arrested Rajasthan Royals players Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan confessed before the probe team to their involvement in spot-fixing in IPL 6 matches. Chavan reportedly said that he got lured and made a huge mistake by indulging in spot-fixing. Sources say the transcript shows that Chavan was initially reluctant but later succumbed to the bait as the bookies kept on increasing the...
12:03 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Sreesanth's lawyer Deepak Prakash confirmed to CNN-IBN on Friday that he will move a bail application on the behalf of his client on Saturday, while insisting that Sreesanth is innocent and is being framed in the latest IPL spot-fixing scandal that has rocked Indian cricket. "First concern is to get bail. We are moving an application tomorrow. There is conspiracy against Sreesanth. He is innocent. There is nothing...
11:23 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Will brand IPL take a hit after the new spot-fixing scandal? CNN-IBN takes a look at companies that are investing crores in the game. If the fall in ratings was not bad enough, the spot-fixing scandal has put the most successful cricket brand in a fix. Till now, tight matches kept bringing advertisers to come on board with bigger budgets. Official broadcaster Max is expected to rake in...
10:58 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The BCCI committee on corruption will investigate the latest IPL spot-fixing scandal, which involves Rajasthan Royals' players Sreesanth, Ankeet Chavan and Ajit Chandila, and then refer the matter to the IPL Disciplinary Committee headed by Arun Jaitley - sources told CNN-IBN on Friday. Sources also told that once the matter reaches the Disciplinary Committee, it will hear the case and recommend future course of action. But before that,...
10:48 AM, May 17, 2013
Sandnes (Norway): World champion Viswanathan Anand remains a contender for the title despite being 1.5 points behind the leader as he will take on the lowest-ranked players in the remaining two rounds of the Norway Chess 2013 Super Tournament here. Anand started with two draws and a fine victory against arch-rival Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria. A loss in the fourth round pulled him back a little but then tormenting tournament...
10:35 AM, May 17, 2013
Melbourne: A 21-year-old Australian man was on Friday sentenced to 45 years in jail with a minimum non-parole period of 30 years for the "planned and premeditated" rape and murder of Indian student Tosha Thakkar, who he strangled to death, stuffed into a suitcase and dumped in a canal. New South Wales Supreme Court Judge Derek Price sentenced Daniel Stani-Reginald to a maximum of 45 years in jail with a...
10:12 AM, May 17, 2013
The fast bowler was in the Rajasthan squad from 2009 to 2012 before being released by the franchise last year. ...
09:54 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: 9.20 pm: Rajasthan Royals issued a statement saying its management and team members and other staff were shocked at the spot-fixing incident involving three of its players. The statement added it had launched an internal probe into the incident. 8.01 pm: The Delhi Police said it has no reasons to interrogate cricketer Rahul Dravid or Rajasthan Royals owners Raj Kundra and Shilpa Shetty in connection with the spot-fixing...
08:54 AM, May 17, 2013
Sultanpur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi is staking claim to his father's legacy. Addressing a rally in Sultanpur, a Congress bastion, on Thursday, the BJP General Secretary made an emotional appeal to voters. This came even as the UP government is facing flak for allegedly letting him off in the 2009 hate speech cases. Varun Gandhi's first public meeting came in Sultanpur, the same district that elected his...
08:47 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police's Special Cell sources have told CNN-IBN that arrested Rajasthan Royals player Sreesanth is now cooperating with investigation after being defiant during questioning on Thursday. While the bookies talk, sources questioning them say the players though are very quiet and it's taking them time to get through to them. The players, according the sources, are feeling embarrassed. CNN-IBN has also learned that bookies made a lot of...
08:46 AM, May 17, 2013
Beijing: Confusion over Aksai Chin, the area occupied by China during 1962 war with India, was created by colonial British rulers who have never presented it to Chinese governments in the past, an article in an official daily in Beijing said on Thursday. "India's claim to Aksai Chin is mainly based on the Johnson Line proposed in 1865. Aksai Chin was put inside Kashmir in the proposal. However, the line...
08:31 AM, May 17, 2013
