Investigations into the sensational spot-fixing scandal which hit the cricketing world on Thursday have now branched out into three distinct patterns across Delhi and Mumbai. ...
07:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Friends, family and fans have been visiting Sanjay Dutt ever since the Supreme Court upheld his conviction in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Even hours before he surrendered, his actor friends like Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn were seen meeting him. Here's what the film fraternity has to say about their 'Munna Bhai'. ...
06:24 PM, May 17, 2013
Sampurna Chattarji's 'Dirty Love' is a sequence of stories set in the restless swirl of a Bombay where dream-shuttles speed through the rain and men fall prey to dirty love. Reeking of sewers, fish markets, slaughtered meat, and peopled with loners, misfits and drifters, these tales prise open the surface of everyday existence. We encounter a mother inexplicably estranged from her infant son, an Insectboy with a gift for fantasy,...
06:15 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai Joint Commissioner of Police Himanshu Roy said more skeletons could tumble out in this controversy as probe continues. ...
06:01 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt spent his first night after returning to prison reading spiritual books even as Maharashtra Government authorities are yet to decide on keeping him at Arthur Road Central Jail in Mumbai or shifting him elsewhere. The 53-year-old filmstar surrendered before TADA Court on Thursday and was later shifted to the high-security jail in central Mumbai. He has to serve 42 more months in jail after his...
05:33 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Lodged in an egg-shaped high-security 'Anda' cell, Sanjay Dutt is feeling "suffocated" in its confines, which are generally used to house terror suspects and hardcore criminals, and the actor pleaded a TADA court on Friday to shift him to another cell as he is not a terrorist. Rizwan Merchant, counsel for Dutt, made an oral plea before the court here to shift the filmstar from 'Anda' cell in Arthur...
05:18 PM, May 17, 2013
Dharamsala: Against the spectre of spot-fixing, the Indian Premier League will continue on its road to the play-offs as Mumbai Indian and Kings XI Punjab play their last league fixture here on Saturday. While Punjab's outside chance of reaching the top-four has already been blown away by Sunrisers Hyderabad who beat Rajasthan Royals on Friday to register their ninth win, Mumbai would want to finish with a win to consolidate...
04:55 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: A TADA court on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against 1993 Bombay blasts co-accused Zaibunissa Kazi after she failed to surrender in the court on Friday, as per scheduled. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will execute this warrant. The daughter of 70-year-old Zaibunissa was likely to seek a day more for her mother to surrender citing health reasons. The Supreme Court had earlier granted four weeks time to...
04:43 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt spent his first night in jail in Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail on Thursday. He is awaiting an order which decides as to which jail will he be permanently shifted to. He is most likely to be taken to Pune's Yerwada Jail in a day or two, where he will serve his three-and-a-half-year sentence. He has been allowed home-cooked meals and medicines from home for a month....
09:43 AM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: Indicating an underworld connection to the spot-fixing scandal in Indian Premier League (IPL), Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar said on Thursday details of involvement of bookies and players started coming out while underworld elements were being investigated in March. "We started investigating the bookies in April. Our teams were present at the IPL grounds," he told CNN-IBN. Underscoring the seriousness of the scandal, in which three Rajasthan Royals...
08:37 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: India is likely to press for access to Tahawwur Hussain Rana, and wife and two girlfriends of Mumbai attack terrorist David Headley during Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's visit to the United States next week. Government sources said though India got access to Headley, who carried out a recce of the 26/11 targets for the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, the US has not given any opportunity to question...
08:00 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, who surrendered on Thursday before a special TADA court here, is planning to file a curative petition before the Supreme Court, his lawyer said. "We are planning to file a curative petition in the apex court soon," Dutt's advocate Rizwan Merchant told special TADA Judge GA Sanap when the proceedings were on to take the 53-year-old actor into custody. Dutt had earlier filed a review...
06:22 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Amidst chaos, crowd and cameras, the 1993 Bombay blasts accused and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt surrendered in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) court on Thursday afternoon to serve his three-and-a-half year sentence. A large number of media persons and onlookers surrounded Dutt's car as he reached the court. Dutt will be taken to Arthur Road prison first, then to Yerwada Jail in Pune. TADA court directed the Mumbai...
05:40 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai Indians all-rounder Kieron Pollard's over-the-top celebration to send off Rajasthan Royals batsman Shane Watson in an IPL match here has invited strong criticism from visiting team's skipper Rahul Dravid who termed it as an "act of cowardice". "One of the things that I find when you send off batsman after you have got him out is that it is an act of cowardice. That is my opinion. Batsman can...
02:37 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: His team will not get the home advantage in the IPL play-off stage, but Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is unfazed, insisting that his side is good enough to be a winner anywhere. 'We will be playing out now. Each and every game from now (is away from home) We just want to play to our strengths and we have the potential to play anywhere and beat anyone. It...
02:33 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: 4:27 pm: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who accompanied Sanjay Dutt to court, says, "Sanjay has surrendered in court and has asked for certain things like home-cooked food and medicines. There will be a new Sanjay Dutt when he comes back from the jail. 4:16 pm: Court allows home-cooked food, mattress, pillow and medicines in jail to Sanjay Dutt for a month, but after that he will have to eat jail...
01:39 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Dismayed at their player Ankeet Chavan's alleged spot-fixing role in the Indian Premier League for which the Rajasthan Royals player has been arrested with two other teammates, Mumbai Cricket Association called for severe action against him if found guilty. "It's a sad thing for Mumbai cricket. We are shocked on hearing this about Ankeet Chavan. These boys are getting good amount of money for playing cricket. They should be...
01:34 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will finally surrender in a TADA court in Mumbai on Thursday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Earlier he had filed an application requesting to be allowed to surrender directly at Pune's Yerwada Jail expressing fears of being chased by the media and threats from fundamentalists. However, the actor withdrew his application on Wednesday morning. Dutt will be surrendering two months after the Supreme Court upheld...
06:06 AM, May 16, 2013
The Mumbai Police revealed shocking details of how an MBA hatched a plot to kidnap his 13-year-old cousin after losing money in an IPL bet and then got him hacked and burned to death by his friend when the police got to know of the case. ...
11:56 PM, May 15, 2013
An MBA abducting and killing his own cousin to recover betting losses may have shocked it's way into the headlines. But quietly going unnoticed is the fact that this is not the first time educated young urbanites have been found engaging in a crime of this nature. Experts now say there is no such thing as a typical criminal any more. ...
11:38 PM, May 15, 2013
