Plea in SC seeking stay on IPL 6 semifinal, final matches New Delhi: A petitioner on Monday moved a plea in the Supreme Court seeking a stay on the semifinal and final matches in the ongoing season of Indian Premier League (IPL). The petition has also sought an Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the T-20 cricket tournament. The petition by a Lucknow resident has made all IPL franchises and BCCI party in the case...  
04:31 PM, May 20, 2013

IPL spot-fixing: What's inside Sreesanth's laptop? Mumbai: Arrested Rajasthan Royals S Sreesanth is facing more trouble as details tumble out in the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Mumbai Police sources have now told CNN-IBN that the examination of Sreesanth's laptop and notebook points to his e-mail interactions with a suspected Bollywood casting director, who sent him pictures of models. Sources say that some e-mails, possibly Sreesanth's conversations with Jiju and a bookie Jupiter, have been deleted and now...  
12:24 PM, May 20, 2013

IPL spot-fixing scandal: Sreesanth's lawyer may apply for bail today New Delhi: Even as the arrested cricketers and bookies are being interrogated in the IPL spot-fixing scandal for the fourth day on Monday, CNN-IBN has learned that Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth's lawyer could be applying for bail. The five-day police custody of the three cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and the bookies ends on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the probe continues to snare more and more...  
09:27 AM, May 20, 2013

IPL spot-fixing scandal: Police now look for an ex-Railways player New Delhi: The net in the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal is widening each day. Police sources say the third day interrogation of the three cricketers accused of spot-fixing have revealed clear patterns of the murky deals that shamed Indian cricket. It now emerges that domestic and first class cricketers were allegedly acting as conduits for the top bookies and the players. After Jiju and Amit Singh, the Delhi Police...  
07:35 AM, May 20, 2013

Hyderabad: Youth held for creating obscene Facebook profile of a woman Hyderabad: A youth from Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for creating a fake Facebook account of a female student and posting her morphed pictures, the police said. The youth, allegedly created a Facebook account of the girl and uploaded her morphed images along with obscene as well as false information, besides her contact number, the police said. The victim lodged a complaint with police after which...  
09:46 PM, May 19, 2013

Probe reveals players allegedly acted as conduits for bookies New Delhi: The IPL spot-fixing net is getting bigger by the day. A third day of interrogation of the three Rajasthan Royals cricketers S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan, accused of spot-fixing, have revealed clear patterns of the murky deals that have shamed Indian cricket. It now emerges that domestic and first class cricketers were allegedly acting as conduits for top bookies and players. After Jiju and Amit Singh,...  
09:07 PM, May 19, 2013

Govt mulls putting cap on preferred seats on airlines New Delhi: The recent 'unbundling' of some services such as seat preferences or meals on board might be helping airlines to earn a lot of ancillary revenue, but the government is considering whether it could limit the number of 'preferred seats' on sale on each flight. The government has been prompted to step in just days after it announced unbundling of these services following reports that some airlines were charging...  
12:48 PM, May 19, 2013

IPL 6 spot-fixing: Raids conducted across Gujarat Ahmedabad: 72 hours after the IPL spot-fixing scandal broke, investigations and raids are spreading outside Delhi and Mumbai. While Delhi and Mumbai figure prominently in the IPL spot-fixing case, a majority of bookies and fixers arrested are from Gujarat. Delhi Police are now on the lookout for bookie Jitu, who is said to have played a major role. Delhi Police teams are in Rajkot, Banaskantha and Ahmedabad, with the aim...  
10:00 PM, May 18, 2013

Bookies using UK website for bets after crackdown: sources New Delhi: An international website based out of UK is being used by the bookies after the operation by Delhi Police on Thursday, say sources. Three Rajasthan Royals players and several bookies were arrested by the police, who have electronic evidence against the players and are interrogating them. Sources close to the bookies have told CNN-IBN that post crackdown, the bookies have fled the major cities like Delhi/NCR and are...  
02:05 PM, May 18, 2013

Hits and misses in Facebook's history California: Facebook made its debut on the stock market a year ago on May 18 in one of the largest IPOs in history and the biggest for any Internet company. The social network's market value was more than $100 billion. Now, Facebook's stock is trading roughly 30 per cent lower and has not hit its IPO price of $38 per share. Today, Facebook is valued at around $63 billion. In...  
11:06 AM, May 18, 2013

Delhi: IPL betting racket unearthed, one arrested New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have smashed an IPL betting racket and arrested one person in theis connection. The arrest came following a tip off that one Pawan Arora was allegedly organising betting in his rented house in Rani Bagh during the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors . Arora was arrested. Police said a decoy customer was sent who offered a deal to the...  
02:55 AM, May 18, 2013

'Dirty Love' is a book of short stories on Mumbai: Sampurna Chattarji 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

Dutt appeared restless, read religious books in jail 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

Arrested bookie Amit Singh is former Rajasthan Royals player

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

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr apps come to Google Glass San Francisco: Social networking services Facebook and Twitter are coming to Google Glass, the wearable computer made by the Internet search company. Google announced on Thursday a half-dozen apps specially designed to work on its Glass devices. News network CNN, fashion magazine Elle, as well as online apps Tumblr and Evernote were among the half-dozen new apps for Glass unveiled during Google's annual developer conference in San Francisco. Google Glass...  
08:01 AM, May 17, 2013

Prior approval must to arrest under Section 66A: SC
by IANS
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday said no person would be arrested under Section 66A of the IT Act for posting objectionable comments on social networking websites without prior approval from an officer not below the rank of inspector general of police. A vacation bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra passed the order after hearing a plea by Shreya Singhal, who had petitioned the court against...  
04:20 AM, May 17, 2013

'Withdraw textbooks that exclude Arunachal Pradesh from map' New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Thursday ordered withdrawal of Class X geography text books that excludes Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan termed as "unpardonable mistake" the exclusion of Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India published in the text books and disbanded the committee of experts which had approved of the textbook. "Orders have been issued to stop circulation of the textbooks to...  
11:51 PM, May 16, 2013

Spot-fixing: Sreesanth, others sent to 5 days police custody New Delhi: Arrested Indian pacer S Sreesanth and 13 others, including two other cricketers of Rajasthan Royals franchise, were on Thursday sent to police custody for five days by a court in New Delhi for being quizzed in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal case. Delhi police told the court that it seemed more persons are involved and fresh arrests are expected. The probe suggested that bookies had betted on...  
09:11 PM, May 16, 2013

Google boosts photo offerings on Google Plus to rival Facebook San Francisco: Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing more popular. Many of the 41 new features being added to Google Plus beginning Wednesday will draw upon the computing power, machine learning, algorithms, semantics analysis and other innovations...  
02:10 PM, May 16, 2013

Arunachal missing from Maharashtra Board textbooks Mumbai: For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks. Taking a serious note of the lapse, the state government today sought clarification from the chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, asking him to explain the factors contributing to the goof-up. "I...  
07:32 PM, May 15, 2013