New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday sent cricketer S Sreesanth to judicial custody till June 4 in the IPL spot-fixing case. The court rejected the Delhi Police's demand for the bowler's two-day custody and sent him to Tihar jail. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Lokesh Kumar Sharma turned down the plea of Special Cell of Delhi Police for the custody of Sreesanth saying he cannot be held liable for what has...
04:45 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: Arrested cricketer Ajit Chandila has been sent to judicial custody along with bookies Chandresh Patel and Ashwini Aggarwal in the IPL spot-fixing case. Meanwhile, the police have sought a 2-day custody of S Sreesanth. The court is also set to hear the bail pleas of Ankeet Chavan and S Sreesanth. While Chavan has sought bail on the ground that his wedding is scheduled on June 2, Sreesanth has...
03:57 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday night rescued seven girls who had been pushed into prostitution from the infamous GB Road. The police manage to rescued them after an NGO informed then about the girls. After receiving the complaint the police raided some brothels in GB Road where the girls were suspected to have been hidden. During the raid the police rescued seven girls out of which four were from...
02:07 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: A Delhi court is set to begin the hearing of arguments on framing robbery charges in the December 16 Delhi gangrape case. This after the five accused including a juvenile allegedly snatched a 35-year-old carpenter's mobile phone along with Rs 1,500 after luring him into the bus. The Delhi gangrape accused were in March charged in a separate case of robbing, which they allegedly committed a few hours...
12:30 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: Long ignored, Indian animation has finally come into the limelight with Nikhil Advani's 'Delhi Safari', which won the best animated film honour at the 60th National Film Awards. The director says Indian cinema, celebrating 100 years, still doesn't recognise the power of animation. "There is no belief in animation. If you look at the last year's top 10 animation films, they are only Hollywood... Hollywood approaches an animation...
12:15 PM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The custody of the three cricketers arrested in the IPL spot-fixing scandal - Ajit Chandila, S Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan - ends on Tuesday. The Delhi Police is expected to seek an extension as more details are coming out of the probe each day. A Delhi Court is also set to hear the bail pleas of Chavan and Sreesanth. While Chavan has sought bail on the ground that...
07:53 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: Two girls committed suicide by hanging themselves in their houses after they got low marks in their Class 12 exams on Monday afternoon, police said. In the first incident, Mahek, 17, committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house at Rohini area in west Delhi. A neighbour spotted her body hanging and informed her parents. A suicide note has been found in which she...
05:30 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: One more suspected bookie was arrested with investigators claiming that the accused was in touch with cricketer Ajit Chandila, who is already in police custody for his alleged role in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, for "manipulating" matches. Bhupender Nagar was apprehended from Greater Noida this evening and produced before the duty magistrate who sent him to three days of police custody. "We have arrested one more person," a...
10:59 PM, May 27, 2013
Nagpur: A Delhi-bound Air India plane from Visakhapatnam with 174 passengers and crew onboard was forced to land midway in Nagpur on Monday after pilots detected problem in its engine. "The Air India flight AI 452 made an unscheduled landing here after the aircraft developed a technical problem," Dr Babasaheb international airport director AK Verma told PTI. The Airbus 321 aircraft took off from Vishakhapatnam around 9.00 am as per...
10:54 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The lid on spot-fixing in IPL matches was blown when police was tracking alleged terror financing, officials say. It all started when police and security agencies were looking into terror financing and they came across this element of spot fixing, official sources said. There are links with terror finance but it will be premature to jump to any conclusions. Individual cases have still not been probed and it...
10:31 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: Delhiites on Monday got some respite from the intense heat after few parts of the city experienced dust storms which brought down the temperature. The temperature which had been registered at 42.6 deg C earlier in the day dropped to 36.4 deg C in the evening after dust storms were witnessed in areas neighbouring IGI and Safdarjung airports. "Dust storm of moderate intensity, with the wind speed of...
09:59 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought response from Idea Cellular Ltd (ICL) and its chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla on a contempt petition against the telecom major for allegedly disobeying its earlier order by providing 3G services to new customers in circles where it lacks the requisite licences. Justice Rajiv Shakdhar asked the telecom company and five others including Birla to file their response within four weeks and...
06:32 PM, May 27, 2013
Nagpur: A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Visakhapatnam, with 177 passengers onboard made an unscheduled landing on Monday at Nagpur airport due to a technical snag, an airport official said. The incident took place around 10:40 AM and Air India is dispatching an aircraft from New Delhi to ferry stranded passengers to their destination. "Air India flight AI 425 from Visakhapatnam made an unscheduled landing here after the aircraft developed...
06:13 PM, May 27, 2013
Differently-abled student Sushant Gupta shares his experience and achievements with CNN-IBN. ...
05:35 PM, May 27, 2013
CNN-IBN Managing Editor Vinay Tewari gives a detailed insight on the latest developments in spot-fixing investigations. ...
04:54 PM, May 27, 2013
Patna: Even as there is relief from the hot weather in Delhi and other parts of North India with the temperature remaining above the 40 degree Centigrade mark, the weather in Patna and parts of Bihar became very pleasant on Monday. Patna and several parts of Bihar received heavy rainfall on Monday bringing relief from the hot weather. The weather in Kashmir Valley and Uttarakhand is also cool and pleasant...
03:13 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: In the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections IBN7's campaign New Delhi Banano continues to raise awareness among the people about the state of affairs in their city. Chandni Chowk is a prominent landmark of Delhi and is the Lok Sabha constituency of Union Minister Kapil Sibal. Despite being the oldest and one of the biggest wholesale markets, Chandni Chowk is slowly losing its charm due to lack...
01:11 PM, May 27, 2013
New Delhi: The Delhi Police teams are camping in Kolkata to apprehend one more alleged fixer in the IPL spot-fixing case, but has not been successful yet. Delhi Police sources say the special cell is looking for the fixer as he could be crucial in the investigation and lead to the arrest of more players. Delhi Police sources say they still have four IPL players under surveillance and are looking...
11:47 AM, May 27, 2013
DU's top academic body has adopted a four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP) which is going to be implemented from July 2013. The Academic Council, at a marathon meeting held sometime back, debated the proposal by a task force that was eventually passed with 80 votes in favor and 6 against. The Delhi University has formed a special taskforce, which includes 61 faculty members on the panel. This panel will help to...
11:44 AM, May 27, 2013
After announcing his retirement from ODI cricket last year, Sachin Tendulkar has decided to bid adieu to the Indian Premier League. After serving Mumbai Indians for six years, Tendulkar had the most fitting end to his IPL stint with Mumbai lifting the trophy for the first time in the final on Sunday. Here, Cricketnext compiles some of his most defining IPL innings. 59* v Chennai Super Kings, 2009: Tendulkar had...
11:28 AM, May 27, 2013
