Vindoo Singh, son of late wrestler-actor Dara Singh, was arrested on Tuesday for his alleged links with the bookies. ...
11:57 PM, May 22, 2013
Chandigarh: Brother of actor Vindoo Randhawa, who has been arrested for his alleged links with bookies, on Wednesday claimed that his sibling is not involved in the IPL spot-fixing scandal. "I can never believe that he is involved in any way. Let investigations take place, Vindoo will come out clean," Amrik Singh told reporters at the airport here before leaving for Mumbai. Virendra Dara Singh Randhawa alias Vindoo, son of...
01:12 PM, May 22, 2013
The Chennai Police have detained one more person in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. As more arrests and detentions in the case come, the government is mulling a law to curb fixing in cricket and other sports. Law Minister Kapil Sibal has said there should be a law to make fixing a criminal offence. ...
11:46 PM, May 21, 2013
Accused of having links with betting mafia, actor Vindoo Dara Singh, who was arrested by the Mumbai Police in connection with the IPL scandal, was spotted with Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni's wife Sakshi at an earlier IPL match. (Picture courtesy: Press Trust of India) ...
09:02 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Police have arrested hawala operator Alpesh Patel along with actor Vindoo Dara Singh in connection with betting mafia in the ongoing IPL. Sources said that Patel was in touch with all the bookies who have so far figured in the case. Mumbai Police sources said that the arrested bookie can help them establish the money trail. Over a crore rupees was recovered from Patel when he was arrested....
06:16 PM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Vindoo Dara Singh was arrested on Tuesday by the Mumbai Police for links with IPL betting mafia. The actor, who was detained by the Crime branch in Mumbai on Monday night was formally arrested on Tuesday morning. According to sources, arrested bookie Ramesh Vyas named the actor while he was being interrogated in the IPL spot-fixing case. Vindoo, who won season 3 of 'Bigg Boss', has appeared in...
05:14 PM, May 21, 2013
Ghaziabad: A team of government officials, including two policemen, were brutally assaulted on Thursday by henchmen of a sand mafia in Uttar Pradesh, police said. They even tried to run them over with a tractor. The incident took place at Shamli, over 100 km from New Delhi, when a team of revenue officials and policemen went to question a sand mafia for alleged illegal mining of sand near the banks...
07:12 PM, May 16, 2013
Hamirpur: Uttar Pradesh's poor law and order situation was once against highlighted when a former students' union leader and one more person was allegedly killed by the mining mafia. Former students' union leader Raman Singh had been protesting against illegal mining in Morang. He was allegedly cornered by the mining mafia in Hamirpur late on Sunday night and shot dead. One more person was shot dead along with Singh. But...
06:53 PM, May 13, 2013
Hitler, Mafia, Bomber, Kennedy and Alexander are among 346 candidates seeking votes in Meghalaya. Not to be left behind, some voters in the state also have peculiar names like Thailand, New York and Submarine. ...
12:49 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has admitted that auto rickshaws are not safe for women passengers following a campaign by IBN7 which showed that auto rickshaws misbehaved, overcharged and refused to take passengers to their destination. ...
12:19 PM, Jan 22, 2013
It's been almost a month since the Delhi braveheart was brutally gangraped when she boarded the bus after an auto rickshaw refused to take to her destination. The auto rickshaws in Delhi seem to be above the law and everyday girls and women face harassment due to their autocratic ways. ...
04:16 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Ekta Kapoor is bringing father-son duo David Dhawan and Varun together for a new project - the Hindi remake of Telugu hit 'Kandireega'. ...
04:44 PM, Jan 08, 2013
Social games publisher Zynga Inc confirmed on Monday that it has carried out 11 of the planned shutdowns of 13 game titles, with "Petville" being the latest game on which it pulled the plug. ...
11:06 AM, Jan 01, 2013
New Delhi: Director Ashish R Mohan of 'Khiladi 786' fame has been roped in to helm a film chronicling the life of mafia don Babloo Srivastava. "Yes, I would be making the film based on his life. I think his life makes for a fascinating subject of a film," said Mohan in a statement. The script of the biopic has been written by 'Zila Ghaziabad' writer Vinay Sharma. "I along...
05:43 PM, Dec 21, 2012
New Delhi: Remixes gave a new lease of life to several old songs, says DJ Aqeel who feels it was a healthy trend as it helped youngsters to connect with old melodies. "Remixes are actually dead. Today, it is just new films' songs that are being remixed. We don't see old songs being remixed and presented to people. Remixes are the only way that helps today's generation to connect to...
07:11 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Mumbai: The sand mafia has struck again, this time in Maharashtra's Jalgaon district. A village tehsildar reportedly bore the brunt of attack by the goons of a local sand mafia after he intercepted three of their vehicles that was carrying illegally quarried sand from the Bori river. The incident happened at 10 am on Sunday morning when Ashok Jagdeo, the tehsildar of Amalner, raided the vehicles that were parked near...
08:02 AM, Oct 15, 2012
New Delhi: "I am a mafia man. How can I be Gandhi? I have forty cases lodged against me." That is how a Samajwadi Party MP described himself on Saturday in front of mediapersons. Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh reportedly made the remark at a police station in Bahraich where he had gone to protest against alleged police inaction in crime cases. When asked whether this was Gandhigiri, he made the...
09:16 AM, Sep 30, 2012
Hyderabad: A shocking bid to murder a tehsildar has surfaced in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. Tehsildar B Srinivas was allegedly pushed in front of lorry as he stopped some trucks carrying sand illegally. "Members of the sand mining mafia threatened to attack us when we tried to stop them. It seems they had prior information about the crackdown," the tehsildar said. While the trucks were seized, the tehsildar...
09:42 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Alwar: A journalist and his cameraman, who were working on a story on illegal mining in the region, were allegedly assaulted by goons of local mining mafia when they had gone for coverage at a village in Alwar. The duo, working with a local news channel, had gone for coverage in Nibhore village in Alwar on Friday night when the incident took place, SP Umesh Chand Dutta said, adding that...
02:38 PM, Aug 05, 2012
New Delhi: A special CBI court is expected to hear the case of murdered Madhya Pradesh IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh on Friday. Narendra Kumar was allegedly killed off for taking on the mining mafia in the state. The 32-year-old was mowed down under a tractor in Morena district on March 8 this year. The CBI later named Manoj Gurjar, an alleged mining mafia member, as the main accused in...
08:28 AM, Jul 27, 2012
