New Delhi: Ever since the IPL spot-fixing scandal was busted almost a week ago there has been a competition between the Delhi Police and its Mumbai counterpart to take credit for the same. Delhi Police officials say that they have not sought bookie Ramesh Vyas's remand. Vyas has been arrested by Mumbai Police in connection with the IPL spot-fixing cases.
Officials say that there is no need to take Ramesh Vyas on remand or to question him as the spot-fixing accused have named several bookies like Vyas.
Delhi Police says it is not investigating those placing bets, but those who are involved in spot-fixing with the help of bookies. Police officials say that if they were to act against those involved in betting, then they would have to arrest several lakh people in Delhi alone.
Regarding S Sreesanth's laptop which was recovered from a Mumbai hotel, police officials say that if the need arises they would officially ask Mumbai Police to hand over the laptop to them. But right now examining the laptop is not important for them, said Delhi Police officials....
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02:14 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
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
Indore: Lokayukta Police on Monday submitted a charge sheet against BJP MLA Ramesh Mendola and 16 others in a 2004 land scam case. The charge sheet was submitted in the court of special judge DN Mishra under Sec 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court, meanwhile, granted bail to Mendola and 14 others on a bond of Rs 1 lakh...
12:45 AM, May 21, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai Police on Saturday arrested another bookie named Ramesh Vyas in connection with the recently surfaced spot-fixing scandal involving three Rajasthan Royals players - Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan. Police seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards from Vyas, who was said to have links with bookies involved in the spot-fixing scandal. "We have arrested a bookie named Ramesh Vyas and seized 92 mobile phones, 18 sim cards...
05:10 PM, May 18, 2013
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
Dehradun: Rights activist Avdhash Kaushal on Friday sought a ban on the entry of BJP leaders Uma Bharati, Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank and environmentalist GD Aggarwal in any hydel project area in Uttarakhand and demanded their arrest under the NSA if they did so. Criticising these leaders for opposing the uplifting of the Dhari Devi temple which will pave the way for 330 mw Srinagar hydropower project, Kaushal, a Padmashree award...
05:10 PM, May 17, 2013
Dhar (MP): Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said Naxalism is strong only in those states where Congress is not in power. "Naxalism is strong only in those states where Congress is not in power like Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha among others," the Union Minister said, addressing a 'Parivartan Rally' in Bordha village of the district. Ramesh said that whenever Congress is weakened in these states, Naxalism...
08:55 PM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Newly sworn-in Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will be in Delhi on Wednesday and he is scheduled to meet UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Siddaramaiah is expected to hold discussions for the expansion of the state Cabinet. Karnataka Congress chief G Parameshwara will also accompany the state Chief Minister. A decision on Cabinet ministers is expected in the next two days. It's no secret that intense lobbying is on in...
09:59 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: "Special session is an option, monsoon session is an option, ordinance is an option - what is not an option is the non-passage of these two bills," Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said while talking about the government's plan of getting its ambitious food and land bills through. Ramesh preferred that the bills should be passed "the democratic way" through debate in Parliament while ordinances should be the...
03:32 PM, May 14, 2013
Is 'Love' a show off?? Some are crazy about love, some go mad and some even lose their life for love. Realization of life is more important comes very late. Without coming before the media 'Love Show' has completed shooting and entered the dialogue recording stage. At Skyline Studio the talkie portion dubbing is under progress for this Sri Prasanna Venkateshwara Creations. Abathula Srinvasa Rao has written the story, screenplay...
05:28 PM, May 12, 2013
Chennai: Southern actress Nisha Aggarwal values scripts over roles and says she would rather do few quality films than a string of bad ones. "My films need not necessarily have a meaty role for me, but need to be good on the whole because I always look for films with good scripts. I'm more concerned about good scripts because I'd rather do few good films over a bouquet of bad...
04:17 PM, May 10, 2013
Bangalore: The Congress is all set to form the government in Karnataka and is close to the halfway mark in the 224-member Assembly. The voting was held in 223 seats because voting in Periyapatna constituency was postponed until May 28 following the death of the BJP candidate. The counting of votes is being held in 36 centres across Karnataka. With the high voter turnout (57 per cent in Bangalore and...
11:09 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: In a virtual snub to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and PCC Chief Ramesh Chennithala, Congress MPs from the state on Tuesday sought senior leader AK Antony's "services" for putting the "house in order" in the party-led UDF government in the state. The MPs made this demand during their interaction with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi at Parliament House. Party MPs and central ministers from the state, including...
02:25 AM, May 08, 2013
New Delhi: Women's self help groups in the country would be provided bank loans at an interest rate of seven per cent from now on, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday. The scheme would be initially started as a pilot project in 150 districts and in rest of the states, 75 per cent of the cost would be borne by the central government and 25 per cent by...
05:06 AM, May 07, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday promised to shut down, in a phased manner, "belt shops" or illegal outlets of licensed liquor shops spread across the state. He made the announcement while addressing a public meeting at Eluru in West Godavari district when union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh made a fervent appeal. Ramesh said the chief minister should take the initiative as the women...
04:47 AM, May 06, 2013
d_90x62.jpg "Director Dasari Narayana Rao turns a year older today")
50 years in Telugu film industry, 40 years as a director and 150 films in his direction, all these figures reveal how great a director Dasari Narayana Rao is. A big day for Dasari Narayana Rao, the film maker celebrates his 69th birthday today. Not only as a director, he is best known as an actor, producer, lyricist and also a good politician. "Even from my student life, I used...
07:15 PM, May 04, 2013
Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur We celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema, yet we're little aware of the man who painstakingly restored Dadasaheb Phalke's work as well as several other silent pictures and talkies, and then built our country's moving pictures archive, one film can at a time. The documentary 'Celluloid Man', directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, introduces us to that man Paramesh Krishnan Nair, or PK Nair - India's film...
11:33 PM, May 03, 2013
Rajeev Masand says you should make time for 'Celluloid Man' if you love cinema. What do you think? Write your own review and win prizes.
11:27 PM, May 03, 2013
