New Delhi: Despite the cesspool of a scam, the routine on the grounds of IPL 6 match venues hasn't changed in the least. The presenters have been just as bombastic, the cheergirls have been performing with just as much gusto, the song and dance routine remains just as much cheerful.
However, the most striking aspect has been the silence among India's premier commentators. None of them has been allowed to voice his views on the storm that threatens to tear Indian cricket apart. It is almost an alternative universe.
It is well-known that former Indian captains Sunil Gavsakar and Ravi Shastri are contracted directly by the BCCI on a huge annual fee. Both are yet to speak on the allegations confronting the BCCI president although, they have expressed their anguish on spot-fixing allegations on other platforms.
Speaking to a news channel, Gavaskar said, "Yes, sometimes things happen and I shake my head and convince myself that it is due to a genuine cricketing reason. This is happening a little more in the last few days." And in a newspaper column, Shastri wrote on Friday, "Only good will emerge out of this cleansing process. Let the guilty be punished. Let fear be a deterrent."...
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11:45 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: A plea for a separate cell in Tihar jail on the grounds of being "well educated" and belonging to a "respected family" has been rejected by a Delhi court which on Friday dismissed the petition of former Ranji cricketer Manish Guddewar arrested in IPL spot fixing scandal. The court rejected the plea of Guddewar, a former Ranji player of Vidarbha, saying lots of educated people are lodged in...
06:55 PM, May 24, 2013
Madurai: Facing Mumbai Police summons for questioning in the spot-fixing scandal, Gurunath Meiyappan, CSK team owner and son-in-law of BCCI President N Srinivasan, on Friday left by a chartered aircraft for Mumbai to appear before the police. Meiyappan, who has been named by actor Vindoo Dara Singh as being involved in betting, took the flight a little after 5 pm, the deadline set by Mumbai Police for appearing before them...
06:41 PM, May 24, 2013
Nashik: A local court has remanded five bookies, arrested in connection with alleged betting on IPL matches, in police custody till May 25. The five bookies - Rajendra Savna, resident of Nashik Road, Sameer Mahindra Mantri, Praveen Bhutada, Ravindra Dhage and Pankaj Somani (all from Buldhana, Maharashtra) - were arrested from Nashik road on Wednesday night while they were allegedly betting on the IPL match between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers...
01:00 PM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: The widening net in the IPL spot-fixing and betting case continues to grow by the day. Actor Vindoo Dara Singh's interrogation, which first brought the focus on Chennai Super Kings CEO and BCCI chief N Srinavasan's son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, has now also reached Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf. Gurunath Meiyappan was served summons by the Mumbai Police on Thursday to appear before investigators in Mumbai. Meiyappan though has asked...
07:50 AM, May 24, 2013
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said he has been forced to hang his head in shame due to the IPL spot-fixing scandal, which is becoming bigger and murkier with each passing day, insisting that a deterrent law could have prevented the credibility crisis that cricket is facing right now. "It is very shameful. As a young person, as a sports fan, as the Sports Minister of the...
12:45 PM, May 23, 2013
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
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
Hyderabad: The Telugu film industry has no links with the IPL spot-fixing scandal, the Telugu film producers council has said. The council Tuesday denied reports that a Telugu film producer had links with the scandal which rocked the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). Council executive committee member T Bharadwaj clarified that Tollywood, as the Telugu film industry is known, has no casting director. He said if any producer was found...
04:03 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: More shocking details are tumbling out in the spot-fixing scandal. Mumbai Police Crime Branch sources now say that the examination of disgraced India and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth's laptop has revealed that he was in touch with a Bollywood casting director and some film actors as he wanted to invest money in films. Sources say that Sreesanth reportedly wanted to act in Hindi and Malyalam films and...
12:52 PM, May 21, 2013
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11:26 PM, May 20, 2013
Powerplay: the game is on is a book that revolves around protagonist Keya Singhal, who is an introverted, idealistic employee with a no-nonsense attitude who finds herself in troubled waters. Her desire is to fight for what is rightfully hers. And she has an aggressor - Vivek Grewal. Adding to the mix are two powerhouses: a billionaire investor and the IGL team's captain. What happens when their worlds collide? Are...
06:04 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: "The nightmare is finally over and I am back to a normal life", said a relieved Vijender Singh as he broke his silence on the sensational drug scandal that severely hurt his reputation, insisting that more than a crisis, it was a learning experience that left him stronger and wiser. Speaking to PTI in an interview, his first after the scandal broke out more than two months back,...
05:04 PM, May 20, 2013
Pretoria: South African President Jacob Zuma was not involved in a wedding scandal in which a private plane of the affluent and well-connected Indian Gupta family landed at a sensitive military airbase, an investigation revealed on Sunday, reported Xinhua. "In any event, the president is not involved in authorizing the landing or not landing of aircraft at airports," Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe told reporters in Pretoria. There...
04:16 AM, May 20, 2013
Washington: A top White House adviser insisted President Barack Obama learned that the federal tax collection agency had targeted conservative groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for answers on Sunday. The Obama administration has also been forced on the defensive over its handling of last September's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the US ambassador and three other Americans,...
09:20 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist in the Karwar Naval sex scandal case, CNN-IBN has learnt that the couple was separated and had filed for divorce by mutual consent in April this year. CNN-IBN also learnt that the father of the girl had filed a complaint to the Human Rights Commission and Defence Minister AK Antony alleging sexual abuse and dowry harassment. This after the husband agreed to paying Rs 8...
09:16 PM, May 15, 2013
The Indian Navy has been hit by allegations of another alleged sex scandal. ...
11:02 PM, May 14, 2013
London: Britain's prosecutors say The Sun tabloid's politics editor Clodagh Hartley has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British government's tax department. Prosecutors say The Sun paid bribes to press officer Jonathan Hall in return for information about unannounced spending plans, deficit reduction work, and policy decisions. Hall, 51, was also charged in relation to the...
09:40 PM, May 14, 2013
Bangalore: The Indian Navy has been hit by yet another sex scandal. The wife of a Navy officer on Tuesday charged him of forcing her to get sexually involved with his colleagues. The complaint has prompted Defence Minister AK Antony to order a probe. The woman alleged that her husband, who is a Lieutenant Commander at the Naval Ship Yard in Karwar, forced her to perform sexual favours for his...
08:06 PM, May 14, 2013
