New Delhi: 11:15 am: The Supreme Court will at 2 pm hear a plea seeking a stay on all the remaining IPL 6 matches in the view of the spot-fixing scandal.
11:02 am: The Chennai Police have arrested one more bookie Prashant in connection with the IPL spot-fixing scandal. The police say they have recovered Rs 4 lakh cash. 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.
The five-day police custody of the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and 11 bookies who were arrested last week ends on Tuesday. They will be produced in a Delhi court. Police sources say they will ask for further custody of the three cricketers, and seven of the 11 bookies.
Meanwhile, Baburao Yadav, the former Ranji cricketer detained on Monday has been formally arrested and is also likely to be produced in court. Even as the lawyer for former test cricketer Sreesanth prepares to file for bail, the case against him and Ajit Chandila has tightened with developments in the probe by the Delhi Police and the Mumbai Police....
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11:05 AM, May 21, 2013
Lucknow: In an embarrassment to the Akhilesh government in Uttar Pradesh, a major fake smart health card scam, which comes under the National Health Insurance Scheme, has come under scrutiny. This could turn out to be one of the major scams in Uttar Pradesh after the Akhilesh government came to power. Sources say if probed properly, the scam could run into several crores. Around 50 lakh smart cards have reportedly...
09:57 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: The five-day police custody of the three arrested cricketers - S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan - and 11 bookies who were arrested last week ends on Tuesday. They will be produced in a Delhi court. Police sources say they will ask for further custody of the three cricketers, and seven of the 11 bookies. Meanwhile, Baburao Yadav, the former Ranji cricketer detained on Monday has been...
09:50 AM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals on Monday suspended the tainted trio of Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal on a day when investigations moved with a breakneck speed and resulted in the detention of one more cricketer, Baburao Yadav, a former Ranji Trophy player. Rajasthan Royals cricketers Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan were arrested on May 16 on charges that they spot-fixed certain...
09:38 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: The latest cricketer nabbed in the spot-fixing scandal, which hit Indian cricket last Thursday, is the 30-year-old Railways player Baburao Algu Yadav. Born in Chandrapur, Maharashtra, Baburao made his first class debut for Vidarbha way back in 2001-02 when he was just a budding 18-year-old medium pacer. But despite doing well with the ball (18 wickets in six matches at an average of 18.66 with a best of...
08:38 PM, May 20, 2013
Another case of shocking police brutality in Uttar Pradesh came up recently - a murder suspect dies and another is critical after being injected with petrol during interrogation. Shreya Dhoundial has covered Uttar Pradesh for many years now, here's her take on the credibility of the UP police. ...
05:47 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players. Delhi Police sources have told CNN-IBN that police are current interrogating Baburao, who had allegedly introduced bookie Sunil Bhatia to Ajit Chandila. Earlier in the day, police recovered Rs. 20 lakh from...
05:31 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: In latest development in the IPL spot-fixing case, Delhi Police have detained Ranji Trophy player Baburao Yadav from Delhi as investigation moved forward frantically on the last day of the custody of three Rajasthan Royals' players. Delhi Police sources have told CNN-IBN that police are current interrogating Baburao, who had allegedly introduced bookie Sunil Bhatia to Ajit Chandila. Earlier in the day, police recovered Rs. 20 lakh from...
05:31 PM, May 20, 2013
Washington: A group of Indian-Americans from as many as 20 cities held a meeting in Chicago over the weekend and extended full support to the political movement of change being spearheaded by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by social activist Arvind Kejriwal. In a resolution at the first convention of AAP in USA on May 18, Indian-American supporters of Kejriwal said non-residents have a crucial role to play in the...
12:45 PM, May 20, 2013
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
Lucknow: Shahi Imam of Delhi's Jama Masjid Maulana Ahmed Bukhari on Sunday met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav over the death of terror suspect Khalid Mujahid in police custody. Bukhari told reporters after his meeting, in which Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav was also present, that they had assured "adequate compensation" to the Mujahid's kin. However, there was no official word from the state government. "I told them...
08:45 AM, May 20, 2013
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
Mumbai: A 23-year-old youth was arrested on Sunday for allegedly killing his elder brother by stabbing him over 12 times. According to Mulund Police, the deceased Udayraj Yadav (25) was a college dropout who used to "beat his family members including his father Hiralal (56)". On Saturday, the accused Vinay Yadav returned home from work and had an argument with Udayraj over timing of dinner. Udayraj slapped Vinay and in...
01:54 AM, May 20, 2013
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
Patna: The Patna High Court on Friday acquitted three Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) politicians - Pappu Yadav, Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari - accused in the Brij Bihari Prasad murder case. The three were acquitted for lack of evidence. The court decided to give all three MLAs the benefit of doubt. All three are behind bars presently. Sources say that Munna Shukla and Rajan Tiwari may be released soon, but...
04:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Lucknow: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma on Tuesday accused Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav of conniving with BJP leader LK Advani to bring down the Babri mosque in Ayodhya. Congress leader Verma said in Lucknow that after detaining BJP leaders like Advani and Vinay Katiyar at a guest house in Faizabad, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had met them discreetly and it was...
03:26 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: In a twist to the December 16 gangrape case, sources say that the records of the bus in which the incident took place have been destroyed. However, sources said that the Crime Branch is checking if this is a periodic cleansing undertaken by the transport department. Sources add that the Crime Branch has some evidence against the Transport Department officials who gave clearance to the bus owner Dinesh...
12:08 PM, May 14, 2013
Chennai: Veteran left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra praised his Delhi Daredevils' team-mate Umesh Yadav, terming him as the "most talented fast bowler" in the country at the moment and believes that his performance will have an impact on India's performance in the near future. "Umesh has done so well and if you ask me personally, he s the most talented bowler for India. If he does well, then it will augur...
11:55 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: A Barabanki court has rejected Uttar Pradesh government's plea to release UP serial blast accused Tariq Qasmi and Khalid Mujahid. HuJi activists Tariq and Khalid were arrested with explosives on December 20, 2007. The state government on Friday moved an application in a local court in Barabanki requesting for permission to withdraw cases against the alleged Huji operatives. UP Special Task Force had arrested both the alleged Huji...
02:29 PM, May 10, 2013
Lucknow: After Harvard University's invitation to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, his uncle and senior Cabinet Minister Shivpal Yadav has been invited by John Hopkins University, US, to deliver a lecture on flood control, official sources said here. "Yadav, who besides others holds portfolio of Irrigation Department has been invited by Hopkins University to deliver lecture on flood control and expediting water sector restructuring project in Uttar Pradesh," a senior official...
05:55 PM, May 09, 2013
