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Pressure mounted for the resignation of BCCI President N Srinivasan in the wake of alleged involvment of his son-in-law and CSK team owner Gurunath Meiyappan in betting on IPL matches even as questions were raised over the future of Chennai franchise.The 35-year-old Gurunath, who has been summoned by Mumbai Police for questioning after actor Vindoo Dara Singh implicated him in betting, flew to Mum...
Source : Newstodaynet | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Allowed HTML tags: This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.The visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang from May 19-22 had to compete for space with the unfurling Indian Premier League scandal — an admixture of the sublime and the ridiculous....
Source : Asianage | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Ananthamurthy’s ‘losing out’ does not matter too much. Especially since, contrary to their own belief, this is not exactly the Nobel Prize.The headlines said it all. The Man Booker International Prize had been awarded to Lydia Davis, the American author. But most Indian newspapers in English announced it as “U.R. Ananthamurthy loses out on Man Booker”. You could almost hear the collective sigh of ...
Source : Asianage | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Sabu became India’s first star of international cinema. His is an uncanny real-life story of an elephant boy who rode on elephant-sized movies.Today, India’s prime actors who are making a bid for international visibility — in roles, major or minor — are amassing reams of publicity and flashbulb attention from the paparazzi. Amitabh Bachchan, despite a brief part in The Great Gatsby, stirred up new...
Source : Asianage | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
An eight-day seventh edition of festival 'Art Fusion and Cultural Glimpses of Rajasthan' kicked off at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai on May 23. Famous artworks of Rajasthan are on display at the on-going festival. On different dates, talks, dance, drama, and folk music of the state will be organised....
Source : Merinews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Nagaland at a total cost of Rs 1,089.87 crore, the concessionaire will make all expenditure to complete the project and will charge the annuity from the Govt."The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the implementation of the project of 4-laning of the Dimapur-Kohima section from 124.1 km to 172.9 km of NH-39," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said at a press briefing in New Delhi on...
Source : DDINews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
President Pranab Mukherjee has expressed concern over the moral drift which has "begun to dominate" public lives, and sought replacement of Tagore's man of "limited purpose" with the "moral man".Mukherjee was delivering the first Rabindranath Tagore Memorial Lecture after inaugurating the Tagore Centre for the Study of Culture and Civilisation in the precincts of the Indian Institute of Advanced S...
Source : DDINews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
The Delhi High Court on Friday reserved its verdict on several pleas, filed separately by Congress leader Sajjan Kumar and others, against a trial court order framing charges in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.April saying further hearing was required, on Friday reserved his verdict again after the counsel for the riots victim sought framing of additional charge of criminal conspiracy against the Cong...
Source : DDINews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
A special CBI court on Friday reserved its order on the bail application of suspended IPS officerAfter hearing the arguments, additional chief judicial magistrate S H Khutwad said he would pronounce the order on May 27.Singhal, who was arrested by CBI on February 21, has sought bail on the ground that the agency failed to file charge sheet within the stipulated 90 days.Another accused and police o...
Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Gandhi instructed state leaders to strengthen the party and gave them targets for political activity over the next three months.NEW DELHI: Amid speculation that the Congress is exploring government formation in Jharkhand — which is under President's rule — party vice-presidentA section of the Congress has been in favour of exploring ways to form a government in the state with the support of theHow...
Source : Times Of India | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
CPI(M) on Friday accused the BJP of taking "regressive and jingoistic" stand on several foreign policy issues and for rousing "chauvinist" feelings to create confrontation with Pakistan and China."The thrust of the BJP's stand is to create a confrontation with Pakistan and China and to rouse national chauvinist feelings against these two countries," party General Secretary Prakash Karat said.Charg...
Source : Zeenews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
Mumbai: Alleging that cricket fans are "betrayed" due to IPL spot-fixing, opposition BJP on Friday said the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) should own up responsibility for the scandal and take stern action against those involved."BCCI should own responsibility and come out clean. They can not escape from it since people who consider cricket as religion, feel betrayed due to the spot-...
Source : Zeenews | 2 Day(s) AgoCategory : National
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