Investigations into the IPL’s murky financial deals have revealed a web of transactions across tax havens, use of Swiss bank accounts and money transfers linking franchisees and even BCCI. One account in a Swiss bank has been found to have deposits of over $3 million.
The BCCI brass may find itself answering some tough questions as [...]
New Delhi , April 27 (IANS) Madhuri Gupta, the junior Indian diplomatic official who was arrested here on charges of spying for Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, worked with the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), a foreign policy think tank, before she was posted at the Indian high commission in Islamabad.
She worked here in 2006-2007 [...]
Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta, arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan’s spy agency ISI, had visited the Sunderbani border area in Jammu and Kashmir last month and stayed with a doctor couple, intelligence sources said.
Gupta, 53, had been to Sunderbani, close to the Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri district, for two days on March [...]
Making a statement in the Lok Sabha for the first time since his resignation from the Union council of ministers, ousted minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor said that he had asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to order an inquiry into the allegations against him in connection with the Kochi IPL franchise.
“I have [...]
Pakistan Rangers resorted to unprovoked firing in the Bamial sector along the International Border late last night, drawing retaliation from the BSF.
No casualty was reported in the firing. BSF officials at Gurdaspur said that the unprovoked firing from Pakistan side started at about 11pm last night at Simbal post in Bamial sector and BSF Jawans [...]
As many as 14 foetuses were found dumped inside a garbage bin near Lalbahadur Shastri Stadium in Bapunagar area here today, police said.
The incident came to light when some of the locals found the foetuses lying in the garbage bin near the stadium this morning.
“There were 14 foetuses in the garbage bin. All the foetuses [...]
Lalit Modi’s days as the IPL commissioner appear to be numbered as the BCCI’s top brass has more or less made up its mind to remove the high-flying administrator who has triggered a political storm and brought the BCCI under the Income Tax scanner.
The stand against Modi has hardened over the last few days as [...]
A Delhi court on Saturday deferred till May 15 pronouncement of its order on a plea of a lawyer objecting to CBI’s move to withdraw the two-decade-old Bofors pay-off case against Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja adjourned the matter after Additional Solicitor General PP Malhotra submitted that the original records, which were [...]
In a bid to clip Lalit Modi’s wings, IPL governing council (IGC) would meet on April 23 to discuss the role of the IPL commissioner in the Kochi franchisee row.
Talking exclusively to Zee News, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, who is also a member of IPL governing council, said that [...]
Chinese leaders on Wednesday made no effort to deny reports that construction companies from the country were involved in developing infrastructure projects in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. The only assurance they gave the visiting Indian external affairs minister S M Krishna is that Chinese work in the area is “without prejudice” to the fact that it [...]
China on Tuesday dismissed reports that Chinese hackers have broken into top secret files of the Indian Defence Ministry and embassies around the world, saying that it was firmly opposed to hacking and regards it as an international crime.
“We have been hearing frequently these kind of news and I do not know the purpose to [...]
As events around the wedding between Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik and tennis ace Sania Mirza get murkier by the day, the Indian sports icon’s family was “keeping all options open”, including postponing the wedding, indicated a close family friend.
Andhra Cricket Association’s former secretary V Chamundeswaranath, a close friend of Sania’s family, said late Monday that [...]
The Indian Air Force has alleged that Mhada, the state housing board, has grabbed 49,000 sq m defence land here.
The Air Force says Mhada manipulated property records to take over nearly 49,000 sq m of defence land at the Rifle Range in Golibar area of suburban Santacruz.
Six buildings have also come up on the land [...]
As the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) prepares for projected earnings of $1 billion in IPL’s third season, taxmen are looking for their share of the pie, having already made Rs 110 crore.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has set up a watchdog headed by a chief commissioner in Mumbai to [...]
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