BCCI vice-president Kamal Morarka said the appointment as BCCI patron-in-chief is in accordance with the rules laid down in the Board's constitution.
Dalmiya, who will step down as BCCI President on September 29, was appointed to the new post with effect from October 1.
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said as a result of the GCC's laxity substantial revenue losses were incurred.
Dalmiya said India's counter-claim would be based on the contention that marketing of the World Cup by GCC was not\n\nproper.
The BCCI chief ruled out the possibility of the issue figuring at the ICC's Executive Committee meeting.
The BCCI chief said the Indian trainer's resignation had nothing to do with his contract.\n\n
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya will surely stake claim for the World Cup guarantee money due to India.
Issues like the telecast rights of cricket matches in the country for the next three years and the contract system of payments for cricketers will be taken up.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has said it is ready to host India, which has twice cancelled tours to Pakistan.
The BCCI wants feedback on the tournament's new format.
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said the extension is subject to the approval of the Working Committee.
A record 40 disciplines, including chess, will feature at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.
The BCCI president replaces Bangladesh Cricket Board president Mohammed Ali Asghar, whose two-year term ended.\n\n
Jagmohan Dalmiya would take over as the President of the Asian Cricket Council at its Annual General meeting to be held in London on Tuesday.
The decision was taken to help the players acclimatise to the conditions in Colombo, the venue for the Asia Cup in July.
BCCI has decided to give the domestic cricketers a ten-fold hike and pay upto Rs 52,000 for each match.
Insisting that restoring the BCCI's image was his first priority, newly-elected BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya has called for a proper conduct of next months's Indian Premier League (IPL) that had been subject to controversy in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal.
The BCCI president said apart from the Asia Cup, the Boards will revive the Asian Test Championship and also plan out Pakistan's tour of India next year.
As the Indian captain has appealed against the ban it is automatically suspended till the ICC gives its verdict.
The former India captain, coach and fast bowler will not accompany the team to Pakistan.
India want to play one-day internationals in Karachi and Peshawar instead of Test matches.
The BCCI is still awaiting a formal communication from the Centre about the go-ahead for the cricket team's tour to Pakistan.
Three officials will visit Pakistan next week to assess security in the run-up to the team's tour.
The second match between the Rest of the World XI and Asian XI was called off due to the heat and humidity in April.
The BCCI working committe cleared their participation as the sixth team in the tournament.
'The detailed itinerary is still in the drawing board. We are talking to Pakistan board officials on this,' Dalmiya said.\n\n\n\n
Banned former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi again took to micro-blogging site twitter to attack BCCI president N Srinivasan accusing him of "orchestrating the retention policy" to suit his side Chennai Super Kings in the upcoming seventh edition of Indian Premier League.
The BCCI chief said the Board decided to send Kartik 'so that the team does not find itself handicapped' in case of an emergency.
The unfinished AGM will be held in Kolkata to enable newly-elected office-bearers take over.
The standoff over the World Cup guarantee money will be the most important issue at the ICC's two-day meeting in Barbados.
Dalmiya's counsel Sidharth Shanker Ray stressed on the "Midas touch" of the former ICC president, asserting that whatever he touched generated huge amounts of money.
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