Following the Supreme Court on Friday, the Board of Control of Cricket in India secretary Ajay Shirke has written a letter to Justice Lodha Panel asking for clarification in the issues related to broadcast rights for the Indian Premier League. The invitation to tenders (ITTs) are slated to be opened on Tuesday (October 25).
'N Ram and I met on the lawns of Mani Shankar Aiyar's bungalow.' 'I pulled out a rolled printout from my jacket and handed it to him.' 'In the cut-throat world of journalism, this was like high treason.' 'But letting a story be killed because you can't publish it is a bigger crime than passing it to the competition,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
'India's print media appears to be on the ventilator, gasping for breath, cutting staff, cutting salaries, cutting editions, cutting off its hands and legs,' notes Krishna Prasad.
The students -- who were from the Central Agricultural University in Imphal -- had gone to visit the monument as part of an all-India educational tour.
Former India captain Diana Edulji, part of the two-member Committee of Administrators (CoA), wants Board of Control for Cricket in India's CEO Rahul Johri sacked over allegations of sexual harassment.
The IAF has insisted it hit its targets. If that is indeed true, then the lack of obvious damage could mean it has used a different bomb -- possibly procured secretly from Israel.
An angry BCCI has now threatened to withdraw the Indian team from the next year's Champions Trophy in England after being excluded from the ICC's finance committee meeting held a few days ago in Dubai.
"Show respect to cows as it is the leader of all bovines. Its milk, ghee and butter have therapeutic properties and its meat is the cause of several diseases," translates the verse on the hoarding
Did Prime Minister Narendra Modi have his facts wrong when he claimed during his address to the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort that Nagla Fatela, a tiny village in Uttar Pradesh, had finally been electrified, seven decades after independence?
An occasional quiz to improve Narendrabhai's grasp of Indian history...
BCCI Anti-Corruption Unit chief Ravi Sawani has reportedly held S Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan guilty in his investigative report on the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal.
A consensus builder, Jaitley was regarded by some as Modi's original 'Chanakya'.
"The news report published in the Indian Express (external link) today comprehensively exposes the fake controversy created by the NDA government on the two affidavits filed by the Central government in the Ishrat Jahan case," Chidambaram said in statement.
What has really alarmed the police, and also the families of young drug abusers, is the entry of "chitta" -- a highly refined white powdery semi-synthetic substance (mainly heroine) -- into the drug scene and has spread like wildfire among the state's youth. Ashwani Sharma reports.
The designer had expressed his desire to dress up the couple in 2015.
Reliance has no illegal Swiss Bank accounts.
Amid reports of alleged interference in the Central Bureau of Investigation's probe into the coal scam, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Saturday demanded the constitution of a special investigation team to probe the scam.
The Express group is expected to get around Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) from the deal.
A school textbook in Jodhpur has a shocking chapter on moral science.
'What does the nation get out of the CBI's fabulous infrastructure? Very little that is useful.'
Actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Thursday chose to stay mum over her name figuring in the Panama Paper leaks for allegedly having links with offshore entities.
A bill, pending for many years, banning cow slaughter in Maharashtra received the President's assent, which means beef lovers will now have to do without red meat.
Ravi Shastri will pocket around Rs 8 crore per annum, which is atleast a crore more than previous coach Anil Kumble's salary.
The Election Commission sent a notice to Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the BJP's Mumbai chief. This is probably because a leading newspaper highlighted his utterances on its front page.
'The producer will wear these gold ornaments, but they will not part with Rs 30,000 or Rs 50,000 to pay the writer.'
Darryl D'Monte mentored more journalists than any other editor of his generation. Some of the biggest bylines owe their beginnings in our glorious profession to this wonderful human being.
A policeman has been left blind in one eye after being struck by six hit by South African David Miller in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match, local media reported on Saturday.
Former India team director Ravi Shastri has expressed his disappointment on losing out his job with the Indian cricket team. Despite running as one of the frontrunners for the job, the three member advisory panel of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman selected their former teammate Anil Kumble as the coach of India team.
If one were to go by the degree of clout, Jaitley was the undoubted No. 2 in the Modi government.
Senior cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle, who has been associated with Indian cricket since the mid-80s and who has been part of the IPL commentary team since the first season in 2008, has been removed from the panel by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Bhogle was told about the termination of his contract just a week back, according to a report in The Indian Express. The decision came as a complete surprise for the 54-year-old as he had conducted the draft auction for this season, featured in the cash-rich league's promotional videos and even his flight tickets booked by the production house.
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One of India's biggest watch makers, HMT Watches will wind up soon.
Hima Das's journey from the rice fields of Assam is to a world champion today is inspirational.
'The entire brouhaha with regard to the CAB smacks of blatant Hinduphobia, a duplicitous exercise, morally corrupt in its construct and aimed at divesting deserving Hindus of basic human rights by raising the bogey of Muslim discrimination, and must be called out for what it is,' says Vivek Gumaste.
'What will this supposedly more business-friendly government do if it gets a second term?' 'Important labour law and land reforms remain off the table.' 'Witness the arm-twisting of foreign players in e-commerce and all but one player in telecom -- and it is very hard to justify this perception that the BJP is business friendly.' 'There will also remain the real risk of ideas seemingly gleaned from the pages of Amar Chitra Katha, overlaid with PowerPoint presentations,' predicts Rahul Jacob.
Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of the Indian Express group, has sent a legal notice to Vinod Mehta, editorial chairman of the Outlook group of publications, and Open magazine's editor and correspondent, seeking Rs 100 crore as damages, for an interview Mehta granted Open's correspondent Hartosh Singh Bal which, Gupta's lawyers said, contained 'defamatory and defamatory imputations'
'There must be thousands if not lakhs of people the government is illegally spying on.' 'Why should we enable this criminal activity by volunteering our details?'
The list includes Gautam Adani's brother Vinod Adani among others.
Another fallout of the Para Brigade's exercise was the realisation that thick, unrelenting fog in North India could actually create an unforeseen obstacle for the movement of India's mechanised forces -- most of India's armour strength is located in the north Indian states -- in case they need to mobilise at short notice. So, some elements of armoured forces were also moved around in winter months to understand real-time problems they may encounter because of fog and traffic
Commuters on Sulthanpalya Main Road were startled when they saw a crocodile emerging from a pothole.
He said his 'Rashtra Manch', a political action group, would start a movement against the policies of the Centre.
