Incidentally, non tax exemption was one of the major reasons why the Formula One race was pulled out of India.
India will compete with South Africa for their first World Cup 2019 clash on June 5.
The interviews for the rest of the support staff will be held on August 19.
Amitabh Chaudhary sent an e-mail on the decisions taken by the Committee of Administrators (COA) to Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, which had moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday on one of the issues dogging the BCCI.
Why didn't the BCCI CEO mention Pakistan in his letter?
The Committee of Administrators (COA) on Tuesday instructed Board of Control for Cricket in India not to scrap the Duleep Trophy from the domestic calendar after the tournament was removed, keeping technical committee chairman Sourav Ganguly in dark.
The BCCI had been vehemently opposed to signing up with NADA, claiming that it is an autonomous body, not a National Sports Federation and does not rely on government funding.
The reply came in response to an RTI filed by Jammu-based activist Rohit Choudhary about the number of surgical strikes on Pakistan between 2004 and 2014, and after September 2014. He had also sought to know how many of those were successful.
The new army chief's highest priority must be to address the critical hollowness in the Indian Army's operational preparedness, says Brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal (retd).
Dhoni's future has been widely speculated ever since India lost to New Zealand in the World Cup semifinal on July 9
The Indian Premier League final scheduled on May 12 was shifted from Chennai to Hyderabad after the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association failed to get requisite permission from the government to open the three closed stands.
Ravi Shastri's choice of bowling coach was always Bharat Arun and it is now apparent that Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) did not take the new head coach into confidence while recommending Zaheer Khan as the bowling coach.
The Indian board has not done 'enough' to market Test cricket, revered by the purists, says former India opener Gautam Gambhir.
Former Defence Minister A K Antony has "admitted" that then Army Chief Gen V K Singh had informed him about alleged bribe offer by Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh for clearing the file for purchase of 1,676 Tatra trucks at a cost of Rs 1193.04 crores, the Central Bureau of Investigation has told a court in New Delhi.
Sankaranarayanan feels the Supreme Court still has a role to play in the matter and should take appropriate steps, otherwise all its efforts to reform the BCCI's administrative structure would go waste.
Kumble proposed different teams for different formats, which would be awarded different contracts according to their grades.
Citing astonishing capitulation of Nagaland in a women's Under-19 match, former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Anurag Thakur on Friday pointed out that not all the Lodha Committee reforms are appropriate.
India's World Cup-winning former men's coach Gary Kirsten and ex-opener W V Raman were, on Thursday, short-listed for the post of the women's team coach.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday asked Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena to mend ways and desist from the smear campaign against the Nationalist Congress Parry or face a "befitting reply".
A host of former Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, are in favour of the country taking part in the ICC Champions Trophy to be held in the United Kingdom next month.
Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor is racing to get back in time from the African Nations Cup with fellow forward Jermain Defoe ruled out for as long as three weeks for the striker-light club.
Raman pips Kirsten for Indian women's coach job The 53-year-old Raman is currently a batting consultant at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. His first assignment is the tour of New Zealand beginning next month.
India is to tour England, from late June, for a full tour comprising T20s, ODIs and then Tests.
The Kolkata-based coal miner has tied up with the US-based Advance Resource International Inc for exploration and identification of the potential shale deposits within the company's coal blocks.
Meteorologist Dan Satterfield reported on his blog hosted by the American Geophysical Union that 'King tides' are produced when the gravitational forces of the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned.
'The BCCI has come to know that he refused to entertain their calls when all they were doing was to carry out the government's directive'
Star Sports have raised concerns with cricket's governing body that advertisers might steer clear of the ICC Champions Trophy if India opted against competing at the tournament in England.
It was also decided that no legal recourse will be taken against the International Cricket Council as per the diktat of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators.
Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli joined the chorus of top Indian cricketers in congratulating Mithali Raj on becoming the highest run-getter in the history of women's ODIs.
Is the BJP right in stalling Parliament thus, leading to virtually no business being transacted, or should they roll back their tactic and abide by parliamentary norms and submit to a debate in the House?
Former Board of Control for Cricket in India president Narayanswami Srinivasan cannot represent the Board at the International Cricket Council's meeting next week as he has been held guilty of conflict of interest, the Supreme Court said.
Vinod Rai, former Comptroller and Auditor General of India, former India women's captain Diana Edulji and banker Vikram Limaye were present at the meeting held at the IDFC Bank's premises in suburban Bandra-Kurla Complex.
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) will meet, in New Delhi, on Saturday to work out a feasible solution.
The Indian Army chief, General VK Singh, will petition the Supreme Court on Monday against the MoD's ruling that his date of birth will not be corrected in the official record
A livid Kapil Dev said he will not go to Mumbai and called the conflict of interest allegations against him and the CAC 'a publicity stunt'. In the complaint filed by Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association (MPCA) life member Sanjeev Gupta, it has been claimed that Kapil and Anshuman Gaekwad don multiple cricketing roles.
Ganguly himself faced the heat after allegations of conflict of interest were levelled against him for his dual role as the president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and mentor of IPL franchise Delhi Capitals.
The former South African opener, who coached India to the 2011 men's World Cup title, will appear for interviews for the Indian women's team coach job on Thursday
'Somewhere along the way, elected office-bearers appeared to have lost sight of the interest of cricket and begun to pursue their own interpretation of what the game should be.' 'Families made it a tradition to have their representatives occupy, if not usurp, positions in state associations,' points out Vinod Rai, who will step down as head of the BCCI's Committee of Administrators on Wednesday, October 23.
Virat Kohli continued his day job of mesmerising fans with a magical willow
The memory of 18 players killed in an air crash almost 20 years ago carried Zambia's current generation to their extraordinary African Nations Cup triumph, the team said on Monday.
