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Mumbai Police on Friday indicated it would not extend the deadline for Chennai Super Kings CEO Gurunath Meiyappan to appear before it for questioning in the IPL betting scandal, saying “he has been asked to present himself by 5 pm today“. “Mr. Meiyappan
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Three Army personnel were killed on Friday in an encounter with militants in Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district. An Army spokesman said the troops had launched an anti-insurgency operation in Buchoo village in Tral area of Pulwama, 40 kms fro
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The major highway bridge linking Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific Northwest region collapsed on Thursday evening, dumping a handful of vehicles and people into a river, the Washington State Patrol said. Authorities said there were no deaths
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CPI MP Gurudas Dasgupta says Reliance will stand to gain thousands of crores The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry is on the verge of perpetrating a “gigantic scam” by advocating a gas price hike that would benefit the Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Indu
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Twenty-six Indian fishermen, who were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy on April 5 while fishing off Kodiakarai coast, returned here on Friday morning after their release, fisheries department officials said. The fishermen were lodged in a prison in the i
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A 19-year-old boy slipped and fell from a suburban electric train near Tambaram on Thursday night, even as his mother and sister witnessed the tragedy.Kirubakaran, his mother Mangamma, and his sister, had boarded the train at Meenambakkam for Perungalathu
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Indian-American Srikanth Srinivasan on Friday scripted history after he was confirmed as the first South Asian judge to America’s second highest court. Described as “trailblazer” by US President Barack Obama, Chandigarh-born Srinivasan’s nomination to t
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Describing the IPL spot-fixing scandal as unfortunate, former India football captain Baichung Bhutia said betting should be legalised in the country to stop corruption in cricket. “In Europe betting is legalised and you don’t come across such scams ever
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India should legalise betting to stamp out corruption in cricket, says former England captain Geoffrey Boycott who feels the menace of fixing, which has currently dented the IPL’s reputation, emerges more frequently in the Asian countries. “The way to s
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Police have not ruled out complicity among players from other franchises Shocking revelations have emerged, during the ongoing probe into the spot-fixing scandal, from bookies who stayed in the hotels where suspended IPL players were putting up ahead of
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The police investigation into spot-fixing and betting charges has evoked much curiosity about B. Gurunath Meiyappan, team principal of Chennai Super Kings. The mild-mannered Mr. Gurunath, well known in the city’s social circles, is a man of few words and
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Sachin Tendulkar, who is nursing a wrist injury, sweated it out on Thursday at the Mumbai Indians net session at Eden Gardens. He however remains a doubtful starter for the second Qualifier against Rajasthan Royals on Friday. Teammate Dwayne Smith said
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Suresh Raina during the course of his unbeaten 82 against Mumbai Indians on Tuesday became the first Indian batsman to aggregate 4,000 runs in T20 cricket. The Chennai Super Kings star with 354 boundaries (fours and sixes) in the IPL is now second only
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has taken a lot of flak over the past two weeks. The spot-fixing scandal has trained the spotlight on the Board’s methods of governance and its willingness to punish erring players. In this exclusive interv
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The parliamentary committees on the howitzer scam and the stock market scandal protected the powerful and failed to fix accountability. The same is true in the spectrum case The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister
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By ordering the prosecution of two witnesses who turned hostile in the sensational Jessica Lal murder case, the Delhi High Court seems to have paved the way for a much needed corrective in India’s criminal justice delivery system. Too often, during the co
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision last week to impose a state of emergency in the three north-eastern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, followed by air attacks, shelling and the deployment of troops, marks a dramatic new turning point for
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The rupee on Friday weakened further by 10 paise to 55.69 against the dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange due to appreciation of the US currency overseas.Dealers attributed the rupee’s fall to dollar gains against other currencies overs
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Snapping its four-day long losing streak, the BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday recovered by over 139 points in early trade on emergence of buying by funds, tracking a firming trend in the Asian region. The 30-share index, which had lost 612 points in the
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Attrition of women as they move forward in the organisation a major challenge Even though she expressed concern over the “leaky pipeline” phenomenon afflicting women’s participation in the workforce as they move up the corporate ladder, U.S. Deputy Assis
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The Union Cabinet will consider the impact of the proposed increase in natural gas prices on power tariff and fertilizer subsidy before deciding on increasing the rates, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said on Thursday. Commenting on CPI leader Gurudas
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In a bid to promote ‘Brand India’, the government on Thursday allowed sale of goods manufactured in India, sans excise duty, to incoming and outgoing international passengers and crew at duty-free shops (DFSs) at airports.The notification has already been
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SPAV students showcase their theses for external evaluation The subject of architecture is not about just designing buildings and model townships, it is about life and the way that you design and plan your life. This was the expression given out by Anirb
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“School Chale Hum” is scribbled on the outer walls of every house in Badbeli village of Rajgarh district in Madhya Pradesh, but Sheela Soundhiya’s hopes of continuing her education were dashed when she was taken off school in Class IV. Last year, she was
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The move assumes significance as State-board students often face challenges in competitive exams The syllabi for classes XI and XII have been revised and put up online for suggestions and feedback from those interested. The modified syllabi are expect
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That Standard XII students of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) lose out on admissions in good courses, in arts and science colleges, because they start the race from much behind their counterparts from the State Board, has become a norm now. Wi
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Angry parents and a belligerent university administration almost came to blows over the university’s refusal to answer valid questions about the four-year undergraduate course at Delhi University’s first “open house” session for its South Campus here on T
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A pistol-toting, invective-spewing businessman was the main character in a high drama that played out on Ponnamallee High Road on Wednesday. Petlee Peter followed the story as it played out. The Hindu photographers captured the scenes. It all began arou
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