The Board of Control for Cricket in India is set to issue showcause notices to a bunch of Indian players for their alleged involvement in an altercation in a St. Lucia nightclub hours after their exit from the World T20 Championships last Tuesday.

The Samajwadi Party on Monday questioned the Bahujan Samaj Party’s drive against criminals and said that if the anti-criminal drive was genuine then why no action was being taken against “established” criminals in the BSP.

Leading sports management firm IMG officials met Board of Control for Cricket in India bigwigs in Mumbai on Monday apparently to provide details of financial dealings during suspended Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi’s tenure.

The Legal Services Authority (Nalsa) functioning under the patronship of Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia has come out with a series of measures to improve the free legal aid to the poor, who could not afford to engage lawyers to fight their cases due to their high fee.

The Congress is feeling uncomfortable with the coming together of the NDA and the Left on certain issues inside Parliament.
The party spokesman Manish Tewari on Monday lamented that in the last one year of the UPA government, an “opportunistic anti-Congress” alliance has taken shape, which has compromised secularism.

The sports ministry on Monday asked the Indian Olympic Association to take up in detail the controversial tenure issue a day prior to the latter’s executive council and special general assembly meeting.

The Delhi high court on Monday directed the CBI to verify the facts after going through the plea of the former Medical Council of India’s president, Ketan Desai, who has knocked the court for an urgent hearing on his bail application as his mother has been hospitalised and he has to attend on her.

The BJP leadership, in absence of the party president, is in constant touch with the party MP and former Jharkhand chief minister, Mr Arjun Munda, who is negotiating with JMM chief and Jharkhand chief minister Mr Shibu Soren.

Kris ‘Chika’ Srikkanth wears three hats as chief selector, brand ambassador of Chennai Super Kings and member of an expert panel for a television channel.
All three jobs are in conflict with each other.

Not impressed by the tall claims made by highways minister Kamal Nath of constructing 20 km of National Highway (NH) everyday, the Planning Commission on Monday hinted that the panel would be happy to see the country getting addition of barely 6 km on a daily basis.