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BCCI should investigate root cause of IPL scandal: Maken

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In the backdrop of a spot-fixing scandal that rocked IPL, Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Wednesday said the BCCI should probe the root cause of the problem and suggested that the body should de-link

Brooks charged with perjury along with husband, 4 others

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The multiple investigations into the phone-hacking scandal on Tuesday moved a notch higher with the prosecutors bringing three charges of perjury against media baron Rupert Murdoch's former confidante

News of the World's former editor charged

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Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the News of the World (Now), and her husband Charlie were on Tuesday formally charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice over the phone-hacking inquiry,

Kings XI's Srivastava claims innocence in spot-fixing charges

Kings XI Punjab pacer Shalabh Srivastava, who was shown demanding Rs10 lakh to bowl a deliberate no-ball in a sting operation by a TV channel, has claimed innocence and said it was a conspiracy to mal

Butt is lonely and depressed, says Asif

Banned Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif, who was released from jail last week, has described his former roomate Salman Butt as a 'lonely and depressed man' anxiously waiting to be released from prison aft

Rupert Murdoch 'not fit' to run big company: UK lawmakers

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A British parliamentary report said on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch had showed 'wilful blindness' over phone hacking at his News of the World tabloid and was not fit to run a major company.

"We conclu

Murdoch says 'someone took charge of a cover-up'

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Rupert Murdoch said on Thursday there was a 'cover-up' over phone hacking at the News of the World tabloid but that it was kept hidden from him and senior executives in his media empire.

Murdoch also

James Murdoch faces UK press inquiry grilling

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Former News International executive chairman James Murdoch began giving testimony under oath on Tuesday at the British inquiry into press standards set up after the tabloid phone-hacking row.

In the

Pakistani held in Bangladesh over spot-fixing

A Pakistani has been questioned by police over his suspected involvement in spot-fixing during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Twenty20 tournament, a Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) official said o

Let's be more vigilant: ICC after Westfield's sentencing

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The ICC has asked its member boards to be more vigilant after former Essex Player Mervyn Westfield was sent to jail for four months for his role in spot-fixing.

Westfield had pleaded guilty to the ch

There are certain immutable laws of military history that repeated attempts at disproving them only end up confirming their veracity.

As a self-confessed hardliner, I must admit that being a part of the team engaged in Indo-Pak Track 2 dialogue has been very interesting.