In the backdrop of the Indian Premier League (IPL) row and the probe ordered by the government into its funding, three senior ministers – Pranab Mukherjee, P. Chidambaram and Sharad Pawar – met Tuesday in parliament house.
The 15 minute-meeting between the three ministers was held amid reports that IPL commissioner Lalit Modi may quit or [...] Continue reading Pranab, Pawar, Chidambaram meet over IPL row
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Cricket fans in the US will be able to watch the semifinal and final matches of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament live on YouTube this week thanks to a multi-year agreement signed in January.
Previously US fans had to sign up for subscription-based online sports site Willow.tv and pay $60 to stream the [...] Continue reading IPL semis, final live on YouTube for US fans
Recipient of this year’s prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honour, Indian American business leader Rao S. Anumolu believes the Indian community, doing an “A+ job” professionally and economically, is now catching on in politics too.
“Indians here are mostly professionals – doctors, engineers and in finance field, etc,” says Anumolu, president and CEO of Long Island [...] Continue reading ‘Indian Americans catching up in US politics too’
With charges of money laundering flowing thick and fast, it seems Indian Premier League (IPL) chief Lalit Modi will have a lot of explain as the government gears up to probe all dealings of the $4.1 billion cricketing extravagana.
What is expected to make matters worse is that IPL’s parent, the all-powerful Board of Control for [...] Continue reading Tracking IPL’s treasurechest: Modi under scanner
With the resignation of Shashi Tharoor as minister of state for external affairs, India’s Africa policy has lost an ardent advocate who was an eloquent supporter of the country’s renewed engagement with the 54-nation African continent.
Tharoor, a former United Nations diplomat, stepped down Sunday night ending a weeklong political drama surrounding a controversial financial deal [...] Continue reading With Tharoor’s resignation, Africa loses an ardent friend