The two-time Ranji winners fell to the bottom even as the judiciary-run state body, with the shadow of Lalit Modi still looming large, is riven by divisions.
ED penalises BCCI and former top officials including N. Srinivasan, Lalit Modi for allegedly violating the foreign exchanges Act during the 2009 IPL season in South Africa.
BCCI cannot blame a mere individual nor rely on the old cynical and lazy notion that cash will solve all problems. It has to clean up not just the IPL, but itself.
The right issue to debate is not whether IPL is responsible for the decline of Indian cricketers’ performance but if its riches so dazzled administrators that it devastated the management of our talent.
IPL founder Lalit Modi and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor have turned on each other from being hand in glove, giving India an opportunity to clean up conflicts of interest in cricket.
Former CEO Howard Schultz once told shareholders those who opposed his support of same-sex marriage were free to invest elsewhere. But now, CEO Brian Niccol seems to be selling Starbucks as a place that just, well, sells coffee.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
Tajikistan did not want to extend the lease because of apparent pressure from Russia & China over non-regional military personnel at the air base, it is learnt.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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