The Board of Control for Cricket in India has submitted to the SC that match-fixing is ‘cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property’ under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
This year, the Bangladesh Cricket Board's Anti-Corruption Unit is investigating eight matches for suspected fixing, acting on anonymous tips and media reports.
The bans are backdated to 16 October 2019, when the players were provisionally suspended for attempting to corrupt matches of the 2019 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier in the UAE.
Former Pakistan players Aaqib Javed & Aamer Sohail and ex-PCB chairman Khalid Mehmood have alleged that Wasim Akram was involved in match-fixing in the 1990s.
In Cricket 2.0: Inside the T20 Revolution, Tim Wigmore and Freddie Wilde write about how the first great fixing scandal to be exposed allegedly began in a hotel room.
Illegal betting in India, especially in cricket, has spawned ills such as spot-fixing & match-fixing. In this world cup season, ThePrint revisits calls to legalise it.
CSE, one of India’s oldest bourses, is edging towards a voluntary exit. It could never recover from market manipulation scam that caused a payment crisis at exchange back in 2001.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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