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New Delhi:India on Friday gave its approval to Pakistan for setting up a visa camp in Amritsar for cricket lovers wanting to visit that country for the Indo-Pak series. ...

New Delhi:Prasar Bharti has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court to make it a party in case Ten Sports approaches the Apex Court challenging the Chennai High Court ruling asking the channel to allow Doordarshan (DD) to telecast the Indo-Pak series. ...

<!--#INCLUDE VIRTUAL="/design/newsbanner.html"-->New Delhi: The Sports Ministry has said it wants suitable amendments to the Gambling Acts in force in different states to effectively deal with match-fixing and other malpractices. The Law Ministry has already ...

New Delhi: India decided to stop playing cricket against Pakistan because the game had been reduced to a "gladiatorial contest," External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said on Monday. ...

Islamabad: Hopes for reviving the Indian cricket team's tour of Pakistan in January have been dashed yet again, with a Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) official confirming that the tour was more or less off. Talking to IANS over telephone from Lahore, ...

Bhopal: Union Sports and Youth Affairs minister Uma Bharati on Saturday made it clear that the decision to cancel the Indian cricket team's tour to Pakistan was taken on the advice of the External Affairs Ministry.''My ministry has nothing to do ...

New Delhi: An influential Indian cricket official launched an astonishing attack on the match-fixing report by federal investigators on Sunday, saying it resembled a prostitute's diary.Kamal Morarka, one of three officials nominated to hand out punishment to guilty players...

New Delhi: Setting at rest all speculation, the government has said that there is no move to take over the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in the wake of the match-fixing scandal plaguing the game.Minister of state for ...

Bhopal: The new National Sports Policy would be announced soon, Union Sports and Youth Affairs minister Uma Bharati said on Saturday.Addressing a meet-the-press programme here, Ms Bharati said the new policy to be implemented within the next six months would focus ...

Bhopal: The Union ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs is mulling to enact a law on curbing match-fixing and will hold a meeting with other ministries and officials concerned in the national capital to find out ways to check recurrence of ...