In a significant move, Sri Lanka Cricket has announced that it has granted the worldwide rights to broadcast India's upcoming cricket tour of Sri Lanka to the Nimbus Sports International. The Singapore-headquartered global sports management company will also be producing the television coverage for the series which will be broadcast worldwide. Neo Cricket will air these matches.
Mumbai Indians and Bangalore's Royal Challengers have reached a transfer agreement to swap explosive batsman Robin Uthappa and left-hand fast bowler Zaheer Khan for the second edition of the Indian Premier League.
The IPL transfer window opened on December 22 and it was reported that Mumbai Indians were "looking specifically" for an Indian fast bowler.
The Malabar Hill police arrested film financier Bharat Shah on Thursday, in connection with an old cheating case registered against him by a Silvassa court.
The case against Bharat Shah, who also happens to be a leading diamond merchant, had been lodged nine years back in 2000, against a Silvassa-based company Vishal Chairs of which Shah was a director.
The Malabar Hill police produced Shah in the Girgaum metropolitan court, which remanded Shah to police custody till Friday.
The Supreme Court will hear Maharashtra government’s appeal to stop releasing Kamal Khan’s controversial movie ‘Deshdrohi’ on Jan 23, in view of intelligence inputs that it may lead to law and order problem in the state.
The film ‘Deshdrohi’ is set to be released on Friday (Jan 23).
Sania Mirza bowed out of the singles event at the Australian Open singles event as the Indian teenager went down in straight sets to Russia’s Nadia Petrova.
Sania failed to reproduce her round one form, where she defeated Marta Domachowhska 6-1, 6-4.
Sania Mirza crashed out singles event following a 3-6, 2-6 second round loss to World number 10 Petrova, thus bringing down the curtains on India's singles challenge in the process. The 10th seed Petrova took just 70 minutes to beat the 22-year-old Indian girl from Hyderabad.