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Lalit Modi

Lalit Modi

Lalit Kumar Modi (born November 29, 1963) is an Indian businessman and cricket administrator, best known as the founder and first Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He
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    The initial autopsy report, conducted by AIIMS, said it to be ‘unnatural sudden death‘. Though the report said there were no traces of posion in Sunanda's blood, injury marks were discovered on her body. The full autopsy details are expected in two days, said AIIMS.

  • Lalit Modi aims for RCA prez post

    CNN-IBN. Last week, Modi's legal counsel Mehmood Abdi confirmed that the former IPL commissioner will fight the polls. Abdi said that the former RCA President will contest for the top post once again, thereby throwing a gauntlet at the BCCI, who has banned him for life in all cricket matters in India.

  • BCCI expels former IPL chief Lalit Modi for life

    Delhi High Court had on Tuesday revoked the stay on BCCI SGM clearing decks for the Indian board to ban Modi. After HC overruled the earlier decision by the Patiala House Court to stay the SGM, Modi's counsel moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday, but it was dismissed.

  • ED issues fresh show-cause notice to BCCI over IPL-2 deals

    The Enforcement Directorate today issued a show cause notice to the Indian cricket board for alleged foreign exchange violations in acceptance of deposits of Rs 60 crore for award of contract for conducting the second season of the Indian Premier League.

  • Modi loses libel case, has to pay 90,000 pounds to Cairns

    Lalit Modi's cup of woes seems to be overflowing as the axed IPL Commissioner today lost a libel case to former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns.

  • Will N Srinivasan Save Indian Cricket?

    The richest cricket body in the world can’t stop the declining interest in the sport. Can BCCI President N Srinivasan revive it?

  • Book Review: Sphere of Influence

    A book on Cricket and Discontents

  • Dhoni's act of sportsmanship finds praise, critics

    Mahendra Singh Dhoni's decision to recall Ian Bell after a bizarre runout at Trent Bridge on Sunday will have gone down well with English cricket fans but his act of sportsmanship appears lost on some of his compatriots.

  • Modi fires fresh salvo at BCCI

    Former IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi has ridiculed the BCCI for reportedly suggesting that he might be involved in the organisation of the upcoming Sri Lankan Premier League, in which Indian players have been barred from participating.

  • Four years on, lustre fades from Indian Premier League

    A DJ blasted Bollywood songs, fans decked out in the colours of the home side danced in the aisles, and the wife of the billionaire team owner perched on an electric-blue sofa near the Mumbai Indians' dugout.

  • Modi files appeal against HC order directing enquiry by BCCI

    A day before the BCCI's Disciplinary Committee is expected to start its enquiry against Lalit Modi, the former IPL chairman has appealed in the Bombay High Court against an earlier order directing for the cricket board to initiate the enquiry proceedings.

  • Modi, other accused asked to appear before police by Feb 15

    Chennai, Feb5 (PTI) The Chennai Police has once again summoned suspended Indian Premier League (IPL) Commissioner Lalit Modi and other people in connection with a funds misappropriation case, giving them time till February 15 to appear before it for inquiry.

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