The central government has extended scheme launched in January 2010 at certain airports to Hyderabad as well.

The Tourist Visa-on-Arrival (VoA) with a maximum validity of 30 days, with single entry facility, shall be granted by the Immigration officers at RGIA to citizens of 11 countries viz Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar and Indonesia.

Lakshmi Rai says that, media was linking her to Sreesanth simply because the media have their photographs together at CCL and IPL matches. She said that she only worked as the brand ambassador for Chennai Super Kings in the first phase of IPL and after that, she denies any contact with any of the persons connected to IPL.

She also denied any links or relation with Sreesanth. Previously rumors were high in the air that she had a close acquaintance with the cricket captain Dhoni.

The episode of the Reddy trio who were efflorescent with their presence in assembly since 2004 will haunt the BJP for a long time. The most vocal of the siblings, G. Janardhana Reddy, a former Bharatiya Janata Party minister, has been locked up mostly since September 2011 in Hyderabad’s Chanchalaguda jail and occasionally in Bangalore’s Parappana Agrahara jail.

One of his brothers, G. Karunakara Reddy, who was also a minister in B.S. Yeddyurappa Government, lost the assembly poll from Harapanahalli in the central Karnataka district of Davangere.

The other brother, G. Somashekara Reddy had wisely chosen to stay away from elections.
The Reddy brothers, children of a police constable in Andhra Pradesh, made the iron-rich Bellary their home and joined the BJP in 1999. When finally luck deserted them after series of money circulation operations and illegal mining – they were worth over Rs. 5500 crore rupees.

Vice-Chairman of India Cements, N Srinivasan is also chairman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Spot fixing scam has entangled his son-in-law Meiyappan, who is CEO of the IPL team Chennai Super Kings.

Though nothing is proved, the market reacted vigorously to the spot fixing episodes as the focus has now turned from Rajasthan Royals to the CSK team.

These bookies were held for placing bets on yesterday’s game between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Meanwhile, 10 persons including one bookie have been arrested in Kolkata.

The Delhi Police have asked the cricket broadcaster for the raw footage of all the matches involving Rajasthan Royals. The Delhi Police will examine all the matches involving Rajasthan Royals in IPL 6.

Also in order to widen the sphere of the probe, Delhi police have deployed teams comprising five officials to Hyderabad and Goa. TV reports suggest that these teams will be involved in pursuing specific leads in those cities.

Demanding a detailed inquiry into the spot fixing in the tournament, he said IPL matches had changed the character of the game of cricket.

Sinha said, the detailed inquiry should expose all those responsible for reducing the game of cricket to a den of gambling; action should be taken on them however mighty or glamorous they may be.

Slamming the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), he said: “Obviously BCCI consists of a large number of eminent people, including ministers of the government. BCCI had failed to regulate IPL in the manner in which it should have been regulated.

He said there was no need for new laws and the question is only of proper enforcement. Let them bring a new law against betting and match fixing, which will apply not only to cricket but to other sports also.

At least 18 people — three IPL players, four former players and 11 bookies and their assistants — have been arrested by Delhi Police since May 16 in connection with spot fixing in IPL matches this season. There have been arrests in Mumbai as well.

Even as almost all the pre-poll surveys have predicted a complete rout for the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in Andhra Pradesh, the core committee of Congress which met prior to UPA celebrations decided to keep mum on Telangana.

One of the surveys predicted that the Congress would be routed in Telangana, while Telangana Rashtra Samithi would get 12 out of 17 MP seats. Congress president Sonia Gandhi has preferred to remain silent, as she is under pressure from the other side. But AICC sources say that Congress president has an ace up her sleeves which she would disclose shortly.

Police sources say there is no evidence of spot fixing against Gurunath but only of heavy betting. Partying circuits involving starlets, cricketers and VVIPs have been seen as the ground of such illegal and insider trading activities of the IPL.

Such betting may be the equivalent of insider trading and the big wigs of IPL feel that the heat more intense on the families, friends and associates of the BCCI, players, IPL officials etc.

Guru’s Kollywood connections may have led to several stars and starlets getting access to the players. What makes the mired IPL scene even more intriguing is that in the unofficial after parties of CSK several women have become very friendly with the players.

A police source pointed out in particular that the daughter of a cricket bookie thought to be the mastermind of many betting operations in Chennai, Prashant has also been a regular in such hard partying in what is said to be an exclusive party circle.

A Tamil weekly magazine that was released on Wednesday carried photos leaked from the party circuit showing many CSK players with the daughter of bookie Prashant who surrendered two days ago after having been on the run since news of the Delhi police wiretap expose and arrests of Sreesanth, Chandila and Chavan broke last week.

Mumbai police allege that Vindoo placed several big bets on behalf of Gurunath, which they surmised from the actor’s call logs that show several calls to a Chennai mobile number just before making calls to speak to bookies on the vast India cricket betting network.

He skipped the meet on SC/ST sub plan review early this week and also walked out of the Congress meet yesterday when the CM Kiran began his speech.

The second-in-command in the state government, left the meeting in huff when the Chief Minister N Kiran kumar Reddy started his speech, in the crucial meeting organized to prepare party’s strategy for local body elections at Kotla Vijayabhaskara Reddy stadium in Hyderabad.

Earlier, Rajanarasimha also hit out at Chief Minister indirectly in his speech. He said ‘the Congress party will not achieve hat-trick in the state if we say (nenu) ‘I’. It is possible only if we say ‘we’. The word ‘I’ indicates ‘Ahamkaram’ and ‘we’ means ‘mamakaram’. He also said that Dalit leadership could only bring victory for Congress in the state in 2014 election.

The Deputy CM has been maintaining distance with CM over not getting Home portfolio. Rajanarasimha has been insisting on Home minister portfolio, since he assumed charge as Deputy CM in 2012, as it was a tradition that Deputy CM held the crucial post in all previous Congress governments.

The summons furnished by the Mumbai police state that he has to surrender between 11am and 5 pm on Friday and if he fails to do so, he will be declared a fugitive.

The Mumbai police pasted the summons at Meiyappan’s residence this afternoon, since he was not at home.

For now, Meiyappan, son in law of BCCI chief N Srinivasan remains untraceable. Meiyappan had been in the heavy betting circuit with Vindoo Dara Singh and other VVIP networks in the IPL.