Taxmen raid IPL franchisees 
l Nationwide crackdown; ownership discrepancies under scanner 
l Enforcement Directorate files case to probe flow of foreign funds
New Delhi/Mumbai, April 21
Income Tax officials today swooped down on the offices of IPL franchisees Kolkata Knight Riders, Chennai Super Kings, Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab and also on companies handling the broadcast rights of the cash-rich cricket league.

I-T sleuths grill Modi again
Court notice to Preity, Ness

It’s Modi vs BCCI now
New Delhi, April 21
Beleaguered IPL commissioner Lalit Modi appears set for a full-scale confrontation with the Board of Control for Cricket in India as he has questioned the legality of the Governing Council meeting on Monday and threatened to disclose the stake-holding pattern of the teams in the league.

To clip wings of Pawar & Co, Cong’s big idea: Revive ICL
New Delhi, April 21
Some senior Congress leaders are floating a rather interesting plan to cut party’s ally NCP, its boss Sharad Pawar and protégée Lalit Modi to size. Officially, the grand old party may go blue in face denying it, the fact, however, is that there are serious difference of opinion, primarily based on conflict of interests, between the two allies on not just the IPL but other issues as well.

Nityananda arrested in Solan
Shimla, April 21
Controversial godman Nityananda was arrested by a joint team of CID sleuths from Bangalore and Himachal Pradesh from Mamlik village in Solan district today. Having been on the run for the past two months, the controversial swami had chosen the quaint little hamlet of Mamlik close to the airport as his abode.

Asks disciples to maintain calm

Dalits’ houses set ablaze  in Haryana
Hisar, April 21
A man and his disabled daughter were killed when a group of villagers torched over a dozen houses belonging to the Dalits at Mirchpur village near here today. Several others were injured in the attack.

Col, Lt Col face court martial for Rs 10-crore milk scam
Powder purchased despite adequate stock in store
Chandigarh, April 21
A milk powder scam of nearly Rs 10 crore in Army’s Northern Command has put two senior officers in the dock. A Colonel earlier posted as the Director Military Farms, Headquarters, Northern Command, and a Lieutenant Colonel, who was the Officer Commanding, Military Farm, Jammu, are facing trial by General Court Martial (GCM) for their alleged acts of omission  and commission.

White Mess

Funds flow free for Delhi school run by wives of babusAditi Tandon New Delhi, April 21 The government is generally cash-strapped when it comes to expanding the school network. But it has enough money to fund an elite school in the capital run by wives of top central bureaucrats. Why? That’s the question most Lok Sabha MPs were asking today as the government admitted that the elite school had received funds from the government.