Actor Aamir Khan has denied his role in allegedly forming a cartel to corner multiplexes over release of films and argued before the Bombay High Court that the show cause notice issued to him by Competition Commission of India (CCI) was a form of harassment to him.

The issue pertains to the strike last year by film producers who decided not to screen movies in multiplexes over payment matters.

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Only 13 wickets have fallen in four days of the second cricket Test
but Sri Lanka  coach Trevor Bayliss feels even Muttiah Muralitharan
would have struggled to take wickets on the placid SSC track. More than
1200 runs have been scored in a batsmen- dominated Test match, which is
now heading for a draw.

On being asked if Muralithran’s presence would have made any difference
in the equation, the Lankan coach said, “It is bit hard to judge from
the wicket point of view on the performance in this match. Even Murali
would have struggled to take wickets.”

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A Sri Lankan Tamil demonstrator who went on hunger strike outside London’s Houses of Parliament accepted damages Thursday from British newspapers who accused him of eating burgers during the action.

Parameswaran Subramanyam will receive nearly £80,000(95,000 euros, 125,000 dollars) from the Daily Mail and the Sun, his lawyer said.

Subramanyam spent 23 days last year fasting as part of a protest by thousands of British Tamils about the treatment of their people in Sri Lanka. He later spent five days in hospital recovering.

The two newspapers falsely alleged that the 29-year-old had secretly eaten burgers from McDonalds during …

UltraTech Cement, a part of the Aditya Birla group, on Thursday announced a capital outlay of over Rs.12,000 crore to be spent over the next five years.

Addressing shareholders at the company’s 10 {+t} {+h} annual general meeting, UltraTech Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla said the funds would be used in increasing the grinding capacity in Gujarat and setting up additional grinding units across locations, setting up Clinkerisation plants through brownfield expansion at Chhattisgarh and Karnataka, installing waste heat recovery systems. The funds would also go towards instituting bulk packaging terminals across various States. …

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said that terrorism emanating from groups in Pakistan was unacceptable and his government would work with Islamabad to curb them.

“We have seen the threat and reality of terrorism in Mumbai, London and Afghanistan. It’s not acceptable that terror groups exist in Pakistan. We will work to encourage the Pakistan government to take on these groups,” Cameron said during a joint press conference with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh.

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Cameron was reacting to Singh’s call to nations …

It’s not just American suppliers, Russia too is now insisting all liability for any accident that may occur in reactors sold to India must rest solely with the Indian operator and not with Russian companies involved in supplying components and knowhow.

At the last round of commercial negotiations held in Moscow recently between the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) and Atomstroyexport for the supply of four additional 1000 MWe reactors at Kudankulam (KK 3,4,5,6), the two countries failed to agree on the issue of liability. The Indian side wanted the contract to …

The Sri Lanka government maintains that the Tamil diaspora is now divided into two groups and the majority is supporting its efforts towards improvement of the living standards of Tamils in the northern and eastern provinces.

Government spokesman and Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told a news conference here on Thursday that the group representing the Tamil diaspora, which was forced to fund the militant activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, was now willing to contribute to the welfare of the war-displaced civilians.

The Minister was referring to an interview given to …

The Colombo High Court today issued summons on 20 witnesses to the ‘white flag’ case involving former Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka and will begin daily hearings into the case from 27 September.

When the case was taken up for hearing today the High Court judge ordered that witness number one to twenty appear in Court to testify in the case where it was alleged that General Fonseka had claimed in an interview that unarmed LTTE cadres were shot dead by the army when they surrendered with white flags during the final stages of the …

Innings building is an art mastered by Sachin Tendulkar. Soaking up pressure in crisis situations is another key attribute of the legend. His focus complements his extraordinary ability with the willow.

The maestro’s commitment and flair shone through on the third day of the second Micromax Test at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground here, on Wednesday.

Tendulkar’s 48th Test hundred arrived when his team needed a substantial contribution from him. On a hot and humid day, the champion batsman’s unbeaten 108 (181b, 14×4, 1×6) extricated India from a potentially hazardous position.

Debutant Suresh Raina impressed with …

At the receiving end of a scathing attack from Muttiah Muralitharan, his long-time detractor Bishen Singh Bedi on Thursday hit back at the retired Sri Lankan spin great by maintaining that he was indeed a “chucker”.

Bedi, an untiring critic of Muralitharan by repeatedly calling him a “chucker”, found support from two other Indian spinners Erapalli Prasanna and Maninder Singh who said the Sri Lankan was given the licence by the ICC to bend his arm.

In an uncharacterictic attack, Muralitharan described Bedi a controversy monger and an ordinary bowler who would have been thrashed …