Legal

Star India has initiated arbitration proceedings against Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd for the media major's recent decision to pull back on its $1.4 billion TV rights sub-licensing agreement for International Cricket Council (ICC) tournaments for the 2024-27 period.

Star India has asked company to pay damages for non-compliance.

Aug 28, 2018 16:08
NEW DELHI: Vinod Rai, head of the two-member Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA), has confirmed that the BCCI’s 2018 annual general meeting (AGM) and fresh board elections will be conducted anytime within the next three months.  The development comes close on the heels of the the CoA registering the newly-formed BCCI constitution with the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies in Chennai. 
Aug 28, 2018 15:08
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has listed for final hearing the appeal of banned cricketer S Sreesanth challenging a Kerala High Court verdict restoring the life ban imposed on him by the BCCI in the wake of the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal. “Let the appeal be listed for final hearing after eight weeks,” PTI quotes a Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud as having ruled.
Aug 24, 2018 12:08
LONDON: FIA, the governing body of world motorsport confirmed on Thursday that the embattled duo of Vijay Mallya and Subrata Roy have completed the sale of Formula One team Force India and its assets to a consortium of investors called Racing Point UK Limited, led by Canadian business tycoon Lawrence Stroll.
Aug 23, 2018 18:08
NEW DELHI: The Committee of Administrators (CoA), in a directive issued on Thursday, has withdrawn the powers of the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) acting president CK Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhury and treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry. 
Aug 22, 2018 19:08
LONDON: The English Premier League is ratcheting up the pressure on Saudi-owned satellite television operator Arabsat in the case of Riyadh based pirate TV channel beoutQ, which has with impunity been illegally broadcasting football matches across the Middle East and North Africa. After moving the the European Commission, the Premier League has said it is taking steps to bring legal action in Saudi Arabia.
Aug 22, 2018 18:08
MUMBAI: SuperSport, South Africa’s top sports broadcaster, has put cold water to the prospects of Cricket South Africa (CSA) reviving its much-delayed Twenty20 league after it has rejected the offer of holding a 49% stake in it as part of an equity deal.  However, it remains open to broadcasting the competition should it see the light of day. 
Aug 22, 2018 12:08
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday registered its new constitution with the Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies at Chennai, as approved and directed by the Supreme Court in its recent (final?) verdict on the Justice RM Lodha Committee recommendations.
Aug 21, 2018 14:08
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Centre, state governments and Union Territories on a PIL seeking directions to make sports a part of the Fundamental Rights as well as promotion of sports education in the country.
Aug 21, 2018 13:08
NEW DELHI: The head of the BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA), Vinod Rai, on Monday revealed that the new constitution for the Indian cricket board, which was being prepared in line with the Supreme Court order issued earlier this month, would be ready in the next few days. “We are almost ready with the new constitution and it will take maybe another couple of days,” Rai told PTI. 
Aug 18, 2018 15:08
LONDON: Close on the heels of beIN SPORTS providing damning third party evidence of how Riyadh-based pirate TV channel beoutQ was acting in consort with state owned satellite provider Arabsat to steal and rebroadcast signals beamed by the Qatari sportscaster into the kingdom, the legal fight to protect intellectual property has intensified.