Mumbai, May 24 (ANI): Chennai Super Kings so-called Principal Owner Gurunath Meiyappan landed at Mumbai Airport on Friday evening after 7 p.m., well past the 5 p.m. deadline set by the crime branch of Mumbai Police to report to it for investigation or interrogation with regard to betting in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

New Delhi, May 24 (ANI): Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader Sharad Yadav on Friday said that the Indian Premier League should be banned in the wake of exposure of sleaze, betting and spot fixing by television channels.

Mumbai, May 24 (ANI): Mumbai Police on Friday rejected Chennai Super Kings boss Gurunath Meiyappan's plea to give him time till Monday to appear before its crime branch for questioning with regard to his role in betting and spot fixing ion the current edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

New Delhi, May 20 (ANI): Consequent to the spot-fixing scandal in the cash rich Indian Premier League (IPL), Union Law and Justice Minister Kapil Sibal has suggested introduction of a legislation to curb the menace of betting and other illegal activities in the country's sports arenas.

Chennai, May 17 (ANI): Chennai police are conducting searches at various places in Chennai, a day after three Rajasthan Royals players were arrested for allegedly spot fixing matches in exchange for money. The raids are taking place at Sowcarpet, Triplicane, Purushwalkkam and four other places.

Mumbai, May 15 (ANI): Mumbai Police on Wednesday confirmed the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old boy by his older cousin, after the latter confessed that he had committed the crime as he had lost a lot of money through betting in cricket.

Washington, May 14 (ANI): A new study has found that people are worse at predicting whether a sports team will win, lose, or tie when they bet on the final score than when they bet on the overall outcome.

London, April 01 (ANI): Spice Girl Geri Halliwell ended her relationship with online betting tycoon Anton Kaszubowski after just four months, when she realised that he wasn't "the one" for her.

New York, Feb 19 (ANI): A new social network is betting that you don't know your neighbours and is aiming to connect you to them, both offline and online.

London. Feb. 10 (ANI): Children as young as 13 are being bombarded by gambling firms on Facebook.

Sydney, Feb 9 (ANI): Cricket Australia (CA) is considering banning betting segments during its telecasts from the next season as part of a new five-year broadcast deal which is expected to be finalised next month.

Sydney, Feb 9 (ANI): Sports chiefs have slammed a report by the Australian Crime Commission (ACC), which revealed the existing drug and betting culture in various sports throughout the country.

Sydney, Feb 8(ANI): Cricket Australia (CA) is set to increase scrutiny of their domestic competition the Big Bash League (BBL) following concerns that the emerging Twenty20 tournament is more vulnerable to the corrupt betting practices.

Sydney, Feb 7(ANI): Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Graham Ashton has claimed any sport that is attracting significant betting offshore like football, cricket and tennis, is at a major risk of getting fixed.

London, Feb 6(ANI): A survey of 100 professional footballers, including 11 from the Premier League, has revealed that 14 percent of them are of the opinion that the matches were fixed to gain profit from the 650 billion pound-a-year Far East gambling markets.

London, Feb 5(ANI): Former England star Peter Swan, who was banned for his part in the infamous 1960s betting scandal, has claimed corruption in football is worse these days than it ever was, adding the game is still firmly in the grip of match-fixing.

London, Feb 5(ANI): Liverpool's Champions League match with the Hungarian champions Debrecen in 2009 has surfaced as the English game recognized by police as being caught up in a betting scandal that has shocked the football world.

London, Feb. 3 (ANI): Mafia betting rings are rigging top international football matches by bribing players with cash and prostitutes, police chiefs are set to claim.

Sydney, Dec 13(ANI): A leaked legal letter has revealed a major betting crackdown by Cricket Australia (CA) that has exposed the ongoing worries about the game's integrity.

Sydney, Nov. 25 (ANI): Former South African great Barry Richards has said that 'illegal betting' is still a real problem in the cricketing circuit.

Lahore, Nov. 15 (ANI): British sports-betting journalist Ed Hawkins, who has claimed in his yet to be released book that the 2011 World Cup semi final between India and Pakistan in Mohali could have been fixed, has said that the International Cricket Council (ICC) is not capable of eliminating the corruption and fixing menace from the game.

Lahore, Nov. 11 (ANI): The International Cricket Council (ICC) has termed the news published in a British newspaper alleging that the semi-final match of World Cup 2011 between Pakistan and India was fixed as "groundless".

Melbourne, Oct 30 (ANI): Australian punters believe that spin king Shane Warne will have to come up with something special to sell his house for much over 10 million dollars.

New Delhi, Oct.17 (ANI): A Delhi court on Wednesday extended the judicial custody of former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda and his aide Aruna Chaddah to October 26 in connection with the alleged abetting of the suicide of former MDLR Airline air hostess Geetika Sharma.

London, Oct. 5 (ANI): British-Indian Ipswich Town striker, Michael Chopra, and jockey Andrew Heffernan, are among nine individuals, who could face long bans from racing, after being charged with betting corruption by the British Horseracing Authority.