IPL officials, secretaries, managers and others are on “Operation Clean-up”, say sources. But they are not cleaning the cricket body of the scamsters and wheeler-dealers. Instead, they are destroying crucial evidence, lest it should fall into the hands of the authorities. 

According to Flynn Remedios, author of IPLgate – the mother of all cricket scams (iplgate.wordpress.com and ghotala.wordpress.com), secretaries, managers and officials have begun deleting emails and clearing the trash cans on their laptops, desktops and even computers at home. IT (Information Technology) engineers have been told to clear the cache and trash on servers, lest it lands in the hands of the government, says Flynn Remedios. This follows the leaking of crucial emails to the media including an email sent from NCP politician, bigwig and industrialist Praful Patel’s secretary to former MOS Shashi Tharoor.

 The email sent by Praful Patel’s secretary Champa Bharatwaj is a spread sheet document according to TV reports. Praful Patel obtained the mail via his daughter who works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office. Apparently Patel asked Modi to forward him the email which was then forwarded by his secretary to Shashi Tharoor. Vijay Mallaya relative also works for Lalit Modi at the IPL office, reports have claimed.

 Meanwhile IPL governing council member Mansur Ali Khan “Tiger” Patudi  has demanded that that Lalit Modi must step down. This follows a news report by CNN IBN that Lalit Modi may move the Bombay High Court praying for a stay on the meeting called by the BCCI on the 26^th April 2010.

 The scandal broke loose when Lalit Modi tweeted on Twitter releasing the shareholding pattern of the Kochi franchisee in which Shashi Tharoor’s special lady friend Sunanda Pushkar had a stake of Rs 70 crore. Praful Patel today confirmed that he had helped Shashi Tharoor with the valuation of the Kochi cricket team. But an NCP spokesperson said that Patel did not wrong and the documents were all in public domain.

The question remains that if the documents were in public domain, why did a MOS like Shashi Tharoor require Praful Patel to send it to him. He could have asked Lalit Modi for the documents directly. The documents were sent to Tharoor two days prior to the Kochi bid.

By Ashwin Salian – Global Entertainment News Network

Mumbai-based 21-year-old model Sneha Chopra was today (April 20, 2010) selected as the face of the Ms Bikini India International 2010 Reality Show and Pageant.

Sneha Chopra was selected from a short-list of about 150 candidates, informed a spokesperson. She will host the Reality Show associated with the Ms Bikini India International pageant wherein 20 semi-finalists will be locked up for 45 days in a secluded resort on a deserted island. She will be paid a princely sum for a year long assignment which will put her into the big league.

According to sources, about 1500 candidates were auditioned for the coveted position. Sneha Chopra will model for the print, outdoor and television advertisements associated with the event, said Flynn Remedios, organizer of Ms Bikini India International.

Auditions for the event scheduled to be held in August 2010 in Goa have already begun and semi-final rounds for selection of the zonal candidates will be held at four locations – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkatta and Bangalore in June 2010.

“A special feature of this year’s event is the change in contest rules – the Ms Bikini India International Reality Show and Pageant is open to all Indian origin girls between 18 to 25 years from all over the world. There will be an online event called Ms Bikini Online as well as a sub event for international contestants titled Ms Bikini International,” explained Flynn Remedios of Futuristic Media Network, organizers of the pageant.