Three cricketers' I-T returns under scrutiny
Income Tax department has begun looking into records and returns of leading cricketers and officials of the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) whose names have surfaced during the ongoing controversy of match-fixing in cricket.



Musharraf faces traders' ire over taxation plans
Pakistani traders staged noisy protests today as their countrywide shutter-down strike amid a bitter tax row with the government kept main markets closed for the ninth day.



400 Indian troops under siege in Sierra Leone
In further worsening of the situation in Sierra Leone, more than 400 Indian peackeeping troops have been surrounded by rebel militiamen near Kalahum town as UN forces in the West African nation face an increasingly adverse situation, according to reports reaching Army Headquarters.



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