With the Delhi high court allowing the Board of Control for Cricket in India to conduct its Special General Meeting (SGM) in Chennai on Wednesday, the decks are cleared for the Board to impose a possible life ban on former IPL chairman Lalit Modi for alleged financial irregularities while being at the helm of the cash-rich league from 2008-2010.

The SGM, which is likely to be chaired by president in-exile N Srinivasan, is convened to discuss the report of the Disciplinary Committee on Modi and decide the quantum of disciplinary punishment. Two-third of the majority will need to vote in favour of a life ban on Modi.

It effectively means that a minimum of 21 votes out of the total 31 units are required to make the former IPL czar persona non-grata in the world's richest cricket board.

"Save Punjab Cricket Association (PCA), expect no other BCCI units to support Modi tomorrow. Even PCA's case will depend on who attends the SGM -- persident I S Bindra, who is a Modi backer, or secretary M P Pandove, who is not known to possess a hardline stance," a BCCI official said.

While Modi got a stay order from the Patiala house court on Saturday, the Delhi high court gave a favourable verdict to the BCCI on Tuesday, which literally ends any chances Modi harboured of escaping a life ban.

Modi was IPL chairman-cum-commissioner during the first three editions but was suspended immediately after the closing ceremony in 2010, on charges of financial irregularities in running of the league as well as improper practices during auction of two new teams before the third edition.

During the suspension, a three-member disciplinary committee comprising political heavyweights Arun Jaitely and Jyotiraditya Scindia along with president Srinivasan was formed. But Srinivasan recused himself and erstwhile IPL chairman Chirayu Amin was made a member. Subsequently, Amin also recused himself and it became a two-member committee.

However by the time Jaitley, who looked after the legal part, and Scindia, who looked into charges of impropriety, submitted an exhaustive 400-page report, Srinivasan had stepped aside from discharging his functions.

A lot of BCCI officials have already started descending in Chennai for the meeting.

It is learnt that all the BCCI members have been invited to be part of three-day pleasure trip to Mahabalipuram by the current BCCI president before they are back in Chennai for the all-important Annual General Meeting of the Board on September 29.

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The Bermuda Sun is reporting that a passenger sailing aboard the Norwegian Breakaway fell two decks from her exterior balcony prior to arriving in Bermuda earlier this week.

According to the report, a woman fell two decks and suffered fractured ribs hours before docking in Bermuda on Tuesday. The report states that the woman apparently fell from her balcony, but it is not currently known how she may have fallen.

The woman was initially treated in the medical center aboard the Norwegian Breakaway, before being evacuated from the ship for advanced treatment ashore. A rendezvous with a pilot boat was soon arranged, where the woman was evacuated from the ship on a stretcher. The meet up between the Norwegian Breakaway and the pilot boat took place on Bermuda's east end near St. George's Harbor. Once ashore, the passenger was transferred to a local hospital, where she received additional medical attention for her broken ribs.

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NEW DELHI: India and the US have cleared the decks for a pre-early works agreement between NPCIL and US nuclear company, Westinghouse. National security adviser (NSA) Shivshankar Menon said, "The two sides have resolved all government-to-government permissions and understandings required for enabling commercial negotiations". The two sides signed a "confidentiality agreement" last week that would allow both sides to share confidential data with each other.

Speaking at an event at Aspen Institute on Friday, Menon said the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) will soon begin safety evaluations of Westinghouse's AP1000 nuclear reactor that they propose to sell to India. Westinghouse is already building four of these reactors in China, the first of which is expected to begin operations next year.

Trying to dampen the controversy over reports that the government may be diluting the provisions of the liability law to ease the entry of US companies, Menon said, "I was surprised yesterday to see stories that somehow Indian law will not be applicable to nuclear projects in India. Civil nuclear projects in Indian would naturally be subject to Indian laws including civil liability. ... whatever nuclear power parts are imported, they should meet the highest standards of safety and deliver power at competitive prices".

Later, foreign secretary Sujatha Singh described civil nuclear as an "important" part of the Indo-US bilateral relationship. "Discussions are ongoing between NPCIL and WEC and it is our hope that these discussions will be closed successfully. All contracts with foreign companies are subject to the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damages act and rules."

Menon said both Indian and foreign nuclear suppliers had posed many questions. "Everybody asks, how does this law work? How will it apply and they need to know to do business."

The government, he said, was "in the process of addressing these questions with them individually and as a whole so that we also have clarity. It is our interest as well as we would not want to be surprised on how it works. We will work out those issues".

Talking up the Indo-US relationship days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is supposed to visit, Menon said it was a "transformative" relationship. The pillars of the relationship he said were "energy, education and defence". Under the defence technology initiative, Menon said they would be looking at co-development and co-production of defence equipment, in the process building a defense-industrial complex in India.

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