#Express5: MHA official to face probe in Matang Sinh’s arrest, AIB takes down its show

Stand-up comic group AIB on Tuesday night tweeted that it has “taken down” its show ‘AIB Knockout – The Roast’ even as the YouTube hit video came under an offensive from Censor Board member Ashoke Pandit.

READ: Censor Board’s Ashoke Pandit needs a mouthwash

2. Saradha Chit fund scam

A top Home Ministry official is under the scanner for allegedly attempting to stall the arrest of former Union minister Matang Sinh by the CBI in the Saradha case. According to sources, the official, who has an old and close association with Sinh, reportedly called up a CBI official in this connection.

READ: Saradha scam: Top MHA official faces probe for bid to ‘stall’ Matang Singh’s arrest

3. First smart city

Cisco informed Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday that its development model for Visakhapatnam would be adopted in the other smart cities — Allahabad and Ajmer.

READ: Cisco to build Vizag as first smart city

4. Opinion

In 1973, the judgment on Kesavananda Bharati vs State of Kerala articulated the doctrine of basic structure and the essential features of the Constitution, laying down that “secularism”, “socialism” as well as the Preamble to the Constitution (which may not be amended unless it was according to prescribed constitutional procedure) were integral to them

READ: No plaything

5. Sports

It’s the early hours of Saturday — March 21, 1992. I’m a New Zealand cricket fan, who has been struggling to follow the World Cup from afar at my small flat in West London. My student budget doesn’t stretch far enough to even contemplate paying the subscription to watch the tournament on satellite television, so I’ve mostly been ‘watching’ on BBC Ceefax , a teletext service that publishes live scorecards on TV and is updated only every ten or fifteen minutes.

READ: ICC Cricket World Cup 2015: Summer of 92