The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of four Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) officials and filed cases against two of them - Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma - for alleged financial lapses. ...
08:38 PM, Nov 30, 2010
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday searched the offices and homes of four Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) officials and filed cases against two of them - Lalit Bhanot and V.K. Verma - for alleged financial lapses. Raids are on at Kalmadi's close aide Additional Director General Sangeeta Welinkar and at the residence of former games organising committee Joint Director General RK Sacheti. CBI said that...
07:09 PM, Nov 30, 2010
The CBI registered fraud cases against CWG Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot and Director General V K Verma. ...
11:51 AM, Nov 30, 2010
New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) caught up in controversy again. Sources say the agency is planning to give away 90 per cent of the CWG flats to the same bureaucrats who could have been involved in corruption. If the Delhi Development Authority has its way, then the babus of Delhi will be getting a lion's share of the luxury apartments in the Games Village, with only 10 per...
10:52 AM, Nov 30, 2010
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered cases of fraud against Secretary General of Commonwealth Games (CWG) Organising Committee Lalit Bhanot and Director General of CWG V K Verma. Charges of fraud against the duo are related to the purchase of the Time Scoring Board used at the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October. The fraud is pegged to be at Rs 107 crore. The central...
08:33 AM, Nov 30, 2010
By claiming 64 medals and finishing sixth in the medals tally, India had a dream run at the just concluded Asian Games. ...
08:37 PM, Nov 29, 2010
Chandigarh: Deeply hurt with the treatment meted out to him by chief coach Jose Brasa, a "powerless" Indian hockey captain Rajpal Singh on Monday said he has decided to call it quits from the post and will soon air his views to the national federation (HI). Rajpal accused Brasa of constant "humiliation" during the World Cup earlier this year and said all these days he kept silent only for the...
04:12 PM, Nov 29, 2010
Guangzhou: The skies lit up with dazzling fireworks as an emotional China brought the curtains down on the biggest Asian Games in a riot of colour, foot-tapping music and a cultural extravaganza at the Haixinsha Island on the Pearl River here on Saturday. If the opening ceremony held at the same riverside venue on November 12th was high on technical wizardry, the closing was a heart-touching display of warmth by...
08:45 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: World number one boxer Vijender Singh, who braved a dislocated thumb to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games, will be India's flagbearer at the closing ceremony of the mega-event here on Saturday. Olympic and World Championships bronze-medallist Vijender defeated two-time world champion Abbos Atoev in the middleweight (75kg) finals to fetch a gold. The 25-year-old has a plaster on his injured hand right now but national coach...
04:00 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: Chinese badminton superstar Lin Dan was awarded the Samsung Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Asian Games. MVP is regarded as the supreme honour for the athletes, recognised by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) and the Guangzhou Asian Games Organising Committee (GAGOC). Lin won two gold medals - men's singles and team event - at the Asian Games. It completes his triumph in all the top world competitions,...
03:06 PM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian men registered a convincing victory over lower-ranked Iran to win the bronze medal in the chess team competition of the Asian Games here on Friday. P Harikrishna was the only Indian to play out a draw as the rest - Sasikiran Krishnan, Surya Shekar Ganguly and B Adhiban - won their respective matches to help India beat Iran 3.0-0.5 in the ninth and last round match at the...
12:15 AM, Nov 27, 2010
Guangzhou: India ended their athletics campaign in the Asian Games with a bagful of medals with the women's 4x400m relay quartet winning the gold to bring down curtains with a bang on the penultimate day of the competitions here on Friday. India emerged from the track and field events with five gold, two silver and four bronze medals, one of their best efforts in Asian Games history, though below their...
07:24 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian boxing's poster boy Vijender Singh pummeled two-time world champion Abbos Atoev into submission with a commanding 7-0 triumph in the 75kg category to give the country's campaign in the Asian Games a golden finish here on Friday. The dashing Beijing Olympic Games bronze-medal winner Vijender destroyed the Ubzek boxer and later said his next aim is to win gold in the 2012 Olympic Games in London. But two...
07:17 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Indian women's 4X400m relay quartet lived up to expectations by defending the gold medal won in 2006 with AC Ashwini anchoring the team to glory in the Asian Games here on Friday. Running in the third leg, Ashwini, who earlier clinched the yellow metal in the 400m hurdles, gave the Indian team a huge lead over second-placed Kazakhstan for Mandeep Kaur to maintain it till the finishing line in...
05:48 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: India created history by recording their best-ever performance in Asian Games with 64 medals, including a record 14 golds, with star boxer Vijender Singh providing the icing on the cake by bringing the last yellow metal on the penultimate day here on Friday. The men's and women's kabaddi teams expectedly maintained their supremacy by clinching the gold before the women's 4x400m quartet and Vijender (75kg) bagged a yellow metal...
04:19 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Barely hours after Indian women's kabaddi team made a memorable Asian Games debut by clinching the gold, their male counterparts recorded their sixth consecutive yellow metal in the quadrennial event with a comfortable victory over Iran, here on Friday. The Indian men's team, who clinched the gold in every edition of the quadrennial event since the game's introduction in 1990, managed to prevail over Iran 37-20 at the Nansha...
04:09 PM, Nov 26, 2010
Guangzhou: Preeja Sreedharan and Kavita Raut clocked their personal bests to clinch the silver and bronze respectively in the women''s 5000m final of the Asian Games here on Friday. Sreedharan, who earlier clinched the 10,000m gold, returned a timing of 15:15.89. Raut, who bagged a silver in 10,000m, could not get past Sreedharan yet again but managed a personal best of 15:16.54 to win the bronze. Bahrain''s Mimi Belete Gebgregeiorges...
04:01 PM, Nov 26, 2010
