New Delhi: Congress has strongly backed Sheila Dikshit, making it clear that there is no need for her to resign, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday set up a GoM headed by AK Antony to look into findings of Shunglu Commission on the Commonwealth Games irregularities. It's a tale of two chief ministers but the climax is likely to turn out to be different - Congress sources say...
09:10 PM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dixit is facing the Opposition's wrath after the CAG report on Friday tabled in Parliament. The Opposition demanded her resignation, but the Congress stood by her, saying a CAG report is not an indictment. The report held the Delhi Chief Minister responsible for wasteful expenditure to the tune of several hundred crore rupees and was used as cannon fodder by the Opposition. "Shiela Dixit...
10:40 PM, Aug 05, 2011
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on Commonwealth Games has been tabled in Parliament. ...
06:54 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: In a setback to Suresh Kalmadi, the Delhi High Court on Friday refused permission to the Congress MP, lodged in Tihar Jail in connection with CWG scam, to attend the ongoing Parliament session and imposed a cost of Rs 1 lakh on him. "Allowing the petitioner to attend the Parliament, even in judicial custody, would certainly provide the petitioner respites from imprisonment. I see no reason to carve...
04:57 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: In the narrow by lanes of an east Delhi colony that one of the major equipment suppliers for the Delhi Health Services CWG project was registered. The CAG team went to Geeta Colony and discovered that it is someone's residence and not any office. "We have been living here for 40 years. There is no office here, only our residence," said a lady when CNN-IBN visited the address....
11:40 PM, Aug 04, 2011
New York: Roger Federer will turn 30 next week, but the Swiss winner of a record 16 grand slam singles titles said on Wednesday he will not pause for reflection since he is too busy plotting for more tennis success. Federer will spend his birthday on Monday in Montreal at the Rogers Cup tournament, where adoring fans have serenaded him in the past to mark the occasion. "I'm looking forward...
08:48 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Sheila Dixit needs to answer more than one question on why so much of money went down the drain. ...
11:22 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi government on Wednesday came out in the open against the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that blames it for wasteful expenditure worth Rs 130 crore in CWG projects. Though Chief Minister Shiela Dixit herself did not react to the charges, the Chief Secretary on Wednesday gave a point by point rebuttal. The Shiela Dixit government on Tuesday found itself dragged into the Commonwealth Games mess...
10:18 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi's elevation as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief is proving to be an embarrassment for both the Congress and the BJP. For the past 24 hours, sports minister Ajay Maken has been trying his best to lay the entire responsibility for appointment Suresh Kalmadi as OC chairman on the NDA. "It's the city government that signs the host city contract. The national Government never signs on the...
06:54 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: In a surprise move, the Government on Tuesday stepped in to defend Prime Minister in the CWG row, even though the CAG report on the Commonwealth Games has yet to be tabled in Parliament. Sports Minister Ajay Maken, while defending the Prime Minister, squarely blamed the NDA for Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as the Commonwealth Organsing Committee chief. But the opposition refused to tone down its attacks on the...
12:19 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The CAG report on the Commonwealth Games mess expected to be tabled later this week in Parliament, only confirms a trail of irregularities that have been tracked by CNN-IBN over the last several months. Sacked as CWG Organising Committee Chief, jailed for his alleged involvement in TSR Scam and now struggling to prove that his mind is working well, Suresh Kalmadi is living his worst nightmare. CNN-IBN has...
10:43 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games may have been over last year, but its legacy continues to haunt the government. The fancy lights and signboards installed before the Games are now the focus of the CAG audit on CWG spending. Now, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has found herself in the middle of the muddle of the controversy. The CAG report said just street lighting alone caused a loss of over...
08:52 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The MRI report for Suresh Kalmadi, which was done at Delhi's LNJP Hospital, does not suggest that he is suffering from dementia. CNN-IBN has accessed the MRI report that claims that the former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief is suffering from 'diffused cerebral atrophy' instead. According to the MRI report, the problem of Kalmadi has been diagnosed as 'diffused cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with old ischemic changes in...
09:35 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Already under scanner for irregularities worth crores of rupees, the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee is fighting 14 legal cases filed by several firms and its former employees seeking their dues. According to OC officials, these cases related to the finance department, workforce, catering, merchandising unit, cleaning and waste management units, technology department and other works connected with organising of the Games. While some have gone to courts to...
09:03 AM, Jul 10, 2011
Los Angeles: Meet Hugh Hefner's new girlfriend, almost the same as the old one. Two weeks after the Playboy founder was dumped by Miss December 2009 just before their wedding, Hefner said on Monday that he was now dating Miss November 2010. The 85-year-old magazine mogul moved on to Shera Bechard after Crystal Harris had second thoughts about becoming the third Mrs. Hugh Hefner. Bechard, a 27-year-old French-Canadian model and...
11:03 AM, Jun 28, 2011
The football World Cup held in South Africa did not do much for the upliftment of the locals. ...
11:03 AM, Jun 14, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday deferred till June 6 the hearing on bail plea of former CWG Organising Committee's Deputy Director General Surjeet Lal, arrested for his alleged role in awarding a Games-related contract to a Swiss firm at an exorbitant cost. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh posted the matter for June 6 after Lal's counsel pleaded before the court that he would take up the arguments on...
06:18 PM, May 30, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, Lalit Bhannot and VK Verma, all accused of pushing for a private firm Swiss Timing for supplying Timing Scoring and Results system for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), are now behind the bars. They stand accused ignoring the bid claims of this contract to MSL SPAIN, a Spanish firm, at much lower prices. But now, CNN-IBN has accessed a confidential email, written by Chairman of Technical Committee,...
09:42 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: S Divyadarshini, a BA, BL from Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University in Chennai has topped the Civil Services (Main) Examination 2010, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. Talking to CNN-IBN, Divyadarshini said she expected a good rank but did not expect to top. "I want to make a difference in the government and take up issues such as corruption," she said. The second position has...
05:37 PM, May 11, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Monday deferred to May 13 the hearing on the bail plea of former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi. Special Judge Talwant Singh said "the arguments on the application will be heard May 13th". Kalmadi had been first sent to eight days police custody on April 26 on charges of conspiracy and cheating under the Prevention of Corruption Act, and then for 14...
03:19 PM, May 09, 2011
