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
Jammu: The death of 102 civilians in a span of one year in Kashmir was a black mark for the armed forces. But they have learnt a lesson from the 2010 incidents. Almost one year since unrest broke out, a high-level committee, formed by the Home Ministry, has evolved new Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for the forces. It is the first major attempt by the government to reduce casualties. "Like...
08:38 AM, May 09, 2011
New Delhi: He slept in a separate cell, attended a roll call at 6 am, stood in queue for breakfast, watched some TV and at times conversed with two other inmates. Suresh Kalmadi, the latest high-profile entrant at Tihar Central Jail, is not getting any VIP treatment in India's largest prison and has made no special requests either, authorities said Thursday. Kalmadi, an MP and former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee...
11:15 AM, May 06, 2011
Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2011 Longlist is announced. Here are all the details for all the categories: fiction, non-fiction, children and translation. FICTION - A Break in the Circle, Sharmila Kantha, Harper Collins - Aftertaste, Namita Devidayal, Random House - All and Nothing, Raksha Bharadia, Rupa & Co. - An American Boy, Nilanjana Sanyal, Sanbun - Balloonists, Rajorshi Chakraborti, Westland - Benaami, Anish Sarkar, Amaryllis - Black Light, Rimi B...
07:06 PM, May 05, 2011
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday registered a case against some officials of the Public Works Department(PWD) and a few firms in connection with alleged irregularities in the project for construction of the Rs 620 crore Barapullah Nullah flyover for the Commonwealth Games. A CBI spokesperson gave this information in a press statement but did not give details. The investigating agency has alleged that the contractor and PWD officials had...
11:23 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: Ranging from Re one to Rs 950, rural households in the country could have paid a whopping Rs 471.8 crore last year as bribe to avail basic facilities such as ration, health, education and water supply, says a study. The 'India Corruption Study: 2010' report prepared by Centre for Media Studies (CMS), a survey of 9,960 households in 12 states, says on an average a rural household could...
07:11 PM, Apr 29, 2011
PM nominated CWG OC CEO Jarnail Singh talks to Rajdeep Sardesai about the TSR deal. ...
12:21 AM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN revealed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's representative on the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Jarnail Singh, cleared the time scoring deal, the Central Burau of Investigatin (CBI) has come out to defend him. The CBI has said that Commonwealth games organising committee CEO Jarnail Singh's role was limited in the time scoring and result equipment scam. Jarnail Singh's role was limited to signing files, claimed the CBI. ...
08:50 PM, Apr 28, 2011
New Delhi: After CNN-IBN revealed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's representative on the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Jarnail Singh, cleared the time scoring deal, the Central Burau of Investigatin (CBI) has come out to defend him. The CBI has said that Commonwealth games organising committee CEO Jarnail Singh's role was limited in the time scoring and result equipment scam. Jarnail Singh's role was limited to signing files, claimed the CBI....
08:50 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai discusses with a panel, if it is possible to remove Suresh Kalmadi from IOA. ...
11:42 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: For more than half a decade, Suresh Kalmadi has lorded over the Indian Olympic Association. Elected unopposed every time he contested the elections. But now, after he has been arrested by the CBI in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring Equipment scam, is the time for Kalmadi to leave the top post of the IOA? "IOA should take action in national interest. No person in the country would like ...
09:10 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: For more than half a decade, Suresh Kalmadi has lorded over the Indian Olympic Association. Elected unopposed every time he contested the elections. But now, after he has been arrested by the CBI in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring Equipment scam, is the time for Kalmadi to leave the top post of the IOA? "IOA should take action in national interest. No person in the country would like...
09:10 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday suspended former CWG Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi following his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Commonwealth Games Time Scoring Equipment scam. Two other senior officials of the Organising Committee - Surjeet Lal and ASV Prasad - have also been arrested in the Time Scoring scam. The CBI has also summoned India representatives of Swiss Omega Gem International on Tuesday. They...
07:32 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Lalit Bhanot and VK Verma were involved in time scoring and records device purchase scam. ...
06:55 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: In politics, the rise of Suresh Kalmadi has been meteoric with a plenty of inflections. In 1977, Suresh Kalmadi was the district president of Congress' youth wing and in four years, he was the member of the Rajya Sabha. The cadet who passed out of the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla was commissioned as an Air Force Pilot, only to join public life and become the right hand ...
01:07 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: In politics, the rise of Suresh Kalmadi has been meteoric with a plenty of inflections. In 1977, Suresh Kalmadi was the district president of Congress' youth wing and in four years, he was the member of the Rajya Sabha. The cadet who passed out of the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla was commissioned as an Air Force Pilot, only to join public life and become the right hand ...
01:07 PM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: In politics, the rise of Suresh Kalmadi has been meteoric with a plenty of inflections. In 1977, Suresh Kalmadi was the district president of Congress' youth wing and in four years, he was the member of the Rajya Sabha. The cadet who passed out of the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla was commissioned as an Air Force Pilot, only to join public life and become the right hand...
01:07 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Washington: India has ranked 71st in happiness with only 17 per cent people describing themselves as "thriving" in a new study of well-being that gives Denmark the top spot among 124 countries surveyed. With Danes ranked the most contented people on the planet with a whopping 72 per cent of residents considering themselves "thriving," Sweden and Canada followed close behind, each at 69 per cent in Gallup's 2010 Global Wellbeing...
11:32 AM, Apr 21, 2011
New Delhi: In a joint letter to the Sports Minister, eight foreign missions including Britain, France, Germany, Italy have mentioned a huge list of pending bills of the Commonwealth Games 2010. In more More embarrassment for the former Organising Committee Chief Suresh Kalmadi, the letter also says that four months after the games, nearly 20 companies from these countries are still awaiting full payment against contracts entered into in good...
07:35 AM, Apr 12, 2011
Kalmadi had delayed in approving the contract when he refused to award the catering bid to Delaware North. ...
09:21 AM, Mar 29, 2011
