New Delhi: The CAG report tabled in Parlaiment on Friday had found massive irregularities in the bidding process as well as the execution of the projects. The report has also talked of how the authorities were short sited - not factoring legacy creation for the host city. The renovation work at JLN Stadium was undertaken by the CPWD and it has been found by the CAG that an extra payment...
12:14 AM, Aug 07, 2011
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: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has constituted a ministerial panel, headed by Defence Minister AK Antony, to examine the findings of the Shunglu Committee that probed alleged irregularities in conduct of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi last year. The Group of Ministers, set up last week, has been asked to consider the responses of the Union Ministries, the Delhi government and its various agencies to the findings of...
07:41 PM, Aug 06, 2011
Guwahati: Demanding Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's resignation after her reported indictment in the CAG report on Commonwealth Games scam, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Saturday accused the Congress of "maintaining double standards and going on the overdrive to save her". "In Karnataka when the Lokayukta in his report (on illegal mining) indicted Yeddyurappa, the Congress demanded his resignation despite us asking him to resign," Gadkari told reporters in Guwahati....
03:36 PM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Congress core committee met on Saturday to discuss the political situation, including the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that has indicted the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Delhi government for irregularities in the Commonwealth Games. The Congress is standing by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit saying that she hasn't been indicted in the CAG report. The party's also making sure it doesn't repeat the Ashok...
12:46 PM, Aug 06, 2011
New Delhi: Indicted by CAG and hounded by BJP for wasteful expenditure during the Commonwealth Games, the Congress is standing by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for now. It says the CAG report has not held her guilty of corruption. It was a day Sheila Dikshit would like to forget - hounded by the media and the Opposition after the CAG report on Commonwealth Games slammed her government for...
07:15 AM, Aug 06, 2011
The Opposition has demanded Delhi chief minister Shiela Dixit's resignation, but the Congress stood by her. ...
12:19 AM, Aug 06, 2011
On Talking Point Rajdeep Sardesai asks if, Sheila Dikshit should be asked to step down on the basis of CAG report. ...
11:44 PM, Aug 05, 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
Law Minister Salman Khurshid says Parliament should discuss the CAG report on CWG and not ask for resignation of Sheila Dikshit. ...
01:54 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday sharpened its attack on the United Progressive Alliance Government and targeted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Commonwealth Games scam. Senior BJP leaders Balbir Punj and Rajiv Pratap Rudy said that the Prime Minister and the Congress cannot escape from their responsibilities. "I don't think the Congress can get away as Parliament is on. One hard...
12:57 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on Commonwealth Games has been tabled in Parliament. The report, which CNN-IBN had first reported on Tuesday, has found a series of irregularities in Delhi government's preparations for the Games. According to the report the Union Sports Ministry, Urban Development Ministry also have much to answer for while the Prime Minister's Office was responsible for appointing Suresh Kalmadi as Commonwealth Games...
12:11 PM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: It's not just Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit who will be under the scanner once the CAG report is tabled. Even the Prime Minister's office faces some tough questions over the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as CWG OC chief. As first reported by CNN-IBN, late Sports Minister Sunil Dutt had complained to the Prime Minister way back in November 2004 that he suspected forgery of the GoM notes...
07:26 AM, Aug 05, 2011
New Delhi: The CAG report on the Commonwealth Games mess indicting Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for irregularities and over spending will be tabled in Parliament on Friday. The question is whether the Delhi Chief Minister will be forced to step down. CNN-IBN broke the findings of the CAG report slamming the Delhi Chief Minister on Tuesday and three days later, the report is set to be tabled in Parliament....
07:12 AM, Aug 05, 2011
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12:20 AM, 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 Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has hit back after the BJP went hammer and tongs over the CAG report on the Commonwealth Games. She said that she has nothing to hide even as the CAG slammed the Delhi government for irregularities in CWG spending. The Delhi Chief Minister is in the line of fire with the CAG report holding her responsible for excess expenditure of over Rs 100...
07:13 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
