New Delhi: Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Sports Ministry directing it to conduct elections in all sports federations where they are due. Elections in the Archery Federation are due since February, 2012. Advocate Rahul Mehra alleged that the current incumbent President of the Archery Foundation VK Malhotra was not getting the elections done because by the new age and tenure criteria, his candidature will be rejected. Mehra...
04:46 PM, Apr 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday issued show-cause notice to former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi and his close aides Lalit Bhanot and V K Verma. The High Court, in the show-cause notice, asked them as to why they should not be suspended from the offices held by them in the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). Kalmadi, Bhanot and Verma, all accused in the multi-crore Commonwealth Games...
05:45 PM, Mar 21, 2012
New Delhi: The government is working with the Indian Olympic Association, Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) and Hockey India (HI) to facilitate a settlement that is acceptable to both the warring factions - IHF and HI, Sports Minister Ajay Maken informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. "The controversy/infighting in hockey, inter-alia, relates to recognition from the concerned International Federation and the Indian Olympic Association; merger of the two bodies; holding of...
10:00 PM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: Taking strong objection to banned athletes such as Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur training at the SAI centre in Sonepat, IOA acting-president Vijay Kumar Malhotra on Friday made it clear that the tainted ones cannot hone their skills at the "government's expenses". "These banned athletes cannot train at government's expenses at SAI centre," Malhotra said. Despite the one-year suspensions, handed to them in December last year, Akkunji, Mandeep,...
11:42 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association is convening an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss Suresh Kalmadi involvement in a host of scams during the Commonwealth Games organised in India in 2010. The sports body is under pressure from the International Olympic Council to take action against the former Commonwealth Games chief. The IOC has threatened to take action against Kalmadi if the IOA remained passive on the issue. Faced...
10:22 AM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: For a day that comes rarely to the calendar, Google has doodled a rare two-in-one doodle that commemorates not only the leap day but also the 220th birth anniversary of the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini. Since the leap years and leap days are usually associated with frogs, the leaping ambhibians, the Google doodle on February 29 has a number of frogs, all four of them. The doodle is...
01:23 AM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has said that India will not boycott London 2012 Olympics even as the Union Sports Ministry has written to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) lodging a formal complaint against Dow Chemicals sponsorship of the games. The Sports Ministry wrote a letter to the IOC to register its protest on the issue. Meanwhile, the IOA has said that India will participate in the London...
03:22 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian government on Monday lodged a formal complaint against Dows sponsorship of London 2012 Olympics with the Union Sports Ministry writing to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Union Sports Ministry has strongly protested over the sponsorship. This comes months after the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) had written to the 2012 London games organisers and the IOC, complaining against Dow Chemicals and urging them to drop it...
01:42 PM, Feb 27, 2012
New Delhi: Former CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi's troubles refuse to die down. Now, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has written to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Acting President VK Malhotra asking what action he is contemplating against Suresh Kalmadi, who is accused in the Commonwealth Games scam. The IOC's National Olympics Committee (NOC) relations Director Piere Mairo has sought details of the chargesheet filed against Kalmadi. CNN-IBN has...
01:26 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Panaji: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) chief Suresh Kalmadi was made the scapegoat in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) scam, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday. Naidu who was speaking at a public function in Mapusa, 15 km from here, described Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a "mauni baba" (the silent sage) for his silence in the face of corruption. "Why was Kalmadi alone arrested in the...
01:24 AM, Jan 31, 2012
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11:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy within the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) refuses to die out. A day after CNN-IBN aired an exclusive report, which has been given by Justice UC Banerjee, who still claims to be the Chairman of the Ethics Commission of the IOA, an all out war has now broken out on whether the order is valid or not. The Chairman of the disbanded Ethics Commission of IOA had...
06:51 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has suspended and served a show cause notice to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi. CNN-IBN accessed a copy of an interim suspension order passed by the Ethics Commission against Suresh Kalmadi, Former Secretary-General of CWG OC Lalit Bhanot and and former Director-General VK Verma. However, sources told CNN-IBN that Kalmadi will challenge the order. The order is dated December 6,...
05:53 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has suspended and served a show cause notice to former Commonwealth Games (CWG) OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi. CNN-IBN accessed a copy of an interim suspension order passed by the Ethics Commission against Suresh Kalmadi, Former Secretary-General of CWG OC Lalit Bhanot and and former Director-General VK Verma. The order is dated December 6, 2011 but is being served against them now as all...
01:16 PM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written a letter to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), seeking a report on sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi's "current and exact situation before the courts of justice". In a letter addressed to the acting IOA president Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the IOC has threatened to refer the case to its Ethics Commission at any moment, should the action taken by...
01:24 AM, Jan 22, 2012
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