A crucial meeting between India's top sports officials and the International Olympic Committee is currently on at its headquarters in Switzerland to try and get India's suspension revoke. although IOA president VK Malhotra and IOC member Randhir Singh are not at this meeting, a nine member indian delegation is presenting its case to find ways to get India back into the fold. ...
04:38 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: Top IOA delegates were busy giving finishing touches to their action plan as they geared up for the crucial meeting with the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne to draw a roadmap for India's return to the Olympic fold. Most of the IOA delegates will leave for Lausanne tonight for the May 15 meeting which is expected to start the process of getting the ban on India lifted. Though...
05:16 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: With four days to go for the crucial meeting between Indian officials and the International Olympic Committee, efforts to persuade acting IOA President VK Malhotra and IOC member in India Randhir Singh to reconsider their decision to pull out have not borne fruit with both insisting on staying away. Malhotra and Randhir had decided to boycott the meeting came a day after the IOC agreed to include Hockey...
05:48 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The crucial Lausanne meeting between the Indian officials and the International Olympic Committee to find a way for the country's return to the Olympic fold will proceed as per schedule on May 15 despite the dramatic pull-out of IOA acting president V K Malhotra and IOC member Randhir Singh. The IOC has sent a message to the Swiss Embassy here to expedite the visa formalities of all the...
06:14 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: In a dramatic development, the Indian Olympic Association's acting president V K Malhotra and IOC member in India Randhir Singh on Thursday pulled out of the crucial meeting with the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne next week, apparently miffed with the world body's changed stance. Barely six days before the May 15 meeting to find a way for India's return to the Olympic fold, the pull-out of these...
04:50 PM, May 09, 2013
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has again invited representatives of the suspended IOA and Sports Ministry for a meeting in Lausanne on May 7 in yet another attempt to find a way for India's return to the Olympic movement even as the stand-off between the government and sport body persisted. After the joint meeting, which was earlier scheduled to be held in Lausanne on April 15 and 16,...
02:09 PM, Apr 13, 2013
VK Malhotra is accused of vested interest in deliberately delaying the process of getting India's ban from Olympics. ...
06:49 PM, Apr 03, 2013
In a letter written to VK Malhotra, the acting chief of the IOA before it was banned on December 4 last year, and IOC member in India Randhir Singh, the IOC said the joint meeting could be held in April. ...
11:21 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Delhi Assembly Budget Session will kick off on Wednesday and the BJP is gearing up to corner the ruling party on women's safety, hike in power tariff, water tariff and on delays in the regularisation of unauthorized colonies. ...
08:00 AM, Mar 13, 2013
The Sports Ministry has made it clear that it can only deal with the VK Malhotra-led Indian Olympic Association after the suspension of the IOA by the International Olympic Committee in December last. ...
08:33 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The IOC made it clear that the current IOA dispensation under Abhay Singh Chautala will have no role in the meeting. ...
07:14 PM, Mar 07, 2013
Jitendra said that there was no conflict between the government's Sports Code and the Olympic Charter. ...
12:23 AM, Dec 05, 2012
IOA acting chief V K Malhotra said the Election Commission of retired judges of High Court have not found any violation of rules. ...
04:55 PM, Dec 01, 2012
A Delhi court has asked IOA to hold the elections adhering to the government's sports code, while the IOC maintains it can happen only under the rules mentioned in Olympic charter. ...
04:19 PM, Nov 29, 2012
India faces suspension by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) due to government interference in the forthcoming election of its national Olympic body. ...
12:47 AM, Nov 29, 2012
India's apex sports body, the IOA faces suspension for deciding to go ahead with elections despite a warning from the IOC. ...
12:10 AM, Nov 29, 2012
The International Olympic Committee on Wednesday made it clear that it will propose the suspension of IOA in its Executive Board Meeting early next month. ...
09:37 PM, Nov 28, 2012
New Delhi: The monsoon session of Delhi Assembly is likely to start on a stormy note on Monday with BJP set to corner the government on a range of issues including "delay" in regularisation of unauthorised colonies, price rise, inflated power and water bills and alleged corruption. Senior BJP leader VK Malhotra said the Opposition will target Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for failing to regularise the unauthorised colonies despite making...
01:02 AM, Sep 04, 2012
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: Suresh Kalmadi will remain the President of the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) despite pressure from the IOC and despite being accused in the CWG scam. The IOA has said that Kalmadi will not execute his powers and that VK Malhotra will continue as the acting President. Kalmadi is out on bail after spending over nine months in jail. "Kalmadi has written two letters to the IOA acting president,...
02:08 PM, Mar 02, 2012
