Ranchi: The 34th National Games opening ceremony slated for Saturday will take place without the President, the Vice-President or the Prime Minister. Jharkhand Governor MOH Farook will now inaugurate the Games. Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda had personally invited President Pratibha Patil. But the state government was informed that the president could not attend the ceremony due to busy schedule. Munda also invited Vice-President M Hamid Ansari and Prime Minister...
01:04 PM, Feb 11, 2011
New Delhi: Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Ajay Maken on Monday said CBI had asked the Ministry in December 2010 to take action against Suresh Kalmadi and Lalit Bhanot. On Monday, Suresh Kalmadi was sacked as the chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC). Lalit Bhanot was also removed as Secretary General of OC. Talking to CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, Maken said, "We were waiting for the...
07:35 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Ajay Maken said the sacking of Suresh Kalmadi as the chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (OC) was in view of the concerns expressed by the CBI. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Maken said the CBI had asked the government to take action in the matter. He said that legal opinion was sought from the Attorney General before taking the action. “Actually...
05:44 PM, Jan 24, 2011
New Delhi: Those who prefer to use Hindi over other languages can rejoice. The government has requested Indian and international IT giants to prioritise developing software that will facilitate its use on computers as easily as English. Minister of State for Home Ajay Maken made this request to the representatives of IT giants Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines (IBM) and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in a meeting...
03:30 PM, Sep 17, 2010
Union Minister Ajay Maken had written a letter to young MPs asking them to oppose caste-based Census. ...
03:57 PM, May 28, 2010
The issue was over control of Delhi police, as yet a Central entity. ...
04:00 AM, May 30, 2009
Here's a perfect chance to Know Your Neta. ...
01:51 AM, May 07, 2009
New Delhi: Jonty Rhodes, one of the greatest fielders the game has seen, rates India as one of the better fielding sides in the 2011 cricket World Cup, contrary to the view of many experts who see it as their weakest link. Rhodes picked Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and his own trained Kenya, besides India, as stronger fielding sides, adding that the general standard of fielding of all the...
10:23 PM, Dec 16, 2007
Ecologists are outraged over the Games Village's construction claiming it never received any go-ahead. ...
10:26 PM, Nov 10, 2007
Malhotra came under the scanner when CBI raided his home last week. ...
11:04 PM, Aug 06, 2007
The political conspiracy behind Ashok Malhotra's 52 VIP-number cars. ...
08:19 AM, Aug 05, 2007
Luxury cars were offered to MLA’s to evict Dikshit from her post. ...
03:37 PM, Aug 04, 2007
Youth Congress leaders met Congress President Sonia Gandhi and asked for a greater share in the Government. ...
04:56 PM, Nov 04, 2006
