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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
New Delhi: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has written a letter to the chairman of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), seeking a full report on former CWG OC Chief Suresh Kalmadi's "exact situation before the courts of justice". The letter stated: "It is our understanding that, to date, your NOC has not taken any action or measure with respect to Mr Kalmadi. We now ask you to send us a...
04:20 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: India's Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Friday welcomed Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Suresh Kalmadi's decision to not continue in the post but said it should not be left to the wisdom of an accused whether he wants to stay on as an office bearer. "By not insisting to continue as the IOA president Kalmadi has done the right thing, but at the same time he has not...
12:24 AM, Jan 21, 2012
While Suresh Kalmadi has decided to stay away from the functioning of the IOA, he will not resign as the president. ...
08:40 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the Commonwealth Games scam, will stay away from the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) for the time being. However, CNN-IBN has learnt that he will not resign from the post of president. Kalmadi's continuing involvement as the IOA president has drawn much flak. Now, CNN-IBN has access to a letter written by the man himself on January 3. The letter says, "I have not been...
08:26 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Suresh Kalmadi, accused in the CWG scam, walked out of Tihar jail on bail after nine months. ...
11:22 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, the main accused in the CWG scam, on Thursday got bail after spending nine months in Tihar Jail. But even as he walks out of the jail, the question raised is - should he continue as the Indian Olympics Association (IOA) President? For more than a decade now, Suresh Kalmadi has lorded over the Indian Olympic Association, and now after going through the worst phase in...
09:06 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Vice President Tarlochan Singh on Thursday said that corruption charges against former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi have tainted the Olympic movement in India and he (Kalmadi) has to decide what he wants to do. Singh said that Kalmadi has a long legal battle ahead of him even though he has been released on bail in the Commonwealth Games scam. He also backed...
05:39 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) will not the 2012 London Olympics, but will lodge a strong protest over the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy tainted Dow Chemicals sponsoring the sporting event. The decision to not boycott the Olympic Games was taken at the IOA Executive Board meeting on Thursday in New Delhi. The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been demanding that India boycott the 2012 Olympic Games...
02:21 PM, Dec 15, 2011
New Delhi: There was no release of radiation from the sole medical device containing radioactive material in the AMRI Hospital in Kolkata where a massive fire broke out this morning, the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board said. A High Dose Rate brachytherapy unit with radioactive Iridium-192 as source was situated in the lower basement of the Kolkata Hospital where the fire broke out, AERB secretary R Bhattacharya said in a statement....
08:41 PM, Dec 09, 2011
Kolkata: While declaring the sale of 42,000 tickets for the Messi match, the organisers on Sunday announced that India's popular Nivia ball will be used for the Argentina-Venezuela tie here September 2. "Nivia Simbola is a ball approved by FIFA. This means this ball is eligible to be played at all top ranking international matches under the aegis of FIFA. The ball is really good," said Bhaswar Goswami, executive director,...
05:16 PM, Aug 28, 2011
Tokyo: Japan's crisis-hit nuclear power plant could spill more radioactive water into the sea within a week unless engineers can fix a glitch in a new system to clean up pools of contaminated water, officials said. Tokyo Electric Power Co, known as Tepco, has pumped massive amounts of water to cool three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which had meltdowns after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disabled cooling...
10:16 AM, Jun 17, 2011
Tokyo: Protesters in Tokyo held mass demonstrations on Saturday against the use of nuclear power, as Japanese marked the three-month anniversary of the powerful earthquake and tsunami that killed tens of thousands and triggered one of the world's worst nuclear disasters. The magnitude-9 earthquake that hit off Japan's northeast coast March 11 caused a massive tsunami that devastated the coastline. The disasters knocked out power and cooling systems at the...
12:20 PM, Jun 11, 2011
Tokyo: The Japanese utility battling to bring its radiation-spewing nuclear reactor under control says it is moving 1,500 more tons of radioactive water into temporary storage. Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Sunday that the move is critical to prevent the spilling of highly radioactive water into the ground and the sea. More than 100,000 tons of radioactive water have pooled beneath the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in...
12:55 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Tokyo: A water leak from Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power station earlier this month resulted in about 100 times the permitted level of radioactive material flowing into the sea, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said on Saturday. TEPCO said the leak discovered on May 11 at a storage pit outside the No 3 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi had started in the early hours of the previous day and lasted for...
04:26 PM, May 21, 2011
New Delhi: In an another jolt to Suresh Kalmadi, the India Olympic Association (IOA) on Tuesday evening decided that VK Malhotra, the Senior Vice President, will discharge all the duties of President in Kalmadi's absence. According to the IOA's constitution, following the President's 'indisposition', the senior vice president usually takes over. While formally Malhota has not taken over, in practice he is acting IOA chief. "According to the IOA constitution, ...
11:08 PM, Apr 26, 2011
