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
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: Suresh Kalmadi's elevation as Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief is proving to be an embarrassment for both the Congress and the BJP. For the past 24 hours, sports minister Ajay Maken has been trying his best to lay the entire responsibility for appointment Suresh Kalmadi as OC chairman on the NDA. "It's the city government that signs the host city contract. The national Government never signs on the...
06:54 PM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: In a surprise move, the Government on Tuesday stepped in to defend Prime Minister in the CWG row, even though the CAG report on the Commonwealth Games has yet to be tabled in Parliament. Sports Minister Ajay Maken, while defending the Prime Minister, squarely blamed the NDA for Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as the Commonwealth Organsing Committee chief. But the opposition refused to tone down its attacks on the...
12:19 AM, Aug 03, 2011
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12:05 AM, Aug 03, 2011
New Delhi: The CAG report on the Commonwealth Games mess expected to be tabled later this week in Parliament, only confirms a trail of irregularities that have been tracked by CNN-IBN over the last several months. Sacked as CWG Organising Committee Chief, jailed for his alleged involvement in TSR Scam and now struggling to prove that his mind is working well, Suresh Kalmadi is living his worst nightmare. CNN-IBN has...
10:43 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: BJP on Tuesday rejected the government's contention on the CAG report on Commonwealth Games scam and said though three successive Sports Ministers of the UPA government had drawn the Prime Minister's attention, he took no action. Sports Minister Ajay Maken on Tuesday attacked the NDA government saying it had appointed Suresh Kalmadi as Games organizing committee chief and for entering into a Host City contract that was the...
10:27 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: After briefing Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the CAG report, Sports Minister Ajay Maken has said that the nomination of Suresh Kalmadi as the Commonwealth Games chairman began under the NDA rule and he held former sports minister Vikram Verma responsible for signing the contract between India and the CWG Federation in India as a country. In his statement in Parliament, Maken said that the bid document was...
02:30 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The NDA government led by Atal Behari Vajpayee was in power when India's bid for the Commonwealth Games was accepted and the present Prime Minister's Office had no hand in the decision to appoint Suresh Kalmadi, according to the PMO sources. Sources in the PMO have said that the NDA had signed the agreement with the CWG Federation in 2003 and the agreement said that the Indian Olympics...
09:24 AM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games scam, which is likely to be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, blames the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) for the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the Common Wealth Games Chief. Sources also said that the CAG report questions the role of New Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit's office for not being prompt in dealing with the high expenditures incurred...
09:35 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its order on Congress MP and sacked CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi's plea seeking permission to attend the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament. Kalmadi's plea was vehemently opposed by the CBI which said he was making all attempts to get bail indirectly as the trial court has rejected his bail plea. "As per the medical report of Kalmadi, he is...
06:22 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, was on Monday admitted to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for a fresh medical checkup. "Kalmadi has been admitted and he is in room number 1001. Few formalities, as per the norms for MPs, were done in the morning before admitting him," an AIIMS doctor said. The 67-year-old MP from...
04:33 PM, Aug 01, 2011
New Delhi: Sacked CWG OC chief Suresh Kalmadi, who is currently lodged in Tihar jail, will be admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences for a medical check-up. "He needs comprehensive evaluation and on August 1 he will be admitted in the AIIMS neuro sciences centre for a short duration," an AIIMS medical report of Kalmadi said. "He needs to undergo certain tests and investigations. So we will...
12:47 PM, Jul 31, 2011
New Delhi: Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi has dismissed all talk about him using dementia as an excuse to evade prosecution in the Commonwealth Games scam. Kalmadi, who was sacked as the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief and arrested in the scam, was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for a "routine check up". "I'm fine. Whatever is being reported about me is not true. I had...
12:50 PM, Jul 28, 2011
New Delhi: The MRI report for Suresh Kalmadi, which was done at Delhi's LNJP Hospital, does not suggest that he is suffering from dementia. CNN-IBN has accessed the MRI report that claims that the former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief is suffering from 'diffused cerebral atrophy' instead. According to the MRI report, the problem of Kalmadi has been diagnosed as 'diffused cerebral and cerebellar atrophy with old ischemic changes in...
09:35 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: CNN-IBN has accessed the MRI report Commonwealth Games chief accused Suresh Kalmadi who claims to be suffering from dementia. The MRI report of Delhi's LNJP hospital is inconclusive on whether kalmadi suffers from dementia. It say he is suffering from 'diffused cerebral atrophy with old ischemic changes in brain parenchyma with calcified granuloma in caudothalamic groove on left side (of his brain)'. Authorities at Tihar Jail, where Kalmadi...
02:58 PM, Jul 26, 2011
New Delhi: Suresh Kalmadi, lodged in Tihar jail for over two months in connection with the multi-crore CWG scam, is suffering from dementia, a disease related to memory loss, impaired reasoning and personality changes and this may have a bearing on his ongoing trial. The 66-year-old MP from Pune was recently taken to Lok Narayan Jai Prakash Hospital where an MRI scan was conducted on him. The tests show that...
08:04 PM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Saturday allowed disgraced former Commomwealth Games chairman Suresh Kalmadi, who is lodged in Tihar jail on corruption charges, to undergo an MRI brain scan on the prison medical superintendent's advice. Special CBI Judge Talwant Singh directed the Tihar jail authorities to get the scan of 66-year-old Kalmadi done at a government hospital and file the MRI report in the court by July 21. "Medical...
10:10 PM, Jul 16, 2011
New Delhi: Digvijaya Singh kicked off another controversy after he supported tainted former CWG Chief Suresh Kalmadi. The Congress General Secretary came in for some sharp criticism by anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare on this issue. Hazare said that Singh should be admitted in a mental hospital for making such statements. "Digivijaya Singh should be admitted to mental hospital," said Hazare. Singh came out in support for Ashok Chavan and Suresh...
09:12 AM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: The bail plea of CWG Organising Committee (OC) former Deputy Director General Surjeet Lal, arrested for his alleged role in awarding a contract to a Swiss firm at an exorbitant cost, was dismissed on Friday by a Delhi court. Special Judge Talwant Singh dismissed Lal's bail plea saying that he was "part and parcel" of the conspiracy to award the contract to install the Timing, Scoring and Results...
07:12 PM, Jul 08, 2011
