New Delhi: Three-hundred officials are spending the day raiding 60 offices in different cities including Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai for financial irregularities linked to the Commonwealth Games. The offices being raided belong to companies who provided services like landscaping and street lighting as well as sports equipment for the Commonwealth Games. The raids are [...]
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NEW DELHI: The Australian mission at Commonwealth Games has paid Rs 10,000 as damages for the vandalism of some members of its squad who threw down a washing machine from the seventh floor of a Games Village apartment. The alcohol-fuelled vandalism, first reported by TOI, could have taken a fatal turn if the machine had [...]
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NEW DELHI: The SIS Live-Prasar Bharati deal is becoming murkier with fresh revelations showing significant departures from tendering norms in the contract signed for telecast of the Commonwealth Games that are loaded in favour of the UK firm. The changes from the terms set out in the request for proposal underline how PB went out [...]
Add to orkutNew Delhi: As the multi-pronged probe into alleged Commonwealth Games corruption and financial irregularities gathers momentum, the battle between Village developer EMAAR MGF and the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has got uglier. EMAAR MGF is the builder of the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village. Designed as the epicenter of the Games, the Village became the catchment [...]
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New Delhi: The Income Tax department investigating the Commonwealth Games broadcasting rights scam seems to have found that London-based SIS Live was given Rs. 246 crore contract despite doubts raised about its legal status. Sources say that the SIS Live registration number was found to be forged during verifications. Income tax sleuths have also apparently [...]
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New Delhi: Real estate developer EMAAR-MGF may have to forfeit 183 crore it deposited with the government of India as a bank guarantee for the Commonwealth Games Village that it built. The government says it has frozen the account. Here is how they responded to all the charges: This has reference to the media reports [...]
Add to orkutNew Delhi: The Commonwealth Games scam could be much bigger than previously thought. Every day, more and more Games-related projects are coming under the scanner and fresh details of corruption and bungling indicate how deep the rot is. NDTV has learnt that the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is now looking at a robbery that could [...]
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New Delhi: Twenty five locations in and around Delhi are currently being raided by Income Tax officials. Among them, the office of senior BJP leader Sudhanshu Mittal, whose relatives were allegedly given major contracts for different aspects of the Commonwealth Games. The massive charges of corruption that prefaced the Games are being investigated through a [...]
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The Delhi government on Monday announced cash rewards for the Commonwealth Games medallists hailing from the national capital. The Commonwealth Games concluded on October 14. The capital’s 10 medal winners include seven wrestlers and three shooters. The gold medallists will receive Rs 15 lakh, while silver and bronze winners will get Rs 10 lakh and [...]
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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appointed a committee — headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General V. K. Shunglu — that is to submit a report in three months, said the government-run Doordarshan News. Home Minister P. Chidambaram said his department is committed to cooperating fully with investigators, providing information related to ticketing and accreditation for [...]
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