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Aug 7, 2011 Corruption unlimited! Rs2,342 crore lost on Commonwealth Games
Aug 7, 2011 CWG scam: How crores were squandered for vanity: "The amount spent for streetscaping and beautification of roads for 'aesthetics' before the Commonwealth Games could have been enough to build a new 94 km two-lane highway with paved shoulder between Delhi and Panipat. The three government agencies in the national capital spent Rs 332.45 crore for such works at an exorbitant expenditure of Rs 4.8 crore per km."
Aug 7, 2011 CAG lambastes contractor-friendly CPWD for CWG mess: "the Comptroller and Auditor General has found that blatant favouritism was shown to certain contractors by the CPWD."
Aug 7, 2011 BJP demands CBI inquiry into CWG corruption
Aug 6, 2011 CAG finds out faults in CWG opening, closing ceremonies
Aug 6, 2011 CWG: Govt protects Sheila Dikshit to guard PM?: " Any action against Dikshit would mean expectation of a similar action against the co-accused PMO."
Aug 6, 2011 CWG: Govt protects Sheila Dikshit to guard PM?: "The party's backing gave Sheila Dikshit the confidence to pass the buck."
Aug 5, 2011 CWG CAG report: PMO in the line of fire
Aug 5, 2011 CAG blames Centre, Delhi govt for CWG mess
Aug 5, 2011 Delhi govt runs for cover, Sheila mum
Aug 5, 2011 Projects faulty, money wasted, favouritism rampant: CAG
Aug 5, 2011 CAG blames Dikshit, Kalmadi for 'enormous bungling' in CWG: "Behind the ''phenomenal success'' of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) was a saga of ''enormous bungling'', ''highly irregular'' practices and massive waste of public money, India's top auditor said Friday, pointing to Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and the now jailed Organising Committee (OC) chief Suresh Kalmadi."
Aug 5, 2011 Delhi HC refuses Kalmadi permission to attend Parliament, imposes a fine of Rs 1 lakh
Aug 5, 2011 CWG scam: CAG report indicts PMO, Sheila Dikshit: "The report also indicts Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit for mis-spending in the Games's preparation."
Aug 5, 2011 Even PSU looted Games funds: CAG: "The CAG audit found that ECIL prepared a "highly inflated cost estimate", approved at Rs 346 crore by the government. The PSU made a profit of Rs 126 crore on just items procured from external suppliers"
Aug 5, 2011 The CAG Report
Aug 5, 2011 CWG, according to CAG: "Irregularities and lack of foresight on the part of agencies headed by CM, L-G and OC chief are highlights of report"
Aug 5, 2011 NDA can't wash hands of Games mess: Auditor
Aug 5, 2011 PMO, Shiela govt caught in CAGmire: "The PMO has been hauled up for giving Suresh Kalmadi a free rein, Sheila Dikshit`s Delhi government slammed for carrying out "ill-conceived and ill-planned" city projects at great cost to the exchequer"
Aug 4, 2011 CAG findings put Delhi CM in the line of fire: "The CAG report holds Sheila Dikshit responsible for excess expenditure of over Rs 100 cr during the CWG."
Aug 4, 2011 Crores spent, but CWG works lie in a shambles: "Sheila Dixit needs to answer more than one question on why so much of money went down the drain."
Aug 4, 2011 CWG: CAG flays Shiela govt over health expenses: "Delhi government gave contracts to non-existing firms for health services during the Games."
Aug 3, 2011 Activist exposes political nexus in Olympic body: ""It seems CWG was a friendly money minting game for some common friends in Congress and BJP under the joint leadership of Kalmadi and Malhotra. Many BJP leaders enjoyed luxurious family-trips to foreign countries like China, spending huge amounts of public money, to ‘study' for preparations of CWG Games. But no study report was filed,""
Aug 3, 2011 CBI attaches property of absconding accused: "The CBI is in the process of attaching properties of three absconding accused in Commonwealth Games-related cases. Anil Madan and P D Arya of Faridabad-based Gem International, and A K Reddy of Hyderabad-based AKR Constructions are accused of conniving with CWG Organising Committee officials to get the contract for timing, scoring and results (TSR) system awarded to Switzerland-based Swiss Timing at Rs 157.62 crore."
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: Delhi govt defends CM against CAG charges: "The Delhi government on Wednesday came out in the open against the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that blames it for wasteful expenditure worth Rs 130 crore in CWG projects."
Aug 3, 2011 Rs 100 crore went down Capital's streets, says CAG: "The cost of beautifying a kilometer of Delhi streets for the Commonwealth Games was more than that of laying rail tracks and almost half the amount needed for building four-lane highways of equal length"
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: Kalmadi issue embarrasses both Cong and BJP
Aug 3, 2011 Kalmadi undergoes test for dementia at AIIMS: "AIIMS experts have conducted detailed examination of sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi for memory-related disorder dementia besides a number of other pathological tests of his vital parameters."
Aug 3, 2011 Dikshit evades questions on CAG report on CWG: "Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today evaded questions on the Comptroller and Auditor General reportedly rapping her government for irregularities in Commonwealth Games projects"
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: 19 projects worth Rs 2,500 cr under CVC scanner
Aug 3, 2011 CAG raps Sheila Dikshit for irregularities in CWG
Aug 3, 2011 CWG: L'Affaire Kalmadi: "leaked CAG report which apparently cites letters by former Sports Ministers Sunil Dutt and Mani Shankar Aiyar and faulted the Prime Minister's Office [PMO] for ignoring warnings on the appointment of Suresh Kalmadi as the Commonwealth Games [CWG] Organising Committee [OC] Chief."
Aug 3, 2011 Govt decides not to confer Padma Awards to bureaucrats
Aug 3, 2011 CAG criticises Shiela govt, civic bodies for CWG loss: "Spaceage supplied low cost luminaries of Saudi make costing Rs 5,040 per piece, but it charged the Delhi government Rs 25,704 per piece earning a super profit of Rs 2.68 crore.", "The PWD admitted that of the 3.82 lakh potted plants bought by them, a third costing nearly Rs 79 lakh perished, and the rest were given to government offices. CAG teams visited the offices but could not find the potted plants.""
Aug 3, 2011 IT dept allowed BCCI to 'enrich coffers at expense of exchequer': Parliamentary panel
Aug 3, 2011 Parliamentary report says BCCI, IPL evaded tax
Aug 3, 2011 CWG scam: CAG report blames PMO, Delhi govt: "CAG sources also report that intentional delays caused by Kalmadi led to high expenses."
Aug 3, 2011 CAG questions PMO for giving Kalmadi Organizing Committee reins: "the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has faulted the PMO for letting Suresh Kalmadi capture the Organizing Committee of the Commonwealth Games, a decision which enabled the jailed sports czar to have a decisive say in the spending of hundreds of crores of public money."
Aug 2, 2011 CBI chargesheet against seven in street lights scam: "The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had floated a tender for street lighting in the city in 2008, in which, according to the CBI, the seven persons named and a private firm “entered into a criminal conspiracy” to bag the contract worth Rs 34.53 crore."
Aug 2, 2011 Want to attend Parliament? Show previous record, HC to Kalmadi: "produce his attendance record in Lok Sabha for the last five years."
Aug 2, 2011 NADA conducts surprise raid at PT Usha School of Athletics: "Continuing its drive to catch drug cheats following the athletics doping scandal, the National Anti Doping Agency officials conducted a surprise raid at the PT Usha School of Athletics"
Aug 2, 2011 Court rebukes Kalmadi; asks why he wants to attend parliament: "The Delhi High Court Thursday snubbed Congress MP and sacked Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi, who asked for permission to attend parliament, and said the government would not fall if he didn't attend the session."
Jul 27, 2011 MRI fails to support Kalmadi's dementia claim
Jul 27, 2011 Kalmadi can't escape from law even if he has dementia: Maken: "Sport Minister Ajay Maken today said that Suresh Kalmadi, accused of corruption in the multi-crore Commonwealth Games scam, cannot escape from the law just because he is suffering from dementia."
Jul 27, 2011 Kalmadi to be examined by AIIMS neuro expert: "Suresh Kalmadi, jailed former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CWG OC), will be taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to examine whether he suffers from dementia,"
Jul 27, 2011 Jailed Suresh Kalmadi to undergo brain scan: "Suresh Kalmadi, former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee (CWG OC) who has been lodged in a jail on charges of corruption, will soon undergo a brain scan"
Jul 27, 2011 Is Kalmadi faking dementia to duck CWG probe?: "CNN-IBN has accessed the MRI report Commonwealth Games chief accused Suresh Kalmadi who claims to be suffering from dementia."
Jul 27, 2011 Kalmadi suffering from dementia? CWG trial may be hit: "Suresh Kalmadi, lodged in Tihar jail for more than two months in connection with the multi-crore Commonwealth Games scam, may be suffering from dementia, a disease related to memory loss, impaired reasoning and personality changes."
Jul 21, 2011 CWG scam: properties of three accused to be attached: "The court directed the attachment of properties of promoters of two construction firms -- Purshottam Dev Arya, Anil Madan and A K Reddy whose anticipatory bail appplications are pending before the Delhi High Court. They were declared proclaimed offender by the court on May 23."
Jul 17, 2011 The Drip-Dope-Drip Irrigation System: "Coaches and officials run an assembly line for doping and cleaning up", "Sports authorities in India have been running what is called a “controlled doping” scam for years and they deserve exemplary punishment.", "Now that a few girls have been caught, the establishment has shamelessly dumped and disowned them."
Jul 16, 2011 NADA conducts raid at Bhopal SAI Center, third in a week
Jul 16, 2011 My life under threat: Whistleblower doctor in doping scandal
Jul 16, 2011 India's ugly truth- Corruption followed by doping scandal
Jul 16, 2011 Jailed Suresh Kalmadi to undergo brain scan
Jul 13, 2011 Whisteblower doctor beaten up at NIS Patiala: "Nandi had earlier blown the lid on wrongdoings in NIS Patiala and claimed that doping was rampant in the institution premises for which he was removed from his post."
Jul 11, 2011 Doping: NADA raids SAI's Bangalore centre
Jul 9, 2011 Doping scandal: NADA conducts surprise raid at NIS Patiala
Jul 8, 2011 Organised doping in NIS: ex-SAI doctor: "former medical officer of the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Dr. Sajib Nandi on Friday made some startling revelations of organised doping inside the National Institute of Sports (NIS)"
Jul 6, 2011 Coach Yuri is sacked, Ashwini says NIS food supplement ran out, we took what he gave us
Jul 6, 2011 Doping scandal: athletics coach sacked
Jul 6, 2011 CWG scam: HC dismisses bail plea of Kalmadi's close aide: "The Delhi high court on Tuesday dismissed the bail plea of former RPT former CWG Organising Committee Secretary General Lalit Bhanot, accused of favouring a Swiss firm in a contract that led to a loss of over Rs 90 crore to the exchequer."
Jul 5, 2011 Dope cloud over brightest star, now Ashwini fails test: "The doping scandal in Indian athletics turned murkier on Monday after Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medalist Ashwini Chidananda Akkunji, currently India’s most celebrated track star, tested positive for anabolic steroids."
Jun 29, 2011 Olympics timer in Indian scandal
'Sports Bill would stop corruption'
CWG overlays scam: I-T search at 17 premises of 2 contractors
CWG scam: OC official, private firm promoter refused bail
Latest Games stink is Rs 572-cr deal for MTNL: "There is a new scandal in the Commonwealth Games, and this time the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) is implicated. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to register an FIR into an alleged Rs-572 crore contract in the awarding of communications contracts to MTNL. "
CWG scam: CWG panel's official judicial custody extended
Six arrested in CWG road lighting scam: "A stretch of 101.56 km was covered by the contract that was awarded to Sweka Engineering for Rs.34.53 crore.", "The CBI found that the MCD officials earned kickbacks from the the private firm for awarding the contract."
If fixing rampant in Indian football?
In reply on Shunglu report, CWG OC blames Kalmadi for graft
CWG: Kalmadi drags Jarnail Singh in TSR scam: "Disgraced CWG OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi, accused of irregularities in TSR scam, today tried to shift the blame for award of the contract to OC CEO Jarnail Singh insisting that he was aware of the contract and was informed at all stages of decision."

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