Cag Commonwealth Games

The Congress has hit out at former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai for his comments in a national daily that quotes him as saying that he was "pressured" by the UPA to drop certain names from his reports on the coal block allocation and the Commonwealth Games scam.

On Tuesday morning, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stepped up the ante in the CWG war of words, blaming Congress president Sonia Gandhi for Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman. On Tuesday evening, senior BJP man Arun Jaitley sought to make clear that it was not a personal attack.

Parliament did not transact any business on Monday. The Opposition came armed with two CWG-related issues - they wanted Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to resign for being faulted by the government's auditor and wanted a debate on Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement on Suresh Kalmadi's appointment, that, it claimed, misled Parliament. Af...

The Delhi government has come out in defence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. State Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, speaking to the media, said Ms Dikshit's name was not directly mentioned anywhere in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games that was presented in the parliament on Friday. He said that t...

The explosive Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games dominated Parliament today with the Opposition demanding the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Mrs Dikshit, the report finds, cost the government hundreds of crores through mismanagement.

A day before Parliament resumes, BJP top leaders met today to discuss the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi last October.

A report on the Commonwealth Games has been tabled in Parliament, placing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the line of fire. The report, 800 pages long, is the work of the government's auditor, and gives Mrs Dikshit a failing grade largely on account of the massive over-expenditure for the Games.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games 2010 has been tabled in Parliament. It reportedly indicts Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for overspending in the Games.

The Delhi government today said it is not true that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit intervened to allow an ineligible company serve as a supplier of street lights during the Commonwealth Games last year.

Delhi's chief secretary PK Tripathi today clarified that the Chief Minister played no part in Space Age being awarded a contract for street lighting in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games.Sheila Dikshit has been blamed for costing the government Rs 31 crore in losses by deciding to use imported equipment for street lighting in the city during the g...

Suresh Kalmadi - a PR nightmare for the government - is about to gift some more sleepless nights. Mr Kalmadi, who served as the Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games, is in jail for corruption.     Now, the government's auditor has questioned the decision of the Prime Minister's Office to make Mr Kalmad...

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has been in the news after its scathing report on 2G spectrum allocation and the estimated losses to the government, but is the CAG always efficient in coming up with these reports?  Documents with NDTV show how the CAG had been unusually slow in responding to urgent requests for beginning an ...

Terming as wide and comprehensive the working parameters of the committee probing the alleged fraud in Commonwealth Games, former CAG V K Shunglu said the panel will go into every complaint to arrive at a logical conclusion within the stipulated time.

On a slew of fronts, those assigned to investigate the congenital corruption of the Commonwealth Games started making progress today.Led by Jaipal Reddy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) that was set up to oversee the Games met on Monday evening, bringing Sheila Dikshit and Suresh Kalmadi under one roof after a weekend where they traded charges over th...

The closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games ended with rainbow-coloured splatter that lit up the night sky. The fireworks may, in fact, just be beginning.A panel has been set up by the government to look into the corruption charges in the Games. Headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General, VK Shunglu, the panel will submit its report within...

The Congress has hit out at former Comptroller and Auditor General of India Vinod Rai for his comments in a national daily that quotes him as saying that he was "pressured" by the UPA to drop certain names from his reports on the coal block allocation and the Commonwealth Games scam.

On Tuesday morning, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) stepped up the ante in the CWG war of words, blaming Congress president Sonia Gandhi for Suresh Kalmadi's appointment as the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman. On Tuesday evening, senior BJP man Arun Jaitley sought to make clear that it was not a personal attack.

Parliament did not transact any business on Monday. The Opposition came armed with two CWG-related issues - they wanted Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to resign for being faulted by the government's auditor and wanted a debate on Sports Minister Ajay Maken's statement on Suresh Kalmadi's appointment, that, it claimed, misled Parliament. Af...

The Delhi government has come out in defence of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. State Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely, speaking to the media, said Ms Dikshit's name was not directly mentioned anywhere in the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games that was presented in the parliament on Friday. He said that t...

The explosive Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games dominated Parliament today with the Opposition demanding the resignation of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. Mrs Dikshit, the report finds, cost the government hundreds of crores through mismanagement.

A day before Parliament resumes, BJP top leaders met today to discuss the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games held in Delhi last October.

A report on the Commonwealth Games has been tabled in Parliament, placing Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit in the line of fire. The report, 800 pages long, is the work of the government's auditor, and gives Mrs Dikshit a failing grade largely on account of the massive over-expenditure for the Games.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on the Commonwealth Games 2010 has been tabled in Parliament. It reportedly indicts Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for overspending in the Games.

The Delhi government today said it is not true that Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit intervened to allow an ineligible company serve as a supplier of street lights during the Commonwealth Games last year.

Delhi's chief secretary PK Tripathi today clarified that the Chief Minister played no part in Space Age being awarded a contract for street lighting in Delhi during the Commonwealth Games.Sheila Dikshit has been blamed for costing the government Rs 31 crore in losses by deciding to use imported equipment for street lighting in the city during the g...

Suresh Kalmadi - a PR nightmare for the government - is about to gift some more sleepless nights. Mr Kalmadi, who served as the Chairman of the Organising Committee for the Commonwealth Games, is in jail for corruption.     Now, the government's auditor has questioned the decision of the Prime Minister's Office to make Mr Kalmad...

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has been in the news after its scathing report on 2G spectrum allocation and the estimated losses to the government, but is the CAG always efficient in coming up with these reports?  Documents with NDTV show how the CAG had been unusually slow in responding to urgent requests for beginning an ...

Terming as wide and comprehensive the working parameters of the committee probing the alleged fraud in Commonwealth Games, former CAG V K Shunglu said the panel will go into every complaint to arrive at a logical conclusion within the stipulated time.

On a slew of fronts, those assigned to investigate the congenital corruption of the Commonwealth Games started making progress today.Led by Jaipal Reddy, the Group of Ministers (GoM) that was set up to oversee the Games met on Monday evening, bringing Sheila Dikshit and Suresh Kalmadi under one roof after a weekend where they traded charges over th...

The closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games ended with rainbow-coloured splatter that lit up the night sky. The fireworks may, in fact, just be beginning.A panel has been set up by the government to look into the corruption charges in the Games. Headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General, VK Shunglu, the panel will submit its report within...