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• CWG broadcast deal: CBI files FIR against Lalli

  The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR against suspended Prasar Bharati CEO BS Lalli today and is conducting raids at his house and office in connection with alleged irregularities in the award of broadcasting rights of the Commonwealth Games. The deal reportedly resulted in a loss of Rs 135 crore to the exchequer.The CBI i...

• Organising Committee members are being targetted: Kalmadi

  A day after the arrest of two of his close aides, sacked Commonwealth Games OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi today accused the investigating agencies of "targeting" only the Organising Committee when government officials were also part of the entire decision-making process.He expressed shock and displeasure over the way the entire matter has been handled...

• Rs 1300 Crore deficit for Commonwealth Games, taxpayers will Pay

  One crooked deal after another has revealed that the team that organised the Commonwealth Games in India was incorporated as the worst sort of Badmaash Company.  Adding to the injury of the thousands of missing crores is the insult that the various deals were crassly crafted. But the corruption that became the currency of the Games is now goin...

• CWG broadcast deal: PM acts on Shunglu Committee report

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has referred the Shunglu Committee report on suspended Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli's alleged irregularities to CBI.Prasar Bharti Director General Aruna Sharma, also indicted by Shunglu Committee, has been reverted to her home cadre of IAS in Madhya Pradesh.Here's a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office:The Pri...

• Supreme Court to Govt: Explain why Prasar Bharti CEO Lalli must go

  The Supreme Court today sought from the Centre evidence on alleged irregularities committed by former Prasar Bharati CEO B S Lalli in running the public broadcaster on the basis of which he was suspended last December.A bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia asked the government to file a statement of facts relating to Lalli's suspension within ...

• Committee's findings not made on correct evaluation: Aruna

  Doordarshan Director General Aruna Sharma, indicted for alleged "collusion" with a UK-based firm which benefited Rs 135 crore in the CWG broadcast deal, today said the findings of the high-level committee were not made on the basis of "correct evaluation". A two-member committee headed by former CAG V K Shunglu, which went into alleged financial i...

• Shunglu report: Prasar Bharti caused loss of Rs 135 crores

  A High Level Committee, which went into alleged financial irregularities in Commonwealth Games, has strongly indicted suspended Prasar Bharti CEO B S Lalli and Doordarshan Director General Aruna Sharma, accusing them of "collusion" with a UK-based firm which benefited Rs 135 crore in the broadcast deal. (Read the full report)The two-member Committe...

• Shunglu report: PM takes serious view of findings

  Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken serious view of the findings of the Shunglu panel that is investigating the Commonwealth Games broadcast scam.The panel, in its interim report, has reportedly indicted Prasar Bharti CEO BS Lalli, finding him guilty of causing a loss of nearly Rs 150 crore to the exchequer. Sources say the report could also sp...

• CWG broadcast rights: Shunglu report indicts BS Lalli

  The Shunglu committee on Monday submitted an interim report on alleged irregularities in awarding broadcasting rights during Commonwealth Games to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), even as the term of the panel has been extended till March 31 to submit its full report.Sources say that the committee in its first report on the CWG broadcast rights h...

• No dubious deal involved in using services of Zoom: SIS Live

  SIS Live, the sole broadcaster for the Commonwealth Games, on Thursday claimed there was no "dubious" deal involved in using the services of Zoom communications for CWG telecast and that at no point of time had it violated terms of the contract signed with Prasar Bharti.

• CWG corruption: Broadcast deal shows glitches

  The inquest of the broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games reveals a financial bending of the rules that has become a pattern for virtually every aspect of the event.NDTV has been reporting over the last week that the Rs 246-crore deal is being cross-checked now by, among others, Income Tax officials. Sources say that they have uncovered e...

• CWG: Were rules bent for broadcast rights deal?

  The controversy over the broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games is getting larger.The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has sent the files on the deal to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), which has been asked by the government to investigate the apparently-indefatigable corruption that marked pretty much every aspect of the Game...

• CWG broadcast scam: SIS Live denies charges

  The broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games, worth Rs. 246 crore, is being thoroughly investigated. After allegations of favouritism and wrongdoing were leveled against SIS Live, a UK-based company that won the broadcasting rights, the company has denied all charges.  SIS Live said it never earned excessive profits or paid sub-contrac...

• Doordarshan's response to media reports on impropriety in CWG broadcasting rights deal

  After NDTV ran reports on SIS Live - the company that won the CWG broadcast rights contract - was formed in January 2010, four months after bidding for the contract had ended, Doordarshan has issued a rebuttal, which says: The television channel reports regarding the SIS Live the entity selected for production and coverage are not factually correct...

• Top official denies CWG broadcast right deal reeks of impropriety

  The broadcast rights deal for the Commonwealth Games, worth Rs 246 crore, is being thoroughly investigated now, sources say.  BS Lalli, the CEO of Prasar Bharti, which oversaw the deal, says no rules were violated to favour SIS Live, a UK-based company that won the rights.(Watch: Everything is above board says Prasar Bharti CEO) The Managing D...