Kalmadi Snubbed

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, refused to shake hands with Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, who is accused of corruption during his high-profile term as the head of the committee that organised the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010.

Kalmadi has filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court to allow him to attend Parliament. The court had earlier snubbed him saying the government would not fall if he didn't attend the session.

In what is being seeing as another snub for the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar hosted a 'thanks giving' dinner on Friday where most CWG officials were invited, except Kalmadi.The dinner was attended by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Lt Governor Tejender Khanna and the ...

Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Saturday said he is ready to provide all kind of support to the Prime Minister-appointed high-level committee formed to look into allegations of corruption related to the conduct of mega sporting event. (Read: CWG Corruption - 20 officers under scanner)Kalmadi, already under fire fr...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met the Indian medal winners in the Commonwealth Games from which Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and its members were kept out.PMO sources said that Kalmadi was not invited for the PM's interaction with the medal winners.Sports Minister M S Gill was though present in the interaction, the sources sai...

The Congress party is looking to distance itself from Suresh Kalmadi, the man at the centre of the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games. Kalmadi, who is the chairman of the CWG Organising Committee, is also a Congress MP from Pune. The party has said that it holds no brief for Mr Kalmadi. And sources now tell NDTV that the party is d...

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on Sunday, refused to shake hands with Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi, who is accused of corruption during his high-profile term as the head of the committee that organised the Commonwealth Games in India in 2010.

Kalmadi has filed an appeal in the Delhi High Court to allow him to attend Parliament. The court had earlier snubbed him saying the government would not fall if he didn't attend the session.

In what is being seeing as another snub for the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrashekhar hosted a 'thanks giving' dinner on Friday where most CWG officials were invited, except Kalmadi.The dinner was attended by the Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, Lt Governor Tejender Khanna and the ...

Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi on Saturday said he is ready to provide all kind of support to the Prime Minister-appointed high-level committee formed to look into allegations of corruption related to the conduct of mega sporting event. (Read: CWG Corruption - 20 officers under scanner)Kalmadi, already under fire fr...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today met the Indian medal winners in the Commonwealth Games from which Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and its members were kept out.PMO sources said that Kalmadi was not invited for the PM's interaction with the medal winners.Sports Minister M S Gill was though present in the interaction, the sources sai...

The Congress party is looking to distance itself from Suresh Kalmadi, the man at the centre of the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games. Kalmadi, who is the chairman of the CWG Organising Committee, is also a Congress MP from Pune. The party has said that it holds no brief for Mr Kalmadi. And sources now tell NDTV that the party is d...