Smam

The allegations of mammoth corruption in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games are steadily scaling up to some of the senior-most men involved with organizing the event.It now seems Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Mike Fennell and CEO Hooper pushed for contract for EKS. NDTV has learnt that Hooper 'recommended' Craig McLatchey's EKS to...

Till recently, the Commonwealth Games must have appeared to be a windfall for two businessmen from Australia whose companies won contracts that added upto more than 200 crores.The entrepreneurs - Craig McLatchey and Mike Bushell - were widely known to be close friends.  McLatchey's EKS or Events Knowledge Service , is Switzerland-based, and wa...

Australia-based company, Sports Marketing and Management has reacted to its contract being terminated by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee for the 2010 Games. In a statement today, SMAM said  the OC has "wrongfully, viciously, terminated agreement" and the "grounds for termination are imaginary and concocted.The company has refuted t...

As the cries of corruption become louder and clearer, the organizers of the Commonwealth Games are skidding into damage-control mode.  Three members of the Organizing Committee, which is headed by Suresh Kalmadi, were suspended today.  The Committee has also decided to fire an Australian company hired...

The games are less than two months away - and the sponsors still haven't signed on. Sponsorship for the Games stands at  Rs 405 crore as against a target of Rs 960 crore.The target was 12 sponsors  - two have signed on and there are just five co-sponsors instead of 24. Sports Management and Marketing, the company hired for sponsorship mar...

The allegations of mammoth corruption in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games are steadily scaling up to some of the senior-most men involved with organizing the event.It now seems Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) President Mike Fennell and CEO Hooper pushed for contract for EKS. NDTV has learnt that Hooper 'recommended' Craig McLatchey's EKS to...

Till recently, the Commonwealth Games must have appeared to be a windfall for two businessmen from Australia whose companies won contracts that added upto more than 200 crores.The entrepreneurs - Craig McLatchey and Mike Bushell - were widely known to be close friends.  McLatchey's EKS or Events Knowledge Service , is Switzerland-based, and wa...

Australia-based company, Sports Marketing and Management has reacted to its contract being terminated by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee for the 2010 Games. In a statement today, SMAM said  the OC has "wrongfully, viciously, terminated agreement" and the "grounds for termination are imaginary and concocted.The company has refuted t...

As the cries of corruption become louder and clearer, the organizers of the Commonwealth Games are skidding into damage-control mode.  Three members of the Organizing Committee, which is headed by Suresh Kalmadi, were suspended today.  The Committee has also decided to fire an Australian company hired...

The games are less than two months away - and the sponsors still haven't signed on. Sponsorship for the Games stands at  Rs 405 crore as against a target of Rs 960 crore.The target was 12 sponsors  - two have signed on and there are just five co-sponsors instead of 24. Sports Management and Marketing, the company hired for sponsorship mar...