Cwg Preparation

• Prince Charles arrives in India for CWG

  Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived here on Saturday to attend the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.     Prince Charles and India's President Pratibha Patil will declare open the Games at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium.     "Suresh Kalmadi, Chairman of the Organising Committee, received the...

• Chidambaram sets deadline for CWG venues, village

  Setting its foot down, the Home Ministry on Thursday asked the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to complete all unfinished work by Saturday morning to ensure foolproof security.     This was conveyed to the OC after a high-level security review meeting convened by Home Minister P Chidambaram, and attended by senior offici...

• CWG preparations: There have been shortcomings, says Cabinet Secretary

  There may be negative buzz surrounding the upcoming Commonwealth Games but the Union Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, appointed by the Prime Minister to oversee the preparations, sounds confident about successfully pulling off the mega event. A small portion of a false ceiling at the weightlifting arena at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the ...

• Commonwealth Games chief rushing to New Delhi

  Commonwealth Games Federation chief Mike Fennell is rushing to New Delhi on an emergency visit amid widespread anger over India's frenzied last-minute preparations for the event which is due to open a week from Sunday.

• Lack of coordination: Key cause for Games mess

  As concerns grow over timely completion of Commonwealth Games works, lack of coordination between different agencies in the national capital is emerging as one of the key reasons for the mess.Sample this: A pavement relaid by an agency was removed overnight by another in front of a Games stadium in the city recently. In other instances, already imp...