| Detectives may check for IPR violations in CWG | 23-NOV-09 |
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| Private snooping agents may be used to carry out special checks on violation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on official trademarks and brand merchandise of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) next year to avoid monetary loss to the tune of crores of rupees. |
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| Delhi faces tough task of being a perfect host | 10-NOV-09 |
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| As Delhi races against time to complete all unfinished tasks ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, it faces a daunting work of inculcating civic sense among Delhiites, generally known for being rude and inhospitable. |
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| Kalmadi re-elected Asian Athletics Asso prez | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Indian Olympic Association chief Suresh Kalmadi was today re-elected unopposed as the president of Asian Athletic Association (AAA) in Guangzhou, China, to serve his third consecutive term at the office. |
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| T N Ninan: Public pain, private gain | 07-NOV-09 |
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| In the age of public-private partnerships (or PPP), the question has to be answered: What if the final reality differs radically from the initial plan? Who bears the pain of negative outcomes, and who enjoys the gain of positive ones? The question acquires urgency because of developments in areas as diverse as airport development and the Commonwealth Games. |
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| CGF, Delhi Games organiser agree to resolve differences | 30-OCT-09 |
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| The 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games organiser and its parent body CGF, who have been engaged in a bitter dispute over organisational matters, today decided to bury their differences and work together for the success of the Games. |
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| 'We will provide fool-proof security for Games' | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Home Minister P Chidambaram today sought to allay apprehensions on the security arrangements for next year's Commonwealth Games here, giving a categorical assurance that "fool-proof security" would be in place and that no one needed to worry on that count. |
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| Sunanda K Datta-Ray: Pricey porters | 24-OCT-09 |
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| Sadly, no Indian Railways porter — I almost wrote ‘coolie’, the word I grew up with, then absolutely neutral but now horribly politically incorrect — reads Business Standard. Otherwise, this column would have assured him that the demands and discourtesy that the authorities so desperately want to abolish before next year’s Commonwealth Games are by no means a uniquely Indian phenomenon. |
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| Gill meets Kalmadi, to talk to Fennell | 20-OCT-09 |
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| Taking the first step towards brokering peace between the 2010 Organising Committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation, Sports Minister MS Gill today met OC chairman Suresh Kalmadi to discuss the vexed issues that have hit the capital's preparation for the event. |
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| Needed a toughie | 20-OCT-09 |
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| Long before the Commonwealth Games officials came to town to inspect the work being done, there was considerable disquiet in the Prime Minister’s Office over the lack of progress in the preparations. To help MS Gill, he was even given an assistant, Jarnail Singh, a former joint secretary in the PMO and a former chief secretary in Manipur. Instead of reducing the disquiet, the move has increased it. Singh is a gentleman but that’s probably the last thing you need right now. What makes things worse is that the other name doing the rounds at that time was that of V K Duggal. A go-getter, Duggal is a UT cadre officer and has served in Delhi long enough to know enough people to get work done — and being the home secretary till a few years ago also helps. |
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| Needed: action, not words | 19-OCT-09 |
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| Suresh Kalmadi is proving a national embarrassment. As the head of the Organising Committee of the Commonwealth Games 2010, he has been in charge of getting the show organised. Till date, the Committee (which came into existence in early 2005) has a plethora of missed deadlines to show for its labours. The Commonwealth Games Federation has raised one warning flag after another, culminating last week in the demand for more comprehensive oversight by international experts. Relations between the Committee and the Federation have since reached a nadir, with Mr Kalmadi rejecting the Federation’s diktat and asking publicly for the removal of the Federation’s man on the spot; that gent’s response at a press conference was halted abruptly by the intervention of people who appear to have been acting on Mr Kalmadi’s behalf. |
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| Preparedness of 2010 Games far from satisfactory: Hooper | 16-OCT-09 |
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| Miffed by the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee removing him from the post of 2010 CWG Chief Executive, Mike Hooper has struck back by declaring that the preparedness of the mega-event was far from satisfactory. |
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