Charred houses and the mangled remains of the nine seats of the ill-fated Swiss- made Pilatus chartered air-ambulance aircraft could be seen at the accident site at Parvartiya Colony in Faridabad on Thursday.

Security has been beefed up in Tihar’s Jail Number 1 after former chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Suresh Kalmadi was taken in a 14-day judicial custody.

After the CBI arrested former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman, Suresh Kalmadi, the CWG scam has returned to haunt the Delhi government. The Shunglu Committee Panel probe has raised fingers at the role of Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit and Lt-Governor Tejinder Khanna in the Games. So far, the Shunglu Panel

Before the 2011 World Cup final, I had a brief chat with Gautam on the phone. I gave him my blessings and asked him to give it his best.

I have cried every single day since the day my daughter was shot dead. I expect her to walk through the door any minute to hug me. I wait for her call.

Arrest of former Organising Committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi’s aide Deorukhar Shekhar’s by CBI sleuths might provide a missing link to Comptroller Auditor General for India (CAG) in concluding audit report on Commonwealth Games for the submission in the Parliament. The CAG’s audit on the Games will be tabled in the Parliament in the coming session. However, senior CAG officials refused to comment on the issue.

The Commonwealth Games Association has asked the Organising Committee (OC) to immediately return equipment taken on lease from foreign companies for beautifying the Aerostat displayed in the opening c

A day after submitting a protest letter on Union minister Kapil Sibal’s comments on the CAG’s findings on the presumptive losses caused in the allocation of 2G spectrum, the CAG wrote a letter of request to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) urging it to summon the Union minister before the PAC and ask him to explain his statements. Mr Sibal had said the CAG’s conclusions on the loss to the exchequer being `1.76 lakh crore was “utterly erroneous”.

Top CAG officials have rejected the claim of Union minister Kapil Sibal, who has the additional charge of telecom ministry, that the CAG did not mention anything about the 10th Plan policy in its final report on the 2G spectrum losses. “The report establishes that the losses were indeed to the tune of `1.76 lakh crores and clearly points that it was on the basis of the 10th Plan policy document,” said a top CAG official, on the condition of anonymity.

The CAG, which is all set to investigate details of the pre-2004 department of telecom (DoT), will likely question NDA officials. The step has been taken after the Central Government’s decision to look into the spectrum allocation procedures and policies during 2001-2009, a period that includes NDA regime. However, the CAG officials on Thursday refused to give details of the NDA officials who are likely to be questioned. Sources pointed out that the decision to summon NDA officials was taken after the