Denying any role in the alleged money trail during the QBR launch in London, CWG Organising Committee director general V.K. Verma on Thursday held sacked officials T.S.

As allegations of corruption and poor preparation shadow the October Commonwealth Games, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao has described the event as a national pride.

Tata Global Beverages on Thursday said it has appointed Sanjiv Sarin as the regional president for the South Asian region with immediate effect.

Taking first step towards getting the FIH recognition, Indian Hockey Federation and Indian Women’s Hockey Federation on Thursday merged to form a single body, which will handle the affairs of the game

Private airlines Jet Airways and Kingfisher owe state-owned oil firms over Rs 1,774 crore in unpaid jet fuel bills, minister of state for petroleum and natural gas Jitin Prasada said on Thursday.

As controversy rages over scams in Commonwealth Games, a group of NGOs on Thursday raised the issue of “large-scale human rights violation” due to the event, alleging flouting of labour laws and “arbi

A woman claimed she went alone all the way to the ravines of Chambal and got her husband freed from dacoits who had kidnapped him in Agra on August 6, and without any help from the police. The dacoits were so awed by the courage shown by her that they accepted Rs 50,000 as ransom in place of the Rs 10 lakhs that they had demanded, and even gave her Rs 5,100 as a gift, Ms Sanjana Singh told reporters in Greater Noida on Tuesday.

In a bid to apply the healing touch to the state’s festering wounds, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday urged the people of Jammu and Kashmir to “give peace a chance”. He also reached out to the state’s youth, asking them to “make a new beginning” along with the assurance that the government would respond in equal measure.

The government put its best foot forward in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday to counter the Opposition’s allegations regarding corruption in preparations for the forthcoming Common-wealth Games, but Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh sprang yet another surprise by demanding that Mr Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the Games organising committee, should resign “if his name figures in a CBI inquiry”.

In what came as a surprise to many political pandits here in the capital, rebel Congress MP Jaganmohan Reddy from Andhra met MP Sandeep Dikshit at an undisclosed destination on Tuesday. Mr Reddy played down the significance of the meeting saying that they were friends and therefore met casually. He added that they both are of