Cong: Only winners were invited

Oct 18, 2010 - Age Corespondent |

New Delhi

The Congress on Saturday sought to distance itself from the issue of CWG Organising Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi being left out of two felicitation programmes, saying only medal winners were invited to the events hosted by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
“Only the medal winners had been invited and not the Organising Committee,” party spokesman Mohan Prakash said when asked why was Mr Kalmadi not invited by Dr Singh and Mrs Gandhi in their interaction with the medal-winning athletes.
Mr Prakash said that the government has ordered a probe into the allegations of irregularities and corruption in less than 24 hours after the mega event was over.“The entire country and world have praised the hosting of the Games... But the government has also ordered an investigation into allegations of irregularities as per its commitment for transparency,” he said. Dr Singh met the Indian medal winners in the Commonwealth Games on Friday while Mrs Gandhi met them on Saturday.

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Paa, 3 Idiots in Iffi Indian Panorama list
New Delhi, Oct. 16: Popular Bollywood movies Paa, 3 Idiots and Tere Bin Laden are among 26 feature films selected for the Indian Panorama section at this year’s International Film Festival of India starting next month in Goa.
The feature films were chosen by a 10-member jury headed by filmmaker N. Chandra after previewing 140 movies.
The festival will be held from November 22 to December 2. The inauguration of Indian Panorama would be on November 23.
The other Hindi films in the features section are I Am Kalam and Wake Up Sid. The list also has four Malayalam films — Mummy & Me, Makaramanju, Kaal Chilambu and Elektra — four Bengali movies — Achin Paakhi, Abohomaan, Moner Manush, Ami Aadu — and four Marathi films — Pail Te Sumbaran, Jhing Chik Jhing, Vihir, Mee Sindhutai Sapkal. English film Just Another Love Story, Kannada films Kanasemba Kudureyaneri, Aidu Ondola Aidu and Shabari, Tamil movies Athma Kadha, Angadi Theru and Raavanan, Telugu film Prasthanam and Oriya movie Swayamsiddha complete the line-up. —PTI

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