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TopicCommonwealth Games

Topic: Commonwealth Games

Rs 6,000-cr stadium, weekly meetings, 2030 CWG pitch—Ahmedabad’s Olympic plan speeds up

How Ahmedabad is racing to become India’s next sporting capital. It’s all hands on deck.

Another closure report in 2010 CWG ‘scam’. Here’s what happened to the 19 FIRs filed since 2010

Special court this week accepted ED's closure report in money laundering case against Suresh Kalmadi, former chairman of 2010 Commonwealth Games organising committee.

Delhi Court accepts ED closure report in CWG 2010 case. Congress says Modi, Kejriwal must apologise

ED's closure report is based on CBI's closure report in 2014 in one of the cases linked to corruption by then chairman of the organising committee Suresh Kalmadi & others.

19 FIRs, 15 yrs, zero accountability—unresolved saga of CWG ‘scam’ that changed Delhi & its politics

The CBI registered at least 19 FIRs in the CWG 'scam' but, in the last 15 years, nobody has been able to fix the responsibility for it.

Our take on Chandrachud’s retirement, terror attacks in J&K, and LAC patrolling agreement

ThePrint view on the most important issues of the week.

‘Setback, conspiracy’, Indian sports community reacts after 2026 Commonwealth Games roster shrinks

Sports, like wrestling, hockey, cricket, shooting & table tennis, where India performs well, have been removed from the scaled-back programme for the Games in Glasgow.

King Charles acknowledges Commonwealth’s ‘painful’ history with slavery on summit agenda

From the 15th to the 19th century, at least 12.5 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly taken by European ships and merchants and sold into slavery.

Beijing must ensure this calming that took 4.5 years won’t be another rinse-repeat cycle

Best negotiated settlements are those where both sides leave the table having achieved substantive objectives, yet thinking they could’ve gotten more. Modi-Xi meeting passes...

Hockey, shooting, cricket, badminton among major sports axed from 2026 Glasgow CWG

The Glasgow games will feature only 10 sports across four venues, half of the 20 organised in Birmingham in 2022.

Malaysia govt rejects offer to host 2026 Commonwealth Games due to insufficient funding

Malaysia was asked to step in after Australia’s Victoria withdrew as host. This move raises possibility that the Games may not happen for 1st time since being cancelled due to WWII.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.