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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicCommonwealth Games

Topic: Commonwealth Games

Our take on Ashley Tellis, India-Pakistan hockey match, 2030 Commonwealth Games & more—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

Ahmedabad bags 2030 Commonwealth Games. India’s sports infrastructure gets a leg up

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Trump’s Russian oil claim spotlights India’s energy balancing act & Ahmedabad to host centenary CWG

Global media also reports on how ‘almost every country’ is caught in crossfire amid the US-China trade war, and strategic policy expert Ashley Tellis's arrest.

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.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.