Authorities in New Delhi on Wednesday ordered dozens of buildings to be evacuated near a five-storey residential block.
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/ 17 November 2010
Amritpal Singh, owner of a building that collapsed in New Delhi, killing 67 people, was arrested on Wednesday.
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/ 17 November 2010
A sleepy pilot was to blame for a passenger plane crash in Southern India in in May that claimed 158 lives, reports said Wednesday.
Commonwealth Games chief Mike Fennell on Thursday saluted Delhi 2010, but admitted the creaking showpiece needs to rethink its timing.
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/ 13 October 2010
Indian race walker Rani Yadav has tested positive for a banned steroid and provisionally suspended from the Commonwealth Games.
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/ 13 October 2010
Georgie Twigg scored the match-winning goal as England defeated SA 1-0 to bag the bronze in the Commonwealth Games women’s hockey.
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/ 12 October 2010
The Kiwis won gold in the Commonwealth Games rugby Sevens on Tuesday, defeating rivals Australia in the final, while SA won bronze by beating England.
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/ 12 October 2010
New Zealand underlined their status as the team to beat at the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens on Tuesday as they crushed Wales to enter the semis.
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/ 12 October 2010
The Commonwealth Games were overshadowed by a second positive doping test as a top official warned about the pitfalls of the supplement industry.
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/ 11 October 2010
Commonwealth Games women’s 100m gold medallist Osayemi Oludamola has tested positive for a banned stimulant.
Delhi’s Commonwealth Games was plunged into a racism storm on Saturday after SA swimmer Roland Schoeman described a crowd of acting like "monkeys".
From a "toxic" pool to empty stadiums and faulty boxing scales, the first week of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games has served up daily blunders.
Commonwealth Games organisers launched an investigation into the water quality at the event’s pool after reports that over 50 swimmers had fallen ill.
The athletics programme is due to start at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday amid concerns about the state of the track.
New Delhi’s chief minister Sheila Dikshit has dismissed criticism that the city is trying to hide its poverty during the Commonwealth Games
Delhi resembled a city under curfew on Sunday ahead of the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.
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/ 29 September 2010
The vuvuzelas that became the droning soundtrack to the Soccer World Cup in SA are to make a comeback at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi.
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/ 27 September 2010
Two more Australian athletes withdrew and a SA competitor reportedly found a snake in his room as complaints continued to dog the Commonwealth Games.
The Commonwealth Games should never have been awarded to India, Australia’s Olympic chief said on Friday as more top athletes pulled out.
The Commonwealth Games Federation has signalled that Delhi is succeeding in fixing problems that have brought the event to the brink of disaster.
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/ 23 September 2010
The Delhi Games faced dire warnings on Thursday of a mass pull-out by teams as organisers worked frantically to save the event from disaster.
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/ 22 September 2010
The SA team will compete at the crisis-hit Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India next month, officials from the nation’s Olympic governing body said.
India struggled to keep its Commonwealth Games on track Wednesday, with England warning the event was on a "knife edge".
The Delhi Commonwealth Games were plunged into crisis after the athletes’ village was described as "uninhabitable" and a footbridge collapsed.
The parlous state of athletes’ accommodation for next month’s Commonwealth Games in New Delhi has shocked visiting teams.
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/ 20 September 2010
The embattled chief organiser of the Delhi Commonwealth Games said on Monday that the event would be safe.
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/ 2 September 2010
The Commonwealth Games are often known as the "friendly games", but New Delhi has little to smile about ahead of the opening ceremony.
The Commonwealth Games in New Delhi have been plunged into crisis two months before they start by allegations of corruption and shoddy workmanship.
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/ 4 September 2009
The US said on Friday the global financial crisis had created ”a real imperative” to conclude a new global free-trade agreement.
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/ 3 September 2009
Trade ministers meet in New Delhi for talks that the WTO says could lay the groundwork for a push to reach a new global free-trade pact next year.
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/ 1 September 2009
Delhi authorities launched their first mobile courts on Tuesday, which will begin convicting beggars as part of a strategy to clean up the city.
United States and Indian business leaders meet on Wednesday in a bid to put a new focus on the South Asian power.