Suresh Kalmadi

Veteran sports administrator and former IOA president Suresh Kalmadi passed away at the age of 81. Kalmadi, who also served as a Union minister and represented Pune in Lok Sabha, was a significant figure in Indian sports for over two decades. His tenure saw India achieve its first individual Olympic gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Games.

A Delhi court has slapped a cost of Rs 10,000 on the CBI for its "unwarranted conduct" in creating "unnecessary confusion" and delay in the proceedings in a Commonwealth Games-related corruption case in which Congress MP Suresh Kalmadi and others are facing trial.

Suresh Kalmadi, the Organising Committee chairman of CWG, recently hosted a special dinner and cocktail party to welcome the British Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sports, Jeremy Hunt and UK track legend, Sebastian Coe, to the capital

The case pertains to the 2009 QBR event held in London in the presence of former President Pratibha Patil, in the run-up to the October 2010 CWG in Delhi.

Members of the city unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party staged a demonstration at Kandojibaba chowk on Tuesday, demanding resignation of city MP Suresh Kalmadi for his claim that he was suffering from dementia.

Commonwealth Games Organizing Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi and two others will spend the next 14 days in jail.

The CBI today arrested former the CWG chief, Suresh Kalmadi, in connection with irregularities in the contract for the Queen's Baton Relay.

NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court on Thursday granted bail to Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi on the surety of Rs 5 lakhs.

Embattled city MP Suresh Kalmadi dealing with the probe by investigating agencies into his alleged role in the mega-scale corruption in hosting the Commonwealth Games gave the mantra of 'Ekla chalo re' to his supporters in the city.

Ruffled by city MP Suresh Kalmadi’s re-entry into the political arena, the anti-Kalmadi leaders of the Congress on Tuesday wrote a letter to party president Sonia Gandhi demanding action against the partymen who had accompanied the suspended MP at a programme at the PMC on Monday.

Suresh Kalmadi’s supporters want the Congress to withdraw the city MP’s suspension from the party and re-nominate him for the Lok Sabha elections from Pune.

Following Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh's clean chit to Pune MP Suresh Kalmadi, his supporters in the city have demanded withdrawal of Kalmad's suspension from the Congress party.

Sources reveal that the character played by Anupam kher is inspired by Suresh Kalmadi's life.

Central Bureau of Investigation will quiz Suresh Kalmadi, sacked chairman of Organising Committee of Commonwealth Games, 2010, on Wednesday.

The two-storeyed bungalow off Karve Road, MP Suresh Kalmadi's house, wore a deserted look on Monday, soon after his arrest.

Suresh Kalmadi wants to contest elections for the post of IOA president due in October despite being made an accused in the CWG scam.

Suresh Kalmadi may continue to be in the bad books of IOC but the veteran sports administrator still holds sway in athletics, both at the Asian and world level.

If Suresh Kalmadi's decision to seek another term as President of Asian Athletics Association (AAA) did not raise eyebrows, what must flummox one and all is Lalit Bhanot's presence in the city on Sunday, a day before the continental body's elections.

CBI has finally asked CWG Organizing Committee chief Suresh Kalmadi to present himself before the agency, which is likely to quiz him about his role in dodgy contracts, a blackmail letter and destruction of evidence.

Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) will not make any effort to bring back suspended former member of Parliament Suresh Kalmadi into the party's fold even though the city Congress unit is keen to involve him in the civic elections in February 2017.

Commonwealth Games OC's former chief Suresh Kalmadi is being quizzed in connection with massive financial irregularities in the Games.

The Tihar Jail authorities as well various city hospitals, where Suresh Kalmadi was medically examined recently, were asked by a Delhi court not to make public his medical condition.

While the common people kept trying to get tickets of the opening and closing ceremonies of Commonwealth Games, most of these were allegedly diverted from the counters to business clubs at a fraction of cost, on the instructions of Suresh Kalmadi, sacked organizing committee chairman.

Worried by the news of MP Suresh Kalmadi suffering from dimentia, his supporters in Pune have demanded that the party should siften its stand on the beleaguered leader and come out in his support.

Congress leader Suresh Kalmadi is facing fresh heat from Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged Commonwealth Games scam.

Suresh Kalmadi evaded media grilling after his last formal address to the press as the CWG chief organiser and walked away to receive Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the men's hockey final even as a question was fired at him by a scribe.

The CBI on Thursday failed to name Commonwealth Games organising committee (OC) chairman Suresh Kalmadi in its FIR despite having evidence against AM Films.