Critiquing CWG may hit business ties: Anand Sharma tells nations

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^^u just need to wait for few more days to witness the prediction's,every nation is going to play,nobody is going to pull out,and once the game is finished nobody in hell will even remember what happened before,and we will b moving to our next destination,and Kalmadi will b moving in search for another games for corruption

 

[Bang Galore]

Oh c'mon!

Was that hooper guy sleeping when all this was being f'kd up?

Heck, his income tax was paid by Indian taxpayer's money and he's residing in India for the past three years.

How can he even think about abolishing his responsibility?

I think you are seriously confused here. Hooper actually had a big row with Kalmadi & Co. over preparations nearly a year ago. Whatever responsibility lies with others, this was supposed to be India's games & we cannot shirk responsibility. The fault lies squarely with the Indian government(including the state government of Delhi & its civic authorities) & the Organising committee. Had they showed the same urgency that they are showing now a year ago when the warnings were issued, we would not be in this mess. C'mon, the apartments that are being used to house the athletes have already for the most part been sold to individuals at prices ranging from U.S.$0.5 million to 1.15 million USD. How can such apartments end up being called dirty & unlivable? It happens because they have not pressed the panic button a year ago & made sure it was completed on time. I can guarantee you that no one paying that kind of money would settle for lower standards of cleanliness. Properly cleaned up & completed sooner, these apartments would have been the recipients of much praise, now we just have to grin & face the music.

 

[TATA]

1. Threats are there, preparedness to mitigate that risk should be there too, vulnerabilities need to be patched, readiness should be tested and shown.
2. Finishing touches are not flooded apartments, animals roaming about freely, falling rooftops, crumbling bridges.

These are due to some of the extra ordinary circumstances:

1.) Like the rainfall this year in Delhi are higest in last 80 years.

This results in:

a. Floods

b. Dengue

c. Daley in finishing works etc.

2.) As for Dogs, we have very strong animal rights lobby govt. or police can't do anything in it. Even in games village they have catches 500 dogs and shifted them to a Animal Care Center and the same dogs will be return to same games village after the games because our law sates so.

3.) No roof top has fallen your info is 100% wrong.

Only 3 PoP tiles of false sealing have fallen due to a maintenance guy have accidentally walked over that false sealing (And we all know that false sealing is not made to take the load of persons)

4.) The bridge was under constriction and collapsed while in under construction because of a accident and that can happen any where.

 

[Spring Onion]

Jugadd......is our expertise.....unmatchabe.....invincible.....

@topic Big relief......

Jugaad is quality of theater actors

 

[Repentant]

I think you are seriously confused here. Hooper actually had a big row with Kalmadi & Co. over preparations nearly a year ago. Whatever responsibility lies with others, this was supposed to be India's games & we cannot shirk responsibility. The fault lies squarely with the Indian government(including the state government of Delhi & its civic authorities) & the Organising committee. Had they showed the same urgency that they are showing now a year ago when the warnings were issued, we would not be in this mess. C'mon, the apartments that are being used to house the athletes have already for the most part been sold to individuals at prices ranging from U.S.$0.5 million to 1.15 million USD. How can such apartments end up being called dirty & unlivable? It happens because they have not pressed the panic button a year ago. I can guarantee you that no one paying that kind of money would settle for lower standards of cleanliness. Properly cleaned up & completed sooner, these apartments would have been the recipients of much praise, now we just have to grin & face the music.

I never said hooper 'alone' is responsible.

I said Hooper is 'also' responsible as is Fennel. But of course their responsibility is not as much as that of us Indians'.

 

[Bang Galore]

Dubai's unique contribution to the Commonwealth Games

Little noticed in the furore over the state of facilities for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and in particular the Athletes’ Village is that the contractor who built the Village is the Dubai developer behind the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

You might think there were two odd things about this. One is that it has been little noticed. The other is that there is something of a contrast between the glitz of the Burj Khalifa, with its Dubaian (Dubish?) trappings of expensive souvenirs, Armani hotel and Armani-designed apartments up for sale, and Delhi’s “filthy” rooms and unworking toilets.

.......But there’s another connection, best revealed in the contrast between two press releases from Emaar, the developer concerned, within a week. In the first, Shravan Gupta, the local boss of the Indian subsidiary, described the village as “one of the finest Games Villages ever built, be it in design, quality or scale. The Village, as it stands today, is a shining example of blending sustainable building techniques with modern amenities.” He was particularly enamoured of its “superior finishes”.

Then, just six days later, after the row about the facilities hits the world’s TV screens, Emaar suddenly does a wonderful volte face. All the glory they were claiming on September 16 by yesterday was, strangely, little to do with them at all.

It only did the basic stuff, you see. “The Organising Committee is responsible for the furniture and fixtures to be provided in the apartments and the temporary overlays in the Village”, it said – that’s presumably the superior finishes, then.

The art of blatant PR bull was one of the credit bubble’s finest creations, taken to its apogee in Dubai, where for some years investors seemed quite happy to look at a patch of desert with a crane attached, glance at a brochure showing luxury villas surrounded by trees, parks, lakes and swimming pools, and decide the brochure was a better reflection of reality than their own eyes. In this they were expertly encouraged by the developers’ PR people, who, when things went wrong, seemed to disappear.

The opening of the Burj Khalifa itself was repeatedly delayed – even the New Delhi athletes village would look spanking if given another six months, I’d wager – and while we continued to receive emails gushing about how positively super everything was, attempts to get information on when residents could move in suddenly became very difficult indeed.

The reason the connection between the Burj and the Games has been little noticed, by the way, is also simple. You won’t find much mention in the local press. Gulf News, the main English-language paper in these parts, has bizarrely covered the whole Games row from Dubai, despite having pages of reportage from the sub-continent every day for its large Indian and Pakistani readership. Yet I have found no mention of Emaar.
Maybe they would think it “irresponsible”. The Gulf News business pages today did contain this sub-headline, over coverage of a speech about the strength of the Dubai financial system from the governor of the Dubai International Finance Centre, Ahmad Humaid al-Tayer: “Al Tayer calls on the media to report responsibly and objectively on events”..........

Dubai's unique contribution to the Commonwealth Games – Telegraph Blogs

 

[Spring Onion]

Dubai's unique contribution to the Commonwealth Games

Little noticed in the furore over the state of facilities for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and in particular the Athletes’ Village is that the contractor who built the Village is the Dubai developer behind the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.

You might think there were two odd things about this. One is that it has been little noticed. The other is that there is something of a contrast between the glitz of the Burj Khalifa, with its Dubaian (Dubish?) trappings of expensive souvenirs, Armani hotel and Armani-designed apartments up for sale, and Delhi’s “filthy” rooms and unworking toilets.

.......But there’s another connection, best revealed in the contrast between two press releases from Emaar, the developer concerned, within a week. In the first, Shravan Gupta, the local boss of the Indian subsidiary, described the village as “one of the finest Games Villages ever built, be it in design, quality or scale. The Village, as it stands today, is a shining example of blending sustainable building techniques with modern amenities.” He was particularly enamoured of its “superior finishes”.

Then, just six days later, after the row about the facilities hits the world’s TV screens, Emaar suddenly does a wonderful volte face. All the glory they were claiming on September 16 by yesterday was, strangely, little to do with them at all.

It only did the basic stuff, you see. “The Organising Committee is responsible for the furniture and fixtures to be provided in the apartments and the temporary overlays in the Village”, it said – that’s presumably the superior finishes, then.

The art of blatant PR bull was one of the credit bubble’s finest creations, taken to its apogee in Dubai, where for some years investors seemed quite happy to look at a patch of desert with a crane attached, glance at a brochure showing luxury villas surrounded by trees, parks, lakes and swimming pools, and decide the brochure was a better reflection of reality than their own eyes. In this they were expertly encouraged by the developers’ PR people, who, when things went wrong, seemed to disappear.

The opening of the Burj Khalifa itself was repeatedly delayed – even the New Delhi athletes village would look spanking if given another six months, I’d wager – and while we continued to receive emails gushing about how positively super everything was, attempts to get information on when residents could move in suddenly became very difficult indeed.

The reason the connection between the Burj and the Games has been little noticed, by the way, is also simple. You won’t find much mention in the local press. Gulf News, the main English-language paper in these parts, has bizarrely covered the whole Games row from Dubai, despite having pages of reportage from the sub-continent every day for its large Indian and Pakistani readership. Yet I have found no mention of Emaar.
Maybe they would think it “irresponsible”. The Gulf News business pages today did contain this sub-headline, over coverage of a speech about the strength of the Dubai financial system from the governor of the Dubai International Finance Centre, Ahmad Humaid al-Tayer: “Al Tayer calls on the media to report responsibly and objectively on events”..........

Dubai's unique contribution to the Commonwealth Games – Telegraph Blogs

so found another scapegoat for the failure earlier it was some UK company for material ?

 

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so found another scapegoat for the failure earlier it was some UK company for material ?

Madam jee bas ek sawal:

Kya post count badhne ke saath saath 'immunity to troll' bhi milti hai?

Please this is an honest question since I'm new here.

 

[anurag_singh]

Deleted.
Because Bhains ke aage bin bajane ka kuchh fayda nahi. lol.

 

[SpArK]

Snake in athlete's room at Games village, claims SA envoy - The Times of India

What a freaking mess we got into..

 

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@ Anurag: Please edit your post.

 

[Pk_Thunder]

Snake in athlete's room at Games village, claims SA envoy - The Times of India

What a freaking mess we got into..

Its becoming an horrible experience for the athletes and bringing bad name for India.. Seriously,the organizers should work hard to make their stay safe and sound so that they share their pleasant experience with their peers when return home...

 

[Spring Onion]

India was the holy cow because India was so far only a non-descript land of snake charmers for them.

Now as India is rising, they are finding it hard to digest and hence the new-found 'love' for us in their media!

hey somebody said something about Snakes


Snake in athlete's room at Games village, claims SA envoy

NEW DELHI: There seems to be no end to the problems confronting the organisers of the Commonwealth Games with the South African envoy claiming that a snake was found in an athlete's room in the village.

A snake was found in a room in the residential tower, earmarked for the South African athletes, who have not arrived yet, High Commissioner Harris Mbulelo Mejeke told reporters.

"We can't go and stay till things are fixed up. We have very grave concerns. If snakes are found we can't ask our teams to stay there. Yesterday we found a snake but I don't know whether it was an Indian snake. But it was there in one of our rooms," Mejeke said before entering the village.

"That was a threat to the lives of our athletes. Very disappointing. Basically, the basement was full of water and the staircase was also damp," he said.

On being asked if he brought the matter to the notice of the organisers, he said, "We had someone with us. They have promised us, everything will be all right. I will go and check whether the promise has been kept," he said.

However, the South African envoy said there team will not withdraw from the controversy-marred event.

"The teams are coming and we are still part of the Commonwealth Games. When everything will be done we will call our teams," Mjeke said.

The village has already been sharply criticised for the unhygienic conditions and now the sensational claim would bring more bad publicity to the event.

Snake in athlete's room at Games village, claims SA envoy - The Times of India

 

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Snake in athlete's room at Games village, claims SA envoy - The Times of India

What a freaking mess we got into..

What is so negative about it?

Damn media! How can anyone in this world keep insects/snakes from sneaking into a room and that too when it has rained incessantly since last 2-3 months?

What do they want us to do?

Bloody negative journalism!

 

[Repentant]

@ Jana: LoL Madam Jee perhaps they wants us to book a snake charmer for every room!