News Source: Uinta County News
| 3 months ago
India's supreme court has thrown out a petition that threatened to scupper Delhi hosting next year's Commonwealth Games. The athletes' village being built on the banks of the Yamuna, one of India's major rivers flowing through the capital city, was...
News Source: Hindu
| 3 months ago
The Supreme Court’s Thursday verdict, allowing construction of the Commonwealth Games Village on the Yamuna banks has come as a “disappointment” to activists fighting to save the river and its floodplains. “Waterman” Rajinder Singh, who led...
News Source: The Frontier Post
| 3 months ago
2010 Commonwealth Games organisers received a boost Thursday when India's Supreme Court lifted restrictions on the construction of the athletes village in New Delhi. A three-member bench overruled the earlier restrictions imposed by a lower ourt,...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 3 months ago
The court said the construction did not pose any environmental threat. A three-judge bench of chief justice KG Balakrishnan, justice P Sathasivam, and justice BS Chauhan set aside a Delhi High Court direction to appoint an expert committee to review...
News Source: Sify News
| 3 months ago
The Supreme Court Thursday ruled that the Commonwealth Games village, meant to accommodate over 8,000 athletes from 71 countries, is not being built on the Yamuna riverbed or floodplain...Balakrishnan gave the verdict, dismissing a Delhi High Court...
News Source: Sify News
| 3 months ago
Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit Thursday inspected various road development projects being carried out in the capital for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.