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India and Commonwealth Games.. will india show its power??

Do you think common wealthgames would make image of India as an upcomming power?

  • Yes

    Votes: 83 34.7%
  • No

    Votes: 53 22.2%
  • Can't say

    Votes: 17 7.1%
  • India already have an image of upcoming power

    Votes: 86 36.0%

  • Total voters
    239
  • Poll closed .
I guess the corrupt officials must be high-five-ing each other going:
"LOL we dodged the bullet once again, yeahhhh !!!!"
 
From reading those emphasis text and the beautitul Propaganda photo of the CWG from the beginning of this thread post by our beloved indian fans and then things get sour and going off track and finally turning into a tragedy

Finally turning into a tragedy, eh? Did you miss the part about things being rectified, and getting perfect towards the last couple of days? Selective vision, I must say.
 
Hey we got Monkey police now....


OMG.. everything so weird nowadays..:hang2::hang2:


 
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Commonwealth Games 2010: Delhi prays for another miracle



Gurgaon has been transformed from a dusty village to a shiny mall town



The run-up to the Commonwealth Games may not have been Delhi's finest hour, but tourists to the city will be astonished at the pace of change, says Stephen McClarence.
Devender Khanna is telling me about the impact of the Commonwealth Games on Delhi when he breaks off. "Excuse me, I will just do my prayer," he says. "You want some tea? I'll give you Indian tea that you would not get for £100."


He turns to the shelf at the back of his stationery store in Connaught Place, Delhi's great coliseum of commerce, picks up a handful of marigolds and scatters them on a small shrine next to a display of scissors.
It's like a little weather house, with models of Hindu gods gazing beyond racks of staplers and coloured pencils to the customers at the shop's long counters.
"I am asking for blessings that my day should pass cordially and that I should not harm anybody," Devender explains as the £100 tea arrives and he offers me a Bourbon cream biscuit.
Plenty of other people in Delhi have been praying over the past few weeks, as preparations for the Commonwealth Games – due to open on Sunday – have lurched from crisis to crisis. A heavy monsoon has delayed the completion of some of the stadiums and, amid allegations of corruption, there have been floods, an outbreak of dengue fever, and concerns over safety and security. Tension increased when a shooting at the city's Jama Masjid mosque resulted in injuries to two Taiwanese film-makers, prompting Kumari Selja, the minister for tourism, to appeal to tourists not to panic. Delhi newspapers now write about "The Common Woe Games".
It was never meant to be like this. India initially saw the Games as a chance to parade its ever-growing political and economic clout. They would do for its image what the World Cup did for South Africa's.
Week by week, however, a fiesta has become a fiasco and commentators have questioned whether the billions of rupees spent on the Games might have been better spent helping the 830 million Indians who live on less than 30p a day.
Nor has the international tourist interest in the Games been anything like expected. "Honestly speaking, I haven't met a single foreign tourist who has shown interest in the Games," one Delhi travel agent told me. His words were echoed by Dr Shailesh Tripathi, president of the government-approved Tourist Guide Association.
"Our expectations were very high," he said. "But it's a very big flop-show. Our expectation was 10 times more tourists. Maybe after the Games they will come. Sometimes in India, a miracle happens."
Back in his stationery store, Devender is confident about that miracle. Races against time hold no fears for Indians. "We can't call ourselves lethargic," he says. "But we basically do things at the last moment."
True enough. Outside the store, along Connaught Place's concentric colonnades, shoppers dodge piles of sand and rubble as renovation work steadily continues. Squatting labourers chip away at pavements and pillars with lumps of rock – an almost Stone Age scene at odds with the Rolex and Louis Philippe outlets around it.
But the renovation is working. Connaught Place has been freshly painted and, after visiting Delhi regularly for the past 15 years, I've never seen the colonnades looking so spruce, so Polo-mint white. New polished-granite piazzas have been created. Somehow the atmosphere of hassle that can deter visitors has been diluted.
It's just one instance of the positive legacy the Games will bequeath to tourists. Others are everywhere. Delhi railway station has a smart new frontage and a sleek facia has been grafted onto the tatty row of small shops directly opposite. Paharganj, haunt of backpackers, and home of the Durga Anodizers shop and Dwinkle Opticals, looks brighter than in recent years. And the arrivals area of the new £2 billion international airport, opened in July, has astonished visitors.
"I'd say it's the cleanest, most open, airy air terminal I've ever seen anywhere," said Dr Brian Tweedale, who was supervising a party of journalism students from Sheffield Hallam University, here to cover the Games. "To arrive into it gives you the idea that you're in the 21st century."
The airport, India's biggest public building, will soon be connected directly with central Delhi by the new, ever-expanding Metro system, which I sampled after a whistle-stop tour of recent improvements. I took a car and driver from the Ambassador Hotel, a welcoming colonial building recently rebranded as "Vivanta by Taj – Ambassador, New Delhi". It is handily placed for Lodi Gardens, Delhi's most pleasant park, and Khan Market, haunt of expats and rich Indians, with shops that look ever plusher with their designer sunglasses and nail-extension services.
We cruised along the elegant tree-lined avenues of South Delhi, built by George V as an antidote to the medieval mayhem of Old Delhi. "Raj times," mused my driver, Naresh Kumar. "Much greenery, wide roads, lovely bungalows…" At the tail end of the monsoon ("English weather", Indians call it), the greenery looked even more luxuriant than usual, and, on a more practical level, many of the ankle-threatening pavements had been repaired. Musicians in Ruritanian uniform dozed on a roundabout, heads resting on trumpets and drums, before setting off to blast their raucous way through someone's wedding.
We drove freely, but, for the next fortnight only, special traffic lanes will be reserved for Commonwealth Games vehicles. Even so, the roads will be less busy; schools, colleges and many offices are having a holiday and many residents are reported to be fleeing the city until it's all over. Hawkers are being controversially cleared for those two weeks, with slums bulldozed or hidden by hoardings.
We drove up the main highway to the Red Fort, past trundling bullock carts and a van advertising Panicker's Travel (India) Ltd. The familiar car park outside the fort has been attractively returned to the landscaped lawns of 20 years ago. Some of this may be airbrushing, but at least the Games have been the catalyst for discreet and much-needed urban regeneration.
Naresh dropped me off at Connaught Place, hub of the Metro, the city's biggest and arguably most successful structural project since New Delhi was built last century. It will surprise anyone who hasn't been here for a decade. Its 120-mile network criss-crosses the city, sometimes underground, sometimes over, always clean, swishly smooth, fast and efficient, its carriages calm, no matter how crowded.
It's a middle-class way to travel and there's no more middle-class destination than Gurgaon, down at the end of the Yellow Line. Gurgaon has grown from a dusty village to a metropolis of high-rise apartments and shopping malls where Delhi-ites worship at the shrine of consumerism. The Ambience Mall, a young graduate proudly tells me, is one kilometre long.
On the Metro, the carriages include laptop-charging sockets and strict instructions to passengers. "Prohibited," says a sign at the entrance, "manure of any kind; any decayed animal or vegetable matter; human skeletons, ashes and parts of human body".
I was frisked by guards before buying a ticket and my bag was X-rayed. The journey was punctuated by, "Please mind the gap" and "Please stand clear of the doors" announcements, and the train emerged from a tunnel onto a flyover with a fine view of the celebrated Qutb Minar minaret thrusting over the treetops. Gurgaon loomed in the distance, but I had to get back to the airport for my flight home.
The new international terminal, approached on a sweeping flyover, has a wonderful sense of space and style. The old days of sitting in a dingy departure lounge under that uniquely Indian sort of sallow lighting have gone. There's a food court, a branch of W H Smith, an Early Learning Centre and a quiet, relaxed air rarely found in Indian public places. A gigantic Buddha's head dominates the main departures hall (which is carpeted) and a statue of Gandhi sits cross-legged near a Versace shop. Add irony to taste.
It's a glimpse of the new India the Commonwealth Games were planned to promote. And if there are more hiccups, Devender Khanna, in his stationery store, could perhaps be drafted in.
After my £100 tea, he tells me about his family and a single sentence rings out: "One of my daughters studied Disaster Management."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/d...mes-2010-Delhi-prays-for-another-miracle.html
 
Finally turning into a tragedy, eh? Did you miss the part about things being rectified, and getting perfect towards the last couple of days? Selective vision, I must say.

To our standard it is surely a tragedy. Maybe to your country this kind of catastrophe is a daily common thing then I will be speechless.
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hey friends there are only a few hours left to start grand opening ceremony of CWG.....

we invite all the PDF members to watch live the opening ceremony:cheers::cheers:
 
hey friends there are only a few hours left to start grand opening ceremony of CWG.....

we invite all the PDF members to watch live the opening ceremony:cheers::cheers:

Any online link???? Please
 
CWG 2010: Delhi all set for grand opening ceremony​

Thousands of armed security personnel were on their toes today securing the capital for the Commonwealth Games as helicopters patrolled the skies and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles scanned the ground. A virtual security fortress ahead of the opening of the sporting event, Delhi was full of snipers,
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commandos on 'Light Armoured Troops Carrier' (LATC) and specially trained men from paramilitary personnel along with Delhi Police personnel.

Round the clock, personnel at the sophisticated C4i control room at the Police Headquarters here rummaged through live feeds from over 3,000 CCTVs installed across the city ensuring that nothing escaped their eyes.

A "multi-layered, multi-dimensional" security blanket, as City Police Commissioner Y S Dadwal put it, was thrown around the city with police vans surveying the nook and corner of the capital.

The security plan prepared for the mega event, which will see participation of 8,500 athletes from 71 countries competing in 17 events, also envisages expert groups to tackle chemical, biological, radio-active or nuclear attacks.

Armed personnel have also been deployed across 41 Games related infrastructure, including 12 competition venues, while heliborne-snipers of the Air Force provided air cover to thwart any terror attack like the 9/11 strikes in the US.

"This is a security arrangement which has been laid down after considerable thought, re-thought, examination and re-examination looking for loopholes. It is a multi-layered, multi-dimensional arrangement," Dadwal said.

"We have a higher security matrix for the Games compared to other events held in the city," he said noting that there were no specific inputs about any terrorist attack on the Games but the police were keeping a strict vigil.

Delhi Police's 28,387 personnel have been deployed at Games venues along with 195 companies (around 20,000 men) of paramilitary personnel while another 15,000 guarded the nearby localities of the venues.

Police has already announced that security restrictions is applied to each and every visitor and no one can expect any relaxation or exception citing the example of Union Home Minister P Chidambaram undergoing security checks.

A four-layered security cordon has been drawn for various venues spread across the city. Only those with accreditation cards and tickets will be allowed inside stadias.

:cheers::victory:

India is all set to show its power.... it will prove the members of this forum who polled on this thread:cheers:
 
Prove the CWG detractors wrong: Zuma


DURBAN: "Prove them wrong as we did!" is what South African President told a visiting Indian delegation, commenting on the detractors' views who believed it was a wrong decision to give the Commonwealth Games to India.

Zuma was reacting to the concerns expressed by many countries over India's level of preparedness for the Commonwealth Games starting in New Delhi on Sunday.

"Like India, we faced the naysayers who doubted our ability to host a successful tournament," he said at a banquet last night to mark the end of the first regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas in Africa.

"Earlier this year, we hosted the first and I might add, very successfully hosted the first FIFA on African soil. If ever there was proof of our country's ability to deliver, then that was it," Zuma said to a loud applause from the South African and Indian guests that included Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi and Minister of State for Human Resources Development D Purandeshwari.

"I take this opportunity to wish well on the hosting of the CWG," the President added.

Before the World Cup, there had been many negative reports, especially in Western media, about South Africa's readiness for the biggest sporting spectacle in the world.

In the end, the two-month spectacle not only went off without a hitch, but also united the people of the country in an unprecedented way.

:cheers:

thankyou south african president
 
Any online link???? Please


CWG Opening Ceremony Schedule from 7PM, NO Live on Internet, NO Watch Online

Finally the D-day has come, which was awaited by most of the Indians as well as the foreign nationals, as today’s evening is going to witness one of the biggest sporting event hosted by India and only second biggest event in Asia. The host city is all set to officially start the Commonwealth games amidst tight security. Unfortunately, there has been no report on whether the CWG Opening Ceremony will be shown live on internet or the netizens will be able to watch it online.

On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Mega event which will hit the main venue Jawaharlal Nehru stadium by 1900 hrs in the evening, the entire city has been shut down as it would lead to excessive crowding and forces would have to be diverted and government does not want to take any chances against the terrorist attack :devil: :devil: :hitwall: :angry:

CWG Opening Ceremony Schedule from 7PM, NO Live on Internet, NO Watch Online
 
CWG Opening Ceremony Schedule from 7PM, NO Live on Internet, NO Watch Online

Finally the D-day has come, which was awaited by most of the Indians as well as the foreign nationals, as today’s evening is going to witness one of the biggest sporting event hosted by India and only second biggest event in Asia. The host city is all set to officially start the Commonwealth games amidst tight security. Unfortunately, there has been no report on whether the CWG Opening Ceremony will be shown live on internet or the netizens will be able to watch it online.

On the eve of the opening ceremony of the Mega event which will hit the main venue Jawaharlal Nehru stadium by 1900 hrs in the evening, the entire city has been shut down as it would lead to excessive crowding and forces would have to be diverted and government does not want to take any chances against the terrorist attack :devil: :devil: :hitwall: :angry:

CWG Opening Ceremony Schedule from 7PM, NO Live on Internet, NO Watch Online



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