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Labour migration: Sharp decline in the number of women workers in the realty …Economic TimesPercentage of women workers at construction sites during Commonwealth Games averaged 2%. At its peak, the Delhi Metro project employed 30000 construction workers. Women were not even 5% of them. "Earlier many workers came to cities with their families.and more » more...
By: Laura Frangipane American football season is just beginning, but time is running out for final preparations for the 19th Commonwealth Games, which will be held in Delhi, India, […] more...
Indian children working at one of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games construction sites. What is the difference between a volunteer of the New Delhi Commonwealth Games & a worker […] more...
The civic bodies are attributing the rapid increase in dengue cases this season to prolonged monsoon and stagnation of water at Commonwealth Games construction sites. more...
By Amlan Chakraborty for Reuters India has received support from an unlikely source as it races to finish preparations for the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi which start are […] more...
Shocking pictures of Child Labour at Construction Sites When I read reports of New Delhi not being ready for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, I didn’t really bat an eyelid. […] more...
Since the Commonwealth Games are scheduled to commence in 1 week, we thought it may be a City that had undergone a transformation and be ready to “show […] more...
Even as Delhi is racing against time to save its face amid a slew of scandals, here comes a nightmare to disgrace the already downtrodden image of the Commonwealth Games--child labour. more...
In some of the most disgusting stories about the Delhi Games, one is about a two year old being run over by a truck--bringing the total number of […] more...
Olympic cycling champion Geraint Thomas and three other riders opted out of the Commonwealth Games on Thursday, hours after Wales had given athletes the all-clear to fly to New Delhi. more...
Civic bodies are blaming incessant rains and stagnation of water at Commonwealth Games construction sites for the rapid increase in dengue cases this season. more...
Today:abhinav.sagar posted a photo: A labourer working at commonwealth games 2010 construction site in Delhi, India. Photo courtesy: raviwar.com/news/379_corruption-wins-commonwealth-games-s...Raviwar.com pic - A labourer working at Commonwealth Games construction sitedraken413o […] more...
New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) Amid concerns over the dengueoutbreak in the capital ahead of Commonwealth Games, civicauthorities have sought the help of army engineering personnelto prevent mosquito breeding near the athletes' village here. more...
New Delhi, Sep 2 (ANI): With over 1,000 suspected dengue cases being reported in New Delhi, the outbreak of the disease has added to the woes of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, which is already struggling against the backdrop of constructional delays and missed deadlines. more...
When I had just graduated from college in 2007, and preparation for the games had begun in (almost) full gusto, like every other Delhite, I was a patriotic […] more...
With the Commonwealth Games approaching and the fear of a dengue epidemic looming large, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to get its act together. On Wednesday, MCD cancelled all sanctioned leave of its staff, announcing that it would not give leave to any of its employees till the monsoon season is over and claimed that employees of the public health department would have to work on weekends too. more...
With the Commonwealth Games approaching and the fear of a dengue epidemic looming large, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to get its act together. On Wednesday, MCD cancelled all sanctioned leave of its staff, announcing that it would not give leave to any of its employees till the monsoon season is over and claimed that employees of the public health department would have to work on weekends too. more...
Critics of the Commonwealth Games have yet another reason to pan the event which will ensure the next couple of months are just not the right time to get married in Delhi. more...
Jayanti is traumatized by the thought of the speeding truck that crushed to death her two-year-old daughter, Varsha, on Monday night inside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium complex. The world has collapsed for her and her husband, Hari, but it’s work as usual at the complex. The fear of the contractors enforcing a strict deadline was palpable on Wednesday. Hundreds of laborers worked at a frantic pace while security guards maintained a hawkish vigil at the many gates. more...
As controversy rages over scamsin Commonwealth Games, a group of NGOs today raised the issueof "large-scale human rights violation" due to the event. more...
Jayanti is traumatised by the thought of the speeding truck that crushed to death her two-year-old daughter, Varsha, on Monday night inside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium complex. The world has collapsed for her and her husband, Hari, but it’s work as usual at the complex. The fear of the contractors enforcing a strict deadline was palpable on Wednesday. Hundreds of labourers worked at a frantic pace while security guards maintained a hawkish vigil at the many gates. more...
New Delhi, Aug 11 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Wednesday visited various construction sites of Commonwealth Games to supervise its progress. more...
The Commonwealth Games might be hanging over their heads, but even that has not stopped the civic agencies from again pushing the deadline to remove tonnes of construction and demolition waste strewn on the Capital’s streets. As the deadline to remove the malba is set to expire on August more...
Senior officials in the Delhi government today revealed that 38 labourers working at different Commonwealth Games related projects have died during the construction process, while two were seriously injured. more...
It's now down to the last 60 days. The 'Games train' has left the station. We are terrified of failing before the glare of the world's cameras. Meantime, Delhi is going through what has been labelled as the 'winner's curse'. more...
From the outside, Karni Singh Shooting Range one of the venues of Commonwealth Games looks like a fortress complete with very high stone walls, recently extended with more stones, and glistening barbed wire. Inside, it’s a chaotic construction site with mounds of earth and paving stones dotting the area. The armed CISF men though give away the fact that this is not just any construction site but the venue for a world class event that is due to start in less than 70 days. more...
There have been 42 deaths at the Commonwealth Games construction sites since work began a few years ago while 16 more have been reported from the places where DMRC is hard at work to finish Metro projects before October. This information was revealed by the Union labor ministry in reply to a question raised in the Rajya Sabha. Though it was not clear whether all such deaths were due to accidents, Delhi Police confirmed almost all these deaths were ‘‘unnatural.’’ more...