Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar is understood to have asked the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee to submit details about the delays in the completion of games projects, cost overruns and deals that have attracted adverse media attention, even as a report of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) about suspected irregularities hit headlines in India and London. Official sources told IANS that Chandrasekhar Saturday cancelled a scheduled visit to the office of the organising committee (OC) in the light of the CVC reports. However, an OC official, who did

The picturesque small town of Rhinebeck, about 150 km from here, is all abuzz for former first daughter Chelsea Clinton's marriage Saturday billed as the "wedding of the decade" and "wedding of the century" by a frenzied media. On the eve of the "top-secret" wedding of the daughter of former first couple Bill and Hillary Clinton, tiny Rhinebeck is undergoing a transformation from a sleepy little town to media Mecca. Chelsea Clinton, 30, and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky, 32, will wed on Saturday night at Astor Courts, a 50-acre estate along the Hudson River as a local daily Hudson Valley News

The Indian belief that the disclosures by WikiLeaks will finally persuade the Americans to read the riot act to Pakistan is misplaced. As US President Barack Obama has said, the expose has revealed nothing new. As such, all that the US is likely to say is Pakistan should do "more" to check terrorism. In any event, Washington is apparently more concerned about shooting the messenger for divulging state secrets than in calling Pakistan to account. Before the WikiLeaks hit the headlines, the London School of Economics had also noted the close links between the infamous Inter-

Canada-based Lisa Ray is in no hurry to act and is instead keen to spread cancer awareness and write a book. "I am engaging with the world, but with a different quality now," says the model-actress who is leading a healthy life after fighting a rare cancer of plasma cells. "My disease, multiple myeloma, is in remission. We don't take the attitude that it is ever gone completely, but we monitor regularly and now I'm leading a particularly healthy life," Lisa, 38, told IANS in an e-mail interview

Ace Indian shuttler and World no.2 Saina Nehwal will get the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sports award, while Indian forward Sunil Chettri, currently playing for American soccer club Kansas City Wizards, is among the 15 sportspersons selected for the Arjuna Award. The award's committee, headed by legendary athlete P.T. Usha, met here Friday to finalise the winners of this year's national sports awards. Hockey coach A.K. Bansal under whom India won the junior Asia Cup will get the Dronacharya