What does this sort of news say about India?

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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales (2nd-R) and the Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall are joined by the Deputy Military Secretary to the President, Vice Captain Vidhate (R) as they arrive to a Presidential Guard while visiting Rastrapati Bhavan (Presidential Palace) before joining the President for tea on October 2, 2010 in New Delhi, India. The Prince is in town to attend the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.​

 

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A person looks out from between billboards for the Commonwealth Games in an impoverished neighborhood of New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010.​

 

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People are seen outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue of the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010. The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to begin Sunday.​

 

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A garbage collector walks past boards advertising the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010​

 

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Tarren Otte of Australia rehearses her routine during a training session at the Dr. S.P. Mukherjee Aquatics Complex ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games​

 

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Ah neh give worse than dog food, more like concentration camp food

CHILD performers collapsed from starvation and heat exhaustion after being relentlessly drilled for the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

Hundreds were said to be rehearsing in scorching 35°C (95°F) midday heat in Delhi without food or water.

Some 7,000 artistes, many of them kids, have been practising late into the night for tomorrow's event.

It will be watched by 60,000 spectators, including Prince Charles and Camilla.

But strict rules at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium ban anyone bringing in food or drink - so performers must rely on officials.

One participant said: "When water bottles were finally distributed the scene looked like what you see on the news when food is given out at refugee camps."

More than 600 performers are staying at a barracks where those who get fed receive two slices of bread, a banana and a drink.

A senior dancer said: "How they expect us to keep going on that, I have no idea."

One official admitted there was a "problem with distribution", adding: "It's been sorted."

Another organiser of the Games - which have been hit by scandals surrounding facilities, athletes' safety and dangerous animals - said children fainted, but claimed the sun was to blame.

Save The Children said the reports raised questions "about protecting children from neglect".

A spokesman for Charles and Camilla said they were "unaware" of what happened at rehearsals.

ENGLISH athletes will have Jerusalem played in the stadium if they win gold after it won 52 per cent of votes in a poll.

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Ah neh, always give excuse, Now they blame the sun instead of themselves. When confronted with their mistakes, they sure said it is now sorted. Ah neh are disgrace to human kind!

 

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A general view of the Talkatora Boxing Stadium ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, which open this evening, on October 3, 2010 in Delhi, India.

A general view of the Talkatora Boxing Stadium.​

 

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Wow slum look so much better behind huge billboards

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Wow slum look so much better behind huge billboards, the moral of the story is, we should cover up the entire indian continent with billboards. And also cover all ah neh in the world with fabric, cause they are so ugly.

 

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A soldier patrols at the Talkatora Boxing Stadium ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, which open this evening, on October 3, 2010 in Delhi, India.​

 

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The Talkatora Boxing Stadium in preparation ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, which open this evening, on October 3, 2010 in Delhi, India.​

 

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Jayde Taylor of Australia trains under the sprinkler system at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, which open this evening, on October 3, 2010 in Delhi, India.​

 

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Indian paramilitary personnel stand guard at The Commonwealth Games Village in New Delhi on October 3, 2010. India's day of destiny has finally arrived with the Commonwealth Games due to begin in a fortress-like New Delhi after a shambolic run-up that threatended to derail the event.​

 

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The Talkatora Boxing Stadium.

A worker clears boxing ring at Talkatora Indoor Stadium ahead of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games, which open this evening, on October 3, 2010 in Delhi, India​

 

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kena siao, the rumors of their opening ceremony

what ? this is their opening? one day before beijing 2008, i was so impress with beijing secret video. back to 2010 what is this from ah neh.

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why ozland athletes so like that , ah? sammyboy your country men disgrace.

Half of Australian team won't march
Steve Larkin
October 3, 2010 - 6:44PM

Australian athletes deny security concerns prompted about half their team to opt out of the Delhi Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.

Four other nations considered boycotting the opening extravaganza on Sunday night, but committed to attend when security and logistics concerns were met.

Almost 100,000 police and paramilitary locked down New Delhi on Sunday amid fears the opening ceremony might be a target for extremists.
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Delhi's government enacted a law which decreed all shops and markets close on Sunday, giving the normally bustling Indian capital an eerily quiet character.

Some 271 Australian athletes and officials were to attend the three-hour opening ceremony amid a massive security presence including elite anti-terrorist commandos, police snipers in helicopters and armed officers on rooftops.

Anti-sabotage teams, sniffer dogs and bomb disposal units were also deployed around the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

But Australian chef de mission Steve Moneghetti said none of Australia's 546-strong team of athletes and officials snubbed the lavish ceremony because of security worries.

All athletes who decided not to attend did so because of the possible adverse impact on their performance in competitions starting from Monday, Moneghetti said.

New Zealand, Scotland, Canada and the Isle of Man sought assurances before committing to march in the ceremony.

"There were teams who were choosing not to march but that was because they wanted some of their athletes to have the option of leaving the ceremony once they marched, it had nothing to do with security at all," Moneghetti said on Sunday.

"That was changed and now ... if you want to march and leave, you can."

Australia's team had been issued a clean bill of health following a report of the first case of dengue fever inside the athletes village, said to be an Indian lawn bowls official, although his team later denied it.

Moneghetti said there was a "buzz around the village" - and not from mosquitoes which can carry the potentially fatal fever.

"(It) is a spectacular night and such a significant moment in Indian sport, it's incredible how significant today is and we are getting caught up in that," Moneghetti said.

"We are in amongst it, we are the luckiest people to be able to share in that."

Moneghetti hoped the ceremony would finally push the controversial, chaotic preparations for the Games into the background.

"There is a change in people's perceptions now ... stop worrying about what is not going to happen and now be glad it's really come together in a terrific way," Moneghetti said.

About 80,000 tickets have been sold for the opening ceremony.

"It's a magnificent stadium, 80,000 plus people in that stadium - gee, that is going to be the place that you want to be," Moneghetti said.

 

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ah neh organisation skill , big fat zero, who dare give them olympic

Canada protests conditions ahead of Commonwealth opening ceremonies

NEW DELHI—Just when Canada’s athletes finally arrived in the village for these beleaguered Commonwealth Games, there’s some concern about whether they’ll show up to march in Sunday’s opening ceremonies.

Canada was among several countries to strongly protest at a morning chef de missions’ meeting the adverse conditions athletes were facing for the opening ceremonies — standing in the heat for hours without any cover, a lack of water and a dearth of bathroom facilities.

While Canadian officials stopped short of using the word boycott, they made it clear to the organizing committee and the Commonwealth Games Federation where they stood on the issue

“We would do nothing which would ultimately imperil the well-being of our athletes,” said Dr. Andrew Pipe, president of Commonwealth Games Canada.

Pipe said the president of the Commonwealth Games Federation, Mike Fennell, and the Games organizing committee have given them assurances the situation will be rectified. He said their plan is to be among the 71 nations marching.

“But we will constantly monitor the situation in exactly the same way that we constantly monitored the situation prior to arrival here in Delhi,” added Pipe.

One gets the sense the ongoing problems here will be just that — ongoing — throughout the Games. The village was deemed “uninhabitable” just over a week ago, a bridge near the main stadium collapsed, snakes have been found at the village and the tennis venue, and the use of langur monkeys as security guards to keep the athletes’ village free of smaller nuisance monkeys has drawn snickers worldwide.

About 150 Canadian athletes are expected to march in the opening ceremonies at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.

Scott Stevenson, director of sport for Commonwealth Games Canada, said they have been told that athletes will be able to leave the stadium after they march as opposed to having to stay around for the finish. That would allow them to get more rest.

It’s clear there’s a definite willingness on the part of cheerful and proud Games volunteers to make things work for the Oct. 3-14 event, but a lack of planning by the organizing committee means that everyone’s constantly playing catch-up.

“In order to host a major Games, you’ve got to do ordinary things extraordinarily well,” said Pipe. “There has to be a certain rigour applied to the timing, the completion, the organization, the integration of a whole array of areas of responsibility in order for a Games to be successful.

“I think from a Games organization, lessons will be that we need to identify ways in which we can ensure performance according to predictable timelines and completion of fundamental responsibilities.”

 

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this is rare for ah neh to admit glitches, before it happen

Glitches in, kisses out at Games
- Home ministry warns of long lines and checking problems


New Delhi, Oct. 2: Please bear with the glitches, if any.

If this has been the unofficial theme of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, the home ministry gave it another outing today as it came up with a raft of guidelines for spectators a day ahead of the opening ceremony.

You may have to wait in long queues, the ministry warned visitors to the various Games events, since all the electronic card-readers may not work. Security personnel may therefore need to check the tickets and accreditation cards manually.

“In case of manual check, wait in the queue may get longer. You are advised to kindly put up with the inconvenience patiently,” say the guidelines.

Sources said the reason the e-readers at the venue entrances may not be able to read the tickets or accreditation cards is that the data banks had not been transferred into the machines.

The accreditation cards are part of the elaborate security arrangements, meant to ensure that the police have the identities of all the spectators. The fans have had to pay for their tickets through their banks, and each ticket-holder has been issued an accreditation card that carries personal details.

But the Games organising committee has been late in issuing accreditation cards and passes to several ministry officials and police officers, prompting the police to issue temporary accreditation cards to them yesterday.

Union home secretary G.K. Pillai had to move around with such a temporary card at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium where he attended a rehearsal yesterday.

A senior home ministry official sounded exasperated as he complained that though he had received the cards for himself and his family, he was still waiting for the passes to the opening ceremony that would have their seat numbers.

“If I am an invitee, how can I and my family members stand at the venue for two hours to watch the proceedings?” a senior official asked.

If the organising committee has been a little tardy in issuing cards and passes, it has been generous in issuing advice. The dos and don’ts it has released for spectators ask them to “be prepared and dress appropriately according to the weather forecast”, while banning them from bringing umbrellas into the stadiums.

“Do not question, argue or misbehave with any police officer on duty. Do not show any dissent,” the committee says. “Follow directions in respect of venue code of conduct and house rules.”

The last, sources explained, is euphemism for “don’t kiss in public”.

 

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Prince Charles, Prince of Wales converses with athletes from the Australian Girls Hockey team during a visit to the Games Village on the second day of their four day visit to India on October 3, 2010 in New Delhi, India. Prince Charles will be opening the Commonwealth Games on behalf of The Queen today, after which Their Royal Highnesses will undertake a series of engagements throughout India.​

 

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Performers walk towards giant puppets before the start of the opening ceremony for the 19th Commonwealth Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010.​