THE Commonwealth Games Federation signalled yesterday that Delhi was succeeding in fixing the problems that have brought the event to the brink of disaster, with fears receding about its cancellation.

The head of the Commonwealth Games rushed to New Delhi for emergency talks today as a ceiling collapsed in one of the venues.

Fifteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in a series of explosions in the western Indian city of Ahmadabad, government ministers said tonight.

An Afghan vice president escaped unhurt today when an assassin’s bomb exploded as his convoy drove by.

As many as one million people have been left homeless by the Indian earthquake, UN disaster management officials say.