The organizers are confident that everything will be in place by January 2012, even as team owners express doubts. ...
10:00:23 AM Nov 29, 2011
London: The Indian boxing camp at the London Boxing International Invitational tournament suffered a setback when their lone boxer in the fray Vikas Krishan (69kg) withdrew from the final bout of the welter weight division. The 2010 Asian games gold medallist who was experiencing discomfort in his left hand wrist after the semi-final bout, decided to forfeit the summit clash. He will have to settle with a silver medal performance...
06:05:58 PM Nov 28, 2011
Bangalore: Ace India cueist Pankaj Advani prevailed 4-0 over Japan's Atshutoshi Inoue in the first round-robin match of the IBSF World Snooker Championship here on Monday. The seven-time world champion gave ample proof of his talent as he dominated Inoue from the outset in the Group D tie, winning the initial frame 71-0. The champion cueist, however, did not stop there as he won the following frames 89-10, 63-4, 76-21...
05:57:05 PM Nov 28, 2011
Chennai: Vishnu Prasad was crowned Volkswagen Polo R Cup 2011 Champion after an action packed race finale at Irungattukottai Race Track, Sriperumbudur, Chennai. Guest driver Sunny Sidhu won the final race with a time of 19:48.996 minutes, while international woman driver Maiken Rasmussen finished in 2nd position, just 1.220 seconds behind the winner. Mihir Dharkar from Mumbai managed to finish in third place, 0.276 seconds after Maiken. Prasad finished fourth,...
03:09:34 PM Nov 28, 2011
New Delhi: An Olympic boycott will not be on the agenda when the Indian Olympic Association meets next week, despite continuing outrage over Dow Chemical's high-profile sponsorship of the London 2012 Games, the IOA's acting president told Reuters on Monday. Many victims and activists now hold Dow responsible for compensating victims of a gas leak disaster which killed thousands in 1984 and injured hundreds of thousands more. At the time...
12:45:27 PM Nov 28, 2011
The middle-order batsman says he is prepared for the upcoming tour to Australia. ...
09:35:06 AM Nov 28, 2011
London: World Championship bronze medallist Vikas Krishan stormed into the men's 69kg category final while five-time world champion woman boxer M C Mary Kom made a shock quarterfinal exit in the Olympic boxing test event here on Sunday. Vikas carried his good form from the World Championships as he came up with a 9-6 victory over Azerbaijan's Ismet Eynullayev in the semifinal bout of the London Boxing International Invitational event...
06:22:58 PM Nov 27, 2011
Shabnam, mother of Yuvraj Singh, and Virat Kohli give their respective views to CNN-IBN. ...
03:54:01 PM Nov 27, 2011
Chennai: Avdumber Hede from Goa set the fastest lap in a wet qualifying session on Saturday at the final race weekend of the JK-Volkswagen Polo Cup India at the MMSC Race Track, Irungattukottai in Chennai. Championship contenders Vishnu Prasad and Rahil Noorani will be starting from 2nd and 4th position respectively with just 5 points separating the two. Oshan Kothadiya from Pune will start third on the grid. Rahil Noorani...
12:56:21 PM Nov 27, 2011
New Delhi: India may pull out of the next year's London Olympics as its athletes have raised eyebrows over the Games' Organising Committees' controversial deal with the Dow Chemical. According to a report in the British daily the Independent, the Olympic Committee has one week to talk to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to resolve the issue as on December 5 athletes and sports bosses in India will meet to...
10:00:20 AM Nov 27, 2011
Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Virender Sehwag and VVS Laxman were among the cricketers who won the top honours at the CEAT Awards 2011. ...
10:20:30 PM Nov 26, 2011
Moscow: Viswanathan Anand finished tied sixth after signing peace with Boris Gelfand of Israel in the ninth and final round of the Tal Memorial Chess tournament on Saturday. This was a rare result for the world champion, who played out all draws in the strongest tournament of the year featuring a 10-player double round-robin tournament. Playing with black pieces against his next World Championship challenger Gelfand, Anand drew in 29...
10:06:48 PM Nov 26, 2011
Rajdeep Sardesai, Harsha Bhogle and Gaurav Kalra discuss how the Mumbaikar missed the landmark of 100 tons. ...
12:27:08 PM Nov 25, 2011
The two time world marathon record holder has come here as a brand ambassador for the Delhi half marathon. ...
11:40:05 AM Nov 25, 2011
Tirana, Albania: Grandmaster Koneru Humpy settled for a draw in the must-win eighth-round game as defending champion Yifan Hou became the women's world champion by triumphing 5.5-2.5 against the Indian here. Under tremendous pressure and admittedly out of form, Humpy could not use her white pieces well in the eighth game which was another Queen's gambit declined. The Indian had spoilt many good positions during the course of the match...
11:07:22 AM Nov 25, 2011