Ronjan Sodhi conferred Khel Ratna; Arjuna Award for Virat Kohli

President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday conferred Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the country's highest sporting honour, on the ace shooter Ronjon Sodhi. It was for the third consecutive year that the Khel Ratna Award went to a shooter. Cricketer Virat Kohli was another attraction at the nati...

Somdev, Bhupathi out of US Open

It was end of US Open campaign for Somdev Devvarman and Mahesh Bhupathi after they lost their respective hard-fought matches. Somdev, who had qualified for the singles main draw, battled hard before losing 6-7 , 4-6 5-7 to Italian 20th seed Andreas Seppi.Bhupathi, partnering Martina Hingis in the mi...

Indian players with their partners to play their US Open Doubles second round matches today<br/>

India&apos;s Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan, with their partners, will play their Doubles second round matches of the US Open Tennis tournament in New York today.In the Men&apos;s Doubles, the fourth seeded Indo-Czech pair of Paes and Radek Stepanek will take on th...

President Pranab Mukherjee will confer Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award on ace shooter Ronjon Sodhi today. He will also honour the recipients of Dronacharya Awards, Arjuna Awards, Dhyan Chand Awards and Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar at a specially organised function at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Del...

India storms into final of Men's Asia Cup Hockey, to meet Korea for title tomorrow

India has stormed into the finals of the 9th Men&apos;s Asia Cup Hockey tournament. In the second semi-final at Ipoh on Friday, they beat hosts Malaysia, 2-0.In the first semi-final, South Korea defeated Pakistan, 2-1. With the defeat, Pakistan failed to qualify for the Hockey World Cup to be he...

India's Somdev Devvarman crashes out of US Open Tennis

India&apos;s Somdev Devvarman has crashed out of the US Open Tennis tournament, the fourth and final Grand Slam of the season, at New York.In the Men&apos;s Doubles, Rohan Bopanna and his French teammate Edouard Roger-Vasselin advanced to the second round.However, In the Mixed Doubles, Sania...

Asia Cup Hockey: India beat Malaysia in SFs, to take on S Korea in final

India have entered the final of the 9th Asia Cup hockey tournament. In the second semi-final at Ipoh today, they beat hosts Malaysia by a convincing margin of Two Nil. At half-time, India led one-nil through Raghunath&apos;s goal. Mandeep made it Two-Nil in the 60th minuite. India will now take ...

India vs Malaysia 2nd semi-finals match in progress in Asia Cup Hockey

India take on host Malaysia in the semi-finals of the Asia Cup Hockey tournament at Ipoh today. India cruised through the league stage by uprooting defending champion Korea, Oman and Bangladesh. Unlike their opponents, the Indians will be high on confidence after securing their semi-final berth with...

Sania Mirza, Leander Peas & Divij Sharan enter 2nd round of doubles in U.S. Open

Indian stars Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Divij Sharan entered the second round in their respective doubles events at the US Open tennis championships. In New York yesterday, Sania and her Chinese partner Zheng Jie advanced in the Women&apos;s Doubles defeating German Annika Beck and Puerto Ric...

SC notices to BCCI, N Srinivasan, CSK & RR team in IPL spot fixing scam

Supreme Court today issued notices to the BCCI, N Srinivasan, his IPL team Chennai Super Kings, and Rajasthan Royals on a plea challenging Bombay High court order refusing to appoint a fresh committee to probe IPL spot fixing scam.A bench headed by Justice A K Patnaik agreed to hear the appeal filed...