In the Hockey India Senior Men's Championship at Pune, the Army team decisively beat Goa 28-0 in their first match. In the same Pool Indian Sports Authority beat Bihar 9-0. In Pool- F, Namdhari XI defeated SSB 8-2 to register their third straight win in the Championship. In Pool-B, Chhattis...

Slovak Junior Open Table Tennis: Indian Girl's team wins Gold medal, Boy's team win silver

Indian Girl's team won the Gold medal while the Boy's team the silver medal in the Slovak Junior Open Table Tennis tournament. In the title clash, the Indian Girls, led by Sutirtha Mukherjee beat Serbia-A, 3-2. The other members of the team were Monika Batra and Reath Tennison. In ...

Paes, Melzer crash out of Men's Doubles of French Open

India's Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Jurgen Melzer crashed out of the Men's Doubles of the French Open Tennis tournament today. In Paris the ninth seeded Indo-Austrian pair was beaten by Argentine Horacio Zeballos and his team-mate from Uruguay, Pablo Cuevas with a 5-7, 6-...

Rajeev Shukla resigns as IPL Chairman

Rajeev Shukla has resigned as Indian Premier League Chairman. He said, he took the decision to quit in view of the recentcontroversies. Shukla said, he also took into account Sanjay Jagdale and Ajay Shirke's resignation before taking the decision.

Rahul bags three golds in Asian Youth Weightlifting

Ragala Venkat Rahul swept all the three gold in the boys 77 kilogram category as India continued to shine at the 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships on the fourth day in Doha yesterday.Rahul lifted 132 kilogram in snatch and 157 kilogram in clean and jerk for a total lift of 289 kilogram en...

Shocked Tendulkar wants 'sincere' steps to root fixing out

Breaking his silence, Sachin Tendulkar has expressed concern over, what he called, shocking and disappointing developments that have rocked Indian cricket and asked the authorities to take sincere steps to get to the root of the issue.The champion batsman, who retired from IPL after his side Mumbai ...

FIFA introduces new measures to check racism

FIFA has introduced new measures to check racism. Under the new measures voted in by FIFA, teams could be relegated or expelled from competitions for serious incidents of racism. First or minor offences will result in either a warning, fine or order for games to be played behind closed doors. Habitu...

Premlata Agrawal, first Indian woman mountaineer to scale 7 continental peaks

Ace woman mountaineer Premlata Agrawal has become the first Indian woman mountaineer to scale the seven continental peaks after climbing Alaska's McKinley Peak. With this, she became the first Indian woman mountaineer to step on the highest peak of North America. She was felicitated for thi...

The Indian team, consisting of Manan Chandra, Brijesh Damani and Alok Kumar, clinched the inaugural Asian Team Snooker Championships after blanking Iran 3-0 in the title clash in Doha, Qatar.The Indian cueists were in red-hot form right from the start and topped their group with three wins from as m...

Ragala Venkat Rahul swept all the three gold in the boys 77 kilogram category as India continued to shine at the 15th Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships on the fourth day in Doha today. Rahul lifted 132 kilogram in snatch and 157 kilogram in clean and jerk for a total lift of 289 kilogram en ro...