Azlan Shah Hockey: Indian team beats Great Britain; Wins bronze<br/>

French Open&apos;s Mixed Doubles: Paes, Elena waltz into quarterfinals

India&apos;s Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina have waltzed into the quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles category in the French Open Tennis tournament at Paris. <br/><br/>In the pre-quarterfinals yesterday, the fifth seeded Indo-Russian pair defeated the French duo of Mar...

French Open&apos;s Mixed Doubles: Paes, Elena waltz into quarterfinals

India&apos;s Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina have waltzed into the quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles category in the French Open Tennis tournament at Paris. <br/><br/>In the pre-quarterfinals yesterday, the fifth seeded Indo-Russian pair defeated the French duo of Mar...

4 Indians short-listed for this year�s ICC Awards

India&apos;s Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina have waltzed into the quarterfinals of the Mixed Doubles category in the French Open Tennis tournament at Paris. <br/><br/>In the pre-quarterfinals yesterday, the fifth seeded Indo-Russian pair defeated the French duo of Mar...

Azlan Shah Tournament: Argentina to meet NZ; India to take on Britain

Argentina will meet New Zealand in the final of Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament today. Both the teams finished at the top of the table with 12 points each after their league engagements.In the final league matches at Ipoh yesterday, while Argentina defeated hosts Malaysia One-Nil, New Zealand lo...

World Chess Champion Anand given 2 crore cash prize<br/>

Tamilnadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha today announced Rs.2 crore cash prize to World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand for winning his world chess championship title for the 5th time at Moscow. He was back today to Chennai. While addressing the media at airport he profusely thanked the gesture of Ch...

Argentina to meet New Zealand in the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament

Argentina will meet New Zealand in the final of Sultan Azlan Shah hockey tournament today. Both the teams finished at the top of the table with 12 points each after their league engagements.In the final league matches at Ipoh yesterday, while Argentina defeated hosts Malaysia One-Nil, New Zealand lo...

India&apos;s dismal show at the ongoing French Open tennis tournament in Paris continued today with Leander Paes and his Austrian partner Alexander Peya losing in the men&apos;s doubles second round. The seventh-seeded Indo-Austria duo lost to Mikhail Elgin of Russia and Denis Istomin of Uzb...

NCW demands one-time payment benefit for ex women cricketers

The National Commission for Women has demanded one-time payment benefit for former women cricket players from the profits of the Indian Premier League (IPL), as was done recently for their male counterparts. NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma told reporters in New Delhi today that a woman is second to non...

French Open: Paes, Peya bow out of Men's doubles

The Indo-Austrian pair of Leander Paes and Alexander Peya has bowed out of the Men&apos;s doubles competition of the French Open Tennis championships. In the second round in Paris today, the pair lost to the combination of Russia&apos;s Mikhail Elgin and Uzbekistan&apos;s Denis Istomin i...