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Sania Mirza fails to qualify for WTA premier event in US

Sania Mirza has failed to make the main draw of the WTA Premier tennis event in Cincinnati, United States. In the second and final round of the qualifiers yesterday, she lost to local wild card entrant Alexa Glatch in straight sets 2-6, 4-6. India will be without any player in the singles event afte...

Arsenal Football Club agrees to transfer Cese Fabregas

Arsenal Football Club says, they have agreed to transfer their captain Cese Fabregas to the European Champions Barcelona. The deal signals the end of the Spanish International mid-fielder's eight years spell of the London club. Fabregas moved to Arsenal from Barcelona as a teenager and have...

Athletics: India bags two silver medals in Flenders Cup

India today bagged two silver medals in the Flenders Cup athletics event in Leuven, Belgium. Ace Indian middle distance runner Tintu Luka finished second in the 800 metres race. She had to settle for the silver despite coming up with her season's best performance, clocking two minutes, zero...

Poonia wins gold in IAAF event in USA

Ace Indian discus thrower Krishna Poonia has won the Gold medal in the Annual Athletic Meet at Portland in the United States. Taking part in the first competition of her training stint in the USA, she hurled the discus to 58.88 metres today to bag the yellow metal. Poonia's performance in t...

World Badminton C'ship : Jwala, Ponnappa wins Bronze

Indian duo Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa had to content with a Bronze when they lost to Chinese fifth-seeded pair of Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei 21-14,21-16 in semi-final of the World Badminton championship women&apos;s doubles in London .<br/><br/>The Commonwealth Games gold medalist pa...

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

Indian duo Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa had to content with a Bronze when they lost to Chinese fifth-seeded pair of Tian Qing and Zhao Yunlei 21-14,21-16 in semi-final of the World Badminton championship women&apos;s doubles in London .<br/><br/>The Commonwealth Games gold medalist pa...

India suffers defeat by innings & 242 runs against England at Edgbaston

England crushed India by an innings and 242 runs in the third cricket test at Edgbaston, Birmingham, yesterday, and took an unassailable Three-Nil lead in the four-match series. Resuming the penultimate day&apos;s play at the second innings score of 35 for one, India&apos;s famed batting lin...

India suffer innings defeat at Birmingham

At Edgbaston, Birmingham, today, England crushed India by an innings and 242 runs in the third test match and took an unassailable Three-Nil lead in the four-match series. Resuming the penultimate day&apos;s play at their overnight second innings score of 35 for one, India&apos;s famed batti...

3rd test: India struggling to avoid an innings defeat

India are facing an innings defeat in the third Cricket Test against England at Edgbaston. Resuming at their overnight second innings score of 35 for One, they were 116 for Six at Lunch, on the fourth and penultimate day today. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on 9 and Amit Mishra on 16 were at the crea...