Maken invites BCCI to register as NSF with the ministry

Sports Minister Ajay Maken has sought to strike a cordial note with the BCCI by inviting the Cricket Board to register itself as a national sport federation (NSF) with the ministry.Top BCCI officials, who have been at loggerheads with the ministry over the registration issue, met the sports minister...

Women's professional golf championship: Smriti, Sharmila to head field in 9th leg

India's leading women's professional golfer, Smriti Mehra, and current leader on the Hero Honda Women's Professional Golf Tour, Sharmila Nicollet, will head the field in ninth leg of the event which begins in Kolkata on Wednesday.A total of 16 pros will be teeing off at th...

Former Davis Cupper and wild card entrant Sunil Sipaeya of Haryana has entered the men's singles second round of the Rs 10 lakh-rupee Videocon All India Open Tennis Championship. In Mumbai on Tuesday, Sipaeya shocked third seed Mithun Murali of Tamil Nadu in straight sets 7-5 6-4. In anothe...

Gibralter Chess: Grandmaster Gopal jumps to 2nd spot

Grandmaster G N Gopal has jumped to the second spot after defeating Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia in the seventh round of the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess tournament. In the event being held atGibraltar, the Indian who has scored five wins, now has five and a half points. He is just just half a point behin...

Pak beat New Zealand in 4th ODI

Pakistan have won the fourth one-day international against New Zealand by two wickets. At Napier on Tuesday, they surpassed the victory target of 263 runs, by making 264 for 8 in 49 overs. Misbah ul-Haq made a career-best unbeaten 93 from 91 balls.Earlier, electing to bat after winning the toss, the...

Dues cleared to foreign companies: CWG OC

The Commonwealth Games organizing committee on Tuesday claimed that it has cleared dues amounting over to hundred and eleven crore rupees to 36 of the 45 foreign companies involved with the conduct of the event held in New Delhi last year.In a release in New Delhi, it said that the remaining nine co...

ATP South African Open tennis: Somdev enters 2nd round

Somdev Devvarman has entered the second round of the ATP South African Open tennis tournament. At Johannesburgon Monday, the Indian ace recorded a straight-set win over Raven Klaasen of the host country in his opening match. Somdev won 6-4 6-3 in one hour and 23 minutes. In the 442,500 U.S. dollar e...

Somdev in second round of South African Open

Indian tennis ace Somdev Devvarman eased into the second round of the ATP South African Open. He registered a straight-set win over local hope Raven Klaasen in his opening match at Johannesburg.Somdev defeated the local qualifier 6-4 6-3 in his lung-opener of the USD 442,500 event.The Indian faces a...

CWG works under probe worth Rs 28000 crore

The Shunglu committee today said Commonwealth Games works under investigation are worth 28,000 crore rupees and time is required to probe them. Mr.V K Shunglu, however, declined to share details of the interim report submitted to the Prime Minister Office yesterday on alleged irregularities in award...

CWG mess: Shunglu committee submits report

A committee, set up to probe irregularities in awarding broadcasting rights during Commonwealth Games today submitted its interim report in the Prime Minister's Office. The committee is headed by Former Comptroller and Auditor General V K Shunglu. The term of the panel has been extended til...