Three Indians including reigning world champion Pankaj Advani, five-time winner Geet Sethi and Sourav Kothari have moved into the quarterfinals of the World Professional Billiards championships. On the second day of the event at Leeds, U.K., on Thursday, all the three players recorded victories over...

Bopanna – Qureshi storm into St. Petersburg semi-finals?

Rohan Bopanna and his partner Aisam-ul-haq-Qureshi have stormed into the semifinals of the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament. In the quarter-finals of the hard court ATP event at St. Petersburg, Russia, yesterday, the Indo-pak pair defeated their unseeded rivals Janko Tipsaveric and Viktor Troic...

Railways to set up Archery and Table Tennis academies in WB for promotion of sports

To help the Indian athletes prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Railways would set up archery and table tennis academy in West Bengal. Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Kolkata that Indian athletes have been the most outstanding and thirty per cent of the Commonwealth Games medalists b...

Railways to set up archery and table tennis academies in WB for promotion of sports

To help the Indian athletes prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Railways would set up archery and table tennis academy in West Bengal. Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Kolkata that Indian athletes have been the most outstanding and thirty per cent of the Commonwealth Games medalists b...

Railways to set-up sports academies to prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games

To help the Indian athletes prepare for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Railways would set up archery and table tennis academy in West Bengal. Rail Minister Mamata Banerjee said in Kolkata that Indian athletes have been the most outstanding and thirty per cent of the Commonwealth Games medalists b...

Rani Rampal nominated for FIH award

Fifteen year old striker Rani Rampal is the only Indian to get nomination as FIH announced the list for various Player of the Year categories.Rani has been nominated in the FIH Young Women's Player of the Year award along with Australias Casey Eastham who has been re-nominated in the catego...

Bhupathi-Mirnyi out of France ATP event

Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi squandered three match points in the Super tie- break to crash out of Open Sud de France, losing a tightly contested match to Ross Hutchins and Stephen Huss in Montpellier (France) on Thursday.The top seeded Indo-Belarusian pair lost 6-3 3-6 12-14 to the unseeded Briti...

Anand plays out draw with Topalov in eighth round of Pearl Spring Chess tournament in China

World Champion India's Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the eighth round of Pearl Spring Chess tournament at Nanjing, China on Thursday. With just two rounds to come in the six player double round robin tournament, Anand remains in joint second positio...

Salgaonkar Sports Club beat Air India, while Garhwal Heroes defeat Sporting Clube de Goa in Quarter-Final League match of Durand Cup Football

Salgaocar Sports Club recorded a facile 3-1 win over Air India in a quarter-final league match of the 123rd Durand Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium in New Delhi on Thursday. In another encounter, Garhwal Heroes shocked Sporting Clube de Goa by 2-1. In today's fixtures, Army R...

18th Senior National Archery Championship begins in MP