Sonia meets CWG medal winners

Congress President Sonia Gandhi met Indian medal winners in the Commonwealth Games at her residence this morning. Party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was also present. On Friday, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh interacted with the medalist who brought glory to the country. While, Sports Minister M...

Kochi heats on ahead of India-Australia ODI

With the first one day international cricket match between India and Australia all set to begin at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi on Sunday, cricket frenzy has gripped the port city of Kochi. Although the weather in Kochi this morning is bright and sunny, possibility of occasional rains have ...

No Australian athlete involved in games village vanadalism: Crosswhite

Indian women shuttlers led by Saina Nehwal gave the country a golden double to take India to a historic second place finish. Saina rallied brilliantly from a first game loss to finally mow down Mew Choo Wong of Malaysia to win the gold, while the duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta captured the ...

Delhi bids farewell to 19th CWG with dazzling laser display, musical extravaganza

A dazzling laser show and a musical extravaganza last night marked the finale of the 19th Commonwealth Games, the biggest sporting event hosted by India. Skies over the national capital lit with multi-colour laser beams and fireworks as part of the closing ceremony at the Jawarharlal Nehru stadium f...

Tendulkar reclaims number one position in ICC Test rankings

Sachin Tendulkar has reclaimed the number one position in the Cricket Test rankings after eight years, following his successful run in the just concluded Test series against Australia.Tendulkar was the highest run-getter with 403 runs in the two-match series, which India won 2-0. Tendulkar also scor...

Prasanta Karmakar wins historic medal in Para sports

AIR correspondent reports that out of 272 gold in contention 15 were in para sportsIn all 15 gold medals were in stake in the Para Sports and Australia led the tally winning five gold and four silver and equal number of bronze medals . It won three gold medal in athletics and two in swimming. South ...

Bopanna-Qureshi storm into Shanghai Masters Q-finals

Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq-Qureshi have entered the quarterfinals of the Doubles Tennis Shanghai Masters tournament. They beat Mark Knowles of Bahamas and Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6, 6-2. The Indo-Pak pair will take on Dick Norman and Wsley Moodie.Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi have also advanc...

Anand plays draw with Shirov in Bilbao final Masters

World Champion Viswanathan Anand missed out on his chances and drew with Alexei Shirov of Spain in the fourth round of the Bilbao Final Masters Chess tournament in Spain today.Vladimir Kramnik of Russia retained sole lead following a draw with Magnus Carlsen of Norway. With just two rounds to come i...

Kenya dominates Marathon Race at CWG