The ninth Men’s Asia Cup hockey tournament kicks off at Ipoh in Malaysia on Saturday. India is placed in Pool-B, alongside Korea, Bangladesh and Oman. Pool-A includes hosts Malaysia, Pakistan, Japan and Chinese Taipei. In the opening match of the tournament, India will meet Oman today. The match will begin at 1:35 PM Indian Time. […]
New Delhi: Ending all the speculations, Sports Ministry on Thursday confirmed the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award for ace Indian shooter Ronjan Sodhi.Sodhi, two-time world champion in double trap shooting, was selected for India’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, by the selection committee. Later on, Khel Ratna selection panel member Anjali Bhagwat […]
New Delhi: Union Sports Minister Jitendra Singh cleared the national sports awards file on Thursday without making any changes in the list finalised by the committee headed by former World billiards champion Michael Ferreira. The Sports Department Secretary had recommended the name of Kerala-based volleyball player, Tom Joseph, for Arjuna Award after his exclusion from […]
New York City: The U.S. Tennis Association announced the withdrawal of the 2006 champion, who has played only one match on tour since her second-round loss at Wimbledon in June.Sharapova originally was seeded third at the U.S. Open. The USTA said 2012 Wimbledon runner-up Agnieszka Radwanksa would shift from No. 4 to No. 3, and […]
Koch: Santhakumaran Sreesanth, who faces trial in IPL spot-fixing case, will not appear before the court on Wednesday. Sreesanth’s lawyers directed him not to appear as he did not receive the summons. 21 accused in the case including Sreesanth had been directed to appear before court on Wednesday.
Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt equalled the world record for Gold medals after he anchored his country’s 4x100m relay team to victory at the World Athletics Championships. It is Usain Bolt’s eighth world gold medal. He has joined American women’s 200 metre specialist Allyson Felix, and retired US track stars Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson […]
Rohan Bopanna and Edouard Roger-Vasselin knocked out Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek to advance to the semifinals of the ATP Cincinnati Masters. Eighth seeded Indo-French team eked out a 6-3, 6-7, 10-8 win over the fourth seeded Indo-Czech combination. Bopanna is now seeking his second consecutive Cincinnati final when he and Roger-Vasselin face the Spanish […]
Jamaican star Usain Bolt won 200 metre sprint at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow yesterday. This was his third successice 200 metre world title. It was also his 7th world gold medal. Bolt now has the opportunity to draw level with the present mark of eight world gold medals won by retired American duo […]
Former Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin has been offered the job of coaching Jammu and Kashmir cricket team and he was considering whether to take it up or not.According to the report, Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association President Farooq Abdullah offered Azharuddin the position that has been lying vacant since Bishan Singh Bedi`s exit after the […]
Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius, accused of murdering his girlfriend, will face new charges of recklessly discharging a weapon in public when he appears in a South African court next week , local media reported on Friday. Neither prosecutors nor lawyers for Pistorius would comment on the reports carried by TV broadcaster ENCA, radio’s Eyewitness […]