Now that the weather is getting slightly warmer, were running into the last two months of the river rafting season. Delhi-based Aquaterra Adventures continues to offer its weekend river trips for

River rafting

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Game shows wont be the televisions forte anymore as Indiagames, a mobile content developer, has come up with the first interactive mobile game show.


Indiagames develops mobile game show

Akshayraj Kore, a 24-year-old engineer from Pune, has become India's latest Grandmaster. Kore scored his third and fourth norms in succession at the Rochefort tournament and the Cannes Open. He won Cannes with a 2743 performance that lifted his rating above 2500.The World Women's Team championship is on, in Astana, Kazakhstan. The top ten national teams play a Round Robin. The top players of most favoured teams have opted out. After four rounds, Russia, China and Ukraine share the lead with 7 match points each (2 MP for a win). Russia has 12.5 game points, China has 12 and the Ukraine, 10. India, missing Humpy and Harika, is fifth with 4 MPs.The eight Candidates are gearing up for the double-round-robin elimination, which starts next Friday in London. The winner will challenge Anand for the title in November 2013 with guaranteed multi-million funding. But there's also Euro 510,000 in the Candidates prize fund itself with sponsor Agon obviously determined to put up a good show.The Candi

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The Formula1 season of 2013 begins on March 15 with the final car race on the 17th at 0600 hrs (IST) in Melbourne, Australia. The first two days are devoted to practice and qualifying sessions and the race is on the third day. There are 11 teams, each with two drivers, participating in 19 races in 19 countries including one in New Delhi (October 25-27). They are held on specially-laid tracks with the exception of Monaco, Melbourne, Singapore and Montreal where the race is held on public streets closed to other traffic.Singapore has the distinction of a night-time race. In two tracks,  namely Imola (San Marino, Italy) and Interlagos (Sao Paulo, Brazil) the race is anti-clockwise. This is really tricky as drivers find it difficult to adjust their necks to this condition. In Abu Dhabi, the race starts at 5 pm and continues during the night under floodlights.Ralph Nader published in 1965 a book entitled Unsafe at any speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile. It dealt compr

Safe at any speed

A Formula 1 (F1) track in India might be a distant dream but motoring buffs in the country can have some consolation. A Formula 3 (F3) track is coming up near Panvel, along the Mumbai-Pune expressway

F3 track coming up near Panvel

After an unimpressive debut, Premier Hockey League is hoping its second season will fare a little better.


Game strike

Chennai Open 2006, the only ATP tennis tournament in south Asia, is on course as the Tamil Nadu government and Tamil Nadu Tennis Association (TNTA) could put together a consortium of sponsors to raise

Chennai Open: TN cobbles together sponsors` consortium

Mumbaikars for the first time will be able to enjoy Indias ace Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan driving his Jordan at 300 kmph+ speed at Marine Drive on October 30.


Karthikeyan to bring F1 racing thrill to the Mumbai

Just days after the BCCI secretary S K Nair had favoured a joint bid for the 2011 World Cup, its President Ranbir Singh Mahendra today said the board was keen to hold the event independently. 


BCCI to bid solo for 2011 tourney

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Sify has teamed up with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) and IMG/TWI to provide Wimbledon 2005 tennis action on video to broadband users in India through their broadband enabled portal www

Wimbledon 2005 live on sifymax.in

Narain Karthikeyan has requested the Tamil Nadu government for support of the proposal to bring Formula-1 racing to Chennai.


Karthikeyan seeks government support for F-1 facility

It may sound amazing but the total share of Indian sports goods manufacturing units--known for its expertise in producing world-class hockey sticks, cricket bats, and footballs--in global trade is

Jalandhar sports units to diversify

With Narain Karthi-keyan emerging as Indias first Formula 1 (F1) driver, plans to build an F1 track in India have received a fresh lease of life. 


F1 track plans back on course

Companies can do a great deal to revive Indian sports with help from the government.


T Thomas: A common spirit

The department of tourism, government of Karnataka played the host state at the India pavilion at the Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) this year. Indias pavilion, spread over 1.3 lakh square feet, was

Karnataka on show at Dubai

The majors, they say, are the most difficult to win. And the courses they are played on, the toughest to handle. So it was proven again at the end of the 2004 season. 


Teeing off on the toughest

One of the first things that strikes you about the Second Open WKC South East Asia and Oceanic Karate-Do Championships being held at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi are the rows and rows of empty

Karate`s sorry state

Next week, football and hockey, whose crowd-pulling ability is second only to a one-day international cricket match, go head to head. The ninth National Football league begins a day before the

Show them the money!

Chess players by nature are seldom aggressive away from the board. And even if they are, groups tend to break up soon after their formation. 


Checkmated by the AICF

Parasailing consists of a parachute-like parasail, attached to a 300m long tow rope which is pulled along by a speeding form of transport. When the speed rises to beyond stalling speed, the parachute

Parasailing

Sania Mirza may not have won the match with Serena Wiliams at the Australian Open on Friday, but once back she is sure going to win a lot product endorsements. 


Sania loses to Serena, but earns endorsement offers

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