Utterly disappointed with the Indian cricket team's miserable performance in the World Cup, BCCI President Sharad Pawar today promised to take "harsh" decisions in future team selections with emphasis

Indian cricket chief says time for harsh decisions

Press Trust of India

Upset at India's virtual exit from the World Cup, cricket fans today went berserk taking out 'funeral' processions, making bonfires of portraits of leading cricketers and throwing stones at a

Indian cricket fans condemn fallen heroes

India's defeat in the World Cup has put question marks over the continuance of Australian Greg Chappell as the coach and Rahul Dravid as the team's captain. A testy Greg Chappell refused to

Question marks over Dravid, Chappell roles

STRONG>A href="http://www.business-standard.com/general/newbsvideo.php?cat=top&amp;videoid=3901">CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO/A>R>R>/STRONG>Smarting under the humiliating loss against Sri Lanka that

Dravid: Team India did not deliver - Video

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Team India coach Greg Chappell is unlikely to get an extension but the Australian is eager to meet the cricket board officials and give his version of the disastrous World Cup campaign.

Chappell ready to meet BCCI with report

Indian Cricket Board officials, headed by president Sharad Pawar, will interact with former captains on April 6 to chalk out the future of the game in the country and on means to take it forward in

World Cup debacle: BCCI meet on Apr 6

Australia captain Ricky Ponting has said talk of opposition teams having no fear of the world champions will be nothing more than hot air unless they perform on the pitch. Bidding for an

Ponting talks tough, asks opponents to perform

Justin Langer, another Australian cricketing pillar after Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, announced his retirement after the last Ashes test beginning tomorrow. The 36-year-old Langer, who will

Aussie cricketer Langer announces retirement

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Ganguly back in ODI team: Video

STRONG>A href="http://www.business-standard.com/general/broadband.php?videoid=2141">CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO/A>R>R>/STRONG>Injury worries were almost over for middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh,

Dravid confident about Team India : Video

BestMed Tourism, a joint venture between Kochi-based Focuz Group and Canadian leisure travel company, Unbelievable India Tours, kickstarted its Indian operations recently. 


BestMed Tourism begins India operations

The Delhi High Court today ruled that India-West Indies one-day series can be telecast on Doordarshan after a seven minute delay. The court passed the interim order on a petition filed by

DD to telecast India-WI series with 7-min delay

India beat West Indies by 20 runs

Updated at&nbsp;2210 hrs: West Indies win the 3rd ODI against India. Marlon Samuels who made 98 and Brian Lara, who made 83 were the main scorers for the Caribbean team. The series

WI win 3rd ODI; India leads series 2-1

Hockey India League (HIL) has signed a multi-year title sponsorship deal with the two-wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp, for the tournament, making it the Hero Hockey India League.

Hero MotoCorp title sponsor of Hockey India League

The AICF-AAI cup ended with Anton Korobov claiming first, gaining 12 rating points and $7,500 prize-money. The Ukrainian GM was very lucky when he was gifted a blunder from Wojtaszek in the last round. Korobov scored 6.5 from ten games and a TPR of 2788. If Wojtaszek had lost the last game, there would have been a three-way tie for first place. Evgeny Alekseev of Russia was second with 5.5 and Sasikiran placed third with 5. Wojtaszek shared 4-5 with Abhijeet Gupta (both 4.5 points). Parimarjan Negi was sixth with 4 points. It was a hard fought event as the small spread between places indicates. Everybody logged at least one win and one loss.

Chess (#1026)

Three times a week, Robbie Norris, a lean, 50-year-old yoga teacher, hops into his blue 1992 Volvo station wagon with his yoga mat and heads to his class in a drab brick building. He barely glances at the barbed wire as he strides through the metal detector. He exchanges his driver&rsquo;s licence for a visitor&rsquo;s pass, navigates a labyrinth of hallways, security guards and the buzzing and clanking of gates, and makes his way to a windowless room.

Yoga for the soul

The Australian Open in Melbourne marks the commencement of the Grand Slam season in tennis on January 15,2013. It has certain unique characteristics. In the first place, unlike in the case of the other majors, in its logo, it features the image of a real player serving in a classic stance. I wrote to Tennis Australia (TA) enquiring about the identity of the player. Darren of TA said the Australian Open logo is not based on any specific player. On further research into the matter, I found on the website of ATP Champions Tour on the page devoted to Stefan Edberg that it was a picture of his distinctive serve that was used to create the logo of Australian Open.

Let the slams begin

The 11th Parsvnath Open is developing into the usual dog-fight. It features three sections and roughly 900 players. Section B (rated Elo 1900-2200) has ended with Sushant Banerjee winning first place and Rs 1 lakh (total fund of Rs 3 lakhs). Section C (Under 1900 Elo) has over 550 players and a prize fund of Rs 6 lakhs.

Chess (#1027)

Till yesterday, Vijayant Malik was one of the many tennis players from India going about his game far away from the spotlight. Now suddenly, he, along with two others (V M Ranjeet and Purav Raja), finds himself in the middle of a war between the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and eight &lsquo;rebel&rsquo; players which has escalated this past week. Malik, Ranjeet and Raja, ranked 542, 517 and 955, respectively, who have never played for India, are overnight part of the Indian Davis Cup team spearheaded by stalwart Leander Paes.

It's a double fault

Aleksej Aleksandrov of Belarus won section A of the 11th Parsvnath International with 8 from 10 games. He was followed by Marat Dzumaev, Henrik Teske and Vaibhav Suri who all managed 7.5. Untitled 13-year-old Murali Karthikeyan scored his first GM norm. IM K Rathnakaran made his second GM norm and Rakesh Kulkarni made an IM norm.

Chess (#1028)

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