New Delhi: India’s first World Superbike team Mahi Racing Team India made yet another confident start at the qualifications before the second race of the World Super Sport Championship campaign at Aragon, Spain on Saturday. Mahi Racing rider Kenan Sofuoglu claimed pole position while his team-mate Fabien Foret finished third on the starting grid for today’s race. [...]
Lausanne: Three years out from the Rio Games, 3-on-3 basketball and BMX freestyle are competing in an alternative Olympic contest, trying to win selection to the program. The International Olympic Committee is now assessing possible extra events, teams and athletes for Brazil after the successful London Games, with one of the deepest wish-lists sent in [...]
MELBOURNE: Lewis Hamilton is shaping as a wildcard challenger to Sebastian Vettel as the German embarks on his bid for a historic fourth straight Formula One title at this week’s Australian Grand Prix.
Mohali: Punjab police recovered heroin worth `130cr in international market, from a flat owned by an NRI businessman in Zirakpur of Mohali district.
NASCAR’S biggest race, the Dayatona 500 earned some bad press after 33 fans and a driver were injured in a speedway crash recently.
The defending and three-time World Supersport Champion gave Mahi Racing Team India Kawasaki (co-owned by Nagarjuna, Nandish Domlur and MS Dhoni) its first win of the series and set a new lap record in 1′ 33.283”. Kenan Sofuoglu wins the 32nd race of his career in World Supersport Race at Phillip Island by getting the [...]
Baden Baden: World champion Viswanathan Anand notched up his first title of the year when he scored an emphatic victory over German Arkadij Naiditsch to lift the Grenke Chess Classic trophy here. In what turned out to be a nail-biting finish, Anand had to wait for Fabiano Caruana to go wrong once again as the [...]
Karachi: The PCB is pinning its hopes on the BCCI agreeing on play Pakistan, at least at a neutral venue, in August this year in order to boost its financial position. “In the future tours program India is supposed to tour Pakistan in August. We are hoping that even if they don’t tour (the country) for [...]
Baden-Baden: World champion Viswanathan Anand slipped to joint third after being held to a draw by second seed Fabiano Caruana of Italy in the second round of the Grenke Chess Classic here. With two draws from two games, the Indian took his tally to one point. His first white game in the tournament did not [...]
It’s David vs Goliath as Rajasthan take on Mumbai’s might
Kolkata: They have shown remarkable fighting spirit despite the demoralising spot-fixing scandal and the Rajasthan Royals will now look to upstage the mighty Mumbai Indians in the second qualifier here tomorrow to book, what would be, a dream final berth in the Pepsi IPL. On paper, Mumbai Indians may appear stronger but Rajasthan will be [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
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A footage is doing the rounds on TV channels where apparently two constables in UP are sorting matters out between them the hard way, raining each other with blows, not verbal, but with their lathis. One look at the video will tell you there seems to be something seriously wrong with the discipline among the [...]
So the thief is in the ship after all. The Mumbai police revelation that Gurunath Melyappan, son-in-law of BCCI Chief Srinivasan, was in constant touch with Vindoo Dhara Singh, now in police custody over betting, leaves no scope for imagination. Little wonder such brazen betting prospered over IPL. It now raises the question: was the [...]
Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
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