World’s leading goalkeeper Jaap Stockmann is not sure of his future with the Netherlands hockey team post May-June World Cup, and if he is certain about anything it is his playing in the Hockey India League (HIL) as long as he stays fit and feels motivated. Stockmann, 29, says HIL could not have happened to […]
Somdev Devvarman’s win at the ATP Delhi Open paid him the dividend as the top-ranked Indian jumped 18 places to 78th position in the latest ATP rankings. Somdev, who lost in the semi-finals of the ATP Challenger at Kolkata and Chennai, Sunday dominated Russian top seed Alerksandr Nedovyesov in the final here to collect 100 […]
Top Indian men’s and women’s teams will go head to head as New Delhi gets ready to host 64th National Basketball Championship from Feb 26 to March 5 at the Thyagaraj Stadium. The Basketball Federation of India organised and IMG-Reliance supported event will feature many of the players who made the country proud by winning […]
Ashis Roy, the first and the only Indian to run 100 marathons, released his second book ‘Wonderful Joys of Running’ here Monday. Roy, who has run 115 marathons all over the globe – the last one being the 2013 Mumbai Marathon, said that with his book he wants to encourage his compatriots to take up […]
World Squash Federation (WSF) president N. Ramachandran is encouraged by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) vision of introducing new sports in the Summer Games “sooner rather than later”. Ramachandran, who is also the newly-elected Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president, led the squash bid to be added to the 2020 Olympics. He travelled to the Sochi […]
India beat Sri Lanka by 76 runs in a fifth-place playoff semi-final of the ICC Under-19 World Cup at the ICC Academy here Monday. After being put in to bat, India scored 291/7 in their quota of 50 overs and bowled our neighbours Sri Lanka for 215 in 48.1 overs. Defending champions India lost their […]
Russian Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev said here Monday that Russia’s $15-billion bailout funds for Ukraine will continue despite the current chaos, but Russia is waiting for the answer that who will be its Ukrainian partner, Xinhua reported. “The first 3 billion dollars were delivered, and the next 2 billion will go the same direction, […]
Four soldiers died in a helicopter crash in central Colombia that was apparently caused by bad weather, the army said Monday. The accident occurred in Mesetas, a city in Meta province, while the soldiers were providing air support to troops fighting the guerrilla group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. The chopper got caught […]
A Zimbabwean association of voluntary organisations Monday called on the European Union (EU) to lift the sanctions on Zimbabwe’s president and his wife, while urging the government to carry on with political reforms and address governance issues that led to the fallout between the two. A statement from the National Association of Non-governmental Organisations (NANGO) […]
The proposed nationwide indefinite strike by cooking gas cylinder distributors scheduled to start Tuesday (Feb 25) has been postponed by two months, a top official said Monday. “The strike has been postponed in view of the appointment of a high-powdered committee by the petroleum industry to review the MDG (marketing discipline guidelines) 2014, and jointly […]