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Billiards & Snooker
National Championship from tomorrow
JAMMU, DEC. 16 Country's leading cueists will be seen in action during the month-long National billiards and snooker championship which gets underway here on Wednesday. ``The 69th National, 27th junior and 11th women's National billiards and ...


Chess
Ganguly stuns top seed
PANAJI, DEC. 16.Surya Sekhar Ganguly became part of the eight-player leading bunch by removing top seeded Chinese Bu Xiangzhi from the way after Chennai-based National under-18 champions Poobesh Anand and P. Priya attained their maiden ...
Aarthie closer to GM norm
CHENNAI, DEC. 16Former world under-18 girls champion, Aarthie Ramaswamy of Chennai scored an impressive eighth round victory to draw closer to the woman grandmaster norm and title in the First Saturday chess tournaments being played at Budapest ...


Cricket
Zaheer hopes to continue his fine act
WELLINGTON, DEC. 16. Deep down, beneath all those layers, he must have been feeling the pinch. Twenty two Tests behind him, still no five-wicket haul. A scenario similar to the premier batsman of a side, without a hundred. There will be doubts ...
Warne may be ready for World Cup
BRISBANE, DEC.16. Australia today threw every resource available into the fight to get Shane Warne fit for the World Cup, proof if any were needed that the great leg spinner is an indispensable part of its armoury; and, less than 24 hours after ...
My 15... Sanjay Manjrekar
Virender Sehwag, Saurav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Mohd. Kaif, Vijay Dahiya, Ajit Agarkar, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Murali Kartik, Javagal Srinath, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra and Sanjay Bangar. There, ...
Other Stories

  • Shekhar Naik is the best Indian player


    Football
    Mohun Bagan outplays HASC
    BANGALORE, DEC. 16. HASC played to its promise. But sadly it lasted only for the first 10 minutes wherein the local side went 1-0 up. Thereafter Mohun Bagan notched up a 3-1 win riding on a George Ekeh's hat-trick, in the Oil PSU National ...


    Tennis
    Mahesh to partner Joshua
    BANGALORE, DEC. 16. The Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi will partner Joshua Eagle of Australia in the 2003 season. Disclosing this to The Hindu, Mahesh said : "Eagle will be my new partner for the season as Max Mirnyi wishes to ...


    National Games
    Athletics: Shankar sets new 400m hurdles mark
    HYDERABAD, DEC. 16. Andhra Pradesh had reason to cheer on the second day of the athletics events of the 32nd National Games at the G.M.C. Balayogi stadium here today. P. Shankar of AP clocked 51.37 seconds to create a new meet record in the 400 ...
    Aquatics: Richa etches two new National records in her name
    HYDERABAD, DEC. 16. Already a big favourite with the crowd, Richa Mishra gave a lot to cheer for her new found supporters by accounting for both the new National records that were sunk at the aquatics events of the 32nd National Games at the ...
    Shooting: New meet records by Anjali and Manavjit
    HYDERABAD, DEC. 16. Two new National Games records were established in the ongoing shooting tournament on Monday. While Anjali Vedpathak Bhagwat just about managed to retain her title in the 10m rifle event achieved at Punjab last year, holding ...
    Volleyball: Tamil Nadu women clinch gold
    HYDERABAD, DEC. 16. The Andhra men's team, the four-in-a-row champion since the modern National Games began in Delhi in 1985, regained the top honours after being out of the medal race in 1999 at Imphal and again in 2001 at Ludhiana, with a ...
    Weightlifting: Sunaina, Ramachandran claim gold
    VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC. 16. The fight for top honours in the women's weightlifting 58-kg category saw the top contenders, Sunaina of Punjab and Prasmita Mangaraj of Orissa, renewing their last year's Games contest of breaking records also. In the ...
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  • Football: Punjab, TN set up final clash
  • Clean sweep by AP shuttlers
  • Hockey: AP holds Maharashtra
  • Triple gold for Vikas

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