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Chess
Anand closer to semifinal spot
MOSCOW, DEC. 7. World chess champion Viswanathan Anand faced a novelty in the opening but countered it well and won an elegant game with white against Alexei Shirov of Spain to take the lead in the fifth round of the FIDE World chess championship ... More


Humpy back to winning ways
HYDERABAD, DEC. 7. World Junior champion Koneru Humpy (Elo 2484) scored an impressive win over Hungarian Bokros Albert (Elo 2429) in a fifth round game of the First Saturday Grandmasters chess tournament being held in Budapest, according to ... More
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  • Kashelkar snatches the lead

    Cricket
    IA is BCCI's official carrier
    NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. Travel by air has been made possible for all cricketers taking part in the BCCI-recognised domestic tournaments with Indian Airlines being named as the official carrier. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and ... More


    BCCI, ECB wrangle over fixtures continues
    NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. A stand-off between the Indian and English cricket boards over the fixtures of the future tours, is likely to last for a while. Even as the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) insisted that India play a four-Test series in ... More

    Golf
    Memorable day for Jaskirat
    BANGALORE, DEC. 7. Jaskirat Dullet who had made a fine beginning in the junior section of the South India golf tournament capped it with an even better ending taking the title in the Category A (15 to 17 years). After surrendering the lead to ... More


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  • Irina wins easily
  • Feroz maintains lead

    Hockey
    Pillay scores India's winner
    KUALA LUMPUR, DEC. 7. Consciously circumspect and clinically perfect in mode and methods, India, profiting from the match winner by the versatile Dhanraj Pillay, sailed serenely ahead of Belgium on the opening day of the six-nation first ... More

    Racing : Horse
    Rainbow Flash bags The Hindu South India 1000 Guineas
    CHENNAI, DEC. 7. Dr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy's, Rainbow Flash (J. Abraham up) claimed The Hindu South India 1000 Geineas, the chief event of the races here today. The winner is trained by R. Foley. The results: 1. KARAIKUDI PLATE, (1,200m) - maiden ... More


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  • Ancheta, Bold Chieftan and Yukon shine

    Racing : Motor
    Karting expert on safety mission
    MUMBAI, DEC. 7. Mr. Elman Hoffmann, vice-president of Commission Internationale de Karting (CIK), karting's world body, is here on a safety mission. The German karting expert inspected two karting circuits in Mumbai to get a first-hand ... More

    Squash
    Seeded players sail through; walk-overs irk organisers
    CHENNAI, DEC. 7. Seeded players sailed through comfortably on the opening day of the senior National squash championship at the SDAT-India Cements Academy courts on Friday. As often happens on the first day, a spate of walk- overs brought about ... More

    Tennis
    Sweet revenge for Sunil Kumar
    NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. Top-seeded Sunil Kumar kept the Indian challenge alive with a lively 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) victory over the fourth-seeded Wang-Cheng Hsieh of Chinese Taipei in the Asian junior tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on ... More

    Carrom
    Zaheer, Shilpa triumph
    MADURAI, DEC. 7. S. Zaheer Ahmed retained the men's singles title defeating Dilshad Ali 25-1, 25-17 in the final of the 22nd LIC all-India carrom tournament conducted by Madurai Divisional LIC at Jayamkondar Kalyan Mandapam here on ... More

    Table Tennis
    Bengal boys, TN girls given top billing
    NEW DELHI, DEC. 7. Holders Bengal boys and Tamil Nadu girls enjoy top billing in the National sub-junior table tennis championship to tbe held at Vadodara from December 14 to 21. In the cadet section, the boys from Petroleum Sports Control ... More


    Fancied teams romp into fourth round
    PANJIM, DEC. 7. True to seedings the fancied teams romped into the fourth round of the 63rd junior National table tennis championship that commenced at the newly built Don Bosco Oratory Hall here on Friday morning. Holder Bengal cruised through ... More

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