The 18 new members were elected by absolute majority through a secret ballot.
Young shooting sensation Manu Bhaker became the second Indian after judoka Tababi Devi to win two medals at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) after winning a silver while the men's hockey team moved to the semi-finals with a 4-2 win over Poland, in Buenos Aires, on Friday.
Viswanathan Anand beat Spaniard Alexei Shirov in the first round of the Morelia-Linares Chess tournament.
The world champion played out a draw with Israeli Boris Gelfand to improve to joint third after the ninth round of the Corus International Chess tournament.
World champion Viswanathan Anand displayed top form defeating former world champion Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the eight round of Corus International Chess tournament on Monday.
Spain, Germany and England all chalked up victories in their qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup on Saturday.
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the ninth and penultimate round of the Bilbao Grand Slam chess tournament to stay joint fifth. With his seventh draw in nine games Anand, playing with white, took his points tally to seven points in the soccer-like scoring system with just one round to come in the super-category tournament.
Five-time world champion Mary Kom, returning to the ring after recovering from some niggles that kept her out of the Asian Games, prevailed 5-0 against Kazakhstan's Aigerim Kassanayeva to pick up India's lone senior category gold at the event on Saturday.
In a recent development to the already troubled Qatar World Cup 2022, a German magazine has claimed that FIFA president Sepp Blatter has confirmed Qatar would be stripped of its hosting rights chiefly due to Qatari Sheikh's support to terror group IS.
World champion Viswanathan Anand won the blindfold but lost the rapid game against Magnus Carlsen of Norway to remain in sole second after the end of the seventh round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess tournament in France.
World champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Peter Leko of Hungary in the rapid game in the fourth round of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. The defeat proved quite costly for the Indian ace, as he lost his lead in the rapid section and combined standings.
The world champion took the sole lead after playing a couple of draws with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the third round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament. Anand took his combined tally to four points and is now half a point ahead of nearest rivals Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine, Levon Aronian of Armenia, Magnus Carlsen of Norway and Topalov who all have 3.5 points apiece.
The defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster slip to fifth place in the Blindfold World Cup chess tournament.
After some patchy form in the opening rounds Dimitrov hit top form to beat home hope Nick Kyrgios in the last 16, fuelling hopes of a first grand slam final appearance.
World chess champion Viswanathan Anand asserted his supremacy at the Morelia-Linares tournament for the second time on the trot after settling for a facile draw with Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the 14th and final round in Linares. Anand ended this category-21 tournament with 8.5 points and finished a half point clear of nearest rival Magnus Carlsen of Norway who played a draw with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan in his last game.
The 34-year-old, a five-time World champion and an Olympic bronze-medallist, struggled to connect clean punches against her taller rival and was even warned once for excessive bending.
Whether they're capturing panoramic views of tulip fields or snapping thrilling images of cliff divers plunging into the sea, one thing is for certain: Drones can take awesome pictures.
India's agriculture sector is heading for doom. And, if the government is not doing anything to change its faulty subsidy policy, the disaster may happen too soon.
Debutant boxer Amit Panghal (49kg) continued his sensational run to make the final with a hard-fought win but an injured Vikas Krishan (75kg) had to settle for bronze after being declared medically unfit for his semifinal at the 18th Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Friday.
World champions Italy were drawn against Bulgaria and England were up against Croatia, who knocked them out of the Euro 2008 tournament, following the draw for 2010 World Cup qualifying made in Durban on Sunday
The 55 teams have been divided into 10 groups of five or six, and the top two teams in each qualify directly.
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The Indian ace played it save and drew with former European champion Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu in the third Mtel Masters Chess tournament.
The world champion maintained his slender half-point lead after the sixth round of the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
Defending champion Djokovic fired his 15th ace on match point to defeat Querrey but his serve had been an issue earlier in their second-round encounter.
He struck back in style and defeated the defending champion Grandmaster at the Sigeman & Co. International chess tournament.
The FIDE list shows Veselin Topalov still on the top without including the points earned at the Morelia-Linares tournament.
Two clinical finishes from Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov took twice winners Tottenham Hotspur through to the UEFA Cup quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Bulgaria's CSKA Sofia were given a record fine and ordered to host their next two premier league matches behind closed doors because of fan violence during their league match at Litex Lovech on Saturday.
Six Bulgarian medics returned home free, amidst tears and hugs, after eight years imprisonment in Libya.
'The difficult part is that there is no script and you have to be impromptu. So by the end of the day, I am very tired.'
Indian shuttlers Ajay Jayaram and B Sai Praneeth advanced to the semi-finals of the $55,000 Canada Open Grand Prix badminton tournament after notching up contrasting victories in the men's singles competition in Calgary, Canada.
A livid Mary Kom asked her vanquished opponent Nikhat Zareen to prove herself in the ring instead of making irritating comments.
Olympic medal-winning wrestler Sakshi Malik does not endorse the Indian Olympic Association's call for a boycott of the 2022 Commonwealth Games but at the same time feels that dropping shooting from the event's roster is "wrong on the athletes."
Rohan Bopanna teamed up with Canada's Denis Shapovalov to enter the quarter-finals of the Rotterdam Open
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
The Indian ace beat International Master Safarli Eltaz of Azerbaijan in the eight round of the World Youth Stars chess tournament to move to second place.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with the Romanian GM to maintain a half point lead after the penultimate round in the third Mtel Masters.
Ruud van Nistelrooy struck from close range in injury time to earn the Netherlands a hard-fought 1-0 win over Albania in their Euro 2008 qualifier on Wednesday.
