The Carriage by Air (Amendment) Bill 2008, which got a nod from Rajya Sabha on February 18, was passed by the Lok Sabha after minor amendments.
Bajrang Punia's bid to become only the second Indian to win a gold medal at the World Championship fell flat, as a tactically superior Takuto Otoguro stunned the Indian in the 65kg final, in Budapest, on Monday.
Defensive errors were again a common occurrence in the Arsenal backline, but Fiorentina failed to take advantage.
The 27-year-old Romanian beat Sloane Stephens at Roland Garros to win her maiden Grand Slam title in June and will have spent 40 weeks at the top of the rankings by the end of the season.
The lanky wild card kissed the Montreal court after completing a rousing 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(4) triumph as the 18-year-old became the youngest player to ever reach the quarter-finals of an ATP Masters 1000 event.
Maria Sharapova pulled out of the Beijing Olympics on Thursday after an MRI scan on her right shoulder revealed two small tears.
World number one Ana Ivanovic battled her way into the third round of the Montreal Cup to keep her nose in front in the fight for the top ranking on Wednesday. Number three Maria Sharapova, however, will take no further part after withdrawing from the tournament with a shoulder injury following her win over Poland's Marta Domachowska.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
India has demanded the speeding up of global efforts to ban ozone-depleting chemicals and asked for adequate funding and transfer of related technologies to help developing countries reduce their emission.
Formula One teams want to keep the International Automobile Federation (FIA) as their governing body despite continuing unease at the presence of Max Mosley as president.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton wants Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix to be a re-run of last year's race but Robert Kubica is hoping for something very different. The two drivers left their mark on the 2007 race, with McLaren's Hamilton taking his breakthrough first Grand Prix win in Montreal while BMW Sauber's Kubica suffered the biggest crash of his career.
The Indian Grandmaster slipped to second position in the Montreal International Chess tournament after drawing his sixth round game against Polish Grandmaster Kamil Miton.
Rafa Nadal continued his sizzling hardcourt form beating John Isner 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) in the final of the Western and Southern Open on Sunday, setting up the Spaniard as the red-hot favourite heading into the U.S. Open.
Australian Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the Rotterdam Open in February to play in basketball's NBA All-Star Celebrity Game, tournament director Richard Krajicek was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
'The feeling that we were Olympic champions only dawned on us when we reached India.'
Jelena Jankovic was upset 7-5, 6-2 by Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova in the quarter-finals of the Montreal Cup on Friday.
Women's tennis will get a 40 percent pay raise next year along with bigger fines, suspensions and responsibility for the leading players.
Marat Safin's swan song hit another sour note at the Montreal Masters with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 first round defeat by Frenchman Gael Monfils on Monday.
Spain's Rafael Nadal fears he won't be fully fit for the US Open despite making his return to action in next week's Montreal Masters. Nadal has been out of action for two months with knee problems during which time he lost his French Open and Wimbledon titles and world number one ranking to Swiss rival Roger Federer.
Sadly there's so much of focus on one person and this one kidney transplant ring. Actually, it is a global phenomenon.
Novak Djokovic wore down Lucas Pouille after an even first set, dispatching the Frenchman 7-6(2), 6-1 in a Cincinnati Masters quarter-final in Ohio on Friday.
Joe Biden, who's been in politics for 36 years, had a net worth of less then $150,000 (about 66 lakhs). On hearing this my driver said, well an Indian politician would have made at least Rs 1000 crores in that time.
Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the French Grand Prix on Saturday with Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas alongside him on the front row.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with Canada's Pascal Charbonneau in the seventh round of the eighth Montreal International Chess Tournament.
The victory put the Indian Grandmaster back in joint-lead in the Montreal chess tournament.
Smith's career was thrown into turmoil in March for his role in the incident that took place in South Africa and earned the former Australia captain a 12-month ban from national and state teams. However, the suspension does not extend to domestic tournaments outside his home nation.
Russian seventh seed Dinara Safina overwhelmed Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-1 to claim the Montreal Cup.
As many as 40 international universities have sought land from the Maharashtra government in the Mumbai-Pune-Nashik belt for the purpose.
World number three Maria Sharapova's participation in next month's Beijing Olympics hinges on a scan on her right shoulder later on Thursday.
Mumbai International Airport Ltd, the consortium of GVK and South African Airports, which won the project through an international tender, must question every planner, architect, designer, HR manager and traffic controller: Why isn't it working?
Spanish tennis player Nuria Llagostera Vives, doubles winner at the 2009 WTA tour championships, has been banned for two years after testing positive for d-methamphetamine, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) said on Monday.
PlanetSpace, a company led by Dr Chirinjeev Kathuria, won half the battle to get a contract from NASA, when it managed to bring space heavyweights Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems as its partners. Bank of Montreal too is part of the venture. The mission is to build an unmanned spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
Rafael Nadal was made to wait before his second-round Rogers Cup match due to several rain delays but did his part to put the schedule back on track with a speedy 6-2 6-3 win over Frenchman Benoit Paire on Wednesday.
The grandmaster scored significant win over Sergei Tiviakov in the eighth round of the Montreal International chess tournament.
Denis Shapovalov may not be old enough to drink in New York but is quickly becoming the toast of the Big Apple and the 18-year-old Canadian will again have a chance to light up the U.S. Open when he takes on Briton Kyle Edmund.
Serbia's Novak Djokovic, who beat Switzerland's Roger Federer to win his 16th Grand Slam title on Sunday:
Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA said on Wednesday that comments made by its director general about sports doping has been distorted and taken out of context, the TASS news agency reported.
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The BMW Sauber driver escaped serious injury after suffering an horrific crash in the Canadian Grand Prix.
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