Cut-throat competition, high spectrum costs, and frequent flip-flops in government policies have made it difficult for Vodafone to make money in the country.
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will discover on Monday whether he has won his appeal against a six-year ban from football imposed for ethics violations amid the biggest corruption scandal ever to shake the world soccer body.
The decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), imposed a four-year ban on Russia participating in a range of top-flight sporting tournaments, a period covering the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup.
South Africa's participation as the 12th nation in the men's Olympic hockey tournament is confirmed.
Metalist Kharkiv, due to play Schalke 04 in the Champions League play-off round next week, has been kicked out of the competition over a domestic match-fixing case dating back to 2008, the UEFA said on Wednesday. The decision by UEFA's appeals committee came 10 days after Metalist lost an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The project is awaiting clearances from the DGCA.
The government on Friday said 'all cases' relating to the beleaguered Dabhol power project have been settled.\n\n
: The European 100 metres champion failed a test for the new designer steroid THG
The European 100 metres champion was banned for two years on Tuesday after failing a test for the new designer steroid THG.
The controversy over Tim Montgomery's dope charges when he set the record of 9.78 was made irrelevant by Powell's record-breaking run.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will make a final ruling this week on "selective" doping bans handed out to six Russian athletes, including four Olympic champions.
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Banned Serbian tennis player Viktor Troicki was "innocent" of a doping violation and the country's Davis Cup team supported him, World No 1 Novak Djokovic said on Tuesday.
The American athlete will miss the Athens Olympics after her appeal against a two-year drugs ban was dismissed
Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has advised suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal to take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne.
Five countries have complained to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport about badminton's new scoring system, arguing it discriminates against women
ICC Communications Manager Brendan McClements said the GCC is yet to respond to ICC's letters written in July.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ordered the Spanish club to pay Inter Milan an extra eight million euros for the purchase of the Brazil striker in 2002.
Pranabda hasn't given us any indication of the tough period when he realised Sonia Gandhi had decided to give the presidency not to him, but to then vice-president Hamid Ansari. He wrested the presidency from her, and handed her the biggest defeat of her UPA years, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Michel Platini was banned for eight years in December along with FIFA president Sepp Blatter over a payment of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million) made to the Frenchman in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier.
Aniruddha Rajput, 33, is among the 34 individuals elected by the General Assembly as members of the International Law Commission, the UN organ tasked with the progressive development of international law and its codification.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
'Physically I am alright, there is a little bit of pain, but nothing a massage can't cure, I'm taking it easy," Bolt said of his condition two days after finishing third despite clocking his season's best-equalling 9.95 seconds in the 100m final'
Olympic all-round champion Paul Hamm said he would return his gold medal if the Court of Arbitration for Sport rules a judging error denied South Korea's Yang Tae-young the title.
The Delhi high court asked the chief of Maxx Mobile to inform it about the steps taken on the order refraining them from selling any product having the endorsement of India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Dutee, who missed the original entry standard of 11.26 seconds, got an invite from the IAAF as the target number of 56 athletes for women's 100m event was yet to be reached for the August 4-13 World Championships in London.
Docomo has now moved the London Court of Arbitration.
A look at the 10 cricketers who were punished for drug related offences.
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'How can someone who has never been associated with the movement and never had darshan of Ram Lalla mediate on the matter of temple construction? We have gone to jail for it, faced house arrest and have been fighting court cases. Sri Sri does not qualify to mediate on the matter.'
The development comes as a major blow for Ganguly, who has been mulling to quit as the WBHRC in the wake of rising demands for his ouster for sexually harassing a young law intern last year.
Former Olympic swimming champion Park Tae-hwan is confident of winning a medal at next month's Rio Games despite the lack of preparation time following his qualification drama.
Domestic lenders to Enron Corp's $2.9 billion Dabhol power plant are considering applying to a local court for a stay on arbitration proceedings begun by foreign lenders, who want to exit the stalled project, said an official with a domestic lender.
Summary of all that transpired on and off the football field
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
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