Six of the seven members of the Indian team made it to the knock out stage of the time format event at the World Billiard championship.
The former beat Geet Sethi while Joshi accounted for Alok Kumar in the quarter-finals of the World Billiards Championship.
The national champion was stretched by Neeta Sanghvi in the Bombay Gymkhana All India Ladies Open Snooker Tournament.
World snooker champion Pankaj Advani and John Hartley of England play the opening match of the tournament on November 17.
Sunil Gavaskar, P T Usha, Geet Sethi, Dhanraj Pillay and Irfan Pathan have joined hands to spread the message of 'Sports for Development and Peace'.
The seven-time world billiards champion says the game needs a hero to explode in the country.
As many as 48 ministers of National Democratic Allaince government were in the fray in the general elections.
Seven-time world billiards champion Geet Sethi believes Pankaj Advani has the potential to win 10 world billiards titles.
The world billiards champion says seventy-five per cent of his game in billiards is because of snooker.
"It is a policy decision taken by the state cabinet and therefore there is no question of going back on it," Deshmukh said.
With the BJP-Shiv Sena relationship at an impasse ahead of the November 12 trust vote in Maharashtra, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday said that the Shiv Sena problem will solve itself.
India kicked off a new phase of power reforms on Monday with a new law that will encourage competition, cut subsidies and attract private investment in the energy-starved country, officials and analysts said.
Afer winning the points format title, the 19-year old Indian ace beat Geet Sethi in the final of the time format event.
Led by Asian champion Pankaj Advani and former champion Geet Sethi all the Indians reached the last 16 stage in the IBSF World Billiards championship.
The government on Tuesday moved the Electricity Bill 2001 in the Lok Sabha seeking to consolidate the laws relating to generation, transmission, distribution of power besides rationalisation of tariff in the states.
The seven-time World champion lost to Thailand's C Praput while defending champion Devendra Joshi was beaten by Pankaj Advani in the Asian Billiards Championship.
The Power Grid Corporation of India and the State Grid Corporation of China have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding to share experiences in transmission and telecommunications.
There are quite a few memorable on-screen artist-muses from Hindi cinema.
The third seeded Indian ace lost to the second seeded Irishman 2-4 in the World Snooker Championships.
Challenging the claims of the Comptroller and Auditor General about the shortage of ammunition for the army, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Thursday said that production had increased by 18 per cent since last year.
'Everyone has to recalibrate their plans, preparations, peaking, meaning the tournaments they will play in in the lead-up to the Olympics.'
In a bid to woo rural voters ahead of the elections, the Centre on Wednesday launched a Rs 6,000 crore (Rs 60 billion) electrification programme for 100,000 villages covering 1 crore (10 million) households over the next two years.
'He was a poet at heart and a saint by nature.'
The 18-year-old cueist put together two unfinished breaks of 150 as he rallied past the veteran cueist to make the knock-out round in the World billiards championship.
The Dulquer factor is the only saving grace of this witless, charmless sham posturing as satire, feels Sukanya Verma.
Much before Rashtrapati Bhavan confirmed the new ministers' portfolios, we had said who will get what in Narendra Modi's Union council of ministers!
Republican Party of India chief Ramdas Athawale on Friday claimed that Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray was "very keen" on coalition with the estranged ally Bharatiya Janata Party for formation of a government in Maharashtra.
OGQ has launched a crowd funding campaign to assist training and preparation of their potential medal winning athletes -- Irfan KT (Race Walking), Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw), Ayonika Paul and Pooja Ghatkar (both Rifle Shooting).
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will soon convene a meeting of chief ministers and energy ministers to speed up power sector reforms in states as part of the efforts to meet the target of 'Electricity for All' by 2012.\n\n\n\n
Sethi was defeated England's Lee Lagan 5-6 in the final of the IBSF World Billiards championship in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Buoyed by exit poll surveys, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday claimed that it would form governments on its own in Haryana and Maharashtra, and stressed that it would not require support of the Shiv Sena to form government in the latter.
In an indication of a possible post-poll understanding with Shiv Sena, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that BJP could consider joining hands again with its estranged ally if the situation so demanded.
Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch his dream 'Swachh Bharat' campaign on Thursday.
Imtiaz Ali seems to be back on ground he knows, with actors he enjoys, says Raja Sen.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
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