The legendary M C Mary Kom won historic sixth gold medal in the 48kg final in the Women's World Boxing Championship in New Delhi on Saturday.
'They want us to talk to Shivraj Patil. Vajpayee had appointed Advani for holding talks with us. Advani had a certain standing,' says Hurriyat leader Moulvi Abbas Ansari.
Opposition members of Parliament in Canada's House of Commons united on Tuesday to pass a motion calling for public inquiry.
'Sarita is the most abused and unsupported Indian boxer of all time.'
The Manchester United manager settled his dispute with Irish racing tycoon John Magnier over stud rights to record-breaking racehorse Rock of Gibraltar.
The International Boxing Association (AIBA) said it will review the incident.
The organisers have decided to restrict participation to English and Irish players.
Pierce Brosnan, the Irish heart-throb who made the role all his own this last decade, gave up his license to kill last week. \n\n\n\n
30 years later, relatives of the 329 people who perished in the Kanishka bombing gathered at a moving service in Ahakista, Cork in Ireland.
The club said it did not break any rules in paying 13.4 million pounds ($24.2 million) to agents on top player transfers from 2001 to 2004.
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 377.97 crore (Rs 3.77 billion) in the same period of previous fiscal.
'N Ram and I met on the lawns of Mani Shankar Aiyar's bungalow.' 'I pulled out a rolled printout from my jacket and handed it to him.' 'In the cut-throat world of journalism, this was like high treason.' 'But letting a story be killed because you can't publish it is a bigger crime than passing it to the competition,' recalls Shekhar Gupta.
Ireland will make a giant leap when they host their first ever Test match, against Pakistan in Dublin
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
Closely following the Chandigarh ace at the halfway stage of the Macau Open is another Indian, Harmeet Kahlon.
The Chandigarh golfer smashed the course record at the tournament with a stunning nine-under-par 62 to raise hope of a second successive Indian winner on the Asian Tour.
Phoenix Venture Holdings Ltd, the owners of MG Rover Group, will distribute Tata Engineering's "Safari off-roader" and "Loadbeta pick-up" trucks in the UK and Irish markets
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
He had set up the Guinness Book of Records with his twin Ross in the mid-1950s.
Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that the fight between the two officers impacted the image of the CBI.
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MC Mary Kom inched one step closer towards her sixth gold medal at the Women's World Boxing Championships after beating Kim Hyang Mi of North Korea in the semi-finals of the 48kg.
Irish striker Robbie Keane scored the winner as Tottenham Hotspur recovered from a goal down with 12 minutes left to beat Aston Villa 2-1.
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Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to market an oral suspension form of Warner Chilcott's Duricef antibiotic, the Bombay Stock Exchange
World number two Rory McIlroy has said he still resents the Olympic Games for forcing him to choose between Britain and Ireland and revealed that Tiger Woods sends him texts in the early hours.
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