The former world junior champion beat defending champion Zoltan Almasi of Hungary in the eighth round of the Marx Gyorgy International Chess tournament.
The victory put the Indian in sole lead at the end of the fourth round in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
Badminton ace Saina Nehwal topped her group to march into the women's singles semi-finals while Kidambi Srikanth reached the last four stage despite losing his last men's singles round robin match at the BWF World Super Series Finals in Dubai on Friday.
The Indian is seeded 8th in this strong tournament and has so far produced fine flair.
Viswanathan Anand registered an easy victory in the first round of the Mtel Masters International chess tournament.
All eyes will be on the shooting range, with Indians in three finals.
India will take on England in their opening match on October 15 at Jaipur in the ICC Champions Trophy
Joining the Asian Games champion in the quarter-finals of the Asian billiards championship was Rupesh Shah.
Bharat Petroleum scored a 2-1 victory over the defending champions to improve their chances of making it to the final of the 44th Bombay Gold Cup Hockey Tournament.
Roger Federer beat Ivan Ljubicic 7-6, 6-4 to bring David Nalbandian through with him.
A structured defence and clinical attack saw India beat hosts New Zealand 3-1 in the final round-robin match of the double-leg Four-Nation Invitational Hockey Tournament, at Blake Park in Tauranga, New Zealand, on Saturday.
India rallied from two goals down but let in a late goal and were held by China 4-4 in the four-nation hockey tournament in Darwin.
The victory kept the Indian ace in the hunt for the overall title in the Amber chess tournament.\n\n
James Blake was given a place in the Las Vegas Open quarter-finals after his opponent retired with breathing problems.
Defending champion James Blake was humbled 6-2, 6-4 by 19-year-old Russian Evgeny Korolev at the Las Vegas Open.
Former world number one Gustavo Kuerten earned his first hard court victory for 18 months when he booked a place in the round-robin section of the Las Vegas Open on Monday.
Top seed David Nalbandian crashed out of the Buenos Aires Open after going down to compatriot Guillermo Canas.
The Argentine suffered a shock straight-sets defeat by Peru's Luis Horna in the round-robin stage at the Buenos Aires Open.
Coming off a fruitful year which yielded two grand slam titles, world number two Federer looked fit and sharp while other members of tennis's 'Big Four' are grappling with injury issues.
Yasin Merchant and Pankaj Advani beat Devendra Joshi and Aditya Mehta to make the grade in the semi-finals of the Reid and Taylor Bombay Gymkhana InstaSnooker.
The former India forward scored three brilliant goals as Sher-e-Jalandar thrashed Bangalore Lions 7-1 in a round-robin league match of Premier Hockey League.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against Alexander Grischuk in the fourth round of Aerosvit chess
The number of outright victories scored by a team in the round-robin stage of the Ranji Trophy Super League will decide which team goes through to the January 23-27 semi-finals in case of a tie on points, the BCCI said.
The Indian Grandmaster was beaten by World champion Ruslan Ponomariov at the Biel chess festival.
India beat Pakistan by 103 runs in the final league match of the women's Asia Cup cricket.
Harikrishna outwitted top seed Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov of the Netherlands in the third round of the Crown Group of Essent International chess tournament.
If the Windies can 'replicate' the stunning form they displayed against England recently, they may go all the way in the 2019 World Cup, star all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite believes.
India resurrected their campaign at the Asian Games women's hockey tournament with a fluent 4-2 victory over Malaysia in a round-robin league match.
The teams will lock horns again in the Lal Bahadur Shastri four-nation women's hockey tournament final on Wednesday.
The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.
The Indian world junior champion was held by Ukrainian champion Andrei Volokitin in the seventh round of the invitation chess tournament in Bermuda.
Rafael Nadal beat Russian Nikolay Davydenko to set up a Masters Cup semi-final against the world number one.
India failed to make it to the elite six-nation hockey tournament after finishing at the bottom in the last edition in Chennai.
The BPCL-ONGC National 9-Ball Pool Championship is held in Chembur.
Young Affan Yousuf scored two goals as Dabang Mumbai defeated Delhi Waveriders 3-2 in a closely-fought round robin match to stay on top of the leaderboard in the fifth edition of Hockey India League, in Mumbai, on Monday.
The West Indies survived a middle order collapse to pull off a three-wicket victory in the DLF Cup tri-series.
Ganguly, who is expected to join the West Bengal team midway, has not yet reached the coal township.
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