India has climbed two places up to be placed 132nd in the latest FIFA rankings released on Wednesday.
The AIFF has also appointed Atanu Bhattacharya as the goalkeeper coach for the Indian team.
Former international athlete and SAF Games medallist Rajinder Singh has been arrested on charges of killing a man in Jamshedpur.
India won all the seven gold medals on offer in the SAF Games badminton tournament.
Injury has robbed India of seven key players for Wednesday's AFC Asian Cup qualifier Group A tie against Yemen.
M Suranjoy Singh stormed into the quarter-finals of the 48 kg category, beating Volkov\nVitaliy of Ukraine, at the 13th Senior Men's World Boxing Championships.
The Union Budget is likely to adopt a three-pronged strategy to bring about the second green revolution in agriculture and evolve methods to tap the $119 billion foreign exchange reserves to boost investment.
The ace shooter bolstered India's medal tally to 26 gold, nine silver and seven bronze at the end of the shooting competition in the SAF Games.
Indian men and women scored 3-0 wins over Nepal and Sri Lanka respectively in the SAF Games.
Chetan Anand and Abhinn Shyam Gupta won their respective matches with ease to enter the semis of the badminton individual event.
Railway Minister Nitish Kumar has said that negotiations are on with the telecom ministry for equity participation of MTNL and BSNL in RailTel Corp to improve telecom services in the Railways.
India take Pakistan on Sunday in the first of a three-match series.
PHF secretary Brig Musarutullah Khan said his team will not have any problem touring India for the inaugural Afro-Asian Games.
The Indian men, however, went down tamely to Pakistan in the men's final of the squash event at the SAF Games.
India beat Pakistan 35-14 in the final league encounter to retain the title.
The Delhi swimmer led the Indian women's 4x100m medley relay team to a new SAF Games record.
The Indian paddlers marched steadily in the preliminary rounds in the individual events of the SAF Games.
India swept the men's swimming gold medals for the second day running at the SAF Games.
They won the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the National Badminton Championships.
Singapore, a booming industrial nation in Southeast Asia, trains its armed forces in about a dozen countries.
India could only win five gold medals from the ten athletics events on Monday at the SAF Games.
The duo accounted for Achanta Sharath Kamal and Poulami Ghatak respectively to lift the men's and women's table tennis singles gold medals.
With six more golds to be decided India has already surpassed their last year's performance.
Sushma Rana and Satguru Das won the individual and team gold in the women's 25m Sport Pistol and men's 50m Rifle Prone respectively at the SAF Games.
He won the gold in the 77 kg category and improved upon two of his meet records - in clean and jerk and total lift, at the SAF Games.
The youngster won the 10m Air Pistol event, setting a new record, at the SAF Games.
They respectively won the women's long jump and shot put at the SAF Games Track and Field competition.
The Sri Lankan denied India a golden sweep in the pool, winning the 50m butterflystroke at the SAF Games.
Both scored easy semi-final victories, over Sri Lanka and Bangladesh respectively, at the SAF Games.
The change is 'because the word federation in SAF stopped short of putting proper emphasis on the event'.
Mandar Divase clinched the 1500 metres freestyle gold with a new Games mark at the SAF Games.
They grabbed all the six gold medals at stake on day 3 of the SAF Games shooting competition.
They play Sri Lanka for a berth in the final against either Pakistan or Bangladesh.
The men's final at the SAF Games will be an all-Pakistan affair as Ritwik Bhattacharya and Saurav Ghosal lost in the semi-finals.
Nepal and Bhutan were tied on points and goals in the SAF Games football league.
The India ace won the individual and team gold medals in 50m free pistol at the Saf Games.
With victories over Afghanistan and the Maldives India made sure of a semi-final spot in the SAF Games volleyball tournament.
The India football captain hopes to resume playing in a couple of weeks after being sidelined with an injury to his left leg over 45 days.
Pakistan's participation in the high-profile World Twenty20 cricket event continued to be shrouded in suspense with the country's government refusing to clear the team's departure unless India provides written assurance of security.
Pakistan Hockey Federation is still awaiting the No Objection Certificate from its government to send its national squad for the Junior Hockey World Cup, to be held in Lucknow from December 8.
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