China's Liang Wen-chong held on to a one stroke lead after firing his second straight 71 in the third round at the Hero Honda Indian Open on Saturday. Liang who was last year's Asian Tour's Order of Merit winner, produced a 14-under-par 202 total for a narrow advantage over Australia's Adam Blyth, who nailed a 66 at the Delhi Golf Club.
Rediff.com's Vipin Vijayan, who is travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Japan, reports from Tokyo.
Olympic champion Elena Dementieva was delighted to clinch an early berth in the season-ending WTA Championships after a 6-0, 6-3 win over France's Alize Cornet at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Thursday. The Russian world number four, who captured gold at last month's Beijing Games, took just 69 minutes to book her place in the quarter-finals of the US $1.34 million Tokyo tournament.
Shane Watson says his Australia teammate will be wasting his talent if he quits international cricket for the Indian Premier League.
With a most valuable player index (MVPI) of 702, Australian Glenn Maxwell has proved to be unstoppable with the bat having smashed 531 runs in 11 matches at an amazing strike rate of 195.
Somdev Devvarman entered the second round of the US $1,00,000 Vancouver Open after a fighting victory over Cecil Mamitt of the Philippines. Devvarman had to dig deep into his reserves to dump the lucky loser 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(4) in the first round of the hard court event and set up a second round clash against top seed Yen-Hsun Lu of Chinese Taipei.
Andrew Symonds was amused by the fact that he fetched more than captain Ricky Ponting and Brett Lee in the IPL auction.
The Indo-Bahamas pair beat the Spanish duo of Rafael Nadal and Feliciano Lopez in the quarter-finals of the Dubai Championships.
India's largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki India Ltd on Monday announced a fresh investment of US $1.8 billion to achieve its target of producing one million cars by 2010-11. The bulk of Maruti's fresh investment will be in a research and development facility, for which the company has applied to the Haryana government for 500 acres of land near Manesar.
For Orascom, the real jewel in HTIL's crown was Hutchison Essar, India's fourth largest mobile phone company and a natural complement to its existing operations in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
A world title in the current format is something that will add to the glittering cupboard of the world number one.
A private donor, who wished to remain anonymous, has donated US$ 4,000 to add to the US$ 1,000 reward that was already being offered for information leading to the arrest of the killers of doctoral students, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma of Hyderabad, and Kiran Kumar Allam of Kurnool.
Jeev Milkha Singh struck back-to-back birdies in the last two holes to return an even-par 70 and sign off tied seventh in the US $1.7 million Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament in Miyazaki, Japan, on Sunday. Jeev's total of four-under 276 left him seven shots behind champion Ian Poulter of Britain, who carded a one-under 69 in the final round.
They are acoustics pioneer Amar Bose, Google founder director Kavitark Shriram, venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and Bharat Desai, CEO of an info-tech outsourcing firm.
The Indian ace was beaten by fourth seeded Mohammed Hafix Hashim of Malaysia in the quarter-finals at the Danish Open.
Ruias owned Essar Steel on Monday announced that they have agreed to acquire Canadian Algoma Steel for an aggregate value of Canadian $1.8 billion (approx. US $1.58 billion) to be paid in cash.
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The Indian ace, back after an injury lay-off, easily beat Ayumi Morita in her first round match.
The Indian golfer produced a eye-catching 67 to be placed behind England's Robert Rock after the opening day at the Maybank Malaysian Open.
The Indo-Czech pair beat Morocco's Younes El Aynaoui and Sultan Khalfan of the host country.
Jeev Milkha Singh continued his quest for a maiden title in Japan as he gained shared lead on the opening day of the Casio World Open golf
The Indo-South African pair beat the Canadian-Slovak pair of Maurin Drake and Tina Krizan in the first round at the Acura Classic.
Following the entry of Tata-SIA and AirAsia into the Indian aviation market, the domestic aviation industry is seeing increased interest from private entities.
ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas investment arm of state-owned ONGC, and Chinese firm Sinopec have jointly won the bid to acquire Columbian oil firm Omimex de Columbia.
The Indo-Czech pair beat second seeds Mark Knowels and Daniel Nestor in the semi-finals.
England's David Lynn clung on to his overnight one-stroke lead at the US$1.8 million Volvo China Open.
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The Indian doubles ace and his new partner Wesley Moodie of South Africa lost to Oliver Marach and Lukasz Kubot at the Doha Open.
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The former world champion defeated Evgeny Bareev of Russia in a keenly-contested quarter-final in the World Chess Cup.
The duo lead the field in the opening round of the Enjoy Jakarta Standard Chartered Indonesia Open.
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