Sobha Developers, a Dubai-based real estate company, will fund the ace Indian long junper's training ahead of the Athens Olympics.
Twenty-one years after an East Bengal team last won a league title in Indian football, the club's women's outfit sealed the Indian Women's League (IWL) trophy with a 1-0 victory over defending champions Odisha FC in Kalyani on Friday.
The Supreme Court has directed the wife of a Bengaluru-based engineer, who died by suicide last year, to produce their minor son before the court. The bench hearing the habeas corpus petition filed by the engineer's mother wants to see the child and has asked the wife's lawyer to produce the child through video-conferencing. The court previously denied custody of the child to the grandmother, stating she was "stranger to the child".
What makes Ullozhukku worth recommending is its ability to surrender to the surprises and yet grow with its characters, observes Divya Nair.
'Those were not kind days for a woman with a break-up. The world has changed; today, nobody cares.'
The who's who of Bollywood got together to doff their hats at the iconic Raj Kapoor and celebrate his birth centenary on December 14 with a lot of fanfare.
The ace Indian long jumper said she is looking to clear 7 metres.
Ace Indian long jumper Anju Bobby George's season got off to a fine start as she clinched a silver medal at the Asian Indoors Athletics Championship in Doha on Thursday.
The World Athletics Championships bronze medallist said she needs to make some minor adjustments.
'She was the unanimous choice of the search-cum-selection committee.'
Anju set a new meet mark of 6.53 metres at the 46th National Senior Inter-State Athletics championships.
India's ace long jumper could only clear 6.42 meters but made it to Friday's final at the Commonwealth Games.
Anju Bobby George opened her European season by finishing fourth in the Norwich Union British Grand Prix
Anju tops the list of women's long jumpers while the US-based Gowda is the top-ranked men's discus thrower.
She covered 6.40 metres in the long jump event at the World Indoor athletics.
I am thinking of leaping to a distance of 7.20 metres one day, the ace long jumper said.
The world number seven long jumper plans to compete in 10-12 events in her build up to the Athens Olympics in August.
The leading sportspersons arrived in Hyderabad to add some much-needed glamour to the Afro-Asian Games.
The ace Indian long jumper will participate in her first meet in the US on May 10.
According to reports, Anju (finished 5th) along with fellow long jumpers, Australia's Bronwyn Thompson (4th) and England's Jade Johnson (6th), have urged a probe into the long jump event at the Athens Olympics. The trio has alleged that the performance of the Russians - Tatyana Lebedeva, Irina Meleshina and Tatyana Kotova - who were on the podium at Athens 2004, - were not clean as they had been banned later for failing dope tests.
Despite a poor showing at the Commonwealth Games, the ace Indian long jumper climbed a notch in the IAAF rankings.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George placed second in the women's long jump with a leap of 6.52 metres at the Asian Games.
The Athletics Federation of India announced a 43-member contingent, comprising 21 men and 22 women athletes, for the Games.
Sonakshi Sinha and Zaheer Iqbal attended their first party after marriage, and made beautiful pictures.
The Indian long jumper could manage only 6.43m to finish a lowly seventh at the IAAF Super Tour in Doha.
Anju Bobby George, who managed a best leap of 6.54m, finished sixth in the women's long jump at the Commonwealth Games.
Russia's Kotova Tatyana won the gold with an effort of 6.83m.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George would lead India's challenge in the Asian Grand Prix series in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Anju Bobby George won the women's long jump while the women's 4x400 metres relay team \nset a new record in the Asian Athletics Championships.
Anju Bobby George and Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore were awarded the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna and the Arjuna award respectively.
The Indian lung jump ace slid a place to No. 5 in the latest IAAF rankings.
Star Indian long jumper Anju Bobby George has officially become the gold medal winner of the World Athletics Final, held at Monte Carlo in 2005, after the International Association of Athletics Federation ratified the result of the meet.
The ace Indian long jumper was robbed of all her valuables, including her passport, while training.
India's long jump ace's optimism springs from consistency in her jumps.
