GM Krishnan Sasikiran scored a much-awaited victory against GM Tomasz Markowski of Poland in the fourth round.
Former India spinners Sunil Joshi and Ramesh Powar will be among 20 candidates to be interviewed for the role of the women's cricket coach in Mumbai on Friday.
Draws ruled the roost in the 8th round as players were only willing to consolidate their position in the Dubai International Chess Championship.
Delhi's wicketkeeper-batsman Anuj Rawat, who recently captained India Under19 in four-day matches in Sri Lanka, is under the scanner for playing an unsanctioned T20 league in Mauritius last year along with a host of Pakistani cricketers.
The Fortune's 40 under 40 list for this year was topped by Adam Neuman, Co-founder and CEO, WeWork.
P Harikrishna slipped to the second spot after settling for a draw with Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov
P Harikrishna jumped in to sole lead at Ciudad de Pamplona Chess tournament with a win over GM Laurent Fresinet
The captains and coaches also deliberated over the relevance of Duleep Trophy and the Irani Trophy.
The Indian Grandmaster beat Evegeny Gleizerov in the ninth and final round in the Masters section of Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
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Li Shilong and Zhang Zhong lead the field after six rounds in the Asian Chess Championship.
Indian GM Sasikiran beat Yannick Pelletier to go to the top after the sixth round in the Biel International chess festival.
GM Alexander Morozevich of Russia, with 3.5 points from first five games, leads after the fifth round of the Grandmaster section in the Biel International Chess Festival.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran recorded his second straight victory humbling GM Mahamad Al-Modiahki of Qatar in the fifth round.
The Indian GM drew the second game of the semi-final against GM Andrei Volokitn of Ukraine to lose 0.5-1.5 in the Lausanne Young Masters International Chess tournament.
He was beaten by Andrei Volokitin in the first game of the two-game semi-final on Saturday.
The Indian GM took off with a lucky victory over Vitaly Tseshkovsky in the opening round of the Aeroflot International open.
IM Neelotpal Das also continued with his good form and held GM Ashot Anastesian for the second time in the World Chess championship.
The Indian Grandmaster played a draw against highly regarded Ukranian in the first game of the second round in the World Chess Championship.\n\n
Senior Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president and top DDCA official CK Khanna has been kept out of the two primary committees that will look into the organisation of the International Cricket Council World T20 matches at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium.
Krishnan Sasikiran, P Harikrishna and Surya Shekhar Ganguly won their second round ties to lead the fray along with 21 others in the Dubai International Chess championship.
Grandmasters Surya Shekhar Ganguly and GM Sandipan Chanda continued to share the lead with 5.5 points after the conclusion of the seventh round of the 42nd National 'A' Chess Championship.
The half point at the British chess championship boosted Ghate's changes of a Woman Grandmaster norm.
FCA has alleged that the Roxor, which M&M imports in the US from India as knocked-down kits, was "a nearly identical copy of the iconic Jeep design", adding that the product was modelled after the original Willys Jeep.
The duo are a half point ahead of a pack of four after the eighth round in the Parsvnath chess tournament.
The two Grandmasters have 3.5 points each after four rounds in the National 'A' men's chess championship.
On Nooyi, who is now in her 10th year as CEO, Fortune said, she "shows no signs of slowing down"
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The Indian GM played a hard-fought 57-move draw with defending champion Peter Leko at the Dortmund chess tournament.
The young Grandmaster scored a record nine points out of a possible 11 in the tournament.
The top seeded GM leads the field in the National 'B' chess championship.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday
BCCI president Anurag Thakur and coach Anil Kumble on Wednesday attended a meeting with ICC and Hawk Eye representatives, who made a detailed presentation of the upgraded version of Decision Review System (DRS). There are talks that DRS could be used during the upcoming India-England series, comprising five Tests, or during the series against Australia later. As per initial feedback, the BCCI bigwigs including the president and the coach have felt that there are "some improvements" which meant that some of India's issues have been addressed in the upgraded system.
The agency on Monday questioned three general managers of the Punjab National Bank who have handled the -International Banking Division and Treasury department of the bank, officials said without revealing their identity.
'At least 7 to 8 players, who are all Test team specialists will have to be in England in June'
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
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Ponting shrugged off Australia's injury worries and the idea of there being risk in rushing Smith and Warner into the team.
The BCCI had been vehemently opposed to signing up with NADA, claiming that it is an autonomous body, not a National Sports Federation and does not rely on government funding.
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