The Indian ace, who is a full point clear of nearest rival Zahar Efimenko of Ukraine, needs only a draw in the final round to win the Marx Gyorgy memorial chess tournament.
The Indian ace maintained sole lead in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International chess tournament with an easy draw against Hungarian GM Ferenc Berkes.
The fourth round defeat saw the Indian Grandmaster surrender joint-lead in the Montreal International Chess tournament.
The Grandmaster suffered a shocking defeat in the 2nd round of 43rd National 'A' chess championship.
The Indian Grandmaster was relegated to third after a three-way for first place.
Indian-American Raj Nair, executive vice president and president of Ford North America, has been asked to leave the Detroit-based motor company following allegations of misconduct at work place, has been replaced by another Indian-American, Kumar Galhotra.
P Harikrishna went down fighting against Alexander Grischuk in the fourth round of Aerosvit chess
The International Master shocked the top seeded Grandmaster in the fifth round of the fifth Asian Chess Championship.
Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Modi have learnt from their past mistakes. Modi has understood that Rajapaksa is a 'forever politician' that India has to live with, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Recently, BCCI's GM (Cricket Operations) Saba Karim and head of anti-doping unit Dr Abhijit Salvi met senior NADA officials, including Director General Naveen Agarwal, to discuss the road map after the country's richest sporting body came under its ambit.
The Hussain family from Sopore and Iqbal household in Kashmir's Anantnag are eagerly waiting for their cell phones to buzz. It's been 11 days since 20-year-old Amir Hussain Rather and 25-year-old Wasim Iqbal last spoke with their folks back home.
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu of Romania and World champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan lead the field in the category-16 Super Grandmasters Pune chess festival.
Sasikiran, Hikaru Nakamura and Jan Timman jointly occupy the second spot with 1.5 points each
The Indian GM salvaged a disappointing campaign with a victory in the last round, while Israel's Emil Sutovsky was crowned the winner.
GM Krishnan Sasikiran scored a much-awaited victory against GM Tomasz Markowski of Poland in the fourth round.
Draws ruled the roost in the 8th round as players were only willing to consolidate their position in the Dubai International Chess Championship.
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 Indian Grandmaster beat Evegeny Gleizerov in the ninth and final round in the Masters section of Abu Dhabi Chess Festival.
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 took off with a lucky victory over Vitaly Tseshkovsky in the opening round of the Aeroflot International open.
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 Fortune's 40 under 40 list for this year was topped by Adam Neuman, Co-founder and CEO, WeWork.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The captains and coaches also deliberated over the relevance of Duleep Trophy and the Irani Trophy.
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.
The Indian GM played a hard-fought 57-move draw with defending champion Peter Leko at the Dortmund chess tournament.
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