Indian doctor Sabeel Ahmed, sentenced to 18 months in jail for withholding information about his brother's plot to blow up Glasgow airport, will be deported from Britain on Wednesday as he has already served the time while on trial. Sabeel, 28, who worked at the National Health Service and had admitted that he failed to inform the police about his brother Kafeel's plans to carry out the suicide bombing last year, will be escorted by two Police officers to Bangalore.
Champion pistol shooter Jitu Rai, Rahi Sarnobat and P N Prakash have been recommended by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) for the prestigious Arjuna Awards this year.
Heavyweight boxer David Nyika did more than just win his second Commonwealth Games gold medal on Saturday. He shut the parochial Australian crowd up.
Investigations are on to find out if there are any links between the UK terror plot and the attack at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore in 2005, he said.
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Arpinder Singh clinched India's first men's triple jump gold in 48 years with a jump of 16.77m in the Asian Games, in Jakarta, on Wednesday.
The somber note marking Sabeel's impending return is in sharp contrast to the return of his cousin Dr Haneef Mohammad, who had returned to a rousing welcome organised by his family members, after he was absolved of terror charges by the Australian government.
Jamaica's former world champion Yohan Blake sailed into the final of the 100 metres at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday, living up to his top billing on the opening day of the athletics at the Gold Coast.
Celtic took a firm stride towards winning the Scottish Premier League for the fourth successive season when they beat Glasgow rivals Rangers 1-0 at Ibrox on Saturday to extend their lead to seven points.
World champion Matthew Glaetzer, favourite to win the men's sprint gold at the Commonwealth Games, crashed out of the preliminary rounds on Saturday after an 'embarrassing' tactical blunder against Malaysian rank outsider Muhammad Sahrom.
India's boxers are remembered only during a big event, says Olympics medal hope Akhil Kumar. 'Before and after that no one cares.'
The AFP has provided Haneef's lawyers with the transcript of the 12 hours they interrogated the Indian doctor before charging him on July 14 with providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Indian women's team had won a bronze medal at Incheon four years ago and Sindhu hoped they can change the colour of the medal this time when the multi-sport event gets underway on August 18.
The 18-year-old, who broke the world record in Saturday's 50m event, smashed his own world junior mark while winning the 100m final in a Russian senior record of 52.53 seconds.
Haneef has said he wanted to tell the police that he had left a SIM card with a cousin who was implicated in the attacks.
The Australian Federal Police on Friday dropped charges against Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
It was Haneef's decision to give his mobile phone SIM card to Ahmed (with whom he once lived in Britain) that led to him being charged with recklessly providing resources to a terrorist organisation.
Visit London, a UK-based tourism promotion agency, has said the British High Commission might take extra time to process the visa applications of Indians from a particular religion or community.
Both Ahmed and another Indian doctor detained in Australia, Mohammed Haneef, also from Bangalore, had worked together in Halton Hospital in Cheshire in 2005.
Indian national Kafeel Ahmed, who drove a burning jeep into the Glasgow airport last year and succumbed to his injuries weeks later, had sent an email to his Liverpool-based brother Sabeel before he embarked on his deadly mission.
The Netherlands, Poland, Croatia and Spain also booked trips to the finals in Austria and Switzerland in the penultimate round of qualifiers.
Touching home in a time of 3:42.44, Sun held off a storming swim from Olympic champion Horton, who had failed to even qualify for the event at the Australian trials but was added to the squad as a discretionary pick.
Australian police have admitted they had a secret "contingency" plan to keep Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, then a terror suspect in the failed terror plots in London and Glasgow, behind bars if he was bailed by a Brisbane court.
Indian shooter Prakash Nanjappa will compete at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games three years after being told by doctors that his career was over. In 2013, he suffered 'a type of stroke or paralytic attack' at a world cup event in Granada, Spain, and was diagnosed with a type of paralysis known as Bell's palsy, chiefly on the right side of his face. "The scariest part was when the doctor said I would have to stop shooting," Nanjappa said. "That motivated me to come back.
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His lawyer Peter Russo said that the Indian doctor now wants to clear his name by releasing the full transcript of the interview.
India rested skipper Rahul Dravid along with Sachin Tendulkar, who also sat out the one-off ODI against Scotland in Glasgow on Monday.
A study has found that struggling to cope with a deluge of emails is leaving staff tired, frustrated and unproductive.
Celtic completed a remarkable recovery to win the Scottish Premier League title for the third season in a row after a 1-0 win at Dundee United on Thursday. They finished three points clear of Rangers, who lost 2-0 at Aberdeen and had substitute Nacho Novo sent off, having trailed their Glasgow arch-rivals by seven points only last month.
Dr Sabeel Ahmed was arrested in UK in connection with the failed UK terror plot in the year 2007. His brother Kafeel Ahmed, who allegedly drove the burning SUV into Glasgow airport, died of burn injuries in hospital nearly three months after the incident. Dr Sabeel Ahmed remained in custody for nearly 8 months. The police had charged him with concealing information regarding the terror plot.
The Jamaican clocked 9.98 seconds into a slight breeze at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial in front of a 20,000 crowd on a new track laid down the side of the infield.
The revelation has cast fresh doubts over handling of the Haneef case by the Australian Federal Police.
Haneef's contact with Sabeel Ahmed, who was the third person to be charged in connection with last month's botched car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, was about the birth of his first child, Fairfax newspapers reported.
Olympique Lyon and Fenerbahce filled the last two Champions League knockout places after wins over Rangers and CSKA Moscow.
It may be recalled that after the Madrid blasts of March 2004, the Madrid police had detained two or three Gujarati traders of Madrid because some SIM cards recovered by the police during their investigation had been bought from these traders.
'She already knows two vaults and now I am teaching her a third one. She can perform any two but which two, that we have not decided. The basic training (for Handspring 540) has begun and after two months she will start performing'
Manika Batra's sensational run at the Commonwealth Games culminated with a fourth medal in as many events while India emerged as the best table tennis nation with a record eight medals including three gold medals.
Shooter Shreyasi Singh entered the 2010 Commonwealth Games shattered and with grief, gloom for company following the sudden demise of her father.
India have won the men's table tennis gold beating Nigeria 3-0 in the final
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