A summary of sportspersons in the news on Sunday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Indian Grandmaster P Harikrishna started his campaign by outclassing Eric De Haan of Holland in the first round of the Masters' section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess festival at the Caleta in Gibraltar.
'He asked us to spread awareness on social distancing and hygiene. He spoke about how we need Virat's (Kohli) fighting spirit to win this battle'
Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand started his campaign at the Bilbao Final Masters with a crushing win over former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine in Bilbao, Spain.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
'I don't think that I have done anything great. I haven't won any Olympic gold medal.'
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Tuesday
Instagram sensation Dan Bilzerian makes a pit stop at the Indian Poker Championship.
Sivamani will make his debut as a composer in the Tamil film Arima Nambi.
Rediff.com brings you a glance of all the action from the week gone by.
As the legend turns 40, we take a look at his journey in cricket and life.
N Srinivasan was on Sunday elected unopposed as president of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) for the 12th year on the trot.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
'I didn't think before the start of the Olympics that I would make it to the final and win a medal.' 'I just thought of going there and giving my best, taking one match at a time.'
Life insurance companies are balancing the increasing use of celebrity endorsers by limiting the association to short, event-led campaigns.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
P V Sindhu opens her campaign in the China Open women's singles against Evgeniya Kosetskaya of Russia, in Fuzhou, China, on Tuesday.
'It was a big relief to get it out of the way. Now he can concentrate on future progress.'
'It will be like this: If you use the window seat in the first row, next will be the aisle in the second row, to maintain social distancing.' 'So, two-thirds of the aircraft is not going to be used.'
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Protests demanding Jallikattu swelled on the streets of Tamil Nadu after agitators rejected statements by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister O Panneerselvam and the state braced for a shutdown on Friday.
'Most likely scenario is Modi comes back with either a much smaller majority and no majority at all and a coalition.' 'Very hard to imagine him doing better than he did last time.' 'He will then be a weaker prime minister,' the author of The Billionaire Raj tells Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
Indians who live away from home tells us how they are celebrating the winter harvest festival.
Anjana Reddy explores the market for home-grown Indian celebrity fashion brands at affordable prices.
'You worry when serious people, with control of our and our children's future, begin to start obsessing over social media, seeing it as an easy, lazy, fun, low-cost substitute for boring, old-fashioned practices of politics, governance and serious, fact-based debate,' says Shekhar Gupta.
'Unless Modi uses his power to make people work, he will not succeed. He may cry hoarse but he will not succeed.' V Kalyanam, Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary, tells Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com why Modi's Clean India campaign won't succeed easily.
Scientist, humanist, icon, Albert Einstein offered a lot more to the world than E=MC2, which is probably just one of the reasons why he remains one of the most enduring figures in human history. So what lessons can we learn from a life less ordinary? Virender Kapoor tells us just that.
Siva Sankar looks at S P Balasubrahmanyam's fantastic repertoire.
Increasing the duties on auto parts and putting an additional cess on petrol and diesel could drive up costs of vehicles, specially where volumes are low and localisation is not viable.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The International Chamber of Commerce's arbitration body International Court of Arbitration has ruled in our favour in the Antrix-Devas arbitration case and Antrix is liable to pay damages totalling $672 million to it, Devas said on Tuesday.
Indian chess diva Tania Sachdev holds forth on women in the sport.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers's queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
