All four persons, including state minister Sabitri Mitra's son-in-law Samadip Sarkar alias Tinku, accused of beating up Election Commission personnel in Malda's Manikchak area were arrested on Friday.
The 23-year-old Bangalore-based cueist posted a 150-90, 151-0, 150-24, 150-0, 86-150, 150-72, 150-12 victory to win the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards Points Format Championship.
Pankaj Advani survived a scare before beating New Zealand's Gary Oliver in a league encounter of the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Tuesday. The 23-year-old local boy prevailed over his dogged opponent 3-2 (101-151, 151-98, 117-151, 152-0, 151-107), but not before some tense moments in an edge-of-the-seat match at the Karnataka State Billiards Association hall.
Indian players, including Pankaj Advani, Rupesh Shah and Geet Sethi scored easy victories during the opening day of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Monday.
Defending champions Pankaj Advani (timed format), who is in line for a hattrick, and Rupesh Shah (point format) will be seen in action in the IBSF World Billiards Championship which gets underway in Bangalore on Monday.
Chetan Anand's bid to win his third title on the trot came crashing as the national champion went down fighting against third seed Indonesian Andre K Tedjono in the men's singles final at the Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament in Amsterdam on Sunday. Sixth seed Chetan lost 15-21, 21-11, 19-21 in a 51-minute gruelling battle.
Indian shuttlers had a field day in the KLRC Bulgarian Grand Prix in Sofia. Aditi Mutatkar, in the women's singles, Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas, in the men's doubles, and the mixed doubles pair of V Diju and Jwala Gutta entered the quarter-finals on Thursday.
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Chetan Anand and Saina Nehwal retained the men's and women's singles titles at the National Badminton Championship.
He will take over the doubles responsibilities for the Thomas Cup.
Pankaj Advani qualified for the Asian Billiards Championships after topping the selection trials.
Also making the last 16 was the Sanave Thomas-Rupesh Kumar combination in the men's doubles, and woman shuttler Trupti Murugunde.
Divij Sharan, Vivek Shokeen, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya and National champion Ashutosh Singh advanced to the last eight stage in the US $10,000 grass court tournament.
Chetan Anand and Trupti Murgunde bowed out after losing their first round singles matches at the World Badminton Championships at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday.
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist beat Rupesh Shah of Gujarat by six frames to five in a nail-biting final.
Indian shuttlers thrashed New Zealand 5-0 in a Group B encounter in Glasgow.
After young Pankaj Advani and experienced Ashok Shandiliya fetched a gold and silver on Tuesday, it was the turn of the snooker team, comprising Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Rupesh Shah, to bring cheer to the Indian camp.
The Indo-Czech pair shocked seventh seeds Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel in the third round at the French Open.
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It will be an all-Petroleum Sports Promotion Board affair when Devendra Joshi clashes with Dhruv Sitwala in the final of the National Billiards Championship.
They were beaten by unseeded pair of Dyce and Heliovaara 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3 in the finals.
The 2005 World billiards champion routed Rupesh Shah 2-0 to maintain his unbeaten run in the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
Sanave Thomas and Rupesh Kumar's giant-killing act came to an abrupt end. The Indian duo lost to the third seeded Indonesian pair of Markis Kidos and Hendra Setiawan in the doubles quarter-finals of the badminton competition.
Both scored fluent victories in the quarter-finals of the Shivaji Park Gymkhana Open billiards tournament.
Alok Kumar stormed into the final of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Leeds on Friday and set up a title clash with Englishman David Causier.
Aparna Popat gave a tough fight to Rebecca Bellingam before losing 11-9, 8-11, 9-11 to crash out of the World Badminton Championships
The victory got him a place in the snooker semi-final of the All India Open Invitation tournament on Saturday.
Indian men booked a berth in the Thomas Cup badminton finals by upsetting Hong Kong 3-2 while the eves had to bow out
The team for the Asia-Oceania round includes Sanam Singh, Rupesh Roy and Sumit Gupta.
Vivek Shokeen and Sumit Prakash Gupta won the boys' doubles title in the Grade 5 ITF junior tournament
The two are part of a five-member boys and girls' team which embarks on a six-week tour of Europe on Friday.
They shocked Pankaj Advani and Ashok Shandilya respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.
India's junior Davis Cup team coach said the trio of Jeevan Neduncheziyan, Rupesh Roy and Sanam Singh stayed focused right through the Asia Oceania Zone tournament.
Indian colts blanked top seeds Australia 2-0 in the final of the Junior Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone tennis championship.
Delhi's Manan Chandra and world No 1 woman cueist Kelly Fisher of England won the men's and women's titles respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.\n\n
They need to beat Thailand to advance to the World Group finals.
Nidhi, 42, who has not yet recovered from the injuries suffered in the terrorist attack, arrived around 7.30 am on Friday on a Paris-Mumbai Jet airways flight and was driven to Breach Candy hospital from the airport.
They won the the boys and girls' under-18 titles respectively in the AITA Juniors Masters tournament in Delhi.\n\n
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