The Underwater Photography Guide has announced the winners of their 8th annual Ocean Art Underwater Photography Competition: a selection that runs the gamut between beautiful, eye popping and, in the case of the Conservation category winner, tragic and unnerving. This year's contest attracted "thousands" of entries from 78 countries across the world.
India's Padmini Rout scored an impressive victory with plenty of fireworks to maintain her joint lead in the Girls section but favourite Viddit Santosh Gujrathi suffered a shock loss in the sixth round of the LIC World Junior Chess championship in Pune.
India's H S Prannoy described his stunning win over Olympic champion Chen Long as one of the best of his career and credited his better fitness.
The Indian ace lost to top seed Lee Chong Wei in the third round at the Asian Badminton Championships.
The two players registered contrasting victories in the qualifiers to make it to the main draw of the Sunfeast Open.
IMAGES from Day 6 at Wimbledon on Saturday.
Italy's renowned World Cup winner Alessandro Del Piero has called the Indian Super League football tournament an 'adventure' and said he was 'enthusiastic' about embarking on this new journey.
Top seed Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei beat second seed Montinee Tangphong of Thailand 6-2, 6-3.
With his third victory in the event, Anand came back within striking distance of the leaders. His tally of six points out of ten is only one point less than Holland's Anish Giri, Norway's Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan's Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, all who have seven points apiece.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The Indian stalwart stamped his return with a seven-under-par 64 to take the first round lead.
World rapid champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with world No 1 Magnus Carlsen of Norway in the ninth round of the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, the Netherlands. Settling for his sixth draw in nine games, Anand took his tally to five points and remains joint-sixth in the 14 players, 13-round tournament.
The Chennai pugilist beat Chiang Tzu-wei of Taiwan by RSC, in the World boxing championships.
While seventh seed Bhambri faced some resistance from Poonam Reddy at the Sunfeast Open on Saturday.
President George W Bush and other US leaders do not fully understand the chances of a conflict breaking out and must do more to avert it, the expert said.
On what turned out to be an easy day, Anand had to stretch himself only a little as Karjakin did not attempt any complicated warfare. The result was exchanging of pieces at regular intervals and the players signed peace in an opposite coloured Bishops endgame.
Experienced drag-flicker Rupinder Pal Singh returned to India's men's hockey team, which also features debutant Jaskaran Singh, for the tour of Australia, starting May 10.
Pankaj Advani, Alok Kumar and Yasin Merchant scored their third straight victories make it to the knock-out phase in the Asian Snooker Championship.
India-bashing on outsourcing of jobs from America is totally unjustified, in fact the US and Britain have the largest net surpluses in business services and hence would suffer the most in terms of the foregone dollar value
Rafael Nadal gave a much improved performance to advance into the quarter-finals of the Barcelona Open on Thursday, dispatching Spanish compatriot and crowd favourite David Ferrer 6-3, 6-3.
Zheng Wen-gen, who shot a six-under 65, shares the lead with Australian Marcus Both in the US $275,000 Macau Open.
Dutee Chand joined her illustrious compatriots such as P T Usha in the list of athletes who have won more than one medal at the Asian Games as she added a silver to her kitty after finishing second earlier in the women's 100m dash, in Jakarta, on Wednesday.
China's Su Bingtian held off his opponents with a late burst of speed to win the event in 9.92 seconds.
Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei and Montinee Tangphong of Thailand will clash in the US $ 10,000 tournament final.
India bagged four gold and six silver medals in ongoing Asian Youth weightlifting championships.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
The new regulations, to take effect on March 1, add criminal penalties for serious offenders.
Insider trading -- a punishable offence in the United States -- which increases stock market volatility, is relatively high in India, China, Russia, Venezuela and Mexico, according to a study done for the International Monetary Fund.
Grandmaster and former national champion B Adhiban crashed through the defences of former women's world champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria to remain in joint lead in the Masters section of Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival.
The national women's champion has been top seeded for the Asian Satellite Badminton Championship in Jaipur..
Rui Wanderlei Weis's second-half goal gave the Goa side a 1-0 victory in the NFL.
A tenacious Roberto Bautista Agut battled back to beat world number one Novak Djokovic 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 and advance to the quarter-finals of the Miami Open on Tuesday as the Spaniard claimed his second win over the Serb this year.
The 16-year-old backed his aggressive backhand throughout the contest and went on to win 17 of his 23 points at the net to seal victory in 61 minutes.
The Indian ace, who had a superb 65 in the first round, is eight-under 136 after the second in the Tokai Classic, which is led by Taipei''s Yeh Wei-Tze.
Chinese telecommunication equipment company ZTE Corporation on Friday said it expects to set up a research and development centre in Bangalore by the year-end.
Gaurav Ghei was the lone Indian to shoot an under-par round of 71 in the final to finish tied 12th at the Mercuries Taiwan Masters
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