Sound of cash registers ringing, courtesy football world cup, merry associated with new beginnings and reviving old relationships, overseas buyouts and million dollar investments best describes year 2006 for the Indian consumer electronics industry.
Luis Suarez returned from injury to give Uruguay a 1-0 lead in the first half in their World Cup Group D match against England on Friday.
Alan Ball, the youngest member of England's 1966 World Cup winning side, has died of a suspected heart attack at the age of 61.
The India-Lebanon 2010 football World Cup qualifier was postponed in Chennai on Sunday due to heavy rain.
Ticket sales in Goa, Delhi will go up after draw, says Tournament director Javier Ceppi.
Argentina slumped to a humiliating 11-0 loss to Germany in the opening match of the women's football World Cup, the worst defeat in the tournament's history.
A look at the sand sculpture of Brazilian football star Ronaldinho in Kolkata
Sami-al Jaber is the only Saudi player to have tasted club football outside the country, when he spent an ill-fated and injury-ridden five months on loan with England's Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2000
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday said the MLAs who visited Brazil to watch the recent football World Cup would pay from their pockets.
The danger of attacks by Islamic extremists was especially high, weekly magazine Stern reported
Eleven lucky Indians will get an opportunity to watch a match as part of ESPN Star Sports' "Gyarah Hindustani" contest.
Bindra said the four countries would strive to make it better than the two editions they had held before.
Guwahati is the venue of one of the semi-finals of the Under-17 football World Cup to be held across six cities from October 6-28.
In a historic first for international football, seven women officials have been picked as support referees for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup in India, which kicks off on October 6.
The United States reached the final of the women's football World Cup for the second time in a row on Tuesday, taking advantage of a dubious penalty to beat top-ranked Germany 2-0 in a hugely enjoyable game.
One-legged Egyptian soccer players aim for a league of their own.
Since December 2003, India's ranking has gone down at an alarming rate, losing 16 places from No. 127.
Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira believes hosts Germany rather than his own team are favourites to win the World Cup.
With a population of just 1.1 million, the two-island nation will be the smallest at the 2006 Football World Cup finals.
India held Oman to a goalless draw in the Asian Zone Group 3 tie of the Asian 2006 football World Cup qualifiers.
A puppet lion designed with the help of the Jim Henson Company and going by the name of Goleo VI will be the official mascot of the 2006 Football World Cup.
Frenchman Lucien Laurent, who scored the first goal in World Cup history in 1930, died on Monday aged 97.
President will lead a five-member delegation to the memorial service.
He just finished his first foreign visit as prime minister and now PM Narendra Modi has has been invited to witness the final of the World Cup football currently being held in Brazil.
Skipper Baichung Bhutia's injury is the only worry for India on the eve of the Asian Zone World Cup qualifier.
FIFA boss Sepp Blatter unveiled the 2018 World Cup logo with cosmonauts in Moscow, which has a strong resemblance to an alien.
India suffered their second defeat in three matches in the Asian zone Group 3 first round, losing 0-7 in Saitama, Japan.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is showing "sustained improvement", the presidency said on Monday, six weeks after the anti-apartheid hero was hospitalized with a life-threatening lung infection.
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