Unless Wimbledon coughs up more cash for prize money, male tennis players could boycott the grasscourt Grand Slam in 2004.
India's Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia in the sixth round to remain static in third spot in the 10th Tal Memorial Chess tournament, in Moscow.
The fourth seed Thai beat top seed Isha Lakhani 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the ITF women's tennis tournament.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu underlined her status as the leading all-round swimmer with a world record in the women's 200 metres individual medley at the world championships on Monday.
November 14 will see a film fest including 109 films from 34 countries.
The world's greatest cricketers will play a one-off six-day Test and three game one-day series in Sydney and Melbourne in October 2005.
The duo are a half point ahead of a pack of four after the eighth round in the Parsvnath chess tournament.
The Indian golfer fired a three-under 69 on the second day of the Sega Sammy Cup in Hokkaido.
Tisco to set up polytechnic in Jamshedpur
The Olympic, World and European 100 metre champions and the world record holder will feature in a Moscow athletics meeting on Saturday.
As per the proposed format, Rs 7.1 million will be on offer in two divisions of the league, expected to get underway in September.
Banerjee, 58, was educated at the University of Calcutta, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D in 1988. He is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The award committee recognised his contribution to the growth of Indian and global economies, crediting 'Modinomics' for reducing social and economic disparity between the rich and the poor.
Ferrari made a strong start to the first day of Formula One testing, on Monday, with four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel top of the timesheets at lunchtime with 72 laps completed.
Lindsay Davenport claimed her first title of the year beating Jelena Jankovic in the final.
Sania Mirza won her first title of the season and 23rd of her career when she and Bethanie Mattek-Sands shocked top-seeded Americans Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops-Jones in the summit clash of the Apia International in Sydney on Friday.
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