Indian football team's hopes of rising in FIFA rankings have been dashed with cancellation of two international friendlies against Philippines and Malaysia owing to rescheduling of the SAFF Cup.
Defending champions India, with several experienced players in their ranks, have the upper hand in their opening encounter against Japan in the sixth men's Junior Asia Cup hockey tournament, starting in Hyderabad on Friday. India had beaten arch-rivals Pakistan to clinch the title in the last edition of the event at Karachi four years ago.
The trio, according to sources, will provide input to BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya and secretary Anurag Thakur, who were on Sunday entrusted with the job of finding the new coach at the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Working Committee meeting in Kolkata.
In the second men's semi-final in the National Badminton Championships, fourth seed Arvind Bhatt takes on fifth seed Anand Pawar.
The national selection committee, under Sandeep Patil, is likely to leave it to limited-overs' captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to decide on his availability for the short tour of Zimbabwe, from June 11-20.
Chetan Anand and Saina Nehwal retained the men's and women's singles titles at the National Badminton Championship.
The much-awaited league for men will be launched by the Basketball Federation of India in October.
Indian Airlines and Railways strengthened their chances of a place in the knock-out stage after registering their third successive victories in the National Hockey Championship.
They beat Harinder Pal Singh and Gaurav Nandrajog respectively in straight sets in the men's semi-finals of the National Squash Championships.
The two sides agreed to meet again later in March, possibly in the last week of the month.
The Bill shall establish the supremacy of Muslim Personal Law in the State and abolish customary law prevalent in some parts of the state.
In another match of the knock-out stage of the National Hockey Championship, Mumbai will meet Chattisgarh.
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist beat Rupesh Shah of Gujarat by six frames to five in a nail-biting final.
Saina Nehwal and Chetan Anand won the women's and men's titles respectively at the National Badminton Championship.
Doha Asian Games silver medallist Ashok Shandilya recorded three century breaks -- while scoring beating Chetan Chabra of Haryana in the Senior National Billiards Championship.
Assam's Bijit Gogoi was forced to share the 90 kg title with Sham Rahate of Maharashtra 'A' in controversial circumstances at the 45th Senior National Body Building Championship.
The veteran cueist beat Pankaj Advani in the final to win the Senior National billiards title after nine years.
The former beat Railways 1-0 while PSB blanked Chandigarh 2-0 in the Super League of the National hockey championship.
Punjab and Sind Bank will take on Services in the first Super League match of the 62nd Senior\nNational Hockey Championship at the Surjit hockey stadium in Jalandhar on Saturday.
Haryana scored thrice in last 12 minutes to win the Pool H match in the Senior National Hockey Championship.
The ace drag-flicker netted all his goals from penalty-corners as Punjab routed Chhattisgarh in the National Hockey Championship.
Twin defeats to Saudi Arabia saw India plummet to 136 in the latest rankings
While Sethi lost to Sourav Kothari, Joshi was beaten by Yogesh Rai in the league stage of the Senior National billiards championship.
Top seed Ritwik Bhattacharya was made to work hard for his 7-9, 9-1, 9-7, 9-1 victory over Maharashtra's Vikram Malhotra at the Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
The 17-year-old leg spinner said it is an honour to even share dressing room space with stars like Tendulkar, Dravid and Pathan.
President Xi Jinping was on Thursday elevated as the "core leader" of China's ruling Communist Party, conferring on him a status similar to that of party founder 'Chairman' Mao Zedong that dilutes the three-decade-old collective leadership principle to avoid personality cult.
'The RSS had nothing to do with organising the event,' senior RSS leader Indresh Kumar tells Rediff.com
A tough draw will put their grit to test when the three-member Indian boxing team begins its Olympic campaign, aiming to lift the gloom that pervades the sport back home owing to the long-standing administrative mess.
P V Sindhu cemented her position as a dominant force on the world stage with an Olympic silver medal while Saina Nehwal continued to battle with injuries in a year, which saw Indian badminton take giant strides at the global platform. It turned out to be a watershed year for Sindhu, who reached the upper echelons of world badminton with a silver medal at Rio Games -- an achievement also for her mentor and chief coach Pullela Gopichand, who became the only Indian coach to produce two Olympic medallists. On the other hand, for the first part of the year, it was Saina's battle with injuries which dominated the headlines even though she was considered to be the best bet for India at Rio. The Indian ace fought against time to recover from an Achilles tendons and went on to win the Australian Super Series.
Ritwik Bhattacharya beat fourth seed Egyptian Mohammed Essam A Hafiz in the Kolkata International Squash Championship.
British police have recruited Syrian refugee mothers as the face of a new campaign to prevent young girls in the UK fleeing to join the Islamic State terror group.
Senior National Democratic Alliance leaders urge the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioner to keep a watch on Bihar's bureaucratic reshuffles
Having spent considerable time under Rahul Dravid's tutelage in Rajasthan Royals as well as the India 'A' set-up, talented Karun Nair is grateful to the Karnataka legend for giving him the "right confidence" which has gone a long way in him earning a call-up to the Test squad.
Ritwik Bhattacharya dethroned Saurav Ghosal to regain the men's crown, while Joshna Chinappa retained the women's title in the Sr National Squash Championships.
Top seed Joshna Chinappa and Deepali Anwekar-Parikh will contest the women's final in the \nSenior National and Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
The unseeded Maharashtra lass beat the third seed to enter the semi-finals in the 53rd Senior National and 30th Bombay Gymkhana Maharashtra State Open Squash Championships.
They scored thumping victories over Yasin Marchant and Sarang Shroff respectively in the semi-finals of the National Snooker Championship.
Former champion Devendra Joshi came back from a 400 point deficit to annexe the title, defeating Dhruv Sitwala in the final.
Former world amateur snooker champion Pankaj Advani clinched the 71st Senior National Billiards championship in Mumbai.
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