In the first upset of the tournament, India's Siddharth Parikh on Monday shocked multiple-time World champion Peter Gilchrist in a closely fought battle 500-483 at the 2016 IBSF World Billiards Championship in the 500 long-up format.
The ace Indian cueist beat John Hartely of England in the opening match of the World Billiards Championship.
But former Asian champion Yasin Merchant and Alok Kumar bowed out of the world Snooker Championships.
Eight-time World champion Pankaj Advani continued his fine run to enter the pre-quarter-finals of the third European Players Tour Championship (PTC) of the season, the Bluebell Wood Open, being held at Doncaster Dome, in Sheffield.
They scored narrow victories over Ding Junhui and Mark Allen respectively in the semis of the World under-21 snooker championship.
The Indian champion went down to Australian professional Neil Robertson in the quarter-finals of the World Under-21 snooker championship
Mehta strengthened his chances of qualifying for the knock-out stage by recording his fourth straight win
The sixth seed beat giant-killer Rushabh Thukral 6-1 in NSCI Invitational Snooker Championship.
The Indian cueist went down to Warren Kiamco of Philippines in the semi-finals of the San Miguel Asian 9-ball Pool tour.
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The Indian national champion easily beat fifth seeded Brendan O'Donoghye of Ireland in the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championships.
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The Indian champion overcame a late challenge from Tian Pengfei of China to make the grade in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
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It was a case of so near yet so far for veteran Indian cueists Alok Kumar and Ashok Shandilya. Both fell just before the final hurdle in the World Billiards Championship in Leeds.
Australian Terry Walsh is set to be appointed as head coach of the Indian men's hockey team after the Sports Authority of India recommended his name to the Sports Ministry.
Indian ace cueist Pankaj Advani lost a thriller 3-4 against young Scottish rival Rhys Clark to exit the 300,000 pound sterling Indian Open World Ranking Snooker Tournament in Mumbai on Tuesday.
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Manan Chandra continued his impressive run at the IBSF World Snooker Championships with another comfortable victory even as other Indian cueists enjoyed a mixed day in Daugavpils (Latvia) on Tuesday.
Tennis accounted for nearly three quarters of all the suspicious betting alerts issued last year, the European Sport Security Association (ESSA) said in a report published on Thursday.
Shooter Ronjan Sodhi picked for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the selection committee.
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'That has always been my ambition -- to take the reader behind the scenes, to the places he was not allowed to visit, but which I had the privilege of entering.' Haresh Pandya remembers Ted Corbett, sports journalist extraordinaire, who passed into the ages on August 9.
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In a significant but tricky move, Sports Minister Vijay Goel has said that a resolution has been passed to transfer sports from the State List of the Indian Constitution to the Concurrent List in a meeting of the National Sports Federations called by the government in New Delhi.
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The Sports Ministry confirmed on Thursday that it will stick to the original list of winners for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards, thereby dashing discus thrower Krishna Poonia's hopes of being conferred the country's highest sporting honour.
In an unprecedented move, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting award, will be conferred on four athletes this year. The Sports Ministry announced on Monday that Olympic medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik will be honoured alongside trail-blazing gymnast Dipa Karmakar and ace shooter Jitu Rai.
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Sports Minister Jitendra Singh was far from impressed as he took stock of India's preparations for next year's Commonwealth and Asian Games in a meeting with SAI officials here and expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made so far.
Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta have seen failure and come out stronger.
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Amiya Kumar Mallick, 21, will undergo a four-month training stint in Kingston, Jamaica, under the watchful eyes of Glenn Mills at the Racers Track Club. Mills is the club's head coach and has worked with the two fastest men in the world currently -- Bolt and Yohan Blake.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud "bang" from inside the venue.
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After becoming the first Indian to reach the final of a major ranking event, it was a sad end to Aditya Mehta's winning streak at the Indian Open World Snooker Championship, as he went down tamely to China's Ding Junhui in the summit clash in Delhi on Friday night.
India must watch for signs after Peshawar that Pakistan is waking up to the dangers of Islamism, muses Ajai Shukla
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