New Delhi: After V. Anand, P. Advani, Mary Kom, who in India Sport? It could be 21 year old badminton star Saina Nehwal of Hyderabad. In between, Sachin Tendulkar, Vijay Kumar (boxer) and others may squeeze in. But Saina took the gold in Commonwealth Games and put India above England with the 37th gold and […]

New Delhi : As the curtains were drawn on the 19th Commonwealth Games, the impressive closing ceremony, held on Thursday, will be remembered by people who love traditional dance and art forms of India. One of the special features of the ceremony was ‘Agni’ or, the fire. Presented at the outset of the ceremony, ‘Agni’ […]

New Delhi: Women weight lifters Sonia Chanu and Sandhyarani Devi took a silver and a bronze medal in their competitions in today’s Commonwealth Games. They are likely to get around Rs.17.5 lakhs and Rs.8 lakhs respectively from the govt of India. Both winners of medals expressed satisfaction, while the coach (Harman) shed crocodile tears for […]

Mangalore: The Queen’s Baton of Commonwealth Games entered Dakshina Kannada district via Gundya, Nellyadi on September 5, Sunday. Prabhakar Sharma, Additional DC, on behalf of the DK District Administration  received  the the baton from Wing Commander V.N.Singh, the relay commander. District in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar, SP Dr Subrahmanyeshwara Rao, DK Zilla Panchayat President Santhosh […]

Mangalore : Mangalore is fully ready to receive the Queen’s Baton Relay with the full arrangement which will go around the which is touring all over India to promote the forthcoming Commonwealth Games. The Baton, which has already entered Karnataka, will arrive in Mangalore on September 5, Sunday. V. Ponnuraj, the deputy commissioner of DK, […]

Mumbai: Industrialist and Pune MP Suresh Kalmady of Udupi origin is under fire from Bal Thackeray of Shiv Sena in an encounter over Commonwealth Games. Without mining words, Balaji fixed Kalmady as the main accused for throwing away funds left and right in the name of CWG and allow corruption on a large scale in […]

(from P. Ramesh Rao) Desk : No one is against the Commonwealth Games. But only it should not be held in India, under Sheila Dixit, Suresh Kalmadi, others like Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor as in IPL-3, where sports and games begin with a BANG and end in whimper. We hear presently that many outstanding […]