New Delhi : World No 1 women’s doubles tennis player Sania Mirza has been chosen for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award after she was recommended for the country’s highest sporting honour by the awards committee led by retired Chief Justice of Kerala V K Bali. The committee also recommended 17 names for the Arjuna […]

Bangalore: Pankaj Advani of Bangalore and former World Champion of Billiards, besides Khel Ratna at 20, won the first gold medal for India, in the 16th Asiad at Guang Zhou City in China, to raise India’s rankings among Medal winners on Sunday. Any number of silver medals would not count, but one gold won by […]

A portrait of a star cricketer from India. Mumbai: E veryone likes to watch the play of “master blaster” Sachin Tendulkar as punishing batsman. He has been playing test, ODI and T-20 matches for the last 20 years, and is still there to represent India in any such game. He is a short man just […]