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Badminton
India fails to qualify
KOCHI, FEB. 24. After all the early good work, there was pain and disappointment for India as badminton's Thomas Cup qualifiers wound up in Eindhoven on Sunday. Only three teams qualify from Eindhoven for the eight- team Thomas Cup finals and ...


Chess
Vallejo holds Kasparov
LINARES, FEB. 24. The opening day belonged to the two teenaged debutants, 18-year-old FIDE World champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine and 19-year-old Francisco Pons Vallejo of Spain. Ponomariov repeated what he did in Moscow recently by ...
Sasikiran races ahead
COFFEE TIME: K. Sasikiran (left), who now leads the field with his easy seventh round win over R.B. Ramesh, seen in the company of Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury who beat IM Tejas Bakre in the Asian Open chess championship in Bikaner on Sunday. - Photo: ...


Cricket
India closes in for the kill
NAGPUR, FEB. 24. India is all set to sign off in style. The dismissal of Andrew Flower for a single digit for the second time has made certain that Zimbabwe would capitulate at some point of time on Monday. Hemming in the Zimbabwe batsmen was a ...
Bangar emulates Pankaj Roy
** Sanjay Bangar's unbeaten 100 in his only second innings (but the second Test match) makes him the only second Indian batsman after Pankaj Roy to register a maiden Test hundred in the only second innings of their respective careers but in their ...
Australia humiliates S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG. FEB. 24. Shane Warne moved into the second place on the list of all-time wicket takers here on Sunday as Australia humiliated South Africa winning the first Test inside three days at the Wanderers. South Africa was thrashed by an ...
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  • Easy win for South Zone


    Football
    Kerala, Orissa in quarterfinals
    KOLKATA, FEB. 24. Orissa from group A and Kerala from group B moved into the quarterfinals of the 10th senior National women's football championship on Sunday. Orissa, playing at the Sports Authority of India, Eastern Centre, here overcame a ...
    East Bengal scrapes through
    BANGALORE, FEB. 24. East Bengal avenged its first phase defeat at the hands of Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), Bangalore with a solitary goal win in a Tata National Football League match at the Football Stadium here on Sunday. But the Kolkata ...


    Golf
    Atwal creates history
    SINGAPORE, FEB. 24. Arjun Atwal made history on Sunday when he became the first Indian and only fourth Asian pro to win a European PGA Tour event. Atwal annexed the $900,000 Caltex Singapore Masters by an emphatic margin of five strokes, at the ...


    Hockey
    India huffs and puffs for a draw
    KUALA LUMPUR, FEB. 24. On this humid and hectic opening day of the hockey World Cup, that brought on view all the 16 combatants, the contours of the battles ahead were clear enough for everyone at Bukit Jalil. The sequence could have been ...


    Racing : Horse
    Billie Jean wins Alcock Barb Stakes
    HYDERABAD FEB 24. Dr. M. A. M. Ramaswamy's Billie Jean (J. Abraham astride) won the Alcock Barb Stakes, the feature event of the concluding day's races here today. The winner is trained by Satheesh. Dr. Ramaswamy became the leading individual ...
    Priceless wins main event
    MUMBAI, FEB 24. Dr. M. A. M. Ramaswamy's Priceless (B. Prakash up) won the Poonawalla Breeders Multimillion, the main event at the races here today. The winner is trained by Ganapathy. The results: 1. HER EXCELLENCY PLATE (2,000m), Cl. V, ...


    Racing : Motor
    Jassy enthrals the crowd
    BANGALORE, FEB. 24. Nipendar Jassy, the ace two-wheeler rider from Delhi, treated the large crowd of motocross enthusiasts to a thrilling display of dirt track riding to win both his events in the MRF National Motocross championship at the ...


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    Tennis
    A gloomy state of affairs
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 24. The Indian players struggle to make their presence felt, as the Syndicate Bank $25,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament begins at the DLTA Complex here on Monday. The fact that none of 15 Indian girls could fetch a berth ...


    Table Tennis
    PSCB looking to settle scores
    NEW DELHI, FEB. 24. When the 63rd National and inter-State table tennis championship commences here on Monday, defending champion in both men and women sections, Petroleum Sports Control Board (PSCB), will have a score to settle with the ...


    Cycling
    Overall title for Karnataka
    BELGAUM, FEB. 24. Karnataka won the overall title in the seventh National road cycling championship with 94 points at the conclusion of the five-day meet here on Sunday. The results: Men: 40km criterium race: 1. Paramjit Singh (SSCB) 19 pts; 2. ...

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