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Indian team to be named today
KOLKATA, AUG. 4.The Indian one-day squad for the Holland triangular and the Champions Trophy in England will be named here on Thursday. The five National selectors are not expected to throw surprises despite India failing to win the Asia Cup in ...

Jayawardene hauls Sri Lanka out of the woods
GALLE, AUG. 4. Mahela Jayawardene notched up his 12th Test century on Wednesday to help Sri Lanka overcome an early collapse and reach a first innings score of 279 for seven wickets at the close of the first day of the first Test against South ...

Other Stories

SET bags telecast rights for Holland event

Kendriya Vidyalaya has it easy

Shashank shines

Praveen shines

Shirralan bags four wickets

Hat-trick by Raju

Urooj Bin scores century

Agarkar shines on rain-hit day

Play washed out

Tennis

Hrbaty halts Federer

Arushi ousts Garima

Punam-Irane duo clinches title

Hockey

India clinches series against Ireland

Big win for Sports Hostel

Football

Hans holds Ahbab

Lack of evidence to save Eriksson

Scholes calls it quits

HAL keeps title

China in final

Tollygunge draws with Ever-Ready

Athletics

Vinod bags two gold medals

Athletes protest against hike in ID card fee

Award for Anju George

Badminton

Aparna promises good display

Datta posts win

Sanave-Jaseel run away with title

Praveenlal wins title

Basketball
ICF survives Signals' onslaught
CHENNAI, AUG. 4. Signals (Delhi), with a late surge, closed the gap on Integral Coach Factory (Chennai) but the local outfit hung on to its slender lead and recorded its second win 78-72 in a Group `C' encounter of the IOB-Ace Club Magnolia ...

S. Railway women post win
CHENNAI, AUG. 4.Southern Railway women's team overcame stiff resistance from Sports Ambassadors from USA to win 64-59 in an exhibition basketball match at the Hindustan College of Engineering here on Tuesday. Geetha (20) and Ranjani (15) ...

Other Stories

ARP wins a thriller

Billiards & Snooker

Vidya, Neeta in quarterfinals

Indian challenge ends

Boxing
Dingko destroys Wongel
HISSAR, AUG. 4.Services' Dingko Singh, with a barrage of right cuts, left Wongel Bhartia with a bloodied face before the Sikkimese pugilist was declared unfit to carry on in their lightweight first round bout in the 51st National boxing ...

Indian pugilists given a warm send-off
NEW DELHI, AUG. 4. The boxers exuded confidence and the national coach expressed cautious optimism as three of the four Olympic qualified pugilists who have been supported for nearly two years by the Associated Cement Companies Limited (ACC) were ...

Carrom
Kubendra Babu, Nirmala bag honours
NEW DELHI, AUG. 4. Dilli Kubendra Babu defeated two-time world champion R. M. Shankara 25-15, 25-1, 25-11 in the final of the eighth SAARC carrom championship at the Tivoli Gardens resort in Mehrauli. The winner drove away a TVS Victor ...

Chess

It's advantage Anand

Three players share lead

Golf

Delightful day for Dewan

Sports : General
Records are made to be broken, says Spitz
NEW YORK, AUG. 4. Mark Spitz said he had come to New York to talk about a medication he promotes, but the questions he was asked focused on swimming, and the prospect that his record of seven Olympic gold medals could soon be surpassed. ...

Other Stories

Shikha Tandon felicitated

Predictions point to U.S. dominating the show

Ever swelling expenditure

FUCC (1) draws matches

Sohan shines

Beach volleyball probables

Table Tennis

Science & Technology beats Income Tax

Volleyball

Indian junior spikers felicitated

Weightlifting

Mahendran is champion

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