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Athletics

Umedh topples 23-year-old record
BANGALORE, JAN. 29. Umedh Singh held his nerve and breath while toppling a 23-year old record in the 48th National School Games athletic championship which commenced at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Wednesday. The 12th standard student ...

Badminton
Favourites advance with ease
GUWAHATI, JAN. 29. One sided contests were the order of the day in the 58th inter-State and 67th senior National badminton championship here on Wednesday. Favourites ruled the roost with only two matches going to full distance. Both the ...

Basketball
Battle royale between Railways and Punjab
HYDERABAD, JAN. 29. It turned out to be a battle royale for the No. 1 position in men's Group `B' as both Railways and Punjab tried to avoid an early showdown with Tamil Nadu in the 53rd National senior basketball championship at the Swarnandhra ...

Chess

Vijayalakshmi posts a sensational win
MUMBAI, JAN. 29. Defending champion WGM S. Vijayalakshmi (7.5) of Indian Airlines scored a sensational victory over overnight joint leader IWM Nisha Mohota (7.5) of LIC in the 11th round of the National women's `A' chess championship here on ...

Cricket
COUNTDOWN

Technical Evolution
Ever since the inception of the World Cup in 1975, countries that failed to win have prepared in all seriousness for the next edition. Especially since limited-overs cricket has grown so much in popularity. When Clive Lloyd and Ian Chappell ...

Indians arrive in South Africa
DURBAN, JAN. 29. The Indian cricket team arrived here on Wednesday to a warm welcome from fans and friends with captain Sourav Ganguly asserting that his side should not be ruled out of contention in the World Cup. ``In one-day cricket, every ...

It's all in the mind: Gordon
BANGALORE, JAN. 29. Even as memories of the New Zealand tour rankle, an expectant nation is busy dusting old photographs of Kapil Dev holding aloft the Prudential World Cup and hoping that the Indian cricket team will bask in glory in South ...

Football
Mahindra rides on Damasio brace
CHENNAI, JAN. 29. Brazilian Ednei Jose Damasio only recently joined Mahindra United and he could well be the lucky charm for this Mumbai squad which has an enviable collection of players but for long had been struggling for results. With two ...

ITI on the relegation path
BANGALORE, JAN. 29. Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) football team seems to be doomed with a psychological problem. And the scapegoat is invariably the coach. Mohammed Habeeb, Krishnaji Rao and of late Shabbir Ali have all been either sacked or ...

Hockey
Northern-Western final
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. Northern Railway and Western Railways set up an intriguing final showdown for Saturday blanking their rivals identically with a 5-0 score. While Northern cruised past North-Eastern Railway, Western swamped Central Railway in ...

Tennis
Janweja shocks Rao
BANGALORE, JAN. 29. Two upsets marked the last 16 round of the Indian Oil-Servo all India veterans' tennis championship at the KSLTA Stadium here today. In the 55 + section N.M. Janweja of Chandigarh shocked the fourth seed, T.A.P.N. Rao of ...

Karan cruises into quarterfinals
NEW DELHI, JAN. 29. Top-seeded Karan Rastogi did not break into a sweat on a sunny morning as he sailed past qualifier Eduard Khan of Uzbekistan 6-0, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Oriental Bank of Commerce Grade-3 ITF junior tennis ...