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  Karun Chandhok secures podium finish at Dubai 24Hours

  January 12, 2014 18:08 IST

  Dubai: Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok got his year off with a third place finish in the SP2 class at the Dubai 24hours which finished Saturday night.Chandhok, driving the Dubai 24hours for the second time

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  Sprinter Amiya Mallick on strict diet before Jamaican sojourn

  January 12, 2014 19:09 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Odisha sprinter Amiya Mallick is on strict diet and fitness regime as he prepares to train in Jamaica under Glen Mills, the coach of sprint king Usain Bolt."My diet had been specific in the

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  Meet recently retired hot WWE diva Kaitlyn

  March 09, 2014 6:12 IST

  New Delhi: There have been many hot and sexy WWE divas in the history of World Wrestling Entertainment. Until 1980's only male wrestlers fought against each other for different titles, but after the year 1993 females

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  No Arjuna Award for dope offenders

  January 11, 2014 14:55 IST

  New Delhi: The sports ministry Friday said dope offenders won't be considered for Arjuna Award or Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.The ministry also said that coaches of dope tainted athletes too won't be considered for the

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  IOC member: Corruption took 1/3 of Sochi spending

  January 11, 2014 11:43 IST

  Geneva: Senior IOC member Gian Franco Kasper defended his comments about corruption in the multi-billion-dollar spending on the Sochi Olympics, saying Friday they are based on a common perception in Russia.   Kasper, the long-time president

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  Kearney and Kingsbury take Moguls titles

  January 10, 2014 17:32 IST

  Parl City, Utah: Olympic champion Hannah Kearney of the United States won the women's moguls in a freestyle World Cup at Deer Valley Ski Resort on Thursday.   Kearney prevented a podium sweep by Canada in

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  Delhi woman boxer falls off train in scuffle with robber

  January 10, 2014 13:42 IST

  Lucknow: A woman boxer was seriously injured when she fell off a moving train following a scuffle with a robber in Uttar Pradesh's Faizabad district. She has been shifted to New Delhi for better treatment,

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  National TT: PSPB men retain title, women regain crown

  January 09, 2014 18:34 IST

  Patna: The formidable Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) men trounced West Bengal 3-0 to extend their reign over the Barna Ballack Cup for yet another year, while their women regained the Jayalakshmi Cup after beating

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  Jwala-Ashwini start 2014 on winning note

  January 09, 2014 13:10 IST

  Seoul: India's successful women's doubles badminton pair Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa started the New Year on a winning note as they entered the second round of the $600,000 Korea Open Super Series here Wednesday.The

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  Helmet camera footage key to Schumacher inquiry

  January 09, 2014 12:02 IST

  Albertville:, France: For adventure athletes, it's the new essential: a video of their exploits.   On social media, slogans such as "It ain't bragging" read like a mission statement proclaimed by high-octane sports seekers who strap

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  No carry-on liquids at Moscow airports for Olympics

  January 09, 2014 8:15 IST

  Moscow: All carry-on liquids will be banned at Moscow's three international airports ahead of next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi for security concern, the Russian flight authority posted the decision Wednesday.The restrictions will additionally extend

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  Superfast elite athlete-field for Mumbai Marathon

  January 08, 2014 19:10 IST

  Mumbai: Kenyan Evans Cheruiyot, with a personal best of 2:06.25, leads the men's elite field which has no less than 16 athletes having personal bests of below 2:10, promising a competitive Mumbai Marathon here Jan

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  Lindsey Vonn to miss Sochi Olympics due to injury

  January 08, 2014 14:56 IST

  Beijing: Downhill World champion Lindsey Vonn will miss the Sochi Winter Olympics due to a knee injury, she announced on her Facebook page."I am devastated to announce that I will not be competing in Sochi,"

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  Leave us alone: Schumacher's wife tells media

  January 07, 2014 17:42 IST

  Grenoble (France): Michael Schumacher's wife Corrina Tuesday appealed to the media to leave the Grenoble hospital where the seven-time champion continues to fight for his life following a skiing accident Dec 29."Please support us in

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  Table Tennis: 75th national championship begins today

  January 07, 2014 13:44 IST

  Patna: Top paddlers of the country, including Sharath Kamal, Soumyajit Ghosh, K. Shamini, Mouma Das, Neha Agrawal will be seen in action in Patna in the 75th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship at

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  Goa minister not keen to hold 'colonial' sports event

  January 07, 2014 11:56 IST

  Panaji: With the Lusofonia Games set to begin Jan 18 here, Sports Minister Ramesh Tawadkar said Monday that he does not like the concept of Goa hosting the Portuguese Commonwealth Games.Tawadkar, a minister in the

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  Electric race car debuts on Las Vegas strip

  January 07, 2014 11:20 IST

  Las Vegas: A new kind of race car is making its debut with cartoonishly loud revving, the smell of burning rubber, and not a trace of exhaust.   That's because the new FIA Formula E Championship

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  Usain Bolt's coach to train Odisha sprinter Amiya Mallick in Jamaica

  January 07, 2014 9:16 IST

  New Delhi: Odisha sprinter Amiya Millick is set to go to Jamaica to be trained by the  world's fastest man Usain Bolt's coach Glen Mills.The young 200-metre sprinter, Mallick won a gold with a record

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  Aditya Joshi becomes world number one junior shuttler

  January 07, 2014 8:08 IST

  Mhow: Young shuttler Aditya Joshi from Madhya Pradesh has become the first male junior badminton player from India to be ranked top in the world.Aditya, 17, a resident of Dhar town, recently got the number

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  Sochi Olympics: The good and the bad

  January 06, 2014 18:55 IST

  London: Tuesday marks the 1-month countdown to the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a defining moment on the world stage for Russia and Vladimir Putin.These games are among the most contentious in Olympic

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  Mahesh Mangaonkar wins squash title in France

  January 06, 2014 14:47 IST

  Nimes (France): India's Mahesh Mangaonkar began the New Year the way he ended 2013, with title success on the PSA World Tour beating Scottish top seed Greg Lobban 9-11, 11-3, 11-4, 11-5 in the final

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  Celski qualifies for 3rd event at Sochi Olympics

  January 06, 2014 11:22 IST

  Kearns, Utah: Apolo Anton Ohno tipped J.R. Celski as a future star four years ago.   With Ohno now retired and doing TV commentary, Celski has stepped into the void as the dominant American short track

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  Know the hottest player in pool and billiards Shanelle Loraine

  February 25, 2014 7:38 IST

  New Delhi: Billiards and pool is seen as a gentleman's game but some female players have set the billiards table on fire when they hold the cue and compete on national and international table. One of

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  Meet American skier, Lacy Schnoor

  January 09, 2014 6:53 IST

  New Delhi: Skiing is a very cool and adventurous kind of sport but when it is played by a hot and sizzling female the temperature of the place becomes warm. One of the most hot

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  World highest altitude swimming race kicks off

  January 05, 2014 12:44 IST

  Beijing: The fourth International Limit Challenging Race of Winter Swimming across Yellow River started in China's Qinghai Province Sunday.Being hosted in Guide County at an altitude of 2,200 metres in Tibetan Plateau, the world's highest

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  Know about truck racing which is set to launch in India

  January 06, 2014 6:54 IST

  New Delhi: If everything goes as planned, you will have the remarkable demonstration of the big-built machines racing in March, 2014 in India. Tata Motors is all set to launch truck racing in the country.With

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  Russia lifts ban on protests during Sochi Olympics

  January 05, 2014 8:18 IST

  Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin lifted a ban on demonstrations at the Sochi Olympics Games, allocating a special area for mass public events, the Kremlin said Saturday, Xinhua reported.Earlier, a presidential decree ordered that any

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  Former Billiard Champion Michael Ferreira in yet another scam

  January 05, 2014 6:19 IST

  Mumbai: After QNet scam, former Billiards Champion Michael Ferreira now finds himself in land scam. An FIR in this regard has been filed with charkop police station in Mumbai. Two persons, named in the FIR