A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday.
R Shiva Kumar from Career Launcher hosted a chat with Get Ahead readers on May 18. The transcript.
World champion Viswanathan Anand's form in rapid chess was found wanting again as he squandered a lead against Boris Gelfand of Israel and settled for a 1-1 draw in the 10th and penultimate round of the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. The Indian is joint-sixth in overall standings with just one round to go and has no chance of winning either of the titles in the tournament.
Manipal University announces admissions guidelines for 2008.
The Indian Grandmaster lost to Russian Grandmaster Sergei Rublevsky in the fifth round of the Aerosvit International Chess tournament.
The Indian ace maintains a slender lead going into the final round in the Amber chess tournament.