Spain's Mikel Astarloza used his climbing and downhill skills to win the mountainous 16th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday as the leading contenders unsuccessfully tested each other out. Spaniard Alberto Contador retained his leader's yellow jersey one minute 37 seconds ahead of team mate Lance Armstrong with Briton Bradley Wiggins third, 1:46 behind.
Maruti Phad saw the terrorists kill the Mumbai police officers.
'I want to be with the Ukrainian people and serve those I know here.'
Money and power being "natural bedfellows" is not necessarily true in the British business world, except for steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal who figures right on the top of a new 'Richest Power List', compiled after combining two separate rankings of the most powerful and the most richest in the UK.
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Some of the world's richest people climbed a very long way to get there.
India's Jeev Milkha Singh scrambled to a two-over-par 74 at the Masters to safely make the halfway cut on Friday. Nine shots behind leader Trevor Immelman of South Africa, he will enter the weekend rounds in tied 21st position with the likes of US Open champion Angel Cabrera and British Open winner Padraig Harrington.
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala's timely knock of 62 coupled with Akhlakh Ahmed's superb four-wicket haul helped Kolkata Tigers beat Chandigarh Lions by 22 runs in the ICL's Eelweiss 20s challenge match at Tau Devi Lal stadium in Gurgaon on Wednesday night. Set a target of 166, Lions lost half their side with just 59 runs on the board by the 11th over and then all their wickets for 143 in 18.2 overs.
Tiger Woods stayed on course for an eighth title in nine starts worldwide in Thursday's second round at the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship as second seed Phil Mickelson was knocked out. World number one Woods sealed a comfortable 3&2 win over fellow American Arron Oberholser but left-hander Mickelson was beaten 2&1 by 31st-seeded Stuart Appleby of Australia in a high-quality encounter.
Real Madrid took full advantage of slip-ups from the chasing pack by beating Villarreal 3-2 to move nine points clear in the Spanish Primera Liga.
The historic triumph against Australia in Perth has assured India a rise to the second place in the ICC Test rankings.
Lakshmi Mittal and Arun Sarin, two India-born entrepreneurs, have figured out in UK's Power 100 list.
Bangalore Hi-Fliers and Chandigarh Dynamos set up a title clash after winning their semifinal matches in the fourth edition of Premier Hockey League in Chandigarh on Saturday.
Blogging might be a leisure activity for many famous personalities but it has brought fame to people like India-born Om Malik who has been named as one of the global web celebrities by American magazine Forbes.
On a day when four seeds tumbled, top seed Karan Rastogi and giant killer Treta Bhattacharya moved into semi-finals after epic battles at the National Grasscourts Championships in Kolkata on Thursday.
Igor Andreev earned Russia a consolation point by crushing doubles specialist Bob Bryan in the first reverse singles match before American No 2 James Blake beat Dmitry Tursunov in the final rubber.
Brazil and Paraguay share second place in the World Cup qualifying standings with four points, behind Argentina on six.
Leonardo Mayer beat Joao Souza in a Davis Cup singles match that lasted a record six hours and 42 minutes.
Images from Day 7 of the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
Lionel Messi marked his 300th La Liga appearance with a record-equalling hat-trick and an assist for Neymar as Barcelona stayed hard on the heels of leaders Real Madrid with a 5-0 romp at home to Levante on Sunday.
Virat Kohli and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are India's highest-ranked batsman and bowler in third and 13th positions respectively.
Chelsea ended their pre-season tour of the US with a 1-0 win against Los Angeles Galaxy.
Minister of Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath has said that the country is an emerging Asian powerhouse, as India has recorded the fastest gross domestic product growth in 18 years.
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The victory gave the Aussies their fourth entry into the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament final.
The Indian golfer was in tied 27th place at the end of the first day at the Volvo China Open.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the 2022 French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Monday.
Before the Rajkot ODI both Ganguly and Tendulkar were levelled with 49 sixes on Indian soil from 64 and 124 innings respectively.
Andy Roddick and Serena Williams scored contrasting wins to enter the Australian Open quarterfinals.
Barcelona followed up last weekend's 3-1 defeat at Real Madrid with another reverse on Saturday, squandering a host of chances to lose 1-0 at home to Celta Vigo and handing the lead in La Liga to their arch rivals.
He made it 3-0 with a superb first-time finish into the bottom corner in the 20th minute, scoring his first ever treble in a competitive game, more than 19 years after making his professional debut.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday night
Roger Federer claimed one of the few titles to have previously eluded him after he overcame a sluggish start to beat injured Frenchman Gilles Simon in the Shanghai Masters final on Sunday.
Briton Graeme McDowell fired a flawless six-under-par 66 to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the British Open.
Shiv Kapur knocked in a card of two-under 69 and made the cut on the line at tied 61st place with a total of one-under 141 at the Scottish Open.
'He is not the leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha or the Lok Sabha. He is just an MP.' 'In the order of precedence of the Republic of India, Rahul Gandhi is at 21st position,' says Sudhir Bisht.
India spinner Kuldeep Yadav moved up one place to take a career-best second position in the ICC Men's T20I Player Rankings after grabbing two for 26 in the final match against New Zealand.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
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