Temperatures in several places have risen.

The former World Junior champion beat Giovanni Vescovi of Brazil at the World Chess Cup.

Harikrishna outwitted top seed Grandmaster Ivan Sokolov of the Netherlands in the third round of the Crown Group of Essent International chess tournament.

Anand has 5.5 points and is tied for third with Alexander Morozevich in the tenth round of the FIDE World Chess championships.

The Indian ace has 4.5 points with six rounds remaining in the World chess championship. Vaselin Topalova, with seven points, leads the field.

The Indian ace was stunned by Russian Grandmaster Alexander Morozevich in the seventh round of the World Chess Championships.

Veselin Topalov registered his fifth win in six games to stretch his lead to two points at the World Chess Championships.

Viswanathan Anand held an advantage but could not convert it into a win as he played a draw with Peter Leko in the fifth round of the World Chess Championships.

The Indian ace was held to a draw by Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in the second round of the World Chess Championship.

Viswanathan Anand crushed Judit Polgar in the opening round of the World Chess Championships

The Indian ace leads Alexander Grischuk 3.5-0.5 and now requires just one point out of four for his fifth straight title at Mainz.

The world junior champion beat Grandmaster Luke McShane of England for his third straight win in the Sanjin Hotel Cup Grandmasters tournament.

The Indian ace scored a thumping 3-1 victory in the second semi-final of the 18th Magistral Ciudad de Leon chess tournament.

Home favourite Veselin Topalov shocked Viswanathan Anand in a brilliant and aggressive display in the sixth round.

ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C6, carrying India's remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-1 and a micro satellite HAMSAT, blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Thursday.

The two satellites that PSLV will release in the orbit will help the country's mapmakers and amateur radio operators.

The launch vehicle that lifted off from a newly built launchpad will release two satellites in the earth's orbit.

The world junior champion finished sixth following a draw with Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the ninth and final round of the Dos Hermanas International Chess tournament.

The Indian ace has a three-point lead over his nearest rivals after beating Loek Van Wely in the ninth round.

Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand both lost their last round games.

Garry Kasparov extended his lead over nearest rivals Anand and Topalov to two point at Linares.

The Indian world junior champion emerged joint-winner in the International invitational tournament in Bermuda.

The Indian ace beat GM Lenier Dominguez of Cuba in the penultimate round of the Bermuda invitational chess tournament to move to second place.

The defeat saw the Indian slip to joint-third in the Bermuda Invitational chess tournament.

The Indian world junior champion was held by Ukrainian champion Andrei Volokitin in the seventh round of the invitation chess tournament in Bermuda.

The Indian ace registered his third win on the trot to join the lead group at the end of the seventh round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.

Viswanathan Anand was one step away from his seventh Chess Classic title after crashing \n\nthrough the defences of Spain's Alexei Shirov in the sixth game.

The Indian ace beat Alexei Shirov in the second game of the Mainz Chess Classic.

Top seed Alexander Morozevich of Russia made sure of retaining the title with a round to spare in the Biel chess festival.

The world rapid champion was held by 18-year old German Arkadij Naiditsch in the first round of the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting.

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy beat Ekaterina Kovalevskaya of Russia in the second game to push the match into tie-breaker.

Viswanathan Anand continued to share the lead with three other players after six rounds in the 66th Corus Grandmasters Chess tournament.

The Indian ace drew with Russian champion Peter Svidler and continues to share the lead with four others in the Corus championship.

Organisers promised Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone a US$22.3 million package to compensate teams hit by a law banning tobacco advertising.

World Cup champion Anand outplayed Russian champion Peter Svidler in the blitz tie-break to make the summit clash in the World Rapid Chess Championship.

Tne Indian ace beat World champion Ruslan Ponomariov while Kramnik accounted for Judit Polgar in the quarter-finals of the World Rapid Chess Championship.