The draw took Anand to two points out of a possible three in the Corus Grandmasters 'A' chess tournament.
Nair, who took over as programming head of Start TV, shot into the limelight after the success of KBC with superstar Amitabh Bachchan.
Terrified that their bloody primary campaign will doom them in the November presidential elections in the US, some Democrats are floating a consolation prize for Hillary Clinton -- Governor of New York State, according to a media report. The travails of New York Governor David Paterson have opened up a new potential career path for Clinton, Newsweek says quoting unidentified well-informed Democratic Party insiders.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi has made this a single-agenda, four-horse race.
World champion Viswanathan Anand missed chances galore in the blindfold game against Chinese Wang Yue and had to be content with an overall joint-second finish in the Amber blindfold and rapid chess tournament in Nice, France. Anand, however, maintained supremacy in the rapid section as he tied with Levon Aronian of Armenia and Gata Kamsky of the United States.
World champion Viswanathan Anand took a quick draw and continued to trail after five rounds of the 70th Corus Grandmasters chess tournament, even as women's world No 2 Koneru Humpy also remained winless after five rounds.
The Indian ace won the third game and drew the fourth, in the eight-game Mainz Rapid World Championship.
The time may have come, however, to rue that clever gambit, and to attempt what in contemporary phrasing is called a "de-coupling", because the sins of China are now being visited on India. China will soon be the world's largest emitter of gases that cause global warming; so when you have Chindia on your brain, you blame India as well - though the level of emissions in the two countries is vastly different.
He settled for a draw against Ruslan Ponomariov in the 10th round of the Aerosvit International Grandmasters Chess tournament.
'I want to play for Real Madrid and dream of doing so,' said the Portuguese winger.
The Indian placed fifth after drawing his 10th and final round game in the Bosna 2006 Grandmasters' tournament.
India can only hope that the Pakistani generals crackdown on the Taliban under sustained US pressure. But that seems too much to hope for. India needs to prepare for the likelihood that Pakistan will shortly commence its own 'political solution' to the Afghan problem, built around a so-called reconciliation effort under some sort of 'Islamic' auspices.
The G-20's new-found importance should be used to challenge North Atlantic hegemony.
The Indian Grandmaster split the point with Canada's Pascal Charbonneau in the seventh round of the eighth Montreal International Chess Tournament.
But the Indian ace, despite the defeat continues to have a share of the lead with Veselin Topalov, while Kamsky shares the last place with Etienne Bacrot. \n
The Indian ace drew against Ivan Sokolov to move into the joint lead after the fourth round of the Corus Grandmasters chess tournament.
Two years after Mukesh and Anil Ambani separated, many who have associated with the family still find it difficult to believe the fact.
The only Indian remaining in the World Cup Chess was beaten in the Round 3 tie-break.
The Indian played two quiet draws with Peter Leko and clinched the top spot in the Rapid section of the Amber Blindfold and Rapid Grandmasters chess tournament.
Neelotpal Das and Sundararajan Kidambi missed their Grandmaster norms after losing in the ninth and final round of the Asian Chess Championship.
The Indian had mixed luck, losing yet another blindfold game, but then crushed Lev Aronian in the rapid game to extend his lead to a full points in the section after nine rounds.
The Indian ace trounced Peter Svidler to take the sole lead after seven rounds in the rapid section of the Melody Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament.
The International Master shocked the top seeded Grandmaster in the fifth round of the fifth Asian Chess Championship.
The International Master drew with Grandmaster Hua Ni of China to take his tally to 3.5 points in the fifth Asian Chess championship.
SM Krishna needs to talk to his own establishment on the direction of India's Af-Pak strategy.
The fifth round defeat saw the India concede sole lead and slip to tied-second in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament.
Magnus Carlsen of Norway stole day one honours in the Morelia-Linares chess tournament after putting it across Alexander Morozevich of Russia to emerge early sole leader
The Indian GM settled for a quick draw in the final game against Jan Timman to take the joint title.
The Indian had to battle for a draw against world's youngest ever Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
P Harikrishna suffered an unexpected defeat against Ruben Felgaer and slipped from his overnight joint second spot
The BJP and the Left have come out poorer, while the Congress was galvanised to push Pranab Mukherjee's into the race. The political permutations and combinations also indicate the possibility of a non-Congress, non-BJP 'third front' being in the fray for the 2014 general elections, says Praful Bidwai.
Russia's Garry Kasparov took a decisive step for his ninth title at Linares after crushing Britain's Michael Adams.
The world's top-rated players drew with Corus champion Peter Leko of Hungary in the eighth round of the Linares Super Grandmasters chess tournament.
Viswanathan Anand and Peter Leko, ended their third round clash in just 24 moves in the Linares 2005 Super GM Chess Tournament.
India's mutual fund industry is one of the brightest spots in an already fast-growing domestic financial sector.
The Indian ace maintained sole lead in the Marx Gyorgy Memorial International chess tournament with an easy draw against Hungarian GM Ferenc Berkes.
K Sasikiran registered his third consecutive win to join R R Laxman at the top after the sixth round.
Golf Course Road in Gurgaon symbolises smart new India like almost everything does in this Haryana boom-town. Swish, glass-cladded IT, ITeS offices; big, and bigger, malls; and a series of premium, gated residential complexes along the broad, dusty avenues here -- DLF BelAir, Parsvanath PrideAsia, EmaarMGF's Palm Springs, etcetera, etcetera. It is thus only fitting that something called "Street of Dreams" should be located along this road.
A harmless, watchable film -- sad, because it could have been truly special.
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