The Kazakhstan government has assured India that it will consider allowing ONGC Videsh Ltd to acquire a share in the assets of Canadian oil company Petrokazakhstan, a top government official said.
Grandmaster Koneru Humpy got back into the reckoning after defeating International Master Sergey Kayumov of Uzbekistan in the sixth round of the Dubai International Chess championship in Dubai on Saturday.
China has completed the 1,000-km oil pipeline to oil-rich Kazakhstan, boosting the communist giant's energy security.\n\n
Som Bahadur Pun also bowed out in the in the first round of the 23rd Asian Boxing Championships.
China National Petroleum Corp, which trailed Oil and Natural Gas-Mittal Group combine when price bids were made on August 15, raised its bid to $4.18-billion to acquire PetroKazakhstan, a Canadian oil firm operating in Central Asia.
The Italian completed a near-perfect Tour de France for Lance Armstrong's Discovery Channel team when he won the longest stage in Revel.
The up and coming youngster won the boys singles and doubles titles in the SAIL ITF Junior Grade 3 tennis tournament.
External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing stressed the need for strengthening cooperation.
Pinki Pramanik won a gold and silver medal in the first leg of the Grand Prix.
While middleweight Andre Dirrell accepted he was out-pointed in the semi-finals by Kazakh World champion Gennadiy Golovkin, U.S. assistant coach Anthony Bradley saw otherwise.
The Uzbek Grandmaster edged out Pavel Kotsur and Surya Shekhar Ganguly after a tie for the top spot.
They remained in joint lead with 6.5 points each after the seventh round of the Parsvanath International Chess tournament.
Kazakhstan finished fifth in the 5th Women's Asia Cup hockey tournament in New Delhi.
The top seeded Indo-Kazakh pair lost to Denis Istomin and Murad Inoyatov of Uzbekistan in the men's doubles final at the Asian Tennis Championships.
The Indian GM went down to Kazakh GM Darmen Sadvakasov in the fifth round of the Aeroflot Chess tournament.
The Indian randmaster beat the former Russian champion in the second round of the Aeroflot International chess tournament.
'Why this disproportionate support for cricketers, who make a thousand times what a track-and-field medallist makes?'
India finished fourth in the men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol and the women's 10m Air Pistol.
When the news of steel baron LN Mittal getting into the energy sector without his Indian exploration and production partner, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation surfaced, there was much speculation about whether the alliance was on the verge of a break-u
China's charge at the Asian Games continued, with the team scooping up a phenomenal 22 gold medals including the men's badminton team crown.
The American became the fifth person to win the prestigious event five times and also the second to have five straight Tour victories to his credit.
The Indian strongman scored two decisive victories in the Greco-Roman category in the Asian wrestling championship. \n\n
K Ratnakaran defeated Grandmaster R B Ramesh to emerge joint leader after the end of the fifth round in the Pune International Open Chess on Tuesday.
At 32, Armstrong will reach an age at which all the previous Tour superstars have started to falter.
India's performance on day four of the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhour, on Tuesday.
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