Mohammed Shaad scored a hat-trick as favourites Lucknow Hostel thrashed hosts Saifai Hockey Hostel 5-0 in the final of the state junior men’s hockey tournament at the Chandgiram Astro Turf Stadium in Etawah on Sunday.

Continuing her impressive show, Asian School Under-15 gold medallist and local hope Madhurima Shekhar took the sole lead, after defeating Michelle Catherina of Tamil Nadu in the fourth round of the ongoing Amity 39th national women’s challengers chess championship in the capital on Monday.

Would you love your sausage casserole being developed in a scientific laboratory with scientists monitoring every inch of growth of that meat? Well, probably the future will have this fictional thought turn into reality.

When recently-retired Test player V.V.S. Laxman said that he had been unable to reach Team India skipper M.S. Dhoni over the phone, he was merely confirming what insiders of the game have known for a while and have grown accustomed to. MSD is easily the toughest Indian celebrity to reach.

The Rosslyn Chapel, originally named the Collegiate Chapel of St. Matthew, is a 15th century church in the village of Roslin, seven miles from Edinburgh in Scotland.

Indian football coach Wim Koevermans is focused on strengthening the team’s defence ahead of the upcoming Nehru Cup tournament, says defender Syed Rahim Nabi.

Modern School Barakhamba, APJ School and Father Agnel School, Noida, registered wins over their respective rivals in the preliminary league matches of the 1st Delhi Soccer Association inter-school girls football tournament at the DDA Netaji Subhash sports complex, Jasola, in the capital on Friday.

Models shooting for animal welfare initiatives in animal printed, skimpily clad clothes have been a rage for a while now. Pamela Anderson took to it and closer to home Mallika Sherawat also endorsed it. But Tanishtha Chaterjee, the latest entrant to join the Peta club seems to have taken a different take on it.

The week saw the return of Hamid Ansari as the Vice President and the chairperson of Rajya Sabha for a second term. On the day, praises were showered on him from all quarters from everyone on treasury benches to the opposition.

Although Salman Khan’s family and close friends swear by the fact that Sallu is a softie at heart, the actor believes otherwise. Salman recently said that he has changed a lot over the years, in ways he isn’t always too proud of. And a lot of it has to do with being in Bollywood, the actor confessed while recording for a radio show.