Asian junior champion P.V. Sindhu held special sessions for budding shuttlers, in a clinic in Faribadad on Saturday. A joint initiative by Manav Rachna Sports Academy and Yonex-Sunrise, the day-long event aimed at training the aspiring players at the academy.

Jeev Milkha Singh and Anirban Lahiri made it a red-letter day for India at The Open Championship at Lytham and St Annes, England, on Friday, becoming the first two golfers from the sub-continent to qualify for the weekend rounds at the same Major.

In a sweet gesture towards his wife, Sunanda Pushkar, diplomat-turned- politician Shashi Tharoor happily acknowledged the role she played in nudging him on to complete his latest book, Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century.

Stepping off the ramp and sashaying straight into the sets of a Bollywood flick has been the norm for most Indian beauty queens right from Aishwarya Rai to Priyanka Chopra, but the trend seems to have drifted to our neighboring countries too. After Jacqueline Fernandez who won the title of Miss Sri Lanka in 2006, it is Gamya Wijayadasa who is in tinsel town to chase her Bollywood dreams.

The House of the Virgin, located in a nature park between Ephesus and Seljuk in Turkey, is believed to be the last residence of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. The peaceful site is sacred to both Christians and Muslims.

An international rugby player himself, actor Rahul Bose has a word of advice for Indian Olympians headed for the world’s most prestigious sports event in London this month. He believes that the sportsmen should use these last few days before the competition to relax and acclimatize themselves to the European weather rather than sweating it out at practice sessions on the fields.

French fashion designer John Paul Gaultier is set to venture into a different territory — home furnishings. He has signed a deal with Paris-based fabric specialist Lelievre.

About 60 kms away from Pune, in Karli near Lonavala, lies a complex of ancient rock cut caves that were home to a flourishing community of Buddhist monks. Built into a rocky hillside (abodes carved into cliffs had the advantage of being cool in summer and warm in the winters), the oldest of these caves date back to 160 BC.

Overnight leader Sunit Chowrasia faltered but recovered well to annex the RCGC Juniors Cup, the seventh leg of the Tata Steel IGU East Zone Junior Tour by a comfortable margin at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club on Thursday.

An All India Football Federation U-14 camp received a big jolt when 84 of the 120 selected boys were found to be overage, some as old as 17.