West Bengal boys and Chhattisgarh girls will look to defend their titles at the 40th sub-junior national championship at the Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar, beginning on Sunday.

Petroleum Sports Promotion Board received top billing in all four events of the 43rd inter-institutional table tennis championships, to be held at Dharward in Karnataka between August 22 and August 27.

Former India cricketer Ajay Jadeja has returned to competitive cricket with an eye on playing first-class games again. He is leading Haryana in the ongoing Kalpathi Buchi Babu all-India tournament here. The 42-year-old last played a first-class match in 2007.

Vijay Singh-trained Adabella is the best bet for The Calcutta Juvenile Sprint, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday.

The Airtel Rising Stars 2013 season, India’s largest U-16 football talent hunt, will kick off in Delhi from Saturday with 80 of the city’s leading schools vying for the Airtel Cup.

In wet and overcast conditions, Bengaluru’s amateur golfer Ankita Kedlaya turned in a sizzling card of two-under to share the opening day’s honours with Vani Kapoor in the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Hyderabad Hotshots icon player Saina Nehwal on Thursday admitted that she had been “under pressure” during her much-hyped women’s singles clash against world championship bronze medallist P. V. Sindhu.
Saina, the world no. 4, said she and Sindhu had been playing against each other for long at the Gopichand Academy and there was nothing new to it.

Ashwini Ponnappa led Pune Pistons to a thrilling 3-2 win over Jwala Gutta’s Krrish Delhi Smashers in opening day action of the $1 million Indian Badminton League here on Wednesday.

The International Olympic Committee has put in a spanner in the works for corruption-tainted officials eyeing a comeback into the Indian Olympic Association fold.

S. Dominic-trained Solitaire Royale looks set to win the Karnataka Horse Racing Patrons Gold Cup, the highlight of the concluding day’s races of the Bengaluru summer meeting scheduled to be held here on Friday.