Asian individual compound champion Isaiah Rajendra Sanam of Andhra Pradesh, Chungda Sherpa of Services and Olympian V. Pranitha of Steel Plant Sports Board were excluded from the Indian archery squad for the Commonwealth Games at the end of the four-day selection trials here at the SAI complex.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and patron of Opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Mufti Muhammad Sayeed said on Thursday the response of the Central government to the current crisis in the state tantamount to an insult to people of Kashmir.

The International Cricket Council executive board on Thursday said it had approved a tweaked Anti-Doping Code with minor amendments to the “whereabouts” clause.
The new code will come into effect from August 1, 2010, although the changes made to the contentious clause haven’t yet been made public. The code’s adoption was delayed after the objections were raised by the Board of Comtrol for Cricket in India on behalf of its cricketers.

As the annual Amarnath yatra is picking up momentum in spite of the Valley being caught in turmoil, a helicopter service for pilgrims was launched on Thursday on both Baltal-Panjtarni-Baltal and Pahalgam-Panjtarni-Pahalgam routes.

After undergoing rigorous training in the last three months, the Indian netball team are confident of reaching the semifinals of the 7th Asian Youth Netball Championships that gets under way at the renovated Thyagaraj Sports Complex here from Saturday.

Various separatist leaders and parties have scoffed at Union home minister P. Chidambaram’s charge that terror group LeT is stoking fire in the Kashmir Valley. “They kill our innocent youth and when people protest they drag in Lashkar-e-Tayyaba and Pakistan and accuse them of instigating trouble. They do it to hoodwink the world

A meeting at the International Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne has not eased the tension between the Indian Olympic Association and the sports ministry over the contentious ‘tenure’ issue.

The retaliatory fire from the CRPF jawans to the Maoist ambush at Dhorai in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Tuesday might have killed 15-20 Naxals, a senior police officer said here on Wednesday.

Bike-borne robbers fired two shots at a businessman when he resisted their robbery attempt in broad daylight on Wednesday in the Karol Bagh area of central Delhi.
The police said the incident took place on Wednesday afternoon when the victim, identified as Sunil Kriplani alias Sonu, who owns a mobile accessories’ shop on P

Former Haryana director-general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore’s pension has been withheld completely on a permanent basis. Rathore, who is serving jail term after being convicted in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, had earlier been stripped off the police medal awarded to him. A home ministry statement on Wednesday said