The Centre is going to convene a meeting of Sports and Youth Affairs Ministers from all states and Union Territories in the next month to discuss various issues in details regarding the programme, sports minister MS Gill said here. The

The Indian pair dominated throughout to walk away with a facile 6-4 6-1 victory to set up a summit clash with top seeded Indo-American pair of Mustafa Ghouse and Brendan Evans, who beat Alexandre Kudryavtsev and Ilia Marchenko 7-5 6-1.

A running feud between Bhupathi and Paes, in their 30s and winners of three grand slam doubles titles together, has left sports officials in the medal-starved nation frustrated. The pair do not play together on the tour and won the

At a special ceremony, team owner Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa officially announced the sponsorship ahead of their participation in the fifth and decisive round of the Pro Mod category to be held today and tomorrow. The team had

The seventh-ranked Russian will play Jill Craybas of the US in the third round of the clay-court tournament, a warm-up event for the French Open. The seventh-seeded Craybas advanced after beating Vania King of the US 6-4, 6-2. Second-seeded Agnieszka

The Celtics, pushed to seven games by Atlanta in the first round and Cleveland in round two, used a tough defensive effort to win the opener and will host game two Thursday before the scene shifts to Detroit for two

The championship, to be played in a double round robin format, will be held during the FIVB International Refereeing Candidate Course scheduled from June 3 to 10 at the FIVB Development Centre in Juffair. During the organising committee meeting, chaired

Idris was the fastest among a field of 37 athletes who completed the race which started from the Awali car park. Clocking 18 minutes and five seconds, Idris finished ahead of Hamad Farhan (18:40) who came second while Ahmed Al

In a thrill-a-minute frenzied final phase of the match, the home team - chasing the visitors' 189 for four - were dismissed for 188 after losing their last six wickets in three overs and one ball in a dramatic change

Such is the spending power of the Premier League that potentially at kick-off, 13 players out of the 22 lining up will have already played in a Champions League final. Yet only Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville, who is almost

More than 6000 athletes are expected to take part in 24 disciplines in the Games, which was earlier scheduled to be held from May 10-18. The Games will serve as a qualifying event for the Commonwealth Youth Games to be

Qualifier Vishnu cut a sorry figure against Pakistani Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and went down tamely 3-6, 5-7 in the second round. Ashutosh, on the other hand, tried his best before fourth seeded Go Soeda of Japan showed him the door with