
London: Odisha-based sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik beat stiff competition from nine participants to win an international sand sculpture championship in Denmark on Friday, making India proud at the first such event in Copenhagen. Pattnaik's 2.5 metres high sand sculpture of a mermaid pleading for human effort to save the oceans was declared the winner of the championship. The Puri-based sand artist, known for his sculptures that send out strong topical...

08:57 AM, Jun 01, 2012

New Delhi: As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) takes on the government on a host of issues, the party is fighting an open battle at the top. Senior leader L K Advani on Thursday posted a blog expressing his discontent with party president Nitin Gadkarai. Advani even blamed Gadkari of undermining the campaign against corruption. But what sparked his criticism of the BJP president and praise for Sushma Swaraj and...

09:22 PM, May 31, 2012

Moscow: Newly-crowned world chess champion Viswanathan Anand received a gold medal, prize money of $1.4 million (around Rs 7.9 crore), a memento and a piece of contemporary art displaying him and challenger Boris Gelfand, for his achievement at a ceremony in Moscow on Thursday. Stating that his connection with Russia has been very deep, Anand said, "I benefited a lot from playing chess in Russian Cultural center in Chennai and...

09:14 PM, May 31, 2012

New Delhi: The union sports ministry has announced a Rs. 10 lakh cash award for Viswanathan Anand, who was crowned the World Chess Champion for the fifth time. "We have a cash award for any sportsperson who wins in Asian Championships, World Championships, Olympics or any other major event. So, on the basis of that we have decided to give Rs. 10 lakh as a cash award to Anand. It...

05:54 PM, May 31, 2012

Viswanathan Anand, the Indian ace, won his fifth World Chess Championship title beating Israel's Boris Gelfand in Moscow on Wednesday. Viswanathan Anand bio Born: 11 December 1969 Title: Grandmaster (1998) World Champion: 2000-02, 2007 " present (Undisputed) FIDE Rating: 2971 (May 2012) 4th Highest rated Chess Player One of six players in history to break the 2800 mark Anand became India's first grandmaster in 1987 He was also the first...

03:54 PM, May 31, 2012

CNN-IBN traces Viswanthan Anand's journey to the pinnacle of chess following his fifth World Championship title on Wednesday. ...

11:15 AM, May 31, 2012

Viswanathan Anand was relieved to have come out on top against Boris Gelfand in the Rapid chess tiebreaker on Wednesday to win the World Championship for the fifth time. ...

10:52 AM, May 31, 2012

Visawanatahan Anand crowned world chess champion for the fifth time after beating Israe's Boris Gelfand in a 4-match tie breaker 2.5 - 1.5. ...

10:59 PM, May 30, 2012

Viswanathan Anand parents talk exclusively to CNN-IBN after their son made them and whole nation proud. ...

10:31 PM, May 30, 2012

Moscow: India's five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand says he was too tense to be happy after he won the title for the fifth time beating Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the tie-breaker in Moscow on Wednesday. "Game one was a tense start. It was a long and tough match. The match was very intense, I am relieved. I was better for most part in the second game. It was...

10:04 PM, May 30, 2012

Viswanathan Anand successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand on Wednesday. ...

08:52 PM, May 30, 2012

Viswanathan Anand successfully retained his world No. 1 title on Wednesday by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand. ...

07:53 PM, May 30, 2012

India's chess legend won his fifth world title by beating Boris Gelfand in a tie-breaker on Wednesday. ...

07:47 PM, May 30, 2012

Viswanathan Anand retained his world title by defeating Boris Gelfand in a tense tiebreaker in Moscow on Wednesday. ...

06:49 PM, May 30, 2012

Moscow: India's chess champion Viswanathan Anand has successfully retained his world No. 1 title by winning the fourth game of his rapid chess tie-breaker against challenger Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. This is Anand's fifth world title. Anand led 2-1 going into the fourth game of the tie-breaker, which was set up after a tied 6-6 result with his Israeli challenger Boris in the 12th and...

06:36 PM, May 30, 2012