Kolkata: The Indian men's recurve team of Jayanta Talukdar, Tarundeep Rai and Rahul Banerjee settled for a silver after going down to their opponents from Great Britain in the Archery World Cup Stage II in Antalya. According to information received, the Indian trio lost the final with a margin of 211-222. The Indian threesome had 53 in the first end as against 58 by the trio of Laurence Godfrey, Simon...
09:53 PM, May 06, 2012
Kolkata: India's Olympic prospect Deepika Kumari won her first World Cup individual recurve gold medal in archery on Saturday at Antalya, Turkey. She beat Korea's Lee Sung Jin by six set points to four in the final of the Stage 2 of the championship. According to information received, teenager Deepika won the second set (29-27), third (27-26) and the fifth (28-27) while losing the first (27-30) and the fourth (27-29)....
08:33 PM, May 05, 2012
Kolkata: The Indian men's recurve team of Rahul Banerjee, Jayanta Talukdar and Tarundeep Rai sailed into the final of the team event of the World Cup archery Stage 2 at Antalya in Turkey on Friday. According to information received here, the team edged past South Korea by a slender 225-224 points in the semi-finals and will play Britain in the final on Saturday. Earlier, the Indian men beat the Netherlands...
08:30 PM, May 04, 2012
Kolkata: Promising Indian archer Deepika Kumari has made the final of the women's recurve individual event of the World Cup Stage 2 at Antalya. She will play Korea's Lee Sung Jin in the summit clash on Saturday. The 18-year-old defeated Chinese Taipei's Lin Chia-En 6-1 in the semi-finals. In the quarter-finals, she had beaten Karina Winter of Germany 6-0 on Thursday. However, all the men's recurve archers and men's and...
10:53 AM, May 04, 2012
London: In a shocking incident, the Indian shooting contingent, which is currently in London for the ISSF World Cup, was denied entry into a hotel here on Saturday night that left the players without any accommodation. The hotel authorities asked the rifle and pistol team, which included India's Olympic hopefuls Gagan Narang and Ronjan Sodhi, to leave despite a confirmed room booking at the Grange St Paul hotel, after the...
08:57 AM, Apr 30, 2012
London: It didn't quite turn out to be a good day for Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang as the two Indian marksmen missed the final after scoring an identical 596 in the Shooting World Cup here on Saturday. In the men's 10m Air Rifle event, Bindra finished 10th while Narang finished 12th in the shoot-off at the Royal Artillery Barracks, the shooting venue for the upcoming Olympic Games. Beijing Olympic...
11:08 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Madrid: Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has signed a contract extension after having previously been offered a new two-year deal. The 61-year-old told Onda Cero radio on Tuesday that he had "renewed" his deal with the Spanish federation, and though he did not divulge the length of the new agreement, Del Boque is expected to stay on until after the 2014 World Cup. A two-year contract would enable him to...
06:03 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Kolkata: It was a none-too-impressive beginning to the Olympic calendar year for Indian archers as they finished with a solitary silver medal in the World Cup Stage I, which concluded in Shanghai on Sunday. The women's compound team lost to Italy in the bronze play-off to end their campaign with only one medal - the silver that was earned by the women's recurve trio of Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi...
07:11 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Kolkata: India's women recurve team, comprising Deepika Kumari, Laishram Bombayla Devi and Chekrovolu Swuro, set up a gold-medal clash against the Korean heavyweights at the Archery World Cup Stage I in Shanghai on Friday. There was a ray of hope in the women's compound section where India made the bronze medal play-off after going down to Italy in the semi-finals. The recurve team, seeded second, with an accumulative qualifying score...
07:19 PM, Apr 13, 2012
In his video blog, Directly Rajdeep Sardesai, the CNN-IBN editor-in-chief urges fans to remember April 2, 2011. ...
04:30 PM, Apr 02, 2012
New Delhi: Two years in to her career, Poonam Pandey has taken the call to stand strong by one image " the boldest one. Churning out promises to strip if Team India wins to posting videos online and her well-known, oft-downloaded bikini pictures " Poonam Pandey has no qualms about who she is. The lady who spoke to IBNlive made one thing very clear " she was here to do...
03:19 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Patna: India clinched the first women's Kabaddi World Cup championship title, defeating Iran 25-19 in the final played at Patlipura sports complex at Kankerbagh here on Sunday. In a thrilling encounter, the Indian eves held upper hand throughout the match and led their Iranian counterparts 19-11 at the half time. Cheered by the fans at the jam-packed stadium, the Indian women held out a strong challenge by the Iranian in...
08:44 PM, Mar 04, 2012
Dubai: Qatar has been ranked as the world's wealthiest country in a new list compiled by the prestigious US magazine Forbes. The Gulf State with a population of 1.7 million topped the list as the world's richest country per capita, thanks to a rebound in oil prices and its massive natural gas reserves. Adjusted for purchasing power, Qatar booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $...
09:59 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: Indian football administrators are eager to use an upcoming visit by FIFA president Sepp Blatter to give an impetus to the sport in the cricket-crazy country. "The FIFA chief will visit India on March 9, giving us an opportunity to showcase the potential of football in our country," All India Football Federation secretary-general Kushal Das told The Associated Press on Thursday. "The world body is already helping us...
02:38 PM, Feb 16, 2012
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