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After staying unbeaten in six matches in a row in the I-League, United FC had yet another good outing on Friday, this time beating Salgaocar SC by a brace at Barasat Stadium.

It was supposed to be a grudge match at the ongoing seventh women's Asia Cup, and the game lived up to its billing.

Though many hundred miles away from his cricketing nursery Mumbai, the railways ground at Maligaon, Assam was a symbolic setting for Amol Muzumdar to reach a deserving milestone of his long career.

In view of the meeting accommodation needs during next year's Commonwealth Games, Sujit Banerjee, Secretary, Tourism, inaugurated the Country Inn and Sweets Boutique Hotel in Sector 29 late on Thursday evening.

Led by Zuned's fluent 90, Faridabad Coaching Center, Faridabad registered five-wicket win over DAV Police Line, Ambala in a semi-final match during First B.K.Sharma Memorial Cricket Tournament for Under-14 played at the Banyan Tree School-48 ground in Chandigarh on Friday.

The chief ministers of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and several dignitaries have expressed grief at the death of Prabhash Joshi, founder editor of Jansatta and first resident editor of The Indian Express, Chandigarh.

Anirban Lahiri calls it déjà vu, and it is difficult to disagree. In a repeat of the 2008 edition, the Bangalore golfer leads the field at the halfway mark of the BILT Open, and what is even more striking, he aggregates 13-under 131 — exactly the same number — after two rounds.

In one-sided affairs, the winning teams won all their respectively games thus routing their oppositions in the Panjab University Inter-College Badminton (Men) tournament being played in the Panjab University Gymnasium Hall on Friday.

The Commonwealth organising committee finally has reason to cheer following all the embarrassment caused by the Commonwealth Games Federation president's reprimanding letter and a public spat with Mike Hooper.

With four top teams in the last four, the semi-final matches were expected to be high scoring affairs.

For a cricket-crazy country obsessed with records and sensitive about statistics, Sachin Tendulkar has accomplished almost every single batting feat he could have.

For all practical purposes, the final day's play in the Delhi-Baroda match ended within 34 minutes and 6.3 overs into the day.

When the chips were down and SS High School, Khunti, Ranchi, needed something special, Enem Dodray answered the calls and scored a brace to help the team draw 2-2 against Pooja Modern School, Kurukshetra, Haryana, in a group A match of the 38th ATS Junior Nehru Under-17 Hockey Tournament held at Sector 42 Hockey Stadium on Friday.

The 12th Special Olympics was inaugurated here today. A torch march was taken out from Nehru Garden school to Guru Gobind Singh Stadium in presence of chief patron of the district special Olympics Association, Commissioner, Jalandhar division, S R Ladhar.

Over the years, the Indian cricket team has mastered the art of somehow keeping their passionate fans' hopes alive even in the most desperate of situations, before completely and dramatically trashing them at the end.

A day after his record-breaking 439 in the Harris Shield, a tired Sarfaraz Khan is once again at Azad maidan, obliging the media with long interviews and snappy sound-bytes.

Poona Club beat Deccan Gymkhana on the basis of their first innings lead in the Bhandarkar Lele Trophy organised by the Pune District Cricket Association at Deccan Gymkhana Cricket Ground on Thursday.

The juniors from Pune had mixed fortunes on Thursday at the Walchand Cup National Series in Deccan Gymkhana here.

The buzz that normally surrounds the season-ending BILT Open was amiss, and for obvious reasons. The enthusiasts recalled the previous edition where the strongest-ever field in the PGTI flagship tournament culminated in Jyoti Randhawa pipping Jeev Milkha Singh by a shot.