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| Nandini Devi wins bronzein Asians CHOUJU (South Korea), July 14: India’s Nandini Devi won a bronze medal in the women’s 53 kg category at the 14th Asian Senior Women’s and 33rd Asian Senior Men’s Championship here today..............more Sony Max to live telecast KOLKATA, July 14: Sony Max would bring live telecast of the cricket one-day international Tri-series Tournament featuring Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand, from July 18 to August five..........more Agassi and Steffi HAMBURG, July 14: Speculation that Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi would be marrying this weekend ......more DORTMUND, July 14: World champion Viswanathan Anand drew his second successive game at the ......more |
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National Games Countdown- 63 days Council assures all help to JKOA By Sanjeev Sharma JAMMU, July 14: The J&K State Sports Council has assured of all kind of help the Jammu and Kashmir .......more Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, July 14: The National Institute of Fashion Design as per its tradition at the end......more UBS Open Gstaad GSTAAD (Switzerland), July 14: Juan Carlos Ferrero refrained from singing as the drops dripped.....more Zimbabwe A 26-0 against KWEKWE, (Zimbabwe), July 14 : Zimbabwe A, replying to West Indies’ first innings......more |
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Nandini Devi wins bronzein Asians CHOUJU (South Korea), July 14: India’s Nandini Devi won a bronze medal in the women’s 53 kg category at the 14th Asian Senior Women’s and 33rd Asian Senior Men’s Championship here today. Devi finished third in both snatch and clean and jerk with lifts of 85 kg and 100 kg respectively to win the bronze with a total of 185 kg. China’s Qiu Hongxia won the gold lifting a total of 205 kg (87.5, 117.5) and Raema Lisa Rumbewas of Indonesia won the silver lifting 192.5 kg (85, 107.5). Yesterday, Kunjarani Devi had opened India’s account in the event winning the gold in the women’s 48 kg category. China swept all the gold medals up for grabs in both men’s and women’s events. In the men’s 69 kg, Zhang Guozheng won the gold with a total of 345 kg (155, 190) and in women’s 58 kg, Wang Li won the gold lifting 205 kg (92.5, 112.5). (PTI) |
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Sony Max to live telecast Tri-series Tourney KOLKATA, July 14: Sony Max would bring live telecast of the cricket one-day international Tri-series Tournament featuring Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand, from July 18 to August five. Following is the schedule: Teams Date Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand ODI- day 1 July 18 Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand (rpt)- July 19 India vs. New Zealand ODI - day 2 July 20 India vs. New Zealand (rpt) July 21 Sri Lanka vs. India odi - day 3 July 22 Sri Lanka vs. India (rpt) July 23 Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand ODI- day 4 July 25 India vs.Sri Lanka ODI - day 5 July 26 India vs.Sri Lanka (rpt) July 27 India vs. New Zealand ODI - day 6 July 28 India vs. New Zealand (rpt) July 29 Sri Lanka vs.New Zealand (rpt) July 30 New Zealand vs. Sri Lanka ODI - day 7 July 31 India vs. Sri Lanka ODI - day 8 Aug 1 India vs. New Zealand ODI - day 9 Aug 2 India vs. Sri Lanka (rpt) Aug 3 India vs. New Zealand (rpt) Aug 4 Final ODI Aug 5 Final ODI (rpt) Aug 6 Following is the team line-up : India team Sri Lanka team New Zealand team Saurav Ganguly-C Sanath Jayasuriya-C Stephen Fleming-C Rahul Dravid-VC Marvan Atapattu Nathan Astle VVS Laxman Romesh Kaluwitharana Grant Bradburn Hemang Badani Russel Arnold James Franklin Sameer Dighe-WK Mahela Jayawardene Chris Harris Zaheer Khan Kumara Sangakkara Craig McMillan Ashish Nehra Avishka Gunawardene Kyle Milis Virender Shewag Chamara Silva Doin Nash Harbhajan Singh Chaminda Vaas Jacob Oram Reetinder Singh Sodhi Duiip Liyanage Adam Parore Ajit Agarkar Suresh Perera Mathew Sinclair Debasis Mohanty Nuwan Zoysa Darryl Tuffey Rahul Sanghvi Kumar Dharmasena Daniel Vettori Yuvraj Singh Muttiah Muralitharan Lou Vincent Amay Kkhurasiya Dilhara Fernando. (UNI) |
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Agassi and Steffi Graf ‘won’t be marrying this weekend’ HAMBURG, July 14: Speculation that Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi would be marrying this weekend was scotched by a reliable source, who told Deutsche Presse-Agentur no wedding was planned. There had been widespread speculation, particularly from newspapers in 32-year-old Graf’s native Germany, that the couple would wed today in Florida, where Graf has a home. Agassi’s business enterprise had confirmed Thursday that the 22-time Grand Slam winner who retired in 1999 is pregnant with his baby. The child was due in mid-December, said a spokeswoman. "This is a very exciting time for us," 31-year-old Agassi said in a statement. "We are so happy to have been blessed with this gift." The couple had shared the news with family and friends in recent weeks, said the Agassi enterprises publicist in Las Vegas. Agassi and Graf, two of the best-known names in tennis, have been in a relationship since 1999, but they are not married. Agassi - knocked out by Australian Pat Rafter in the semi-finals of the just-ended Wimbledon Tournament - is in the midst of a career revival after winning the Australian Open earlier this year and collecting the French Open and U S Open titles two years ago. Agassi has seven major titles and is one of only a handful of tennis players to have won Wimbledon, the Drench Open, the Australian Open and the U S Open, which are all played on different surfaces. (DPA) |
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DORTMUND, July 14: World champion Viswanathan Anand drew his second successive game at the Dortmund Sparkassen 2001 meeting signing a quick truce against GM Michael Adams of England. After two rounds anand was in joint third place. The lead position remained unchanged at the top with braingames match winner GM Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and Hungarian GM Peter Leko leading with 1.5 points each. Playing white for the first time in the tournament Anand was up against a petroff defence and did not get the desirable advantage out of the opening. Adams chose the same variation in which he had lost to Leko in the first round but this time the englishman had an improvement up his sleeves that easily yielded him a level position. Experts considered Adams novelty on the 18th move a serious one and a draw was the most likely result from thereon. Anand decided against striving hard for a victory and settled for draw in just 21 moves. This was so far the shortest game of the tournament. Kramnik and Leko played a not-so-gripping draw in the rubinstein variation of the Nimzo Indian defence where the former played with the white pieces. Kramnik who has had some stupendous successes in the opening was in for a surprise, as Leko is more known for his love for the grunfeld defence. However it was a presumable shift since none would have liked to walk in and check what Kramnik had in store in grunfeld after his preparation in the braingames match against Kasparov. The game took shape routinely and Kramnik had a semblance of an advantage by the 20th move. At a certain moment it seemed likely that Kramnik would win the game when Kramnik was left a pawn up and everyone was quite sure as to the outcome of the game. However Leko’s defence was precise and he escaped easily. The game lasted 35 moves. The sly Hungarian, playing Kramnik on a regular basis, is among the very few chess players in the world not to stop the clock and say "I resign". The hero of the day was undoubtedly Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov who left behind his loss to Kramnik yesterday to score over GM Alexander Mororzevich of Russia in yet another Petroff defence game of the day. Playing black Topalov faced a rather off-beat set up by Morozevich who certainly looked in the mood of a major revival of the opening. As it turned out this was not to be and Topalov got a firm grip on the position with his a excellent technical moves that included a decline of the piece offered by Morozevich. Once in control Topalov thwarted all attempts of the Russian to complicate the matters and romped home in 40 moves. Standings after round 2: 1-2 V Kramnik, Peter Leko (1.5 points each); 3-4: V Anand, V Topalov (1); 5-6: A Morozevich, M Adams (0.5). (PTI) |
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National Games
Countdown- 63 days By Sanjeev Sharma JAMMU, July 14: The J&K State Sports Council has assured of all kind of help the Jammu and Kashmir Olympic Association needs for the forthcoming National Games to be held in Punjab from September 16 to 29. Not only the financial assistance, the Council is also extending helping hand to the State Olympic Association with regard to infrastructure, and services of its coaches and officials for the selection of various teams for the National Games going to start exactly after 63 days. This was stated by the Secretary, State Sports Council, Sheikh Fazal Ahmed in a telephonic conversation with this Correspondent, here this afternoon. Sheikh Fazal, who disapproved merely participation for the sake of participation and believed in results, wanted that coaching camp should be of two months, atleast for those events wherein J&K has qualified upto the national standard. He said that there was no problem of funds from Council’s side provided the demand made is under the provisions laid down by the Council, he said adding, "the J&K Olympic Association had put up a demand of Rs 1,11,000 for arranging trials and other related expenses. And after verifying modalities, the Council has, a week ago, issued an amount of Rs 28,400 to start the selection process". The Olympic Association of the State has demanded funds for the expenses to be incurred on the players from Leh (Archery, Athletics), Srinagar (Athletics) and Poonch (boxing) district for trials, said the sources. Sheikh Fazal said that the Olympic Association, instead of big contingent, should concentrate on the four events of Hockey (men), Handball (men) and Circle Kabaddi (both men and women), besides some individual events including Fencing (Epee), Gymnastics (Rhythmic) and Weightlifting where the State has hopes for the medals in the initial stage. And later, do think over other events of importance, he continued. The Secretary, who feels that much time has already been wasted and suggested the J&K Olympic Association that no more delaying tactics should be there and the actual process for forming the teams should be completed as soon as possible. Circle Kabaddi trials from July 20 JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Amateur Kabaddi Association has taken lead by fixing the dates for the trials of Circle Kabaddi teams (both men and women sections) for the forthcoming National Games to be held at Patiala in Punjab. Kuldeep Gupta, general secretary of the Association said that the trials, to be held at Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Gandhi Nagar from July 20 to 25, will be followed by the 21-day coaching camp at the same venue. Other States which have qualified for the National Games in Circle Kabaddi are Punjab, Haryana, J&K, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chandigarh who have qualified for both in men and women sections. Whereas Bihar and Himachal Pradesh have found berth in the women section and Delhi in Men. |
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Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, July 14: The National Institute of Fashion Design as per its tradition at the end of the session and starting of admission held its annual feature exhibition sale cum fete "Navpuratan" at their campus today. The exhibition was inaugurated by the Divisional Commissioner, Mr Anil Goswami who went around the stalls and appreciated the hard work and creativity displayed by the students. The budding designers of the institute worked on the theme Navpuratan which marks a blend of the new and the old. In this exhibition and other than the regular work, students displayed some of their creations which shall be part of the costume show to be held on July 27 where leading models of international repute-Ms Aditi Govitkar, Nethra Raghuraman, Priyadershani Pradhan, Candice Pinto, Tejashivini Kohlapure, Fluer Xavier will be adorning the collections of the students. The fashion design students under the guidance of their faculty Ms Deeksha Behl and Ms Manisha displayed their work in two set-ups, Cocktail and Transparencies, while the later comprises of western evening wear with fitted and sleek silhouettes, where the main emphasis is on evening gown with hand work and rich fabric is used for these garments, other than these garments the semester garments were also displayed by the students and the former included traditional and Indo western styles in transparent fabrics which was strongly depicting their theme transparencies. The fabric in transparencies included net and organiza in combination with crepe which are the in fabric for the year 2001. Each garment had a blend of elegance and beautiful designs. The Interior Design Department under their faculty, Ms Sakshi Gupta had displayed their work at the backdrow of the Pink City of India-Jaipur where the old style of interior designing and decoration with highlighted. The tittle given to their display was "Jharokha" a glimpse of style. Their display carried the sheet work, model of furniture, house plans, murals and various other projects made in the class. The Textile Design department under the guidance of able instructor Ms Shelija Gupta displayed their work under the title ‘Rangmahal’ the display was a blend of both traditional and modernism. Mrs Vanita Thakur told the newsmen that the credit and success of the exhibition goes to her Centre Manager, Ms Pawan Sodhi and her entire staff along with the students efforts who had put their mind and soul into it. She also mentioned that the admissions were on and the new batch will start in August and also said at the occasion that there shall be another annual feature-the Costume Show at the end of this month. |
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UBS Open Gstaad GSTAAD (Switzerland), July 14: Juan Carlos Ferrero refrained from singing as the drops dripped down, but the Spaniard managed everything else required in the mountain rain to reach the semi-finals of the 600,000-dollar UBS Open Gstaad. The second-seeded talent, who leads the ATP with four titles already this season, was merciless on the high-altitude clay of this pristine mountain village, dismantling the game of French veteran Cedric Pioline yesterday. The 6-2, 6-1 demolition job from the 21-year-old Spaniard lasted just 55 minutes with some of the match played in a light sprinkle and the contest begun 90 minutes late. But the less-than-prefect weather was a far cry from last year’s near-washout, when the final - Alec Corretja won it - had to be extended until Monday. Ferrero said that he actually did not mind the damp at all. "It slows down the court slightly," he said of clay which - due to its location at 1,000 meters above sea level - can play as fast as a hard-court on dry sunny days." "I don’t mind at all that the court is a little bit slowed," said the winner. "It helps my game. I had a good match, though I’d say I just played at a normal level. I had all of the winners today and his game declined as the match went on." Third seed Sebastien Grosjean, conqueror of Andre Agassi at Roland Garros last month in front of Bill Clinton, was equally speedy in his quarter-final outing. The Frenchman disposed of sixth seed Franco Squillari of Argentina in just 51 minutes on court, taking a comprehensive 6-0, 6-1 result. It was looking bleak for Squillari, winner of multiple titles on European clay in Munich, as he faced a 6-0, 5-0 reality check in Grosjean’s favour. But the South American struggled through to win a game, putting himself onto the scoreboard with just minutes to spare before Grosjean wrapped up his second win against no defeats in the series. Grosjean stands fifth in the ATP champions points race, two spots behind Ferrero on third. Like Ferrero, the Frenchman is not afraid of heights either, having grown up for the first 11 years of his life in the mountains above nice. New father Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic knocked out the last Swiss standing, defeating Michel Kratochvil 6-4, 6-2. Holder and fourth seed Alex Corretja was trying to join Ferrero in extending Spanish dominance at an event where Iberians rule the trophy table. The Barcelona right-hander was playing for a place in the last four against Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia.(DPA) |
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Zimbabwe A 26-0 against West Indies (374) KWEKWE, (Zimbabwe), July 14 : Zimbabwe A, replying to West Indies’ first innings 374 all out, were 26 without loss at the close of the first day of their three-day match at Kwekwe Sports Club today. (REUTERS) |
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