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| New Delhi, June 28: Fabiano Caruana of Italy, living up to his top billing, stretched his lead to a full point as he beat Parimarjan Negi after a marathon 98 moves in the sixth round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Tournament here Tuesday. The other two games in the round ended in draws.
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| Adelaide, June 28: India's Dhruv Sitwala and Sourav Kothari entered the quarterfinals of the Australian Open billiards championship here on Tuesday winning all their respective league matches.
Sitwala, runner-up at the recent South Australian invitational tournament, topped his four-player g....
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| Chennai, June 28: In a bid to offer some relief to the common man, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa Tuesday ordered abolition of value added tax (VAT) on the cooking gas, bringing down its price by Rs.15 per cylinder.
In a statement issued here, the state government said it was waiving th....
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| New Delhi, June 28: India's chief football coach Armando Colaco Tuesday tested the national team against a spirited under-23 team in a practice match here Tuesday only to find the seniors scrape through with a 1-0 win.
The under-23 team's performance in the Pune leg of the Olympic quali....
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| New Delhi, June 28: India's new hockey coach will have a five-year tenure till the 2016 Olympics, the longest run given to any coach, an official said. Three short-listed candidates appeared Tuesday before a panel comprising Hockey India (HI) and Sports Authority of India officials.
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| Chandigarh, June 28: Shreya Ghei opened a handy five-shot lead over her nearest rival Gurbani Singh in the opening round of the Usha Chandigarh Junior Open golf tournament here Tuesday.
Ghei, a member of the Indian team at the Asian Games, had three birdies, but she also dropped a bunch of bogeys....
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| Hong Kong, June 28: The International Cricket Council (ICC) in a U-turn Tuesday decided to allow the minnows to play only in the 2015 World Cup and restrict the 2019 edition to 10 teams.
The next World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will have 14 teams, including four associates qualifying, and ....
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| Hong Kong, June 28: Under fierce criticism from associate members, the International Cricket Council (ICC) made a U-turn Tuesday and decided that 14 teams will participate in the 2015 World Cup, a change from the earlier ten-team format announced earlier this year.
Four associate teams will play ....
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| Sydney, June 28: Australia's tour to Sri Lanka in August is in doubt after Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) trimmied its budget, specially the security bill which was slashed from $445,000 to just $81,000.
Though Sri Lankan Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage assured that security would not be c....
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 | New York, June 28: Brazilian football star Marta Vieira da Silva, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has said women not only play lead roles on the field but also in families, schools and the workplace.
On the sidelines of the ongoing FIFA Women's Worl....
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