f1 season to start in april 2016
Melbourne: The Formula One season will start later in 2016 with the opening race in Australia pushed back to April, organisers said on Wednesday. The Melbourne Grand Prix will maintain its traditional opening slot on the calendar but will be run on April 3 to "condense the season", which will end in November. It normally gets under way in mid-March.
satnam enters nba draft
New York: Satnam Singh Bhamra might become the first India born and only second Indian origin basketball player after Sim Bhullar to feature in the NBA following his inclusion in the NBA Draft for the year 2015. The 7 feet 1 inches tall hoopster from the IMG Academy is one of the 91 players — 48 players from colleges and post-graduate institutions and 43 international players — who were nominated as early entry candidates for the 2015 NBA Draft presented by State Farm. At less than 16 years of age, Satnam, hailing from Barnala in Punjab, became the youngest player to represent India at the 26th Asian Basketball Championship at Wuhan in China in 2011.
bidhuri shines in wsb
laussane: Indian boxer Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) has created quite a splash at the International Boxing Association's semi-professional World Series of Boxing, churning out three consecutive wins for his franchise Italia Thunder in the ongoing season. The Indian has so far appeared in five bouts for the 2011-12 champions and has notched up an impressive tally of three wins so far, the latest coming against former World Championships bronze-medallist Miras Zakhupov.
tintu likely to be in top scheme
New Delhi: National record holder half miler Tintu luka is likely to be included in the list of athletes who will get government support under the Target Olympic Podium (TOP) Scheme when the sports ministry announces the next lot of beneficiaries. The Sports Ministry on Tuesday announced names of 45 sportspersons who will get government fund under the TOP scheme, with five of them from the track and field in the first list. Sports Minister has said that 75 sporstpersons would be chosen for the scheme initially and another lot of names of 30 athletes will be announced soon. Athletics Federation of India President Adille Sumariwalla had a meeting with the selection committee last week and it is learnt that the names of 14 more track and field athletes were cleared for the scheme.
two medals for special golfers
New Delhi: Three teenagers with intellectual disabilities - Ankush Saha (19), Kushagra Gaur (18) and Ranveer Saini (14) represented India at the 4th Special Olympics Golf Masters International Tournament in Macau and came back with two medals. Kushagra and Ranveer were the ones to win medals. Of the nine trophies that were up for grabs, India won two. The tournament had representation from 17 countries.
durban in tough cwg talks
Durban: Durban's 2022 Commonwealth Games bid committee says it has had some "tough" talks with officials evaluating the city's ability to hold the first international multi-sport event in Africa. Durban bid chairman Mark Alexander on Wednesday described the discussions with a Commonwealth Games Federation evaluation team as "tough and detailed." In a statement, bid chief executive Tubby Reddy said there was "a strict budget," and Durban, a 2010 World Cup host city, would upgrade existing venues rather than build new ones.
pawar progresses in auckland
Auckland: Anand Pawar notched up straight-game victories in the first two rounds to advance to pre-quarterfinals of the New Zealand Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament on Wednesday. Pawar brushed aside local shuttler Joshua Curry 21-5, 21-9 in a lop-sided first-round match, before taming Malaysia's Zulhelmi Zulkiffli 21-11, 21-17.