Bindra, Chain win gold medals
New Delhi: India's top rifle shooters, including Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra, warmed up in style for the upcoming World Cup in Fort Benning, USA, by returning a rich haul of three gold and two bronze medals at the International Shooting Competition of Hannover. The tournament, held at the National Shooting Center in the German city, featured more than 1000 shooters from around the world. Beijing Games gold medallist Bindra won both the individual and team gold in his pet 10m air rifle event, while Chain Singh added the 50m men's rifle prone yellow metal to his 10m air rifle team gold, which he won alongside Bindra and london Olympics bronze medallist Gagan Narang. Narang also won the bronze medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event.
HI offers help to nepal victims
New Delhi: In support of the victims of Nepal earthquake disaster, Hockey India (HI) on Monday extended help to the country by donating `10,00,000 to the Prime Minister National Relief Fund. Expressing grief over the critical situation in Nepal, Dr. Narinder Batra, President, HI said: "Our neighbouring country needs our full support to come out of this situation and we are ready to offer all assistance to enable them to recover from this natural calamity. "There has been considerable loss to the Nepalese community and our contribution is a small token of support to help them restart their lives."
Welsh rugby player dies
london: A Welsh international rugby league player has died after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest during a club game. The Rugby Football league says Danny Jones was playing for northern English club Keighley Cougars when he collapsed after being replaced early in Sunday's league 1 match at london Skolars. The 29-year-old Jones was treated by paramedics at the ground before being taken to a hospital where he died. RFl chief operating officer Ralph Rimmer says "it is always devastating when someone so young dies in these circumstances. Danny was a popular and talented league player."
Poovamna qualifies for Asian C’ship
Mangaluru: City girl M R Poovamma of ONGC won her fourth straight title in women's 400m, clocking 53.41 secs to join the national squad for the Asian championships to be held at Wuhan, China next month. In the men's 400m race, Incheon Asiad bronze medalist Rajiv Arokia made the cut with a time of 46.24 secs.
Chinappa losesin Asian semis
Kuwait: The Indian challenge at the Asian Squash Championships ended here on Monday with Joshana Chinappa losing to World No.1 Nicol David in straight games. Fourth seed Chinappa went down 6-11, 9-11, 7-11 in the women's singles semi-finals. On Sunday, Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal suffered surprise losses in the quarter-finals.