The Forum Purple Run was conducted by Forum Centre City Mall, Mysuru, this morning with an objective of creating awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease — a mental disorder that’s commonly prevailing among the people aged above 50 plus. The marathon, which started early morning today, took the city by storm with over 1,500 people participating in…
F20 $15,000 ITF Men’s Tennis at Egypt: Mysuru’s Vasisht, Tejas finish runner-up in men’s doubles
September 30, 2018Cairo: Mysuru lad C. Vasisht, teaming up with Tejas Chaukulkar and representing India in the F20 $15,000 ITF Egypt Futures Men’s Tennis Tournament at Cairo in Egypt, on Saturday finished runner-up in the Men’s Doubles event. Third seeded pair of Dante Gennaro (Italy) and Sharrf Rabry (Egypt) beat Vasisht and Tejas 7-6 (3), 6-3 in…
Snooker: Pankaj Advani settles for bronze
September 30, 2018Doha: Nineteen-time world champion Pankaj Advani settled for a bronze medal in the Asian 10-red Snooker after losing to Ireland’s Brendan O’Donoghue 5-0 in the semifinal here on Saturday. The Indian appeared off-colour a day after storming into the semifinal. The first frame saw O’Donoghue score two 20-plus breaks to win it 48-1. In the…
Indian Archer Abhishek Verma wins World Cup final bronze
September 30, 2018Samsun: India’s star compound archer Abhishek Verma put up a dazzling display to down Kim Jongho of Korea and bag a bronze medal in the season-ending World Cup Final here on Saturday. The Korean, who is the most consistent compound archer to have qualified with the highest average arrow (9.82), led by a point till…
India retains Asia Cup: Beat Bangladesh in a last ball thriller
September 29, 2018Dubai: India retained the Asia Cup with a three-wicket win off the last ball against a fighting Bangladesh who were anchored by a maiden hundred from opener Liton Das in Dubai on Friday. Set a target of 223 to get by Bangladesh, India made heavy weather of the chase as Bangladesh fought for every run…
Excel in Hockey Tourney
September 29, 2018The students of Sapient PU College secured second place in the District-level Hockey Tournament conducted by the Department of PU Education recently. Seen are the winning students — (from left – standing) K.S. Sharan, B.P. Prajwal, V.K. Vishal Gowda, M.S. Pavan, Bhuvan Achaiah, K.R. Bopanna; (kneeling) P.B. Vrishab Thimanna, M.K. Subbaiah, K.T. Dilien Somanna and…
Korea Open: Saina Nehwal loses to Nozomi Okuhara
September 29, 2018Seoul: India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal went down fighting in what was a close encounter against former world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the quarterfinals to bring down the curtains on India’s campaign at the Korea Open Tournament here on Friday. The fifth-seeded Indian squandered four match points to go down 21-15 15-21 20-22…
F20 $15,000 ITF Men’s Tennis at Egypt: Mysuru’s Vasisht-Tejas duo enters finals
September 29, 2018Cairo: Mysuru lad Vasisht Cheruku, teaming up with Tejas Chaukulkar and representing India in the F20 $15,000 ITF Men’s Tennis Tournament being held at Cairo, Egypt, from Sept.24 to 30, entered finals in the Men’s Doubles event on Friday. Vasisht and Tejas combined well to beat the fourth-seeded pair of Petr Hajek and Ondrej Krster…
Athletics: Reena George wins 200m gold
September 29, 2018Bhubaneswar: Mysuru girl Reena George, representing Karnataka in the 58th National Open Athletics Championships-2018 which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Friday, won the 200m gold in the women’s section. Reena won the gold with a timing of 24.10s. Chari Sharavath of Railways secured silver with a timing of 24.23s and Rosalin Lewis of Maharashtra…
India secures seventh place in World Deaf Tennis: Prashanth of Mysuru fares well
September 29, 2018Prithvi Sekhar bounced back from a bad start to beat Deaflympics silver medallist Andres Vazquez 0-6, 6-4, 6-1 as India secured the seventh place with a 2-1 victory over Ecuador in the Deaf Tennis World Championship in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday. After Mysuru lad, D.H. Prashanth, gave a flying start by outplaying Jean Carlos Santana…
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