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San Diego, Jul 21: Shubham Jaglan, a 10-year-old son of a milkman from rural Haryana, scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships at the Welk Resort Fountain Course in San Diego on Friday. His three-day total of seven-under par 179 was better than rest of the field to become the Junior World Champion in his age category. Shubham blitzed the golf course over the

Jul 21: Wimbledon champion Sania Mirza is seen celebrating victory along with hubby cricketer Shoaib Malik in a new dubsmash posted on microbloging site Twitter. Well, though Sania has many dubsmash in her kitty, this one is special. Sania is riding high on her recent victory and so is Shoaib after his team's second win over Srilanka in the 5-match ODI series. Other Pak cricketers- Zulfiqar Babar

New Delhi, Jul 20: Indian men's hockey team chief coach Paul van Ass today claimed that he has been fired by Hockey India following his alleged public altercation with federation president Narinder Batra. "As far I know I was fired one week after the Hockey World League Semi-finals in Antwerp, Belgium. Roelant Oltmans (High Performance Director) was asked to replace me," Van Ass said from The

Christchurch, Jul 19: Somdev Devvarman delivered when it mattered as he tamed Marcus Daniell in straight sets to level the Asia/Oceania Davis Cup tie against New Zealand 2-2, here today. Somdev prevailed over Daniell 6-4 6-4 6-4 in the first of the two reverse singles in two hours and 18 minutes to keep India in hunt. Daniell replaced Jose Statham, who was down with a flu but could not help his

New York, Jul 19: Former FIFA vice president Jeffrey Webb pleaded not guilty in a New York court Saturday in connection with a massive international corruption scandal, and agreed to be released on a $10 million bond. The 50-year-old dual British and Cayman Islands citizen has relinquished his passports to the FBI and must remain within a 20-mile (32-kilometer) radius of the US federal court in

Jul 18: French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi has died of critical head injuries sustained at last year's Japanese Grand Prix, his family said in a statement on Saturday. He was 25. Bianchi had been in coma since the accident at Suzuka in October 2014. He passed away at a hospital in Nice, near his parents' home in the south of France. "Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but

New Delhi, Jul 18: Sports Ministry has now decided to include Jwala and Ashwini in the TOP scheme with a ministry official saying that their names will be part of the next list of athletes. With the Sports Ministry set to include G. Jwala and Ashwini Ponnappa in the Target Olympics Podium (TOP) scheme, the shuttler from Hyderabad on Friday expressed happiness and said it would motivate them

New Delhi, Jul 17: Drawing flak from some quarters after turning professional, star Indian boxer Vijender Singh on Friday got the backing of Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who met him here and asked him to ignore the criticism. Vijender, who signed up with the UK-based Queensberry Promotions earlier this month for a four-year deal, met the Minister and discussed his decision to quite amateur

Dubai, Jul 17: Pakistani all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez was on Friday suspended from bowling in international cricket for the next 12 months following an independent assessment of his action, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced. The 34-year-old's bowling action was tested at the Sri Ramachandra University in Chennai on July 6 after the legality of his bowling action came under question

Christchurch, Jul 17: In a shock start for India, Somdev Devvarman frittered away a two-set advantage to lose the opening singles to lower-ranked Michael Venus as the visitors trail 0-1 against New Zealand in the Davis Cup Asia Oceania Group I tie, here today. Venus, ranked as low as 548 in the singles, turned the tables on Somdev, who lost the opening singles 6-4 6-4 3-6 3-6 1-6 after three hours