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Athletes and intending visitors can breathe easy about the 2010 Commonwealth Games. India has come up with technology for air quality management even as this city is working on reducing air pollution during the mega event.

Taking charge as East Bengal's new football coach, Belgian Philippe de Ridder Monday said he was taking his "tough" assignment as a challenge.

India's sole individual medal hope Maisnam Chinglensana Luwang bowed out of the semi finals and then lost the play-off for the bronze in the men's compound bow event of the third Asian Indoor Games Archery competition in Hanoi, Vietnam, Thursday.

An upcoming woman boxer, who had represented Andhra Pradesh in the national championships, was found dead under suspicious circumstances in her hostel room at the Lal Bahadur Stadium here Wednesday.

The “unfortunate” decision of the Services team to back out of a Ranji Trophy cricket match in Srinagar on grounds of security was taken at a "lower level", Minister of State for Defence M.M. Pallam Raju said here Wednesday.

World-renowned wrestler and winner of World Wrestling Federation (WWF) championship Dalip Singh Rana, better known as "The Great Khali" will visit this Haryana town Wednesday, officials said Tuesday.

After assuming office as Maharashtra's chief minister, Ashok Chavan's first official duty Saturday was signing a congratulatory letter to India's cricket maestro Sachin Tendulkar for his record of 17,000 runs in one day international cricket.

India expects over 100,000 tourists during the Commonwealth Games next year and the government is working overtime to ensure that the required number of hotel rooms are ready, with many hotels being constructed in Haryana, adjoining the national capital, an official said.

Fresh dates should be fixed for the cricket match in Srinagar that was cancelled after the Services' team withdrew on grounds of security, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said here Wednesday.

Reacting sharply to the Services' team refusing to play a cricket match in Srinagar, a furious union minister and Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) chief Farooq Abdullah Tuesday said he would take up the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.