3 Sep ; Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar was on Friday conferred with the Indian Air Force’s honorary rank of Group Captain to honour his cricketing achievements and contribution to the nation.
Tendulkar is the first sportsperson to be conferred a rank by IAF and the first personality with no aviation background to receive the honour.

In 2008, India’s World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev had received the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the Territorial Army.
The 37-year-old Tendulkar was inducted into the Air Force as its brand ambassador with IAF chief …

6 Nov : Noted journalist Prabhash Joshi died of a heart attack in New Delhi last night. He was 72. He was admitted to a private hospital after he complained of chest pain at 11.30 pm where doctors declared him dead, family sources said.
He is survived by wife Usha Joshi, two sons — Sandeep and Sopan — daughter Sonal and mother Leela Bai.Joshi, who began his career with Nayi Duniya, was the founder editor of leading Hindi daily “Jansatta” in 1983.

After retiring from the newspaper in 1995, he continued as …

12 Sep : Sri Lanka beat India by 139 runs in a inconsequential match of the Compaq Cup tri-series in Colombo on Saturday night.
Brief score:
Sri Lanka: 307 for 8 in 50 overs (Sanath Jayasuriya 98, Thilana Kadamby 91 not out).

India: 168 all out in 37.2 overs.
(Rahul Dravid 47, Sachin Tendulkar 27; A Mathews 6/20).
Jayasuriya smashed a scintillating 98 off just 79 balls at the top and Kamdamby hit his third ODI half century down the order to resurrect the hosts innings.
Sri Lanka were struggling at 176 for five after electing …

12 Sep : India became the number one team in the ICC ODI Rankings with 128 points after defeating New Zealand by 6 wickets in the ongoing tri-series at the R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on Friday.
It is for the first time India has claimed number one in ODI’s since the rankings were introduced in October 2002.
India replaced South Africa by just one ratings point but if they lose the match on Saturday against the hosts Sri Lanka, they will again come on number two spot in the one-day rankings with …

6 Sep : Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features four other players from the sub-continent Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. Raking in USD 10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the second spot with earnings worth USD 8 million in the list of ‘The World’s Top-Earning Cricketers’. While Singh and Dravid are at the third and fourth spot, respectively, Ganguly and Australian …