International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on 5 December 2012 that four 200 4 Athens Olympic medalists had their

medals taken away because the re-tested sam ples, which were stored for 8 years, proved positive. The four medalists include d shot put champion of Ukraine Yuriy Bilonog, women's shot putter of Russia Svet lana Krivelyova, discus thrower Irina Yatchenko of Belarus and Belarussian hamme r thrower Ivan Tsikhan. 3-times world champion Tsikhan also had to give away his bronze medal from the 2 008 Beijing Games. However, this decision was reversed at Court of Arbitration f or Sport (CAS) on the grounds that there were errors in laboratory procedures. IOC declared that the case which involved fifth athlete from Athens Games was pe nding. The four athletes who had to give their medals had tested positive for th e anabolic steroids. Around 100 samples from Athens Games were target tested eig ht years ago by IOC with the help of modern methods. IOC has a procedure of storing the samples for eight years in order to enable re -testing of newly found substances or those substances for which no tests were a vailable at that time. IOC also declared additionally that respective federation s had the responsibility to check whether medals were returned or not. Athens Olympics doping cases tally now stands at 31 after 26 positive tests as o f now. This is the maximum in any game. IOC declared that it would like the exte nsion of law of limitation from current 8 years. It was added by IOC that World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was considering this law of limitation to extend to 10 years. ============== England Cricket team captain Alastair Cook on 6 December 2012 claimed his place among the cricketing greats when he set an England record for the most Test cent uries and became the youngest player in the long history of the game to pass 700 0 runs. The 27 years old Alastair Cook scored his 23rd Test hundred to leave England clo sing in on a rare series win in India. He has ahead of past legends Wally Hammond, Colin Cowdrey and Geoffrey Boycott. Team-mate Kevin Pietersen has also scored 22 tons. Alastair Cook made an unbeaten 136 to put England on 1 for 216 at stumps at Eden Gardens on 6 December 2012 only 100 runs behind India's first innings total of 316. ======================= After the recent suspension of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) from Internation al Olympic Committee (IOC), IOC assured the Indian athletes that this action was against IOA and not against them. IOC gave assurance to the athletes that they do not need to worry about their future prospects. IOC also declared that the de cision was to ensure improvisation in governance of sports in India. IOC additionally said that it was open for discussion with the Indian government or the IOA. It was confirmed by IOC that after suspension on 4 December 2012, n either the Indian government nor the IOA had opened up for dialogue with IOC. Th e main body of Olympic declared that it was ready for cleaning this hassle with anyone who was interested in doing so. In context with the IOA elections which took place on 5 December 2012, IOC clear ed that it did not recognise these elections. IOA had gone ahead with these elec tions on 5 December 2012 despite the warnings of IOC. In the elections, Abhey Si ngh Chautala was elected as president of IOA and Lalit Bhanot was elected as sec retary. Assuring the Indian athletes, IOC declared that it was the body meant for athlet es and any action would not harm their future.

================================ Kobe Bryant, 34, achieved the title of youngest ever player to reach the milesto ne of 30000 career points in NBA (basketball) on 5 December 2012. He achieved th e milestone when he took Los Angeles Lakers towards the 103-87 victory over New Orleans Homets. In the second quarter, only 1:16 time was left and within that time period, Brya nt took his jump shot, taking his career points to 30001. With that accomplishme nt, Kobe Bryant joined the elite list of just 5 more players to reach that miles tone in the history of NBA. Other four of this elite segment are Kareem Abdul-Ja bbar (38387 points), Karl Malone (36928 points), Michael Jordan (32292) and Wilt Chamberlain (31419). He is the youngest player in NBA history to reach this landmark at the age of 34 years. Chamberlain was aged 35 when he achieved this milestone; Malone and Abdu l-Jabbar were 36 years of age while Jordan on the other hand was 38 years old to achieve this landmark. Bryant however was the fifth-fastest NBA player in context to the games played f or reaching this milestone. He achieved this milestone in 1179th match. Chamberl ain on the other hand achieved it in 941 games only. =========================== Air India emerged champion against Bharat Petroleum in the 23rd Lal Bahadur Shas tri hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on 4 December 2012. This was second title of this season for Air India. Air India had already shared the MCC-Murugappa Cup with Indian Oil. Air India had an edge over Bharat Petrol eum because the team was full of expereinced players. Besides, there was also an advantage because Bharat Petroleum did not give its 100 percent which was evide nt when it wasted a lot of opportunities. For Bharat Petroleum this was another runner-up in the second event consecutively. Air India, in the meanwhile, won the cheque worth 2 lakh Rupees along with the t itle of the tournament. Amir Khan, the Bharat petroleum striker was decided as t he Best Player of the Tournament. V.S. Vinaya of Air India team, on the other ha nd won the title of Top Scorer of the Event with six goals. ======================== The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the India Olympic Associatio n (IOA) on 4 December 2012 and eventually this might also lead to IOA ban from O lympic movement. IOA ban from Olympic would result in consequences such as: No funding from IOC No officials from India would be invited by IOC to any events such as Paralympic s and Olympics No India athlete would be allowed competing under India s flag; but could be permi tted competing under IOC flag Commonwealth Games Federation as well as The Olympic Council of Asia might also go with the trend which would lead to similar sanctions in case of Commonwealth Games as well as the Asian games IOC suspended IOA because India was following the Sports Code of government in t he IOA elections, which is against the Olympic Charter. IOC declared that follow ing of Sports Code of government is actually the interference of the government in the Olympic Movement. Suspension of IOA from Olympics came just before the Election Day. IOA officials declared that the elections would go as planned and scheduled. IOA has been hol

ding the elections on direction by the Delhi high court which had asked this bod y to conduct its polls as per the Sports Code and its own constitution.IOA decid ed this after it put down the bid of IOA to send the 2-member delegation for exp laining its scenario. It was already evident that the suspension was in the line because of the develo pment in run-up to these elections. After sending various letters to IOA, asking it to follow the Olympic Charter, IOC warned for the first time regarding suspe nsion on 23 November 2012. Then it gave the second warning of suspension to IOA on 28 November 2012. It is worth noticing that the decision of IOC was welcomed by several former as well as current sportspersons. They believed that suspension was an opportunity of cleaning the hassles in IOA. ====================== Viswanathan Anand, the World Chess Champion in a match against Luke McShane of E ngland finished with a draw in second round of the London Chess Classic on 3 Dec ember 2012. In the game which was finely crafted, the number one of the world Norwegian Magn us Carlsen achieved himself the position of highest-rated player in the history by defeating second seed Levon Aronian of Armenia. The former World Champion Russian Vladimir Kramnik ensured in the meanwhile that victory wouldn t come easy to Carlsen in merely two rounds. He also grinded US-ba sed Hikaru Nakamura in the endgame that had queen and the pawns. Another game that concluded in a draw was a match between Gawain Jones of Englan d and Judit Polgar of Hungary. With eight rounds still remaining in the 9-player tournament, Carlsen and Kramni k rushed forward with six points respectively. In first round, Carlsen thrashed McShane; while on the other hand, Kramnik achieved an advantage at Polgar s expens e. Michael Adams of England as well as Nakamura shared third position with the thre e points each and Michael Adams had his extra match in hand when he bid adieu in second round only. Just like Adams, Anand too had a game in hand and now he shares fifth spot joint ly in the rankings with Jones, McShane and Polgar. Aronian on the other hand, is at the lowest position in table because he has still not opened his account. ============================= Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland ended his two-year wait of winning the tourn ament on 2 December 2012 with his three-shot victory in World Challenge which wa s hosted by Tiger Woods. McDowell had last won in 2010 season in which he captur ed the victory in US Open but since then, he hasn t won anywhere. For the 72-hole total out of 17-under 271, McDowell carded four-under par 68 in his final round. He aceived a three-stroke triumph over Keegan Bradley. Bradley, in the meanwhile posted 69 for 274. Bradley had won PGA Chamiopnship in 2011. After he took the 54-hole lead on 1 December 2012, McDowell accepted that though this tournament was not a part of the tour but it would definitely help him che ck the mixed season in which he tied the match for second at US Open and also ti e for the fifth in British Open. Another player, Bo Van Pelt carded 70 acquiring the individual ownership of thir d place on 278. The host, Tiger Woods, on the other hand carded one-under 71 on

the courses of Sherwood Country Club for the fourth place on 279. Rickie Fowler (69) and Jim Furyk (70) joined him as well. =========================== Ravindra Jadeja became first Indian and only eighth batsman in the first-class c ricket history of world to score three triple-centuries in the unbeaten 320 runs against Railways in the Ranji Trophy Group A match on 2 December 2012 in Rajkot . With the help of Jadeja s innings, Saurashtra reached the giant score of 534 for s ix in their first innings on second day of 4-day combat. Jadeja had scored 303 against Gujarat in his first match of this season and even tually the second triple century and third as well to become the only Indian bat sman to reach this podium. There are five other Indian batsmen who have scored two triple centuries in thei r first-class cricket and these are VVS Laxman, Wasim Jaffer, Virender Sehwag, V ijay Hazare and Raman Lamba. With his triple century, Jadeja has joined the leag ue of seven other non-Indians who have reached this landmark and these are Mike Hussey, WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Sir Don Bradman, Wally Hammond, Bill Ponsford and Brian Lara. During the match, Jadeja, the left-handed batsman hit 28 fours and 7 sixes durin g his 11-and-a-half-hour game in which he played 491 deliveries. With this, he a dded 274 for the unbreakable 7th wicket partnership with Kamlesh Makvana, playin g at 78. ======================= Anna Ushenina of Ukraine on 1 December 2012 won the Women s World Championship Cro wn of Chess at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia after defeating Antoaneta Stefanova of Bu lgaria in first set of tie-break game. Anna won the title along with 60000 US do llar for the efforts made by her to win the Chess championship. In 2013 Anna would be playing the next world championship against Chinese Yifan Hou, which is a part of new cycle in Women s World Championship. ===========\ Facing threats of disassociation from the parent body, Indian Olympic Associatio n (IOA) clarified on 1 December 2012 that there was no violation of the governme nt guidelines or Olympic Charter during the election process. It also mentioned that there should be no action from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) ag ainst it. The acting chief of IOA made it clear that the Election Commission comprising of the retired judges of High Court did not find any violation of the rules in the elections which are scheduled to take place on 5 December 2012. The acting chie f made clear that none of the three codes- Sports Code, the Delhi High Court ord er or the Olympic Charter, were violated. Also, the chief mentioned that no nomi nations were rejected by Election Commission. In the letter, IOC cleared that it will be proposing disassociation of IOA in th e Executive Board Meeting to be held on 4-5 December 2012, in case IOA was proce eding with the elections under the Sports Code of the Government. However, IOA cleared that the Government was not interfering and that the electi on process was being conducted as per the IOA Constitution as well as Olympic Ch arter. ============================ The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on 29 November 2012 appointed Luiz Fe lipe Scolari as the Coach of Brazilian Football team. Luiz replaced Mano Menezes who was sacked from his position in the third week of November 2012.

Luiz Felipe Scolari would be leading the team as its coach also during the 2014 FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place in Brazil. Before this in the 2002 FIFA W orld Cup held in South Korea and Japan, Luiz Felipe Scolari led the Brazilian si de as its coach, the team which was declared the winner of the tournament. His r ecent recruitment at the position of coach would give him a time of 18 months to guide the Brazilian Football Team to win the next World Cup at its home. He wou ld be guiding the team during the FIFA Confederations Cup that is scheduled to b e organized in June 2013 in Brazil. =============== Sebastian Vettel of Germany, the Red Bull driver became youngest triple champion in the history of Formula One on 25 November 2012 by finishing 6th behind Jenso n Button in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Vettel, 25 got himself involved in opening lap collision and made very little damage to his Red Bull car in the run in rai n-swept conditions at Interlagos circuit. The only title rival of Vettel was two -time champion Spaniard Fernnando Alonso who finished in the second position in his Ferrari. However he had pre-race 13 points deficit while Vettel won the titl e by merely three points. Vettel was the third driver in the history of Formula One to win three consecuti ve titles. Others who have done this before are Michael Schumacher and Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio. The Red Bull team of Vettel took the third constructors' ch ampionship in the sequence on 18 November 2012 in Texas and finished with 281 po ints while Alonso with 278 points. ================================ West Indies on 25 November 2012 won the second match of the test series against Bangladesh at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium and sealed the series with 2-0. Tino Best the West Indies paceman claimed his career best six-wicket haul to help the tea m win the match against the competitors, which was followed by the five wicket h aul in the first test against Dhaka. With this defeat Bangladesh faced its 65th defeat in the 75 tests played till da te, since the time it got recognition as aq test playing nations 12 years back. The list of defeat also includes 34 defeats by an innings. After marking this ma jor win in the test series, West Indies would be playing five one-day internatio nals followed by a twenty20 international match. ======================== Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year Award 2012 for the fourth time and United States sprinter Allyson Felix won women's World Athlete of the Year Award 2012 on 24 November 2012 during the IAAF's 100th Anniversary Celebration. The Jamaican sprinter Bolt had won for defending his gold medals in the 100 and 200 meter races of the summers Olympic Games, he also won the same award previous ly in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Bolt managed to be ahead of United States hurdler Ari es Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha to win the award. Allyson Felix managed to secure her Gold medal in the London Olympics in the 200 meter race. Before this she managed to settle down with the Silver in the Beiji ng Olympics in the year 2008. New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams and British heptathlete Jessica Ennis were the other finalists of the Women award segment, w ho also were the gold medalists in London Olympics. In 2003, Bolt and Felix won the Rising Star awards for the most promising young athletes of the year. United States hurdler Aries Merritt was successful in winning the Inspiration Aw ard for his season and the award included a gold medal and a world record in the 110-meter hurdles. David Rudisha won the Performance of the Year award for his record-setting gold medal run in the 800 meters; he was the winner of the Athlet e of the Year in 2010. Keshorn Walcott, Javelin thrower of Trinidad and Anthoniq ue Strachan sprinter of Bahamas won the Rising Star awards. ===================

The Czech Republic on 18 November 2012 won the 100th Davis Cup 2012 finals, afte r defeating Spain by 3-2 in the finals. Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic outclas sed Nicolas Almagro of Spain with 6-4, 7-6 (0), 3-6, 6-3 in the 3 hours and 52 m inutes game, on the hard court of Prague s O2 Arena, during the final fifth rubber of the Davis Cup. Radek Stepanek has created a history by his name after winning the Davis Cup fin al as he became the first man ever aged 30 or above to win the decisive rubber i n 100 years. With this win, the Czech Republic lifted the Davis Cup for the first time after winning independence in 1993. Before this in the year 1980 it lifted the trophy under Czechoslovakia flag by the team led by Ivan Lendl. With this win the Czech Republic turned-up to be the first nation that won the Hopman Cup, Fed Cup and Davis Cup in one year. ================== World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) proposed that athletes found guilty of the serio us doping felonies will be suspended for 4 years from 2015. However no specific rules were made for banning the wrong-doers from Olympics. At present, the athletes who are found guilty of their first main doping felony are put on 2-year ban followed by a life ban in case of successive positive test s. WADA proposed in its second draft of2012 WADA code that there will be an introdu ction of longer ban for the offenses which include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), a nabolic steroids as well as trafficking and masking agents. This draft was revie wed from 17 November 2012 to 18 November 2012. The draft has doubled the suspension length for the offenders and has also widen ed anti-doing oragnisations scope to impose the lifetime bans. Nevertheless, in the draft there is no consideration to the former International Olympic Committee (IOC) rule in context with the Olympic participation. This ru le was ruled in refusal with WADA Code back in 2011 by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the highest sports court. As per the IOC rule which was introduc ed in 2008, in case the athletes were suspended for six months or more than that , participation in next Olympic Games was banned. According to the new WADA Code draft, there has also been an inclusion of the pr oposal about the prohibited substances or techniques which are contradictory to the sports spirit or health of an athlete. This proposed draft will also go for review between November 2012 and March 2013 , after which it will be presented to WADA Foundation Board before preparation o f the final draft. ========================= Sports Current Affairs November 2012. Daimler, the German Luxury Carmaker purcha sed 40 percent stakes of the Mercedes Formula One Motor Racing Team owned by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Aabar Investments in the third week of November 2012. With this purchase the teams full control went into the hands of Daimler. The amount of purchase of the 40 percent stake remained undisclosed. The deal of selling out the stakes of the formula 1 team now awaits regulatory a pproval. The Two companies Daimler and Aabar came together into motor racing in 2009 afte r they purchased Brawn GP, the then World Champion and re-launched it the next s eason with the name, Mercedes. At present Mercedes stands at fifth position in t he 12-team Formula One Standings. Team Mercedes has signed a three-year deal wit

h the former world champion Lewis Hamilton, who would be driving for the team in the next season. ========================== M. Mahalakshmi and R. Vaishali from Chennai on 19 November 2012 won Gold at the World Youth Chess Championship in Slovenia. Arvindh Chithambaram (Under-14 Open) from Madurai and Girish A. Koushik (Under-16 Open) from Mysore won Silver Medal s in the championship. G.K. Monnisha (under-14) and Savant Riya (Under-12) secur ed Bronze at the Championship for India. R. Vaishali was successful in securing her position in under-12 girls honours. A rvindh Chithambaram lost gold after losing the tie-up with the American Troff Ka yden by a tie-break score at the end of the 11-round event. =========== International news agencies on 15 November 2012 boycotted the high-profile Test series between India and England which began with its first test in Ahmedabad to protest against the restrictions imposed by the BCCI on some photo agencies cov ering the tour. The major International agencies Thomson Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Assoc iated Press decided to suspend reports from the tour as well as pictures. Also, as per the release issued by the News Media Coalition (NMC), the press Associat ion, National Agency in the United Kingdom is not going to supply Photographs. The international news agencies are basically protesting against providing picto rial or text coverage of the tour. It is being seen that agencies distribute thousands of images as part of their e ditorial coverage to the enjoyment of fans, the curious and sponsors of teams, s uch as Nike and Sahara. The lock-out of photographic agencies by the Board of Co ntrol for Cricket in India (BCCI) would result in cricket fans worldwide having sight of far fewer images taken by press photographers. ============================= The Spanish pair of Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez on 12 November 2012 defeate d the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in the Men's Doubles title clash of the ATP World Tour Finals in London. In the final match, the fifth see ded Indian duo went down fighting in a tight three-set game, 5-7, 6-3, 3-10. Meanwhile, Serbia's World Number One Novak Djokovic has bagged the Men's Singles trophy. Djokovic defeated World Number Two Roger Federer of Switzerland in stra ight sets, 7-6, 7-5, in the final match played early this morning. ======================= Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the female Weightlifter from India won three bronze medal s for Indian Team on the opening day of the 19th Junior Women Asian Weightliftin g Championships in Yangon in Mynamar. To win and secure medals she lifted 168kg in the 48kg weight category -- one eac h in snatch (74kg), clean and jerk (94kg) and total (168kg). Mirabai, got selected for the event after lifting 163kg in the trials and had ma naged an additional five kg more during the main event. Mirabai was fifth in 48kg weight category in the last edition of the tournament in Pattaya (Thailand). She had earlier clinched gold in the dame category during the seventh National Y outh (Girls) Weightlifting Championships held at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh in year 2011. =================== The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 8 November 2012 lifted the life ban from playin g Cricket on Mohammad Azharuddin which was imposed by Board of Control for Crick et in India (BCCI) in Year 2000.

The life ban on Mohammad Azharuddin came after he was found involved in the bett ing scandal and the match-fixing episode as per the BCCI three-member committee, comprising its erstwhile president A C Muthaiah and two vice-presidents Kamal M orarka and K M Ram Prasad. Overturning the BCCI decision, the bench of Justice which was comprised of justi ces Ashutosh Mohanta and Krishna Mohan Reddy gave relief to Azharuddin allowing his appeal challenging the order of a local court. The bench of Justice agreed with the argument of Azharuddin s counsel K Ramakant R eddy that there is no evidence against him. Azharuddin made l match in June to the ban. He bursting on the . his debut for India in 1984-85 and played his final internationa 2000.Mohammad Azharuddin was stranded on 99 Test appearances due had made 6215 runs in test matches at an average of 45.03 after scene in 1984-85 with centuries in each of his first three Tests

In One-Day Internationals, he scored 9378 runs and hit seven hundreds across 334 matches. Mohammad Azharuddin in his 49 years of age is currently a member of parliament f rom Moradabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh. =============== V. Dinesh Reddy, the Director-General of Police for Andhra Pradesh has been appo inted as the New President of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) on 7 November 2 012. Dinesh Reddy replaced R.K. Shetty after he resigned from the post. Reddy s elevation to the post happened because he was the senior most Vice-Preside nt of the organization after R.K. Shetty and would be at the post till next elec tions of the federation takes places. Indian Olympic Association s Electoral College has also released a list for electi ons that is scheduled for 25 November and Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) was all owed to vote attend the meetings scheduled in the future for the elections, but would not be allowed to vote in the elections. Hockey India (HI) would be placin g three representatives who are eligible for Voting during the elections.

================================= Indian Golf Player Gaganjeet Bhullar became the First Indian who made it to the elite group of the world s top-100 players in the latest ranking. The title was previously held by Jeev Milkha Singh, who broke the record in 2006 at the age of 34 with Jyoti Randhawa following him in the same year when he was also aged 34. As per the latest Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), Bhullar had jumped 10 rank s on the back of a tied-18 finish in the $7 million WGC-HSBC Champions in China to take the 98th position in the world. Only Jeev Milkha Singh is ahead of Bhull ar currently, and is placed at 95 in the OWGR. The next best placed Indian is An irban Lahiri ranking 234 on the list. Gaganjeet Bhullar is currently in Singapore, where he is going to play the $6 mi llion Barclays Open. In Year 2012, Gaganjeet Bhullar had won the Yeangder Tournament Players Champion ship on 17 September 2012 which was followed by his win over the Venetian Macau Open in the month of October.

============================ Indian cricket team Captain M.S. Dhoni s Superbike championship team on 7 November 2012 changed its name from MSD R-N Racing Team India to Mahi Racing Team India and had signed two new members. The two new members that had been signed up are world champion Kenan Sofouglu an d former world champion Fabien Foret Sofouglu is a driver from turkey and had won the championship three times in 200 7, 2010 and the recently-concluded season with the Kawaski team after the Portug uese Grand Prix. While, Fabien Foret is a driver from France and is a 2002 World champion. At the end of 2008, he had 24 podium finishes under his name which includes 11 wins an d 12 pole positions. The riders are going to test the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R machines during the offici al winter testing season. Earlier named MSD R-N Racing Team India, the Indian sk ipper s team competed in the 600cc class in 2012, becoming India s first FIM world s uperbike championship team. The Budh International Circuit is hosting the superbike world championship event in March 2013, leading to a rush in interest for India s first bike racing team, involving Dhoni, who had passion for speed and bike. About Superbike Race The Superbike race first started in year 1970 when super bike race is held in ma ny countries mainly in USA and Australia. At that time the races were of large c apacity bike of up to 1100cc and were strictly limited to four stroke machines. But soon the grand prix bikes arrived in the states which were accompanied and l =or replaced by machines. aterfour cylinder700 and 750 two stroke, three ============================ Pakistan on 6 November 2012 was declared champion of the Asian Kabaddi Champions hip after Indian team walked out from the field in a protest against the referee s decision of penalizing the Indian Coach. The Pakistani team was leading the game by 40 points against 31 points scored by the Indian side. The protest by the Indian players came after the Coach of Indi an side; Goormel Singh was shown a green card after continuously disturbing the finals in protest of decision of the referee. ================================= Sachin Tendulkar the Indian Cricketer on 6 November 2012 received the honorary m embership of the Order of Australia by Simon Crean, Minister for Regional Austra lia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts at a fu nction organised at Taj Lands End at Mumbai, India.On this occassion Sachin reci eved a medal and a stump painted by an Australian. With this honour Sachin has now joined the list of non-Australian cricketers to be honoured with the membership of Order of Australia along with Brian Lara, Cli ve Lloyd and Gary Sobers. ============= The National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (NADDP) on 5 November 2012 suspended all the 11 athletes for two years, who were tested positive with methylhexaneam ine (MHA) in the run-up of the last Commonwealth Games. The decision came-up aft er a twenty five months long hearing process and the suspension would be in effe ct from the date of decision making. The panel hearing into the case also ordered disqualification of all the records and results by their name recorded from the date of sample collection, it would also include omission of all the consequences that included forfeiture of all t

he points, medals and prizes. Following the provisions of Article 10.8 of the Na tional Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and the code of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) which is yet not applied in the hearing procedures of Indian disciplinary, woul d mean the loss of Bronze Medal in the 96 kilogram freestyle category of Wrestli ng from wrestler Mausam Khatri, which he won in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. The additional disqualification of results from sample collection date, under Ar ticle 10.8 of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) rules and the World Anti-Do ping Agency (WADA) Code, hitherto not applied in Indian disciplinary hearing pro cedures, will mean that wrestler Mausam Khatri will lose his bronze medal in the 96kg freestyle category in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. Under the same provisions, swimmer Richa Mishra would lose all the 16 medals tha t include 11 Gold in the National Games February 2011 held at Ranchi along with the other five Gold won during National Swimming Championships held in October 2 012 at Pune. Others, against whom the hearing were carried on and whose name were included in the suspension orders include six wrestlers out of which Rajeev Tomar is an Arj una Awardee and rest five are Sumit Sehrawat, Joginder Singh, Gursharanpreet Kau r including Mausam Khatri. The list also have name of two athletes namely Saurab h Vij and Akash Antil along with three swimmers and they are Amar Muralidharan, Jyotsana Pansare and Richa. The disciplinary panel that was hearing into the case included retired judge Din esh Dayal and former Asian badminton champion Dinesh Khanna and Dr. N.K. Khadiya disqualified the evidence presented to establish deviations in proceedings of t he laboratory and other agencies involved in the processes ===================== Sports Current Affairs 2012.Indian Tennis Player Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopan na on 4 November 2012 won their first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title togethe r defeating Pakistan's Aisam- Ul- Haq Qureshi and Netherlands' Jean- Julien Roje r by 7-6(6), 6-3 in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris. The pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna won 142500 in prize money and had als o claimed 1000 ATP Doubles Team Rankings points, while their opponent and Barcla ys ATP World Tour Finals qualifiers Aisam-Ul- Qureshi and Jean- Julien Rojer cla imed 69780 prize money and 600 points. Mahesh Bhupati, till date, had won 16 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophies, whil e for Bopanna it his second shield. Also, together for Bhupati and Bopanna it is their second title of the year 2012 . Earlier they had won the Dubai ATP event in March 2012 and ended runners-up at Cincinnati and Shanghai. In 2011, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam- Ul- Haq Qureshi won the Paris title. =================================================== Hironmoy Chatterjee, Secretary of the Bengal Tennis Association on 1 November 20 12 was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The All India Tennis As sociation (AITA). The decision of Chatterjee s selection was made by the Executive Board of AITA tha t is headed by President Anil Khanna with consultation to the honourable Life Pr esident, Yashwant Sinha. Chatterjee in his 36 years experience as a tennis admin istrator has been a beneficiary of conducting different types of tournaments tha t includes the local tournaments to the Davis Cup, a tournament of world level. =================================== Sahara India Pariwar on 31 October 2012 at the Sahara Shaher in Lucknow felicita ted six Indian athletes who won medals at the London Olympics in July-August 201

2. The function was attended by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and by renowned busin essmen, politicians and officials and was marked with a cultural programme which included some memorable performances by Sonu Nigam and Shiamak Davar s troupe. The silver medalist Sushil Kumar and Vijay Kumar were presented with gold weighi ng three kg while bronze medalist Gagang Narang, Saina Nehwal, Mary Kom and Yoge shwar Dutt were presented with 2 kg of gold by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Sahara India Pariwar is a major business conglomerate and the prime promoter& pa tron of sports in India. It had been already declared by Sahara India Pariwar prior to the commencement o f the London Olympics that it is going to award medals of pure gold of 5 Kg, 3 K g and 2 Kg to every Indian winning gold, silver and bronze medal respectively in the London Olympics 2012. =========================== Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli was chosen for the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) Polly Umrigar award for being India's top international cricketer in 2011-12. With this Virat Kohli is going to be honoured with a trophy and cheque of 5 lakh Rupees at the Annual BCCI Awards Ceremony in Mumbai on 21 November 2012. The other previous winners of this prestigious award are Sachin Tendulkar in yea r 2006-07 and 2009-10, Virender Sehwag in year 2007-08, with Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid in year 2008-09 and 2010-11 respectively. Virat Kohli in year 2011-12 had scored: 627 run @ 52.25 from 7 Tests, which include two centuries. 1539 runs @ 73 from 26 ODIs, which includes seven centuries. 389 run @ 48 from ten T20 Internationals, which include four fifties. VVS Laxman, who announced his retirement from international cricket in August 20 12, is also going to be felicitated at the ceremony with Sachin Tendulkar who is being honoured for completing a century of international centuries. The award Polly Umrigar is under the name of late Indian cricketer Polly Umriga r (28 March 1926 7 November 2006) who had played first-class cricket for Bombay , and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, as a middle-order batsman and had captained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958. =================================== The Indian women's cricket team on 31 October 2012 won inaugural Asian Cricket C ouncil's (ACC) Twenty20 Asia Cup, beating Pakistan by 18 runs in a low-scoring f inal in Guangzhou city of People s Republic of China. The team elected to bat first but did not have a good beginning as they lost bot h their openers within the first couple of overs. They somehow managed to make a low score of 81runs but the bowlers did a splendid job to dismiss Pakistan to 6 3 in 19.1 overs. The women bowlers showed an impressive disciplined performance with giving away just a couple of wides from 19.1 overs. Harmanpreet Kaur, was stand-in captain in place of Mithali Raj. The captain of I ndian women cricket team Mithali Raj and senior player Jhulan Goswami were not p laying the final match due to ankle injury.

Earlier Indian women cricket team defeated Thailand in their opening match of th e tournament by 77 runs, while Hong Kong was defeated in the second match with 1 42 runs. ============================= West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan on 23 October 2012 resigned from the board of the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA). The resigning of Ramnaresh Sarwan came with resignation of Dave Kissoon, the dir ector of West Indies Players' Association (WIPA). Dave Kissoon, recently had pre sided over the court cases concerning player contracts and a disputed memorandum of understanding involving WIPA and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). Ramesh Sarwan, the out-of-favour West Indies batsman, was a member of WIPA's exe cutive from 2008, while Dave Kissoon was appointed a director in November 2010. Ramnaresh sarwan had resigned from WIPA executive to patch up with the West Indi es Cricket Board (WICB) and he is in way to make is presence back into the natio nal team. Ramnaresh Sarwan, last played for West Indies in June 2011, but has since then d eclared that he would never represent the regional side again. He had won his ca se against the WICB (West Indies Cricket Board) in September 2012 over comments made about his fitness and was awarded $161000 in damages The positions made vacant by both the people are going to be filled at the next annual general meeting in January 2013. ============ Danish legend Baminton Player, Peter Gade on 30 October 2012 retired from intern ational badminton after his three-game defeat against compatriot Jan . Jrgensen of Denmark. Peter Grade is five-time European Champion in Year (1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2 010). Peter Dane had 22 Super series and Grand Prix titles under his name and took 5 m edals at World Championships: Silver in 2001, Bronze in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 201 1. He had also won the 1999 All-England Championships. He is counted among most successful European singles player in Asia of all times by taking 13 tournaments titles in the "Far East". Peter Gade remained professional ambassador for European badminton, through majo r part of his career. He had inspired thousands of young players all around the world with his unique style of playing Badminton that was fast attacks, smooth f ootwork and constant pressure. =============================== Danish legend Baminton Player, Peter Gade on 30 October 2012 retired from intern ational badminton after his three-game defeat against compatriot Jan . Jrgensen of Denmark. Peter Grade is five-time European Champion in Year (1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2 010). Peter Dane had 22 Super series and Grand Prix titles under his name and took 5 m edals at World Championships: Silver in 2001, Bronze in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 201 1. He had also won the 1999 All-England Championships. He is counted among most successful European singles player in Asia of all times by taking 13 tournaments titles in the "Far East".

Peter Gade remained professional ambassador for European badminton, through majo r part of his career. He had inspired thousands of young players all around the world with his unique style of playing Badminton that was fast attacks, smooth f ootwork and constant pressure. ===================================== Lionel Messi, the Barcelonean forward footballer on 29 October 2012 won Golden B oot Award. Messi won the award in recognition to his record 50 goals scored in t he Europe s domestic football league in the last session. To win the award he scor ed 4 more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo, the Spanish league star. This is the second Golden Boot award for Messi, as he won his first Golden Boot Award in the year 2010 after scoring 34 goals during Argentina International to help Barcelona win the league title. He is also in the list of the favorites to win the 2012 Ballon d Or for the World s best player. ==================== Joshna Chinappa, one of the top squash players of India claimed the IJM Land Pen ang Open after defeating top most squash player Siti Munirah Jusoh of Malaysia i n straight games on 30 October 2012. Joshna Chinappa defeated her Malaysian opponent Siti Munirah Jusoh with 11-9 117 11-1 in a 34-minute match between them at the Nicol David International Squash Centre. Both had dropped just one game to finish for the route to the final. Joshna Chinappa is the first Indian girl who had won the British Squash Champion ship title in 2003 in the under 19 category, at Sheffield in U.K and she is also counted among the youngest Indian women's national champion . ================ Indian Billiards Player Pankaj Advani on 29 October 2012 won seventh World Billi ards Championship title after comprehensively beating defending champion and sea soned Englishman Mike Russell in the finals of World Billiards Championship 2012 . The event was scheduled at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England where P ankaj scored 1895 points and Russell managed to score only 1216 points losing to Pankaj Advani. Pankaj was on steady rhythm since the beginning of the match and got on track wi th first break of 147 points followed by 298 points to obtain a lead of 450 poin ts. Russel, on the other hand fearlessly replied with a break of 397 narrowing t he deficit to just 60 points. ================================ Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix 2012 on 28 October 20 12 at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) for the second time in a row extendi ng his Formula One championship lead. The rival Fernando Alonso of Ferrari kept the pressure on with finishing up for a second-place. The win put Vettel (240 points) 13 points clear of his rolling Ferrari rival Fernando Alonso. It was Sebastian Vettel's fourth straight win for the first time in his career c ompleting a clean sweep of the Asian swing -- and now leads the drivers' champio nship by 13 points with three races to go, chasing a third successive F1 title. Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber finished third, the Australian fending off a strong late challenge from Lewis Hamilton of McLaren who finished fourth ahead of his teammate and fellow Briton Jenson Button. Earlier on 26 October 2012 Vettel clocked the fastest time with 1 minute 25.283

seconds to grab pole, his teammate Webber finished second with a timing of 1:25. 327. ============= Chennai based SUN TV Network acquired the Indian Premier League (IPL) Hyderabad franchise on 25 October 2012 for an enormous amount of 85.05 crore Rupees per ye ar. The Hyderabad franchise of the Indian Premier League was fell vacant after the B oard of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) dropped Deccan Chargers in October 2 012 for its failure to give a bank guarantee and other issues. The deal was made by owner of Sun TV Network, Kalanithi Maran who bought the (IP L) Hyderabad franchise for 425 crore Rupees (approx $80m) which is payable in th e next five years at 85.5 crore Rupees per year. The bid made by SUN TV Network was substantially higher than the second bid of 6 9.03 crore Rupees made by PVP Ventures of Hyderabad. For attracting more bidders, the BCCI had kept the base price at reasonable 60 c rores Rupees per year. The franchise was earlier owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdi ngs Ltd. (DCHL) who had bought the Hyderabad franchise for 428 crores rupees for a period of 10 years. Chennai-based Sun TV Networks Limited is the part of Sun Group and is one of Ind ia's biggest television networks with 32 TV channels and 45 FM radio stations pr imarily catering to an audience in the four southern languages of India. Their n etwork includes channels covering news, entertainment, film, documentary and mus ic. ==================================== Lance Armstrong on 22 October 2012 was stripped of from all the seven Tour de Fr ance Titles and banned for life from cycling. This event occurred as a follow up of the 202 page report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA ) that accused A rmstrong of leading a doping programme on his team. President of International Cycling Union (UCI) Pat McQuaid cleared on 22 October 2012 that the report from the anti-doping agency, USADA was accepted and no app eals would be made in the Court of Arbitration for Sports. Organisers of Tour de France would now officially remove the name of Armstrong f rom all its record books that will include omission of his consecutive victories from 1999 to 2005. Christian Prudhomme the Tour Director announced that no offi cial winners of these years would be declared and the race would follow the deci sions made by the UCI. ================== he World No. 4 badminton player Saina Nehwal on 21 October 2012 won the Denmark Open Super Series Premier tournament by defeating the German badminton player Ju liane Schenk by 21-17 21-8. She was competing in the women's single final category badminton match in Odense , Denmark and was Playing without the chief national coach and her mentor Pullel a Gopi Chand, This title is counted to be her sixth Super Series title and the first title out side Asia. Her previous titles came in Indonesia (2009, 2010, 2012), Singapore ( 2010) and Hong Kong (2010). Saina Nehwal, was competing in her first tournament after the London Games, whic h fetched her $30000 prize money.

The victory is another milestone in career history of the Indian shuttle Saina N ehwal who had successfully defended her Swiss Open title by defeating world numb er two Wang Shixian of China in March 2012. In June 2012, Saina had won the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold title thereafter s he had also won the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier by defeating world numb er three Li Xuerui of China. ============ London Olympic Shooter and silver medalist Vijay Kumar on 19 October 2012 was ho noured with the Services Best Sportsman award for 2012 at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi The award which include trophy and cash award of one lakh rupees is generally gi ven to the best sportsman from the three defence forces of Army, Air Force and N avy. Vijay Kumar is the current world number and had earlier won three gold medals an d one silver medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Vijay Kumar won a silve r medal at the July-August 2012 London Games in the individual 25 metre rapid fi re pistol. Vijay Kumar is from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh and is presently a serving Subedar Major in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) of t he Indian Army. He was also awarded with Arjuna Award in 2007 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award in 2011-12 by the Government of India. ================= Opening batsman of New Zealand Cricket team Martin Guptill on 18 October 2012 cl aimed the top honour at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in Auckland, winning the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-12. Martin Guptill was also named ODI and Twenty20 player of the year, based on perf ormances between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012. Also, Young fast bowler of New Zealand cricket team Doug Bracewell picked up the other big award of Test Player of the Year. Bracewell finished the 2011-12 seas on with taking up of 37 wickets at an average of 24.05 Martin Guptill played terrifically in all forms of the game during the 2011-12 s eason. With 490 Test runs he is only second behind skipper Ross Taylor, while he top-scored for the New Zealand team in one-day with 579 and in T20 with 378. =================== Opening batsman of New Zealand Cricket team Martin Guptill on 18 October 2012 cl aimed the top honour at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in Auckland, winning the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-12. Martin Guptill was also named ODI and Twenty20 player of the year, based on perf ormances between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012. Also, Young fast bowler of New Zealand cricket team Doug Bracewell picked up the other big award of Test Player of the Year. Bracewell finished the 2011-12 seas on with taking up of 37 wickets at an average of 24.05 Martin Guptill played terrifically in all forms of the game during the 2011-12 s eason. With 490 Test runs he is only second behind skipper Ross Taylor, while he top-scored for the New Zealand team in one-day with 579 and in T20 with 378. ==================== The Supreme Court of India on 19 October 2012 rejected the plea of Deccan Charge rs to put a stay order on the decision of Mumbai High Court that supported the d

ecision of BCCI to terminate the franchise from being in Indian Premier League ( IPL). The Bench of Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir in cluding Justices S.S. Nijjar and J. Chelameswar after dismissal of the plea made by the Deccan Chronicle Holding Ltd. cleared that the arbitrator can t overrule a n order passed by the Court. With this development by the side of Supreme Court it is clear that the Deccan Chargers are completely out of the League. There remains only two ways for the franchise to bounce back into the IPL and th ey are in case, Bombay High Court reverses its decision after hearing the argume nts from both sides once again in detail or CK Thakkar, the court appointed arbi trator finds any ground of incorrect termination of the team from the IPL by 29 October 2012. ============= National Rifles Association of India (NRAI) on 15 October 2012 appointed Jaspal Rana as the chief coach for the Junior Pistol Shooters. The triple Gold Medallis t at Doha Asian Games, Rana would be entitled for a salary of 50,000 rupees per month. =========== Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her visit to India on 16 October 2012 announced that Sachin Tendulkar would be conferred with the membership of the O rder of Australia. This is the honor that is rarely bestowed on any non-Australi an. The Prime Minister, while announcing this special honour for Sachin said tha t he deserves the award because he was a special cricketer. Sachin will be conferred with this award during the visit of Australian Minister Simon Crean to India. Tendulkar will be honoured with AM award, one of the six different grades of the Order of Australia honour. Sachin is the Second Indian after Soli Sorabjee, the former Attorney General of India to be conferred with this award. Before Sachin Tendulkar, Brain Lara the c ricketer from West Indies was conferred with this honour in the year 2009. ====================== Novak Djokovic beated British Tennis Player Andy Murray, on 14 October 2012 savi ng five match points to seal a stunning 5- 7, 7- 6 ( 13/ 11), 6- 3 victory in th e Shanghai Rolex Masters final. With the winning of match Novak Djokovic became the first player to win seven of the nine ATP World Tour 1000 Masters events Also in the Double s Category, Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek won the Shanghai Ro lex Double title by defeating Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna. Novak Djokovic has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011, and 2012 Australian Open; the 2011 Wimbledon Championships; and the 2011 US Open. By winn ing three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open era to win three Majors in a calendar year. He is the first male player representing Serbia to win a Major singles title and the youngest player in the open era to have reached the semifinals of all four Grand Slam events, separately and consecutively. About Shanghai Rolex Masters The 4th Edition of Shanghai Rolex Masters, is one of the world s biggest tennis to urnaments and the only such tournament to be staged outside North America and Eu rope. The Shanghai Rolex Masters is one of only nine ATP Masters 1000 tournament s in the world and is the culmination and feature event of the Asian Swing. The Shanghai Rolex Masters was named ATP Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year for 200 9, 2010 and 2011.

Total prize money for the Shanghai Rolex Masters is US$3240000 =================== Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar on 14 October 2012 fired a three-under 68 to com plete a start to-finish win in the Venetian Macau Open Golf. Gaganjeet Bhullar finished with 16-under 268 for a two-shot win and bag his seco nd title on Asian Tour within a month. With this he took over his fourth title o f his career, keeping aside the inaugural Gujarat Challenge Tour win in 2011. American Jonathan Moore finished two shots back in second place after a 65 and T hai youngster Thitiphun Chuayprakong closed with a 70 to share third place with Bangladeshi Siddikur (66). About Macau Open The Macau Open is a men's professional golf tournament on the Asian Tour which t ake place in Macau ever year. It was founded in 1998. The venue is the Macau Gol f & Country Club at Coloane. The best known golfer who won the tournament is eig ht-time European Tour Order of Merit champion Colin Montgomerie. ==================== India-born, Monisha Kaltenborn Became the First Woman Team Principal in Formula one on 11 October 2012 after taking the control of team Sauber, a Swiss Formula one team with the stepping down of team founder Peter Sauber from day to day man agement. The news of Monisha Kaltenborn appointment came after Peter Sauber made it clear that he did not wish to run the team, which he built more than fourty years ago . Monisha Kaltenborn joined Sauber in 2000 as head of its legal department and has been its CEO since January 2010. Monisha secured her bachelor s degree in law from the University of Vienna in 1995 and also holds a Master s degree in International Business Law from the London Sc hool of Economics which she did in 1996. About Sauber Team Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championshi p to reach Formula One in 1993. The team was sold to BMW in 2005; the reason was not winning a Grand Prix as an independent. The team thereafter competed as BMW Sauber from 2006 to 2009, achie ving one victory. At the end of the 2009 season, BMW pulled out of Formula One a nd the team's future remained uncertain for several months, until it was sold ba ck to Peter Sauber and granted a 2010 entry. However, due to issues with the Concorde Agreement, the team remained as "BMW Sa uber" for the 2010 season. In March 2010, Peter Sauber announced plans to change the team name during the season, but the FIA announced that they would have to wait until the end of the season to change their name. From the beginning of the 2011 Formula One season the team dropped BMW from their name. Peter Sauber currently owns a controlling 66.6% stake in the team, with the rema inder belonging to Monisha Kaltenborn. ====================== Former India cricketer and captain Anil Kumble on 11 October 2012 was named the new head of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket committee, replaci ng former West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd.

The International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket committee is a 16-member commi ttee which meets twice a year to consult on playing matters and offer recommenda tions to the ICC on technical aspects and rules of the sport. Also in another separate reshuffling of members former West Indies paceman Ian B ishop was replaced by England's Andrew Strauss, who retired from all forms of cr icket at the end of August. Anil Kumble also heads the Board of Control for Cricket in India's board's techn ical Committee. Anil Kumble, is 41 years old and has 619 Test and 337 One-Day International wick ets to his name. ============== Floris Evers, Roderick Weusthof and Teun Floris de Nooijer, the three Dutch Hoc key stars on 10 October 2012 announced their retirement from International Hocke y. The three players were the part of the Netherlands Hockey Squad in Olympics 2012 , where the Dutch team finished with silver medal after facing defeat from the h ands of Germany. ======== The International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10 October 2012 suspended all the six umpires for their alleged involvement in their willingness to fix the T20 match es by the TV Sting Operation. The statement released by the governing body of ICC after the meet of its full m ember board cleared that the umpires named in the sting would not be appointed i n any format of international or domestic cricket matches, until the ongoing inv estigations doesn t reach to a conclusion. Due to the matters of urgency, the boar d that recruits and nominates the umpires would directly look into the matter. Umpires alleged for their willingness to fix the match in the TV sting were Nadi r Shah from Bangladesh, Nadeem Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui from Pakistan and Mauri ce Winston, Gamini Dissanayake and Sagara Gallage from Sri Lanka. ====== Dermot Reeve, the former all-rounder of England took the charge of Maharashtra R anji Team as its Coach for domestic season of 2012-13 on 9 October 2012. Reeve w ill take the charge from the outgoing coach of the team Shaun Williams, who is g oing to take charge of the indoor Cricket Academy of Maharashtra Cricket Associa tion. Reeve has also served Raigad Royals, a franchise of Maharashtra Premier League a s its Coach in past. Before Reeve, the Ranji Team of Maharashtra had seen two mo re Foreign Coach in its history and they were Shaun Williams and Darren Holder. ======================= Australian all-Rounder Shane Watson on 7 October 2012 at the conclusion of T-20 World Cup in Premadasa Stadium named player of the tournament. It was his outstanding form in T-20 World cup that helped Australian Team gettin g into semi-final before they were knocked out by West Indies. Shane Watson batted six innings in the tournament, scoring a total of 249 runs a t an average of 49.80 and took 11 wickets at an average of 16 and an economy ra te of 7.33. Shane Watson is also the only Player in the tournament who got four consecutive man-of-the-match awards.

====================== Australian all-Rounder Shane Watson on 7 October 2012 at the conclusion of T-20 World Cup in Premadasa Stadium named player of the tournament. It was his outstanding form in T-20 World cup that helped Australian Team gettin g into semi-final before they were knocked out by West Indies. Shane Watson batted six innings in the tournament, scoring a total of 249 runs a t an average of 49.80 and took 11 wickets at an average of 16 and an economy ra te of 7.33. Shane Watson is also the only Player in the tournament who got four consecutive man-of-the-match awards. ============== The Australian Women Cricket team on 7 October 2012 defeated England by four run s to retain the Women T-20 world cup title. It is Australia s second win in women T-20 World cup. Before this Australia had wo n T-20 World Cup in 2010. Australia Batted first and made 142 runs in 20 overs with 6 wickets in hand, In response to that England women cricket team managed to make only 138 runs in 20 overs losing the tournament to Australia. ==================== Sebastin Vettel on 7 October 2012 won the Formulae One title race of the Japanes e Grand Prix for the season. He left Ferrari s Felipe Massa 20 seconds behind in t he race to conquer the title. Kamui Kobayashi, the home favorite of the tournament took the third position on the podium. Sebastin Vettel is this year only man to bag back-to-back victories in the Grand Prix. ============== West Indies on 7 October 2012 won the finals of ICC World Twenty20 Championship after defeating the Sri Lankan team by 36 runs at R. Premadasa Stadium. West Ind ies batting first in the match scored 137 runs for six wickets down. In response to the target, the Lankan team finished off at a score of 101 runs allowing Wes t Indies to win the tournament. The West Indies team won a world cup title after 33 years. Before this the team won the 1979 ODI World Cup after defeating the English team in the final. In fac t, West Indies also won the 1st edition of World Cup in 1975 after defeating Aus tralia in the final match. The Indian team was out of the Twenty20 World Cup tournament in the super-eight matches after it failed to stop the South African team at the score of the 121 i n its last match. ================= In order to give encouragement to the talented sportsmen of the University syste m and promote sports in Universities, the Union Minister of Human Resource Devel opment Kapil Sibal on 5 October 2012 launched hockey and cricket league under th e Association of Indian Universities (AIU) . Association of Indian Universities has been organising the Rohinton Baria Cricke t Trophy, the Inter University Hockey Tournament and other events for promotion of sports in the Universities throughout the country. It was after an offer made by the NDTV Group for assisting in sponsoring sports events, it was decided to organise every year, a National Level University Crick et League (UCL) and University Hockey League (UHL). So For this purpose an Organising Committee chaired by the Minister of Human Res

ource Development, Communication and IT has been constituted, composed of senior representatives of University Grants Commission (UGC), AIU, NDTV, Vice Chancell ors of several Universities, NDMC, DDCA Hockey India and eminent persons in the field of sports. The University Cricket League would be played among 8 top University teams in th e T 20 format, from amongst those who qualify through a zonal competition. Simil arly the University Hockey League would be played among the top 8 teams selected through the zonal competitions. ================================= revious Story Next Story Michael Schumacher, the German Formula one driver and the seven times world Cham pion on 4 October 2012 announced his retirement from Formula one Race. Michael Schumacher will retire from Formula 1 for the second time at the end of the 2012 Season. He first retired in 2006 but made a comeback with the Mercedes team in 2010. The retirement came after Mercedes announced that Lewis Hamilton would replace h im in the side although it was clear that the Michael Schumacher will join Saube r for the next Formula one season. Michael Schumacher dominated the F1 world at the start of 20th century when he w on five world titles in a row from 2000-2004. He is popularly regarded as the gr eatest F1 driver of all time. Michael Schumacher made his debut at the Belgium Grand Prix in 1991 and won 91 G rand Prixes in his career. Michael Schumacher's career recordsDebut: 1991 Belgian Grand Prix Races: 302. Championships: 7 Race wins: 91 Podiums: 155 Points: 1560 Poles: 68 =========== The Former Germany captain Ballack, who had played for Bayern Munich and Chelsea , had called a halt to his professional football career on 3 October 2012. It was the downtime in his career which showed him that the time was right to st op. Ballack became a free agent at the end of June after Leverkusen opted not to off er their former captain a contract extension. Ballack began his professional career in 1995 and won the first of four Bundesli ga titles with Kaiserslautern in 1998. He missed out on a major trophy with Leverkusen in his first spell at the club a nd in 2002 he finished as a runner-up in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions Le ague and World Cup. He spent the last two seasons of his career with Leverkusen and appeared for the last time in a 4-1 win over Nurnberg, leaving the field to a standing ovation i n the 51st minute of what turned out to be his last-ever game as a professional Footballer. Internationally, Ballack has played in the European Championships in 2000, 2004 and 2008 and the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006. Jurgen Klinsmann appointed him captain of the national team in 2004. Ballack scored consecutive game-winning g

oals in the quarter-final and semi-final to help his country to the 2002 World C up Final, and led his team to the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup and the Euro 2008 Final. He is among the top goal scorers in the history of his international team. He wa s also selected by Pele as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players and as the UEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002. He has won the German Footballer of th e Year award three times in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Ballack is known for his passin g range, scoring ability, ball skills, and commanding presence in the midfield. =================== Former Cricketer and all-rounder, Sandeep Patil was appointed as the Chairman of the five member senior selection committee of BCCI on 27 September 2012. The ot her four members of the committee include Saba Karim, Roger Binny, Vikram Rathou r and Rajinder Singh Hans. The four members of the previous panel that was headed by K. Srikkanth departed from the office after completion of their four years tenure. Mohinder Amarnath, the selector from North Zone departed from his office after serving the selectio n panel for one year of his tenure. About Sandeep Patil 1. Has served the Kenyan national team as a coach that managed to reach the semi -finals of the world cup in 2003 2. The former Indian Cricketer was a middle order hard-hitting batsman and a med ium-pace bowler 3. He served Mumbai Champs in Indian Cricket League as its coach 4. Currently serving the National Cricket Academy as its director ====================== Ronjan Sodhi, the double trap shooter on 24 September 2012 won Silver medal at t he ISSF World Cup in Maribor, Slovania. In 2011 and 2010 World Cup finals, he ma naged to secure Gold by his name. The former world number one secured the Silver by scoring 191 points. Joshua Ric hmond of America won the Gold medal and Bronze was bagged by Fehaid Aldeehani of Kuwait during the event. ==============\ Indian boxer and London Olympic bronze medalist M C Mary Kom on 24 September 201 2 named as the brand ambassador of super fight league. The Super Fight League is promoted by IPL team Rajasthan Royals' co-owner Raj Ku ndra and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt. The role of Mary kom is to mentor the female fighters and to act as an inspirati on for male fighters. She is also the part of the selection process. The Super Fight League is India's first professionally organized mixed martial a rts which will feature on Television. Mary kom was awarded with Arjun award in 2003 and Padma Shree in 2006 respective ly. She is also the ambassador International boxing association for women. ========================= John Terry, the captain of Chelsea in the premier league announced his retiremen t from International Football on 24 September 2012. The central defender came up with this decision one day before the Football Association was supposed to hear the claim of using racial abusive language in the notorious Anton Ferdinand inc ident. The 31-year footballer made 78 international appearances in international match. His last appearance was in the world cup qualifier against Moldova. Terry was t he captain for the national football team of England from August 2006 to Februar y 2010 and from March 2011 to February 2012. The former captain of England was n amed as the UEFA Club Defender of the Year in 2005, 2008 and 2009. He was also n amed as the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005. ======================== Abhishek Matoria, a BJP MLA from Rajasthan was elected as the President of India n Boxing Federation on 23 September 2012. Abhay Singh Chautala, the outgoing Pre

sident was elected to be the Chairman of the Federation. Chautala has served the president as its President for three terms. In the Annual General Meeting of the federation, Khoibi Salam from Manipur and R ajesh Bhandari, were elected as the treasurer and secretary-general respectively . Brigadier P. K. Muralidharan Raja was elected as the senior Vice-President of the Federation. ============= Deepika Kumari won Silver at Recurve World Cup on 23 September 2012 in Tokyo. In the finals of the tournament, she lost against the Korean double Olympic gold m edalist, Ki Bo-Bae. To be in the finals, Deepika defeated American, Nichoils with 28-24, 25-26, 26-2 5, 28-27 during the semi-finals and Miki Kanie of Japan in the last eight stages 25-23, 26-26, 29-24, 27-24. ================= Matthew Hayden, the Australian Cricketer on 20 September 2012 announced his reti rement from all formats of Cricket. He also declared that he is not going to be a part of his team Brisbane Heat in the Australian domestic Twenty 20 series to be held this year. Matthew Hayden retired from test cricket in the year 1999 and was a part of Chen nai Super Kings squad in the Indian Premier League. ============== India`s badminton player Saina Nehwal on 19 September 2012 signed up a 40-crore deal with Rhiti Sports Management company, which made her the country`s highest paid sportsperson outside cricket. Saina had a three-year contract with Deccan C hargers, which expired in September 2012. Rhiti Sports will now manage Saina`s endorsements and brand associations, corpor ate profile, patents and digital rights, images and all other commercial rights exclusively. ============== Chandrika Tarafdar on 19 September 2012 became the first Indian to win a medal i n Youth World Weightlifting Championships at Kosice, Slovakia. She won two bronz e medals in the girls` 44kg category on the opening day. Tarafdar won a bronze e ach in clean and jerk and total lift. She lifted 55kg in snatch, 74kg in clean a nd jerk for a total effort of 129kg. This happened for the first time in the his tory of Youth World Weightlifting Championships that an Indian won a medal. Mao Xiangmei of China won a bronze in snatch and gold in the total lift. Csenge ri Monica Suneta of Romania lifted exactly the same, 139kg in total but could ma nage silver only as she had more bodyweight than the Chinese lifter. ============== Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wrapped up a four-shot victory at the Yeangder t ournament players Championship in Chinese Taipei on 17 September 2012. The event was scheduled at the Linkou International Golf Club which was a $500,0 00 event. With winning the title Bhullar fetched prize money of $79,250. His pre vious Asian Tour titles were the Indonesia President Invitational in 2009 and th e Asian Tour International in 2010. To get down to this position Bhullar had to fend off the challenges of American Jason Knutzon and 14-time Asian Tour winner Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand Bhullar earlier used to play as an amateur player.He was India's number one amat eur in 2004 and 2006 and was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal a t the 2006 Asian Games. He finished in a tie for seventh in the individual compe tition. Bhullar turned professional in 2006. =============== Hockey India on 17 September 2012 appointed Mariamma Koshy of Hockey Kerala as i ts new full-time President. The decision was made during the 15th meet of Board

Executives and was taken following the guidelines prescribed under rule 4(f) of Hockey India Rules and Regulations. Koshy (63 years in age) has been a vice-president of Hockey India as well as an Interim-President of the National Body. Gayatri Shetty, the treasurer of Hockey Karnataka was named as the new Vice-President of Hockey India after the post was vacated, due to Koshy s elevation. Appointment of Gayatri also was done following the guidelines and regulations under rule 4 (f). =================== The Vice-Captain of Indian Cricket team, Virat Kohli was named as the ODI Cricke ter of the year at ICC Awards Function held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 Septembe r 2012. He was picked ahead in the competition from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kumar Sangakkara and Lasith Malinga. He was awarded with this title for scoring 1733 r uns in 31 matches at an average of 66.65, which included eight centuries and six half-centuries. During this period of consideration for the title, he scored hi s career best of 183 runs in 148 balls against Pakistan in Asia Cup. ============================= Anuraag Thakur a BJP MP from Hamirpur and Joint Secretary of Board of Control fo r Cricket (BCCI) on 16 September 2012 was appointed as a member of Asian Cricket Council s (ACC s) executive board. Thakur has served the National Cricket Academy as its vice-chairman and a member with National Junior Selection Committee. ACC is a 25 member committee with its head quarters in Kuala Lumpur. The committee is engaged in development and prom otion of the cricketers in Asian region. ====================== Indian Women registered a thumping win over Nepal in the final of SAF Football C hampionship in Colombo. India defeated Nepal by 3-1. India had defeated Bhutan a nd Sri Lanka in the league stage and thrashed Afghanistan 11-0 in the semis to r omp into the final ================= The All India Tennis Association (AITA) extended the ban on Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna from the national team till 30 June 2014. Bhupathi and Bopanna had objected to partnering with Leander Paes at the London Olympics, following whic h AITA had sent two doubles team - one of Bhupathi and Bopanna, and the other of Paes and Vishnu Vardhan to the Olympics. The AITA stated that it would stick to the young Indian side for the Asia-Oceani a Group-I Davis Cup and will not include Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in th e squad until the country moves up from the Asia-Oceania Group. =================== Injury-plagued New Zealand pacer Daryl Tuffey announced his retirement from bot h international and domestic cricket . Tuffey represented New Zealand Auckland, Northern Districts over the course of his career, picking up 77 Test wickets and 110 ODI wickets in 123 matches. He made his debut for Northern back in 1996/97 as an 18-year-old, coincidentally against Auckland, before forcing his way into the New Zealand in 1999/2000. ================= A Smiling Armadillo is declared to be the official mascot for the 2014 FIFA Worl d Cup in Brazil on 12 September 2012. The reports state that FIFA has registered the patent for this rare animal with the European Patent Office as a symbol to this extreme sporting event. Officials declared that internet poll will help in deciding the name of this mascot. Brazuca the name of the ball for the world cup 2014 to was finalized by the opinion poll on internet. The armadillo in Brazil is known by the name of 'tatu-bola' and is known for its abilities of rolling itself in form of a ball to with a leathery shell as a sym bol of self defence. In the previous FIFA World Cup the mascots were: FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa- Zakumi the green-haired leopard FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany- Goleo named lion Taking the Armadillo as an official mascot for the mega event was backed by a NG

O named Caatinga Association engaged in protection of the biodiversity of North Eastern Brazil. ====================== India's Virender Singh won the bronze medal in the Men's 84 kgs free style categ ory in the third World Deaf Championship at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The Indian team ended up at the seventh place in the championship overall. ============================== Ukrainian, Vitali Klitschko managed to defend his WBC heavyweight title on 8 Sep tember 2012 at 30,000 seater Olimpiyski indoor sports arena. The medical team an d the referee stopped the bout 56 seconds before the end of the fourth round aft er witnessing a cut mark on the opponent s eye, the German Manuel Charr, 27. Vitali Klitschko is a leader of UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko, a political party and a member of the delegation to from Ukrain for Congress of the Council of Europe. He is the first boxing champion of the world to hold Ph. D. degree. For his acco mplishments he won Germany s highest civilian award Federal Cross of Merit. Manuel Charr is a professional boxer from Germany. At the age of 17.2 years, he became the youngest German to be a Champion in Muay Thai. Later at the age of 19 , he became German Champion and the European Champion in Thai-Boxing. As per his track record, out of the 22 fights of his career as a boxer he won 21 matches a nd the only one he faced defeat id the one played against Klitschko. ==================== Sports Current Affairs 2012. The 76 year old tennis history for Britain was re-w ritten after Andy Murray won the US Open Grand Slam Singles Championship by defe ating Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 on 11 September 2012. Befor e this, Fred Perry was the British player to win a grand slam in US Championship in the year 1936. Murray also broke an eight match loss streak, by his fellow c itizen at Grand Slam Finals. With this win Andy Murray marched ahead on the rank ing sheet to be at number three just after Roger Federer and Djokovic. For Murray, this was the second New York Final in four years; in the first final of 2008 he lost the game against Federer. The 25 year old, recently won Olympic Gold medal in Men s singles category and a silver medal in mixed doubles category in the 2012 London Olympics. He is the first British player, who won an Olympic Gold medal in hundred years and also the first British to reach in the men s sing les final of Wimbledon in an open era. ================================= Serena Williams of USA won her fourth Women's Singles US Open title in New York on 9 September 2012. In the final match played a short while ago, fourth seeded Serena showed incredible resolve as she beat the top seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 in two hours and 18 minutes. Besides the fourth US Open title, this was Serena's 15th Grand Slam singles crown. Meanwhile, the Italian duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the Women's Doub les trophy. In the title clash, the second seeded Italian duo defeated the Czech pair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, 6-4, 6-2 to win the title. ========================== Lewis Hamilton, the driver of McLaren's became the winner of the Italian Grand P rix 2012 on 9 September 2012. Ferrari s Fernando Alonso extended his overall lead after finishing at third position in the event. With this win, Hamilton managed to wash away the rumors of his future and possib le switch to Mercedes after winning the grand prix and the twentieth victory of his career. Hamilton, who is 27 years old Formulae one driver from England, has been a 2008 Formulae one World Champion. He is the world s youngest driver to secu re a contract for McLaren driver development program, which paved his way to the F1 drive. Lewis Hamilton is also known as the first black driver in formulae on e. =============

In a long going fight for, who will manage the game of hockey in India, the spec ial committee came up with a decision in favor of Hockey India (HI) on 5 Septemb er 2012. The report was submitted to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) by the three-member committee that comprised of, the Indian Weightlifting Federation P resident Birendra Prasad Baishya, former Wrestling Federation of India President GS Mander and the Handball Federation of India Secretary-general SM Bali with d etails of the findings in a thousand page draft. As per the report, Hockey India conforms to the IHF (International Hockey Federa tion) statute of having 40 percent of woman representative in its Executive Comm ittee. Hockey India also conforms to the IHF norm of having a unified body to ru n both men s and women s competition. ================== Indu Choudhary, the 20 year old Indian grappler won Bronze in the World Junior C hampionship at Pattava on 6 September 2012. She won bronze in the women s 44 kg ca tegory after defeating Turkish Evin Demirhan. With this medal India opened its a ccount in the tournament. To qualify for this round, Indu succeeded in lop-sided pre-quarterfinals over Ru ssian Aziyata Khomushku. She lost the chance of getting home a silver or gold af ter facing a defeat from Rie Matsumoto, a competitor from Japan in the semi-fina ls. ======================= Andy Roddick the legendary tennis player from US announced his retirement during the US open on 6 September 2012 after facing a defeat from John Martin del Potr o. The 30 year old is a former number one ranked player who won 2003 US Open to be a Grand Slam singles champion. He is a son to a businessman father and school te acher mother. Till date Roddick was successful in reaching the finals of Wimbled on in the year 2004, 2005 and 2009 as well as US Open 2006 and faced a defeat fr om Roger Federer. ============= High jumper Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda, India won a silver medal (F42 sing le leg, amputations minimal disability category) at London Paralympic Games. To make this happen, he cleared his career best 1.74 m high jump. He managed to sec ure the first medal for the country in this category of game. Girisha won eighth Paralympic medal for India and is the first to do so in the high jump category and third Indian to claim silver in the event. He is a man with polio impaired l eft leg. To win the medal he used the scissor kick technique. Girisha, who belongs to a farming family from a small village in Hassan District in South Karnataka was forced to compete against the able-bodied athletes at di fferent levels of competition because of the lack of information about any such event like paralympics for the disabled. Sports minister, Ajay Maken declared that the medal winners in the Paralymipic w ill be awarded with the same cash reward as that of the Olympians i.e. 50 lakhs for gold, 30 lakhs for silver and 20 lakhs for Bronze. ================ India won the second cricket test against New Zealand by 5 wickets on 3 Septembe r 2012. Chasing a target of 261 set by New Zealand on the fourth day of the seco nd and final Test in Bangalore, India overhauled the target in the post-tea sess ion with one full day remaining. Virat Kohli on 51 and Skipper MS Dhoni on 48 re mained not out. Kohli, who had made 103 in the first innings, was adjudged man of the match, whi le Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was named man of the series. With this, India won the 2 match series 2-0. India had won the first test at Hyd erabad by an innings and 115 runs.

========================= India won Nehru Cup football tournament on 2 September 2012 after beating Camero on 5-4 via penalty shoot-out. In the final played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadiu m in New Delhi, India vanquished Cameroon 5-4 via penalty shootout and retained the Nehru Cup football. The match went into tie-breaker after the two teams were locked 2-2 at the end o f 120 minutes of play. Gouramangi Singh (19th minute) and Sunil Chhetri (77th) s cored for India in the regulation time, while Makkon Thierry (29th) and Kingue M pondo (54th) found the net for Cameroon.In the tiebreaker, Robin Singh, skipper Chhetri, Denzil Franco and Mehtab Hosain struck to ensure that India managed a c lean slate. Taking the final shot, Makkon hit the post to leave Cameroon shattered. Ashu C T ambe, Ousmalia, Bebey Kingue Paul and Mpondo scored for the visitors in the shoo tout. ========================== Queen Elizabeth officially on 29 August 2012 opened the London Paralympic games , which will be the biggest in the event's 64 year history. The flame was lit at midnight, local time. The ceremony was watched by some 80000 spectators. Britai n's first Paralympic Games gold medallist, Margaret Maughan hit the cauldron. The opening ceremony signalled the start of 11 days of competition by 4200 athle tes from 164 countries, including more than 300 athletes from Britain. ================= Delhi teams, both in male and female categories, lifted 23rd Federation Cup Thro w Ball Championship-2012. The Championship which was held on 23-25 August 2012, was organised by the J&K Throw Ball Association in collaboration with Throw Ball Federation of India at sports ground Government College for Women M A Road Srin agar. As many as 20 teams, both in male and female categories, from various Stat es and Union Territories of the country participated in the Championship. Delhi beat Tamil Nadu 15-10, 15-12 in the women s final of the Federation Cup Nati onal throwball championship which was held in Srinagar. In the men s final, Delhi beat Andhra Pradesh 2-1. Nine State teams took part in the championship. ================== England s test team captain Andrew Strauss announced his retirement from internati onal cricket on 29 August 2012. Under Strauss captaincy the England team witnesse d back-to-back Ashes wins over Australia and reached to the top of the test rank ings. He was appointed the skipper of English team in 2009 replacing Kevin Piete rsen. A left-hand batsman, Strauss made his first class debut in year 1998 and one-day international debut in 2003 against Sri Lanka. Strauss made his test debut agai nst New Zealand at Lord s in 2004, where he scored 112 and 83 runs in two innings and received Man of the Match award. In a nine-year long international career, Strauss played 100 tests and 127 one-d ay internationals. Strauss has to his credit 7037 and 4205 runs in test and ODIs respectively. -============= Hashim Amla, the star South African Batsman, became the fastest player to score 3000 runs in one-day international on 29 August 2012. Amla achieved the tremendo us feat during the course of his 150 run individual knock that led South African squad to a 80-run victory over England at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton. Hashim Amla took a total of 57 innings to become the fastest player to score 300 0 runs while his closest competitor Vivian Richards took 69 innings. Below is the list of 10 players who reached the landmark 3000 ODI runs, in quick est time, in terms of innings. ============================= India s largest real estate company DLF decided to end its five-year long associat ion with Indian Premiere League as its title sponsor. The last date of renewal o f contract was 28 July 2012, and the company did not file application for the re newal of its contract. The company spent 250 crore rupees in its five-year assoc iation with IPL. DLF has been actively promoting different sports in the country. The company org

anizes DLF Masters Golf Tournament in Gurgaon every year. It is also one of the sponsors of the Davis Cup tennis tournament 2012, which will be held in Chandiga rh. ============================== India defeated host and defending champion Australia to win ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In the final match played at Townsville in Australia on 26 August 20 12, the Indian under -19 squad led by Unmukt Chand beat Australian side by 6 wic kets. Skipper Unmukt Chand scored unbeaten 111 runs leading his team to a glorio us victory. Batting first the Australian team scored 225 runs with the loss of 8 wickets. Au stralian captain William Bosisto scored unbeaten 87 runs. India started strongly but lost 4 wickets on just 97 runs. Subsequently skipper Chand guided the India n team to a 6 wickets victory in the 48th over. William Bosisto, the Australian skipper received the Man of the Tournament award . Anamul Haque of Bangladesh scored 365 runs, highest in the tournament. Reece Topley of England claimed 19 wickets and remained the leading wicket taker of th e tournament. This victory marked third under-19 world cup title for India after Mohammad Kaif in 2000 and Virat Kohli in 2008 had led the team to the tournament victory. A total of 16 teams participated in the tournament. The teams were put into four groups A, B, C and D. India was placed in group C along with Papua New Guinea, West Indies and Zimbabwe. Australia was placed in group A alongside Ireland, Eng land and Nepal. ICC Under-19 World Cup The ICC Under-19 World Cup started as an 8-team event in 1988. The tournament wa s not staged after its first edition in 1988 till 1998 and since then has been o rganised by the ICC as a biennial event. The number of competing teams in the to urnament has increased from eight in 1988 to the present 16 giving an opportunit y for a number of associate and affiliate teams to showcase its talent. ================================= Ankur Mittal won the bronze medal in double trap in the fourth International jun ior shotgun Cup in Orimattila, Finland. He scored 177 points. Mittal had scored 45, 41 and 45 in qualification and 46 in the final. Shayan Ma sood, the other Indian came fourth, one point behind. He had scored 130 in quali fication following a series of 43, 45 and 42. ============================== South Africa replaced England as the World s Number One Test Cricket team. The fea t was achieved after its 2-0 victory over England in the three Test-match series , which ended at Lord s Cricket Ground in London on 21 August 2012. England had be en the top team in the Reliance ICC Test Championship table since August 2011 wh en it dethroned India while South Africa has assumed the number one spot for the first time since November 2009. The latest ICC Test Championship table is give n below: ============================= India s duo of Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna finished runners-up at the Western and Southern Open tennis tournament (Cincinnati Masters) after they lost to the fourth seeded duo of Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in the final clash on 19 August 2012. The fourth seeds Lindstedt and Tecau defeated sixth seeds Bhupati a nd Bopanna 4-6, 4-6. Bhupati and Bopaana were aiming to win their second title of the season after th ey won Dubai Open in February 2012. The duo had defeated Croatia's Ivan Dodig an d Brazil's Marcelo 6-4, 6-3 in the semi-final on 19 August 2012. Another Indian Leander Paes and his Czech partner Radek Stepanek were knocked ou t of the tournament in the second round. ======================== World no. 1 tennis player Roger Federer won a record fifth Western & Southern Op en Title (Cincinnati Masters ) at Cincinnati on 19 August 2012. Federer beat sec ond seeded Novak Djokovic 6-0, 7-6, (9-7). This was the first time when top-seed ed men s players clashed in the final of Cincinnati Masters. In women s singles final China s Li Na beat German Angelique Kerbar to win her first

title of the season. Li Na overcame the terrible first set to record a 1-6, 6-3 , 6-1 victory over her rival. To make it to the final, Li defeated American wild card Venus Williams in the se mifinals. Kerber, meanwhile defeated Petra Kvitova, the winner over Li in Montre al, in her semifinal match at night on Center Court. Defending Champion Maria Sh arapova withdrew from the tournament due to illness. ============================== Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the silver medallist of Athens Olympics 2004, was na med the head of the 15-member committee, set up to select the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee and Arjun Award winners. Aslam Sher Khan, the former hockey team s kipper, was named the head of the 15-member committee that will select the Drona charya Awardees. Rajeev Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is the highest sports award in the country. The a ward consists of a cash award of 7.5 lakh rupees, a scroll of honour and a medal . Arjuna Awards, the second highest awards given to sportspersons, carries a scr oll of honour, and a cash award of five lakh rupees. Dronacharya Awards are give n to the coaches of different sports for their remarkable contribution. The Dron acharya Awards are consisted of a plaque, a scroll of honour, ceremonial dress a nd a cash award of five lakh rupees. ======================== The Indian Olympic Association set up a three-member committee to resolve the is sues in Indian Hockey. Hockey India and the Indian Hockey Federation, the two bo dies for Hockey in India have been asked to present their stand before the commi ttee on 21 August 2012. The committee has been set up following the directions from the International Ho ckey Federation in July 2012. The three-member committee will have former Wrestl ing Federation of India president GS Mander, the Indian Weightlifting Federation president Birendra Prasad Baishya and the Handball Federation of India secretar y-general SM Bali as its member. The committee will submit its report on 31 Augu st 2012. In its worst ever performance the Indian Hockey team had finished at the bottom in the London Olympics 2012. The team, which had failed to qualify for the Beiji ng Olympics 2008, suffered defeat in all the eight matches it played in the Lond on Games. =================== V.V.S. Laxman, on 18 August 2012 announced his retirement from international cri cket, ending a glorious career spanning 16 years. Laxman played 134 Tests, amass ing 8781 runs at an average of 45.97. He scored 17 hundreds and 56 half centurie s and earned the sobriquet Very Very Special. Laxman made his Test debut in 1996 against South Africa at Ahmedabad. Laxman, played 86 ODI matches for an aggregate of 2338 at an average of 30.76. B ut he could never become the part of Indian team in any cricket world cup editio n. ================================= The 30th Summer Olympics (London Olympics 2012) concluded in London on 12 August 2012. The 17-day event was inaugurated at Olympic Stadium at the Olympic Park i n East London on 27 July 2012. London Olympics witnessed nearly 10500 athletes f rom 204 National Olympic Committees participating in as many as 26 sports events . At the end of the game US topped the medal tally with a total of 104 medals (46 Gold+29 Silver+ 29 Silver) followed by China, which bagged a total of 88 medals (38 Gold+27 Silver+23 Bronze). Great Britain with 65 medals (29 Gold+17 Silver+1 9 Bronze), Russia with 82 medals (24 Gold+26 Silver+32 Bronze) and South Korea w ith 27 medals (13 Gold+8 Silver+6 Bronze) finished third, fourth and fifth respe ctively. India with a total of 6 medals (2 Silver+4Bronze) finished 55th on the medal tally. India at London Olympics 2012 India had sent 83-member team to the London Olympics 2012, which is the largest

ever contingent sent by Indian Olympic Association in the Olympics. India s total number of medals in London Olympics 2012 stood at a record haul of six medals. S hooter Vijay Kumar bagged the silver medal in the 25 m Rapid Fire event, while M C Mary Kom, five-time world women's boxing champion, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal a nd rifle shooter Gagan Narang won India bronze medals. Gagan Narang opened India s account at the medal tally after he won bronze in shooting event on 30 July 201 2. India s men's hockey team badly disappointed those who were expecting them to recl aim the lost glory of Indian hockey. The team in a show of disastrous performanc e finished 12th and at the bottom most as they lost all their six matches. It wa s the worst-ever performance by the Indian hockey team in the history of Olympic s. Prior to this the worst ever performance of the Indian Hockey team came in 19 96 Atlanta Olympics when it had finished 8th. Besides, major medal hopes for the country such as Beijing Gold medalist Abhinav Bindra in shooting and Deepika in Archery also could not meet with the expectat ions of the people, as they squarely failed to deliver a medal winning performan ce. Beijing bronze medalist Vijender Kumar also failed to recreate the magic in the boxing ring as he lost to Uzbekistan's Abbos Atoev 17-13 in the quarterfinal s. India's History in Summer Olympics India started participating in Summer Olympics from Paris Olympics 1900 after No rman Pritchard, an Anglo-Indian, participated in two events and claimed silver i n both the events. India first sent its contingent to Summer Olympics in Antwerp Olympics 1920 and has sent its team in every Olympics since then. In the last 1 12 years of modern Olympics India has won mere nine gold and 8 of them are in ho ckey and one in individual shooting event. After 6 medal haul at the London Olym pics 2012 total number of medals won by India now stands at 26. Major Medal winning Performances at London Olympics 2012 Michael Phelps bagged 6 medals(4 Gold+2 Silver) in swimming, becoming the mos t decorated Olympian ever with 22 medals. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt clinched three gold in three separate events (10 0 meter race, 200 meter race and 4X100 meter relay team race). He won the 100 me tres gold medal with a time of 9.63 seconds, setting a new Olympic record for th at distance. He took 19.32 seconds to clinch 200 meters gold. With a storming vi ctory in both 100 and 200 meters race he became the only sprinter in the history to defend both Olympic titles. Germany beat Netherlands 2-1 to win men s hockey gold. Mexico beat Brazil 2-1 to win Soccer gold United States defeated Spain to win men s Basketball gold Andy Murray of Great Britain beat Roger Federer of Switzerland to win tennis men s singles gold Russia defeated Brazil to win men s volleyball gold Dan Lin of China beat Malaysian Chong Wei Lee to clinch Badminton men s singles gold Mascot for London Olympics 2012 Mascots have been a part of Olympic Games since Munich 1972, when Waldi, a dachs hund, was the symbol of the Munich games. The mascots of London Games were Wenlo ck and Mandeville. While Wenlock is a mascot of Olympics, Mandeville is mascot f or Paralympics. These are two ultra-modern one-eyed creatures. Olympic Torch Olympic Torch is the symbol of Olympic Games which is lit in Olympia (modern day Greece). The initial editions of Olympics were organized without flame. The tra dition of torch was reintroduced in Amsterdam Olympics 1928. Olympic Medals There were 4700 medals ( Gold, Silver, Bronze) up for grab at the London Olympic s 2012. The Olympic medals weigh between 375-400 grams, they are eighty-five mil limetres in diameter and seven millimetres thick. The gold medals are not actual ly made of solid gold. They are in fact 92.5 percent silver and 1.34 percent gol d, while the rest is copper. Metals used in the medals were mined in Mongolia an d Utah in the United States.On every medal there is the image of Nike, the Greek

Goddess of victory. 31st Summer Olympics The 31st edition of Summer Olympics will be held in Reo de Janeiro, Brazil in 20 16. The city was made the host of the event in 121st IOC session. The games are scheduled to be held fron 5 August to 21 August 2016. Medal count in London Olympics 2012 India bagged Record Six Medals in London Olympics 2012 as Sushil Kumar settled f or Silver Mary Kom bagged Bronze in Women Flyweight Boxing at London Olympics 2012 Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt won Gold in Men s 100 Meter Race, set Olympic Record Saina Nehwal clinched Bronze in Women s Singles Badminton Event at London Olympics 2012 Vijay Kumar bagged Silver in Olympics 25 Metre Rapid Fire Pistol Event ======================= Rory Mcllroy won the US PGA Golf Championship at Kaiwah island on 12 August 2012 , claiming his second major title with a record-setting eight-shot victory. With this victory Mcllroy also became world number one player surpassing Luke Donald . 23-year Mcllroy, hit a six-uneder 66 to finish 13 under, while, David Lynn and I an Poulter finished second and third respectively. Tiger Woods, four-time winner of the title, faltered to a level par 72 and two under total. =============================== Sushil Kumar, the star Indian grappler, won India its sixth medal on the very la st day in London Olympics 2012. The wrestler bagged the silver after his Japanes e opponent Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu overpowered him 3-1 in the gold medal bout in the 66-kg freestyle category on 12 August 2012. With this victory Susheel Kumar also got his name written in the sports history annals of the country as became the first ever Indian sportsperson to win indivi dual medals in two successive Olympic Games. Kumar had won a bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games. In a separate 60-kg wrestling event, Yogeshwar Dutt, another Indian wrestler won India a bronze medal. Dutt defeated North Korea's Ri Jong Myong in the bronze m edal bout on 9 August 2012. With the two medals in wrestling India took the total number of its medals in Lo ndon Olympics 2012 at a record haul of six medals. Shooter Vijay Kumar bagged th e silver medal in the 25 m Rapid Fire event, while MC Mary Kom, five-time world women's boxing champion, ace shuttler Saina Nehwal and rifle shooter Gagan Naran g won India bronze medals. Gagan Narang opened India s account at the medal tally after he won bronze in shooting event on 30 July 2012. In a major setback to the country s Olympic campaign, India s men's hockey team fini shed 12th and at the bottom most as they lost all their six matches. It was the worst-ever performance by the Indian hockey team in the history of Olympics. Pri or to this the worst ever performance of the Indian Hockey team came in 1996 Atl anta Olympics when it had finished 8th. Besides, major medal hopes for the country such as Beijing Gold medalist Abhinav Bindra in shooting and Deepika in Archery also could not meet with the expectat ions of the people, as they squarely failed to deliver a medal winning performan ce. Beijing bronze medalist Vijender Kumar also failed to recreate the magic in the boxing ring as he lost to Uzbekistan's Abbos Atoev 17-13 in the quarterfina ls. ================================= In a bout fought on 8 August 2012 at the Excel Arena, star Indian female Boxer M ary Kom got India its fourth medal in the London Olympics 2012, giving the count ry its biggest medal haul in the history of modern Olympics. The ace pugilist, h owever, knocked out of the Olympic Games flyweight (51 kg) semi-finals after she suffered an 11-6 defeat in the hand of Britain s Nicola Adams. Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom popularly called Mary Kom or Magnificent Mary got h er place secured at London Olympics 2012 after winning 2012 AIBA Women's World B oxing Championship held in Qinhuangdao, China from 9 May to 22 May 2012. There t oo she had suffered a defeat to Nicola Adams in the quarter-finals.

Kicking off her Olympics campaign on 5 August 2012, Mary Kom had beat Karolina M ichalczuk of Poland 19-14 in the in the first round. In the quarter-final, the f ollowing day, she defeated Maroua Rahali of Tunisia 15-6, securing one medal for the country. This was the first time when the women boxing event was introduced in the Olympic games. Born on 1 March 1983 in Kangathei in Manipur, India, Mary Kom turned profession al boxer after her victory in the Manipur state women's boxing championship in 2 000. Mary made her international debut at the first AIBA Women's World Boxing Ch ampionship held in the United States, where she bagged a silver medal in the 48 kg weight category. Subsequently she won a gold medal in the 45 kg class at the second AIBA Women's WorldBoxing Championship in Turkey in 2002. Kom has total 5 world boxing championship titles in his name. The government of India had awarded her with the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, country s highest award given to sports persons, in 2009. Besides she was also giv en the Arjuna Award in 2003 and Padma Shree Award in 2006. She was also appointe d the International Boxing Association s Ambassador for Women s Boxing in 2009. ===================================== Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won gold in men s 100 meter race with 9.63 seconds, f astest in the history of Olympics. His compatriot Yohan Blake came second as he took 9.75 second to complete the race. US sprinter Justin Gatlin grabbed bronze w ith 9.79 seconds. Bolt holds a world record of 9.58 second in 100 meter racing, the record he set at the Berlin World Championships in 2009. With it, he now has the three fastest 100 meters in history next to his name. He is only the second Olympic champion in the 100 meters to defend his title after United State's Carl Lewis. =========================== Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehawal won India its third medal at London Olympics 2 012 after she clinched a bronze in women's singles badminton event played at Wem bley Arena on 4 August 2012. Saina bagged the bronze after her Chinese opponent Xin Wang conceded the match due to a knee injury. Xin Wang was one game point a head of Saina when she decided to quit the game due to the unbearable pain. Chin ese shuttlers Li Xuerui and Wang Yihan won the gold and silver medals respective ly. Saina s bronze marked India s third medal at London Olympics 2012 and twelfth indivi dual medal in the history of modern oympics. The previous two medals came in sho oting events. While Gagan Narang won India its first bronze in the London Olympi cs on 30 July 2012, Vijay Kumar clinched silver on 3 August 2012. With this vict ory, Saina became the second Indian woman after Karanam Malleshwari to win a med al in the history of olympics. Karnam Malleshwari had earned India a bronze in w eight lifting event in 2000 Sydney Olympics. Born in Hisar, Haryana on 17 March 1990, Saina Nehwal turned a professional shut tler in 2006. Year 2008 saw her winning the World Junior Badminton Championships . In 2008 Beijing Olympics she had reached the quarter-finals round becoming the first Indian woman to reach the quarter finals in the Olympic Games. In year 20 09, she won the Indonesia Open Title, becoming the first Indian to win a BWF Sup er Series title. Saina s career best ranking came in 2010 when she rose to world n umber two position. Former Indonesian badminton great Atil Jauhari is the present coach of Saina whi le, national coach Pullela Gopichand is her mentor. Saina was awarded with the Arjuna Award in 2009 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awar d, the highest award given to a sportsperson in the country, in year 2010. The g overnment of India also conferred Padm Shree, the fourth highest civilian award in India, upon her in 2010. Saina Nehwal s Medal Tally 2008: BWF World Junior Championships (Gold) 2009: Indonesia Super Series (Gold) 2009: Indian Open Grand Prix (Gold) 2010: Badminton Asia Championships (Bronze) 2010: Indian Open Grand Prix (Gold) 2010: Singapore Open Super Series (Gold)

2010: Indonesia Open Super Series (Gold) 2010: Commonwealth Games (Gold) 2010: Hong Kong Super Series (Gold) 2011: Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold (Gold) 2011: Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold (Silver) 2011: Indonesia Open Super Series Premier (Silver) 2012: Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold (Gold) ===================== In a nerve-wracking battle for Olympic medal in the individual 25 metre rapid fi re pistol event, Indian shooter Vijay Kumar clinched the silver on 3 August 2012 . Kumar hit the target 30 times out of 40 attempts in the series comprising eigh t rounds of five shots each. Leuris Pupo of Cuba, whi clinced the gold clinched scored 34 out of 40. Chinese marksman Ding Feng bagged the bronze. Born on 19 August 1985 in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh is presently a S ubedar in the Indian Army s 16th Dogra Regiment. He booked his place at the London Olympics when he won a silver medal at the shooting World Cup in Fort Benning, US in 2011. The persevering shooter has more than 20 international medals and 75 national medals to his credit. He had won 3 gold medals and one silver medal in the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi. 2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melb ourne saw him winning two gold medals in two separate shooting events. In one of the major achievements in 2009 ISSF World Cup held in Beijing he bagged Silver missing the gold by mere 0.1 point. Acknowledging his excellent track record and medal winning performances, the Ind ia government awarded him with the Arjuna Award in year 2007. ========================= US swimmer Michel Phelps became the most successful athlete in the history of Ol ympic games after he won the gold medal in 4x200 metre freestyle relay in final race at the Aquatic Centre on 31 July 2012. Phelps, who is playing his 4th Olympics, with this victory took his individual O lympic tally to 19 (15 gold, two silver and two bronze), surpassing the 18 won b y Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina between 1956 and 1964. He first swam at the Olympics in 2000 Sydney Olympics, when he was just 15. He b ecame the youngest American male swimmer in 68 years and placed fifth in the 200 m butterfly. He also holds the world record in swimming when he swam1:54.92 in t he 200m butterfly event in March 2001. Six-time winner of the World Swimmer of the Year Award, Phelps has to his credit the record of winning maximum number of gold medals (8) won in a single Olympic s, the feat he achieved hduring 2008 Beijing Games surpassing American swimmer Mark Spitz's seven-gold record at Munich in 1972. ================ Hockey India signed a multi-year broadcast agreement with ESPN STAR Published on : 31-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs July 2012. Hockey India on 30 July 2012 signed a multi-ye ar broadcast agreement with leading sports broadcaster ESPN STAR Sports Gagan Narang won Bronze in the men's 10 meter air rifle event at London Olympics Published on: 31-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs July 2012. Gagan Narang clinched the bronze medal in the men's 10 meter air rifle event on 30 July 2012 Gaurav Nandrajog won Coca-Cola Squash Open Championship 2012 Published on: 30-JU L-2012 Sports Current Affairs July 2012. Gaurav Nandrajog won Coca-Cola Squash Open Cha mpionship 2012 on 29 July 2012 30th Edition of Summer Olympics inaugurated in London Published on: 30-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs July 2012. Summer Olympic games 2012 inaugurated at Olymp ic Stadium at the Olympic Park in East London on 27 July 2012. Bradley Wiggins won the 99th Edition of Tour de France Bicycle Race Published on : 24-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Bradley Wiggins of Britain became the first cyclist of the country, to win the coveted Tour de France Cycling race on 22 July 2012

England s David Howell won the 6th Leiden International Chess tournament Published on: 18-JUL-2012 England s David Howell won the 6th Leiden International Chess tournament on 15 Jul y 2012 India decided to send 81 Athletes to participate in London Olympics 2012 Publish ed on: 17-JUL-2012 Current Affair July 2012. Indian finalised 81 Athletes Contingent to participate in London Olympics 2012 on 14 July 2012 Brett Lee announced Retirement from All Forms of International Cricket Published on: 13-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Ace Australian fast bowler Brett Lee announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket on 12 July 2012 England beat Australia 4-0 to claim NatWest Cricket Series Published on: 12-JUL2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. England beat Australia in the fifth and final one-d ay international cricket played at Old Trafford on 11 July 2012 South African wicketkeeper Mark Boucher announced Retirement from International Cricket Published on: 12-JUL-2012 Current Affair July 2012. South African wicketkeeper Boucher announced Retiremen t from International Cricket on 10 July 2012 Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska to claim Wimbledon Women s Singles 2012 P ublished on: 11-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Ace US tennis player Serena Williams beat Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 in Wimbledon women s singles Title 2012 Roger Federer beat Andy Murray to claim Wimbledon Open Title 2012 Published on: 09-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs July 2012. Swiss Tennis maestro Roger Federer beat Britis h player Andy Murray to win the Wimbledon Open Championship Gentlemen s Singles Fi nal 2012 Sprint Star Usain Bolt Quit from Diamond League Meet in Monaco Published on: 07JUL-2012 Current Affair July 2012. Sprint Star Usain Bolt Quit from Diamond League Meet i n Monaco on 5 July 2012 Ex-England Batsman Mark Ramprakash announced retirement from cricket Published o n: 06-JUL-2012 Current Affair July 2012. Ex-England Batsman Mark Ramprakash announced retiremen t from Cricket on 5 July 2012 Three Russian Female Athletes were Suspended Published on: 04-JUL-2012 Current Affair July 2012. Three Athletes of Russia were suspended on 3 July 2012 Spain beat Italy 4-0 to win UEFA Euro Cup Football Championship 2012 Published o n: 02-JUL-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Spain beat Italy 4-0 to win UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) Euro 2012 World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand roped as Brand Ambassador of TVH Publishe d on: 27-JUN-2012 Current Affair 2012. World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand roped as Brand Ambas sador of TVH on 26 June 2012 F1 Racer Sebastian Vettel defeated Lewis Hamilton to win European Grand Pix 2012 Published on: 26-JUN-2012 Current Affair 2012. F1 Racer Sebastian Vettel defeated Lewis Hamilton to win Eu ropean Grand Pix 2012 Valencia on 24 June 2012 Tintu Luka won Greenko 52nd National Inter-State Senior Althletic Championship P ublished on: 26-JUN-2012 Current Affair 2012. Athletic Tintu Luka won Greenko 52nd National Inter-State S enior Althletic Championship on 24 June 2012 AITA announced Two Teams for Men s Doubles for London Olympics 2012 Published on: 26-JUN-2012 Current Affair 2012. AITA announced Two Team for Men s Doubles for London Olympics 2012 on 21 June 2012 First Time Dress Code introduced in Wimbledon Published on: 26-JUN-2012

Sports Current Affair 2012. First Time Dress Code introduced in Wimbledon by All England Club on 24 June 2012 Pakistani Cricket Player Danish Kaneria was banned by England and Wales Cricket Board Published on: 25-JUN-2012 Pakistani Player Danish Kaneria was banned by England and Wales Cricket Board on 21 June 2012 Thingalaya marked an Indian Record at Athletics National Championship Published on: 21-JUN-2012 Current Affair 2012. Indian Athlete Siddhanth Thingalaya marked an Indian Record on 18 June 2012 at Belgium Athletics National Championship in Brussels. Indian Hockey Goalkeeper D'Souza suspended for 1 year Published on: 19-JUN-2012 Sports Current Affair 2012. D Souza suspended for 1year for anti-doping rule viola tion during World Series Hockey (WSH) tournament 2012. Mahendra Singh Dhoni Appointed as a Brand Ambassador of Nepal Cricket Associatio n Published on: 19-JUN-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was appointed as brand ambassa dor of Nepal Cricket Association on 17 June 2012. Tejaswini Mule won Silver medal at International Junior Shooting Championship Pu blished on: 18-JUN-2012 Sports Current Affair 2012. Tejaswini Mule won Silver medal at International Jun ior Shooting Championship in Suhl, Germany. She won the silver medal in the 50 m etre rifle prone women s event. Harmeet Desai won Under- 21 Men s Final Brazil Open Table Tennis Published on: 18JUN-2012 Sports Current Affair 2012. Harmeet Desai won Under- 21 Men s Final Brazil Open Ta ble Tennis on 17 June 2012. He had defeated Belgian Cedric Nuytin by 4-2 to win the gold medal. He became the first Indian to achieve such an accomplishment. Saina Nehwal beat China's Xuerui Li to win her Third Indonesia Open Title Publis hed on: 18-JUN-2012 Sports Current Affairs 2012. Ace Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal clinched h er third Indonesia Open Super Series title after beating China's Xuerui Li in ti tle clash in Jakarta Indu Chaudhary and Sakshi Malik won Gold Medals in Asian junior wrestling champi onship 2012 Published on: 14-JUN-2012 Indu Chaudhary and Sakshi Malik won gold Medals in Asian junior wrestling champi onship 2012 at Almaty, Kazakhstan on 13 June 2012 Russian Tennis Player Maria Yuryevna Sharapova won French Open 2012 Published on : 12-JUN-2012 Maria Yuryevna Sharapova won French Open 2012 on 9 June 2012. She defeated Saria Erani from Italy by 6-3 and 6-2