Continuing from where she left off at the second leg in Kolkata, seasoned golfer Smriti Mehra played a solid round of two-under 68 to take the Day One honours in the third leg of the Hero Women’s Pro golf tour 2013 at the Bombay Presidency Golf Club in Mumbai on Tuesday.

For Indian footballers, there was a time when breaking into the West Bengal Santosh Trophy team was more difficult than finding a place in the national squad.

DAV College of Jalandhar, Ludhiana’s GHG Khalsa College and Municipal College, Rourkela, recorded easy wins on the second day of the 20th Sail-Nehru Champion Colleges hockey tournament in Gwalior on Tuesday.

Shahdara FC rallied from a goal down to share points with ISS-Delhi United FC in a 1-1 draw in a Group II super league match of the DLF-ONGC-Delhi Soccer Association senior division open clubs football championship at the Ambedkar Stadium in the capital on Tuesday.

Pottery for artist Rahul Kumar is a silent spiritual journey. He calls it a passionate love affair to revel in forever! Rahul brings life to clay in his latest exhibition Astronomically Small.

The 61st Cavalry trumped IPG by 9-5½ goals in the final of the M3M Maharaja Jiwaji Rao Scindia Gold Cup 2013 tournament at the Jaipur polo grounds in the captial on Sunday. The 16th edition of the prestigious tournament was strongly contested by eight teams.

Mahindra Racing completed their second pre-season test for the 2013 Moto3 world championship on Monday. The group test at Spain’s Jerez circuit — venue for the third round of this year’s MotoGP season — saw the Indian team’s two new riders complete the test with the fifth and eighth fastest times of the 33 Moto3 participants.

Jammu and Kashmir will host the country’s maiden national mountain running championship on April 7.
“The Indian Mountain Running Association will organise the 1st national mountain running championship this year.
“Athletes from different parts of the country are expected to take part in the championship,” the association said on Sunday.

Leading from start to finish, Piyush Sangwan won the Tata Steel Northern India Amateur Golf Championship at the Jack Nicklaus-designed Classic Golf Resort in Gurgaon on Friday. The 14-year-old shot a final round of 3-over 75 on a windy day but still managed to finish the tournament at 2-under 286, four clear of his nearest rivals Manav Das and Samarth Dwivedi.

Junior national coach Baljeet Singh Saini sat glued during the China vs Bangladesh men’s encounter of the Hockey World League Round 2 in the capital two days ago.