The percentage of Indians with good jobs is up from where it was two years ago but it provides little strong evidence that India's sluggish economy is firmly on the mend, according to a new survey.

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Reigning Asian Tour No.1 golfer Juvic Pagunsan has unfinished business to attend to when he returns to the $6 million Singapore Open next month.

Pagunsan lost in a Monday play-off to Gonzalo Fernande

World No.3 Serena Williams defeated China's Li Na in the second group match of the $4.9 million WTA Tour Championships here.

The US multiple Grand Slam winner is now on a 28-1 run since June when she

FIFA has banned three Guatemalan national team players for life for match fixing.

World football's governing body claimed midfielder Guillermo Ramirez Ortega and defenders Yony Wilson Flores Monroy a

Poland's sports minister has offered her resignation over the weather-enforced delay of this month's football World Cup qualifier between England and Poland here.

The match at the Olympic Stadium was

Istanbul: Russia's Maria Sharapova advanced to the semifinals of the WTA Tour Championships here after coming back from a set down to beat Agnieszka Radwanska in a three-hour battle.

World No.2 Shara

Employees of Kingfisher Airlines on Thursday came to a wage settlement with the management of the cash-strapped carrier and called off their 25-day-long strike.

"We have reached an agreement with the

India's Gaganjeet Bhullar stood tall amongst other golfers on the PGA Tour in the opening round of the CIMB Classic, shooting a fabulous six-under-par 65 to emerge as the leading Asian here Thursday.

Press Council of India chairperson Markandey Katju on Wednesday regretted that some politicians were becoming 'increasingly intolerant towards the media' and pointed to Himachal Pradesh Congress chief

Instead of being donated as he had wished, the body of legendary Bengali writer Sunil Gangopadhyay will now be cremated on Thursday, his son said.

"Though he had pledged his body to be donated after