New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Indian team bagged a gold and a silver medal on the concluding day of the junior Asian Wrestling Championships at Manila, the Philippines, to finish with an impressive haul of 14 medals.
Rahul Aware (55 kg) won the gold while Rahul Maan (60 kg) won the silver medal in free-style wrestling.

Overall, India collected five golds, four silvers and five bronzes in the three-day competition.

Melbourne, July 07 (ANI): Anna Kournikova has been spotted with a huge diamond ring on her engagement finger.

The hot Tennis star, who has long been linked to singer Enrique Iglesias, showed off her ring when she came to watch World Team Tennis on Monday night, the Daily Telegraph reports.

However, when she was asked if the ring meant she was committed, she simply replied: “I thought you were the good press.’

The Russian bombshell became conscious and hid her hand behind her back.

Kournikova was scheduled to play for the St. Louis Aces but will miss the season because of a wrist injury.

She still participated in a kid’s clinic, signed autographs and cheered on her teammates. (ANI)

Sydney, July 7 (ANI): Former Australian star Glenn McGrath has predicted that the current Australian squad has the potential of cleaning out England 5-0 in the Ashes series which begins in Cardiff on Wednesday.

Though McGrath had made a similar prediction before the 2005 series, the retired pace great said he was impressed by Australia’s Test series win in South African this year.

“I’ve got total confidence in the boys, especially watching the way they played in South Africa in the last Test series. That would have given them a lot of confidence and they showed what they can do and the huge potential that they’ve got,” The Herald Sun quoted McGrath, as saying.”If they can do the same here and maybe even improve in one or two areas, they will do really well and probably win 5-0,” he added.

Earlier, McGrath was called into an Australian team meeting to provide essential tips to the new-look pace attack.

Australia’s pace attack will head into the series with Peter Siddle and Mitchell Johnson in sparkling form. (ANI)

New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday alleged and criticised Congress party for influencing the Election Commission office to send a team to Bihar to discuss the prospects of re-polls in six constituencies of the State.

The Election Commission on Friday decided to send teams to Bihar to look into complaints of poll irregularities received during the Lok Sabha elections.

After meeting the Chief Election Commission in the national capital today, Senior BJP leader Vijay Kumar Malhotra told media that in the history of independent India no re-poll had ever taken place after 25 days of Polls. If it happens, it would actually hamper the fairness of Indian democratic elections.

Malhotra termed such a consideration of re-polling as an instance of the Election Commission being influenced by the ruling party. He alleged that Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad and member of the UPA combine was feeling insecure about his political position in Bihar and hence the team has been sent to Bihar.

“The team was sent because of Lalu Prasad pressurising the Congress, as he feels he would be losing on two seats. Lalu did not attend the Cabinet meeting yesterday also. We said that if re-poll is to take place, it should have been two to three days later after polling but it hasn’t even happened after 25 days. No such committee (team to visit the state) was made in the past. If re-poll happens, then in future there wouldn’t be fair elections and it is of serious concern to us,” Malhotra said.

Lalu Prasad had recently alleged electoral malpractices in Bihar by his rival Rajiv Pratap Rudy of the BJP and the Nitish Kumar-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) state government of Bihar.

The Election Commission teams would visit Saran Lok Sabha constituency,from where Lalu Prasad contested and Jehanabad, Aurangabad, Jamui, Maharajganj, Munger and Gaya. (ANI)

Dubai May 9 (ANI): Pakistan cricket vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said both India and Pakistan are favourites to win this year’s World Twenty20 tournament in England.

“Both Pakistan and India have been doing very well in Twenty20 cricket. So, I think both have a very good chance of winning the World Twenty20,” Haq said.

Haq said Pakistan, which lost to India in the final of the inaugural World Twenty20 tournament in 2007, has been in good form in the shortest version of the game.

“We have been playing a Twenty20 tournament every year and that has matured us. Fortunately, we are again playing that event in Pakistan before going to England,” The News quoted Haq, as saying.

Besides India and Pakistan, South Africa and New Zealand are the top two contenders for the trophy, he added.

“Any team can win a Twenty20 game but you need discipline and luck. I think South Africa and New Zealand are also two very good teams,” Haq said. (ANI)