Four in lead after three rounds

Mumbai, Nov 16: International Master Anup Deshmukh beat Prasad Deshmukh in 56 moves and continued to lead with three other players in the...

Mumbai, Nov 16: International Master Anup Deshmukh beat Prasad Deshmukh in 56 moves and continued to lead with three other players in the third round of the KD Publicity chess championship at the Andheri Sports Complex, today.

Important results: Third-round: Anup Deshmukh bt Prasad Deshmukh; Avinash Awate bt Rashmin Pulekar; Sashikant Kutwal bt VN Ghate; V Makwana drew with Prasad Ghate; JM Utarid bt AN Iyer; DG Bhandarkar drew with Vinod Solanki; Y Disen Singh bt Kirit Shah; A Subramaniam bt Gaurav Gadodia.

Agrawal moves up
Arun Agrawal beat D Sitwala 840-670 in the Khar Gymkhana senior billiards round-robin tournament, today.

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In another match of the same competition, Yasin Merchant beat JS Dawer 1087-683.
Junior snooker (semis): Ritesh Shah bt Kabir Malkani 86-2, 29-49, 85-8, 77-1; Mahesh Jagdale bt Siddarth Mody 61-54, 51-10, 8-76, 32-84, 74-12.

State Bank score
State Bank of India defeated Dalmiya Sports Club 25-15, 25-7 in the Mumbai City District volleyballchampionship at the MbPT ground, Mazagaon, today.In the other match, Mumbai Port Trust beat Syndicate Bank 25-10, 25-22.

Chembur YMCA up
Chembur YMCA pipped School of Basketball 46-44 in the Acharya College Boys U-22 winter basketball league today.

Chembur YMCA 46 (Ram Kumar 25, A Jude 10, Sheldon Buthello 8) bt SOB 44 (Lino Gracias 13, Chinmay Bhandarkar 13, Gerald B 7) HT 26-21

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Somaiya SC 72 (Kayron Gomes 19, Mark Fernandes 12, Pankaj Rane 8, Ralph Gomes 7) bt Eagles 40 (Meldon Lobo 26, Wendol 8) HT 43-14

Mixed fortunes for state
Maharashtra had mixed fortunes in the 26th Sub-Junior National basketball championship at Anandpur Sahib today, according to information received here.

While the boys lost 39-51 to MP, the girls beat Assam and Manipur 37-11 and 62-40 respectively. Punjab boys and girls qualified for the quarter-finals.

3 Indians killed, one injured, 5 rescued in Mozambique boat accident

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Three Indian nationals were killed and one was injured in a boat accident off the coast of Beira in Mozambique. Five others were rescued and the Indian High Commission has extended their condolences to the families. The mission is coordinating with local authorities to locate the missing 5 Indians.

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