Baisakhi stuns BinduSangli: Thirteen-year-old Baisakhi Das of West Bengal upset Bindu Saritha of LIC in 35 moves even as Saheli Barua of Railways shot into the lead with 5.5 points in the sixth round of the Godrej GE appliances sponsored National B chess championship.IWM Pallavi Shah, Aarthie Ramaswami and Baisakhi Das are second with five points each.EB in last fourCalcutta: East Bengal beat Churchill Brothers 1-0 to move into the semi-finals while Tata Football Academy held Badda Jagarani of Bangladesh to a goalless draw in Group B matches of the 105th IFA Shield Football Tournament.Raman Vijayan scored just eight minutes before long whistle to seal East Bengal's win.ICC-UN pactNew Delhi: The United Nations and the International Cricket Council announced a collaboration to utilise the popularity of the game to give fillip to the various worldwide projects undertaken by the UN.For the first time, the UN will use cricket and its stars as the medium for itspromotion work as it has been doing successfully through disciplines like football and tennis.Maharashtra winMoga: Maharashtra girls defeated Delhi 17-11 in the National School Games here today. The boys lost 18-26 to Madhya Pradesh.Results (How Maharashtra fared): Kabaddi (girls): Maharashtra bt HP 67-39. Handball (Boys): MP bt Maharashtra 26-18; (Girls): Maharashtra bt Delhi 17-11 Roller hockey (girls U-19): Punjab bt Maharashtra 3-1.State in semisChandigarh: Maharashtra boys and girls entered the semi-finals of the 26th Sub-Junior National basketball championships at Sri Anandpur Sahib. The boys now meet Rajasthan, while the girls take on defending champions MP.Results (Boys QF): Punjab bt Kerala 60-33; Maharashtra bt TN 65-30; AP bt Pondicherry 65-36; Rajasthan bt Manipur 60-55. PQF: Kerala bt MP 67-64; Maharashtra bt Bihar 44-13. (Girls QF): Maharashtra bt Pondicherry 40-15; MP bt Delhi 48-3; Kerala bt AP 59-53; TN bt Punjab40-37.Mixed fortunesChandrapur: Mixed luck was in store for Maharashtra in the 22nd sub-junior National volleyball championship. The boys defeated Pondicherry 3-0, but the girls lost to Kerala 1-3. The boys lost to West Bengal in the evening session.NR crash outNew Delhi: Northern Railways crashed out of the Nehru hockey tournament WHEN they lost their second straight match, to Border Security Force, Jalandhar 1-3.Air-India scraped past Punjab Police 4-3 in Pool II match.
