WELLINGTON - Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper has defended the various comments he made during the preparations for Commonwealth Games 2010, saying he did all he could to make the mega event a success.

NEW DELHI - Commonwealth Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi Sunday met Urban Development Minister S.

NEW DELHI - Suresh Kalmadi, chairman of the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Sunday hit back at Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit for casting aspersions on it, saying this was "disappointing" and "uncalled for." Kalmadi strongly defended the OC and said that despite a series of attacks in the runup to the Games, he was quiet, but this should not be taken as weakness.

SHANGHAI - India's Leander Paes and Jurgen Melzer of Austria Sunday claimed Shanghai Masters tennis men's doubles title with a 7-5, 4-6, 10-5 victory over Poland's Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Former Indian cricket board secretary S.K.
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