India

Tennis tournaments in the US and Brazil will continue this week despite Tuesday's terror attacks in New York and Washington.

The Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile slammed the choice of Beijing as the venue for the 2008 Olympics on Friday and said it would encourage repression in China.

The Indian cricket team have secured a record sponsorship contract for the next three years. The deal with the Sahara Group - which has interests in airlines and media - will guarantee the Indian cricket board 690m ($14.7m) to 720m ($15.3m) rupees.

International sports management firm IMG is set to bid for the marketing rights to India's fast-growing professional golf circuit which recently lost its main patron after a federal move to ban tobacco sponsorship in sport.

India's professional golf tour has no plans to hand the commercial rights for the coming season to a fresh bidder, the Indian Professional Golfers' Association (PGAI) said on Monday.

US sports broadcaster ESPN is launching an Asian version of its flagship news show SportsCenter on its network in the region, ESPN Star Sports (ESS).

The sacked president of Sri Lanka's cricket board was granted bail on Monday as police sought his arrest over fraud allegations that have plagued the game in the country.

The England and Wales Cricket Board is monitoring unrest in Zimbabwe which could threaten England's tour of the country.

The Asian Cricket Test championship will go ahead even if India decides to withdraw from the tournament, a top official has confirmed.

The soccer stadiums for the first Afro-Asian Games have been severely criticised by a leading official who said they were unfit to stage international events.

Kenyan cricket chiefs have asked the sport's world governing body for more international matches following the recent West Indies tour of the country.

The Indian government has denied the country's national cricket team permission to play a test match in Pakistan next month, according to local television reports.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to "authoritatively" deal with India's refusal to play Pakistan in international cricket.

Organisers of the Afro-Asian Games, the biggest sporting event to be held in India's capital New Delhi since the Asian Games in 1982, fear the event could be jeopardised because of a dispute between the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and India's Sports Minister Uma Bharti.

India's state broadcasting corporation, Prasar Bharti has won exclusive rights to broadcast the first Afro-Asian Games scheduled in New Delhi in November.

When India decided to stage the world's first Afro-Asian Games in New Delhi in November, it had probably not realised what it was getting into.