Cricket News -

Sachin Tendulkar has signed a three years commercial deal with Saatchi and Saatchi, whose Indian firm ICONIX signed the contract worth a $40 million (Rs 180 cr) ... This is a huge jump from his five-year endorsement deal worth $17 million, which ended late last year.

BCCI has awarded Group C (Rs. 2,000,000 per year) contract to batsman Suresh Raina and bowler S. Sreesanth, who played more than 15 one-days from October 1, 2005.
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Motor Sports -

In the Formula Asia Renault V6 series Karun will drive for the Korean based E-Rain Racing team ... This series kicks off at the Sepang F1 circuit in Malaysia on May 13 and 14 ... In the first official test session held at Sepang, Karun finished the day as the fastest driver.
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Chess Oscar -

Veselin Topalov has won the Chess Oscar for 2005 ... He beat Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand by 881 points to clinch the honour ... Topalov pooled 4376 votes to Anand’s 3495 in a poll ... This is Topalov’s first Oscar. Garry Kasparov has won the Oscar five times with Anand taking the honour four times ... Vladimir Kramnik (once) is the only other winner of the title ... Topalov had 219 first choice votes to Anand’s 19.