In Brief

ONGC incentive

NEW DELHI: Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) announced its support to Indian hockey team’s Olympic preparation. Jauhari Lal, director-personnel, ONGC, announced Rs 50 lakh to meet team expenses in the run up to the Sydney Games. He presented KPS Gill a cheque for Rs 5 lakh as the second instalment. He also announced ONGC will pay a bonus of Rs 50 lakh if India claim the gold in Sydney.

PSCB, Rlys in final

JAIPUR: Petroleum Sports Control Board (PSCB) and Railways lined up for a double by setting up absorbing finals in both the men’s and women’s sections of the Central Zone Inter-State Badminton Championship.

Results: Men’s (semis): PSCB bt Air-India 3-0 (P Gopichand bt Chetan Anand 15-6, 15-5, NikhilKanetkar bt Abhin Shyam Gupta 15-10, 15-4, Jaseel P Ismali/Vincent lobo bt SDS Krishnan/Gaurav Singh 15-1, 15-7)Railways bt Combined Universities 3-0 (Sachin Ratti bt Nitin Suman 15-0, 15-0; Srikant Bakshi bt Sukhvinder Singh 15-6, 15-4; Amrish Shinde/Roy Mathews bt Sukhvinder/Satvinder Singh 15-9, 15-0)

Women’s (semis):PSCB bt Air-India 2-0 (Aparna Popat bt Mugdha Bhagwat 11-3, 11-6, Manjusha Kanwar/Archana Deodhar bt Tripti Murgunde/Gouri Narayan 15-3, 15-4); Railways bt Combined Universities 2-0 (Sampada Shetty bt Saloni Kundara 11-0 11-2, Sampada Shetty/Madhvi Kashikar bt Saloni/Sujaya Mukharjee 15-9, 15-0)

Akram retained

KARACHI: Wasim Akram has been retained captain for the current international cricket season, the chairman of the ad-hoc committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said.

Rodman sued

LOS ANGELES: A woman who claims basketball star Dennis Rodman last year lured her into a hotel suite and sexually assaulted her, sued the former Los Angeles Lakers rebounder onTuesday.

In a civil court suit, Bridgette Chaker claims assault, battery, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress.

—Agencies