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After bringing laurels to the country in the Beijing Olympics and the World Boxing Championships, Indian boxer Vijender Singh has nowVijender Singh inked a million-dollar sponsorship deal with the Percept Sports Management Co.

Indian boxing's jinx-breaker Vijender Singh achieved yet another historic feat as he ensured the country's first medal in the World Championships by advancing to the middle-weight semifinals in Milan, Italy.

Vijender Singh punches his way to semifinal in boxing in Beijing.
Olympic boxing medal by punching his way into the middleweight (75 kg) semifinal with an emphatic 9-4 victory over Ecuador’s Carlos Gongora here Wednesday.

Despite his disappointing semifinal loss at the World Boxing Championships in Milan, Indian boxer Vijender received a fitting welcome as he stepped out of the Indira Gandhi International Airport after his flight from Milan back home.

Indian boxers continued to lord the ring to stake their claim for Olympic medals with Vijender becoming the third from the country to reach the quarterfinal in the Beijing Games in Beijing on Saturday.

Bharti Airtel has entered into a multi-million dollar deal with Manchester United , under which its 100 million subscribers would get exclusive access to the mobile content related to one of the world's richest football clubs. Sanjay Kapoor, deputy CEO, Bharti Airtel, said: "Football is definitely seeing a growing interest amongst the young population in India.

On the day when Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar and boxer Vijender Kumar provided unanticipated boosts to the country's Olympic campaign, India's one-day team tussled and tugged their way to a series-leveling victory in Dambulla.

For the first time ever, three top sports persons -- boxers M C Mary Kom and Vijender Singh and wrestler Sushil Kumar were on Wednesday selected for the country's highest sporting honor, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award.

t Modi announced in Chennai, on Sunday.Sahara Adventure Sports Group successfully won the Pune franchise after they bid the highest amount of US $370 million (Rs 1702 crore), while the Kochi team was won by a consortium, Rendezvous Sports World Limited, for a whopping amount of $333 million (Rs 1533.33 crore), for a period of ten years.