* Ana Ivanovic wins Linz Open 
Ana Ivanovic claimed her first title since she lifted the French Open trophy in June, beating second-seeded Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-2, 6-1 on Sunday to win the Linz Open.
It was the top-seeded Serbian’s third title this year.

* Daljit bags bronze in Asian Beach Games
India’s Daljit Singh bagged the 60kg bodybuilding bronze medal in the first Asian Beach Games that concluded in Bali.
Daljit finished third behind gold medallist Asrelawandi of Indonesia and silver medallist Pham Mach of Vietnam.

* Baxi wins the 'Asian of the Year Award' 2008
NRI entrepreneur Ranjit Singh Baxi, founder of a recycling firm that has emerged as one of the top companies in Europe, has won the prestigious 'Asian of the Year Award'.

Baxi, Chairman of J and H Sales (International) Ltd, the company he founded, received the award at a glittering ceremony organised by 'Asian Who's Who International', a publication about leading Asians in the UK, at the Dorchester Hotel in London.

Matthew Amroliwala and Riz Lateef, the BBC News presentation team, handed over the award to 56-year-old Baxi, who is also President of the European Division of the World Punjabi Organisation.

Lord Swraj Paul, NRI industrialist and winner of the first Asian of the Year Award in 1987-88 who was the Chief Guest at the event.

According to the citation, Baxi's company has grown to become one of Europe's leading fibre recycling exporters, operating across the USA, Europe and the Far East.

In 2001, the company received the Queen's Award for Enterprise (International Trade).

Baxi was recently appointed President of the Paper Division of the Bureau of International Recycling in Bruxelles, a trade federation representing the recycling industry in over 70 countries.

Teji Singh, founder of international communications agency Sterling Media, bagged the Asian Leadership in Harmony Award while Kamel Hothi, Asian Marketing Director - Corporate Markets, Lloyds TSB Group, received the Asian Leadership in Diversity Award.

* Western Command crowned overall champions in Navy yatching
Western Naval Command won the overall championship in the Indian Navy Yachting Championship in Kochi.

A total of sixty races in four classes of boats were held with about 250 participants from various Naval commands in the meet.

* Bopanna, Mirnyi finish runners-up in St Petersburg
Rohan Rohan Bopanna and his Belarussian partner Max Mirnyi went down to Travis Parrott of the US and Filip Polasek of Slovakia in the doubles final of the St Petersburg Open.

* Bhupathi-Knowles lift Swiss Indoor title
India's Mahesh Bhupathi and partner Mark Knowles of the Bahamas defeated Christopher Kas and Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany in straight sets to lift the ATP Swiss Indoor doubles title in Basel, Switzerland

* ONGC wins Fourth All India Chief Minister's Gold Cup Trophy
ONGC, Mumbai won the Fourth All India Chief Ministers Gold Cup Football Tournament by crushing Kanchandzonga Football Academy, Darjeeling by 3-1 in the final at Baichung Stadium in south Sikkim

* Par panel for formation of authority to curb illegal clinics
a parliamentary committee has recommended formation of a special authority to find out clinics and nursing homes running without registration.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health, headed by Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, in its report sought immediate temporary suspension of registration which can be applied by the appropriate authority under grave situations in public interest, without following due procedure.

Along with a penalty of Rs 50,000 at first conviction, a time limit of one fortnight may be provided to the establishment to apply for registration under the 'Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Bill 2007'
It recommended that the procedure for appeal should also be made available for penalties arising out of the provisions.

In order to have transparency in the system, the committee sought that the period of preferring an appeal should be one month from the date of order of refusal to grant, renew or revoke certificate of registration to a healthcare establishment.

Further the appeals filed with the state registrar should be disposed of within a period of two months from the date of such filing.

The panel strongly recommended that the state registrar should be a multi-member body having appellate powers and all appeals should be made in the state registrar in place of the state government.

Besides this, patients and their caretakers may also be allowed to have the right to appeal in case of medical negligence on the part of any clinical establishment.

* TCS's Ramadorai gets International CEO of the Year Award
India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services' chief S Ramadoraihas been awarded the International CEO of the Year Award by Latin Trade, a leading global business magazine focusing on South America.

Other winners of the 14th annual Latin Trade Bravo Business Awards, given to honour government and business leaders for their contributions to progress in South America and the Caribbean, included President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe Vlez (Leader of the Year), Governor of Central Bank of Brazil Henrique de Campos Meirelles (Financier of the Year) and CEO of LAN Airlines Enrique Cueto Plaza (CEO of the Year).

Over 1,60,000 Latin Trade readers worldwide nominate business, political and social leaders to be recognised for their outstanding achievement.

In consultation with leading international experts, Latin Trade editors select winners in nine categories to be honoured at the prestigious Latin Trade Bravo Business Award ceremony.

Mike Zellner - - Editorial Director of Latin Trade.