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India football captain Bhaichung is likely to join East Bengal football club as he met with Bhutia East Bengal football secretary Babu Bhattacharya on Wednesday.

Bhutia has a contract with Mohun Bagan but for now he has been suspended for six months by Mohun Bagan due to indiscipline charges. Bhutia has not yet entered into any official agreement with the East Bengal club.

Patiala cricket team returned to pavilion at the score of 310 and Chandigarh got a lead of just 14 runs in the semi-final match of the Punjab Inter-District Cricket Tournament for Katoch Shield at Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, Chandigarh on Wednesday.

In the reply of 324 runs of Chandigarh team in the first inning, Patiala team resumed their inning from the overnight score of 13/0 and lost the wicket of opener Kunwar Raina at the score of 84.

Hanoi - Vietnam, the world's number two rice exporter, may cease exports by 2020 unless the government slows the conversion of agricultural land to other uses, a government official said Thursday.

"Localities are racing with each other to ask the government for permission to convert agricultural land to non-agricultural uses, like golf courses," Nguyen Tri Ngoc, director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's cultivation department, told the German Press Agency dpa.

London, June 18 : Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand has an astonishing collection of boots to boast of.

According to The Daily Star, the England star has kept his Manchester United team-mates' boots in his custody for the past two years.

Ferdinand had collected around 30 smelly boots, when his team won the Premier League title in 2007.

"We'd had a great campaign. One day I'll buy a really nice cabinet for them," Ferdinand was quoted, as saying.

After failure of Indian men team, now Indian fans are expecting Indian women to win the World Cup title as Indian women will take on New Zealand in the semifinal of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup at Trent Bridge today.

The match against New Zealand will be tough for Indian women as New Zealand women team had reached semifinals without losing even a single match while Indian women lost their first match against England but managed to win two successive matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka to enter into the semifinals of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup.