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Gulf Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- Gulf Today
Unbeaten Grebnev goes on top with four victories and one draw
Grandmaster (GM) Aleksey Grebnev grabbed the pole position after emerging as the lone winner among the erstwhile co-leaders in Saturday night's fifth round of the 25th Dubai Open Chess Tournament at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. The 18-year-old Russian talent played the Sicilian Defence and then accepted and ultimately refuted a rare pawn gambit line unleashed by the Indian GM Bharath Subramaniyam to pick up his fourth win against a lone draw and no losses. Subramaniyam initially succeeded in keeping Grebnev's king stuck in the centre, but the Indian lost his way in the complications when he allowed a queen trade that left him a pawn down in the endgame - and where the Russian's previously vulnerable king became an active asset. Grebnev was flawless from thereon, marching his king up the board to support his passed pawn on the f-file as Subramaniyam could do little to stop its advance. Grebnev now has 4.5 points, half a point ahead of five players who are in joint second place, including defending champion GM Mahammad Muradli of Azerbaijan and Indian top-seed GM Nihal Sarin, who drew their match on the first board, and International Master Rohith Krishna of India, who also drew his game against Russia's GM Ivan Zemlyanskii. GM Shant Sargsyan of Armenia and Iranian prodigy GM Sina Movahed, who celebrated his 15th birthday during the tournament's first round on May 27th, moved up to joint second place with wins over Indian players IM A. Ra Harikrishnan and GM Prraneeth Vuppala, respectively. Grebnev will try to protect his lead against the tournament favourite Sarin in the sixth round's top-board match-up on Sunday. In Category B, Iran's Fide Master (FM) Mahdi Nikookar defeated India's Candidate Master (CM) Alankar Sawai Vandan to likewise claim the sole leadership with a perfect five points. CM Allayar Shirliyev of Turkmenistan and Sri Lanka's Pesandu Rashmitha Liyanage trail at second place with 4.5 each after wins over India's Hemant Agarwal Mukund and IM Anastasios Pavlidis of Greece, respectively. Nikookar will have the white pieces as he tries to maintain his unbeaten streak when he faces Shirliyev in the sixth round. The tournament follows a 9-round Swiss system with a 90-minute time control plus a 30-second increment per move. Games are played every day from 5pm, except the final round on June 4, which starts at 10am. The awarding ceremony is on June 5. The tournament offers a prize pool of $52,000 to be handed out to the winners of both categories. Category A, contested by players with a rating over 2300, has a total prize fund of $39,500 with $12,000 going to the champion, while Category B, open to players rated below 2300, offers $12,500 in total prizes and $2,000 awarded to the champion. Special prizes will also be distributed to top performers among rating categories, unrated, youth, women, and UAE players. International Arbiter Majed Al Abdooli of the UAE spearheads the tournament's international team of arbiters who will manage and oversee the competition. Chess fans from around the world can watch the Category A games live on the club's website as well as chess platforms such as and Earlier, top-seed Grandmaster (GM) Nihal Sarin scored an emphatic victory to bounce back into the lead after erstwhile co-leaders GM Mahammad Muradli and GM Aleksey Grebnev agreed to a quick, uneventful draw in Friday night's fourth round of the 25th Dubai Open Chess Tournament at the Dubai Chess and Culture Club. The three grandmasters have 3.5 points each and are joined in a five-way tie at the top by Indian players IM Rohith Krishna and GM Bharath Subramaniyam. Sarin, who was held to a draw by Krishna in the third round, repulsed a daring attack against his king by Israel's GM Yair Parkhov in securing the win. The Indian top-seed maintained a solid grip of the position and was poised to win material when Parkhov launched a kingside offensive punctuated by a rook sacrifice. Sarin did not have problems diffusing the attack and converting into an endgame where he was a piece up.
Hindustan Times
25-04-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Court refuses bail to Bengaluru company COO in tramadol smuggling case
MUMBAI: A special Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) court on April 8, rejected the bail plea of the chief operating officer of a Bangalore-based company, who was arrested by the customs department for allegedly attempting to smuggle around one million tramadol tablets worth ₹21 crore to Sudan in February 2023. The consignment was intercepted by the customs department before it could be shipped to a pharmacy firm in Juba, South Sudan. This is the fourth bail plea filed by the 49-year-old COO of M/s First Wealth Solutions, Gudipati Subramaniyam. The firm had allegedly mis-declared the banned psychotropic substance as Tamol-X-225, a calcium carbonate tablet and was trying to smuggle it abroad, but the central intelligence unit of the customs department intercepted and seized the shipment. On examination of the drug substance at the Air Cargo Complex in Sahar, reports declared it as tramadol. As per the prosecution, Subramaniyam attempted to export the mis-declared tramadol tablets earlier as well. The COO had sought bail contending that there were irregularities in terms of the procedures followed to examine the seized drugs. He stated that as per section 52 A of the NDPS act, the magistrate is required to certify photographs and sign on the samples of the seized materials. Gudipati alleged that there was a violation of the said section and that the samples were not signed by the magistrate and argued that in such a case, he was entitled to be released on bail. To this, the court observed that any procedural irregularity under section 52 A of NDPS Act would not entitle him to be released on bail or make the entire evidence collected during the course of investigation inadmissible. 'As earlier bail applications of the accused were rejected by the trial Court till Apex Court observing that, applicant along with co-accused were acting pursuant to their criminal conspiracy to export Tramadol to Sudan without export authorization', observed special judge CS Datir while rejecting Subramaniya's bail plea. The judgement further added that there was no gross violation of any section of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substance Act, 1985 as alleged by the accused. Additionally, the court has stated that the criminal activities and the conspiracy of the applicant has been established prima-facie.
