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IANS staffer shortlisted for Indian sports award By Indo Asian News Service Mumbai, Aug 5 (IANS) Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) sports editor Qaiser Mohammad Ali is among the three shortlisted candidates in the 'Best of News Agencies' category for the Tata Indian Sports Journalism Awards 2006. The other two journalists are AFP sports editor Kuldip Lal and his colleague C. Rajshekhar Rao, the Sports Journalists' Federation of India (SJFI) said in a statement here Saturday. The awards will be announced and presented in Mumbai Thursday. The SJFI appointed a distinguished panel of judges in different categories. A record number of entries were received for the English category from all over the country and 300 images - another record -- for the photography awards, SJFI said. The panel of judges for English comprised V.K. Karthika, executive editor of Penguin Books India, Mukul Kesavan, teacher at Jamia Milia Islamia in New Delhi, and Joy Bhattacharya, senior vice-president (programming) of the National Geographic and The History Channel. Sharda Ugra of India Today (New Delhi) is the only nominee for the Indian Sports Writer of the Year Award in the magazine category and is assured of the prize. Hindustan Times' Kadambari Murali (New Delhi) and Dhiman Sarkar (Kolkata) have been nominated for the Indian Sports Writer of the Year in the newspaper category. The assessment of the photography awards was conducted at the Press Club, Mumbai, Saturday by an eminent panel consisting of Mehlli Gobhai, educated at Royal College of Art, London, Mahendra Singh, a well-known Bombay-based photographer whose work has appeared internationally, and Ranjit Hoskote, an art critic, poet and independent curator. Shortlisted candidates: English newspapers: News: Siddharth Saxena (Times of India, New Delhi), Dhiman Sarkar (Hindustan Times, Kolkata), Kadambari Murali (Hindustan Times, Kolkata) Feature: Kadambari Murali (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Shivani Naik (Indian Express, Mumbai), G.S.Vivek (Indian Express, New Delhi) Off-beat: Rahul Fernandes (Times of India, Mumbai), Shailendra Awasthi (Indian Express, Mumbai), Clayton Murzello (Mid-Day, Mumbai), Pradeep Vijayakar (Times of India, Mumbai), Avinash Iyer (Times of India, Mumbai) Interview (Q&A): Dhiman Sarkar (Hindustan Times, Kolkata), Clayton Murzello (Mid-Day, Mumbai), Bobilli Vijay (Times of India, Mumbai) Indian Sportswriter of the year (English newspapers): Kadambari Murali (Hindustan Times, New Delhi), Dhiman Sarkar (Hindustan Times, Kolkata) English magazines: Indian Sportswriter of the year: Feature: Sidharth Vaidyanathan (Cricinfo), Rahul Bhattacharya (Cricinfo), Sharda Ugra (India Today) Interview (Q&A): Anand Vasu (Cricinfo), Sharda Ugra (India Today), Neeru Bhatia (The Week) Indian Sportswriter of the Year (magazines): Sharda Ugra (India Today) Speciality category: Cricket: Sharda Ugra (India Today), Rahul Bhattacharya (Cricinfo), Sidhartha Vaidyanathan (Cricinfo) Tennis: Dhiman Sarkar (Hindustan Times, Kolkata), Akshay Sawai (Hindustan Times, Mumbai), Nirmal Shekar (The Hindu, Chennai) Football: Arup Chatterjee (Times of India, Kolkata) Dhiman Sarkar (Hindustan Times, Kolkata), Akshay Sawai (Hindustan Times, Mumbai) Any other Olympic Sport: Harpreet Kaur Lamba (Asian Age), New Delhi) Errol D'Cruz (Times of India, Pune), Vivek Mukherjee (Times of India, Chandigarh) Best of the web: Anand Vasu (Cricinfo) Deepti Patwardhan (Rediff.com), Sidharth Vaidyanathan (Cricinfo) Best of News Agencies: C. Rajshekhar Rao (AFP, New Delhi) Qaiser Mohammad Ali (IANS), Kuldip Pal (AFP, New Delhi) Photography: Portrait: Satish Bhate (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai), Ramesh Nair (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai), Ajay Aggarwal (Hindustan Times, New Delhi) Best action on the field: Prashant Nakhwe (Times of India, Mumbai), Manoj Patil (Hindustan Times, Mumbai), Ramesh Nair (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai) Best off the field: Vipin Pawar (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai), Natasha Hemrajani (Hindustan Times, Mumbai), Ritesh Uttamchandani (Hindustan Times, Mumbai) Indian Sports Photographer of the year 2006: Rajanish Kakade (Hindustan Times, Mumbai) Ramesh Nair (Daily News & Analysis, Mumbai), Ritesh Uttamchandani (Hindustan Times, Mumbai) Copyright Indo-Asian News Service -- Members of the ZESTMedia list exchange news and views about the media in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan. 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