Vishwanathan Anand's Indian citizenship questioned

According to reports, World chess champion Anand was denied an honorary doctorate degree because the authorities could not get approval from the government who is confused over his citizenship.

The University of Hyderabad decided in 2009 to award Anand and four others but the Union human resource development ministry raised questions about Anand's citizenship and failed to process documents that would have allowed the university to hand over to Anand an honorary doctoral degree.

The government has in confusion whether Anand is Indian or Spanish as he currently lives in Spain

This left Anand's wife Aruna furious and has been sending mails to the organizers of the ongoing International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Hyderabad.

Anand is a special guest at the ICM, a quadrennial mammoth math event, where he will play chess simultaneously against 40 mathematicians today.