Kolkata, Aug 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) I-League side Shillong Lajong FC will kick off the knockout quarterfinals stage of the 134th Durand Cup football tournament with a clash against Indian Navy FT at the Jawahar Lal Nehru (JLN) Stadium in Shillong on Saturday (August 16). As per the draw unveiled by the Durand Cup Organising Committee (DCOC), the eagerly awaited quarterfinal fixtures of the 134th Durand Cup will be played across four cities on August 16 and 17. A few hours after Shillong Lajong ba...Read More
Kohima, August 13 (MExN): In a proud moment for Nagaland cricket, three players from the state -- Jonathan Rongsen, Sedezhalie Rupreo, and Hem Bahadur Chetri -- have been selected to represent the NorthEast Zone in the upcoming Duleep Trophy 2025-26. According to the Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA), Mowalong Kichu will also travel with the squad as the team physio, ensuring players remain in peak condition throughout the tournament. The Duleep Trophy, one of India's premier domestic first-c...Read More
Chennai: GM Karthikeyan Murali lit up Round 7 of the 2025 Chennai Grandmasters Chess Tournament with a stunning win over GM Vidit Gujrathi, prevailing with the black pieces after a gritty battle. Meanwhile, German GM Vincent Keymer strengthened his grip on the title race with a clinical win against American GM Awonder Liang, leaving the former 1.5 points ahead of his closest competitors, Liang included. Now in its third year, the Chennai Grandmasters 2025 is India's strongest classical chess ev...Read More
Mumbai, August 12: Australian veteran David Warner, who is still active in the T20 circuit following retirement from international cricket, overtook Indian legend Virat Kohli to become the fifth-highest run-getter in T20s during The Hundred competition. Let us look at top five T20 batters. David Warner Overtakes Virat Kohli To Become Fifth-Highest Run-Getter in T20 Cricket, Achieves Feat During London Spirit vs Manchester Originals The Hundred 2025 Match. The top run-getter in T20s is West Indi...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Former India wicketkeeper-batter Parthiv Patel believes Test skipper Shubman Gill answered all challenges and questions through his prolific run-scoring spree during the recently drawn Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series against England. Gill's first assignment as India's Test captain ended in the visitors' forcing the scoreline to be at 2-2 in the five-match series in England. He was also the leading run scorer in the series, finishing with a whopping 754 runs in...Read More
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 6 (ANI): Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) Season 7 champions Bengal Warriorz will aim to return to the PKL Season 12 Playoffs after four consecutive editions of league stage exits, according to a release from PKL.Ahead of Season 12, the Warriorz parted ways with former head coach Prashant Surve after finishing 10th last season with just five wins in 22 matches. They appointed former India international and gold medal-winning coach Naveen Kumar, who led Telugu Titans ...Read More
Robert Fleming, the chairman of the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey committee for the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" gold medal-winning team at the Lake Placid Olympics, died on July 31. He was 97. Fleming was the chairman of the Olympic ice hockey committee for five Olympics, as well as serving as the vice president of USA Hockey from 1970-81. He was a director for USA Hockey for 33 years. He received the Lester Patrick Award twice -- once for his work with the 1980 team and once for individual outstanding se...Read More
Kolkata: East Bengal FC take on in-form Namdhari FC at the Salt Lake Stadium on Wednesday with a place in the Durand Cup quarterfinals at stake. Namdhari under Argentine coach Fernando Capobianco are currently topping Group A with back-to-back wins. East Bengal, on the other hand, have played only once, starting their campaign with a comfortable 5-0 rout of South United FC. Six group winners and two second-best teams will advance to the quarterfinals. However, given the tournament's format, head...Read More
Ireland spinner Aimee Maguire has been cleared to resume bowling in international cricket. The 18-year-old was suspended in February after the sport's authorities ruled her bowling action to be illegal in Ireland's one-day international against India in Rajkot on 10 January. Maguire then underwent a bowling assessment at the ICC-accredited testing centre at Loughborough, England, on 21 January. The ICC statement said that the bowling assessment found that the "amount of elbow extension in her...Read More
Bhubaneswar / Keonjhar (Odisha) [India], August 6: Sweta Rani Mahanta of Jindal Sports Hostel was felicitated by Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Mohan Charan Majhi for winning Bronze Medal in the 48 kg category at the 12th Asian Junior Wushu Championship held in China. The Chief Minister felicitated her during the closing ceremony of the 64th Senior Men's Inter-District Football Championship Final for the Sahani Cup, held at Keonjhar Stadium. Also Read | 'Come via Proper Channel': Election Commissi...Read More
CHENNAI: The Chennai Grand Masters chess tournament, featuring some well-established Indian and international names, has been postponed to Thursday after a fire broke out at the event's venue, the Hyatt Regency hotel. The third edition of the competition was scheduled to start on Wednesday. "Fire at Hotel Hyatt Regency last night, the venue of the Chennai GM. All the players are safe and shifted to another hotel nearby. Tournament postponed by a day," wrote Indian GM and tournament director Sr...Read More
New Delhi: When the fifth and final Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy ended on Monday, all of India was in a state of collective euphoria. When Mohammed Siraj took the final wicket and jumped into the Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired celebration, many in the country would have jumped with him. And among those many would have been the usually grumpy India coach Gautam Gambhir too. It was a much needed result for the team and for Gambhir, especially after the series' against New Zealand (where Indi...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): Purani Dilli 6 skipper Vansh Bedi considers the opportunity to lead the side as a gift from the universe. The young batter said it is a new experience and a proud moment for him to lead a side in the ongoing season 2 of the Delhi Premier League (DPL). Last week, Purani Dilli 6 appointed Vansh Bedi as the captain of the side for the ongoing season of DPL being played here at the iconic Arun Jaitley Stadium in the capital. It is a new experience and a proud mom...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): Outer Delhi Warriors (ODW) made a spirited debut in the Delhi Premier League (DPL) 2025 against fellow newcomers New Delhi Tigers at the iconic Arun Jaitley Stadium. Despite falling short in the end, there were plenty of positives for ODW to take forward, most notably, an exceptional five-wicket haul from pacer Anshuman Hooda in his very first outing this season, as per a press release from Outer Delhi Warriors. Also Read | AUS vs SA 2025: Australia Batter Mi...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): Outer Delhi Warriors (ODW) made a spirited debut in the Delhi Premier League (DPL) 2025 against fellow newcomers New Delhi Tigers at the iconic Arun Jaitley Stadium. Despite falling short in the end, there were plenty of positives for ODW to take forward, most notably, an exceptional five-wicket haul from pacer Anshuman Hooda in his very first outing this season, as per a press release from Outer Delhi Warriors. ODW captain Siddhant Sharma won the toss and ch...Read More
IMAGE: Abdulla Aboobacker finished ahead of South Korea's Yu Gyumin and Kim Jang-woo. Photograph: Abdulla Aboobacker/Instagram Former Asian-level champion Abdulla Aboobacker fended off his competitors by mere centimetres as he secured the men's triple jump title at the Qosanov Memorial 2025 athletics meet, being held in Kazakhstan on Sunday. Aboobacker, also a Commonwealth Games silver medalist, secured the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze label (category C) athletics meet with the best...Read More
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Monday backed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for calling out the Delhi police for allegedly referring to Bengali as a Bangladeshi language, labelling it a "direct insult to the very language in which the National Anthem is composed." Stalin said such remarks were not "inadvertent errors" but a reflection of a regime that undermines India's linguistic diversity. "The Delhi Police, under the Union Home Ministry, has described Bengali as...Read More
New Delhi: The three-member fact-finding commission appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has submitted its report on the Boxing Federation of India (BFI), urging the immediate "termination" of the interim committee endorsed by World Boxing and led by Ajay Singh until Saturday, citing violations of the national sports code, 2011.The report declared that decisions made by the panel since its establishment on April 7, 2025, are "null and void".TOI has obtained a three-page letter by IO...Read More
The thrilling Delhi Premier League (DPL 2025) continues with Central Delhi Kings (CDK) taking on New Delhi Tigers (NDT). Both sides will lock horns at the renowned Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Monday, August 4. The Jonty Sidhu-led Kings played their season opener against North Delhi Strikers and registered a clinical eight-wicket win. Opting to field first, Kings restricted the opposition to 174-7 in their allotted 20 overs. In the chase, it was Yash Dhull's unbeaten ton that sealed the gam...Read More
Jasprit Bumrah, India's bowling spearhead, will miss the September 9-28 Asia Cup, BCCI sources told NDTV. Bumrah featured in only three of the five Tests in the ongoing Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy as part of his workload management. Sources cited the same reason behind Bumrah missing the Asia Cup, where India is scheduled to play Pakistan on September 14 - the first clash between the archrivals after recent political and border tensions resulted in a diplomatic stand-off. Pace spearhead Jasprit B...Read More
Former South African pacer Dale Steyn hailed AB de Villiers for his fine performances in the recently concluded World Championship of Legends (WCL), saying that the 41-year-old is "better than half the internationals at the IPL". De Villiers lit up the UK crowd with his performances in the WCL, which concluded with South Africa Champions lifting the title after beating Pakistan Champions in the finals on Saturday. During the title clash, De Villiers made an unbeaten 120* in 60 balls, with 12 fou...Read More
Hyderabad: With a vision to transform Telangana into a cradle of Olympic champions, chief minister A Revanth Reddy will launch the state's new sports policy at the Telangana Sports Conclave on Saturday at HICC, Hi-Tec City.The conclave will see participation from some of India's most celebrated sportspersons, including Gagan Narang, Pullela Gopichand, and Abhinav Bindra.As part of the state's broader efforts to revamp its sporting ecosystem, the govt will sign several key MoUs, notably with FIFA...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 4 (ANI): As the Fifth Test enters its fifth day with England needing 35 runs with four wickets in hand after the fourth day was delayed by rain, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated that he missed Virat Kohli during this series, but never as much as in this Test match and questioned Is it too late to call him out of retirement? Despite having England at 106/3 at one point while defending 374, India let the match slip away following a counter-attacking stand by Joe Root an...Read More
New Delhi Tigers (Playing XI): Dhruv Kaushik, Shivam Gupta(w), Himmat Singh(c), Vaibhav Rawal, Keshav Dalal, Parth Bali, Aryan Dalal, Deepak Punia, Rahul Dagar, Pankaj Jaswal, Prince Yadav Outer Delhi Warriors (Playing XI): Siddhant Sharma(c), Priyansh Arya, Sanat Sangwan, Shreshth Yadav, Keshav Dabas, Harsh Tyagi, Shivam Sharma, Dhruv Singh(w), Suyash Sharma, Kamal Bairwa, Ashwin Hooda Outer Delhi Warriors have won the toss and have opted to field Squads: New Delhi Tigers Squad: Aryan Dalal...Read More
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. The 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' initiative, aimed at promoting fitness and healthy living, was organised in Delhi, drawing enthusiastic participation from athletes and fitness enthusiasts. New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): The 'Fit India Sundays on Cycle' initiative, aimed at promoting fitness and healthy living, was organised in Delhi, drawing enthusiastic participation from athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Manoj Singh, a Player Develop...Read More
There was no dearth of support from the stands as home side Bodoland FC curved out a 2-1 victory over Karbi Anglong Morning Star FC -- another club from the Assam hinterland -- in their Durand Cup clash at SAI Stadium in Kokrajhar on Thursday.Having failed to make it out of the group stage in their debut season last year, Bodoland began their campaign at the 134th edition of the tournament with a win and three points that took them to the second spot on the Group D table, with the same points an...Read More
Lucknow: Umar Ansari, the younger son of gangster-turned-politician late Mukhtar Ansari, was arrested by Ghazipur police from Darul Shafa area of Lucknow late Sunday night.The arrest was made following the registration of a criminal case against him for forgery in Ghazipur. He was taken into custody and transported to Ghazipur for further proceedings.Umar Ansari was booked for allegedly attempting to fraudulently reclaim a property that had been confiscated under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and ...Read More
Kokrajhar (Assam) [India], August 4 (ANI): Punjab FC began their 134th Indian Oil Durand Cup campaign with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Karbi Anglong Morning Star FC (KAMSFC), here at the SAI Stadium. In a closely contested Group D tie, KAMSFC stunned the ISL side with a 69th-minute goal from Joseph Olaleye, before Pramveer (73) and Konsam Sanathoi Singh (90+2) turned the game around in the final quarter of the match and gave the Shers a winning start to their campaign, as per a press release fr...Read More
New Delhi, Aug 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was yet another run-filled spectacle as the Delhi Premier League (DPL) 2025 clash between Outer Delhi Warriors and New Delhi Tigers treated fans to explosive batting and thrilling momentum shifts at the Arun Jaitley Stadium here on Sunday. Put in to bat first, New Delhi Tigers posted a massive target of 222/7 in 20 overs and then came back to restrict Outer Delhi Warriors to 182/4 for a 40-run victory. New Delhi Tigers overcame an early setback when opener ...Read More
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): It was yet another run-filled spectacle at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Sunday as the DPL 2025 clash between Outer Delhi Warriors and New Delhi Tigers treated fans to explosive batting and thrilling momentum shifts. Put in to bat first, New Delhi Tigers overcame an early setback when opener Dhruv Kaushik departed for 5 off 6. However, Shivam Gupta and skipper Himmat Singh rose to the occasion, stitching together a brilliant 164-run stand for the second wicket, ...Read More