From the electrifying victory of the Indian cricket team in the recent T20 series to the rising star power of young badminton sensations, India's sporting landscape is ablaze with action! This week alone saw record-breaking performances in the Pro Kabaddi League, showcasing the nation's unwavering passion for indigenous sports. The upcoming Asian Games are generating immense anticipation, with athletes across disciplines sharpening their skills and aiming for glory on the international stage. We delve into the crucial role of sports sponsorships in nurturing talent and boosting India's sporting infrastructure. Furthermore, debates rage on about the future of cricket's dominance in India's sporting ecosystem, with other sports like hockey and football vying for increased attention and investment. Stay updated on all the latest scores, match analyses, and exclusive interviews with your favorite athletes. Explore the dynamic world of Indian sports—from the bustling stadiums to the quiet dedication of rising stars—right here. Discover the stories that shape the nation’s sporting spirit and witness the unfolding drama of the sporting year.
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra will face off against Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem for the first time since the Paris Olympics 2024 in the Silesia Diamond League 2025, which will take place in Poland on August 16. At the Olympics last year, Nadeem won the gold medal with an Olympic record-shattering throw of 92.97m, whereas Chopra clinched a silver medal. The official list for the Silesia Diamond League 2025 is yet to be announced, but the organisers have confirmed that both Chopra and Nadeem will participate in the upcoming event. "Neeraj Chopra will face Arshad Nadeem. The Indian-Pakistani battle awaiting the Polish fans will be the first opportunity for revenge after the Paris Olympics," the statement said as quoted by Olympis.com. Speaking about Chopra's recent performance in the sport of javelin throw, Chopra took the top honours in the inaugural edition of the Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025, a competition named after him at Sri Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium in Bengaluru earlier on July 5. Earlier, World Athletics updated the rankings, increasing Neeraj's points to 1,445 compared to Peters' tally of 1,431, according to Olympics.com. Also, Pakistan's Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem sits at number four with 1,370 points to his name. Neeraj lost his top spot to Peters back in September 2024, just shortly after the Paris Olympics, where he attained a silver medal with a throw of 89.45, and Peters took home the bronze. The year 2025 has been incredible for Neeraj, as he kickstarted with a win at the Potch Invitational in Potchefstroom, South Africa, in April and followed it up with a very special second-place finish at Doha Diamond League, where he crossed the 90-metre mark for the first time ever with a throw of 90.23 m. He also went on to secure a second spot in the Janusz Kusocinski Memorial in Poland later that month and resumed his winning ways with back-to-back titles at Paris Diamond League and Ostrava Golden Spike this month, with best efforts of 88.16 m and 85.29 m. (ANI) (This content is sourced from a syndicated feed and is published as received. The Tribune assumes no responsibility or liability for its accuracy, completeness, or content.)
New Delhi [India], December 3 (ANI): Indian hockey player Jarmanpreet Singh said that the return of the Hockey India League (HIL) will help up-and-coming players learn more about the overseas players and would help India in ultimately securing the gold medal in Los Angeles 2028 Olympics. Jarmanpreet spoke to ANI about the return of the Hockey India League, team India winning the Paris Olympics 2024 bronze and the Asian Champions Trophy, the retirement of legendary goalkeeper PR Sreejesh etc. Speaking about the return of HIL, Jarmanpreet said to ANI, "Yes (if it will help Team India get LA 20 ...Read More >
Dehradun: Junior world champion Parth Rakesh Mane was shooting in a world of his own during the 10m air rifle final at the National Games, oblivious of the fact that the competition included two Paris Olympians and the 2022 world champion. After 10 shots, Mane jumped into the lead with 106.3 points. The 17-year-old had logged 10.6 or more in eight of his 10 shots to firmly put himself on course to clinch the gold medal. With a perfect 10.9 squeezed in between, he was more than two points ahead of second-placed Rudrankksh Patil (104.1). The steady domination continued till the end. Only once ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jul 3 (PTI) Double Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra on Thursday said shouldering the organisational responsibilities and managing his personal preparations at the same time were his biggest challenges ahead of the international javelin event that carries his name. The Neeraj Chopra Classic, which will have a top-class field, is set to take place at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium here on Saturday, and the ace athlete is coming after two highly competitive events in Paris and Ostrava, Czech Republic. The Ostrava Golden Spike competition was on June 24 while the Paris Diamond League was ...Read More >
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charged five individuals, including goldy Brar, in relation to the 2024 Gurugram club bombing plot, as revealed in a recently filed chargesheet. This case involves a conspiracy to bomb two clubs, aiming to disrupt communal harmony in Haryana, with the banned terrorist group Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) implicated. The NIA's investigation highlights the severity of the plot. Those charged include satinderjit Singh (Goldy Brar), Sachin Talian, Ankit, Bhavish, and Randeep Singh. News Directory 3 provides crucial updates on sensitive cases such ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 27 (PTI) On Wednesday, a fan expressed his wish to watch the inaugural NC Classic event, and Rs 2000 to cover his expenses. To his delight, the man on Friday received an all-expense paid trip to the tournament in Bengaluru from Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra. Chopra surprised the fan by offering him a full VVIP experience, including accommodation, for the event scheduled for July 5. Also Read | Neeraj Chopra's Heartwarming Gesture Goes Viral, Javelin Star Sponsors a Fan's 'Full VVIP Experience' and Accommodation for NC Classic in Bengaluru (See Post). Ranjith Kumar Ravichandr ...Read More >
Nagpur: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) established a comprehensive monitoring system to enhance the performance of the Indian track and field team for the 2026 Commonwealth and Asian Games.The 2026 Commonwealth Games are scheduled to take place from July 23 to August 2 in Glasgow, while the Asian Games will be held from September 19 to October 4 in Japan.Eleven months following the decentralisation of national coaching camps after the 2024 Paris Olympic Games held in France from July 26 to August 11, the results were promising at the Gumi Asian Athletics Championships in South Korea, ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India] July 4 (ANI): The inaugural edition of the 'Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025' is set to bring together a stellar line-up of world-class javelin talent from India and across the globe. Scheduled for July 5, 2025, at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, the event marks a significant milestone in Indian athletics. Also Read | Highest Test Scores In An Innings: From Brian Lara To David Warner, A Look at Top 10 Highest Individual Scores in History of Longest Format of Cricket. As a World Athletics-sanctioned Gold-level meet, the 'Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025' will be I ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 4 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian government has come under pressure over its decision to allow the men's hockey team of Pakistan to participate in the upcoming Asia Cup in Rajgir in Bihar. Many people, including some current and former sports administrators, have urged the government to rescind its decision and to deny the Pakistan team visas to visit India. It is apparent that they have tried to ignore the impact denial of participation of a team due to political reasons, which goes against the Olympic charter, will have on the country hosting sporting events in the future. Those ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): Paris Olympics bronze medallist Sarabjot Singh and Swapnil Kushale, along with shooter Sift Kaur Samra expressed their delight as India is set to witness its first-ever franchise league in sport shooting, tentatively named the Shooting League of India (SLI) organised by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) which will take place later this year from November 24 to December 7. The proposal, put forward by NRAI President Kalikesh Narayana Singh Deo, has been approved by the Governing Body, the national federation's highest decision-making authority. Sp ...Read More >
Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) [India], June 8 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh governor S. Abdul Nazeer congratulated reigning Asian champion and Olympian Jyothi Yarraji on winning the gold medal in an impressive 12.99 seconds time in the women's 100m hurdles at the Taiwan Athletics Open 2025 in Taipei. Jyothi Yarraji continued her scorching form this season after she scripted a victory in the women's 100m hurdles as India bagged six gold medals on the opening day of the Taiwan Athletics Open 2025 in Chinese Taipei on Saturday. Also Read | India National Cricket Team Kicks Off Intense Training Ahead of F ...Read More >
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has issued a strongly worded wake-up call to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), even as an Indian delegation made a formal pitch to host the 2036 Olympics. Amid longstanding allegations of mismanagement and corruption within India's sports bodies, the IOC flagged concerns over governance issues in the IOA, the country's rampant doping problem, and its underwhelming Olympic performance. According to a report in The Indian Express, the global body told the Indian delegation in candid terms that while India could continue preparing its bid to host a ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) The global royalty of Rifle/Pistol sport shooting, is set to descend on one of its most hallowed turfs Munich's Olympic Shooting range for the third International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup (Rifle/Pistol) stage, set for June 10-15. A massive 695 athletes, among them a constellation of Olympic and World champions and legends of the sport from 78 countries, will make feature in Munich World Cup. There are 10 finals on the roster and competitions begin on Tuesday. The season began with a double-header in South America where Indian Rifle and Pis ...Read More >
Dehradun/Haldwani, Jan 31 (PTI) Karnataka's 14-year-old swimming sensation Dhinidhi Desinghu clinched her fourth gold, while weightlifters continued to impress with Manipur's Bindyarani Devi smashing a national record on a day when the tiny northeastern state jumped to the top of medal tally at the National Games on Friday. A sporting powerhouse despite its small size, Manipur moved up two rungs after winning eight medals, including a gold each from weightlifting and wushu, for a total of 19 (9 gold, 7 silver, 3 bronze). Services, though, were close on the heels of Manipur with just one less ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jun 6 (PTI) Poland's Martin Konecny replaced Asian Games bronze medallist Genki Dean of Japan as the organisers on Friday confirmed the 12-man entry list for the rescheduled Neeraj Chopra Classic international javelin event, to be held on July 5. India's first-ever international javelin competition, originally slated for May 24, was postponed due to military tensions between India and Pakistan last month. Organised by double Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra in collaboration with JSW Sports and sanctioned by the Athletics Federation of India (AFI), the event will feature a world-cla ...Read More >
Neeraj Chopra's invitational javelin event - NC Classic 2025 - has been rescheduled to be held on July 5 in Bengaluru, organisers JSW Sports confirmed on Tuesday. The NC Classic was postponed from its original May 24 date last month due to the India-Pakistan cross-border conflict last month. Some of the world's top stars are set to line up for the event at the Kanteerava Stadium next month. Former World Champions Anderson Peters and Julius Yego, as well as Rio 2016 champion Thomas Rohler, were a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Indian equestrian Anush Agarwalla on Thursday announced the retirement of his long-time horse Sir Caramello with whom he competed at the Paris Olympics. The 25-year-old Agarwalla had become the first rider from India to compete in the Dressage event at the Olympic Games. They had finished ninth in Group E in Paris, missing out on making the medal round. "Thank you Sir Caramello for being more than just a horse for me - my partner, my strength, and most importantly, my friend," Agarwalla wrote on social media in an emotional post. "You carried not only my dreams, but the dreams o ...Read More >
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 27 (ANI): Following the Asian Athletics Championship 2025 success at Gumi, South Korea, Olympian Avinash Sable said that he is now preparing himself for the upcoming World Championship, which will take place later this year in September. Sable spoke to ANI at the newly opened Sports Authority of India (SAI) centre in Bengaluru. Speaking to ANI, Sable said, 'It's been 7-8 months since I took a break after the Olympics. I have focused on what I thought would be good in the Olympics. Right now, I am preparing for the World Championships in September. I have p ...Read More >
GENEVA -- India's push toward winning the 2036 Olympics hosting contest seemed to stall a little on Thursday in the first big decision of Kirsty Coventry's IOC presidency. Coventry paused the fast tracking of a preferred bidder -- a signature policy of her predecessor and mentor Thomas Bach -- in a concession to International Olympic Committee members who have wanted more say in decisions under new leadership. "Members want to be engaged more in the process" of picking Olympic hosts, Coventry acknowledged, citing "overwhelming support" at meetings this week to stop and review how it is done ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025 event is starting from July 5 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru. This is India's first international javelin throw competition. The event was earlier scheduled to be held at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula, which is in Neeraj's home state of Haryana. But due to problems with floodlights there, the event was shifted to Bengaluru. Let us tell you about the complete schedule and other important things of this tournament. The Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025 event will start from July 5 at 7 pm Indian time. This tournament will be played at the ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Jan 8 (PTI) Long-jump great Anju Bobby George was on Wednesday named chairperson of the Athletics Federation of India's nine-strong athletes commission that features six women with javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra being its most prominent male member. The other women in the new panel are runner Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, discus thrower Krishna Poonia, hurdler MD Valsamma, steeplechaser Sudha Singh and runner Sunita Rani. George, a 2003 world championships bronze-winner, is also a senior vice president in the AFI. Also Read | FC Goa vs Hyderabad FC, ISL 2024-25 Live Streaming Online on J ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Thursday took strong action against the police officers allegedly responsible for the Bengaluru stampede, suspending several high-ranking officials, including the city's police commissioner. Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah also announced a one-man commission to probe the lapses that triggered the deadly stampede. "Cubbon Park Police Station police inspector, station house master, station house officer, ACP, Central Division DCP, cricket stadium in-charge, additional commissioner of police, commissioner of police have been susp ...Read More >
Mumbai, June 8 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday debunked all allegations made by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about rigging and match-fixing in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly elections. In his articles titled 'Those Rejected by the People Deny the Mandate', published in the same three newspapers where Gandhi's write-ups appeared, CM Fadnavis advised the Congress MP to "accept defeat, introspect on where you went wrong, why your connect with the people is lacking, and what needs to be done." He taunted Gandhi, saying that the latter was preparing excuses for "defeats ...Read More >
Dehradun, June 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympian and reigning mixed team pistol World Champion Esha Singh, was among the three winners on Day Three of the National Selection Trials 3 & 4 for Group A Rifle and Pistol shooters, currently underway here at the Trishul Shooting range in the Uttarakhand capital. While Telangana's Esha won the 25m pistol women T3 competition, Kerala's Vidarsa Vinod took the 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) T4 honours, and Maharashtra's Parth Rakesh Mane, won the 10m air rifle men T4 title, in what was another day of intense competition among the best rifle and pistol shooters ...Read More >
TELANGANA: Two-time World Champion Nikhat Zareen, Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain, and former World Youth Champion Ankushita Boro will headline the Elite Women's Boxing Tournament set to begin on 27 June at the Saroornagar Indoor Stadium in Telangana. The five-day event, which runs until 1 July, will see India's top female boxers vying for national glory and selection into the elite national camp in Patiala. The tournament is organised by the Telangana Boxing Federation under the aegis of the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) and the Sports Authority of Telangana. Boxers from 15 un ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Jun 27 (PTI) Fit again after recovering from a nagging calf injury that plagued him for over a year, India's premier 3000m steeplechaser Avinash Sable has his sights firmly set on bettering his personal best in the upcoming meets, the foremost being the World Championship in September. The reigning Asian Games champion has been undergoing high altitude training in Ooty and also sharpening his form at the Sports Authority of India's Southern Centre here this season. "Last year was not good, it didn't even look like I'll be able to perform well. But this year I am competing in the D ...Read More >
Gurgaon: MCG additional commissioner Yash Jaluka directed bulk waste generators (BWG) across the city to ensure proper disposal of waste by private agencies who are assisting them. Giving these instructions in a meeting held on Friday, he said it is often observed that BWGs hand over their waste to private agencies, which only sort valuable items and dump the remaining waste on roads, drains, vacant land or public places. This, he said, not only affects cleanliness of the city but also poses a threat to public health."Under the Solid Waste Management Rules-2016, it is the legal and moral respo ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): India's javelin star Kishore Jena has been ruled out of the inaugural edition of the Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025 due to an ankle injury, with Yashvir Singh coming in as his replacement in the final line-up. "Kishore Jena has been ruled out of the Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025 due to an ankle injury. Yashvir Singh has been named as his replacement in the final lineup," Neeraj Chopra Classic said in a statement. Also Read | ZIM vs SA 1st Test 2025 Day 3 Stumps: Visitors Set Target of 537 Riding on Wiaan Mulder's Century, Hosts 32/1 at End of Day's Play. Yashvir a ...Read More >
New Delhi, June 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Brett Lee has responded to encouraging words from India's two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra, who said the former Australian cricketer could be a good javelin thrower. In a freewheeling interview with JioStar, the official broadcaster of the most significant events of his season - the Neeraj Chopra Classic 2025, the Tokyo Olympic Games gold medallist said Brett Lee could be a good javelin thrower. Chopra won a silver medal in the javelin throw event in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. "I have heard that Brett Lee was a javelin thrower. I think he cou ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): The fit India movement took a significant stride towards a healthier and greener India with the launch of the 'Fit India Cycling Drive' on Tuesday morning at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi, according to a release from the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. The event was flagged off by Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Mansukh Mandaviya, in the presence of Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, Raksha Nikhil Khadse, MP Tejasvi Surya, as well as elite athletes, including Paris Paralympics bronze medalist Simran Sharm ...Read More >
On a flatter course and in cooler weather, a competitive field, including in-form defending champions Daniel Ebenyo and Sutume Kebede, poses a threat to event records of the Tata Steel World 25K Kolkata, to be held here on Sunday. Ebenyo and Sutume are keen to run fast and lower their event records, 1:11.13 and 1:18:47, in men's and women's events, respectively and claim the winner's purse of $15,000 each apart from the record bonus of $5,000. Apart from the return of the defending champions fo ...Read More >