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IMAGE: Indian table tennis has a bright future despite the recent retirement of the legendary Sharath Kamal, said Dronacharya awardee coach Sandeep Gupta. Photograph: ANI Photo A rich talent pool of players promises a bright future for Indian table tennis despite the recent retirement of stalwart Sharath Kamal, said Dronacharya awardee coach Sandeep Gupta on Monday. Gupta is currently busy with the conduct of the National Ranking Table Tennis Championship which has returned to Delhi after a lo ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Friday asked BJP leader Rajiv Babbar to consider closing the defamation case against Congress MP Shashi Tharoor over his statement comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a scorpion. A division bench of justices MM Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh verbally remarked "let us close all these things. Why get so touchy about all this? This way, administrators and judges come in the same group and have thick skin". The development took place during the resumed hearing of a ...Read More >
Pune, Aug 1 (PTI) An irate mob vandalised properties and indulged in arson in Yavat in Pune's Daund tehsil on Friday afternoon over an objectionable post allegedly uploaded on social media by a youth from a different community, police officials said. IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has been posted for representational purposes only. Photograph: / Rediff.com A motorcycle was set ablaze and a bakery was damaged, the officials said, adding teargas shells had to be lobbed to bring the situation ...Read More >
IMAGE: India could consider bringing in left-arm wrist spinner for the must-win fourth Test against England at Old Trafford. Photograph: BCCI Former England captain Michael Atherton has suggested India could include three spinners for the must-win fourth Test against England at Manchester, starting on July 23. Atherton pointed out that the Old Trafford pitches have offered limited assistance to seamers in recent years and wrist spinners generally come into play as the match progresses. He bel ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Koneru Humpy got the better of Alexandra Kosteniuk of Switzerland with a 1.5-0.5 margin to enter the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Women's Chess Cup. Photograph: FIDE/X Grandmasters Koneru Humpy, D Harika and R Vaishali and International Master Divya Deshmukh stormed into the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Women's Chess Cup, scripting history as India became the first country to have four players in the tournament's last-eight stage. All four women won their tiebreaks to adva ...Read More >
'India should look to add an extra bowler' IMAGE: Ajinkya Rahane has a piece of advice for head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Shubman Gill- play an extra bowler in the fourth Test at Old Trafford. Photograph: BCCI/X As India gear up for the fourth Test at Old Trafford, former captain Ajinkya Rahane has raised a tactical alarm: the team's all-rounder-heavy approach might be hurting their chances. His solution? A fourth specialist bowler -- even if it comes at the cost of batting depth. Now ...Read More >
IMAGE: 'India's bowling attack is currently superior to England's'. Photograph: ICC/X Former India skipper Mohammed Azharuddin praised the Indian team's performance in the second Test against England in Birmingham. Azharuddin also highlighted the expected positive impact of Jasprit Bumrah's return, stating that India's bowling attack is currently superior to England's. Speaking to ANI, Azharuddin said, "They played well in Birmingham. With that confidence, the team must be well settled... Whe ...Read More >
IMAGE: The India women's team of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and Prithika outclassed Indonesia 230-226 in the semi-finals of the Archery World Cup in Madrid. Photograph: World Archery/Instagram India were assured of at least one medal at Stage 4 of the Archery World Cup after the compound women's team stormed into the final, even as the men's team bowed out in the quarter-finals, in Madrid, on Wednesday. The top-seeded women's trio of Jyothi Surekha Vennam, Parneet Kaur and the 16-year ...Read More >
IMAGE: Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami welcomed the 'genuine heroes' who inspire Indians around the world. Photograph and video: BCCI/X The Indian women's cricket team, which is in England for T20I and ODI series, received a rousing welcome at a community gathering at the India House in London. The Indian team and the support staff led by head coach Amol Muzumdar gathered on the grounds of the High Commission of India on Saturday evening. Indian High Commissioner to the U ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Shubman Gill kisses his helmet and celebrates his century on Day 4 of the 2nd Test at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images via Reuters Indian skipper Shubman Gill's dreamy, record-breaking continued to tire out bowlers and statisticians alike as he became only the second Indian batter to score a double century and a century in the same Test and overall ninth batter to do so, joining legends like Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Graham Gooch, Kumar Sangakkara am ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Vaibhav Suryavanshi celebrates after completing their century against England in the 4th Youth One Day match at New Road, Worcester, Britain on Saturday. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images via Reuters Fourteen-year-old Indian batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored his first century in an Under-19 one-day international on Saturday, smashing 143 off 78 balls against England in Worcester. Suryavanshi, who was called up to India's U-19 squad after a standout performance in this year's ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Nupur defeated Turkey's Seyma Dustaz 5-0 to make it to the final. India's medal tally at the World Boxing Cup in Astana continued to swell with Nupur (80+kg) advancing to the final and Abhinash Jamwal (65kg) entering the semifinals on Friday. Nupur produced a dominant performance in her semifinal bout, defeating Turkey's Seyma Dustaz 5-0 to secure a spot in the women's 80+kg final. Earlier in the day, Abhinash impressed in the men's 65kg category, overcoming Rene Camacho of the ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Shubman Gill celebrates after reaching his double century against England at Edgbaston on Day 2 of the 2nd Test at Edgbaston, on Thursday. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images via Reuters Indian captain Shubman Gill hit a historic double ton (269) to propel India to a massive first innings total of 587 on Day 2 of the 2nd Test at Birmingham on Thursday. Gill became the first Indian to score more than 250 runs outside the Indian subcontinent, breaking Sachin Tendulkar's recor ...Read More >
IMAGE: India are scheduled to tour Bangladesh for a white-ball series in August. Photograph: Screengrab/X The India tour of Bangladesh, which was scheduled to be held in August, is likely to be cancelled because of the situation prevailing in the country over the last few months, sources in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said. India is supposed to play a three-match ODI series from August 17, which will then be followed by a three-match T20I series, which will begin from Augu ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Kidambi Srikanth is likely to face Chinese Taipei's top seed Chou Tien Chen in the quarterfinals of the Canada Open. Photograph: ANI Photo India's Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the men's singles quarterfinals at the Canada Open Super 300 badminton tournament with a straight-game win over Chinese Taipei's Wang Po-Wei in Calgary on Thursday. Srikanth, a 2021 World Championships silver medallist and the 2022 Thomas Cup winner, prevailed over World No. 71 Wang 21-19, 21-12. The In ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Sakshi beat Brazil's Tatiana Regina de Jesus Chagas to enter the semifinals of the World Boxing Cup in Astana, Kazakhstan. Photograph: Boxing Federation of India/X Hitesh Gulia and Sakshi assured India of two more medals after securing the semifinal spots at the World Boxing Cup in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday. Hitesh, a gold medallist from the Brazil leg earlier this year, delivered a dominant 5:0 win over Kazakhstan's Almaz Orozbekov in the men's 70kg quarterfinal, ensuring ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Yashasvi Jaiswal missed out on a century and a record on Wednesday but continued his golden run against England. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images via Reuters/ Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal fell just 10 runs short of breaking legendary batter Rahul Dravid's record of becoming the fastest to score 2,000 Test runs by an Indian. During the second Test at Edgbaston, Jaiswal needed 97 runs to reach the milestone in 39 innings, fastest by an Indian, going past Dravid, who took 40 ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Vaibhav Suryavanshi went all gun blazing in his knock against England under-19 on Wednesday. Photograph: Matthew Childs/ Action Images via Reuters/ Indian teen batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi fell just short of Rishabh Pant's record as he cracked a 20-ball half-century in the rain-affected third ODI between India Under-19 side and England Under-19 at Northampton on Wednesday. Pant holds the record for the fastest half-century for India in Under-19 ODI cricket when he smash ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's skipper Shubman Gill hoped that the worst is behind the team on the fielding front and the players can sight the ball better going ahead. Photograph: Paul Childs/Reuters The rapidly evolving behaviour of Dukes, including the ball going soft 40 overs onwards, has created a major challenge for the Shubman Gill-led India in England. Gill has been getting inputs from the likes of K L Rahul, Rishabh Pant and Ravindra Jadeja, who have been to England multiple times, on how the Dukes h ...Read More >
IMAGE: India were relying heavily on Bumrah for wickets and cutting the flow of runs in the first Test against England. Photograph: BCCI Former captain Mohammad Azharuddin said India should play left-arm wrist spinner Kuldeep Yadav in the Edgbaston Test against England to add more experience to their bowling attack and reduce the burden on pace talisman Jasprit Bumrah. Across the first Test at Leeds, which India lost by five wickets, the visitors were relying heavily on Bumrah for wickets and ...Read More >
IMAGE: India players celebrate winning their second T20 World Cup, after beating South Africa in the final in Barbados, on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Photograph: Ash Allen/Reuters It's one year since India's historic triumph in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Final and skipper Rohit Sharma reminisced on the thrilling victory against South Africa. India ended an 11-year-long ICC Trophy drought, beating South Africa by seven runs to claim the ICC T20 World Cup title for the second time on June 29 last ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 28 (PTI) The 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' slogan reverberated on the International Space Station as Prime Minister Narendra Modi told astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla that his space travel marked the beginning of a new era and was the first step towards Mission Gaganyaan, India's own human spaceflight project. "Shubhanshu, today you are the farthest from the land of India, but the closest to the hearts of every Indian," the prime minister told Shukla in an interaction through a video link fro ...Read More >
IMAGE: India currently sit last on the nine-team table with 10 points from 15 games. Photograph: Hockey India The Indian women's hockey team on Saturday lost 0-3 to China to slump to their seventh consecutive defeat in the European leg of the FIH Pro League in Berlin, and are staring at a possible relegation. After the defeat, India occupy the bottom place in the nine-team standings with 10 points from 15 games. England, who are playing Germany in back-to-back matches later on Saturday and on ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Ayush Shetty, seeded fourth, will face Kuan Lin Kuo of Chinese Taipei in the quarterfinals of the men's singles event at the US Open 2025 badminton tournament in Iowa. Photograph: BAI Media/X Ace Indian shuttlers Ayush Shetty and Tanvi Sharma marched into the quarterfinals of the US Open 2025 badminton tournament in Iowa after registering contrasting victories in their second-round fixtures. World No. 34 Ayush Shetty fought hard to get the better of compatriot and World No. 54 T ...Read More >
IMAGE: India rode on skipper Rohit Sharma's scintillating 41-ball 92 to beat Australia by 24 runs in their concluding Super Eights fixture and qualify for the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup unbeaten. Photograph: BCCI/X India's One-Day International skipper Rohit Sharma shared his thoughts on the rivalry between Men in Blue and Australia in recent ICC tournaments. Australia defeated India in the ICC 2023 ODI World Cup final by six wickets, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on November ...Read More >
IMAGE: India submitted a Letter of Intent to host the 2036 Games in October last year. Photograph: Grace Hollars/Reuters A decision on India's bid for the 2036 Olympics is set to take longer than expected as the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) new President Kirsty Coventry on Thursday announced a "pause" on the entire process and set up a working group to figure out the "appropriate time" to identify a future host. In an online press conference after taking over as the first woman and ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's vice-captain Rishabh Pant departs for England for the five-match Test series starting June 20. Photograph: BCCI/X The Shubman Gill-led Indian cricket team took off for England from Mumbai on Friday for a five-match Test series, part of the 2025-27 ICC World Test Championship cycle. The series, to commence on June 20, will be played at Headingley in Leeds, Edgbaston in Birmingham, Lord's and The Oval in London, and Old Trafford in Manchester. IMAGE: Shubman Gill will look to beg ...Read More >
IMAGE: Former India pacer Javagal Srinath will be the match referee for the World Test Championship final next month. Photograph: BCCI The Indian team may not have reached the World Test Championship final but former pacer Javagal Srinath will ensure the country's presence in the upcoming marquee clash by serving as its match referee with WTC debutant Nitin Menon doing duty as the fourth umpire. England's Richard Illingworth and Chris Gaffaney of New Zealand will be the on-field umpires in the ...Read More >
IMAGE: Hyderabad Toofans' Jacob Anderson scored the fastest goal in the Hockey India League history with a 20th second strike against Team Gonasika in Rourkela on Tuesday. Photograph: Hockey India League Jacob Anderson scored the fastest goal in the Hockey India League history, but it went in vain as the Hyderabad Toofans lost to Team Gonasika in the shootout in the HIL match in Rourkela on Tuesday. After Anderson's quickfire strike immediately after the start, Tim Brand (6th minute) and Amand ...Read More >
IMAGE: Assam sprinter Hima Das visited the Maha Kumbh on Sunday. Photograph: Hima Das/Instagram Star sprinter Hima Das visited the Maha Kumbh and took a dip in the holy waters of Ganga on Sunday. Assam's Hima visited Mahakumbh Nagar in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh along with her friends and sought blessings from her spiritual guru Keshav Das Ji Maharaj. IMAGE: The 45-day Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest religious gathering, began on January 13, 2025 on the banks of the Sangam in Prayagraj. Ph ...Read More >
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