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Batumi (Georgia), July 19 (UNI) In an extraordinary day for Indian chess, all four tiebreak matches in Round 4 of the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup were won by Indian players, who now make up half the quarterfinal lineup in the prestigious knockout event being held in Batumi. International Master Divya Deshmukh and Grandmaster Koneru Humpy were the first to secure their places in the last eight, clinching their matches in the 15-minute rapid games with identical 1.5-0.5 wins over Grandmasters Zhu ...Read More >
Kolkata: Bandhan Bank's net profit in the first quarter of FY 2026 recorded a 65% slump at Rs 372 crore compared with Rs 1,063 crore posted in the year-ago period. Partha Pratim Sengupta, MD and CEO of the bank, attributed the decline to stress in microfinance asset.Even though the bank's total business grew by 11% to Rs 2.8 lakh crore last year, a 119% rise in provisions due to write-offs and high slippages in the microfinance book brought its Q1 net profit down, Sengupta said. "The loan book c ...Read More >
Nagpur: World Junior No. 1 Divya Deshmukh and India's top three ranked players -- Koneru Humpy, D Harika and Vaishali Rameshbabu -- made it to the quarterfinals of the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup in Batumi, Georgia, on Friday. All four Indians confirmed their last eight berths through the tiebreak route played in the shorter rapid and blitz formats with different time controls.Playing an all-out attacking game became Divya's winning weapon against China's World No. 6 and experienced Grandmaster ...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 >
New Delhi, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) India's strong run at the FIDE Women's World Cup in Batumi took a dramatic turn on Thursday as all four Indian players in the Round of 16 were pushed into tiebreaks, setting up a high-stakes Friday in Georgia. The biggest twist came in the match between teenage sensation Divya Deshmukh and second-seeded Chinese star Zhu Jiner. Having pulled off a stunning upset in Game 1 on Wednesday, Divya needed only a draw with the black pieces in Game 2 to secure a spot i ...Read More >
Nagpur: D Harika and Vaishali Rameshbabu dominated the 10-minute time control of the rapid format to reach the fourth round of the top 16 players in the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup at Batumi, Georgia, on Monday.After playing a series of four draws, both Harika and Vaishali registered victories in similar fashion in the third-round tie-breaks. They joined India No.1 Koneru Humpy and reigning world junior champion Divya Deshmukh, as four Indian masters made the cut to the last 16. Vantika Agrawal ...Read More >
Patna, July 14 (UNI) In a major step towards igniting the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship across the state, Bihar Industries Minister Nitish Mishra launched the official Bihar Idea Festival Portal here today. Speaking at the event Mishra said Bihar Idea festival was not just an event but a revolution to make 'Samriddh Bihar'. He said that it will encourage the youth to take up entrepreneurship to solve the grassroot challenges of Bihar. He said that the youth will be sensitised and i ...Read More >
Nagpur: Vantika Agrawal stunned former world champion Anna Ushenina to become the fifth Indian to advance to the round of 32 in the FIDE Women's World Cup at Batumi, Georgia, on Friday.While Vantika played well with both her white and black pieces in the three tie-break matches played in the rapid and blitz format to join Koneru Humpy, Divya Deshmukh, Vaishali Rameshbabu, and D Harika in the third round, Padmini Rout and Priyanka K suffered losses in contrasting fashion to exit the World Cup.A d ...Read More >
Nagpur: A day after she won with her white pieces, Nagpur's International Master (IM) Divya Deshmukh played out a 37-move draw with Kesaria Mgeladze of Georgia to win the second round 1.5-0.5 and advance to the round of 32 in the FIDE Women's World Cup at Batumi on Thursday.While Divya advanced to the third round with a win and a draw, she will join India's most experienced Grandmaster Koneru Humpy, D Harika, and Vaishali Rameshbabu among the top 32 players remaining in the fray in the seven-rou ...Read More >
Srinagar, July 09: Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday said that Jammu & Kashmir's tourism sector is witnessing a strong revival, with a steady rise in the number of tourists visiting the Union Territory each day.Abdullah, while addressing reporters in West Bengal ahead of the Kolkata Tourism Fair, said, "Tourists are coming back to Kashmir in good numbers. The ongoingAmarnathYatra is proceeding smoothly with heavy footfall on both the Pahalgam and Baltal routes, he said."I spoke to severa ...Read More >
Nagpur: Reigning world junior champion and Nagpur's star chess master, Divya Deshmukh, started her campaign in the FIDE Women's World Cup on a thumping note in Batumi, Georgia, on Wednesday. As the 15th seed, Divya opened her campaign from the second round, where the world's top 21 women players joined the 43 winners from the first round. In the knock-out format of the World Cup, seven rounds consisting of two-game matches in the classical format will be played, followed by a rapid tie-break rou ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) While Ravi Shastri was blasting six sixes off an over in a Ranji Trophy match at the Wankhede Stadium in 1985, his parents had no idea about their son's massive achievement. Shastri's mother, Lakshmi, was told by the neighborhood bhelpuri wala that her son had done something great on that day. Ravi Shastri's mother narrated this incident as the most memorable moment for her from her son's career after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award 2025 on his behalf on ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jun 5 (PTI) As many as 15 Indians, including world champion D Gukesh, R Praggnanandha, Vaishali R and Koneru Humpy, have qualified for the 2025 FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss, to be held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from September 3-16. Besides Gukesh and Praggnanandha, the other nine Indians taking part in FIDE Grand Swiss (Open) are: Arjun Erigaisi, Chithambaram Aravindh, Vidit Gujrathi, Pentala Harikrishna, Nihal Sarin, Raunak Sadhwani, Murali Karthikeyan, Abhimanyu Puranik ...Read More >
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