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India’s motorsport sensation, Kush Maini was back in action yesterday at the Lusail International Circuit in Qatar. The young driver took to the track as part of his Formula 1 testing with the BWT Alpine F1 team, who are coming off a double podium from the weekend’s Grand Prix at Sao Paulo. Yesterday’s test marked […]
Double Olympics medallist P.V. Sindhu made the first big move to set up an “international standard” badminton academy in Andhra Pradesh with the ground-breaking ceremony at Arilova in Visakhapatnam East on Thursday. The proposed Academy on the three-acre site allotted by the then Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy government will have nine synthetic courts besides the […]
Sanju Samson scored a 47-ball century to become the fastest centurion for India against South Africa, in the first T20 match, at the Kingsmead Cricket Stadium in Durban, South Africa, on Friday. The 29-year-old struck nine sixes and seven fours in his blitzkrieg of an innings to get to the 100-run mark in six fewer […]
BADMINTON Korea Masters 2024: Kiran George defeats Chi Yu Jen, through to quarterfinal India’s Kiran George dished out yet another gritty performance to upset third seed Chi Yu Jen of Chinese Taipei in a tough three-game match and progress to the men’s singles quarterfinals of the Korea Masters badminton tournament on Thursday. The 24-year-old Indian […]
When Max Verstappen goes to Las Vegas chasing a fourth successive Formula One title, he will be racing around a floodlit track his Red Bull team has simulated some eight billion times already. The Saturday night race on a street circuit that runs along Nevada City’s famed Strip is on November 23, and a win […]
Arjun Erigaisi beat Iranian Amin Tabatabaei in the fourth round to get into sole lead with 3.5 points in the second edition of the Chennai Grandmasters classical chess tournament at the Anna Centenary Library here on Friday. Aravindh Chithambaram, who drew with Levon Aronian, said he’s not happy with his overall performance in the tournament. […]
Two goals by Nousheen Naz played a key role in fetching a 4-3 victory for Kiddy’s Corner Girls High School, Gwalior, over Directorate General, NCC, in the final of the Charanjit Rai 30th Nehru girls hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium here on Wednesday. Those two goals helped the Gwalior team control the proceedings, after […]
Former Indian goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh was named the ‘Men’s Goalkeeper Of The Year’ while skipper Harmanpreet Singh won the ‘Men’s Player Of The Year’ award for the 2023-24 season, announced the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Friday. Both players won in their respective categories for the third time in their careers. Harmanpreet, 28, led the […]
HOCKEY Defending champion Punjab opened its campaign on a rousing note with a 10-1 victory over Chhattisgarh in a Pool-A match of the Senior National men’s hockey championship on Friday. In a keenly contested Pool-G contest, Maharashtra resolutely fought back from a 0-2 deficit to pull off a 2-2 draw. With two wins in Pool […]
India’s Kiran George defeated Takuma Obayashi of Japan to enter the men’s singles semifinals of Korea Masters badminton tournament on Friday. The 24-year-old Indian overcame his fifth seeded Japanese opponent 21-14, 21-16 in the quarterfinals in a match that lasted 39 minutes. Earlier, the World number 44 George upset third seed Chi Yu Jen of […]