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Bangkok, May 10: India women's badminton team sailed into the quarter-finals with a 4-1 win over USA in their Group D tie on Tuesday. Tokyo Olympics bronze medalist P V Sindhu once again led the proceedings with a 21-10, 21-11 win over…

Kolkata Knight Riders endured a fiery five-wicket burst from Jasprit Bumrah that sent them plummeting from 123 for 2 to 165 for 9. They regrouped at the break and came back to blow away Mumbai Indians for 113 to stay alive in IPL 2022.…

Not since Michael Chang’s underarm serve to Ivan Lendl has cheekiness on red clay been as celebrated as this past month. Spanish teen sensation Carlos Alcaraz has made a habit of stunning world tennis’ leading lights with his well-disguised…

Jasprit Bumrah roared back to form against Kolkata Knight Riders in match 56 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday as he broke the Knights’ backs with five wickets at the cost of just 10 runs. Before this, Bumrah had taken only 5…

Criminalisation of doping with jail terms for coaches for supplying banned performance-enhancing substances and for senior athletes who use them is the strongest deterrent for drug cheats in sports, according to Athletics Federation of…

The day Rovman Powell’s mother Joan Plummer found she was pregnant, her partner told her to abort. She broke off the relationship and decided to go her own way. At the start of every month she would tell herself, “if I can get through this…

IPL 2022, DC vs SRH Highlights: Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs in an Indian Premier League match on Thursday. Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and decided to field first. With this win, Delhi Capitals have…

Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who became an overnight star after finishing sixth at the Tokyo Olympics and the only Indian woman to break the 65 metres barrier, has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for Stanozolol, a…

Rafael Nadal got off to a good start in his return from injury, defeating Miomir Kecmanovic in two sets to reach the third round at the Madrid Open on Wednesday. Nadal showed few signs of rustiness in his 6-1, 7-6 (4) opening win at…

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) on Wednesday have signed Jharkhand left-arm pacer Sushant Mishra as a substitute for medium-pacer Saurabh Dubey for the rest of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. The official launch from IPL said that Dubey has…

The BCCI has banned journalist Boria Majumdar for two years for “threatening and intimidating” India wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha. The ban, which includes not getting press accreditation for any matches in India, an embargo on interviewing…

The BCCI on Tuesday confirmed that the first IPL play-off and eliminator in Kolkata’s Eden Gardens will be held on May 24 and 25, followed by second play-off and final at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium on May 27 and 29. Meanwhile,…

Shubman Gill wasn’t happy, but it felt like he was not owning up to his mistake. Gill misjudged the single, after pushing a Sandeep Sharma delivery towards extra cover. To start with, he timed the ball a little too well and it travelled…

Liverpool players stared at each other in disbelief. By the bench, manager Jürgen Klopp watched in awe. Just like that, Liverpool had squandered its two-goal lead from the first leg of the Champions League semifinals against…

Aligarh, May 03: A small two-room quarters within the premises of an LPG distribution company’s storage compound near Aligarh stadium has become the talk of the town within days after the IPL auction. It’s the house of Rinku Singh, an…

New Delhi, April 30: All Indian Chess Federation (AICF), Indian Government and Tamil Nadu Government are ensuring that the forthcoming Chess Olympiad, scheduled in Chennai from July 28 to August 10, would be memorable for the country,…

Malappuram, April 29: West Bengal entered the final of the 75th Santosh Trophy National Football Championship after defeating Manipur by 3-0 at Payyanad floodlit stadium on Friday. The 32-time champions Bengal will take hosts Kerala in…

Naihati (W.B), April 28: Aizawl FC returned to winning ways after they secured a narrow comeback victory against Indian Arrows in I-league here at the Naihati Stadium on Thursday. Arrows got their noses in front in the first half before…

Bengaluru, April 27: On Day 5 of the second edition of Khelo India University Games saw one national and five Games records here on Wednesday. A new national record was set in the 87kg plus women's weightlifting category as…

Malappuram, April 25: Karnataka beat Gujarat by 4-0 in a one-sided encounter in the last Group B match and earned three points to qualify  for the semifinals. Manipur is the other team from the group to make it to the last four. For…