Chennai, March 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Global chess body FIDE on Thursday stopped the ongoing Candidates Tournament at Russia’s Yekaterinburg owing to the country’s decision to interrupt air traffic with other countries over the Coronavirus spread. In…
Kolkata, March 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian table tennis player Takeme Sarkar, who went to Spain to take part in the Spanish League, is stuck in Malaga due to the lockdown in India with no international flights…
New Delhi, March 26: In a first-of-its-kind step, the government’s flagship fitness movement, Fit India, has partnered with Bollywood actor and fitness icon Shilpa Shetty Kundra to provide her premium 21-Day Weight Loss Programme, including…
New Delhi, March 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) WWE Hall of Famer Edge will be featuring in his first singles match in nine years when he takes the ring to face Randy Orton in a Last Man Standing…
Mumbai, March 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the aim to raise awareness around staying fit, healthy and safe at home amid COVID-19 outbreak, Tata Sky will provide free access to Tata Sky Fitness to all its subscribers….
New Delhi, March 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 2020 edition of the chess Olympiad, scheduled to be held in Moscow, has been postponed due to the ongoig coronavirus pandemic, International Chess Federation (FIDE) has announced. The FIDE,…
Kolkata, March 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sports associations in the state, led by Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), are ready to help the West Bengal government if they need their facilities to create a temporary medical facility…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, March 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Even as All India Chess Federation (AICF) office-bearers of All India Chess Federation (AICF) seem busy in internal bickering and a game of oneupmanship, its employees are yet…
New Delhi, March 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Star wrestler Bajrang Punia has donated his six months salary towards fight against coronavirus pandemic which has claimed nine lives so far in India. “I have donated my six months’…
London, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) World Athletics chief Sebastian Coe has written a letter to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach, calling in postponement of Tokyo Olympic Games amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In his…
Tokyo, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Japan’s Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto told reporters on Monday that the Japanese leg of the Olympic torch relay for the summer Games, scheduled to start from Fukushima Prefecture on Thursday, will…
Tokyo, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the Parliament on Monday that the Tokyo Olympic Games could be postponed due to the global spread of coronavirus. It is the first time for…
Madrid, March 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) The International Olympic Committee has said that postponing the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is one option amid the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, although it added that cancelling the Games altogether is “not on…
By Debayan Mukherjee Kolkata, March 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, India’s top-ranked paddler, feels it’s too early to decide whether the Olympics should be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak, adding that as an athlete he…
Rio de Janiero, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) said on Saturday that this year’s Tokyo Olympics should be suspended owing to the global coronavirus outbreak. The COB also proposed the Games to…
By Venkatachari Jagannathan Chennai, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Atanu Lahiri, the 44-year old chess International Master (IM), is a relieved man today. No more stints of going ‘underground’ and travelling without luggage, staying at various places…
London, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Nic Coward, the new chairman of UK Athletics, has urged the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. Coward told BBC Sport: “To leave it where it is,…
London, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two-time Taekwondo Olympic medalist Lutalo Muhammad has said it is very difficult mentally to train like this for the Tokyo Olympics, at a time almost everything is postponed or suspended in…
New Delhi, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amid panic over a possibility of community transmission of novel coronavirus, it has now come to fore that ace boxer and Rajya Sabha MP Mary Kom broke the 14-day quarantine…
New York, March 21 (SocialNews.XYZ) While the coronavirus pandemic has suspended the 2019-20 NBA season, the league is now using its digital footprint and the powerful voices of teams, players, coaches, doctors and others across…