New Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) Indias paddlers Soumyajit Ghosh and Sanil Shetty fought back spectacularly to storm into the main draw of the $150,000 Seamaster 2017 World Tour India Open here at the Thyagaraj Stadium…
New Delhi, Feb 13 (IANS) Soumyajit Ghosh will spearhead the Indian campaign at the ITTF World Tour India Open qualifying rounds that get underway at the Thyagaraj Stadium here on Tuesday. The former national champion…
Faridabad, Feb 13 (IANS) Stressing the need for more corporate support to athletes, specially to potential Olympians, Sports Authority of India (SAI) Director General Injeti Srinivas on Monday said such initiatives act as a boost…
Beijing, Feb 12 (IANS) The newly updated corridor on the roof of Beijing’s iconic “Bird’s Nest” has been open to the public which enables tourists to overlook the Chinese capital on the highest point of…
Sonipat, Feb 11 (IANS) Hosts Haryana won the first edition of the three-day Pandit Deen Dayal Updhyay All India National Style Kabaddi championship held at Motilal Nehru School of Sports here. Haryana defeated the Railways…
Cleveland (Ohio), Feb 9 (IANS) Branding Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban as ‘divisive’, basketball star LeBron James has come down heavily on the US President’s latest executive order which has created a stir globally. “Diversity…
Jakarta, Feb 8 (IANS) A total of 20 cycling teams from foreign countries and five local ones will attend Tour d’ Indonesia in July, an official said here on Wednesday. The tour will start from…
Tokyo, Feb 8 (IANS) The chief of the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) on Wednesday said he has been questioned as part of a French investigation into the legitimacy of payments made during Tokyo’s bid for…
Moscow, Feb 7 (IANS) Russia will issue 250,000 stamps depicting the wolf as a mascot for the 2018 football World Cup, the press office of the federal postal operator Post Office of Russia has said….
Nairobi, Feb 7 (IANS) World marathon record holder Dennis Kimetto of Kenya is set for the big title at the Boston marathon in April. Speaking from Eldoret on Monday, Kimetto, who holds the world record…
Bengaluru, Feb 6 (IANS) A 2016 start-up, Divyaang Myithri Sports Academy (DMSA) formed by a team of para-athletes will be organising a wheelchair cricket tournament to promote the game for the differently abled here. The…
Moscow, Feb 6 (IANS) Many Russian sportspersons, especially paralympians, have been unfairly dismissed from competitions, Minister of Sport Pavel Kolobkov said on Monday. Kolobkov said it is unacceptable to ban clean athletes from the Olympics…
Manesar (Haryana), Feb 5 (IANS) Madhurika Patkar won the women’s singles crown for the first time, while veteran A. Sharath Kamal bagged his seventh national crown in the 78th 11Even Sports Table Tennis Senior National…
Gandhinagar, Feb 5 (IANS) Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Sunday laid the foundation stone for the Centre of Excellence for Para Sports here. The centre, which has an estimated budget of…
Bengaluru, Feb 5 (IANS) India will host two international events in 2017: the FIBA Women’s Asia Cup and FIBA Under-16 Women’s Asian Championship, the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) announced on Sunday. The FIBA Women’s…
Hong Kong, Feb 5 (IANS) India’s Velavan Senthilkumar and Abhay Singh defeated their Malaysian opponents to clinch the gold medal in the boy’s team event at the 18th Asian Junior Squash championship here on Sunday….
Rio de Janeiro, Feb 5 (IANS) Olympic champion Cesar Cielo will return to competitive swimming as he targets a fourth 50-metres freestyle world title, his coach said. Cielo, who won gold in the 50m freestyle…
Tehran, Feb 3 (IANS) Iran’s Foreign Ministry has decided against the participation of the US men’s freestyle wrestling team in the upcoming World Cup in the country, official IRNA news agency reported on Friday. “The…
Moscow, Feb 3 (IANS) The decision on Russia’s participation in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games will be made on February 1 next year, Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) Secretary General Andrei Strokin said on Friday. “It…
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) A couple of days after reports emerged of 1998 Asian Games gold medallist boxer Dingko Singh’s battle against liver cancer, Sport Minister Vijay Goel on Friday assured the pugilist of…