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Asian Games: India Giving Best-ever Performance, Chinese Officials Accused of Deliberately Targeting Indian Athletes

October 4, 2023 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Oct 4: Even as India’s “golden boy” Neeraj Chopra true to the expectations brought the Javelin Throw gold for the country in the Asian Games at Hangzhou on Wednesday, a huge controversy broke out during the event as his first attempt, which was a legal one, was not measures by the […]

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India Wins Two Golds in Asian Games on Day 7

September 30, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 30: India earned two golds on Day 7 of the Asian Games in Hangzhou in China on Saturday. While the mixed doubles duo of 43-year old Rohan Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale earned the country the only gold in Lawn Tennis events, India upstaged Pakistan to win the Squash gold in a closely […]

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Cricket World Cup: Gujarat Police File FIR against Pannun

September 29, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 29: The Gujarat police have filed an FIR against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the chief of United States-based banned outfit “Sikhs for Justice” (SFJ), for threatening to turn the Cricket World Cup, starting on October 5 at Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, into “World Terror Cup.” In the first information report (FIR), […]

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Palak, Esha gold-silver feat for India at Asian Games

September 29, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 29: Two teenaged dreamy-eyed shooters, Palak Gulia and Esha Singh, set ablaze the shooting range by powering to a gold-silver finish in 10m air pistol event for India at the Asian Games on Friday. In one of the most trailblazing efforts seen by Indian shooters, the duo challenged each other for the […]

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Gaming: Centre serves tax notices for Rs. 55,000 crores on Dream11, other firms

September 26, 2023 Vinayak Barot

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Exploiting fanatics of various games and sports, several online gambling companies, claiming to be ‘gaming’ platforms, have cropped up worldwide over the years. In India, they have found valuable ‘customers’ among cricket addicts and enthusiasts and their business runs into billions of rupees across rural and urban areas alike. This […]

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Modi lays Foundation Stone of Cricket Stadium in Varanasi

September 23, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 23: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday laid the foundation of a cricket stadium in his Parliamentary constituency of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh having a seating capacity of 30,000 spectators. The stadium, the third international cricket stadium in UP after Green Park stadium in Kanpur and Ekana stadium in the state […]

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Asian Games: Sports Minister Cancels Visit to China in Protest against Denial of Entry to Three Players from Arunachal Pradesh

September 22, 2023 Editor In Chief

Manas Dasgupta NEW DELHI, Sept 22: India on Friday filed a formal protest and cancelled the union sports minister Anurag Thakur’s visit in view of China’s “deliberate and selective obstruction of sportspersons” after Beijing denied visas and accreditation to athletes from Arunachal Pradesh to participate in the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. Three women wushu […]

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India’s Cricket World Cup Squad Announced, No Surprises

September 5, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 5: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announced the 15-member squad for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 scheduled to be held in India in October/November. Rohit Sharma has been retained as the captain, while Hardik Pandya will be the vice-captain. The squad was announced by […]

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Former Zimbabwe Cricket Captain Heath Streak Dies of Cancer

September 3, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Sept 3: Former Zimbabwe cricket team captain Heath Streak, battling against cancer for long, died early on Sunday morning, his wife Nadine confirmed. He was 49. “In the early hours of this morning, Sunday the 3rd of September 2023, the greatest love of my life and the father of my beautiful children, was […]

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Praggnanandhaa’s Dream Run Ends, Becomes Runner-up in Chess World Cup

August 24, 2023 Editor In Chief

NEW DELHI, Aug 24: Indian Grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa captured the imagination of a billion-plus people as he stormed in the final of the 2023 FIDE Chess World Cup fighting valiantly till the end but his dream run ended at the hands of the world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who beat him 1.5-0.5 in the tie-break […]