Summer Olympics: Los Angeles agrees to host 2028 Games; Paris gets 2024

Los Angeles formally announced its bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics today after agreeing on a deal that paves the way for Paris to host in 2024. The Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic bid committee in cooperation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced it yesterday. The LA bid comm...

Abhijeet Gupta finishes second in Czech Open chess tournament

Commonwealth Champion Abhijeet Gupta came up with a spirited effort to beat Florian Kaczur of Hungary and finish second in the Czech International Open Chess tournament at Pardubidze in Czech Republic.After squandering his sole lead at 5.5/6, Gupta scored 1.5 points in the last three rounds to end w...

Indian women's football team to take on Malaysia in friendly match today

Indian women's football team will take on Malaysia in an friendly match at Kuala Lumpur today. The match will start at 6:15 pm. The match will also mark the debut of new coach Maymol Rocky. The coach said, Indian eves are confident of a good show against Malaysia but her team won't...

India to field biggest contingent at World Badminton Championship

India will be fielding the biggest contingent at the World Badminton Championship to be held at Glasgow, Scotland, with four shuttlers qualifying in both men's and women's singles competition. In the men's singles competition, Sameer Verma will be competing along with K Sr...

India to field biggest contingent at World Badminton Championship

India will be fielding the biggest contingent at the World Badminton Championship to be held at Glasgow, Scotland, with four shuttlers qualifying in both men's and women's singles competition. In the men's singles competition, Sameer Verma will be competing along with K Sr...

Indian women's football team to take on Malaysia in friendly match tomorrow

Indian women's football team will take on Malaysia in an international friendly at Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. The match is slated to start at 6:15 pm IST. India are confident of a good show against the hosts. The match will also mark the debut of new coach Maymol Rocky. The coach said her team ...

Divij-Raja pair out of Atlanta Open with defeat in semifinal

Divij Sharan and Purav Raja's impressive run at the Atlanta Open tennis tournament has ended with a semifinal defeat at the hands of Wesley Koolhof and Artem Sitak. At Atlanta, the fourth seeded Indian team lost 6-7 4-6 to the unseeded Dutch-Kiwi combination.The Indians shared 9,920 US Doll...

Aditya, Suhaani win bronze at Asian School Chess Competition

Mumbai's Aditya Patil and Suhaani Lohia have clinched bronze medals at the Asian School Chess Competition in China. Aditya won the bronze medal in the Under-7 rapid championship that concluded in Panjin yesterday. Eighth-seeded Aditya finished in third place in the competition which had a t...

India bags 24 medals at Jordan Open TT

Shiva, Manoj , 3 other strike Gold at Czech Boxing Tournament

Indian boxers packed quite a heavy punch at the 48th Grand Prix Usti Nad Labem, clinching five gold, two silver and one bronze medal at the event in the Czech Republic.World Championships bronze-medallist Shiva Thapa in 60 kg, former Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Manoj Kumar in 69 kg, Amit Phang...