Kush Bhagat creates history in UAE tourney, wins 3 gold medals in chess championship

Creating history, Mumbai prodigy Kush Bhagat has won all three gold medals on offer in the 1st Western Asia Youth Chess Championships. The event held at Al Ain Chess Club in UAE, the second standard student of the NSS Hill Spring International School reigned supreme in all the three categories - rap...

Chennai Open 2017: Indian players face tricky opponents in qualifiers

Kush Bhagat creates history in UAE tourney, wins 3 gold medals in chess championship

Creating history, Mumbai prodigy Kush Bhagat has won all three gold medals on offer in the 1st Western Asia Youth Chess Championships. The event held at Al Ain Chess Club in UAE, the second standard student of the NSS Hill Spring International School reigned supreme in all the three categories - rap...

Govt derecognises IOA on issue of nominating Kalmadi, Chautala as life presidents

Australia beat Pakistan by innings and 18 runs in 2nd Test at Melbourne

Australia beat Pakistan by an innings and 18 runs in the second Test at Melbourne today to take the series 2-0 with Mitchell Starc taking four wickets for 36 runs and off-spinner Nathan Lyon capturing three wickets for 33. The Australians roared to victory in the final day dismissing the visitors fo...

Maharashtra sanctions Rs 2 crore for district-level sports complexes

Maharashtra government has sanctioned disbursement of two crore rupees for the district-level sports complexes for which Sports training department of every district will be disbursing the funds. Education and sports department issued a government resolution which said total sanctioned amount for th...

Meghalaya to host 2022 National Games

Meghalaya will host the 2022 National Games coinciding with its 50 years of statehood after IOA accepted Meghalaya's bid to host the prestigious games following the successful South Asian Games. In its meeting in Chennai, Indian Olympic Association, IOA accepted Meghalaya's bid to ...

Ana Ivanovic announces retirement from Tennis

Ana Ivanovic, the former world No1 and 2008 French Open champion, has retired from tennis at the age of 29, the Serb made the announcement on Facebook. After her early exit from this year's US Open, Ivanovic had said, she would be ending her season early to fully recover from a series of in...

IOA given time till today to reply to Sports Ministry's show-cause notice

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has been given time till today to reply to the show-cause notice issued by Sports Ministry threatening de-recognition of the sports body if it does not reverse its decision to make scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala as Life Presidents. Talking to re...

Chautala offers to relinquish life presidency of IOA

Under intense pressure from various quarters, embattled Abhay Singh Chautala today offered to relinquish the life presidency of the Indian Olympic Association, but only if the International Olympic Committee has reservations about his elevation to the position.Chautala, who has been chargesheeted in...