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New Delhi: The sports ministry on Wednesday cleared the names of 246 coaches and support staff members to accompany Indian athletes at the upcoming Asian Games that begin in Japan s Aichi-Nagoya on September 19. The number of athletes has also been increased f

Spider-Man: Brand New Day has achieved another major box-office milestone in North America, overtaking Avengers: Endgame to become the second-highest-grossing film of all time domestically. Tom Holland s latest outing has now crossed the $858.37 million domest

Netflix had a busy release slate last week. The final season of Outer Banks premiered, and Robert de Niro returned to the service with a thriller where he catches a serial killer

Unnati Hooda suffered from starting blues as she could not get past Korean World No 12 Kim Ga-eun to exit Super 750 China Masters. A 0-4 start in the opening set ended in a 21-10, 21-18 loss at Shenzhen as the Round 1 challenge proved too steep for the Indian

Four asterisks in India s squad for the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan tell their own story. Jasprit Bumrah, Washington Sundar, Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana have all been picked, but none is certain to play yet

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin that efforts must be made to move away from endless war towards an end to the war while noting that Indians are eagerly awaiting the Russian leader's visit for the BRICS s

The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear Apple's bid to escape being found in contempt in its legal fight with "Fortnite" maker Epic Games after the iPhone maker was deemed in violation of a judicial order mandating sweeping changes to its lucrative App

A shooting at a high school football game in Bakersfield, California, sent spectators scrambling for safety Friday night, with a video shared on X appearing to capture the moment a shot was fired at Independence High School. A 17-year-old boy was killed in the

Sreeshankar Murali is at his happy hunting ground, the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, for the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver. Weeks after winning a second consecutive silver medal at the Commonwealth Games, Sreeshankar's focus will soon shift to next

Fortnite servers are currently down as the v42.00 update and Chapter 7 Season 4, named 'Override,' are underway. This scheduled maintenance started early today and will likely take several hours to complete

The Patiala royal family is synonymous with extraordinary jewels, from the legendary Patiala Necklace and Ruby Choker to the Delhi Durbar emerald brooch. But beyond its celebrated treasures lies a rich legacy of art, fashion, family heirlooms and sporting hist

India versus Pakistan in hockey may have increasingly ceased to be a rivalry, going strictly by the term s definition and the predictability of the eventual outcome. What it still does often manage to deliver, however, is goals

Even while watching ace boxer Lovlina Borgohain collect her bronze medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Chhote Lal Yadav, a coach of the Indian boxing contingent then, had a bigger target. He had immense satisfaction in guiding four of his trainees Sakshi Chaudha

Mumbai: At the final hooter, there were contrasting reactions in both dugouts. India chief coach Sjoerd Marijne led a wave of high-fives among his players and coaching staff while his Chinese counterpart Alyson Annan was stony-faced as she stood in a dugout fi

The Indian athletics team will hold a short acclimatisation camp at the University of Tsukuba near Tokyo ahead of the Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya. The team is expected to leave India on September 12 or 13 after the Indian Athletics Final Series

India s bid to host the 2036 Olympics received a fresh boost on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide talent hunt to identify young prospects in the age group of five to 15 to bolster the country s presence across all sporting discipl

New Delhi: India women's team batter Jemimah Rodrigues was on Friday ruled out of the upcoming Asia Cup and Asian Games due to a hamstring injury she sustained earlier this month while playing in The Hundred tournament in England.The BCCI said in a statement t

The outfit, designed by Bollywood's favourite designer Manish Malhotra, was put together by celebrity stylist Eka Lakhani. Though edgy and dark, as soon as Karan posted the pictures online, the internet was quick to flood the comments section with jokes about

Aaron Rodgers will not play for the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Green Bay Packers in Thursday night s preseason game. The 42-year-old quarterback is in street clothes on the sideline, while Mason Rudolph is expected to start

Mumbai: Shortly after the Indian teams early exit from the World Team Table Tennis Championships in May, Massimo Costantini had hoped four months would be enough time to work toward a bounce back at the Asian Games. A little over a month before the continental

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a plea filed by Ramesh Budihal, the only Indian to have won an Asian Surfing Championship medal, challenging the Surfing Federation of India s decision to select him only as the first reserve in the me

Dulquer revealed that I'm Game will now arrive in theatres on September 3. The actor went on to say, The new release date comes with a larger vision for the film as #imgame gears up for a wider theatrical release across markets

New Delhi: Process is the word most elite shooters use while dissecting their seemingly static sport. Somewhere in the finite moments between breaths and beats lurks the perfect nanosecond to pull the trigger

Pakistan s Olympic gold medal winning javelin star Arshad Nadeem will not take part in the Diamond League meet later this month in order to focus on the Asian Games in Japan. He has decided against competing in the Diamond League meet this month as he wants to

In a first, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) will host India in a three-match T20I series in India in September. The Afghans, who toured the country for a one-off Test and three ODIs in June, will return to New Delhi next month to take on Shreyas Iyer s sid

Lucknow: Ashish Yadav s silver medal at the just-ended U-20 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Anand s Singh s silver at the U23 Asian Championship in China and Rohit Yadav making it to the final of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games as one of three

New Delhi: A little over a month before the selection trials for the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games in May this year, boxer Sakshi Chaudhary called coach Chhote Lal Yadav at the Army Sports Institute (ASI) in Pune with a potentially career-altering request

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It has been a week since the curtain came down on the Glasgow Commonwealth Games but the mystery surrounding the missing four Ugandan boxers and one from Pakistan is nowhere near a resolution. A Glasgow 2026 spokesperson said the organisers were working closel

Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised Commonwealth Games 2026 silver medallist Lovlina Borgohain for objecting to a distorted Indian map displayed at a restaurant in Glasgow. During his interaction with India s CWG medallists, Modi asked Lovlina about the incid

The Targaryen civil war is heading toward its final reckoning.House of the Dragon Season 4 will bring HBO's Game of Thrones prequel to an end, closing the chapter on the bloody struggle for the Iron Throne that has torn House Targaryen apart.Season 3 pushed th

Prime Minister Narendra Modi burst into laughter after Indian boxer Narender Berwal recalled a hilarious exchange with a Pakistani opponent during an interaction with India s Commonwealth Games 2026 medal winners Sunday. Modi hosted the Indian contingent at hi

Indian Army boxer Mandengbam Jadumani Singh s emphatic Commonwealth Games victory over a Pakistani opponent on Kargil Vijay Diwas found its way into his interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who hailed both the result and the sentiment behind the boxe

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday hosted all members of the Indian contingent who returned with medals from the 2026 Commonwealth Games at his residence in New Delhi, where he interacted with the athletes and also held one-on-one conversations with a few

Indian athletics has had a productive fortnight. While Neeraj Chopra, Tejaswin Shankar, Murali Sreeshankar and Gulveer Singh exemplified the rapid strides track and field athletes are taking at the big stage thanks to their success at the Glasgow Commonwealth

Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Indian Commonwealth Games medalists after their return. He congratulated the athletes for their impressive performances and making the country proud

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met members of the India s Commonwealth Games contingent who returned with medals on Glasgow. The PM lauded the sportspersons for making the country proud and said in a short video, Jo khelega woh khilega

When Spider-Man: Brand New Day released in theatres last week, it shattered records that were considered untouchable. For one, it surpassed Avengers Endgame s opening weekend mark in North America

For boxer Sakshi Chaudhary, her Commonwealth Games gold medal was not just the result of punches thrown inside the ring. Behind her breakthrough moment was a difficult journey involving injuries, a change in weight category and support from an unexpected sport

An athlete representing Tamil Nadu was forced to run the 400m hurdles solo on Saturday morning after officials made a blunder during her heat. The controversial incident took place on Friday during the women's 400m hurdles at the National Inter-State Champions

Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are having their own little contest in the midst of a World Cup that is heading to the business end. Right down to superb goals after soft penalties

Charlotte: Lionel Messi, the World Cup's all-time leading goal scorer, was among 29 players selected to the represent Major League Soccer on Wednesday against the LIGA MX All-Stars on July 29 at the MLS All-Star Game in Charlotte, North Carolina.Messi has 12 g

Microsoft employees are bracing for more layoffs. On Monday, July 6, the tech giant said it plans to cut around 4,800 jobs, or about 2.1 per cent of its global workforce

When the US striker Folarin Balogun received a straight red card and a one-game ban for fouling Bosnia and Herzegovina s Tarik Muharemovic last week in the Round of 32 knockout game of the ongoing FIFA World Cup, popular reaction suggested that the dismissal w

Subedar Hokato Hotozhe Sema, 42, has climbed to World No.1 in the Men's Shot Put F57 category in the latest World Para Athletics rankings, weeks after becoming the first Paralympian in India's history to be awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) by Preside

Singer-songwriter and TV personality Lee Sang-min s financial history has been in the spotlight for years in South Korea. The artiste had accumulated approximately 6.9 billion won in debt in 2005 after a series of failed business ventures

The FIFA World Cup 2026 Round of 16 clash between Brazil and Norway at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey ended in heartbreak for the five-time champions, marking both a shocking tournament exit and the final international appearance of Neymar. One of Brazilian foo