DIMAPUR — The Kohima District Athletics Association has informed that it will be organising a ‘Kids Athletics Day’ on May 7, at Secretariat Junction, Kohima. The event will be organised on the theme ‘World Mile Challenge’, as per the direct...
22 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Social media was flooded with awe and admiration when 17-year-old grandmaster D Gukesh on Monday scripted history by becoming the youngest player ever to win the Candidates Tournament, held in Toronto, Canada. Gukesh scored 9/14 points ...
22 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The 22-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal has confirmed his participation in the seventh edition of the Laver Cup, to be held at Uber Arena in Berlin from September 20-22. Nadal will team up with fellow Spaniard and World No. 3 Carlo...
22 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — The All-India Football Federation (AIFF), President, Kalyan Chaubey, has called the introduction of I-League 3 – a bridge for semi-professional clubs to turn pro by competing for national honours — ‘a transformative stepâ€...
22 Apr 2024LONDON — Liverpool boosted their Premier League title challenge with a 3-1 victory away at Fulham as they moved level on points with Arsenal at the summit of the Premier League table. Liverpool dominated the early stages but squandered a golden opp...
22 Apr 2024TORONTO — The 17-year-old Grandmaster D Gukesh scripted history by becoming the youngest-ever player to win the FIDE Candidates tournament on Monday after his final round game with Hikaru Nakamura ended in a draw. Gukesh scored 9/14 points to clinc...
22 Apr 2024KOHIMA — Street Ballers secured the championship title in the fiercely contested 3v3 Under-21 Tournament, organised by Team Ace. The event took place at D Khel, Seilhazou, on April 19 in Kohima. In the journey to the finals, Chronics defeated Alcan...
21 Apr 2024DIMAPUR — The Nagaland Cricket Association (NCA) has announced that the Inter-District Senior Men’s (One-Day Matches) Tournament 2024 and the Boys Under-16 (Multi-Day) Inter-District Tournament 2024 will both commence in April and continue th...
21 Apr 2024DIMAPUR — The Nagaland Aainball Association (NABA) has established the first “Khelshala” in Nagaland, spearheaded by NABA president and MLA Kuzholuzo Azo Nienu and under the aegis of the Aainball Federation of India. According to ...
21 Apr 2024KOLKATA — Andre Russell and Sunil Narine took five wickets collectively as Kolkata Knight Riders clinched a nail-biting victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru by just one run at the Eden Gardens here on Sunday. After captain Shreyas Iyer hit a 36...
21 Apr 2024SHANGHAI — Max Verstappen added to his tally of wins by claiming a victory in the Chinese Grand Prix, marking his fourth win from five races so far this season. Verstappen of Red Bull Racing had led off the line at the race start, while Fernando Al...
21 Apr 2024NEW DELHI — Ace Para-shuttler Sukant Kadam secured a silver medal in the Spanish Para-Badminton International 2024-II tournament played at Vitoria, Spain. Sukant went down fighting to India’s Tarun in the final of the SL 4 category. In the semifi...
21 Apr 2024STUTTGART (Germany) — World No.4 Elena Rybakina claimed her third WTA Tour title of the year, defeating No.27 Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Tennis Grand Prix event in Stuttgart on Sunday. The victory over Kostyuk was her tour-leading 2...
21 Apr 2024MUMBAI — Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir smashed the women-only world record by 45 seconds at the London Marathon, winning the World Athletics Platinum Label Road Race in 2:16:16 in London on Sunday. The three-time world half-marathon champion s...
21 Apr 2024CHUNJU (S KOREA) — National champion Balraj Panwar secured a Paris 2024 Olympic Games quota place for India after finishing third in the men’s single scull final at the World Rowing Asia/Oceania Olympic Qualifying Regatta on Sunday. With quot...
21 Apr 2024WOLVERHAMPTON (UK) — Goals from Leandro Trossard and Martin Odegaard were enough to see Arsenal return to the top of the Premier League table as the Gunners claimed a 2-0 win over Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux. Leandro Trossard sliced in on t...
21 Apr 2024LONDON — Bernardo Silva’s late winner sent Manchester City into the final as the holders beat Chelsea 1-0 at Wembley. The Portuguese midfielder struck home with six minutes to play to settle an otherwise even contest which saw Nicolas Jackson pas...
21 Apr 2024GOA — FC Goa qualified for the Indian Super League (ISL) 2023-24 semi-finals by defeating Chennaiyin FC by 2-1 in their playoffs fixture at the Fatorda Stadium, here on Saturday. The Gaurs will square off against Mumbai City FC across two legs in t...
20 Apr 2024MADRID — World No. 1 Novak Djokovic has pulled out of the Madrid Masters 1000 scheduled to take place from April 24 to May 5. The Madrid draw was due to be made on Monday, but organisers have been made aware that Djokovic will not be competing as h...
20 Apr 2024CHUNGJU — Indian rowers Nitin Deol and Salman Khan won the gold medal in the Men’s Open Doubles competition in the 2024 Asian Cup here on Saturday. The final race of this category concluded on Saturday morning and in a keenly contested race, Niti...
20 Apr 2024TOKYO (JAPAN) — Indian para-canoeist Jaideep secured the gold medal in the VL3 Men’s 200m event as the Indian contingent asserted their dominance at the Asian Canoeing/Para Canoeing Sprint Championships held here on Saturday. Sangeeta Rajput ...
20 Apr 2024GENEVA (SWITZERLAND) — The Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) has expressed its concerns and worries about World Athletics’ decision to award prize money to Olympic gold medalists at the Olympic Games. “ASOI...
20 Apr 2024SHANGHAI (CHINA) — Red Bull’s Max Verstappen rose from fourth on the grid to take victory in Saturday’s entertaining 2024 Formula 1 Sprint race in Shanghai, ahead of Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix main race. Verstappen, the defending...
20 Apr 2024LUCKNOW — K.L. Rahul and Quinton de Kock added 154 runs for the opening wicket as Lucknow Super Giants beat Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets in the highest successful run chase at Ekana Cricket Stadium here on Friday. Chasing a modest target of...
19 Apr 2024LAUSANNE — In a ground-breaking initiative, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday launched the Olympic AI Agenda, the new initiative that envisions the impact that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can deliver for sport and to find out way...
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