Bengaluru: Buoyed by the recent triumph in the Intercontinental Cup, the Indian football team will enter the SAFF Championship 2023 as a confident unit and look to extend its dominance in the tournament. India will face Pakistan in their opening outing at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Wednesday, and the match is all set to be…
Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board interim chairman Najam Sethi has opted out of the race to become the next PCB chairman. PCB chairman has put out a tweet saying he doesn’t want to become a ‘bone of contention’ between Pakistan People’s Party Chief Asif Ali Zardari and current Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Najam Sethi has come out…
Bhubaneswar: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra was not there but the National Inter-State Championship, the final selection trial for Asian Games, still saw top- class performances from the country’s elite athletes led by shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor and long jumper Murali Sreeshankar. Despite the hot and humid conditions here, more than 70 athletes breached the qualifying…
New Delhi: Hockey happened to Boby Singh Dhami by “accident”, for he wouldn’t have been a junior India player had it not been for a road mishap involving his father when he was just 10. Years later, having faced the trials and tribulations that followed the accident which killed four passengers but turned out to be…
Bhubaneswar: The “tongue lashing” they got from head coach Igor Stimac at half time was the wake-cup call India needed to win the Intercontinental Cup, said national football team captain Sunil Chhetri. India failed to break Lebanon’s defence in the first half before Chhetri’s 87th international goal and Lallianzuala Chhangte’s strike to help the hosts lift…
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has announced a cash reward of Rs 1 crore for the Indian men’s football team for winning the Hero Intercontinental Cup here. India rode on skipper Sunil Chhetri’s 87th international goal and Lallianzuala Chhangte’s strike to beat Lebanon 2-0 in the final and lift the Intercontinental Cup at the Kaling…
New Delhi: The Pakistan cricket team is not “comfortable” playing some of the participating teams at specific venues during the ODI World Cup in India, including Afghanistan in Chennai and Australia in Bengaluru. The deadlock over the Asia Cup staging has ended and now Pakistan are expected to travel to India for the World Cup in…
New Delhi: In an ugly war of words, Sakshi Malik accused former wrestler and BJP leader Babita Phogat of siding with the government during their protest against the WFI chief while the latter claimed that the Rio Games bronze medallist has become a “Congress’ puppet”. Malik and her husband Satyawart Kadian had on Saturday asserted…
Jakarta: India’s dynamic duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty scripted history by winning the men’s doubles title at the Indonesia Open here on Sunday, becoming the first pair from the country to claim a Super 1000 event. The Indians outwitted the Malaysian world champion duo of Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik 21-17, 21-18 in…
Bengaluru: Pakistan football team’s arrival here for the SAFF Football Championship has been delayed due to a visa issue but the squad is expected to reach in time for its opening fixture against India on June 21. Pakistan squad was expected to land in Bengaluru on Sunday after completing the Four Nation Cup in Mauritius. However,…
