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Sports Minister flags-off Op-Blue Freedom

7:21 pm August 21, 2019

New Delhi: Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and former India football captain Baichung Bhutia on Wednesday flagged off the Delhi leg of Op-Blue Freedom, an initiative in which a group of armed forces veterans train sports enthusiasts in survival training and self-defence. Op-Blue Freedom is a nation-wide adaptive scuba diving programme for people with disabilities as […]

Indian men’s hockey team hammers NZ 5-0 to win Olympic Test Event

1:40 pm August 21, 2019

Tokyo: The Indian men’s hockey team won the Olympic Test event here on Wednesday, beating New Zealand 5-0 to avenge the loss it endured in their round robin clash. Captain Harmanpreet Singh (7th minute) set the ball rolling before Shamsher Singh (18th minute), Nilakanta Sharma (22nd minute), Gursahibjit Singh (26th minute) and Mandeep Singh (27th […]

Kobe Bryant's death put life in perspective for me: Virat Kohli

Kohli’s dilemma: Rahane and Rohit or a fifth bowler?

6:05 pm August 20, 2019

Antigua: The Indian team management will be fretting on possible team combinations for the first Test against the West Indies with a difficult choice between senior pros Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane if it opts for a fifth specialist bowler. Unless India go with a safety-first four bowler strategy which allows both Test and […]

Discussion between AITA and ITF pushed to Tuesday

7:42 pm August 19, 2019

New Delhi: The tele-conference between the Indian tennis federation and the international body ITF’s security consultants on the upcoming Davis Cup tie between India and Pakistan was on Monday pushed to August 20. India’s non-playing Davis Cup captain Mahesh Bhupathi, who was to be part of the conference call, informed that the discussions have been […]

Sakshi Malik issued show cause notice by WFI for indiscipline

7:22 pm August 19, 2019

New Delhi: Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik has been issued a show cause notice by the Wrestling Federation India (WFI) for leaving the national camp without permission as 25 campers have been expelled for the same offence. In a shocking turn of events, 25 out of of the 45 women grapplers, who train at the SAI […]