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New Delhi, Sep 9: Pardeep Singh today qualified for next year's Commonwealth Games with a gold medal finish, even as 34 Indians created new records in the last five days of the Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior Weightlifting Championships at Gold Coast, Australia. On the final day of the competition, India bagged two yellow metals, one silver and two bronze to wrap up their successful campaign

New York, Sep 9: It took eight years but Rafa Nadal gained his revenge, ending Juan Martin del Potro's hopes of another dream run to the U.S. Open final with a shockingly ruthless semi-final victory on Friday. The 4-6 6-0 6-3 6-2 thrashing also moved the Spaniard to the brink of a 16th grand slam title. In 2009 it was Del Potro who dismissed the Spaniard in straight sets to reach the Flushing

Mumbai, Sept 8: Premier Futsal on Friday announced actress Sunny Leone as the co-owner and brand ambassador of the Kochi-based franchise Kerala Cobras. Premier Futsal Season 2 is set to kick off on September 15 in Mumbai where matches will be played at NSCI, Worli until September 17. The next round of matches are to be played in Bengaluru from September 19 to September 24 at Koramangala Indoor

New Delhi, Sept 8: Women's national hockey coach Waltherus Marijne was, on Friday, named chief coach of the Indian men's team -- a stunning decision given that the Dutchman has no prior experience of handling a senior men's side. Marijne replaced Roelant Oltmans, who was sacked after a few ordinary performances in the past few months. Besides, World Cup-winning junior team coach Harendra Singh was

New York, Sept 8: India's Sania Mirza reached her first Grand Slam semi-final of the 2017 season with Shuai Peng after edging past Timea Babos and Andrea Hlavackova in a close two-set battle at the US Open. The fourth seeded Indo-Chinese pair dispatched the fifth seed Hungarian-Czech combo 7-6 (5), 6-4 in the quarter-final which lasted one hour and 56 minutes. It is season's best performance for

Tbilisi (Georgia), Sep 7: Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand suffered a shocking defeat at the hands of Canadian Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov and now faces ouster threat from the World Chess Cup here. Having struggled in the second game of the first round that he eventually managed to draw, Anand's dip in form continued against Kovalyov who kept his nerves in a thrilling game after a

Colombo, Sept 7: In a tragic turn of events, an Indian cricketer drowned in a swimming pool and died on Tuesday. The Gujarat-based 12-year-old cricketer was in the Island nation with the under-17 team to participate in a tournament. According to reports in Sri Lanka media, four members of the squad were in the swimming pool of a hotel in Pamunugama on Tuesday evening. The boy, who reportedly

New Delhi, Sept 6: High on confidence after making a clean sweep of the three-match Test series and the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series, dominant India will look to outclassing Sri Lanka in the one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) at the R. Premadasa Stadium here on Wednesday. The Virat Kohli-led India side, which landed in the Emerald Isle in July, thumped the hosts 5-0 in the five

New Delhi, Sept 6: South Africa leg-spinner Imran Tahir has claimed he and and his family were humiliated and expelled by the Pakistan High Commission when he went there to apply for visa to travel to Pakistan for the World XI series. Tahir, 38, was born in Lahore before moving to the United Kingdom for a woman he loved. Years later, he travelled to South Africa where his skills fastracked him to

Colombo, Sept 5: India would aim to cap off their super successful Sri Lanka tour with another ruthless victory in the one-off T20 International here tomorrow. Any other result than India's resounding win looks highly unlikely tomorrow, consdering the visitors' rampaging run in the preceding Test and ODI series, where they whitewashed the hosts 3-0 and 5-0 respectively. The game provides India an