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New Delhi, Oct 17: Rio Olympic medallist Sakshi Malik on Sunday got engaged to wrestler boyfriend Satyawart Kadian at her residence in Rohtak. The 24-year-old wrestler had earlier spoken about Satyawart in the media. "It was a private function. Only the families of the to-be bride and groom attended the event and it went very well," Satyawart's father Arjuna Awardee Satyavan Pehelwan said

Shanghai, Oct 16: Novak Djokovic’s problems came to an explosive head at the Shanghai Masters and the Serb now faces being knocked off world number one if he can’t find a quick solution. Djokovic arrived in Shanghai insisting mental equanimity, rather than titles, was his goal after a rough patch of form prompted a bout of soul-searching. The man who has dominated tennis for the past two years

Ahmedabad, Oct 16: India cruised to a comfortable 74-20 win over Argentina as the home raiders flexed their muscles to notch a Kabaddi World Cup record 54-point margin win at the TransStadia in Ahmedabad on Saturday. India hardly broke sweat as Rahul Chaudhari and Ajay Thakur combined to score 25 raid points between them. Manjeet Chhillar and Surender attained a high five each to score 11 points

Oct 15: Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi stormed to pole position for Sunday's Grand Prix of Japan after clocking the fastest time in qualifying, resuming his campaign to overtake championship leader Marc Marquez. The Yamaha man timed 1min 43.954sec at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit Saturday to grab his third pole of the season, as he attempts to close a 52-point gap against Honda's Marquez

Shanghai, Oct 15: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic hummed on the baseline to keep himself calm as he survived an almighty scare against 110th-ranked Mischa Zverev to reach the Shanghai Masters semi-finals on Friday. The defending champion, who has been struggling with motivation and injuries, lost the first set and was then taken to a second-set tie-break as tensions rose at the Qi Zhong Tennis Centre

Karachi, Oct 14: Sad news for Pakistan football as women's team striker Shahlyla Ahmadzai Balochhas died in a car accident on Thursday. Police officials said that Shahlyla was returning with her cousin, Fadeayan Baloch, with whom she was engaged too, from a restaurant when the Toyota Cruiser she was travelling in went out of control and crashed into a sidewalk and iron pool. The police said

Chennai, Oct 14: Defending champions Chennaiyin FC rode on first-half goals from Hans Mulder and Mehrajuddin Wadoo to beat FC Goa 2-0 recording their first win in the third edition of Indian Super League, in Chennai on Thursday evening. The goals were scored in the 15th and 26th minute as Marco Materazzi's side now has four points from three games while last year's finalists FC Goa now has

Bengaluru, Oct 13: As if the "psychological hurt" was not enough, Indian paracyclist Aditya Mehta was also left bleeding after being forced to remove his prosthetic limb as part of a security check at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) here. Two months after a similar incident of humiliation, Aditya had to go through the ordeal again when he was forced to remove his prosthetic limb on October

Oct 13: Lionel Messi, having reversed his decision to quit international football with a view to playing at another World Cup, could miss out on Russia 2018 if Argentina continue their downward spiral. Argentina played poorly in their last three qualifiers without the injured Messi and languish in fifth place in the South American group with Paraguay and Chile hot on their tails. Only four

Hyderabad, Oct 12: Expressing her inability to maintain a luxury car in Agartala, celebrated Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar has requested that she should instead be given a cash prize equivalent to the vehicle's cost even as the body which offered her the gift promised to "look" into the matter. Karmakar, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to qualify for the Olympics