Sports

Chandigarh, Jul 16: Veteran Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna outclassed the Korean pair of Seong Chan Hong and Hong Chung in straight sets to guide India to the Davis World Group Play-offs as the hosts took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the Asia/Oceania Group I tie, here today. The Indian pair dished out a dominations performance to trounce the visitors 6-3 6-4–6-4 in just one hour and 41 minutes at

New Delhi, Jul 16: Bolstered by Australian Open triumph, India ace shuttler Saina Nehwal says she is now working on her half smashes under the watchful eyes of coach Vimal Kumar to get closer to the goal of winning a gold medal at next month’s Rio Olympics. “The victory in Australia came at just the right time. I was really looking forward for some change and nothing boosts confidence like winning

Jul 15: Sania Mirza has the tenacity to be calm on the court and over the years has built up her personality to shut people up when a stray question comes her way. And after wording her career in her autobiography titled ‘Ace Against Odds’, she put words on mainstream media to hit back at TV journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for a sexist question. On air with Sardesai, Mirza was questioned about

New Delhi, July 14: Sports Minister Vijay Goel today said that giant screens will be put up all around Delhi for people to watch the Indian athletes perform in the Rio Olympics beginning August 5. "We want to take sports to every doorstep and keeping that philosophy in mind, we have decided to install big screens all around the city during the Olympics. The screens will be put up in areas like

London, Jul 14: A 20-year-old Sikh man was kicked out of an overnight queue to watch the Wimbledon tennis championships as he apparently made other people around him “uncomfortable”. The unnamed tennis-lover took to Facebook last week to voice his anger at being thrown out and claimed it was an act of racism, cases of which have reported a rise in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European

Chengdu, Jul 14: Harika Dronavalli, India's young Grand Master from Guntur, is just a step away from winning her first Fide women's Grand Prix chess title. Harika played an aggressive game to earn another crucial half a point to maintain her position at the top of the score board today. This is the tenth and penultimate round of the tournament and she just needs a draw and a couple of other games

New Delhi, Jul 13: Defender Sushila Chanu will lead the 16-member Indian women's hockey team at the forthcoming Olympic Games to be held at Rio de Janeiro from August 5 to 21. Hockey India on Tuesday named Sushila as the skipper in place of Ritu Rani who was dropped from the squad by the selectors due to poor form and attitude problems. Sushila's colleague in the backline, Deepika will assist her

New Delhi, Jul 13: Two superstars of Bollywood -- Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan – are set to formally launch the autobiography of Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza. Mirza book – Ace Against Odds – is going to launch for the 2nd time on Wednesday as it was originally launched a week ago, explained Sania's father, Imran Mirza to The Times of India. It took Sania, 29, five years to compile the book

New Delhi, Jul 12: In one of the most significant decisions in recent times, Hockey India named senior goalkeeper PR Sreejesh as the captain of the national team for the Rio Olympics, removing long-time skipper Sardar Singh. Sreejesh, one of the finest custodians in world hockey at the moment, was rewarded after the team, under his leadership, ended up with a silver medal at the blue riband six

Mumbai, Jul 12: Top Indian squash players, including defending men's and women's champions Saurav Ghosal and Joshna Chinnappa would fight it out for top honours along with others like Harinderpal Sandhu and Dipika Pallikal in the 73rd Senior National Squash Championship starting in Mumbai on Tuesday. World no. 10 Ghosal, who has won the title 10 times, and 14-time winner Joshna, ranked 19th