Police in Brazil have released 260 people arrested during an anti-World Cup rally here. Demonstrators vandalised public buildings and lit fires in Brazil’s largest city Saturday in protest at the cost of staging this year’s World Cup, reports Xinhua. Local media reported that the rally began peacefully before being infiltrated by the Black Bloc anarchist […]
World’s leading goalkeeper Jaap Stockmann is not sure of his future with the Netherlands hockey team post May-June World Cup, and if he is certain about anything it is his playing in the Hockey India League (HIL) as long as he stays fit and feels motivated. Stockmann, 29, says HIL could not have happened to […]
Somdev Devvarman’s win at the ATP Delhi Open paid him the dividend as the top-ranked Indian jumped 18 places to 78th position in the latest ATP rankings. Somdev, who lost in the semi-finals of the ATP Challenger at Kolkata and Chennai, Sunday dominated Russian top seed Alerksandr Nedovyesov in the final here to collect 100 […]
Top Indian men’s and women’s teams will go head to head as New Delhi gets ready to host 64th National Basketball Championship from Feb 26 to March 5 at the Thyagaraj Stadium. The Basketball Federation of India organised and IMG-Reliance supported event will feature many of the players who made the country proud by winning […]
World Squash Federation (WSF) president N. Ramachandran is encouraged by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) vision of introducing new sports in the Summer Games “sooner rather than later”. Ramachandran, who is also the newly-elected Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president, led the squash bid to be added to the 2020 Olympics. He travelled to the Sochi […]
India beat Sri Lanka by 76 runs in a fifth-place playoff semi-final of the ICC Under-19 World Cup at the ICC Academy here Monday. After being put in to bat, India scored 291/7 in their quota of 50 overs and bowled our neighbours Sri Lanka for 215 in 48.1 overs. Defending champions India lost their […]
A Zimbabwean association of voluntary organisations Monday called on the European Union (EU) to lift the sanctions on Zimbabwe’s president and his wife, while urging the government to carry on with political reforms and address governance issues that led to the fallout between the two. A statement from the National Association of Non-governmental Organisations (NANGO) […]
International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach Sunday hailed a successful Sochi Olympic Winter Games, saying in a press conference that the response from participants was “overwhelmingly positive”. The IOC chief said a series of record numbers also manifested the success of the games including the record number of 2,876 athletes from 88 NOCs, record […]
Russia’s Alexander Zubkov sped to a gold medal in four-man bobsleigh Sunday, to give the hosts their second gold medal in this discipline. The 39-year-old pilot won his second gold at Sochi, after victory in the two-man event, by completing four clean runs in front of an ecstatic crowd at Sanki Sliding Centre, reports Xinhua. […]
Ranchi Rhinos beat Uttar Pradesh Wizards 3-2 in a penalty shoot-out to finish third in the Hockey India League (HIL) at the Morabadi Hockey Stadium here Sunday. Both teams were tied 1-1 after 70 minutes. Drag-flick specialist V.R. Raghunath struck for Wizards in the 15th minute before Manpreet Singh foxed three defenders to level the […]