New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) Former Asian Games gold medal-winning wrestler Satpal, who also coached inspirational Sushil Kumar, was Sunday named for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award, while national hockey team captain Sardar Singh and two-time badminton World Championships bronze medallist P.V. Sinhdu were among the five sportspersons chosen for this year’s Padma Shri awards. […]
Harare, Jan 23 (IANS) Ahead of the Feb 14 World Cup, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) Friday restored Andy Waller as coach of its national cricket team seven months after he was dismissed from the post. Another former national team and Under-19 coach Walter Chawaguta has been appointed fielding coach for the team during the World Cup […]
The Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court, which started as a case of corruption in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL), has finally consumed the Indian cricket board and possibly its highly ambitious strongman Narayanswamy Srinivasan. In the last three decades or so, cricket matters came before India’s apex court more than once, […]
Lucknow, Jan 22 (IANS) Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu, Parupalli Kashyap and Kidambi Srikanth reached the quarter-finals of the $120,000 Syed Modi International India Masters at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium here Thursday. While Olympic bronze medallist Saina defeated compatriot Rituparna Das 21-15, 21-9 in 36 minutes, two-time World Championships bronze medallist Sindhu needed 31 […]
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly Thursday refused to comment over speculation that he would be joining the BJP. The cricket great, who has been nominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Swachh Bharat Mission, however, asserted that he was serious about making the campaign a success. “I have got […]
Bengaluru, Jan 17 (IANS) A young Dempo Sports Club held defending champions Bengaluru FC to a goalless draw in their opening Hero I-League match here Saturday with the hosts wasting a first-half penalty that skipper Sunil Chhetri failed to convert. BFC, who had beaten Dempo 2-1 a week ago in Goa to claim the Federation […]
Puducherry, Jan 17 (IANS) Soumyajit Ghosh upstaged top seed G. Sathiyan 4-2 to regain the men’s crown while Mouma Das outclassed Poulami Ghatak by the same margin to claim the women’s title at the 76th senior national table tennis competition here Saturday. Ghosh took home Rs.2 lakh and Das, who was taking on Ghatak for […]
Sydney, Jan 16 (IANS) Indo-American pair of Sania Mirza and Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated top-seeded Americans Abigail Spears and Raquel Kops-Jones 6-3, 6-3 to win the women’s doubles title of the Sydney International tennis tournament here Friday. It was Sania’s first doubles title of the season and 23rd of her career. The Indo-American duo needed 69 […]
Puducherry, Jan 16 (IANS) Haryana paddler Jubin Kumar sent reigning national champion and No.3 seed Sanil Shetty packing in the men’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the 76th Senior Nationals at the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium here Friday. Jubin won 4-3 (7-11, 9-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8). No.2 seed Devesh Karia of Gujarat lost to qualifier […]
London, Jan 16 (IANS) English football club Manchester United’s coach Louis van Gaal has said out-of-favour Colombian striker Radamel Falcao needs to prove himself at the club. “He has to prove himself. We have made a deal and everything is clear. It’s not the end of the year so he has a chance,” Van Gaal […]