New Delhi, June 8: Indian professional boxer Vijender Singh will face Australia’s Kerry Hope for the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Asia Super Middleweight championship decider on July 16 here, it was announced on Monday. The 30-year-old Indian is coming into the championship bout after triumphing in all the six boutsRead More →
By Ajeyo Basu New Delhi, June 4: Muhammad Ali was not a mere boxer, he was much more, the greatest as he claimed and adored by millions around the globe. He was not loved for his amazing boxing skills alone, more for his endearing beliefs. He was an inspiration forRead More →
Paris, June 2: India’s tennis stars Sania Mirza and Leander Paes reached the French Open mixed doubles semi-finals here on Thursday. Sania and her mixed doubles partner Ivan Dodig beat Jan Chan and Max Mirnyi to move into the semi-finals of the French Open tennis tournament. The second seeds wonRead More →
Mumbai, May 30: Star batsman Rohit Sharma, who was on Monday named the CEAT Indian Cricketer of the Year, wished to be a part of the country’s World No.1 Test team. India is scheduled to play four away Test matches against the West Indies followed by three home Test seriesRead More →
Mumbai, May 29: Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar on Saturday launched his premium menswear and and accessories brand, and film star Riteish Deshmukh walked the ramp for it. About his brand True Blue, Sachin said, “In the last 24 years if I wasn’t in whites on the field, I was inRead More →
Mumbai, May 28: The first national Indigenous women’s team has completed its historic 10-day tour of India with back-to-back matches in Mumbai on Saturday. The team battled harsh conditions throughout the tour – with temperatures at times pushing beyond 45 degrees – to finish with one win and wealth ofRead More →
Paris, May 26: India’s tennis stars Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna got their French Open campaign off to a winning start as the trio won their respective women’s doubles and men’s doubles matches to enter the second round here on Wednesday. World No.1 women’s doubles pair of SaniaRead More →
Melbourne, May 25: All-rounder Moises Henriques’s experience of playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has earned him a call-up to the Test side as Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday announced a 15-member squad for the three-match Test series in Sri Lanka in July. CA national selector Rod Marsh saidRead More →
Melbourne, May 20: Players in Australia’s biggest sports competition, the Australian Football League (AFL), may go on strike if the Australian rules league management do not agree to pay them a fixed percentage of league revenues. The AFL Players Association (AFLPA), which represents the competition’s 800 players, said it wouldRead More →
above: MouradLaachraoui (M) after winning the gold medal Montreux (Switzerland), May 20: A Belgian whose elder brother was a suicide bomber in the terrorist attacks carried out in Brussels in March has won a gold medal at the European Taekwondo Championships. Mourad Laachraoui, brother of Najim Laachraoui, won the 54Read More →