Ryan Williams gave up his Australian passport to play for India. He made his debut in March 2026 against Hong Kong. (Pic credit: AIFF) NEW DELHI: India’s Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) player policy, ignited after the All India Football Federation’s (AIFF) proposal during the Special General Meeting (SGM) on June 20, has stirred a…
Kochi/Bhubaneswar: Nattika, a small fishing village in Kerala’s Thrissur district, got a rude awakening on Saturday when Ancy Sojan broke the 22-year-old national record in women’s long jump.About 2,000 kilometers away from the Bhubaneswar sand trap where she landed at a height of 6.88m, two local rickshaw drivers realized their sporting dreams instead and became…
Lauren Jackson (Special Arrangements) SingaporeTimesofIndia.com: For years, the most important battle in women’s sports has been one: visibility.It needs TV coverage, sponsorship, bigger crowds and, most importantly, the right to be taken seriously. In much of the sports world, the battle has changed.The Women’s Super League has changed the business landscape of women’s cricket in…
Lauren Jackson (Special Arrangements) SingaporeTimesofIndia.com: For years, the most important battle in women’s sports has been one: visibility.It needs TV coverage, sponsorship, bigger crowds and, most importantly, the right to be taken seriously. In much of the sports world, the battle has changed.The Women’s Super League has changed the business landscape of women’s cricket in…
national record holder Sarvesh Kushala Having already passed the 2.30m mark, the high jumper said his next goal is even higher. After becoming the first Indian to run 2.3m, Kushale is now targeting a gold medal Asian Games and broke through the 2.35m barrier.Kushale created history by clearing 2.31m at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships…
Ancy Sojan Edappilly of India (PTI Photo/Gurinder Osan) Indian Athletics witnessed a historic day at the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar as two long-standing national records were broken. Kerala’s Ancy Sojan put in a stellar performance in the women’s long jump event, breaking the record held by one of India’s greatest athletes Anju Bobby…
Sarvesh Kushala. (File photo) Sarvesh Kushala He set a new national record in the men’s high jump with a clearance of 2.31m at the 65th National Senior Inter-State Athletics Championships at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Friday. The Maharashtra athlete also became the first Indian high jumper to officially cross the 2.30m mark.The 31-year-old broke…
Neeraj Chopra (Image credit: X) New Delhi: India’s javelin stars Neeraj Chopra Athletics Federation of India (AFI) selection committee chairman Adil Summariwala on Saturday confirmed that he will compete in the Asian Games in Japan later this year in a bid to defend his gold medal.The two-time Olympic medalist has already confirmed his participation in…
Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu will lead the Indian weightlifting team at the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which begins on July 23 in Glasgow.Mirabai, who has won three Commonwealth Games medals – two gold and one silver – will compete in the women’s 48kg category.She will compete in the women’s 58kg category along with…
Indian shooters at the ISSF Junior World Championships in Germany. (Image source: NRAI) New Delhi: India topped the medal table at the 2026 ISSF Junior World Championships in Sur, Germany, and ended its run with a bang with 24 medals, including 7 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze, underlining its growing dominance in world shooting.The…
Representative image (AP photo) A historic heatwave sweeping France has thrown this weekend’s Diamond League meeting in Paris into uncertainty, with police authorities calling for the prestigious athletics event to be canceled, citing increasing pressure on emergency services and worsening weather conditions.The Paris police department announced on Friday that it had asked organizers to cancel…
‘Peddy’ box office collection day 21: Ram Charan thanks viewers as sports drama hits Rs 332.82 crore at global box office Ram Charan’s Peddy has been in theaters for 21 days and continues to add to its impressive box office tally.Sacnilk’s latest trade forecast shows that the film brought in a net profit of Rs…
Gurindervir Singh (ANI Photo) New Delhi: A carefully preserved Rs 500 note tucked inside the back cover of his mobile phone bears witness to every step of sprinter Gurindervir Singh’s extraordinary journey. The folded note, which the national record holder calls his “lucky charm”, is a reminder of those struggling days when he found it…
Anushka Yadav (Image: AFI) New Delhi: A star was born at the National Inter-State Championships on Wednesday as Uttar Pradesh’s 18-year-old hammer thrower Anushka Yadav rewrote the history of Indian athletics with a stunning performance to become the country’s youngest national record holder.In the competition held at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, the girl from…
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Kirsty Coventry (AP Photo) New Delhi: India’s bid to host the 2036 Olympics became clearer on Wednesday after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a revised host selection process that will culminate in the announcement of the winning bid by mid-2029.At the 146th session of the International Olympic Committee in…
New Delhi: Indian paddlers Manika Batra Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) has been warned litigation If she is not given a “factual explanation” as she claimed that her exclusion from the Indian squad for the upcoming Asian Games was an arbitrary decision.The two-time Olympian made her intentions known on Wednesday, saying she was not…
Deepika Padukone hailed the ICC’s maternity leave refund policy as a “landmark moment for women in sport” during an 8-hour shift debate (Image: Instagram) Deepika Padukone has welcomed the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) newly published guidelines for female cricketers returning from maternity leave, calling it a “landmark moment for women in sport”.The actress took to…
Indian women’s 4x100m relay team (Image: AFI) New Delhi: The Indian women’s 4x100m relay team put in a stellar performance at the 2026 Asian Relay Championships, clocking a season-best time of 43.85 seconds to clinch the gold medal in a thrilling final against formidable challengers China.The quartet of Srabani Nanda, SS Sneha, Sudeshna Shivankar and…