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Melbourne: Sania Mirza's last women's doubles Grand Slam match ended in defeat as she went down  4-6 6-4 2-6 in the second round of the Australian Open here Sunday. Mirza and her Kazakh partner Anna Danilina, seeded eighth, lost to Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck and...

Ayodhya: The Wrestling Federation of India's (WFI) emergency general council meeting, scheduled here for Sunday, was called off after the Sports Ministry directed it to suspend all ongoing activities owing to the various allegations against the sports body and its president. The ministry Saturday said...

Bhubaneswar: India will take on New Zealand for the quarter-final spot at Kalinga Stadium here Sunday. The exit of key midfielder Hardik Singh along with a misfiring forward line can become a headache for India in today’s match. The last time when the Black Sticks...

New Delhi: Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia Saturday told IANS that there will be no protest Sunday as the wrestlers have trust in the government. "We will wait for the time given to us. This month's time we will wait and then decide what to do...

Raipur: After registering a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the second ODI here Saturday, India skipper Rohit Sharma showered praise on the bowlers, saying they have delivered every time they were asked to live up to a particular challenge. At the international debut...

Raipur: Captain Rohit Sharma smashed an eye-catching fifty while Shubman Gill remained unbeaten on 40 to guide India to a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over New Zealand in the second ODI at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Cricket Stadium, here Saturday. After the Indian bowlers, led...

New Delhi: The International Cricket Council is still hopeful of the sport's inclusion in Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and has "recommended" six-team T20 events for both men and women to the Games' organising committee. A final decision on the inclusion of cricket will be taken...

Bhubaneswar: The ongoing FIH Men's World Cup is turning out to be a high-scoring tournament with 130 goals being scored so far from 24 pool matches at an average of 5.41 goals per match. The 2010 World Cup in New Delhi, in which 12 teams...

Melbourne: It's been almost two full decades since this many US Men reached Week 2 at the Australian Open. And while that group in 2004 included a couple of Grand Slam champions in Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, everything is all so new for the...

New Delhi: The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has rejected all the allegations, including that of sexual harassment against its president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, saying "there is no scope for arbitrariness and mismanagement " in the sports body. "The WFI is managed by an...