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Bambolim: Hernan Santana’s delightful free-kick failed to hand NorthEast United FC (NEUFC) a win as they were held to a 1-1 draw by FC Goa in their ISL encounter here Friday. Santana curled in a superb free-kick in just the second minute of the game...

Beijing: China further tightened its anti-pandemic measures in Beijing and across the country on Friday as scattered outbreaks continued ahead of the opening of the Winter Olympics in a little over two weeks. The actions appear to reflect nervousness about a possible surge in cases...

Cape Town: India captain Virat Kohli defended Friday his team’s verbal attack on the broadcasters after Dean Elgar’s contentious DRS reprieve. Kohli said that people on the outside don’t understand the trigger for such an outburst. Virat Kohli and his teammates lost their cool during...

Bhubaneswar:  The Queen’s Baton for the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) reached Friday the Odisha capital and was received and welcomed by chairman, Odisha Hockey Promotion Council, Dilip Tirkey and officials of Sports and Youth Services Department of the Odisha government and Odisha Olympic Association at...

Cape Town: India Test captain Virat Kohli rued the batting failures in the 2-1 series loss to South Africa. He added that the team will continue to back the under-fire senior batters Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane despite their failures in the three-match series. After leading...

Cape Town: India captain Virat Kohli Friday said they had a great first match but South Africa did amazingly well to win the series 2-1. He also pointed towards batting collapses becoming a factor in losing the series. After winning the first Test at Centurion...

Cape Town: A South African team going through one of their toughest transition phase embarrassed a star-studded Indian side with a clinical seven-wicket victory in the third Test here Friday. South Africa this won the three-match series 2-1, after India had won the first game...

New Delhi: Former South African cricketing great Daryll Cullinan and India's Sanjay Manjrekar lambasted Virat Kohli for his on-field behaviour Thursday, wherein the Test captain walked up to the stumps mic and insinuated that the South African broadcasters had not given a fair DRS review,...

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu progressed to the women's singles semifinals after defeating fellow Indian Ashmita Chaliha in straight games at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open badminton tournament here Friday. Top seed Sindhu, a former world champion, took 36 minutes to get the...

Melbourne: Here is the statement issued Friday by Alex Hawke, Australia's Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs, when he revoked Novak Djokovic's visa to enter the country: Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the...