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New Delhi: A disappointing Asian Games campaign on its mind, the Indian women's hockey team wanted to set the record straight by clinching the gold medal in the just-concluded Asian Champions Trophy in Ranchi, skipper Savita Punia said. Touted as favourites, India fell short at...

Mumbai: Steve Smith Monday hoped Australia are peaking at the right time given they have five wins on the trot in the World Cup and are on the cusp of joining India and South Africa as the third team in the semifinals. While India are...

Luton: Luis Diaz returned to Liverpool's team and scored a late equalizer in its Premier League soccer match against Luton, with his father still missing after being kidnapped by a guerrilla group in Colombia. Diaz had missed Liverpool's last two games but trained since Thursday...

Sao Paulo: Three-time champion Max Verstappen led from the start and won the Brazilian Grand Prix. Sergio Perez of Red Bull finished in fourth place, distancing himself from Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in one of the few competitions left this season — a position for runner-up....

New Delhi: Virat Kohli is the "absolute best" batter in the world on the basis of his overall record and he did not need to equal legendary Sachin Tendulkar's record number of ODI hundreds to earn that tag, feels former Australia captain Ricky Ponting. Kohli...

New Delhi: Bangladesh Monday won the toss and opted to bowl first in their ICC World Cup match against Sri lanka which is being played amid severe pollution levels in the city. The notorious air pollution had put the match in jeopardy, forcing the ICC...

Goa/ Bhubaneswar: Odisha defeated the mighty Manipur 4-2 in the tiebreaker to become the champion of the 37th National Games Women’s Football competition at Tilak Maidan, at Vasco, Goa Sunday. The tiebreaker was applied after the two teams were locked 1-1 at the end of...

Colombo: Sri Lanka cricket board was Monday sacked by the government in the aftermath of the national team's heavy defeat to hosts India in the ongoing World Cup. The action followed a public outcry and calls by Ranasinghe to Shammi Silva-led SLC to resign after...

New Delhi: Very few cricketers have been as intensely scrutinised as Virat Kohli but even for a boss personality like him, it is tough to seclude himself from all that attention. The way an entire nation obsessively waited for Kohli's record-equalling 49th ODI century was...

Kolkata: The Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) President Snehasish Ganguly Sunday presented India batter Virat Kohli with a gold-plated bat on the occasion of his birthday Sunday. Kohli made the most of his birthday by scoring an unbeaten 101 against South Africa at the Eden...