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Madrid: Jude Bellingham's promising start with Real Madrid has quickly helped quell some of the disappointment prompted by Karim Benzema's departure and the club's failure to bring in Kylian Mbappé. Madrid's top signing so far this year got off to a red-hot start, scoring once...

Baku: Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa's dream run in the FIDE World Cup ended at the hands of world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen, who beat him 1.5-0.5 in the tie-break here Thursday after the classical games ended in a stalemate. The second 25+10 tie-break game ended...

Baku: Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa lost the first tie-break game to Magnus Carlsen in the FIDE World Cup final here Thursday. In a game where fortunes swung from one side to another, the 18-year-old Indian sensation surrendered the point after coming under time pressure. Carlsen...

Chennai: For someone, who took to chess just because his parents wanted him and his sister to wean away from watching television, R Praggnanandhaa has charted his own path to glory and is closer to greatness than ever. The 18-year old wonderboy has long been...

Kuala Lumpur: Indian Super League club Mumbai City FC have been drawn against Al Hilal SFC, FC Nassaji Mazandaran, and PFC Navbahor Namangan in Group D of the 2023-24 AFC Champions League as the draw conducted by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) here Thursday. It...

New Delhi: UWW, the world governing body for wrestling, has suspended the WFI for not conducting its elections on time, a development which will not allow Indian grapplers to compete at the upcoming World Championships under the Indian flag. The Indian wrestlers will have to...

Birmingham: Indian men's blind cricket team Wednesday defeated Bangladesh by 3 wickets in the ongoing International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) World Games 2023 in Birmingham. Having registered two consecutive wins after facing a defeat in the first match, the men's team used all their experience...

Jaipur: Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur has announced to open a National Centre of Excellence in Rajasthan. Thakur made the announcement Wednesday after inaugurating 33 Khelo India Centres developed by the Central government in Rajasthan. Rajasthan Sports Minister Ashok Chandna asked the Union Minister to...

Hangzhou: With just 30 days left for the 19th Asian Games to open in Hangzhou, China, nations and regions across Asia are eagerly anticipating the upcoming sports event. Yasuhiro Inomata, deputy secretary-general of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organising Committee, expressed high hopes for the Hangzhou...

New Delhi: Rajeshwari Kumari shot the day’s second-best score of 73, on day one of the Women’s Trap shooting qualifiers at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship (All Events) in Baku, Azerbaijan. As a result, she ended the day favourably placed fourth. London...