New Delhi, Expert horse rider Fouaad Mirza, the first Indian to qualify for Olympic Games equestrian in 20 years, has completed the minimum eligibility requirement (MER) to compete in the Olympics Games' eventing discipline.

At the Baborowko Equestrian Festival in Poland on Saturday, Mirza retained the fi

Bengaluru, The current Indian men's hockey team is better equipped to finish on the podium than the one that competed at the 2016 Olympic Games Rio de Janerio, feels former India drag-flicker VR Raghunath.

"The Canada match which we drew cost us in 2016. That result put us in a different qualificatio

Doha,  A goalless draw against Asian champions Qatar in the first-leg of the 2022 World Cup qualifiers in 2019 in Doha remains one of the highlights of the career of Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, goalkeeper of the Indian football team. He led India in that match in the absence of an ailing Sunil Chhetri.

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Mumbai,   India should not underestimate the Kane Williamson-led New Zealand in the World Test Championship (WTC) final starting on June 18, former India pacer Ajit Agarkar said on Monday.

"I hope [India does] not [underestimate NZ]. I don't think the Indian team would be guilty to underest

Paris,  Polish tennis ace and world No. 9 Iga Swiatek posted an impressive 6-0, 7-5 win over Slovenia's Kaja Juvan to begin her French Open title defence in style on Monday.

The 20-year-old player, untouchable in the first set where she dropped just nine points but had to work hard in the second, too

Paris,  Playing in his fourth match of the year -- and in only his third tournament -- former world No.1 Roger Federer wasted no time getting back to winning ways, defeating qualifier Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan 6-2, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the French Open second round on Monday.

Eighth seed Federer, who won h

Dubai, Sanjeet on Monday won the gold medal in the men's 91kg event at the Asian Boxing Championships after upsetting 2016 Rio Olympics silver medallist and three-time Asian champion Vassiliy Levit of Kazakhstan 4-1.
 

Osijek (Croatia),  Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker, India's medal hopes in the women's 25m pistol event at the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games, shot identical precision round scores of 291 at the European Shooting Championship here on Monday.

Competing in the minimum qualification score (MQS) section

Islamabad,  The strength of Pakistans claim of success in the Reko Diq mines case might just be fading out as the Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) has challenged the ruling of a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court, which had allowed Pakistan to retain its assets, which were attached in connection to the case for the settlem

London,  The UK is in the early stages of a third wave of Covid-19, a scientist advising the UK government said, media reports said on Monday.

The B1617 variant, which was first detected in India in October 2020, had fuelled "exponential growth" and is responsible for at least three-quarters of