India's hopes of winning its first medal in squash at the Commonwealth Games received a severe blow when top female player Dipika Pallikal pulled out of the women's and mixed doubles due to mild fever which she developed before the start of the October 3-14 event. The promising 19-year-old had earlier opted out of the singles due to the illness.
Plagued by injury to two of their team, India finished sixth, even as Australia swelled their medal tally at the Commonwealth Games with a gold in the men's artistic gymnastics at Indira Gandhi stadium on Monday. Australia won the gold, with 259.050 points, in the men's artistic team subdivision two competition on the Vault, while England, who led into the final rotation, finished with the silver medal with 256.750 points.
There was no stopping the 'Indo-Pak Express' as Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi inched closer to their maiden Grand Slam title together by advancing to the US Open finals.
Ace shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Chetan Anand will spearhead the Indian challenge in the badminton event of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, from October 3 to 14. The Badminton Association of India on Thursday announced a 10-member squad, including five women, for the Games.
There's no American man in the top 10 in the ATP rankings issued on Monday - the first such instance since the rankings were introduced in 1973.
Verma wins compound individual gold, opens tally for India.
Even imagined Jacques Kallis and Kevin Pietersen batting together? On Sunday, they did, for the Royal Challengers, but without much success.
2018 was largely forgettable for Sushil Kumar -- India's only double Olympic-medallist -- and Sakshi Malik -- the country's first and only woman wrestler to win a medal at the biggest stage.
Ustad Zakir Hussain gets candid.
Narendra Modi and the father-son duo of Farooq and Omar Abdullah were on Monday engaged in bitter sparring, with the Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate alleging that the biggest blow to secularism in the country was delivered in Kashmir from where Kashmiri Pandits were forced out due to their religion.
Fed Cup holders Italy overcame two stern tests on Sunday to beat Ukraine 4-1 in Kharkiv and book their place in the semi-finals where they will play the Czech Republic.
Having recovered from a finger injury, leg-spinner Danish Kaneria is taking heart from his happy memories attached to the Sydney ground where he is all set for a come back to the Pakistan team for the second Test against Australia commencing from Sunday.
Dempo have appealed to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to revoke the Rs five lakh fine imposed on them for refusing to release their players Mahesh Gawli and Sameer Naik for the national camp early this month, national federation general secretary Alberto Colaco said on Tuesday.
Refusing to succumb to the lure of the cash-awash Indian Premier League (IPL), England pace duo of Stuart Broad and James Anderson on Monday opted out of the Twenty20 extravaganza, saying they want to keep themselves in prime condition for national duty. Broad said, through his management agency, that he would love to play in the IPL at some point of time but as of now international cricket topped his priority list.
Investigators probing US terror suspect David Headley's visit to India have found that certain periods of his stay in the country remained unaccounted for raising fear that certain undesirable local elements might have helped him during his tour.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Hot favourite Caster Semenya qualified for the women's 800metres semi-finals at the Rio Olympics with supreme ease on Wednesday and will no doubt be braced for another wave of discussions about her gender should she go on to take the gold medal on Saturday.
'I knew one day I will explode if I don't get some sanity with making music.'
A turbulent run-up to the Rio Games behind him, Narsingh Yadav will be eyeing a fairytale climax while old warhorse Yogeshwar Dutt would look to bid adieu with a second straight medal when India begin their Olympic wrestling campaign on Monday.
A resurgent Saina Nehwal and fast rising PV Sindhu, country's best women shuttlers, set up a summit clash against each other at the Syed Modi International badminton tournament in Lucknow.
Denmark's Thomas Laybourne had once bade adiue to badminton after losing interest in the game but now being close to fulfiling his world championship title dream along with his mixed doubles partner Kamilla Rytter Juhl, the shuttler feels he had taken the right decision of returning back to the sport.
Tennis players Sanaa Bhambri and Rushmi Chakravarthi feel only Indian citizens deserve to hold the tri-colour in international sporting events, an opportunity that has been denied to them by foreign passport holders of Indian origin in the past. The duo got a place in the Fed Cup team at the expense of Sunitha Rao and Shikha Uberoi -- both US citizens -- who were rendered ineligible for selection due to the new government policy.
Stalin owes his victory this time, like in 2019, to the hate-campaign of the local Hindutva forces, which kept haranguing him, and even his dead father, notes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Security agencies in India are now exploring the narcotics connection to terror outfits in India. Intelligence Bureau officials have alerted security agencies not to take any narcotics case lightly as they may be directly connected to terror related activities. IB sources told rediff.com that the best way to bust terror networks is to keep a close tab on the narcotics market. According to IB sources, the narcotics trade is one of the major sources of funding terror.
According to the IB, SIMI has recruited nearly 25,000 members across the country, of which 6,000 were recruited through the new agency which has come in handy since the crackdown by security agencies and their constant monitoring had made things difficult for the SIMI cadres.
Shiv Kapur rode on a blemish free seven-under 67 to shoot into joint lead while Jyoti Randhawa also sizzled with a flawless 67 to be tied for the third spot as 11 Indians made the cut at the $ 2.5 million Johnnie Walker Classic in Gurgaon on Friday.
'It was probably one of the most difficult decisions to take in my career so far. But I thought that it was time for me to take on a fresh and new challenge'
Even if the police step up their vigil against these illegal immigrants, these Sri Lankan youths will find a way to sneak into the country, as they live under desperate conditions.
Leander Paes didn't say in as many words that he will team up with estranged partner Mahesh Bhupathi for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but admitted that Bhupathi is the obvious choice for the mega event.
Photographer duo Monica Moghe and Sharik Varma have already covered 3,300 kilometres. This is their story.
On the eve of the second Test against India, Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami are still nursing a chest infection, while captain Shoaib Malik is limping with a sprained ankle and pacer Umar Gul is heading back to Pakistan.
As the year 2016 draws to a close, vote for the best Indian sportsperson of the year.
It quickly went from being a darling of investors to a liability
Former South African player Jonty Rhodes is keen on joining the breakaway Indian Cricket League (ICL), but is not sure whether he will be seen as a prospective candidate by the 'rebels'.
Pavithra Srinivasan feels the music of Tamil film Kadal offers a truly beautiful listening experience.
Vernon Philander claimed four wickets in a 42-run victory over Ireland in a rain-curtailed ODI.
'You'd also be wrong if you tried to lump me in the same category as Bernard Tomic'
Zimbabwean Black and South African Huber ended the Taiwanese wildcards' title hopes with a 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 victory.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
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