Sports Shorts: India record best-ever haul in World Para Athletics

IMAGE: India secured 13 qualifying spots at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Photograph: SAI Media/Twitter India signed off the campaign at the World Para Athletics Championship with their biggest ever......

Sports Shorts: Force India complete 2019 grid with Stroll

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: Williams' Lance Stroll. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Force India completed Formula One's 2019 driver line-up on Friday......

Sports Shorts: World record weightlifter Lin gets eight-year ban

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday   IMAGE: Taiwan's Lin Tzu Chi reacts after setting a new Asian Games record of 116kg in the women's 63kg snatch weightlifting......

2017, a year of revival for Indian boxing

IMAGE:  Indian pugilist MC Mary Kom after winning her fifth Asian Boxing Championship gold medal in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Photograph: PTI Medals galore at most tournaments they gloved......

Frenchman Cottalorda to coach Indian women boxers

In a historic first for Indian boxing, Frenchman Stephane Cottalorda, an AIBA three-star coach, has been roped in to train the country's women pugilists for a nearly two-year term. The 41-year-old,......