Quimcy Dsouza (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s Quimcy Joaquim Dsouza produced a stunning comeback against Japan’s top-seeded Yuina Sakamoto before following it up with another convincing victory to march into the women’s singles semifinals in Teqball at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Friday.Making her Asian Games debut in a sport appearing at the continental Games…
England wicketkeeper-batter Jos Buttler etched his name in the record books during the third T20I against Sri Lanka, becoming the first cricketer in the world to reach 15,000 runs in T20 cricket. Buttler achieved the landmark after surpassing West Indies great Kieron Pollard’s previous tally of 14,999 runs.The England star reached the milestone with a…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Election Commission for barring TMC from using party name and symbol in the upcoming assembly bypolls in West Bengal, accusing the poll panel and Bharatiya Janata Party of joining forces to split a party.In a social media post on X, Rahul pointed…
Nagoya: India start favourites to win the women’s cricket gold here, but Harmanpreet Kaur and her team have a bigger prize on their mind — the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, where cricket will return to the Games after 128 years. Cricket made its only previous Olympic appearance at Paris in 1900, when Great Britain and…
Mohammed Rizwan approaches ICC ACU (Agency Image) Mohammad Rizwan’s troubles following Pakistan’s England tour have taken another turn, with the wicketkeeper-batter approaching the ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) for clarity over the seizure of his mobile phone by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA). The move comes days after the Lahore High Court dismissed his…
People in Chennai should not alienate Delhi and vice versa, the court said NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Thursday told Tamil Nadu govt that it needed to change its mindset towards teaching Hindi in schools and should thrash out issues with Centre on setting up Navodaya Vidyalayas in every district.As Vijay-led TN govt took the same…
Nagoya: Commuters walk past a banner ahead of the 20th Asian Games at the railway station in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo/Atul Yadav) NAGOYA: Torrential rains battered this city last week, forcing evacuations, disrupting train services and even prompting the rescheduling of some Asian Games events. Step into Nagoya today, though, and there is little sign…
File Pic: Gautam Gambhir and Hardik Pandya. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India head coach Gautam Gambhir has made it clear that Hardik Pandya will have to build his way back into international cricket through game time, with the all-rounder currently not part of India’s squads after not playing enough cricket since the IPL.Following India’s 127-run…
NEW DELHI: Air India Express suspended eight crew members for three months for failing to complete the mandatory post-flight declaration, news agency ANI reported, citing sources.The incident took place on August 2 after the flight landed in Amritsar from Dubai.According to ANI, the crew was required to undergo the post-flight declaration within two hours of…
India at the Asian Games (AI generated representative image) “Abki baar, sau paar” was the rallying cry when India arrived at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September 2023.By the time the Games ended, it had become more than a slogan. India had crossed the 100-medal barrier for the first time in its Asian Games history,…
