Indian cyclist Dinesh Kumar Just days before boarding the flight to Glasgow for Commonwealth Games, Indian cyclist Dinesh Kumar sent out a timely reminder of his form by breaking his own national record once again.The Indian Air Force rider clocked 4:39.118 in the men’s 4,000m individual pursuit at the selection trials, shaving nearly three seconds…
Sharmila Dhankar (ANI Photo) New Delhi: For Sharmila Dhankar, every throw carries the weight of a life rebuilt. From growing up in poverty in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district and surviving domestic abuse in her first marriage to selling the family home to sustain her sporting dream, the 40-year-old para shot putter has turned adversity into ambition…
India’s batsman Abhishek Sharma (AP Photo) India completed a 3-0 T20I series sweep over Zimbabwe, with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi dominating the headlines after the 15-year-old became the youngest player ever to win the Player of the Series award in men’s international cricket.Sooryavanshi announced himself with a blistering 50 off just 18 balls in the first T20I,…
India’s Jhandu Kumar celebrates his bronze medal. (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: When “Jhandu Kumar” echoed across the Commonwealth Games arena in Glasgow, it was no longer a name that invited ridicule. It was a name that had just delivered India’s first medal of the 2026 Commonwealth Games.For years, Bihar’s para powerlifter had endured taunts over…
Chief guests inaugurate the first NTPC National Ranking Archery Championship at the Shooting Range Archery Academy in Jaipur Jaipur: The first NTPC National Ranking Archery Championship, organised jointly by the Archery Association of India and the Rajasthan Archery Association, was inaugurated at the Shooting Range Archery Academy here on Friday.The presence of international and national-level…
The schedule for the men’s and women’s cricket tournaments at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya was announced on Thursday. Both the Indian teams will be seeded and start their campaigns directly in the quarterfinals. The women’s competition will be held from September 17 to 22, while the men’s tournament is scheduled from September 24…
At 31, three-time Olympian Manika Batra has plenty of honours in her kitty Panaji: Manika Batra took time to get into the groove at Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT), the country’s franchise-based league.Representing Ahmedabad APL Pipers, the experienced paddler was stunned by 16-year-old debutant Syndrela Das in her opening match, suffered a reverse against another teenager,…
Inter-village tourneys are organised almost everywhere in South Goa Panaji: South Goa comprises just 0.12% of the national population, but players from the district enjoy more time on the field than any other region in the top-tier Indian Super League (ISL).South Goa lead the rankings with 8.2% minutes on the field, while Aizawl (6.2%), North…
Syndrela Das, 16, stunned Manika Batra in her maiden UTT season Panaji: This is no fairy tale about a damsel-in-distress, glass slippers and midnight curfews. This one is about Syndrela Das, named after the famed mythical princess Cinderella. And it’s for real.In 2018, when the second edition of Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT), the country’s premier…
3 min readJul 7, 2026 01:41 PM IST Veteran India batsman Ajinkya Rahane has reacted to Sanju Samson’s omission from India’s three-match T20I tour to Zimbabwe later this month, stating that he found it odd to see a ‘hero’ of India’s T20 World Cup-winning squad not featuring in the squad for the series. Samson was…
