The province of Alberta withdrew its support for a possible bid to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games, ending the chance of bringing the multi-sport event back to Canada. Minister of Tourism and Sport Joseph Schow said that hosting the Games,...
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22nd Sep 2026 | Updated at 02:52am 22nd Sep 2026
Breaking barriers inside and outside the ring
Balraj Singh Khara is a British professional super-middleweight boxer who was born with a hearing impairment. Raised in Feltham, West London, he turned professional in 2022 and has built a reputation for resilience, determination and focus,...
Glasgow passes Commonwealth Games baton to Amdavad
- 06 Aug 2026
As the Glasgow Commonwealth Games concluded, India officially began the countdown to the 2030 Commonwealth Games in Ahmedabad with a vibrant handover ceremony celebrating the country's culture, heritage and modern identity through music, dance...
HCI London celebrates women in blue at India House
The High Commission of India in the UK hosted a special reception for the Indian women’s cricket team at India House, attended by Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal.During the event, Captain Harmanpreet Kaur, Head Coach Amol...
Dementia affected football fans' gesture
Football fans living with dementia made history at Wembley Stadium when they joined England and Wales players as mascots for their international friendly. As part of the official charity partnership between Alzheimer's Society and The Football...
Double gold for India at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest
- 25 Sep 2024
India made history by achieving a double gold in the Chess Olympiad, winning outright in both the open and women's sections. Both Indian teams dominated in the final round, securing convincing 3½-½ victories. In the open section, Dommaraju Gukesh...
Neeraj finishes second in Diamond League, misses crown by 1 cm
- 18 Sep 2024
Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra agonisingly missed the Diamond League crown by just one centimeter as he finished second for the second consecutive year with a throw of 87.86m in the season finale Diamond League series at Brussels.
Tilak Varma struck his first international half-century, but it was not enough to prevent India from slipping to a dramatic two-wicket defeat in the second T20I against West Indies in Guyana. After winning the toss and choosing to bat first,...
India's 17-year-old chess player D Gukesh breake new ground and adding new feathers to his cap. He made it to the world’s top-10 in live rating list (Elo...
Aditi Swami (17) became the youngest-ever world champion and won India's first-ever individual title at the senior level by defeating Mexico's Andrea Bercerra...
The Indian team's choice to rest captain Rohit Sharma and star batsman Virat Kohli backfired miserably as none of the World Cup contenders were able to handle the West Indies' pace, bounce, and spin, achieving a pitiful 180 in 40. 5 overs in...
The Indian women’s hockey team produced a dominant performance to comfortably beat hosts Spain 3-0 and win the 100th Anniversary Spanish Hockey Federation International Tournament at Barcelona.
Indian shooters and compound archers ruled the roost, bagging six medals including four gold at the World University Games in Chengdu, China on Monday. Shooters Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Arjun Babuta joined forces...
India overtook England and Australia as the world's top cricketing nations, revolutionising the sport in ways that its early proponents in Melbourne or London could never have envisaged.
The Indian contingent finished their Sri Lanka Athletics National Championships 2023 stint with 14 medals including nine gold, four silvers and a bronze over the weekend, as per reports. Indian athletes clinched six medals on the final day of...
- 02 Aug 2023
In a big boost to Team India’s plans for the ODI World Cup in India in October-November, fit again pacer Jasprit Bumrah is back after almost a year, and that too as a captain, for the T20Is in Ireland in August. In another piece of good news...
