World Champion D. Gukesh will lead India against GM Hikaru Nakamura and the USA in a new five-board team match which will take place at the Esports Stadium in Arlington on October 4. Titled ‘Checkmate: USA vs. India’, the event will also see GM Fabiano Caruana take on GM Arjun Erigaisi, including a duel between two of the world’s biggest chess ambassadors, … Read more
A total of 20 players have been retained by the nine teams ahead of the Prime Volleyball League (PVL) Season 4 auction, the organisers announced on Thursday. The Player Auction for Season 4, where last season’s MVP Jerome Vinith and a host of star players are set to go under the hammer, will be held … Read more
BOXING India tops Asian U-15 Boxing Championships Putting up a dominant show, India topped the U-15 category by claiming a rich haul of 25 medals, including 10 gold, by women pugilists at the U-15 and U-17 Asian Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan. The women boxers secured 10 golds and four bronze medals across the 15 … Read more
Vladimir Fedoseev lost only one game in the Blitz round to finish with a remarkable 15.5 out of a possible 18 points and emerge as the 2025 Grand Chess Tour: Rapid & Blitz champion in Warsaw on Wednesday. He ended the tournament with 26.5 points, five clear of second-placed Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, taking home a prize … Read more
CRICKET Zimbabwe Tour Of Bangladesh April 28 – May 2: 2nd Test – Chattogram West Indies Tour Of Ireland May 21: 1st ODI – Dublin May 23: 2nd ODI – Dublin May 25: 3rd ODI – Dublin Zimbabwe Tour Of England May 22-26: One-off Test – Nottingham West Indies Tour Of England May 29: 1st … Read more
Vladimir Fedoseev delivered a commanding performance on the opening day of the Blitz segment at the 2025 Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland. The Russian Grandmaster remained unbeaten through nine rounds, extending the momentum from his flawless showing in the Rapid rounds. The reigning European champion in both Rapid and Chess960 formats continued … Read more
SHOOTING Kumar Surendra Singh Championship: Anjum wins 50m 3P gold, Prachi pockets junior gold Olympian Anjum Moudgil was in top form as she won the 50-metre rifle 3-positions gold with a 5.9 point margin over the junior champion Prachi Gaikwad in the 23rd Kumar Surendra Singh championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, on … Read more
Pratika Rawal became only the second Indian woman cricketer, after former India captain Mithali Raj, to score five consecutive fifty-plus scores in ODIs, achieving the feat during a match against South Africa in Colombo on Tuesday. Opening the innings, Rawal brought up her fifty in 58 balls, reaching the milestone with a six. She eventually … Read more
Delivering under pressure, Indian Grandmaster Aravindh Chithambaram put it across Frenchman Alireza Firouzja in the final game to finish joint first with 11 points after the end of the rapid section of Superbet Rapid and Blitz tournament, a part of the Grand Chess Tour. The Indian wild card entrant needed to match Firouzja and Slovenian … Read more
Aravindh Chithambaram and R. Praggnanandhaa produced strong performances on the third day of the ongoing Grand Chess Tour: Superbet Rapid & Blitz tournament in Poland. The former, in particular, continued his fine form from the second day, winning two games against Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Alireza Firouzja in the seventh and ninth rounds today. Praggnanandhaa, … Read more