When on July 25, 18-year-old Delhi girl Anahat Singh stood atop the podium at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Canada, becoming the first Indian ever to win the World Junior Squash Championship, it wasn’t just a victory for her. It was a watershed moment for Indian sports. Standing proudly in her corner was Indian squash legend Saurav Ghosal,…
This was always going to be a difficult Commonwealth Games for India. Maintaining the 50-medal benchmark, a streak the nation had carried into every edition since the turn of the century, looked improbable in Glasgow because of the significantly reduced sports programme. Sharmila Dhankar, left, and Shilpa K Shyla celebrate after winning gold and bronze…
Aug 2, 2026, 13:43:09 IST Commonwealth Games 2026 LIVE Updates Day 11: Where does India stand in the medal table? Commonwealth Games 2026 LIVE Updates Day 11: After a 16-medal haul on Day 10, India now has 39 medals in total at the CWG 2026 — 13 gold, 17 silver and 9 bronze. India stands…
Sakshi Choudhary was among five female Indian boxers who picked up a gold at the 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games on Saturday. In all, India picked up a record 10 boxing medals across men’s and women’s, and seven of them were gold. And thanks largely to those medals, they jumped to 4th from 10th in the…
Commonwealth Games 2026 Day 11 Live: Saturday proved to be India’s defining day at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow as the contingent produced one of its finest all-round performances in the history of the event. A record-breaking display by the boxing team, historic success in judo, milestone achievements in para sports and multiple medals…
New Delhi, The legendary P R Sreejesh has advised the Indian men’s hockey team to leave behind the unnecessary jersey controversy and off-field noises and focus on ending the country’s 50-year World Cup medal drought in next month’s quadrennial event in the Netherlands and Belgium. Shrug off jersey issue, focus on ending 50-year WC medal…
The Laugardælir Church near Selfoss is so easy to miss that I had to find it using Google Maps. A small white timber building and a scatter of headstones in the southern Icelandic quiet, an hour or so from Reykjavík, ringed by nothing but farmland. This is the final resting spot of Bobby Fischer, one…
Tanvi Sharma (Image credit: BAI) Indian badminton player Tanvi Sharma won the first BWF World Tour title of her career after beating Vietnam’s Thuy Linh Nguyen in the women’s singles final of the Taipei Open Super 300 on Sunday.The 17-year-old from Punjab defeated the sixth seed 21-16, 21-16 in just 36 minutes to lift her…
Ankush Panghal, Sachin Siwach, Preeti Pawar, Jaismine Lamboria, Sakshi Chaudhary, Priya Ghanghas and Arundhati Chaudhary capped off a sensational Commonwealth Games 2026 campaign by winning the gold medal on Saturday. While Sachin won gold in the men’s 60kg category by a 3-2 split decision against T.M Ndevelo of Namibia, Ankush (80kg) won the top prize…
Soman Rana’s journey to the top of the Commonwealth podium did not begin inside an athletics circle. It began in a boxing ring, continued through years of service in the Indian Army and appeared to have been brought to an abrupt end by a mine blast that cost him his right leg. Soman Rana won…
