NC vice-president Omar Abdullah said the Centre was at fault to project the high poll percentage in the first phase as normalcy and call it the effect of Article 370 removal. “I think the low voter turnout was the reaction to it in Srinagar,” he said.

Both the Indian men's and women's teams scripted history on Sunday (September 22, 2024), winning their maiden gold medals in the Chess Olympiad in Hungary.

Sindhu, who returned from the French capital without a medal for the first time in three Olympics, has been training under Sridhar, a Beijing Olympian, for the past three weeks

Gukesh said not able to win gold in Chennai Olympiad in 2022 was a great regret especially after coming so close

Mr. Iqbal, a gold medallist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and captain of the 1982 Asian Games silver-winning Indian team, is hopeful for growth of Indian hockey after the bronze medals in the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.

For the second year in a row, Malappuram District could not field a team in the Kerala State senior basketball championship which begins here on Tuesday.

The 18-year-old from Nagpur played every 11 rounds at the Olympiad. And she remained unbeaten, winning eight games and drawing three.

Vinesh Phogat, who was being seen as gold medal contender in Paris Olympics, was disqualified from competing in the final of the 50kg weight class for being 100 grams over the permissible limit

Svidler believes the Global Chess League could become a very prominent event in the chess calendar

Alaskan Knights has maintained its lead with 12 match points

Sanju Samson (29, 19b, 6x4), Suryakumar Yadav (29, 14b, 2x4, 3x6) and Hardik Pandya (39 n.o., 5x4, 2x6) wreaked havoc to power India to the target in just 11.5 overs

The 31-year-old Dipa, who became the first female gymnast from the country to compete at the Olympics, finished fourth in the vault event to lose an Olympic medal by just 0.15 points.

This tournament marks the first outing for Sindhu and Sen since the Olympic Games, and they are keen to reset their goals

Sea kayaking coaching camp to be held in Rushikonda, Visakhapatnam, on October 12

Continental Kings will defend its crown against PBG Alaskan Knights.

This will be the decade of stand up paddleboarding. As the water sport gains ground in both competitive and recreational circles, villages along the Ssouth-eastern coast turn hubs for a homegrown movement

Kosteniuk does the star turn for the champions in final; Firouzja sets up triumph with win over Anish

India, on four points after two wins and two losses, hopes that Pakistan defeats New Zealand on Monday (October 14, 2024) to leave the second semi-final place to be decided on net run-rate

The Indian team delivered a lackluster performance on the field, ultimately resulting in a nine-run loss to defending champions Australia in their must-win game on Sunday (October 14, 2024)

I was playing chess for 11 or 12 years in a row before deciding that I wanted to have a social life; I am focusing a lot on the game again; I managed to win the Grand Chess Tour, but could have done a bit better at the Candidates; Gukesh is a big favourite for the World title but Ding has the experience

Bengaluru’s Jayanarayan Raja won Ultraman India 2024, conquering 518 km in three days with a grueling swim, bike, and run challenge

Huang – who had won the individual silver and the mixed gold in the Paris Games – had to shoot a world record 254.5 to deny the Indian a better medal

Both the Indian pairs is action — Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand (women’s doubles) and B Summeth Reddy and N Sikki Reddy (mixed doubles) — suffered heartbreak three-game defeats in their opening contests

China on top of the medals table with four gold and three bronze; India joint sixth with Denmark, with one silver and a bronze.

In this chat, Russian GM Svidler talks about India’s historic Olympiad, his experience of coaching Praggnanandhaa, his love affair with Test cricket and his assessment of the Global Chess League, not just as a chess player but also as a cricket fan who follows the IPL

It was Deepika's ninth appearance at the World Cup Final where she has also bagged a bronze

The move is a massive setback to India's medal prospects given that bulk of the country's medals came from the removed disciplines in the past editions.

The Bihar Sports University is the first of its kind; the State Sports Academy, Rajgir, acting as a State Centre for Excellence, will cater to 23 disciplines; Sports academics have to go hand in hand with training and that’s the philosophy behind it

Grandmaster Giri — the 15th strongest chess player of all time — previews the World championship match, clears up a misconception about his style, and talks about the Candidates cycle, the Olympiad, the Global Chess League and Nihal Sarin’s prodigious talent

Chirag Chikkara becomes the second Indian man, after Paris Olympics bronze medallist Aman Sehrawat, to win the gold at the U23 Championships.

The American GM believes the Indian has an 80:20 chance of beating Ding; feels no player is going to be super dominant the way Carlsen has been; emphasises the importance of Global Chess League going forward

The 18-year-old has an opportunity to become the youngest World chess champion, with many observers — including several top players — expecting him to defeat Ding Liren. But Gukesh isn’t taking the Chinese defending champion, whom he is yet to beat in a classical game, lightly

The IOC took over running the boxing competition at this year’s Paris Olympics.

He says that the competition in Asia is tough due to the Chinese and Japanese athletes; however, he is confident that with the support of the government, AFI and corporates, the Indians can bridge the gap by participating in quality competitions on a regular basis