Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov NEW DELHI: Indian chess legend Viswanathan Anand squandered critical opportunities against old rival Garry Kasparov, allowing the Russian great to stretch his lead to five points with two wins and two draws on the penultimate day of the Clutch Chess Legends showdown. The USD 144,000 event, held in the chess-960…
West Indies cricketers (Pic credit: WI Cricket) NEW DELHI: The West Indies players paid a heartfelt tribute to their former all-rounder Bernard Julien by wearing black armbands on the opening day of the second and final Test against India at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on Friday. The gesture came as a mark…
File photo of Italian swimmer Benedetta Pilato. (Getty Images) Italian swimmers Benedetta Pilato, 20, and Chiara Tarantino, 23, received 90-day bans from all activities by the Italian swimming federation for stealing cosmetics at Singapore airport while returning from the 2025 world championships, where Pilato won bronze in the 50m breaststroke.The two athletes were arrested by…
Hardik Pandya (R) with model Mahieka Sharma (L). (Instagram) India cricketer Hardik Pandya was spotted with model Mahieka Sharma at the Mumbai Airport during the early hours of Friday. The India allrounder is reportedly single since his divorce from Natasa Stankovic. Pandya and Sharma made their first public appearance together, with Hardik allowing Mahieka to…
West Indies captain Roston Chase (L) with his Indian counterpart Shubman Gill (R) at the toss for the second Test in New Delhi. (PTI) India captain Shubman Gill finally won the toss after going through six consecutive losses with the coin as the hosts opted to bat against the West Indies at the Arun Jaitley…
India women’s team lost a thriller against South Africa in Visakhapatnam. (Getty Images) The Indian women’s cricket team faced their first setback in the 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, losing to South Africa by three wickets at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakapatnam on Thursday. The defeat came after India’s…
WPL Auction in November. (ANI Photo) NEW DELHI: The Women’s Premier League (WPL) has announced key guidelines for the upcoming mega auction, allowing teams to retain up to five players ahead of the high-profile event. The retention deadline is set for November 5, while the auction window will be between November 25 to 29, as…
Viswanathan Anand vs Garry Kasparov Garry Kasparov stole the limelight on the opening day of the Clutch Chess series, defeating former world champion Viswanathan Anand in the third game to take a narrow 2.5-1.5 lead in the high-stakes contest underway. At 62, Kasparov showed that age has not diminished his chess acumen, reminding fans why…
IND vs WI Live Score, 2nd Test Match Day 1: Team India enters the second and final Test against West Indies with a focus on assessing Sai Sudharsan’s form and Nitish Kumar Reddy’s utility in home conditions. The visitors, once a formidable force, now appear rudderless, a pale shadow of their past, with many players…
Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Sourav Ganguly NEW DELHI: Former India captain and ex-BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has defended the decision to relieve Rohit Sharma of his ODI captaincy, insisting it was not a sacking but a natural progression in a player’s career. Ganguly drew parallels to his own career and that of Rahul Dravid,…
