NAGPUR: Maharashtra’s youngest Women Grand Master (WGM) Divya Deshmukh is all set to become Vidarbha’s first senior national women chess champion. In the MPL 47th National Women Chess Championship currently underway at Bhubaneswar, the 16-year-old Divya is on a dream run. Having toppled top seeded Vaishali R in the penultimate round, Divya posted her seventhRead More →

CAIRO: The Indian team of Rudrankkash Balasaheb Patil, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Srinjoy Dutta finished fourth after missing out on the bronze medal contest by a point in the men’s team air rifle event of the ISSF World Cup here on Wednesday. The Indians aggregated 624.1, only a point less then Czech Republic’s Ales Entrichel, Jiri PrivratskyRead More →

Jan Polanc snatched victory for UAE Team Emirates at the Trofeo Laigueglia, catching the leading trio that included teammates Alessandro Covi and Juan Ayuso in the final kilometre and then jumping away to win alone. Lorenzo Rota (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert) looked the strongest in the front trio but as they eased, Polanc gotRead More →

Chelsea Football Club have endured a tumultuous week. The ongoing crisis in Ukraine puts such a statement into context, context that Chelsea’s difficulties pale into insignificance compared to those experiencing unimaginable hardship in Europe, but it has been tumultuous, nonetheless. Thomas Tuchel has had a week like no other inRead More →

Badminton chiefs on Tuesday banned athletes and officials representing Russia and Belarus from participating at tournaments sanctioned by the world federation in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Badminton chiefs on Tuesday banned athletes and officials representing Russia and Belarus from participating at tournaments sanctioned by the world federation inRead More →