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Afghanistan cricket players Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan became the first to be picked in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction. Both Nabi and Khan...

Valentino Rossi beat Danilo Petrucci to win the TT Assen MotoGP in a thrilling race. Valentino Rossi is an Italian professional motorcycle road racer and...

Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik announced his retirement from Test cricket in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The 33-year-old had made a comeback in the longer...

Belgium’s John-John Dohmen and Netherlands’ Naomi Van were named as male and female Hockey Federation’s Player of the Year award. Great Britain’s Olympic gold medallist...

Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut won the men’s singles title of the Chennai Open 2017. Agut beat Russian 20-year-old Daniil Medvedev 6-3 and 6-4 to claim...

The Indian School team beat Malaysia 5-1 to lift the title at the Fifth Asian School Hockey Championship in Bhopal at the Aishbagh Stadium. India...

Indian cyclists won 6 medals in Track Asia Cup 2016 (Delhi) including three gold and two silver and one bronze. Deborah Herold won two gold...

Billiards player Pankaj Advani has been recommended for Padma Bhushan by the Billiards and Snooker Federation of India (BSFI). Advani, a 15-time world champion in...

India’s Badminton player Jwala Gutta has been appointed a member of the governing body of Sports Authority of India (SAI). Two-time Olympian Jwala won...

Velavan Senthilkumar beat Jordan's Mohammad Al-Sarraj to bag the U-19 Asian Junior Individual squash championship title at Kuala Lumpur. The Chennai lad, who trains at...

The 2017 Wimbledon Championships was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon,...

Indian squash player Joshna Chinappa climbed two spots to be at the 10th spot, while Dipika Pallikal retained her 19th spot in the latest...

Novak Djokovic has won the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals for the fourth consecutive time. In the title clash played in London, Djokovic defeated third...

West Indies former batsman Jimmy Adams was named new director of cricket. He replaces Englishman Richard Pybus who had been in the position since November...

After wining bronze medal at the Rio Olympic Games, Sakshi Malik entered the top-five in the latest UWW (United World Wrestling) rankings, rising to...

The ATP tennis tournament 'Chennai Open' has been renamed as "Maharashtra Open" and will now be held in Pune. Known as previously Gold Flake Open and...

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Johanna Konta in straight sets to take the title at the China Open, her third crown of the season. The third-ranked win...

Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest Indian and second overall to take 200 wickets, reaching the milestone in his 37th Test. Ashwin trapped New Zealand...

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is establishing National Sports Museum, first of its kind, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The Museum will...

Rio Olympic 2016 bronze medal winner, Sakshi Malik, won a silver medal for India at the Asian Wrestling Championship after losing the 60kg women’s...

World No.30 Indian shuttler B Sai Praneeth won his maiden Super Series title at the Singapore Open after defeating compatriot K Srikanth in finals. The...

Lin Dan (China) earned his sixth All England badminton championships (Men) beating Chinese teammate Tian Houwei 21-9, 21-10 in the final. The sixth championship by...

Indian badminton player Saina Nehwal win the Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold in the summit clash in Sibu. She beat 18-year-old Thai Pornpawee Chochuwong, the top-seeded London...

Young Indian shuttler Pratul Joshi clinched his maiden international title by beating Aditya Joshi in the finals of the Bahrain International Challenge badminton tournament...

India bagged five medals in the 2017 Asian Junior Wrestling Championships in Taiwan. India’s gold came in the women’s 51 kilogram freestyle category through Puja. Further...

Top seed India defeated Malaysia 2-0 to win the gold medal in the boy’s team event at the Asian Junior Squash championship in Hong...

Ramkumar Ramanathan won second Futures title by beating second seed Sebastian Ofner of Austria 7-5, 6-3 in the $10,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at...

FIFA overturned the four-game ban on Argentina's Lionel Messi. FIFA said there was not enough evidence to support the stiff punishment meted out in March...

The city of Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh will host the junior men’s hockey World Cup from December 8 to 18, the International Hockey Federation...

Indian shot putter Manpreet Kaur from Punjab clinches gold medal in Asian Grand Prix Athletics Meet in China. She created a new national record with...

Shiva Thapa has become the highest-ranked Indian boxer in the latest international rankings. He had won a bronze medal at last month's World championships in...

Mobile manufacturing company Oppo Mobiles is the new team sponsor of the Indian cricket team from April 1, 2017 for a period of five...

At the ISSF Junior World Cup, Rushiraj Barot striked gold in the junior men's 25m rapid fire pistol event. The 19-year old Indian edged out...

Russian weightlifters Dmitry Lapikov and Khadzhimurat Akkayev have tested positive for banned drugs in the latest retests of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Both...

Wriddiman Saha has scored 2 half centuries in the ongoing 2nd Test against New Zealand at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. With his twin fifties, Saha became...

Indian shooter Ankur Mittal won the team gold medal in men’s double trap at the 7th Asian Shotgun Championship Saturday. At Astana, Kazakhstan, Mittal shot...

Gujarat's Samit Gohel made history by scoring 359 runs in the Ranji Trophy encounter against Odisha at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Gohel's unbeaten...

India beat New Zealand by 178 runs to win the second Test at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens and claim a 2-0 series win. As a result,...

Daniel Ricciardo has won 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix Race. The Malaysian Grand Prix is a round of the Formula One World Championship. It has been held...

Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia beat the world No.1 Angelique Kerber of Germany in WTA Finals in Singapore by 6-3, 6-4 in a 76-minute match. The...

Cal Crutchlow beat world champion Marc Marquez at Australia's Phillip Island to win only his second MotoGP. Cal Crutchlow has become the first British rider...

Rio Olympian Sandeep Tomar and Amit Dhankar won gold medals at the Senior (men's and women's) National Wrestling championship at Gonda, Uttar Pradesh. In women's...

Czech tennis player Petra Kvitova won her first WTA title this year as she beat Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia at the Wuhan Open by...

Indian Javelin thrower Sundar Singh Gurjar has won gold medal at the 2017 IPC Para Athletics Championships in London. The 2017 World Para Athletics Championships is...

Finland football player Roman Eremenko has been banned for two-year by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) after testing positive for cocaine. The test...

India clinched gold medal in Archery World Cup in Shanghai. Archers Abhishek Verma, Raju Chinna Srither and debutant Amanjeet Singh won gold for India. Competing...

Cricket South Africa announced plans for a Twenty 20 league which it hopes will attract major international investment and big-name players. Eight franchises will be...

Japans Hideki Matsuyama wins the $9.5 million WGC-HSBC Champions. He became the first Asian to win a this World Golf Championship. Matsuyama, at 24 years and...

Current Affairs: India's Shiv Shankar Prasad Chawrasia jumped 26 places to be 211th in the latest world golf rankings. The 37-year-old Kolkatan is the second...

Three boxers have been reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for betting on boxing bouts during the 2016 Rio Olympics. The three boxers involved...

Rio Olympics silver medallist shuttler PV Sindhu and bronze winner grappler Sakshi Malik along with gymnast Dipa Karmakar and badminton coach Pullela Gopichand were...

India beat Pakistan in the final of the Asian Team Snooker championship in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The final results are: India bt Pakistan 3-0 .

India registered a thumping 11-0 victory over Oman in the U-18 Asia Cup hockey, boosting their chances to make the knockout round in Dhaka. With...

Novak Djokovic won Australian Open championship for the sixth time, equalling Roy Emerson’s record. It was Djokovic’s fourth win over Murray in the final of...

Indian captain Virat Kohli was presented with the ICC Test Championship mace for leading his team to the top of the Test Team Rankings. The...

Heena Sidhu won the air pistol bronze at the 48th Grand Prix of Liberation international shooting competition in Pilsen. In women’s 50m rifle prone, Tejaswini...

Ankush Dahiya, in 60 kilograms category, clinched a gold while L Devendro Singh, in 52 kilograms category, settled for a silver medal on the...

Kevin Owens has been named the second WWE Universal champion in Houston. Kevin Yanick Steen is a Canadian professional wrestler signed to WWE. He performs...

India will host the World Billiards Championship for the next four years. The premier event was held in Bengaluru in 2016 when champion cueist Pankaj...

World No.35 Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands won the Gstaad WTA tennis tournament with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 victory in the final over Estonia's...

Pincky Balhara opened India's medal account in the Asian Beach Games when she won the bronze medal in the Kurash discipline. In the -52 kg...

Wrestler Dalmiya clinched gold in (60 kg) at the sixth edition of the Tifsa World Games in Jakarta. Dalmiya beat Muhammad Sahan of Azerbaijan 4-1...

Background: For addressing the issue of deficit of sports infrastructure in the country, the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports Affairs had moved a proposal...

Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis (Swiss) beat Spanish team of Garbine Muguruza and Carla Suarez Navarro to win the WTA finals in Singapore. It...

Indian Railways have won the World Railway Shooting Championship Cup held at Saint Mandrier, France. This is the first time that Railways have won this...

Indian city New Delhi will host the men’s World Boxing Championship in 2021 besides conducting the women’s World Championship for the second time in...

Bajrang Punia won gold medal by beating Seungchul Lee of South Korea in men's 65kg freestyle in Asian Wrestling Championship. The Indian women's team finished...

Virat Kohli smashed 204 on the second day of the ongoing one-off Test against Bangladesh in Hyderabad. Kohli became the first batsman in the history of...

Valtteri Bottas won the Austrian Grand Prix for Mercedes ahead of Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari. The Austrian Grand Prix is a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile...

The United States won the Ryder Cup, the golf tournament. It is held every two years and played this time at the Hazeltine National Golf...

Union Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal gave away the Arjuna Award to R. Ashwin. The award includes a bronze statuette, a citation and Rs. 5 lakh. Ashwin,...

Shashank Manohar has resigned as the president of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the chairman of International Cricket Council (ICC). The...

Lewis Hamilton achieved fourth consecutive victory in British Grand Prix. Hamilton's victory is the 57th of his career. The British Grand Prix is a race...

The Indian football team has made it into the top 100 of the FIFA world rankings for the first time in 21 years. As per...

The Olympic silver medalist Shuttler PV Sindhu achieved her career-best ranking of No. 5. She became the second Indian woman to break into the top-five...

Australian Pace Bowler Mitchell Johnson has announced his retirement from international cricket at the end of the current test match against New Zealand. Mitchell Johnson...

The 2016 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was held on 27 November 2016. The race was won by Lewis Hamilton making it four wins in...

Indian Gauri Sheoran won the sports pistol junior women’s gold medal in the International Shooting Competition of Hannover. She beat Sophia Kovacic of Germany 27-20,...

India U-13 squash player Shreyas Mehta win the Scottish Junior Open title. Shreyas, who had earlier won the US junior open, added another title to...

FIFA committee ratified the D.Y. Patil Stadium in Mumbai as a venue for the U-17 World Cup, to be hosted by India next year. Navi...

Shuttlers Purva Barve and Varun Kapur won their respective age group sections in the Li Ning-Israel Open 2017 badminton tournament held in Israel. 16 year...

India’s C A Bhavani Devi has won the gold medal in the sabre event of the Turnoi Satellite Fencing Championship held at Reykjavik in...

Virat Kohli has become the fastest batsman to 8000 runs in one-day international cricket. Kohli reached the 8000-run mark in his 175th innings to go...

ICC TEST RANKINGS Rank Team Matches Points Rating 1 Pakistan 25 2767 111 2 India 25 2748 110 3 Australia 36 3905 108 4 England 41 4427 108 5 South Africa 25 2412 96 6 Sri Lanka 32 3055 95 7 New Zealand 31 2949 95 8 West Indies 26 1749 67 9 Bangladesh 12 687 57 10 Zimbabwe 7 54 8 Test Batsmen Rank Rating Name Country 1 906 Steve Smith Australia 2 878 Joe Root England 3 876 Kane Williamson New Zealand 4 847 Hashim Amla South Africa 5 845 Younus Khan Pakistan 6 802 AB de Villiers South Africa 7 802 Adam Voges Australia 8 785 Ajinkya Rahane India 9 772 David Warner Australia 10 770 Alastair Cook England Test Bowlers Rank Rating Name Country 1 878 Dale Steyn South...

Germany’s Mona Barthel clinched the WTA Prague clay-court tennis title after beating Czech's Kristyna Pliskova in three sets. Barthel, a qualifier, defeated Pliskova 2-6, 7-5, 6-2...

Pratima Sherpa has lived her entire life in a maintenance shed on the fourth hole of Royal Nepal Golf Club in Kathmandu, and is...

The International Cricket Council has, ICC, introduced changes to its Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel and the DRS Umpire’s Call...

Vani Kapoor from New Delhi won the Hero Women’s Professional Golf Tour title in Pune. She carded three-over 74 on the final day to claim...

Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu and national champion Sameer Verma began the new season by winning the women's and men's singles crowns respectively at...

Punjab Royals have bagged the Pro Wrestling League Season 2 title. In the summit clash in New Delhi, the Punjab team beat Haryana Hammers...

India will face South Korea in the opening match of the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup, to be held in Ahmedabad from October 7 to...

Andrea Dovizioso won the Italian Grand Prix for the third MotoGP victory of his career. Championship leader and pole sitter Maverick Vinales finished second and...

Latest Report vy CII-ITC Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development shows that nearly 1,200 companies listed on the BSE together spent one billion dollars...

Tennis Star Andy Murray defeated Spain's Roberto Bautista in the summit clash to clinch the Shanghai ATP Masters. Murray outplayed the Spanish player 7-6 (7-1),...

Yashaswini Singh Deswal won a gold at the women's 10m air pistol event at the ISSF Junior World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Suhl, Germany. Her medal...

World No 2 Germany's Angelique Kerber beat Czech player Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 in the US Open women's final match in Newyork. Kerber is...

The Indian cyclists won their first-ever medal in the team sprint event at the 37th Asian track cycling championship. The Indian junior women’s duo of Alena...

India won its second Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament title after defeating Pakistan 3-2 in the final at the Wisma Belia Hockey Stadium at...

The Sports ministry suspended the deemed recognition of the national Olympic body. Following the suspension, the IOA will cease to enjoy the privileges and...

The 22nd Asian Athletics Championships was inaugurated at Kalinga Stadium in Odisha capital Bhubaneswar. Mascot of the meet, Olly led the march-past of the...