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Mirabai Chanu who was a former world champion led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories. Mirabai lifted a total of 191kg […]

The 46th Edition of Copa America held between 14 June to 7 July 2019 at 6 venues in the host country. Brazil beat Peru 3-1 to win its first South American title since 2007. It was Neymar’s replacement, Everton, who led the team to victory, scoring a goal and setting up another to give Brazil

Village girl from West Bengal Arinjeeta Dey has made India proud when she won a silver medal under the 12 category in the Karate World Championship held between July 1 to 5 at Umag in Croatia, according to President of Karate-Do- Association for Bengal Hanshi Premjit Sen. Ten-year-old girl from Barasat in North 24 Parganas

Star Indian sprinter Hima Das won the women’s 200m gold, while national record holder shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor bagged a bronze at the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in Poland. Hime, the world junior champion and national record holder in 400m who has been struggling with a back problem for the past few months,

The win was only confirmed three hours after the race finished following an investigation into whether Verstappen unfairly ran Leclerc off the track. Ferrari’s Leclerc seemed in control of the race after Verstappen made a bad start to drop from second to seventh. But Red Bull pitted Verstappen 10 laps later than Leclerc and Verstappen

Aparna Kumar, Uttar Pradesh cadre IPS officer, who became the first woman Indian Police Service (IPS) DIG and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) officer to successfully conquer the south pole, has now scaled the highest peak in North America, Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) said. Aparna Kumar scaled the Mount Denali in North America which has a

Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee. Batra was elected to the prestigious seat during the IOC Session here. He secured 58 votes out of 62 while four voted against him. His election is linked to his function in a National Olympic Committee — that is president

American 20-year-old Sofia Kenin saved three match points on her way to beating third seed Belinda Bencic 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4 in the Mallorca Open grass court final. On three occasions Swiss Bencic was a point away from victory at 5-4 in the second set but Kenin refused to surrender as she roared back to claim

India proposed to host the 2023 IOC session in Mumbai, which is expected to choose the host city for the 2030 Winter Olympics. IOA President Narinder Batra and member Nita Ambani submitted the formal bid to the IOC chief Thomas Bach here. Batra is set to be elected as a new IOC member during the