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Canberra: India continued with their fine form as they outplayed New Zealand 4-1 in their third match at the 3-Nations Junior Women Hockey Tournament here on Saturday.

Kathmandu: Wrestler Satyawart Kadian floored his Pakistani opponent Tabiyar Khan to clinch gold medal at the 13th South Asian Games in Kathmandu, on Saturday.

Hyderabad: Goa will be eyeing a vital win when they take on Hyderabad FC in a Hero Indian Super League clash at the GMC Balayogi Athletic Stadium here on Sunday.

Jammu: On a day of upsets, the damage was more or less equal in the Youth Boys and Youth Girls categories when as many as 10 seeds failed to sprout and fell by the wayside in the 81st UTT Junior and Youth Nationals at the Indoor Hall of the M.A. Stadium here today.

Chennai: The cream of Indian racing talent, along with their foreign counterparts, including three former Formula One drivers, will re-assemble at the MMRT, here on Sunday for the second round of the path-breaking, franchise-based X1Racing League, being conducted by the Madras Motor Sports Club.

Kolkata: The far-eastern state of Mizoram has contributed much to the cause of Indian football in recent years. So much so, that Mizoram is now considered to be one of the hubs of the beautiful game in the country.

Albany, Bahamas: Gary Woodland once again came up trumps with a birdie-birdie finish to snatch sole lead at the end of the third round of the Hero World Challenge here on Saturday.

Jeremy Corbyn revealed documents exposing Boris Johnson’s “falsehoods” over his Brexit deal — including his assurances that there would be no customs border in the Irish Sea. The Labour leader accused Mr Johnson of “deliberately misleading the country” over his Brexit deal.

All the four accused in the case of rape-and-murder of a 25-year-old veterinarian were killed by police in an encounter on Friday morning. While the killing of the criminals in encounter was celebrated and the policemen received applaud across the country from the frustrated and desperate urban middle class, a significant segment of the people expressed apprehension at the police design which according to them was nothing but extra-judicial executions in character and nature.

The ongoing elections in Jharkhand is yet another test for the BJP. The state elections are diverging from the Lok Sabha pattern and the BJP wants to arrest them. The five-phase Jharkhand assembly elections are taking place at an interesting juncture. Despite BJP’s dominance in Lok Sabha elections in 2019, it appears to be losing ground in state elections. The phenomenon can be traced back to Gujarat in 2017 where the Congress ran it close and has since then repeated in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra and Haryana. The exceptions have been Karnataka, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh, but a simple majority has eluded BJP in Karnataka. Congress and regional parties have sensed an opening and are making Jharkhand elections a hard fought battle.