View Articles

Saudi and Iranian sports have politics written into their DNA. Little more than a decade ago, Saudi Arabia fielded three expatriate Saudi women athletes at the 2012 London Olympics to avoid an International Olympic Committee (IOC) ban on participation.

At 5 feet 9 inches, Gurupatwant Singh Pannun is hardly tall by Punjabi standards. Nor does he have any stature in Punjab — the people there, including Sikh hardliners, rejected his call for a Khalistan referendum in 2020. He drew attention when he stood on a Canadian street threatening all and sundry during the G20 summit in New Delhi in September.

The police of AAP-ruled Punjab arrests an opposition Congress MLA and it’s just the tip of trouble roiling the AAP and the Congress. The big question haunting the two parties is, however, will their spats at the Punjab state level harm the INDI-Alliance of which both are constituents and which so far has not been drastically affected much to the relief of the top leadership of both parties. The need to stick together for the larger good of the opposition INDI-Alliance is top of their mind and that is for now paramount.

One can recall few Bengali film makers other than Tapan Sinha who made the process of building a bridge between a well directed film and cash boxes jingling merrily at the theatres look so easy. The birth anniversary of this physics post graduate who learnt the rudiments of film shooting at Pinewood Studios, England and matured into an ace film maker, passed by on October 2.

New Delhi: Vandana Katariya, and Deepika, led the charge with a hat-trick each as India walloped Hong Kong China 13-0 in its final Pool A match, to storm into the semi-finals of the Asian Games women’s hockey tournament at the Gongshu Canal Sports Park Stadium in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.

New Delhi: World champion Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma, and Jyothi Surekha Vennam assured India, three medals in the compound events Including Gold and Silver as they progressed to the finals of individual compound archery events at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the People’s Republic of China on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu began her campaign at the Asian Games Badminton tournament with a straight games win over Chinese Taipei’s Hsu Wen Chi in the round of 32 in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Having scored 58 goals in their five league matches, India stat favourite when they square off against four-time Champions Korea in the 1st Semi-Final of the Men's hockey tournament of the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Seven- time winner India began its quest to regain the Men's team Kabaddi title at the Asian Games hammering Bangladesh 55-18 at the Xiaoshan Guali Sports Centre in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.

New Delhi: Javelin thrower Annu Rani, long distance runner Parul Chaudhary won a gold each as Indian athletes hogged the lime light in the track and field meet in the Asian Games at Hangzhou China on Tuesday.