Long jumper Shahnavaz Khan and high jumper Basant Kumar Meghwal, both recent World Athletics U20 Championships medalists, are now setting their sights on podium finishes at the upcoming Asian Games in Japan, aiming to improve their personal bests.
'I don't need to win. I've won more than most people have in their whole lives.'
'Iran cannot trust the USA because it considers the USA to be Israel-controlled. And no, the IRGC is not going to accept anything else but major US concessions.'
'I just love it here. Every year I come here and it's such a good week.'
IMAGES from Day 1 of 2025 Wimbledon Championships played at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Monday.
Defending champion Iga Swiatek crushed Dayana Yastremska 6-0, 6-2 and 2023 champion Elena Rybakina powered past Britain's Katie Boulter 6-0, 7-5 to reach the fourth round of Indian Wells on Sunday in displays of dominance.
'I had some nerves but if you want to beat one of these guys you have to be unbelievably calm and keep your head there.'
Images from the men's singles Round of 16 matches at the US Open on Monday.
India's tryst with fourth-place Olympic heartbreaks
Images from the US Open women's singles first round matches, at Flushing Meadows, New York, on Tuesday.
Sabalenka overpowers Raducanu, Osaka falls
Images from the Olympics swimming action at the La Defense Arena, Paris, on Saturday.
American Masai Russell won the Olympic 100 metres hurdles title in a blanket finish on Saturday.
French organisers turned Paris into an open-air Olympic playground where everyone was invited, with or without a ticket.
IMAGES from Day 6 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Saturday.
IMAGES from matches on Day 4 of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York on Thursday.
Davis Cup champions Britain were locked at 1-1 with Japan after the opening two singles of their World Group, first-round tie on Friday after Andy Murray gave the hosts the lead.
'Rama is Lord God of maryada. Today's maryada is the Constitution.'
IMAGES from Day 6 of the Wimbledon Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, London, on Saturday.
American Athing Mu shook off the disappointment of her third-place finish at worlds to win the women's 800 metres in 1:54.97, holding off Britain's Keely Hodgkinson, who finished second in 1:55.19.
IMAGES from Day 6 of the 2023 US Open on Saturday.
Red Bull's Max Verstappen sang "Viva Las Vegas" after racing to a record-extending 18th victory of the season and joining Sebastian Vettel in third place on Formula One's all-time winners' list.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
The Australian Open champion never faced a break point and used her hard and accurate serve to dispatch Gauff.
'If Israel had stuck to the peace accords, Hamas would have had no one to fight.'
A summary of Monday's action at the US Open.
When it comes to diversity, swimming has a way to go.
A summary of Friday's action at the US Open.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Thursday, Day 7.
Britian's Jamie Murray and American Bethanie Mattek-Sands captured the US Open mixed doubles title with a 2-6, 6-3, 11-9 victory over Croatia's Nikola Mektic and Poland's Alicja Rosolska on Sunday.
Images from Day 1 of the 2022 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, in Flushing Meadows, New York, on Monday.
Top seeds Leander Paes and Cara Black stormed into the final of Wimbledon's mixed doubles event with a straight-set victory over Stephen Huss and Virginia Ruano Pascual on Friday. The Indo-Zimbabwe pair beat their 12th seeded opponents 6-4, 6-4 in a little over 70 minutes.
IMAGES from Day 5 of the Wimbledon Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Friday.
Serena Williams once featured among Heather Watson's bedroom posters but after the Briton almost ran her idol out of Wimbledon.
Images from Day 4 of the 2023 Australian Open, at Melbourne Park.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Tuesday, Day 5.
Pint-sized 13-year-old Momiji Nishiya took gold in street skateboarding -- new to the Olympics in Tokyo -- while in one of the Games's staple sports a "Terminator" hunted down a dominator to set the swimming pool alight.
After losing the first set, Konta faced three break points in an epic fifth game of the second when she came under enormous pressure.
Australian Nick Kyrgios produced another extraordinary performance to demolish compatriot Alex de Minaur 6-2, 6-3 at the Canadian Masters on Thursday, a day after stunning world number one Daniil Medvedev.
Will Indian democracy benefit from the potential that Shashi Tharoor stores in his mind, spirit and intellect? Or will it be the saga of another leader who promised much but delivered too little, asks Dr Sudhir Bisht.
