Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi overcame China's Zhang-Qian Wei to enter the second round of the junior girls' singles event at the US Open.
Health experts caution that excessive indulgence in sweets during the festive season can lead to bloating, indigestion and acidity and can also trigger underlying symptoms of health issues for people who are overweight.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and several leaders extended wishes to Jaismine Lamboria and Minakshi Hooda, who were crowned champions at the World Boxing Championships in Liverpool on Sunday.
R Praggnanandhaa was held to a draw by the world's youngest-ever Grandmaster Abhimanyu Mishra of the United States.
Second seed Coco Gauff overcame early problems on serve to cruise past China's Wang Xinyu 6-3, 6-2, keeping her composure despite eight double faults in the first set to book a meeting with Ukraine's Dayana Yastremska in the third round.
Sabalenka relied on her trademark powerful serve to hold firm in the key moments, winning two tiebreaks to take her tally to 18 for the season, the most by any women's singles player in the professional era.
Bewitching fragrances and a symphony of sounds would herald the arrival of Chauthi in the Someshwar home.
Third seed Iga Swiatek will play against Italy's Jasmine Paolini in her first Cincinnati Open final.
From drone-lit skies and gemstone rangolis to fragrance journeys and theatrical thalis, India's new-age festive events blend heritage with high-tech spectacle to create memories that feel both intimate and unforgettable.
Adarsh Kumar, a Class 12 student from a farmer's family in Bihar, has been shortlisted among the top 10 students in the world for the Chegg Global Student Prize 2025.
Aryna Sabalenka inched closer to becoming the first woman since Serena Williams (2012-14) to win consecutive US Open titles.
Does your mom or mother-in-law rustle up an exquisite sambar. Hemant Waje's does. Here is her recipe.
World Junior champion Pranav Venkatesh scored a crushing victory over Grandmaster Alan Pichot of Spain to win the Fujairah Global Superstars chess tournament.
Former champion Daniil Medvedev was fined a total of $42,500 by the US Open on Wednesday for his spectacular meltdown during a loss to Benjamin Bonzi at the start of the week.
The former World Champion reaches the pre-quarterfinals for the first time since 2021.
Erigaisi in second place, German GM Keymer leads after three rounds of Chennai chess
Playing in only her second singles match of the year, Bouchard blasted a forehand winner to take the first set but Colombian Arango turned the tables in the second set amid a cascade of unforced errors from her opponent.
Shuttlers Tanvi Sharma and Vennala Kalagotla assured India of two medals after storming into the singles semi-finals at the Badminton Asia Junior Individual Championships.
'Traders and exporters will have to explore alternative markets.'
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty's campaign at the Badminton World Championships came to an end in the semifinals
'What the US appears to be doing is to force India to be "the buyer of last resort", on whom their products can be dumped, 1.4 billion people have to eat something, so why not eat American corn?' 'What is exercising the Trump lot is the fact that most of the farms are in solidly Republican Midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin,' points out Rajeev Srinivasan.
Russian Diana Shnaider continued her impressive winning streak in tour-level finals at the Monterrey Open on Saturday, beating compatriot Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 in the WTA 500 event's final.
While Jannik Sinner and French Open champion Carlos Alcaraz have won the last seven major titles between them, the Italian cautioned against complacency and pointed to the strength of competition in the ATP Tour.
Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla, Tanvi Reddy advance at Asia Junior Badminton Championships.
Andhra recipes for palate-pleasing pappu or dal.
Novak Djokovic's battling victory under the lights of Arthur Ashe Stadium made him the oldest man to reach the last 16 at the US Open.
In Tamil Nadu a steamed, spicy delicacy, looking like a modak, is made for Vinayak Chaturthi.
Carlos Alcaraz won the Cincinnati Open after top seed Jannik Sinner retired while trailing 5-0 in the first set of their final on Monday.
India's dream run in the men's compound events of the World Archery Championships ended on a disappointing note on Monday as the gold-winning team of Rishabh Yadav, Aman Saini and Prathamesh Fuge crashed out of the individual quarter-finals.
Alexander Zverev rallied from a set down to beat defending champion Alexei Popyrin in Toronto and move into the semi-finals.
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka proved a class above American eighth seed Amanda Anisimova to win the US Open women's final on Saturday.
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty assured India of a medal at the World Championships after defeating Malaysia's two-time Olympic medallists Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik, in the quarter-finals in Paris.
Gauff was two points from defeat but battled back to beat fellow American Danielle Collins 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2) in a nearly three-hour battle to reach the third round.
Rising water levels in the Ganga and Varuna rivers have caused a fresh bout of floods in Varanasi, inundating low-lying areas, disrupting daily life, and damaging crops.
Former champion Emma Raducanu claimed her first victory at the tournament since lifting the trophy in 2021 by beating Japan's Ena Shibahara in the first round on Sunday.
Filipino Eala and Indonesia's Tjen round-off historic day for Southeast Asia with first round wins in their respective matches at Flushing Meadows on Sunday.
The $1.2 billion in-space manufacturing market is expected to grow and be worth more than $20 billion by 2033.
Top seed and defending champion Jannik Sinner, playing on his 24th birthday, ended French qualifier Terence Atmane's dream run at the Cincinnati Open with a 7-6(4), 6-2 win on Saturday to reach the final of the US Open tune-up event.
Looking to assert his supremacy across formats, reigning world champion D Gukesh of India began his campaign in the FIDE Grand Swiss in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, with a crushing victory over France's Etienne Bacrot in the first round.
Modi warned that when demographic changes take place, especially in the border areas, they create a national security crisis.
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