Dev becomes only the second boxer after Vijender Singh, who won bronze at the 2008 Games in Beijing, to win an Olympics medal.
Two-time world champion Nikhat Zareen powered into the women's 50kg Olympics pre-quarterfinals with a tenacious victory over Germany's Maxi Carina Kloetzer in Paris on Sunday.
Images from the Euro 2024 Group B match between Albania and Spain, at Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany, on Monday.
The reigning world champion had won her Tokyo bronze in the 69kg category.
The Indian ace has previously won a silver medal in the 2016 Rio Games and a bronze in the Tokyo edition.
France are only the third country to win back-to-back golds in men's volleyball after the former Soviet Union and the United States.
'If you look at the average age of all our candidates, you will notice that their average age is between 35 and 40. It is a kind of revolution that the MNS is bringing in Maharashtra.'
India's Preeti Pawar beat Vo by a unanimous decision at the North Paris Arena to progress to the round of 16 of the bantamweight category, where she faces Yeni Arias on Tuesday.
Oleksandr Usyk scored a razor-thin split decision over Tyson Fury to become undisputed heavyweight boxing world champion in a thrilling contest at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has announced retirement after her heartbreaking disqualification from the Olympics, saying she doesn't have the strength to continue.
Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah put up a passionate fight as they came close to pulling off an upset, going neck-and-neck in both games before the Chinese pair prevailed 21-17, 22-20.
"This (Duleep Trophy) is a big tournament as every match is important for us. We are playing against some players whom we generally play with in the Indian team. So, we will get to see a good competition," he noted.
Belgium will have no complaints about the first VAR decision to disallow a goal, but cancelling out a second strike from Romelu Lukaku, which denied them a late equaliser against Slovakia at Euro 2024 on Monday, is the tournament's first controversy.
Images from the Euro 2024 Group D match between France and Austria at Dusseldorf Arena, Dusseldorf, Germany, on Monday.
Cuban wrestling great Mijain Lopez became the first Olympian to win five golds in the same individual event on Tuesday.
'Leave aside the negative fallouts of phraseology like 'urban Naxals' and 'terrorists', both the BJP and the Congress have to re-discover themselves in the context of the 2024 election results, including those of the upcoming ones for Maharashtra and Jharkhand,' observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Wrestler and Congress candidate Vinesh Phogat on Sunday said she expects to win each battle with the blessings of people as kicks off her campaign for the upcoming assembly election.
'We kept checking his weight every hour. We didn't sleep the whole night.'
The dawn of a new era had begun under Sourav Ganguly's aggressive leadership. With Ganguly and Coach John Wright at the helm India had transitioned into a force to be reckoned with.
On speculation that Phogat might enter the political arena, Singh refused to comment saying it was a personal matter of the 30-year-old wrestler. He said he would extend full support to Phogat if she returns to competitive wrestling.
Images from the Euro 2024 Group A match between Germany and Scotland at the Munich Football Arena, in Munich, on Friday.
American Hans Niemann filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Carlsen and Chess.com in October 2022 after the allegations that he had cheated.
Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski scored twice to set his side on course for a 5-0 Champions League thrashing of Swiss side Young Boys on Tuesday as the Catalan giants bounced back from a 2-1 loss at AS Monaco in their opener.
Imane Khelif, who is in the spotlight for failing a gender eligibility test at a tournament last year, progressed to the Olymoics welterweight quarter-finals.
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On Friday Ma, one of the true greats in Table Tennis, wrote his name into the history books by becoming China's most decorated Olympian with six golds in all, dating back to the London 2012 Games.
Can see growth, especially in women's table tennis in India: Manika Batra on UTT
'We want to ensure that no government in J&K will be formed without our support.'
A collection of stunning pictures from the Paris 2024 Games
This Olympic cycle has been marred by injuries for Chanu, who turned 30 just a day after the competition in Paris.
Images from the Euro 2024 Group E matches between Slovakia and Romania, Ukraine and Belgium, in Germany on Wednesday.
India's Nikhat Zareen who carries India's boxing hopes in the Paris Olympics started well on Sunday with a unanimous opening round win over Germany's Maxi Kloetzer.
'But looking at what Virat and Rohit can deliver, I think they still have a lot of cricket and they're still world-class players and obviously any team would want to have both of them for as long as possible.'
IMAGES from the UEFA Nations League matches played on Monday.
China's second mixed doubles team Zheng Si Wei and Huang Won Ho avenged their compatriots' defeat shortly after, making quick work of South Korea's Kim Won-ho and Jeong Na-eun 21-13, 21-14.
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday.
The Israelis are being protected around the clock by crack French security agents and officers brought in by the team itself.
A third straight Olympics medal eluded P V Sindhu after a shock exit from the Paris Games following a straight-games defeat to China's world No. 6 He Bingjiao in the women's singles badminton pre-quarter-finals in Paris on Thursday.
Nedoroscik, affectionately known as "pommel horse guy" after his specialty apparatus, is having his moment on the internet with memes, jokes and tribute songs
Greece beat England for the first time as striker Vangelis Pavlidis's double earned the visitors a richly-deserved 2-1 victory.
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