Virat Kohli ensured the day wasn't a complete washout.
Like his countless admirers, Durga Dominic was heartbroken when the incomparable Ustad Zakir Hussain left us to play wonderful concerts in the heavens.
Thanking everyone for being part of his glorious 19-year journey in international football, Sunil Chhetri was in tears as his teammates gave the Indian football icon a guard of honour while the packed Salt Lake Stadium rose for a standing ovation.
The senior IPS officer said Tata displayed resoluteness, uncharacteristic of his calm demeanour, when the iconic hotel came under attack.
Veteran tennis star Leander Paes and his partner Martina Hingis, who won the Australian Open mixed doubles title last month, met India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday.
India became only the third country to win both the men's and women's gold medals at the same Chess Olympiad.
The sky outside was a perfect blue with fair winds on that hot day in July, but inside the Jaguar an emergency was unraveling with every passing second. Wing Commander Vernon Desmond Keane had two options: Eject and see his beloved aircraft crash -- which would come at a great cost to the nation and cause harm to civilian life and property on the ground. Or try the limits of his training; push the aircraft and his flying skills to the edge of technical and human endurance and save them both.
After lending strong support to her cause, Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar met Commonwealth Games silver-medallist woman boxer L Sarita Devi, who is serving a one-year ban for her emotionally-charged protest at the Asiad.
'That kid now has a core memory for life,' Mumbai Indians captioned the video with a heart emoji, tagging Bumrah in the video.
The New York Times bestselling author is giving away special copies of The Target and you can be the lucky winner!
Controversy and Andrew Symonds can never be too far apart it seems with the latest being allegations that the Australian cricketer used his autographed bat to get a seven-figure loan sanctioned before investing the money in a failed company.
'It was a special feeling to share the same dressing room with a legend like you.'
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma showed their respect for the retiring Dean Elgar by presenting him with autographed India jerseys.
The lot, which included 33 pages of handwritten drafts of a series of articles for Young India from 1921 and 11 autographed letters by Mahatma Gandhi, sold for 45,600.
The annual Quad summit at President Joe Biden's hometown Wilmington is expected to roll out a series of new initiatives to boost cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and explore ways to find peaceful solutions to the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Rohit Sharma presented an autographed hat to a fan named Meena
World No 1 Novak Djokovic was beaten by Tomas Machac in the Geneva Open semi-finals.
The war and Modi's recent visit to Ukraine is expected to figure prominently in the bilateral meeting, according to US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
It's IPL season again and that means Thala's back in action! Fans wait all year to see Mahendra Singh Dhoni back doing what he does best.
Last year's runner-up and seventh seed Ruud will now advance to the semi-finals, where he could face fourth seed Alexander Zverev or 11th seed Alex de Minaur.
Alcohol sales have been restricted in and around Tokyo after health officials warned drinking would encourage close contact, loud speaking and mingling in bars that could help spread the virus.
Sachin Tendulkar meets Jammu and Kashmir para cricket team captain, differently-abled sportsman, Amir Hussain Lone, calls him a 'real hero, an inspiration, during his trip to the Kashmir Valley.
'It is the love from the people that keeps coming from unexpected corners which makes life so special.'
Neeraj Chopra is all about greatness without pretensions.
Man of the match Abhishek Sharma cut a cake at the team hotel as SRH enjoyed a Super Sunday in Hyderabad.
The Mumbai batter lit the Chinnaswamy stadium with his brilliant batting.
Get your facts right and you could win a copy of Skin Talks, autographed by Ranbir Kapoor.
Tabilo broke the top seed four times on Centre Court while not conceding a single break point.
Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter on screen, is a great fan of the Indian batting maestro as he turned up on the final day of the Lord's Test match.
National-award winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-politician, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty -- who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- is truly a force of nature, notes Sukanya Verma.
A sold-out crowd descended on Eisenhower Park on Sunday for a clash of cricketing arch-rivals India and Pakistan.
It was a grand occasion to mark the launch of Citadel: Honey Bunny, which sees Varun paired opposite Samantha Ruth Prabhu in a dhamakedar spy action Web series combined with a tadka of their steamy romance.
The states and union territories where the elections are being held in this phase are Assam (4), Bihar (5), Chhattisgarh (7), Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu (2), Goa (2), Gujarat (25), Karnataka (14), Maharashtra (11), Madhya Pradesh (8), Uttar Pradesh (10) and West Bengal (4). The BJP has bagged the Surat seat unopposed.
Hardik Pandya's return to Mumbai Indians has been a hot topic of discussion. After leading the Gujarat Titans for two years, Hardik is not only back in the Mumbai colours, but he's also set to take over the captaincy from Rohit Sharma.
An illuminating conversation with Chandu Borde, 90, one of India's finest cricketers in the 1960s.
The auction was in aid of the Association for Persons with Physical Disabilities of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
'Whatever I have done well, I have forgotten about them immediately and moved forward.' 'Same with difficult times. I don't run away from it.'
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