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CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 6

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 6

Rediff.com9 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 6 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Tuesday.

How India fared on Day 5 of CWG 2018

How India fared on Day 5 of CWG 2018

Rediff.com9 Apr 2018

A summary of India's results on Day 5 of 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 5

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 5

Rediff.com8 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 5 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Monday.

Winners at CWG: Peaty defends 100m breaststroke title

Winners at CWG: Peaty defends 100m breaststroke title

Rediff.com7 Apr 2018

Peaty had swum a Commonwealth Games record 58.59 on Friday but appeared to be content to just win the race rather than challenge his own world record of 57.13 that he set at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

CWG: Srikanth leads India to badminton team event semis

CWG: Srikanth leads India to badminton team event semis

Rediff.com7 Apr 2018

India's shuttlers made it to the mixed team semi-finals after a resounding 3-0 victory over Mauritus at the Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast, on Saturday.

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 4

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 4

Rediff.com7 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 4 of the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, on Sunday.

Indian paddlers sail into the semi-finals at CWG

Indian paddlers sail into the semi-finals at CWG

Rediff.com7 Apr 2018

Indian paddlers continued their impressive run as they outshone Malaysia to cruise into the semifinals of both men's and women' team events on day three of competitions in the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 3

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 3

Rediff.com6 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 3 of Commonwealth Games.

Lather youngest Indian weightlifter to win medal at CWG

Lather youngest Indian weightlifter to win medal at CWG

Rediff.com6 Apr 2018

Teenager Deepak Lather, on Friday, became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a bronze in the men's 69kg category.

CWG: Indian paddlers have it easy on Day 1

CWG: Indian paddlers have it easy on Day 1

Rediff.com5 Apr 2018

The men's team got the better of Northern Ireland and Trinidad and Tobago thrashing them both 3-0 while the women's team defeated Sri Lanka and Wales 3-0, 3-1 respectively.

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 2

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 2

Rediff.com5 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 2 of Commonwealth Games.

Indian women lose to Wales in CWG hockey opener

Indian women lose to Wales in CWG hockey opener

Rediff.com5 Apr 2018

India's women's hockey team had a disastrous opening at the Commonwealth Games, going down 2-3 to Wales in Pool A match, at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre, on Thursday morning.

CWG: Sexual assault complaint casts pall over Mauritius team

CWG: Sexual assault complaint casts pall over Mauritius team

Rediff.com4 Apr 2018

The Mauritian sports ministry confirmed on Wednesday that chef de mission Kaysee Teeroovengadum had stepped down from his role at the April 4-15 Games after it was alleged he had sexually assaulted women's javelin thrower Jessika Selma Rosun.

PHOTOS: Protestors, delays and rain backdrop as CWG opened

PHOTOS: Protestors, delays and rain backdrop as CWG opened

Rediff.com4 Apr 2018

Aborigines inhabited Australia more than 50,000 years before the First Fleet sailed into Botany Bay near Sydney in 1788 after the country had been declared 'terra nullius', or unoccupied.

CWG Opening Ceremony PIX: PV Sindhu leads Indian contingent

CWG Opening Ceremony PIX: PV Sindhu leads Indian contingent

Rediff.com4 Apr 2018

Here are some photographs from the Opening Ceremony:

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 1

CWG 2018: Check out India's schedule on Day 1

Rediff.com4 Apr 2018

Check out India's schedule on Day 1 of Commonwealth Games.

VOTE! India's best sportsperson in 2018

VOTE! India's best sportsperson in 2018

Rediff.com1 Jan 2019

Virat Kohli? M C Mary Kom? Neeraj Chopra?

Hungrier, stronger, paddler Sathiyan confident of gold at CWG

Hungrier, stronger, paddler Sathiyan confident of gold at CWG

Rediff.com22 Mar 2018

The 25-year-old, who shot to fame by becoming the second Indian to win an ITTF event -- the Belgium Open in 2016, is a strong medal hope in the Gold Coast Games starting April 4. He has also won a gold in the ITTF Challenge -- Spanish Open last year in the men's singles category.

'Why the obsession with foreign coaches?'

'Why the obsession with foreign coaches?'

Rediff.com27 Mar 2018

Indian boxing's national observer Akhil Kumar sees nothing wrong in leaving out national chief coaches from the Commonwealth Games contingent but what irks him is the higher pay and greater importance given to the foreigners in the support staff.

Here's what measures India will take if shooting is scrapped...

Here's what measures India will take if shooting is scrapped...

Rediff.com23 Dec 2017

Olympic Association is yet to get an official confirmation about shooting being scrapped from the programme of 2022 Commonwealth Games but said it will ask the organisers to reconsider its decision.

This country is a joke: Prannoy fumes over Arjuna award snub

This country is a joke: Prannoy fumes over Arjuna award snub

Rediff.com3 Jun 2020

Prannoy took to Twitter to express his displeasure.

India records 47,638 fresh Covid-19 infections

India records 47,638 fresh Covid-19 infections

Rediff.com6 Nov 2020

A total 77,65,966 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.32 per cent, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.49 per cent.

World champion Chanu ready to battle pain to compete at Asian Games

World champion Chanu ready to battle pain to compete at Asian Games

Rediff.com25 Jul 2018

World champion and Commonwealth Games gold-medallist weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu says the injury is not as bad as first thought and she would need just two weeks of training to be competition ready.

The CWG's Aerostat Man

The CWG's Aerostat Man

Rediff.com15 Oct 2010

Mark Fisher may not have featured in the list of people applauded for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, but his contribution to the Games loomed large throughout the October 3 and 14 events, literally.

Ambush marketing at CWG

Ambush marketing at CWG

Rediff.com7 Oct 2010

The surreptitious entry of non-sponsor brands into the Games Village and the eleventh hour tangential entry of companies have made non-sponsor brands ubiquitous.

Cheering CWG, Bollywood-style!

Cheering CWG, Bollywood-style!

Rediff.com30 Sep 2010

Here's what your favourite celebrities have been up to.

Reliance proposes using tapeworm drug to treat Covid patients

Reliance proposes using tapeworm drug to treat Covid patients

Rediff.com3 Jun 2021

Niclosamide, a drug on the World Health Organisation's list of essential medicines, has been used to treat tapeworm infestation for more than 50 years. The oral antiviral drug was also used to treat patients during the SARS outbreak of 2003-04.

World Championships medal on Neeraj's mind

World Championships medal on Neeraj's mind

Rediff.com28 May 2022

'My approach has been to do my best on the day according to the situation'

Dropping shooting from 2022 CWG huge setback for India: Bindra

Dropping shooting from 2022 CWG huge setback for India: Bindra

Rediff.com20 Apr 2018

Dropping shooting from the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be a huge setback for India, especially for its young shooters, says Abhinav Bindra, the country's only individual Olympic gold medallist.

Here's what our badminton heroes are up to post CWG

Here's what our badminton heroes are up to post CWG

Rediff.com17 Apr 2018

Sindhu pens thoughts, Saina enjoys evening at beach

Kashyap, Prannoy, two others test COVID-19 positive

Kashyap, Prannoy, two others test COVID-19 positive

Rediff.com5 Dec 2020

The players will get tested again for the second time on Monday.

CWG Hockey: Sunil's late strike helps India edge past Wales

CWG Hockey: Sunil's late strike helps India edge past Wales

Rediff.com8 Apr 2018

SV Sunil's oodles of experience came in handy as his 59th minute strike enabled India to pip a gritty Wales 4-3 in their second Pool B encounter at the Commonwealth Games, in Gold Coast.

Sanjeev Rajput claims gold in 50m rifle 3 positions

Sanjeev Rajput claims gold in 50m rifle 3 positions

Rediff.com14 Apr 2018

Sanjeev Rajput won the gold medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions event with a games record at the 21st Commonwealth Games

India at CWG: Lifters' medal haul continues; shuttlers, boxers unbeaten

India at CWG: Lifters' medal haul continues; shuttlers, boxers unbeaten

Rediff.com6 Apr 2018

The Indian weightlifting juggernaut continued at the Commonwealth Games, with Sanjita Chanu and Deepak Lather adding a gold and bronze to the team's tally, and the shuttlers and boxers staying unbeaten on the second day, in Gold Coast, on Friday.

Indo-Pak rivalry set to light up CWG hockey competition

Indo-Pak rivalry set to light up CWG hockey competition

Rediff.com6 Apr 2018

Overall, the record stands 1-1 between the two sides as Pakistan had the last laugh in the 2006 Games in Melbourne.

CWG: Horton ends Australia's long wait for 400 freestyle champion

CWG: Horton ends Australia's long wait for 400 freestyle champion

Rediff.com5 Apr 2018

The 21-year-old had to chase down James Guy and Jack McLoughlin to win the title, pulling ahead in the final 100 metres to edge out compatriot McLoughlin and the Englishman to touch in three minutes, 43.76.

PHOTOS: Lifter Gururaja wins India's first medal at CWG 2018

PHOTOS: Lifter Gururaja wins India's first medal at CWG 2018

Rediff.com5 Apr 2018

Weightlifter Gururaja Poojary opened India's medal tally on the first day of competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games, claiming silver in the men's 56kg category, on Thursday.

Controversy aside, exuberant flag hoisting at CWG village by India

Controversy aside, exuberant flag hoisting at CWG village by India

Rediff.com2 Apr 2018

The Indian athletes seemed unruffled by the syringe controversy that has cast a shadow on their Commonwealth Games build-up as they enthusiastically took part in the flag-hoisting ceremony at the athletes village, on Monday.

CWG: India deny any wrongdoing after syringes found in compound

CWG: India deny any wrongdoing after syringes found in compound

Rediff.com31 Mar 2018

India vehemently denied any wrongdoing after syringes were found near their athletes' accommodation at the Commonwealth Games Village in Gold Coast on Saturday even as the authorities are ascertaining if the matter requires thorough probe.

Sports Shorts: Srikanth is Sportsperson of the Year!

Sports Shorts: Srikanth is Sportsperson of the Year!

Rediff.com21 Jun 2018

A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday