Rain during the last two days forced the organisers to postpone Monday's matches and reschedule the quarter-final league in the National Football Championship.
The city strummed its way into the Guinness Book of World Record on October 26 for the largest guitar ensemble.
Services defeated Karnataka 1-0, while Goa hammered Maharashtra 5-0 to complete the semi-final line-up in the 63rd National Football Championship, for the Santosh Trophy, at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, in Chennai on Sunday. Last year's runners-up Services will take on 29 times champions Bengal in the first semi-final on Wednesday while four-time winners Goa face hosts Tamil Nadu in the second last four match on Thursday.
Hosts Tamil Nadu, former champions Goa and Manipur booked quarter-final berths with easy victories in the 63rd National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy on Sunday. They join four directly seeded teams -- last edition's winners Punjab, runners-up Services and two semi-finalists Karnataka and West Bengal -- in the last eight league round which begins on Tuesday.
It was back to basics for Team India as they toiled it out in the nets ahead of the third and final One-Day International against Australia at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Goa, on Saturday.
Kavita Raut on Friday became the first Indian woman to win an individual medal in track events of the Commonwealth Games as she bagged the bronze in 10,000m race at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi.
Mohd Abdul Najeeb Qureshi on Wednesday equalled the national 100m record while qualifying for the semi-finals on the opening day of the track and field events which saw all the Indians, except two, making it to the next round in the Commonwealth Games.
Hamizan Amirul Ibrahim won the men's 56-kg weightlifting event to claim Malaysia's first gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Sports Complex in Delhi, on Monday.
It took seven years and Rs. 5 crore for a company to build a Foot Over Bridge (FOB) near the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which then collapsed. The Indian Army, which was called in to salvage the Delhi's pride and build a temporary FOB, has done the same job in four days flat and at a fraction of the original cost.
Luka Kipkemoi Chelimo of Kenya won the gruelling 42.195 kilometres men's race in the 27th edition of Pune International Marathon which ended at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Sunday.
Brisbane Roar to 5-1 win over Dempo FC in their opener at the Bhausaheb Bandodkar Memorial Trophy on Saturday.
I-League 2 team Sudeva FC launches collaboration with VfB Stuttgart for grassroots development
Former champions Dempo suffered a shock 1-2 defeat at the hands of Pune FC in the first upset of the Federation Cup football tournament in Guwahati on Monday.
Reuben D'Souza's goal enabled them beat defending champions Kerala 1-0 in the first semi-final of the National Football Championship.
Abdul Hakim's opportunistic goal gave the defending champions a 1-0 victory in the opening quarter-final league match, in the Santosh Trophy National Football Championship.
The music capital of North East India, Shillong is all set to rock to the tune of the 'biggest ever guitar ensemble' on October 26 in an attempt to storm into the Guinness Book of World Record.
The center at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium took a significant step towards becoming only the sixth IOC-accredited laboratory in the Asia-Pacific region.
Defending champions Punjab were shocked by Manipur 2-1 in the quarter-final Group A league opener in the 63rd National Football championship, for the Santosh Trophy, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, in Chennai on Tuesday.
NorthEast United scored in the final minute of the added time to hold defending champions Chennaiyin FC to a 3-3 draw in a thrilling match and kept themselves alive for a play-offs berth in the Indian Super League football in Chennai on Saturday.
FC Goa became the first team to guarantee themselves a spot in the Hero Indian Super League 2019-20 semi-finals with a 4-1 win over Hyderabad FC, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Margao, Goa, on Wednesday.
Several couples are keeping the dance floor alive in an attempt to break the Guinness record of a party that lasted for 52 hours and three minutes in Cleveland, US.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be a part of the FIFA U-17 World Cup's opening day proceedings, which will include a small ceremony at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Friday.
It is likely to start from Qutub Minar and proceed to Jawaharlal Nehru stadium, where the torch relay will culminate.
Opposition mounts over KCA's plans to host one dayer at Kochi
The last year's runner-up were held to a 2-2 draw by Karnataka in a quarter-final league match of the Santosh Trophy football tournament.
The arrests were made during searches at the sports administrator's office in Delhi's Lodhi Road area, they said.
Top woman archer Jhanu Hansda won the individual compound gold at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
The country is slated to host the tournament from October 11 to 30 across three venues -- Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Stadium, Goa's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and Navi Mumbai's DY Patil Stadium.
The Indian men's 4x100m relay team was withdrawn from the Asian Games contingent on Thursday after it failed to impress in trials.
Tarundeep Rai said he is confident of winning a medal in the team event at the Olympics.
Anju set a new meet mark of 6.53 metres at the 46th National Senior Inter-State Athletics championships.
Delhi Dynamos were better but wasteful as they paid the price for their profligacy even as Alessandro del Piero's presence failed to break the deadlock in their barren draw against FC Pune City in the Hero Indian Super League on Tuesday.
They shared the honours in the men's section in the first National Ranking Archery circuit tournament.
After excelling with the ball, the deposed India captain scored an unbeaten 81 on day 2 of the Ranji Trophy match against Maharashtra.
The men's team won the compound gold and a silver and bronze medal in the recurve event at the 14th Asian Archery Championships.
India's Navdeep Singh claimed gold medal in a dramatic men's javelin throw F41 final while Simran won the bronze medal in the women's 200m T12 final at the Paralympic Games in Paris on Saturday.
32-year-old Kumarvel can keep the football airborne for two hours and 42 minutes, over a distance of 12.5 kms.
Sonu Razak's 17th minute strike helped Madhya Pradesh beat Delhi 1-0 in the Santosh Trophy football tournament.
Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a key accused in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, was brought to India on Thursday after being "successfully extradited " from the US, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) said. The 64-year-old Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin landed in Delhi in a special plane on Thursday evening, ending days of speculation of when and how he will be extradited, officials said. The NIA said in a statement that it had secured the successful extradition after years of sustained and concerted efforts to bring to justice the key conspirator behind the 2008 mayhem that claimed 166 lives. Rana is accused of conspiring with David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani, and operatives of designated terrorist organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Harkat-ul-Jihadi Islami (HUJI) along with other Pakistan-based co-conspirators, to carry out the the three-day terror siege of India's financial capital.
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