Day two at the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League Season 2 featured a highly anticipated duel between league favorites, the Alpine Sg Pipers, and reigning champions, the Triveni Continental Kings.
Australian dominator Kaylee McKeown crushed Regan Smith to extend her reign over the 100 metres backstroke before Irish trailblazer Daniel Wiffen became his nation's first man to win an Olympic swimming medal with 800m freestyle gold on Tuesday.
In a surprising turn of events, Mumba Masters defeated tournament leaders PBG Alaskan Knights, denying them direct qualification to the finals of the Tech Mahindra Global Chess League in London on Wednesday.
'When you watch Freedom At Midnight, I want you to feel like you are sitting on a ticking time bomb.'
IMAGES from Day 4 of the first Test played between India and New Zealand in Bengaluru, on Saturday.
Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 is going full throttle with its creeps and cackle, which marks the addition of Madhuri Dixit and re-entry of the OG Manjulika, Vidya Balan.
Just as the atom and the byte needed careful societal control to prevent damage to society, perhaps, so does the gene, particularly in debates like 'genes vs merit', explains Ajit Balakrishnan.
Wimbledon attracts celebrities the way the US Open, the French Open and the Australian Open can't.
Glimpses of Indian athletes in action at the 2024 Olympics on Sunday, July 28, 2024.
The Australian actress took home her first-ever Emmy trophy, winning Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role as Princess Diana in The Crown.
The growth in production of eight key infrastructure sectors slowed down to a 20-month low of 4 per cent in June this year due to a decline in the output of crude oil and refinery products, according to official data released on Wednesday. The core sectors' production grew by 6.4 per cent in May 2024. The growth of core sectors -- coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertiliser, steel, cement and electricity -- was 8.4 per cent in June 2023.
They try to hide behind the smokescreen that these are works of fiction inspired by real events. So, you can pick and choose from facts and fictionalise to push the right triggers with your audience or appease the powers that be, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Kohli posted the picture on Twitter and captioned the post as, 'With the biggest BOSS! @ivivianrichards'.
Vivian Richards has wished Sachin Tendulkar a speedy recovery
All in all, season 2 seems a tad better than season 1 in most departments, observes Namrata Thakker.
IMAGES from the fourth day of the first Test between India and Bangladesh at the Chepauk in Chennai on Sunday
"I've always been a dreamer. My mum taught me to never give up and to reach for the stars. On July 11, it's time to turn that dream into a reality aboard the next @VirginGalactic spaceflight," Branson wrote on his Twitter page.
New Zealand's Chris Gaffaney and Rodney Tucker of Australia will be the on-field officials for the second semi-final of the T20 World Cup between India and England
Images from Monday's swimming action at Paris La Defense Arena, Nanterre, France.
India's Kush Maini won his maiden Formula 2 Sprint Race at the Hungarian Grand Prix after initial winner Richard Verschoor's was disqualified due to a technical infringement.
Adam Zampa surpassed pacer Mitchell Starc to become the country's leading wicket-taker in ICC T20 World Cup history.
Antigua and Barbuda received 1,75,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines out of which 40,000 were donated to the country under the 'Vaccine Maitri' initiative.
Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja are set for important milestones during the coming series against Bangladesh.
Sanju Samson hit a fluent half-century and Mukesh Kumar took four wicket as India eased past Zimbabwe by 42 runs in the inconsequential fifth and final T20I.
Mitchell Marsh says he is ready to bowl in the Super Eight phase of the T20 World Cup after a gradual recovery from a hamstring strain.
Shastri shared a picture with former West Indies player Vivian Richards calling him a 'King'.
Lord's, the 'home of cricket', will host its first-ever Women's Test between India and England in 2026, the ECB announced on Thursday.
He is the first athlete to retain the pole vault title in nearly seven decades.
The woman and Althaf had been friends on Instagram for the last three months and both belonged to the same town (Karkala).
Sanjay Manjrekar feels that India should strive to find the right balance in playing XI
Rahul Dravid will need a specific plan to get the best out of superstars Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the T20 World Cup, said Brian Lara.
The COVID-19 virus has forced athletes to withdraw from events and has others donning masks once again at the Paris Games.
Sukanya Verma looks at all the times Bollywood peddled its treasured ishq our way.
'I have looked at other sportsmen and women who I have a lot of respect for doing it to an extreme level'
Imane Khelif, the boxer at the centre of a gender dispute, beat Thailand's Janjaem Suwannapheng by unanimous decision in a Women's 66kg welterweight semi-final at the Paris Games on Tuesday to progress to the final at Roland Garros.
Former New Zealand player Ian Smith reckons batting legend Vivian Richards would have been an absolute crowd pleaser in T20 cricket with franchises willing to pay more money than all the current stars like Pat Cummins and Ben Stokes put together. The West Indian, who won the 1975 and 1979 World Cup, is regarded as the most destructive batsman of his era scoring 8540 runs in 121 Tests and 6721 in 187 ODIs at a strike rate of 90 before retiring in 1991.
Tributes also poured in from across the border with former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar hailing Dhawan's hard work and other qualities.
Close to half of women soccer fans in England and Wales have personally experienced sexist or misogynistic abuse at matches but most have never reported it to authorities, a new study by anti-discrimination charity Kick It Out revealed on Wednesday.
Rachin Ravindra becomes youngest recipient of Sir Richard Hadlee Medal
Match officials for ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 final
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