Gukesh had an exciting match against Nepomniachtchi out of a Catalan opening game on Tuesday.
The revamped Champions League will feature a tennis-style seeding system for the last-16 knockout phase, UEFA said.
In percentage terms, it is those first round losers who benefit the most -- their 35,000 pounds prize being almost 17 percent up on last year, reflecting the club's commitment to the lower reaches of tennis.
The tenth edition of the National Football League, featuring the ten best teams of the country, kicks-off on, January 10.
The BCCI had mandated all international players, except for seniors like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah, to play in tournaments such as Ranji and Duleep Trophy when they are not busy with national commitments, the move highlighting the board's emphasis on the role of domestic cricket.
The police took action after cyber patrolling revealed that 60 fake lottery apps, 25 fake Facebook profiles and 20 websites are connected to the scam, the SPMC release said.
In the lines of the hugely popular Indian Premier League cricket Twenty20 tournament, the Badminton Association of India on Saturday launched a franchise-based Indian Badminton League (IBL), which will see the top Indian players play along with the best players from around the world next year.
Marat Safin has come up with an instant remedy to help Andre Agassi clear his conscience after his admission that he lied about using drugs - hand back the millions of dollars he made in prize money.
R Praggnanandhaa navigated his match against the reigning world champion Ding Liren with remarkable ease
'Today when I see them talking to people from different countries confidently, I realise that education does not come from classrooms alone but from life experiences too.'
Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei died after allegedly being doused in petrol and set alight by her former partner.
Neeraj Chopra, who added a silver to his Olympic medal tally in Paris following a historic gold in the Tokyo Games, will be aiming to end his season on a high.
Vidarbha captain Faiz Fazal announced that the entire prize money will be donated to the families of the CRPF personnel martyred in the dastardly terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama on Thursday.
The 15-member squad of the Indian team which won the T20 World Cup will take home Rs 5 crore each.
Having lost three and drawn three coming into the third and final day of rapid, Praggnanadhaa lost to Lenier Dominguez of the US in the seventh round.
'Rohit Sharma's victorious team will take a ride on an open-top bus in a parade from the National Centre for Performing Arts in Nariman Point to the iconic Wankhede stadium at 4 pm on Thursday evening, said a report in The Indian Express newspaper.
Bernie Ecclestone has made clear that Formula One will pay prize money to only the top 10 teams from the end of this season.
Nadal was much more than a claycourt bully, though. He spent more than 900 successive weeks from 2005 in the ATP's top 10, 209 of them at number one and at the age of 24 became the youngest player to complete the career Grand Slam.
The runners-up will earn at least $1.28 million, while the losing semi-finalists will take home $787,500 each.
Gukesh won't challenge Liren on home turf; Singapore wins bid for World Championships match
A record 39,510 runners have registered for the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on January 19, 2014.
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field
'I guess only the top players' images matter. I guess only the independent tribunal's opinion on the top players is taken as sound and right.'
Vantika Agrawal, 21, is aiming to become a Grandmaster, which could happen as early as next year.
In a post on X, Chiranjeevi on Sunday expressed anguish over the loss of life due to the landslides in Kerala, adding he and his son-"RRR" star Ram Charan were donating Rs 1 crore to the CMDRF.
Caruana kept his slender half point lead going in to the final round in the 10-player round-robin tournament, a part of the Grand Chess tour.
West Indies players will share the entire $1.6 million in prize money for winning the men's World Twenty20 title as well as a portion of sponsorship revenue, the head of the region's cricket board told Reuters on Sunday.
Bandyopadhyay, eminent playwright and director, said in a statement that he is returning the award conferred on him earlier this year by the Paschimbanga Natya Akademi and the Rs 30,000 monetary grant.
The Kerala police on Thursday launched an investigation into an alleged social media campaign against Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Facebook post requesting help for the people affected by the landslides in Wayanad district. The campaign was aimed at motivating people to reject the CM's appeal for disaster relief, it said.
The Australian Open will hike total prizemoney 10 percent in 2014 to A$33 million, organisers said on Wednesday, offsetting a depreciation in the local currency.
D Gukesh played out a draw with tournament leader and top seed Fabiano Caruana
American Hans Niemann filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit against Carlsen and Chess.com in October 2022 after the allegations that he had cheated.
The gender tests conducted by the International Boxing Association (IBA) on two female fighters at last year's world championships that led to their disqualification were illegitimate and lacked credibility
Ahead of this season's Wimbledon, here's a look at the prize money.
The governing body of women's tennis announced a new circuit structure on Tuesday with a "pathway to handing out equal prize money" for men and women at combined WTA 1000 and 500 events.
As the show inches towards its grand finale on August 2, finalists Ranvir Shorey, Sana Makbul, Naezy, Kritika Malik, and Sai Ketan Rao have their eyes set on the prize.
Erigaisi Arjun was held to a draw by Alexey Sarana of Serbia
The 'Indira Gandhi award for best debut film' and the 'Nargis Dutt award for best feature film on national integration' have been retitled with the names of the late prime minister and legendary actor being dropped as part of a raft of changes for the National Film Awards, according to a notification.
India has submitted its bid to host the much-anticipated World Chess Championship clash between teen sensation D Gukesh and defending champion Ding Liren of China in November-December this year.
Caruana became the sole leader and also got back to number two in live world rankings.
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