Animesh Kujur, Gurindervir Singh The Asian Games enter Day 6 in Nagoya with India set for another busy day across multiple sports and several medal opportunities.Shooting will offer India an early chance to add to its medal tally, while canoe sprint and weightlifting will also feature medal events involving Indian athletes. Athletics will close the…
NEW DELHI: India made a strong start to its athletics campaign at the Asian Games 2026 on Thursday, winning two medals. The mixed 4x400m relay team won silver, while Seema won bronze in the women’s 10,000m. Seema’s medal was India’s first athletics medal at these Games.The relay team of TS Manu, MR Poovamma, Vishal TK…
Tilak Varma, Ishan Kishan, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (PTI Photo) Mohammad Kaif believes India could face a major selection headache in the T20I format within the next six months, with the former batter predicting that Vaibhav Sooryavanshi will force his way into the first-choice side.Kaif feels the teenage sensation’s emergence could eventually leave either Tilak Varma or…
Nihal Sarin and Savitha Shri (Photo by Rafal Oleksiewicz and Michal Walusza for FIDE) NEW DELHI: India will look back at Nihal Sarin’s loss before the rest day and wonder what might have happened had he taken a few more minutes — he had plenty of time on the clock, more than enough to have…
Naorem Roshibina Devi, red, competes against Indonesia’s Kusumaningtyas Thani in the women’s 60kg wushu semifinal match during the 20th Asian Games, in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Naorem Roshibina Devi is one victory away from rewriting Indian wushu history. Already the country’s most successful wushu athlete at the Asian Games — the Manipuri has…
Mirabai Chanu won silver; India’s men’s and women’s skeet teams bag bronzes (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: Mirabai Chanu finally ended her long wait for an Asian Games medal, winning silver in the women’s 49kg category on Wednesday.The 32-year-old lifted a total of 198kg (88kg+111kg) to finish second. The medal was India’s first Asian Games…
Image credit: Hockey India NEW DELHI: Deepika produced a stunning nine-goal show as India continued their dominant run in women’s hockey at the 2026 Asian Games, thrashing Thailand 20-1 in their Pool B match at the Gifu Prefectural Green Stadium on Wednesday.The forward and drag-flick specialist converted all nine of her goals from penalty corners…
India’s players hold the national flag after winning in the women’s final T20I cricket match between India and Sri Lanka in the ongoing Asian Games 2026, in Nagoya, Japan. (PTI photo) Nagoya: On the sidelines of the cricket facility at Korogi Athletic Park, a few Sri Lankan men sat watching the India-Sri Lanka women’s final….
Photo credit: Vansh Bedi Instagram account NEW DELHI: Delhi wicketkeeper-batter Vansh Bedi has denied any connection with the controversy surrounding a sting operation that alleged the misuse of confidential team information in Indian cricket, saying attempts to link him to the case are “false and defamatory”.Bedi, who was part of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK)…
File Pic: Balraj Panwar (AP/PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Uneasiness is brewing in India’s rowing camp ahead of the start of the Asian Games competition on Wednesday, with several rowers expressing unhappiness over last-minute changes to crew combinations and event entries.Some athletes have alleged that they were shifted from their original events while reserve rowers were…
