Once the undisputed kings of field hockey, winning a record eight Olympic gold medals, India are targeting a return to their glory days bolstered by a string of recent successes after decades in the wilderness. Demanding task master Fulton, a South African, is putting the players through the wringer in the heat and humidity of…
India’s Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has threatened to resume a nationwide protest if the government goes back on its assurance to drop police complaints against student demonstrators who forced the nation’s education minister to resign over examination paper leaks. The country’s top court on Tuesday, while hearing a batch of petitions, ordered that state governments…
Kyiv: At least 13 Indian seafarers are among the 15 crew members trapped aboard a cargo vessel at Ukraine’s Chornomorsk port amid drone and missile assaults continuing near the Black Sea port, the Forward Seamen’s Union of India (FSUI) said. The sailors’ union has warned that the stranded crew is caught in a “terrible and…
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India’s athletics campaign at the Commonwealth Games 2026 continues on Wednesday, July 29, with Olympians Parul Chaudhary and Murali Sreeshankar headlining India’s day in finals. National record holder Parul Chaudhary lines up in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, chasing a maiden Commonwealth Games medal, while long jumper Murali Sreeshankar eyes a second CWG podium. Sreeshankar, a…
China has deployed at least 11 J-20 stealth fighters to air bases facing India, according to Vantor satellite imagery published by NDTV on July 27, 2026, marking one of the clearest indications that the People’s Liberation Army Air Force is extending fifth-generation airpower across multiple Himalayan axes. While the imagery does not reveal operational intent…
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Armed Israeli settlers backed by the military and government have continued to escalate attacks on Palestinians living in the West Bank in recent weeks, attacking villages and towns amid an ongoing push to assert Israeli sovereignty over the territory. At the same time, there are indications that the “wall of fear” among Palestinians in the…
Few things are more sacrosanct in sport than Wimbledon. Its all-white dress code for players, minimalist court-side advertising and association with strawberries and cream all remain fiercely guarded traditions. Yet as the organisers of the world’s oldest Grand Slam set out to crack cricket-obsessed India this year, Wimbledon had to abandon some of its trademark…
As the FIFA World Cup 2026 reached its final week, Gourav Roy, an Indian software engineer living in San Francisco, drove more than 9,650 kilometres (6,000 miles) across the United States to attend both the semifinals and the final. For Roy, it was the next best thing to what he had grown up dreaming of:…
