Olympic
Guru Gobind Singh College Lucknow clinch Nehru Sub-Junior title
Lucknow college produces a determined performance to emerge champions in a closely fought final on October 31. Both teams displayed tremendous fighting spirit, with the contest going down to a shootout after an exciting finish to regulation time
Tamil Nadu’s sprinter Neil Samraj breaks U18 100m/200m national records
The meet record of 21.28 seconds was in the name of Pratik Maharana. Neil has emerged as the most successful sprinter in men’s U18. He also won 100m gold with a time of 10.45 seconds, a national record. He was declared best athlete in the men’s U18 group
Nirbhay Choudhary, Haqikat Grewal smash hammer throw records at Indian Open U23 meet
Delhi’s Nirbhay Choudhary and Punjab’s Haqikat Grewal set new meet records in men’s and women’s hammer throw as the three-day competition concluded in Jaipur. Records also tumbled in the men’s 400m hurdles and 10,000m
Nehru Girls Hockey Tournament opens with colourful ceremony
A colourful march past, a cultural showcase by Mata Sundri College students and the presence of hockey stalwarts marked the opening of the Charanjit Rai 32nd Nehru Girls Under-17 Tournament, featuring five matches involving winning state clubs and school teams from across India
Pranavi grabs three-shot lead as India eye two golf medals at Asian Games
On a day when the pressure was expected to intensify, Pranavi played with authority, shot a four-under 66 and moved to 15-under for the tournament, turning a two-shot deficit at the start of the day into a commanding three-shot advantage going into the final round
Shooter Neeru Dhanda first Indian woman to get Asiad gold in shotgun
The 26-year-old shooter was almost flawless in the women’s trap final at the Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery, hitting 28 of her 30 targets to win the gold with an Asian Games record. China’s Sun Yunong took silver with 26 hits, while Kuwait’s Hajar Abdulmalik won bronze with 21
Asian Games 2026: India win gold in shooting finally, medals assured in squash and TT
Kamaljeet and Suruchi Inder Singh clinched gold in 10m air pistol mixed team event, giving India their second gold medal of the Games while Rudrankksh Patil, Niraj Kumar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar secured silver in men’s 50m rifle 3 positions team event
PM Narendra Modi: Identify talent among 5-15-year-olds; India absent from two-third Olympic events
Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India does not participate in nearly two-thirds of the around 325 Olympic events and calls for a nationwide talent hunt from “village to village, city to city and school to school” to identify 5-15-year-olds and train them for the 2036 Olympics
Boxers power India to fourth on CWG medals table; Glasgow campaign promises glory in Ahmedabad 2030
India concluded its campaign with 39 medals — 13 gold, 17 silver and nine bronze — to finish behind sporting powerhouses Australia, England and Canada. While the overall tally was considerably lower than what India has achieved in recent editions of the Commonwealth Games, the result must be viewed in the context of the programme, which excluded several sports that have traditionally been among India's richest sources of medals
Record seven gold medals establish India as boxing giants of the Commonwealth Games
Besides the seven gold medals, India also grabbed three silver in boxing at the Scottish Exhibition Centre (SEC) here. The previous best in terms of boxing gold medals won by a single nation at a single Games was six
