Indian golfer Diksha Dagar has achieved a feat unmatched in the history of Deaflympics and global golf. At the 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo (2025), she clinched her third career medal and her second consecutive gold in the Women’s Individual Golf event becoming the only golfer ever to win three Deaflympics medals since the sport’s…
Ice hockey in India’s Himalayan belt is entering its most ambitious phase yet. Royal Enfield has announced the return of its largest-ever Ice Hockey season, marking the third edition of a project that has rapidly transformed winter sport across Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. Featuring structured training programs, expanded regional participation, and community-driven competitions, the…
India delivered its most commanding performance yet at the World Boxing Cup Finals 2025, sending an unprecedented 15 boxers into Thursday’s gold-medal bouts the highest among all competing nations in this elite eight-boxer-per-category championship. Headlining India’s charge were reigning World Champion Jaismine Lamboria (57kg) and two-time former World Champion Nikhat Zareen (51kg), both of whom…
Ayush Shetty continued his impressive rise on the BWF World Tour with a breakthrough performance at the Australian Open 2025, defeating fourth seed and World No.9 Kodai Naraoka in straight games, 21–17, 21–16, to secure his sixth quarterfinal of the season. The 20-year-old Indian, ranked World No.32, showcased maturity far beyond his age as he…
India enjoyed a commanding start at the WTT Star Contender Muscat 2025, delivering a series of composed, high-quality performances across singles, doubles and mixed categories. The opening rounds saw multiple Indian paddlers progress to the next stage, highlighted by Manush Shah’s clinical sweep in the men’s singles, Sutirtha Mukherjee’s gritty comeback in the women’s singles,…
The Australian Open Super 500 delivered contrasting fortunes for India on a dramatic day in Sydney. While HS Prannoy suffered an early exit after a tight opening-game battle, the country’s top men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Satwik–Chirag produced a gritty, high-quality performance to reach the quarterfinals. The match offered everything momentum swings,…
The 2025 domestic season in Indian women’s 400m brought depth, intrigue, and a renewed sense of urgency. It produced promising times, key comebacks, and the emergence of new threats but it also underlined one stubborn truth, the 50.79s national record set by Hima Das in 2018 remains untouched. With the 2026 season looming one that…
In one of the most consequential policy reversals in modern Olympic history, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has shifted from an inclusion-first transgender participation framework to a centralized, restrictive model designed to protect the integrity of the female category. The change, formalized in mid-2025 under the leadership of newly elected IOC President Kirsty Coventry, marks…
The Indian Women’s Football Team will travel to North Macedonia on November 20 for one of its most strategically significant international exposure tours in recent years. Falling within the FIFA International Women’s Match Window (November 24–December 2), the tour is a carefully engineered component of the Blue Tigresses’ long-term build-up to the AFC Women’s Asian…
India’s sports economy is projected to soar to $130 billion by 2030, positioning the nation as one of the world’s most dynamic emerging sports markets. But beneath the headline numbers lies a deeper structural shift: the true engine of long-term enterprise value is moving away from in-season media revenues and toward year-round commercial monetization driven…
India’s fast-rising chess star Pranav Anand, just 19 years old, delivered one of the strongest performances of his young career by winning the President’s Cup of the Republic of Tajikistan (Group A) with an impressive 7.0/9. The Bengaluru grandmaster remained unbeaten through all nine rounds, scoring five wins and four draws, and finishing clear first…
India’s leading figure skater Tara Prasad delivered another assured performance on the European circuit, clinching the bronze medal in the Senior Women’s category at Skate Celje 2025 in Slovenia. Competing against a strong field of European and Asian athletes, Tara finished third with a total score of 136.68 points, reinforcing her position as one of…
The opening round of the Daly College SRFI Indian Open 2025, a PSA World Tour Bronze event, delivered a memorable day for Indian squash as Veer Chotrani, Velavan Senthilkumar, and wildcard Suraj Kumar Chand produced confident and in one case, historic performances to advance to the Round of 16. With the temporary glass court set…
Arundhati Choudhary produced a career-defining performance on her international return, stopping Germany’s Leonie Müller one of the most consistent performers across all three stages of the 2025 World Boxing Cup Finals via RSC to headline a flawless Day 3 for India at the World Boxing Cup Finals in Greater Noida. Her emphatic victory set the…
For more than six decades, the Laloor region of Thrissur symbolised one of Kerala’s most persistent municipal failures. The city’s primary dumping ground, now I M Vijayan Sports Complex spread over 8–10 acres and receiving nearly 60 tons of waste a day had devolved into a humanitarian and environmental crisis. The stench travelled for kilometres….
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty, Satwik–Chirag began their Australian Open 2025 campaign with the assurance and clarity expected from the world’s top men’s doubles pair. In their opening-round clash in Sydney, the top-seeded Indians defeated Taiwan’s Chang Ko-Chi and Po Li-Wei 25–23, 21–16, advancing to the Round of 16 with a performance that steadily grew…
The World Tennis League (WTL), one of the sport’s most exciting global showcase events, is set for its highly anticipated India debut next month. After three successful seasons in the UAE, the league licensed and managed by Iconik Sports and Events Ltd. will bring its unique brand of ‘sportainment’ to Bengaluru from December 17 to…
When India walk out at the National Stadium in Dhaka on November 18 for India vs Bangladesh, it will not feel like a match between two teams already knocked out of the AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifying race. The fixture may be a dead rubber on paper, but India vs Bangladesh has never been a…
For nearly two seasons, Treesa Jolly & Gayatri Gopichand have carried the weight of being India’s most promising women’s doubles pair, and 2025 has encapsulated the full spectrum of what that responsibility looks like. The year began with promise, rose to a career peak, abruptly collapsed under physical strain, and now arrives at a pivotal…
East Bengal FC Women’s stunning 3–1 victory over Bam Khatoon FC on Matchday 1 of the AFC Women’s Champions League 2025/26 has done more than rewrite sporting history. It has created a financial and strategic milestone for Indian women’s football, positioning the club and the Indian Women’s League (IWL) at the beginning of a new…
India delivered one of its most commanding collective displays at a global boxing event as all five Indian men’s boxers competing on Day 2 of the World Boxing Cup Finals advanced to the semifinals, confirming medals across both the afternoon and evening sessions at the Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex in Greater Noida. The…
As the Australian Open Super 500 gets underway in Sydney, the narrative around Indian badminton remains familiar, singles unpredictability balanced by the steady brilliance of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty. Once again, the Indian men’s doubles pair will shoulder India’s biggest hopes as they chase their first title of the 2025 season. Satwik and Chirag…
East Bengal FC could not have hoped for a better start to their AFC Women’s Champions League 2025/26 campaign. Playing at the Hankou Cultural Sports Centre in Wuhan, the Indian champions delivered a composed, efficient and often dominant performance to defeat Iran’s Bam Khatoon FC 3-1 in their Group B opener on Monday. Goals from…
Standing alone as India’s last survivor in the 2025 FIDE World Cup, Arjun Erigaisi enters the quarterfinals in Goa not just as a contender but as the tournament’s highest remaining seed and its most compelling story. In a World Cup defined by collapsing brackets, shocking exits, and an unprecedented exodus of elite players, the 22-year-old…
Indian athletics has produced steady progress across multiple disciplines in recent years, but few events have experienced a transformation as dramatic as Indian men’s high jump in 2025. What once sat on the periphery of India’s medal conversations is suddenly within touching distance of the world’s elite. The catalyst for this shift was Sarvesh Anil…
Indian football stands at its most fragile moment since the formation of the Indian Super League (ISL) in 2014. What was launched as a bold, reformative project to modernize Indian football has entered a dangerous period of uncertainty. At the heart of the crisis lies the impending expiry of the Master Rights Agreement (MRA) between…
In global football conversations, the Premier League (PL) stands as the gold standard for how a domestic league can transform an entire sporting ecosystem and national economy. In contrast, India’s Indian Super League (ISL) operates in a vastly different environment one where football fights for space, investment, and attention in a cricket-dominated landscape. But the…
Indian shooting has undergone one of the most dramatic turnarounds in modern Indian sport. Between 2016 and 2020, the country’s shooting programme was regarded as a paradox immense talent, consistent World Cup successes, but complete failure where it mattered most: the Olympic Games. Yet, between 2022 and 2025, India not only rebuilt its competitive structure…
The fourth UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships concluded in style at the Tau Devi Lal Indoor Stadium, with Delhi’s Payas Jain and PSPB’s Swastika Ghosh lifting the men’s and women’s singles titles after two gripping finals that showcased resilience, precision and high-quality shot-making. Both players secured their first singles crowns of the season with…
India could not have asked for a more explosive start to the Deaflympics 2025 shooting campaign. On a Sunday filled with high-quality performances, the Indian contingent delivered two major medal hauls including a remarkable double podium in the women’s 10m Air Rifle and a historic 1–2 finish in the men’s event, capped by a world-record…
Indian basketball is witnessing a quiet but significant shift. As the 2025–26 professional season begins in Mongolia, four prominent Indian players Princepal Singh, Palpreet Singh Brar, Harsh Dagar, and Sahaj Singh Sekhon have taken their talents to “The League,” Mongolia’s growing professional basketball competition. Their collective move is more than a series of individual contracts;…
India launched its campaign at the World Boxing Cup Finals 2025 in Greater Noida with a commanding display across weight categories, delivering four confident victories in the opening session. From precise technical execution to sharp tactical adjustments, the Indian squad demonstrated the readiness and discipline expected at a high-profile international event. With the tournament carrying…
When India lifted the 2025 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup trophy in Mumbai, the significance stretched far beyond the boundary ropes. The victory did not merely end a long wait for global glory it rewired the economics of the sport. Women’s cricket in India, long admired for its grit and heart, suddenly became one of…
As India prepares to host the FIH Men’s Junior Hockey World Cup 2025 in Chennai and Madurai from November 28 to December 10, the nation stands on the brink of yet another defining moment in its long and storied relationship with junior hockey. Few countries have invested in youth development as consistently as India and…
In 2025, four U23 Indian women footballers Rivka Ramji, Harshika Jain, Aveka Singh, and Kajol Dsouza found themselves spread across four very different footballing cultures, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Nordic Europe, and the Middle East. Indian women football is entering a decisive new phase one defined not only by national team milestones but by the…
In a season of fluctuating fortunes for Indian tennis, the Hyogo Noah Challenger in Kobe delivered one of the most compelling doubles stories of 2025. India’s Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha and Thailand’s Pruchya Isaro an unseeded Indo-Thai duo produced a gritty, sustained run to reach the final of the ATP Challenger 75 event, ultimately finishing runners-up…
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Thursday named a 23-member Indian squad that will travel to Dhaka for the AFC Asian Cup Qualifier Saudi Arabia 2027 against Bangladesh. While the announcement features several expected names across all positions, the biggest talking point is the conditional inclusion of Bengaluru FC winger Ryan Williams, who could…
The ISSF World Championships 2025 in Cairo will be remembered as the moment Indian shooting finally made the leap from being a nation of individual excellence to one of collective, systemic strength. A detailed performance audit confirms India’s campaign as its best-ever showing in a senior Rifle/Pistol World Championship, with seven medals in Olympic events…
As the FIDE World Cup 2025 enters its decisive phase in Goa, India’s massive 24-player contingent has been reduced to just two survivors, Arjun Erigaisi and Pentala Harikrishna. What began as the country’s strongest-ever lineup in a World Cup has turned into a campaign of attrition, upsets and abrupt exits leaving India’s aspirations for Candidates…
Lakshya Sen’s resurgence in 2025 continues to gather momentum, and the latest chapter has come at the Kumamoto Japan Masters, where the Indian shuttler produced one of his sharpest performances of the season to reach the semifinals. In a high-quality quarterfinal, Sen once again got the better of Singapore’s former world champion Loh Kean Yew,…
Indian rugby has witnessed several phases of growth over the past two decades, but no period has been as transformative or as strategically decisive as the two-year window between 2024 and 2025. What began as a system driven largely by grassroots passion and scattered institutional support evolved into a professionally structured, commercially bankable and competitively…
The stage is set at the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium as India prepares for one of the most important weeks in its women’s tennis journey. For the first time in history, the country is hosting the Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs, and Group G featuring India, the Netherlands and Slovenia promises a decisive contest with…
India’s compound archers delivered one of their strongest continental performances in recent years, returning from the Asian Archery Championships 2025 with two gold medals and a silver in team events, reaffirming the country’s depth and dominance in the compound discipline. From title defences to narrow heartbreaks, the day produced a complete spectrum of elite-level archery…
The LA 2028 Olympic Games will mark the most dramatic restructuring of the athletics schedule in modern Olympic history. For the first time, track and field will run across the entire duration of the Games, beginning on July 15 and concluding on July 30. This bold reimagining, announced jointly by World Athletics (WA) and the…
Lakshya Sen has found his rhythm in Japan, and the results are beginning to reflect the confidence with which he is striking the shuttle. The 7th seed marched into the quarterfinals of the Kumamoto Japan Masters 2025 with a commanding straight-games win over Singapore’s Jia Heng Jason Teh, posting a decisive 21-13, 21-11 victory that…
The Tennis Premier League (TPL), powered by Clear Premium Water, is set to return for its seventh season with a major boost Sony Sports Network will broadcast the event live across India. The 2025 season promises to be the most competitive in the league’s history, featuring several Top 50-ranked international players alongside India’s top tennis…
With the Billie Jean King Cup Play-offs just days away, India’s top women’s tennis players Ankita Raina, Riya Bhatia, Prarthana Thombare, Sahaja Yamalapalli and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty took time off from their preparations to share their experiences with aspiring players from Karnataka in an inspiring interaction held at the S.M. Krishna Tennis Stadium in Bengaluru. The…
In a landmark step for Indian sport, Bhopal is building the nation’s largest dedicated Indoor Equestrian Stadium, a project that could redefine India’s approach to high-performance training and specialized sports infrastructure. Developed as part of the ₹1,300-crore International Sports Complex, this all-weather equestrian facility is more than a local achievement it’s a cornerstone of India’s…
The Indian men’s football team’s closed-door practice match against Bhutan, India vs Bhutan in Bengaluru may have appeared like a low-profile encounter on paper, but in reality, it represents one of the most strategically crucial moments in India’s ongoing preparation cycle. With a AFC Asian Cup 2027 qualifier against Bangladesh looming on November 18 in…
Veteran Indian shuttler HS Prannoy displayed his trademark grit and resilience to edge past Malaysia’s Leong Jun Hao in a thrilling three-game encounter at the Kumamoto Masters 2025. The World No. 35 rallied from a game down to prevail 16–21, 21–13, 23–21 in a contest that lasted just over an hour, securing his place in…
