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…
It was a tense day for Indian chess at the FIDE World Cup 2025 as all four remaining Indian players R Praggnanandhaa, Arjun Erigaisi, P Harikrishna, and Karthik Venkataraman had to settle for draws in the opening games of Round 4. While Arjun, Harikrishna, and Karthik comfortably held their own with the black pieces, it…
India’s strong run in compound archery continued at the Asian Archery Championships 2025 in Bangkok, as the mixed team duo of Abhishek Verma and Deepsikha stormed into the final with a composed and consistent performance. The experienced Verma and the rising Deepsikha defeated Kazakhstan 156–153 in the semifinals, setting up a gold medal clash against…
India’s Lakshya Sen began his Kumamoto Masters Japan 2025 campaign with a composed and confident win, defeating Japan’s Koki Watanabe 21–12, 21–16 in the men’s singles Round of 32. The seventh-seeded Indian was in control for most of the 39-minute encounter, showing sharp court coverage, improved shot selection, and the ability to close out tight…
India’s pistol shooters continued their strong run on the world stage as Esha Singh and Samrat Rana clinched the silver medal in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team event at the ISSF World Championships 2025 in Cairo. The Indian pair, who topped qualification with an exceptional display earlier in the day, fell short in the…
The 2025 Moutai Singapore Open delivered the kind of drama the Asian Tour hoped for when it elevated the event into the International Series. Played from November 6–9 at the historic Singapore Island Country Club (SICC), the US$2 million tournament became a decisive battleground in the race for the 2026 LIV Golf League exemptions. In…
For more than a decade, Annu Rani has been the face of Indian women’s javelin, the national record holder, and a reliable presence on the Asian stage. But between 2023 and mid-2025, that reliability once her greatest competitive weapon was shaken. Injuries, instability in coaching, and technical disruption pushed her into one of the most…
Indian archery witnessed one of its most memorable days at the Asian Archery Championships as three Indian women Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat, and Sangeeta surged into the semifinals of the recurve individual event. It is a rare moment in the history of this competition for a single nation to place three semifinalists in the same…
Indian shooting has undergone one of the most profound transformations in the country’s sporting history. What was once a discipline producing isolated bursts of brilliance has evolved into a world-class high-performance ecosystem capable of delivering medals, manufacturing depth, and sustaining excellence across Olympic cycles. The period from 2006 to 2025 marks a strategic, method-driven rise…
The period from December 2025 to July 2026 is shaping up to be the most demanding, strategically loaded, and consequential stretch in recent memory for the Indian Women’s Cricket Team. Fresh off the high of their ODI World Cup campaign in November 2025, India now enters a compressed, high-performance window that will test conditioning, squad…
As Indian hockey enters a new phase of its long-term rebuild towards the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympic cycle, one name has quietly but decisively risen to the forefront: Sanjay Rana. At 24, the defender from Hisar has been handed the captaincy for the 2025 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup (SASC) a significant leadership…
On the firing line, the world shrinks into a narrow tunnel of breath, rhythm, and silence. In that stillness stands a young man who has quietly rewritten the story of India’s shooting future. Samrat Rana, born in 2005 and barely 20 years old in 2025, is India’s newest world champion in 10m Air Pistol yet…
The FIDE World Cup 2025 in Goa has entered its most volatile phase, and for India the stakes have risen sharply. The early and unexpected elimination of reigning World Champion and top seed D. Gukesh has transformed the landscape of the tournament. What was expected to be a campaign led by three top-10 stars now…
The Indian men’s recurve team produced one of their most composed and authoritative campaigns in recent years to enter the final of the Asian Archery Championships 2025. The trio of Yashdeep, Atanu Das and Rahul delivered three successive wins in the eliminations on 10 November, advancing to the gold medal match where they will face…
Hockey India has named the 20-member Indian Junior Women’s Hockey Team for the FIH Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup 2025, set to take place in Santiago, Chile from 25 November to 13 December. The squad featuring 18 core players and two alternates has been selected after months of intensive preparation and is expected to mount…
