The Polynesian island of Tahiti has been chosen to host the surfing events at the 2024 Paris Olympics after being selected over beaches in southwest France and Brittany, organisers confirmed. Tahiti lies 15,700 kilometres from Paris but was chosen because...

Major League Baseball said Thursday it will take marijuana off its list of banned substances. The move will come into effect in 2020 and MLB also stated that marijuana will be treated the same as alcohol-related issues. The changes to...

PV Sindhu suffered her second consecutive defeat at the season-ending BWF World Tour Finals as China’s Chen Yufei came from behind to win 20-22, 21-16, 21-12 in 72 minutes in Guangzhou. With Sindhu’s defeat and Akane Yamaguchi winning her second...

Joel Embiid scored a season-high 38 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as the Philadelphia 76ers ended the Boston Celtics perfect home record with a 115-109 win. The Celtics had won 10 straight to start the season and coming into the...

The International Hockey Federation has launched a new world ranking system for 2020, which will be a match-based instead of tournament-based calculation in order to better reflect current performances. The new system will come into effect from January 1 next...

Students of DC Model Senior Secondary School won several prizes in various competitions held at Arya Samaj Mandir, Sector 9, Panchkula. Students from various schools participated in competitions such as essay writing, declamation, ‘shloka’ recitation and ‘bhajan’ singing. Parneet and...

Ludhiana players performed well to finish at the victory podium in the KL Mayur Cup International Karate Competition held recently at Titivangsa Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Shihan Ashok Chouhan, general secretary, Ludhiana District Karate Do-Association, who accompanied the players,...

Playing in an under-19 final with a squad majorly comprising of girls aged 14, Vidya Bhavan school lifted the Reliance Foundation Youth Sports Pune Girls trophy, after beating Bishop’s School, Kalyaninagar on penalties at the Hedgewar Ground in Pune. Vidya...

The Sriram Ram Anugraha Memorial Inter School Girls Football and Kabaddi Competition was played at the Noida Stadium on Thursday. In which Ramish School of Greater Noida won the finals of Football and Sant Kishori Vidya Mandir School in Kabaddi....

Mohun Bagan registered their first victory of this I-League season against debutants Tiddim Road Athletic Union FC of Manipur 4-0 at the Kalyani Municipality Stadium on Wednesday. Suhair VP, Subha Ghosh and, Fran Gonzalez’s brace was enough for mariners to...