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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicIndian sports

Topic: Indian sports

US picking on India for trade concessions—ex-MEA adviser responds to Trump adviser’s ‘Russia oil math’ take

Global media looks at how US-India relationship is in jeopardy, while Pakistan has 'quietly & successfully navigated Trump's political world'.

Rs 6,000-cr stadium, weekly meetings, 2030 CWG pitch—Ahmedabad’s Olympic plan speeds up

How Ahmedabad is racing to become India’s next sporting capital. It’s all hands on deck.

Indian athletes bag double gold at international Wushu championship held in Moscow

Wushu athletes from Odisha—Prem Munda and Rajkumar Munda—win gold in the Senior Men’s category.

Bihar is on a sports gold rush. Rs 680 cr budget, big-ticket events, hunt for Olympians

Bihar wants to go from sports underdog to medal powerhouse. It’s building stadiums, hiring coaches, and running a talent hunt in 40,000 schools — but it’s still battling decades of dysfunction.

India’s hockey ace Lalremsiami wants infra to improve in home state Mizoram. ‘We only have 3 grounds’

24-year-old celebrated her 150th milestone on 14 November in Women’s Asian Champions Trophy. She took just 6 yrs to reach national side after she first took up hockey stick.

India breaks 4 records as Bumrah takes charge in team’s biggest-ever victory by run margin in Australia

Despite absence of regular captain Rohit Sharma & Shubman Gill, Jasprit Bumrah led from the front. Yashasvi Jaiswal was instrumental in team’s 295-run victory in 1st test of 5-match series.

Vice captain Jasprit Bumrah to lead India if Rohit Sharma misses 1st Test against Australia

It is rumoured Rohit will sit out the Perth match, beginning 22 November, as he and wife Ritika are expecting their second child.

Global media on Indian fondness for naming & renaming, and lack of sporting champions from the country

The country though, international publications note, is doing one thing right in trying to give China a run for its money, even if it's going about it the wrong way.

Indian men’s & women’s Table Tenis teams create history, qualify for 2024 Paris Olympics

The Indian women's team secured 13th position in the World Team Championships Finals in Busan, last qualifying event for Paris Olympics, while the men's team was ranked at 15th place.

Athlete Santhi Soundarajan won 12 medals for India but here’s why you can never see her run

In 'The Day I Became a Runner', Sohini Chattopadhyay looks at Indian history through the lens of women's sports.

On Camera

India-Pakistan marriage breakdown that British can’t stop crying about

Ever since the Love Is Blind: UK episode dropped, there has been a collective meltdown online over the separation of Pakistan-origin Kal Pasha and Indian-origin Sarover Kaur Aujla.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.