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US Open has a problem with the way influencers behaved. Selfie lights, noise, weed

The USTA gave credentials to around 100 content creators this year, nearly double the number from 2025, as it looks to expand the tournament’s social media reach.

Bernie Sanders wants US sports teams to make tickets cheaper

Bernie Sanders’ post quoted a video of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent move to offer 1,000 US Open tickets to city residents at a discounted price of $100.

Devdutt Padikkal can solve India’s No. 3 crisis in Test cricket. But tougher tests lie ahead

It would not be unfair to say that the Indian team management has treated the No. 3 position like a musical chair.

Taekwondo has no future in India. I have seen the crisis up close

Taekwondo now helps dance teachers find children who can do a cartwheel, or is used by school management to attract new admissions through a 15-day workshop.

Ajinkya Rahane’s farewell closes the chapter on India’s greatest Test generation

Ajinkya Rahane was at the heart of India's rise under Kohli and Shastri. Nowhere was his understated value more immortalised than during the 2020–21 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Indian-origin entrepreneur Vinod Khosla to buy NFL’s Seattle Seahawks for record $9.6 billion

Vinod Khosla, who has a net worth of $13.7 billion, is the founder and managing director of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

Shooter Randhir Singh lived a life dedicated to sport—five-time Olympian to administrator

Born into the royal family of Patiala, Randhir Singh scripted history at the 1978 Asian Games in Bangkok. He became the first Indian shooter to win an Asian Games gold medal.

Football can be cruel, some stars won’t play 2026 World Cup—Lewandowski to Kvaratskhelia

The World Cup comes once every four years, but careers aren’t aligned accordingly. One injury, one failed qualification campaign, one bad season, and an entire generation disappears from the biggest stage of football.

FIFA World Cup is Neymar’s final chance at glory. Brazil and football both need him

Neymar may not be going to the World Cup as the invincible prince of football like he once was, but as something perhaps even more meaningful, a flawed, broken footballer getting one final chance at glory.

Indian women’s football team’s Asian Cup exit doesn’t tell the story of their rise

To expect India to suddenly rout top-class teams is irrational. It only happens in video games.

On Camera

BRICS is bigger and more powerful. But what does the grouping actually want?

The BRICS summit offers India a moment in the geopolitical limelight. For New Delhi, the main challenge will be to bring its two bilateral partners — Iran and the UAE — together.

India foreign reserves to help earn more revenue, says RBI chief

India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.

‘Society as battlefield’: NATO cites Indian military paper on cognitive warfare. What it says

In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.

The real BRICS story is what China, Russia want & India wishes

India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.