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Substitute striker Balwant Singh’s opportunistic second half double strike helped India beat Macau 2-0 in a group league encounter of the Asian Cup qualifying round, taking their unbeaten run in international matches to 11. The former Mohun Bagan goal poacher found the target in the 57th and 82nd minutes respectively as the ‘Blue Tigers’ won their third successive match in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Rashtriya Indian Military College Junior Soccer team lifted the coveted Doon School Junior Soccer Championship trophy on saturday. In an exciting final match RIMC bulldozed the rival Welham Boys School by 6-0 and clinched the title of Winners of Doon School Jr Soccer Cup.  Cdt Jodha scored three goals and Cdt Nshkal and cadt Aditya scored one ...

India’s Leander Paes and Purav Raja sailed into the men’s doubles second round in the pair’s first outing at a Grand Slam but Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna crashed out of their respective events in the US Open in New York. Veteran Paes and Raja thrashed Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic and Viktor Troicki 6-1, 6-3 at the Flushing Meadows. The 10th ...

PV Sindhu’s gallant effort to become India’s first ever World Champion ended in a heart- wrenching defeat against Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara in an epic final, here today. In the longest match of the tournament, which tested the physical and mental strength of both the players, Sindhu lost 19-21 22-20 20-22 after battling hard for one hour and 49 minutes. Their ...

Losing 7 wickets for 22 runs and still requiring another 100 odd runs it looked all but over for the men in blue and finally Sri Lanka could sniff a victory in the ongoing series against India, but MS Dhoni and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar scripted an unlikely comeback to take India home with 3 wickets remaining. M.S. Dhoni and Bhuvneshwar Kumar ...

Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of the women’s singles competition after defeating Korea’s Kim Hyo Min in the second round of the World Championship here today. Sindhu, who twice won bronze medals at the 2013 and 2014 editions, notched up a 21-16 21-14 win over Kim in a 49-minute match, to extend her head-to-head record ...

The FIFA U-17 World Cup, to be hosted by India, will kick off in the 50 next days with the first two matches slated on October 6 in Delhi and Mumbai. The tournament will be played at six venues — Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Navi Mumbai and New Delhi. In the tournament’s maiden match, Colombia and Ghana will lock horns ...

Gurjant Singh and Mandeep Singh scored a goal apiece as a resolute Indian men’s hockey team overcome world No. 4 Netherlands 2-1 in an exciting encounter in Amsterdam. Led by Manpreet Singh, the team last night featured nine players from the junior team, but still beat an experienced Netherlands squad through goals from Gurjant (4th minute) and Mandeep (51). India, ...

Rafael Nada’s quest to reclaim the Number 1 spot was halted by home hope Dennis Shapovalov in a 3 set thriller at the Rogers Cup. 10 time French Open champion who was seeded number 1 in the absence of Andy Murray and could have overtaken the Scot for the top spot by reaching the semis was shocked by the 18 ...

Vijender Singh’s undefeated streak in Pro boxing remained intact with a win over Chinese Zulpikar Maimaitiali in Mumbai. Infront of a hugely supportive home crowd the 31 year old bronze medalist was adjudged the victor with a 96-9, 95-94 95-94 scoreline at the end of a grueling 10 round match. Vijender dedicates title to Indo-China peace; ready to return Zulpikar’s ...