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Nagoya: India extended their dominance in kabaddi at the Asian Games with the women's team securing yet another gold medal after a thrilling 37-34 win over Iran in the final here Saturday. India held a 22-16 lead at half-time, but Iran produced a better show...

Nagoya: Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet ended an unusually long wait for a shooting gold and long-distance runner Gulveer Singh sparkled with his 10,000m silver but the first-round exit of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty from the badminton men's doubles event came as a setback for...

Nagoya: India's Manpreet Kaur clinched the bronze medal in women's shot put competition of the Asian Games with an effort of 17.17m here Friday. The gold and silver in this event were claimed by China through Song Jiayuan (19.40m) and Zhang Linru (18.14m). The 36-year-old...

New Delhi: Four women wrestlers Friday moved a sessions court, challenging a magistrate's order acquitting former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh in a sexual harassment case. The plea also assails the acquittal of former WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar of...

Nagoya: Indian shooters Suruchi Singh and Kamaljeet produced an excellent performance to fire their way to the gold medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the Asian Games here Friday, bouncing back in style after disappointing outings in their respective individual events....

Kataka: Bhubaneswar Tigers registered a thrilling one-run win by the DLS method against Kataka Panthers in a rain-curtailed fixture of the Bharat Masala Odis ha T20 League – CM Trophy at the iconic Barabati Stadium. The Tigers’ bowlers put up an impressive performance to restrict...

Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board has sought advice from Mike Hesson to find a replacement for former Australia cricketer Ashley Noffke who has resigned as the national team's bowling coach. Noffke will leave the Pakistan team to become head coach of the Netherlands after the...

Nagoya: Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu finally completed her medal collection, winning the elusive Asian Games silver in the women's 49kg event in Nagoya Wednesday. The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist totalled 198kg, lifting 88kg in the snatch and 111kg in the clean and jerk to...

Nagoya: Jay Meena Wednesday bagged India's first-ever medal in soft tennis at the Asian Games after losing to Takuya Kurosaka of Japan 2-4 in the semifinal in Nagoya. Meena had secured India's first-ever medal in the soft tennis at the Asian Games after a sensational...

Nagoya: The Indian men's and women's skeet teams bagged bronze medals at the Asian Games in Nagoya Wednesday. After three days of qualification rounds, the Indian trio of Raiza Dhillon, Maheshwari Chauhan and Parinaaz Dhaliwal finished with a combined score of 331 to end third...