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Tokyo: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik congratulated Indian Men's Hockey Team on the spectacular victory in the bronze-medal match at the Tokyo Olympics. The Odisha CM took to Twitter and said: " Congratulations Indian Men’s…

Tokyo: Indian table tennis star Manika Batra lost her women's singles third round match 0-4 (8-11, 2-11, 5-11, 7-11) against 10th seed Sofia Polcanova of Austria here on Monday. Batra and Polcanova did exchange some great points to start…

New Delhi: Prithvi Shaw and Suryakumar Yadav will join the Indian Test squad in England following injuries to Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar and Avesh Khan. Both Shaw and Suryakumar, who are currently with the limited-overs side in Sri…

Tokyo: The Indian men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty suffered a straight-game loss to world number one Marcus Gideon Fernaldi and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo of Indonesia in their second Group A match here on…

Tokyo: India's men's hockey team suffered their first defeat at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics as they lost to Australia by 1-7 in their second Pool A match here on Sunday. Dilpreet Singh scored the consolation for India, with Tim Brand,…

Tokyo: Six-time world champion MC Mary Kom stormed into the round of 16 of women's flyweight (48-51 kg) category event here on Sunday. She defeated Miguelina Garcia of the Dominican Republic in the round of 32. After the first two…

Tokyo: Indian paddler Manika Batra stormed into the second round of women's singles category at the Tokyo Olympics with a straight-sets win over Great Britain’s Tin-Tin Ho here on Saturday. With the win, she became the first Indian woman to…

New Delhi: India's Sumit Nagal progressed into the second round of the men's singles at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics after he outclassed Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin with 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 scoreline in the first round on Saturday.  The first set…

New Delhi: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu clinched a Silver and became the first Indian to win an Olympic medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games in the women’s 49kg weightlifting event on Saturday. The Gold medal went to China's Hou Zhihui. Mirabai…

New Delhi: 12th seeds Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra were ousted in the Round of 16 match by World No. 1 pairing of Lin Yun Ju and Cheng I Ching on Saturday. The India duo went down 0-4 -- 8-11, 6-11, 5-11, 4-11 in just 27…