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August 29: National Sports Day

National Sports Day 2022: India celebrates the National Sports Day or Rashtriya Khel Divas on 29th August every year. Key Facts: The day commemorates the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, the hockey wizard of India who was born on this date in 1905. Year 2022 is the 117th birth anni ...

Ind vs Pak, Asia Cup: Hardik Pandya's Heroics Help India Beat Pakistan In Thriller

IND vs PAK - Asia Cup 2022: India, on 28th August 2022 defeated Pakistan by 5 wickets in the Asia Cup 2022 encounter in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Key Highlights:   • The match was played at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. • With this victory, India are ...

Antim Panghal becomes India’s First-Ever U-20 World Wrestling Champion

U-20 World Wrestling Champion: Antim Panghal, a 17-year-old wrestler from Haryana scripted history on 19th August, 2022 by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win the Under-20 world champion feat with an 8-0 win over Kazakhstan’s Atlyn Shagayeva. Key highlights: The U-20 World ...

Supreme Court Terminates Mandate Of CoA For AIFF

AIFF Ban: The Supreme Court terminated the mandate of its Committee of Administrators (CoA) to manage the affairs of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to overcome suspension of the Indian football body by FIFA. Key Details: The three-member Committee of Administrators (CoA) headed by ...

India finishes at 4th Place in Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

India at CWG 2022: India has been ranked at 4th place, in terms of medals in the Commonwealth Games 2022 which were held from July 28 to August 8, 2022. Key Highlights: India bagged a total of 61 medals, comprising of 22 Gold, 16 Silver, and 23 Bronze. This was India’s 4th best perf ...

India clinch Historic Gold in Women’s Lawn Bowl at Commonwealth Games 2022

CWG 2022-Lawn Bowls: The Indian Lawn Bowls team has scripted history by clinching gold in the women's fours final at Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022 on August 2, 2022. Key Highlights: This is India's first medal in the sport. The Indian lawn bowls team - Lovely Choubey, Pinki C ...

CWG 2022: Weight lifters Mirabai Chanu, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Sheuli bags Gold

Commonwealth Games 2022 India: Weightlifters have been the star performers for India at the 2022 Commonwealth Games so far. Key Highlights: Indian weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga has created history by winning gold in the men's 67kg finals at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingh ...

Singapore Open 2022: PV Sindhu wins first Super 500 title

Singapore Open 2022: Ace Indian Shuttler PV Sindhu has won the Singapore Open 2022. Key Highlights: She acquired the first Super 500 title in her career, after defeating Asian champion Wang Zhi Yi from China. She secured the title, by defeating Wang Zhi Yi by 21-9, 11-21, 21-15 in the fin ...

India Beat England By 10 Wickets To Take A 1-0 Lead In Three-Match ODI Series

Three-Match ODI Series: India beat England by ten wickets in the opening One Day International of three-match cricket series at Kennington Oval in London. With the win, India takes a 1-0 lead in the 3-match series. After winning a toss that proved to be crucial, Rohit opted to field first an ...

94-year-old Bhagwani Devi wins 3 gold medals at nationals, qualifies for World Masters C'ships

World Masters Athletics Championships 2022: Bhagwani Devi has created history by winning a gold medal in 100 sprint. Key Highlights: The 94-year-old won gold and 2 bronze for India at the World Masters Athletics championships 2022 in Tampere, Finland on July 10, 2022. She created history ...

Djokovic wins seventh Wimbledon title and 21st Grand Slam

Wimbledon 2022: Novak Djokovic won a seventh Wimbledon title and 21st Grand Slam crown with a four-set triumph over Nick Kyrgios. Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan clinched the Women's Singles title. Key Highlights: The 35-year-old Serb beat unseeded Australian Nick Kyrgios 4-6, 6-3, 6- ...

Rohit Sharma becomes first captain to record 13 successive T20I wins

Rohit Sharma Captaincy Record in T20I: Indian skipper Rohit Sharma scripted a new world record by becoming the first captain in the history of cricket to win 13 successive T20 Internationals. Key Highlights: Rohit achieved this feat during the first T20I match of the three-match series aga ...

F1 2022: Max Verstappen wins Canadian GP

Canadian Grand Prix 2022: Red Bull wunderkind Max Verstappen claimed his fifth win at the 2022 Canadian Grand Prix and also claimed his sixth victory of the Formula 1 season. Key Highlights: Verstappen narrowly claimed his sixth victory of the Formula 1 season after withstanding pressure fr ...

FIFAe Nations Cup (FeNC) 2022, FIFA, Football, India, Denmark

FIFAe Nations Cup (FeNC) 2022: In Football, India scripted history by securing a spot at the highly coveted FIFAe Nations Cup (FeNC) 2022. Key Highlights: India defeated the Korea Republic and Malaysia in the FIFAe Nations Series 2022 playoffs to seal their qualification. The journey for ...

Paavo Nurmi Games 2022: Neeraj Chopra Sets New National Record With 89.30 Metre Javelin Throw

Paavo Nurmi Games 2022: India’s ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra set a new national record at Paavo Nurmi Games 2022 in Finland. Key Points: The 24-year-old scripted history on June 14, 2022, with his career’s best throw of 89.30 meters. He bagged a silver medal in the tourna ...

Novak Djokovic slips to third as Daniil Medvedev tops ATP rankings

ATP Rankings for men's singles players: Russian star Daniil Medvedev gained the No. 1 spot in the ATP Rankings for men's singles players. Key Highlights: He has replaced 20-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic who has now slipped to the 3rd position with Germany's Alexander Z ...

The first Indian climber to have climbed four 8,000 metre peaks in a single season.

Himachal Pradesh Climber Scales Four 8,000 Metre Peaks In Less Than One Month Who Is Baljeet Kaur? The 27-year-old woman from Himachal Pradesh has scripted history by becoming the only Indian mountaineer to scale four 8,000-metre peaks in less than a month. The four mountain peaks she has ...

India took the lead to book a spot in the semifinals of the Chessable Masters 2022.

Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa, 16 year old, defeated China's Wei Yi by 2.5-1.5 to book a spot in the semifinals of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters 2022 online tournament. Who is R Praggnanandhaa? Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, the boy genius who became chess ...

"The Real Prize Was...": Anand Mahindra On India's Historic Badminton Win

"The Real Prize Was...": Anand Mahindra On India's Historic Badminton Win The Mahindra Group chairman has shared what the ace Indian shuttler had said about team spirit and urged everyone to "remember that: in business and in all of life." New Delhi:  Industrial ...

Government notifies top sporting events

Sporting Events of National Importance: The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has notified several sporting events as that of national importance under the Sports Broadcasting Signals (Mandatory Sharing with Prasar Bharati) Act. Key Details: The notification, which supersedes the earlier o ...

Madrid Open: Teenager Carlos Alcaraz becomes first player to beat Nadal and Djokovic at same clay-court event

Madrid Open: Teenager Carlos Alcaraz has become the first tennis player to consecutive victories over tennis legends at the Madrid Open final on May 7th. Key Highlights: The 19-year-old Spaniard clinched a stirring 6-7(5), 7-5, 7-6(5) win over Novak Djokovic at the ATP Masters 1000 event. ...

Rishabh Pant Leads Protest, Asks Batters To Come Off Over No-Ball Controversy

Rishabh Pant Leads Protest, Asks Batters To Come Off Over No-Ball Controversy IPL 2022: The match between Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals made headlines for all the wrong reasons after umpires didn't give what Delhi Capitals players and support staff thought was a waist-high no-ball. I ...

Om Finishaya Namaha, Twitter Goes Berserk After MS Dhoni's Batting Heroics Against Mumbai Indians In IPL 2022

"Om Finishaya Namaha": Twitter Goes Berserk After MS Dhoni's Batting Heroics Against Mumbai Indians In IPL 2022 IPL 2022, MI vs CSK: MS Dhoni produced yet another fairytale finish as Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians in a nail-biting clash. MS Dhoni turned back the clo ...

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc wins Formula 1 Australian GP

Australian Grand Prix 2022: Charles Leclerc claimed his second win of the Formula One season for Ferrari with a pole-to-flag victory at the Australian Grand Prix on 10 April 2022. Key Highlights: Leclerc became the first Ferrari driver since Fernando Alonso in Singapore in 2010 to complete ...

BWF Rankings: Lakshya Sen breaks into top-10, Treesa-Gayatri reach career-best ranking in doubles

Badminton world rankings: For the first time, the All England Badminton Championship runner-up Lakshya Sen has broken into the top 10 of the men's singles badminton world rankings. Key Highlights: The 20-year-old from Uttarakhand climbed two spots to reach ninth in the latest standings. ...

Women's World Cup 2022: Jhulan Goswami creates world record by claiming 250 wickets in Women's ODIs

Women's World Cup 2022: Veteran team India pacer Jhulan Goswami made history in their ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 match against England on March 16, 2022 by becoming the first ever female pacer to claim 250 wickets in ODI cricket. Key Highlights: Jhulan has become the first-ever wo ...

Neeraj Chopra, Lovlina Borgohain, Ravi Dahiya among among 12 to be awarded Khel Ratna

Key Points• Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award will be given to 12 sportspersons including Tokyo Olympics gold medal winner Neeraj Chopra.• Indian women's cricket legend Mithali Raj and Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri will also achieve Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award.à ...

WTT Contender Lasko: Manika Batra, Archana Kamath Clinch Doubles Title

Indian Table Tennis pair of Manika Batra and Archana Girish Kamath clinched the women’s doubles title at the World Table Tennis Contender Lasko 2021 event, beating Puerto Rico’s Diaz sisters, Adriana and Melanie, in straight sets by 11-3, 11-8, 12-10. The world number 36 pairi ...

Srinagar is the latest from India to join UNESCO Network of Creative Cities

Srinagar city of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir has joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network 2021, under the Crafts and Folk Arts category on November 8, 2021. The result was announced on the official website of UNESCO wherein 49 cities have joined this coveted list. The exercise ...

Ministry of Culture launches Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav mobile app

Minister of State for Culture and External Affairs, Meenakashi Lekhi has launched the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav mobile App to enable all single point access to all information related to the 75th anniversary celebrations of India’s independence. The app available in android and iOS has ...