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Hockey India has announced a cash award of 50 lakh rupees for the Indian Womens Hockey Team for their historic fifth-place finish at the FIH Hockey Womens World Cup 2026 in Belgium and the Netherlands. India defeated World No. 5 Germany 3-1 in Amstelveen on Thursday. It is Indias best World Cup finish since the []
National Sports Day is being celebrated across the country today to commemorate the birth anniversary of one of Indias greatest sporting icons, Major Dhyan Chand. Prime Minister Narendra Modi today paid homage to the Indian Hockey Legend Major Dhyan Chand on the occasion of National Sports Day. In a social media post, Mr Modi said []
Indias Velavan Senthilkumar won the PSA Budapest Squash Open title in Hungary after defeating home favourite Balazs Farkas 3-0 in the final. He had an impressive run to the title, beating World No. 18 and Asian Games gold medallist Eain Yow Ng 3-0 in the quarterfinals before overcoming fellow Indian Veer Chotrani 3-2 in a []
AMN/ WEB DESK Indian Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa created history, becoming the first Indian to win the Grand Chess Tour after staging a stunning comeback to defeat defending champion Fabiano Caruana 15-13 in the final at St. Louis in the US last night. Praggnanandhaa started the final day six points behind Caruana but won both rapid []
AMN/ WEB DESK Indias double Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra has qualified for the 2026 Diamond League final, which will be held in Brussels next month. Chopra accumulated 12 points in the standings. Chopra had finished fourth at the Doha meet in June with a throw of 85.69 metres before recording a season-best 88.05 metres at []