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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif | Photo Credit: AP Calling Pakistan’s boycott of their T20 World Cup match against India an “appropriate decision, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that it was a “considered stance” to support Bangladesh. Pakistan’s cricket team has been told by the government to skip the February 15 game…

Indian men overcame a strong challenge from Singapore, while the women dominated Myanmar in their opening group stage matches to secure quarterfinal berths in the Badminton Asia Team Championships here on Wednesday. The men’s Group C clash between India and Singapore went down to the wire, with former world number 1 Kidambi Srikanth coming up…

Invictor, Red Rose and Golden Axl caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Wednesday (Feb. 4) morning. Inner sand: 600m: Seneca (Nirmal) 40. Easy. Neutralist (Prasad) 36. Moved well. 800m: Janhavi (Mustakim), Exotic Star (app) 50, 600/37. Former finished four lengths ahead. Brahmastra (Nazil) 50, 600/38. Moved well. Wings Of Fury (Santosh)…

Norris, Piastri, Verstappen: Breaking down F1’s thrilling 2025 title battle The 2025 Formula One season has delivered one of the most thrilling championship battles in over a decade. What looked like a straight McLaren shootout between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri took a dramatic turn after the Las Vegas Grand Prix, where both drivers were…

File picture of Russia’s Elena Kotulskaya, left, competes in a women’s 800-meter heat at the World Athletics Championships in the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow, Russia, in 2013 | Photo Credit: AP The Russian doping crisis, which rocked track and field in the 2010s, reached a symbolic end with bans and disqualifications for 12 athletes in…

STAVELY – An Alberta junior hockey team is set to take the ice this weekend for a memorial game honouring three of its players who died in a highway crash. The Southern Alberta Mustangs are set to take on the Stavely Spurs Alumni team Sunday night at the arena in Stavely. It’s one of several…

Ever since Carlos Alcaraz won his maiden Grand Slam title at the 2022 US Open and scaled the pinnacle of ATP rankings as a tender 19-year-old, he was said to be on a fast lane to success. On Sunday, with his first Australian Open singles crown and seventh Major overall, the Spaniard proved that those…

When Sjoerd Marijne bid adieu to the Indian women’s hockey team in 2021, he left as the coach who almost pulled off a miracle and an Olympic medal. His return last month was preceded by off-field issues and accompanied by doubts on the team’s future and the burden of expectations of an encore. The Dutchman,…

The Indian Under-17 women’s team crushed Bhutan 8-0 in its last round-robin fixture of the SAFF Under-19 Women’s Championship to set up a summit showdown with Bangladesh at the Pokhara Rangasala Stadium on Wednesday. Pearl Fernandes (16′, 39′, 41′) scored a first-half hat-trick, while Pritika Barman (25′, 90′) got one goal in each half for…

The 150th annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is in full swing! Prove-It, a Border Collie, won the 13th Annual Masters Agility Championship Finals on Saturday, continuing the herding breed’s dominant reign in the competition. Vanish’s win marks the 10th for Border Collies, which are renowned for their intelligence, intensity and nimbleness, out of 13…