Former Grand Slam champions Victoria Azarenka, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Stan Wawrinka headlined the list of players given wildcards into this year's U.S. Open, the U.S. Tennis Association said on Tuesday.
Captain Lionel Messi will miss Argentina's next four friendly matches, according to local press reports on Tuesday.
His two world championships now a distant memory, Fernando Alonso has finally had enough of life in the slow lane with McLaren.
Retired Brazilian striker Ronaldo left a clinic in Ibiza on Tuesday following a four-night stay for treatment for a flu infection.
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is to retire from Formula One at the end of the season, his team McLaren confirmed on Tuesday.
Indian boxers will know their global standing from their Asian Games show, High Performance Director Santiago Nieva said today and reckoned the draw could play a crucial role in how well the pugilists perform in Jakarta.
Indian Super League franchise Mumbai City FC today announced that former Portuguese international player Jorge Costa will be their new head coach.
Lionel Messi, Gareth Bale and a host of La Liga stars will be beamed for free to viewers in the Indian subcontinent as part of a landmark deal with Facebook to broadcast live matches, the Spanish top flight division said Tuesday.
The Indian women's handball team began its Asian Games campaign on a losing note as it suffered a 19-36 defeat to Kazakhstan in their preliminary round match.
Having the more famous Geeta and Babita as her cousins was never a hurdle for Vinesh Phogat. She in fact wasted no time in forging an identity for herself.
Change is in the air as the new La Liga season begins on Friday without one of its most emblematic players, Cristiano Ronaldo, and with video technology (VAR) being introduced for the first time in Spain’s top flight.
Liverpool have referred forward Mohamed Salah to the Merseyside Police over a video which appears to show the Egyptian using his mobile phone while driving.
After sweeping to last season's title and seeing Real Madrid weakened by the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo, Barcelona look well placed to retain their La Liga crown although improving their Champions League fortunes may prove a bigger priority.
The 2018 Asian Games will be held in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang from August 18 to September 2.
Atletico Madrid have prepared the ground for another assault on the La Liga title race this season by tying down their most talented players and building a robust squad while rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona have conducted relatively little business.
Following up Zinedine Zidane's treble Champions League success with Real Madrid was always going to be a difficult job for Julen Lopetegui, but having to do it without Cristiano Ronaldo is a monumental challenge.
The deal between Facebook and LaLiga aims to cater to the fans in the Indian sub-continent.
Recounting his government’s achievements, PM Modi also said his government was setting goals which they aim to achieve by 2022 – India’s 75th Independence Day.
Ashutosh, who had a long career as a television journalist before joining politics and Anna Hazare’s India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, requested that his privacy be respected.
After our Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, lakhs of children lead healthier lives, he said, adding that even the World Health Organisation has lauded the movement.
What Modi will speak on tomorrow is anybody's guess. But there's an interesting pattern, and some common themes, one could observe from parsing his last four speeches.
The two big-ticket announcements made by PM Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech were the rollout of the Ayushman Bharath healthcare scheme and the plan to send an Indian to the space by 2022.
He underlined that the BJP government believed in "Hinduism which is all inclusive and respects all faiths and creed".
The senior BJP leader accused the Naveen Patnaik government of having destroyed democracy in the state by introducing "officer raj" and asserted that his party would fight the BJD in the state Assembly and Lok Sabha polls due next year.
According to Congress, the ruling coalition partner of H D Kumaraswamy's JDS, Karnataka had not been given "full justice", while the opposition BJP welcomed the tribunal recommendations, saying it was a victory for farmers.
Omar Abdullah was addressing the monthly provincial committee (Kashmir) meeting at party headquarters 'Nawa-e-Subha'.
A delegation of senior Congress leaders comprising former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, state PCC chief Sachin Pilot met the Election Commission officials to object to irregularities in the voters' list.
According Duraimurugan, the party's principal secretary and Karunanidhi's aide, M K Stalin had all the skills to lead the party.
In Gandhinagar, state agriculture minister RC Faldu said that the Congress is attempting to score political points under the pretext of rights of farmers.
Senior AIADMK leader D Jayakumar said he represented the government on the chief minister's direction at the funeral of the departed DMK leader on August 8.DMK leader MK Stalin on Tuesday said he had pleaded with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami to allot space at the Marina beach to bury party President and his father M Karunanidhi.
Rahul Gandhi predicted that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would not even get 230 Lok Sabha seats and hence there was no question of Modi becoming Prime Minister again.
Releasing the data may go against his party interests and not releasing it may turn the backward classes and SCs against the Congress.
The cadre cheered loudly when senior party leader Durai Murugan mentioned that Stalin is soon to be elevated as president of DMK.
Sources said the BJP was exploring the possibility of deferring assembly elections of some states by a few months and advancing some others to ensure they are held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha polls.
The meeting called to condole Karunanidhi's death could see decision on summoning the party's general council for putting its seal of approval on Stalin's elevation.
Till date, MK Alagiri has not spoken anything against Rajinikanth, but has only supported the actor when he announced that he would be entering politics.
The question that arises now is whether Jagan is making a similar mistake once again. During his padyatra that he embarked on in November 2017 and is likely to reach the tip of north coastal Andhra Pradesh sometime this September, Jagan initially said he won't give reservations for Kapus.
Winning the three states would be a major boost for the Congress, which has been reduced to power in just four states, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections as polls in these states are being seen as a semi-final ahead of the grand finale next year.
The actor said he would have launched a protest if the government had appealed against a Madras high court verdict, directing it to provide burial space to the Dravidian stalwart on Marina beach.
The BJD had snapped its 11-year-old ties with the BJP before the 2009 Lok Sabha election over the seat sharing issue.
On the 'Federal Front' he had proposed earlier, K Chandrasekhar Rao said he would talk to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik about its formation.
The chargesheet in the case, filed by the Delhi Police before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal earlier Monday, named Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia as accused.
Even Somnath Chatterjee’s wife Renu Chatterjee had asked hospital authorities not to allow any CPI(M) leaders inside the facility to see the veteran leader.
Banerjee said that even she would not be able to produce the birth certificate of her parents if the government asks for it.
Some unidentified men targeted the JNU student leader and gunshots were heard but he escaped unhurt, according to witnesses even as the police asserted it will verify the incident.
Somnath Chatterjee has consistently been spoken about as an honest conscious keeper who called out forces assaulting the democracy and unilateralism in Indian politics, says CPM leader Nilotpal Basu.
India’s T20 captain Harmanpreet Kaur registered her maiden half-century of the KIA Super League, on Tuesday, as her side Lancashire Thunder beat Yorkshire Diamonds by nine runs to stay in contention for a place in the final.
India spinner Harbhajan Singh has trained his guns towards Hardik Pandya by saying that he doesn't deserve to be referred to as an all-rounder on the basis of his performance in the ongoing five-match Test series against England.
With time running out before India leave for Sri Lanka on September 5, BCCI, on Tuesday (August 14), officially extended Powar’s tenure by another three and half months. He will now be India’s coach at the World T20 in the Caribbean, which runs from November 9 to 24.
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