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Ex-Assam footballer passes away
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Ex-Assam footballer passes away

Guwahati, May 5: Former Assam footballer Mahendra Brahma who represented the State in Santosh Trophy passed away on Wednesday morning at his hometown Barama after a prolonged illness. He was 57. Apart from participating in Santosh Trophy, Brahma was also a part of Assam Police football team from...
Sunrisers Hyderabad player tests positive for COVID, IPL match against MI unlikely
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Sunrisers Hyderabad player tests positive for COVID, IPL match against MI...

New Delhi, May 4: Sunrisers Hyderabad's wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha has tested positive for COVID-19 and it is unlikely that his team's IPL game against Mumbai Indians here this evening will go ahead. The development was confirmed to PTI by a source in the SRH team who also said that...
BFI Executive Director R K Sacheti dies after battling COVID-19
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BFI Executive Director R K Sacheti dies after battling COVID-19

New Delhi, May 4: The Boxing Federation of India's Executive Director R K Sacheti died on Tuesday after battling COVID-19. He was 56. The long-serving administrator was fighting the dreaded infection at a hospital here for the past few days and was on ventilator support. "With a deep sense of...
COVID hits IPL: KKR-RCB match rescheduled after two players test positive
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COVID hits IPL: KKR-RCB match rescheduled after two players test positive

New Delhi, May 3: Monday's IPL match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Ahmedabad has been postponed after two KKR players -- Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier -- tested positive for COVID-19, a BCCI source told PTI. The match will be rescheduled some time...
Tendulkar donates Rs 1 crore to Mission Oxygen
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Tendulkar donates Rs 1 crore to 'Mission Oxygen'

New Delhi, April 30: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar has contributed Rs 1 crore to 'Mission Oxygen', an initiative on the medical fundraising website Ketto aiming to help procure oxygen cylinders for hospitals in India for Covid-19 patients."The second wave of Covid has put our health-care...
Weightlifter Mirabai targets podium finish at Olympics
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Weightlifter Mirabai targets podium finish at Olympics

New Delhi, April 30: Mirabai Chanu, India's top woman weightlifter, is eyeing a podium finish at the Tokyo Olympics."What I couldn't achieve four years ago during 2016 Rio Olympics, I would like to complete that unfinished task this time in Japan," said the 26-year-old weightlifter in a media...
Umpire Menon leaves IPL as family contracts Covid, Reiffel stranded
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Umpire Menon leaves IPL as family contracts Covid, Reiffel stranded

New Delhi, April 29: Umpire Nitin Menon has left the Indian Premier League (IPL) to return home in Indore as his immediate family members are down with Covid-19. Menon's mother and wife are unwell and have tested positive. His mother has been admitted to a hospital in Indore."His mother, wife...
Zoysa handed 6-year ban for breaching ICC Anti-Corruption Code
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Zoysa handed 6-year ban for breaching ICC Anti-Corruption Code

Colombo, April 28: Former Sri Lanka player and coach Nuwan Zoysa has been banned from all cricket for six years after the International Cricket Council's (ICC) Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of breaching the ICC Anti-Corruption Code. The ban for Zoysa is backdated to October 31,...
Indian womens 4x400m relay team pulls out of World Relays
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Indian women's 4x400m relay team pulls out of World Relays

New Delhi, April 27: In a major setback to India's Olympic Games preparation, the national women's 4x400m relay team has pulled out of next month's World Relays in Poland, said a source in the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) on Tuesday."The team is unfit. The fastest runner in the squad, Anjali...
Have contributed $50,000 to PM CARES Fund: Cummins
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Have contributed $50,000 to PM CARES Fund: Cummins

New Delhi, April 26: Australia and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) fast bowler Pat Cummins said that he is contributing $50,000 to the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund (PM CARES Fund) "specifically to purchase oxygen supplies for India's hospitals". The news...
Best ever WC finish for Indian archers in Mexico
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Best ever WC finish for Indian archers in Mexico

Guatemala (Mexico), April 26: Deepika Kumari and husband Atanu Das won individual golds in the recurve women's and men's events respectively at the Archery World Cup Stage 1. Their victory ensured India's recurve archers' best ever finish to a World Cup with two individual golds, one team gold...
Aussie cricketers looking to leave IPL early: Report
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Aussie cricketers looking to leave IPL early: Report

Sydney, April 26: Several Australian cricketers are looking to leave the Indian Premier League (IPL) due to fears that they will be locked of their country following rising Covid-19 cases in India.Australia pace bowler Andrew Tye left his franchise Rajasthan Royals (RR) for 'personal reasons', it...
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