Maharashtra State Ranking TT Meet: Nagpur’s Ikshika, top seeds sail smoothly
Nagpur: Third seed Ikshika Umate of Nagpur and Under-17 top seeds Sukrati Sharma and Kaustubh Girgaonkar moved up in the Jennifer Varghese 3rd Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament underway at Subhedar Hall, Ravi Nagar Square on Sunday. The event...
Raisoni Selection Badminton Tourney: Nagpur’s Ditisha, Sanvi enter finals
Nagpur: Ditisha Somkuwar and Sanvi Ghate of Nagpur made it to mixed doubles finals in their respective age groups of the Yonex-Sunrise GH Raisoni Memorial Maharashtra Sub-Junior (Under-15 & Under-17) State Selection Badminton Tournament on Wednesday. The event is being...
Gaurav, Mitali Clinch Top Spots at NMC’s Tiranga Marathon
Nagpur: Gaurav Khodatkar and Mitali Bhoyar emerged victorious in the ‘Tiranga Marathon – Ek Daud Deshbhaktisaathi’ organised by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Tuesday as part of the Central and State Government’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga 2025’ campaign. The marathon saw...
Raisoni Selection Badminton Tourney: Nagpur’s Khush, Lokesh among early winners
Nagpur: Khush Thakre and Lokesh Dohale of Nagpur won their opening round matches of the Yonex Sunrise GH Raisoni Memorial Maharashtra Sub-Junior (Under-15 & Under-17) State Selection Badminton Tournament that got under way on Sunday. In the boys U-15 group, Khush...
Former India off-spinner Nooshin appointed Vidarbha women’s coach
Nagpur: Former India off-spinner Nooshin Al Khadeer has been appointed as the head coach of Vidarbha’s women’s cricket team for the coming season. Last season, Priyanka Acharya was coach of the women’s squad of Vidarbha Cricket Association. “Priyanka opted out for...
Nagpur’s Shadab to represent India in World Athletics Continental Tour
Nagpur: Long distance runner of Nagpur, Shadab Pathan will be representing India in the World Athletics Continental Tour which is going to be held at Bhubaneswar. Shadab will participate in his favourite 5000 metres event on Sunday. A total of 11...
State Boxing Championship: Nagpur’s Garima bags gold
Nagpur: Garima Singh from Nagpur won a gold medal in the recently held Maharashtra State Boxing Championship in Jalgaon. Garima won the yellow metal in the Under-13 girls 42-44 kg weight category by blanking her opponent Asawari Shendge from Satara...
National badminton coach Gopichand’s talk at Orange City Literature Fest on Aug 7
Nagpur: Padma Bhushan Pullela Gopichand, chief national coach of Indian badminton team will be delivering a talk on ‘Play. Pause. Rise Again: Becoming a Champion, Staying a Human’ at Banyan Hall, Chitnavis Centre, Civil Lines in Nagpur on Thursday. The talk...
Nagpur boxer Navanya wins gold at school nationals
Nagpur: Navanya Savvalakhe, a student of PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya, Vayusena Nagar, Nagpur, has won a gold medal in the 14 year age group at the 54th PM Shri Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan National Boxing Championship held in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. Navanya...
14 Nagpur gymnasts selected for nationals
Nagpur: In a first for Nagpur, as many as 14 athletes have been selected to represent Maharashtra in the Gymnastics Acrobatics National Competition to be held in Dehradun, Uttarakhand from August 7-10. The Maharashtra Amateur Gymnastics Association recently held the Acrobatics...
Nagpur District Senior Selection Badminton: Pranay emerges champion
Nagpur: Pranay Sushant Gadewar stunned top seed Priyanshu Pramod Dubey in straight games to win men’s singles title in the Nagpur District Senior Selection Badminton Tournament that concluded at Arundhati Arun Badminton Academy off Besa-Pipla Road, on Sunday. Gadewar proved to...
Vinayalaya Convent School students win gold, bronze in fencing contest
Nagpur: Chetan Shahu and Aarav Shahu, students of Vinayalaya Convent School Jaripatka, Nagpur, won gold medal and bronze medal respectively in Sub-Junior District Fencing Tournament organized by Nagpur Fencing Association at Divisional Sports Complex Mankapur, Nagpur. Headmistress Sr. Nirmala felicitated the...
Junior District Basketball Championship: DKM boys lift title
Nagpur: Dharampeth Krida Mandal (DKM) boys matched what the girls team did as they claimed the 25th Prakash Rajurkar Memorial Junior District Basketball Championship at their Shankar Nagar court. After the girls team lifted the trophy defeating Nutan Bharat Yuwak Sangh...
Video: Grand Welcome in Nagpur for Chess World Cup Champion Divya Deshmukh
Nagpur: India’s rising chess star and Nagpur native, 19-year-old Divya Deshmukh, received a rousing welcome at Nagpur Airport after making history by winning the FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup 2025. On July 28, in the finals held in Batumi, Georgia,...
FIDE Women’s World Cup: Nagpur’s Divya is champion, becomes Grandmaster
Nagpur: After 24 days of fighting chess in the Georgian city of Batumi, Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur became the FIDE Women’s World Cup champion by defeating the veteran Koneru Humpy in the final via the tiebreaks. Divya winning the Women’s...
Who Is Divya Deshmukh — The 19-Year-Old from Nagpur Who Conquered the Chess World and Made History
Who is Divya Deshmukh? At just 19, she’s not only the FIDE Women’s World Cup Champion but also the first Indian woman to ever win this prestigious title. In a nerve-racking tiebreak final, Divya defeated none other than India’s first...
Junior District Basketball Meet: DKM girls lift crown in style
Nagpur: With solid contributions from all the top players in the crucial game, hosts Dharampeth Krida Mandal (DKM) drubbed Nutan Bharat Yuvak Sangh (NBYS) to lift the crown in the 25th Prakash Rajurkar Memorial Junior District Basketball Championship at the...
Nagpur’s Sadhwani shines in Russia chess event, wins silver
Nagpur: Grandmaster Raunak Sadhwani of Nagpur claimed back-to-back silver medals in the 22nd edition of Prestigious Karpov International Chess tournament held in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. It was a strong invitational round robin event of 10 players representing different countries where...
Women’s World Chess Cup: Nagpur’s Divya meets Humpy in all India final
Nagpur: Woman Grandmaster Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur stormed into the final, defeating former world champion Zhongyi Tan of China in the second game of the semifinals and winning the minimatch 1.5-0.5 in the FIDE Women’s World Chess Cup. In the...
District Basketball Championship: NBYS girls, DKM boys in SF
Nagpur: Nutan Bharat Yuvak Sangh (NBYS) girls and Dharampeth Krida Mandal (DKM) boys entered semi-finals of the 25th Prakash Rajurkar Memorial Inter-Club Junior District Basketball Championship underway at DKM Shankar Nagar court on Thursday. In the girls quarter-finals, NBYS got...
Nagpur’s Divya creates history, storms into FIDE Women’s Chess World Cup final
Nagpur: International Master Divya Deshmukh of Nagpur stormed into the final of the FIDE Women's Chess World Cup, defeating former world champion Zhongyi Tan of China in the second game of the semifinals and winning the mini-match 1.5-0.5 in...
