Nagpur’s Irshad Mirza to play Lanka Premier Hockey League
Nagpur: For decades, Nagpur has been a cradle of hockey talent, producing players who dazzled with their dribbling skills. Yet, the city’s chronic lack of infrastructure and long-standing controversies in the administration of the game have forced many to look...
Nagpur’s Pruthviraj Taekwondo Centre shines at ASMITA Games
Nagpur: Girls from the Pruthviraj Taekwondo Excellence Centre (P-TEC) in Nagpur delivered a stellar performance at the recent ASMITA (Achieving Sports Milestones by Inspiring Women Through Action) Games, held as part of the Khelo India initiative. The team showcased their talent...
State U-15 Chess Championship: Nagpur’s Vritika, Shaunak are champions
Nagpur: Players from Nagpur shone brightly as Vritika Krushna Game clinched the Girls’ State Champion title with 7 points, while Shaunak Badole was crowned State champion in the open category with 7 points in the Maharashtra State Under15 Chess Championship...
Maharashtra Senior Badminton Championship: Nagpur shuttlers win 3 titles
Nagpur: Shuttlers of Nagpur set the court on fire bagging three championship titles in Yonex-Sunrise Shri Nandu Natekar Memorial Maharashtra Senior State Badminton Championship that concluded at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on Wednesday. Nagpur badminton celebrated a historic triumph as its...
State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament: Raghav, Rajvardhan, Naisha win titles
Nagpur: Raghav Mahajan of The Suburban Table Tennis Association (TST), Rajvardhan Tiwari of Solapur and Pune’s Naisha Rewaskar stunned top seeded players on their way to lifting titles in their respective categories in the Jennifer Varghese 3rd Maharashtra State Ranking...
Senior State Badminton Championship: Ritika-Deep pair enters final
Nagpur: Star shuttler Ritika Thaker of Nagpur with Deep Rambhiya of Thane made it to the final of the Maharashtra State Senior Championships being held at the Divisional Sports Complex in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. The third seeded Nagpur-Thane pair got a...
Natekar Inter-District Sr State Badminton: Nagpur women are champs
Nagpur: The Nagpur District Badminton Association celebrated a historic achievement as Nagpur women’s team struck gold while men’s team clinched bronze at Yonex-Sunrise Nandu Natekar Memorial Inter District Senior State Badminton Championship that concluded at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on Sunday. Nagpur...
Maharashtra State Ranking TT Meet: Kavya completes hat-trick of titles
Nagpur: Young Kavya Bhatt made the Jennifer Varghese 3rd Maharashtra State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament her own, completing a hat-trick of singles titles on Monday. After the women’s and Under19 girls singles crowns in the first two days of the...
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...
