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Alcaraz youngest to career Slam

Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- Moments before stepping onto court in his attempt to scale an unconquered peak then, Carlos Alcaraz, with those large headphones strapped to his ears, was grooving along and goofing ... Read More


Budget: Boost to sports goods industry, NADA funding cut

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- India's sports goods manufacturing sector received a boost in the allocation for the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs in the union budget presented with Rs.500 crore set aside... Read More


Pak to boycott T20 WC league game against India

Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- Pakistan on Sunday formally announced its decision to boycott its marquee T20 World Cup group league match against India, even as the government cleared its national team's participa... Read More


J&K, Mumbai in Ranji Trophy quarter-finals

Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- In a riveting finish to Ranji Trophy Group B action, Devdutt Padikkal's hundred helped Karnataka beat Punjab in Mohali and pip Saurashtra to the quarter-finals. Elsewhere in Group A,... Read More


U-19 World Cup: India enter semis after beating Pak

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- A clinical India trounced a listless Pakistan by 58 runs to enter yet another semi-final of the under-19 World Cup in Bulawayo on Sunday. On a pitch that aided the slower bowlers ... Read More


India's Devika Sihag wins Thailand Masters crown

NEW DELHI, Feb. 2 -- Upcoming Devika Sihag became the first Indian shuttler to win a title in 2026 when she won the Thailand Masters in Bangkok on Sunday. The 20-year-old was leading 21-8, 6-3 when a ... Read More


STT charges go up on f&o; 'ill-timed' move say analysts

New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her Budget 2026 speech, increased the securities transaction tax (STT) on futures and options (F&O) transactions, raising the levy on... Read More


Alcaraz CLAIMS AUSTRALIAN OPEN, REWRITES history

Melbourne, Feb. 2 -- Carlos Alcaraz swept past Novak Djokovic to win his first Australian Open on Sunday and become the youngest man to complete a career Grand Slam, denying the Serbian great an unpre... Read More


4 arrested over firing at Rohit Shetty's house

Mumbai, Feb. 2 -- Four people were arrested on Sunday in connection with the firing outside director Rohit Shetty's house in Mumbai's Juhu area earlier in the day, police said. According to the police... Read More


2 kids among 6 killed in Patna accident

Patna, Feb. 2 -- Six people, including two children, were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between an auto-rickshaw and a truck in Bihar's Patna district on Sunday, police sai... Read More