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Last dance or new dawn? Rohit Sharma-Virat Kohli's fight for ODI supremacy

NAGPUR: Under the twilight sky of Birmingham in 2013, two young men revelled in the sheer joy of triumph. One, an exuberant 24-year-old, swayed to the beats of the viral sensation 'Gangnam Style'. The other, just a year older, clung to the Champions Trophy like a child unwilling to part…

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BFI-Corvuss makes a basketball move to set up India's first academy in Karjat

NAGPUR: In a major boost for young talent in the country, the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) has joined forces with Corvuss American Academy to establish India's first basketball academy at Karjat, near Mumbai.

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D Gukesh a step away from scripting Candidates chess history

NAGPUR: When D Gukesh got going, the going got tough for the elite kings as the prodigious Indian prince took sole lead in the Candidates Chess tournament and is just a step away from scripting history in Toronto by becoming the youngest challenger, ever.

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Gukesh outplays Firouzja to take sole lead, Nepo-Nakamura play draw, Caruana beats Pragg

NAGPUR: Gukesh D is turning out to be the surprise package of the Candidates Chess tournament in Toronto.

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Indian caution, American aggression as Gukesh-Nepo maintain lead in Candidates Chess

NAGPUR: Safety-first was the approach of Indian youngsters on a day dominated by the experienced American grandmasters in the Candidates Chess tournament in Toronto on Monday.

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Vidit Gujrathi the showstopper stuns Nakamura again for his second win over World no. 3 in Candidates; Gukesh, Nepo share top position

NAGPUR: For the second time in the Candidates Chess tournament, Vidit Gujrathi surprised world No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura to stay in the hunt as D Gukesh and Ian Nepomniachtchi continued to share lead in Toronto on a special Sunday for the three Indian grandmasters.

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D Gukesh takes his Candidates lead back, shares pole position with Nepomniachtchi

NAGPUR: D Gukesh brushed aside the despair of the earlier round loss and in an all-Indian matchup, leapfrogged Vidit Gujrathi to regain the lead with two-time challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi. Nepo, for his part, was held to a draw by the lowest seed, Nijat Abasov in the Candidates Chess tournament in…

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Gukesh, Praggnanandhaa close enough to change the script of Candidates Chess

NAGPUR: Going into the second rest day of the Candidates Chess tournament, two-time challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia has maintained sole lead, and at the halfway mark is well on course for a hat-trick.

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D Gukesh gets into time trouble, loses contest and lead in Candidates Chess

NAGPUR: More than the opponent, the clock becoming the nemesis of chess players has happened often to the best of the game. Sitting pretty in an authoritative position on Thursday, Gukesh D goofed up in time trouble to suffer his first defeat of the Candidates Chess tournament — to Alireza…

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D Gukesh holds World No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura, stays in joint lead in Candidates Chess

NAGPUR: A day after they squandered the opportunity to garner full points, Indian GMs R Praggnanandhaa and Vidit Gujrathi won their sixth-round battles while 17-year-old D Gukesh held world No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura to maintain lead with the two-time challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Candidates Chess tournament.

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Candidates Chess: Gukesh jumps into joint lead

NAGPUR: Playing with patience and waiting for the opponent to make a mistake gave D Gukesh the desired result as the 17-year-old caught up with Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia in the Candidates Chess lead on Tuesday.

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Pragg forces Firouzja to split point; Vidit, Gukesh play a draw; Vaishali holds Humpy in Candidates chess

NAGPUR: Safety first was the approach on the opening day in the Candidates chess tournament at the Great Hall in Toronto, Canada, on Friday.

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Candidates Tournament 2024: Numbers tell a different story

NAGPUR: Though the pundits of the mind sport have predicted that experience will prevail over exuberance in the Candidates, the stats based on the performance of youngsters over the last one year say something else.

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Candidates Tournament: 'Praggnanandhaa will do well; Vidit, Gukesh will struggle'

NAGPUR: For the first time in 74 years since the Candidates chess tournament was first played in Budapest in 1950, the event will feature a rare mix of youngsters and battle-hardened pros over the next 20 days at the Great Hall in Toronto, Canada.

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Experience vs exuberance: Candidates vie for big chess prize

NAGPUR: For the first time since the Candidates chess tournament was first played in 1950, as many as five Indian masters will be vying to become a challenger to the world chess champion.

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Faiz Fazal, Vidarbha's most successful captain, hangs up his boots

NAGPUR: The face of Vidarbha cricket for over a decade. The opener who blunted rival new-ball attacks for as long as one can remember. The elegant left-hander who scripted victories and saved matches with his bat more often than not. The skipper who took his team to the top of…

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Vijay Hazare Trophy: Vidarbha go down to Karnataka without a fight in quarterfinals

NAGPUR: When the last three in the batting order, basically bowlers, along with extras contribute more to the scoreboard than the top five batters, the fate of the team is all but sealed.

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NBA's tango with BFI will help Indian cagers slam dunk the world's best basketball players

NAGPUR: Here is some happy news for the Indian hoopsters. The National Basketball Association (NBA), the organisers of the world's best basketball league in America, will soon join hands with the Basketball Federation of India (BFI). The development will see basketball undergo a major facelift to match world standards.

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On Carlsen's invite, Raunak helps world no.1 win first European chess title

NAGPUR: City's first Grandmaster Raunak Sadhwani was on cloud nine when he got an invite from Magnus Carlsen to play beside him for a club founded by the world no.1 in Oslo, Norway.

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Arrow fired in Hangzhou, bounty lands in Buldhana

Loan repaid with World Cup cash, farmer's son targets govt job with Asian Games gold

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Jitesh Sharma’s India dream realised at nondescript Hangzhou ground

NAGPUR: The wait started during the home T20 series against Sri Lanka in January this year. The Ireland tour went by, warming the bench in the chilly environs. Finally, the dream was realized in Hangzhou, China.

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'Lack of funds' shuts MS Swaminathan Research Foundation in Maharashtra's Wardha

NAGPUR: MS Swaminathan — the father of the Green Revolution — would be more remembered by farmers and farm activists in Maharashtra's Vidarbha as champion of higher minimum support price (MSP).

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Asian Games: India's 3x3 men hoopsters make knockouts, women 5x5 team surprise higher ranked Indonesia in basketball

NAGPUR: Indian men hoopsters outplayed Macao, China 21-12 to confirm their knockout berth in the 3x3 basketball as the women's 5x5 team started their Asian Games campaign with a stunning 66-46 win over higher ranked Indonesia on Wednesday.

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Indian Grandmasters Gukesh, Humpy to play Armageddon Championship Finale in Berlin

NAGPUR: Indian chess Grandmasters D Gukesh and Humpy Koneru are geared up for an intense showdown in the Armageddon Championship Series Finale in Berlin from Thursday.

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Chess is in good hands for the future, says Magnus Carlsen after winning his first chess World Cup title

NAGPUR: After winning his maiden World Cup title on Thursday, Magnus Carlsen said in an interview, "Chess is in good hands for the future. I think this generation of players born between 1990-94 really have dominated for a long time and finally now with these youngsters born 2003+, we have…

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