There’s a rise in cyberbullying nationwide, with three times as many girls reporting being harassed online or by text message than boys, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The survey showed about 20%, or one in five students, reported being bullied.
Batting coach Sanjay Bangar might find it difficult to retain his position when the national selectors pick the support staff for the Indian team. Many believe Bangar hasn't been able to create a solid middle order despite four years in the job.
Olympic 800 metres champion Semenya is fighting an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulation that middle-distance female runners with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it.
The BCCI on Tuesday banned the talented 19-year-old opener Prithvi Shaw from all forms of cricket for eight months for failing a dope test. A release from the Board said Shaw had "inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance, which can be commonly found in cough syrups".
Ravi Shastri remains favourite for the post of the coach of the Indian cricket team and has an automatic entry in the process. Shastri's contract ended with the World Cup but he and his support staff have been given a 45-day extension for the West Indies tour that starts Saturday. Under Shastri, India have won a little more than 70% of their matches.
Osama bin Laden's son Hamza bin Laden, who was viewed as a heir to the leadership of al-Qaida and who had repeatedly threatened to attack the US, is dead, according to US officials. Hamza bin Laden was killed sometime during the first two years of the Trump administration, officials said. Details of the strike that killed him were scarce, including when and where.
French striker Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid defeated Fenerbahce 5-3 in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday which temporarily lifted the summer gloom which has engulfed the Spanish giants and coach Zinedine Zidane.
The US on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, hurting chances of diplomatic talks amid rising tensions between the two countries. Zarif, a critical figure in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, dismissed the action and said it would not affect him.
The ICC recently allotted chairmanship of its all-powerful Financial and Commercial Affairs Committee (FMCA) to Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ehsan Mani, a move which may not be music to Indian board’s (BCCI) ears. The fear within the Indian cricket circles is that it could pit India against Pakistan in the corridors of the game’s administration in the near future.
Ireland enjoyed a fairytale opening day in their first ever Test match against England as they bowled out the hosts for 85 before building a healthy lead at sweltering Lord's on Wednesday.
David Warner made a timely fifty as Australia's bowlers continued to hold sway in an intra-squad Ashes warm-up match at Southampton on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court-appointed forensic auditors have found that homebuyers’ funds were diverted by Amrapali’s promoters to pay Rs 42 crore in fees to its brand ambassador MS Dhoni’s Rhiti Sports and the company, which manages the cricketer’s endorsement rights, may have to deposit the money in court.
Chinese mobile-maker Oppo, which had made a winning bid of about Rs 1,079 crore for the jersey rights in March 2017 for a period of five years, will make way for Byju's. Oppo will be seen on the Team India jersey only till the end of the forthcoming West Indies series. Once South Africa's tour of India in September commences, Byju's will take over the jersey.
President Donald Trump "does not make up things", a top presidential advisor said on Tuesday when asked about a question on his stunning claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate on the Kashmir issue, remarks which has been strongly refuted by India.
Russia carried out what it said was its first long-range joint air patrol in the Asia-Pacific region with China on Tuesday, a mission that triggered hundreds of warning shots, according to South Korean officials, and a strong protest from Japan.
The India captain talks exclusively to TOI, touching subjects ranging from his consistency as a batsman to his role as a leader and how he deals with success and failure.
Gareth Bale shrugged off uncertainty over his Real Madrid future Tuesday, his second-half goal helping the La Liga giants rally for a friendly win over Arsenal.
Cautioning the United States about any misadventure against Iran, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday said any action on the lines of Iraq could be much worse and people would forget al-Qaeda. "My worry about Iran is.... I am not sure whether all the countries realise the gravity of the situation if there is a conflict with Iran," Khan said.
France, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark support a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, three senior EU diplomats said on Tuesday. Britain proposed the idea to senior EU diplomats at a meeting in Brussels, saying it would not involve the European Union, Nato or the US directly, the diplomats said.
It came to the knowledge of many in the world governing body only recently that Anil Kumble, the chairman of their own technical committee, was hired in an ‘advisory’ role at Euro T20 Slam — a tournament being co-hosted by Cricket Ireland, Cricket Scotland and Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond.
Ireland's march to becoming a fully fledged member of cricket's elite will reach another important staging post when they play their first Test against England at Lord's on Wednesday. The Irish men's side only made their Test debut last year, suffering a final day defeat by Pakistan in Dublin in a creditable display before being well beaten by fellow newcomers Afghanistan.
An influential Democratic Congressman apologised to India's US envoy for President Donald Trump's "embarrassing" remarks on Kashmir, while several others came out in support of New Delhi's established stand against any third-party role on the issue. "I just apologized to Indian Ambassador Harsh Shringla for Trump's amateurish and embarrassing mistake," he said.
Pakistan's main spy agency provided the US with a lead that helped them find and kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan's PM Imran Khan said on Monday. "If you ask CIA it was ISI which gave the initial location through the phone connection."Pakistan has until now officially denied having any knowledge of the terror chief until he was shot dead in a night time raid by US special forces on May 2, 2011
With the Tokyo Olympics just a year away, the fight for the Indian sports administrators is to ensure that only clean athletes travel to the Games. National Anti-Doping Agency’s (Nada) director general, Navin Agarwal, spoke to TOI on the issue.
Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane has denied disrespecting Wales star Gareth Bale as he discussed the expected transfer of the 30-year-old forward from the La Liga giants on Monday.
Pakistan's main spy agency provided the US with a lead that helped them find and kill Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan's PM Imran Khan said on Monday. "If you ask CIA it was ISI which gave the initial location through the phone connection."Pakistan has until now officially denied having any knowledge of the terror chief until he was shot dead in a night time raid by US special forces on May 2, 2011
President Donald Trump claimed he could end the nearly two-decade-old war in Afghanistan in a matter of days. "I could win that war in a week. I just don't want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth. It would be gone. It would be over, literally, in 10 days," he said.
What drives an athlete to take banned substance and thus unfairly compete at the top level? Some might do it ignorantly, some due to the pressure of pressure and some to push their own limits. But, for an average athlete in India, it’s the lure of cash awards and a secure government job after winning an international medal that drives his/her psyche to dope.
Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face any charges over an alleged rape in the US state of Nevada a decade ago, prosecutors said on Monday.
Bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli soldiers and police moved in to Sur Baher, a Palestinian village on the edge of East Jerusalem in an area that Israel captured and occupied in the 1967 Middle East War. Palestinians fear that the razing of village buildings near the fence will set a precedent for other towns along the route of the barrier, which runs for hundreds of kilometres around and through the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
All-rounder Hardik Pandya has been rested for the entire West Indies tour, while pacer Jasprit Bumrah will play only the Tests. All other Team India regulars will be taking the flight to the Caribbean, with the exception of wicketkeeper MS Dhoni, who has expressed his unavailability.
Claiming that Nawaz Sharif eats home-made food in his air-conditioned jail with television in it, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he will ensure the "criminal" doesn't receive such treatment.
Over the last six years, Navdeep Saini has been a consistent performer in the domestic circuit; and during the 2019 IPL he impressed one and all with his ability to clock speeds upwards of 150kph. On Sunday, the 26-year-old was rewarded by the selectors, who picked him in India’s ODI as well as T20 teams for the tour to West Indies.
When the residents of a 12-story loft building in New York's Chelsea learned that a proposed tower next door threatened to darken most of their windows and block their Empire State Building views, they banded together to make the developer an unusual offer: $11 million not to build.
The firing of tear gas was the latest confrontation between police and protesters who have taken to the streets for almost two months to fight a proposed extradition bill and call for electoral reforms in the Chinese territory.
After India’s World Cup campaign ended, chief selector M S K Prasad had a “discussion” with Dhoni. Perhaps with the World T20 next year in mind, Dhoni ruled out retiring for now, but crucially, he was told he “wasn’t in the scheme of things any more, and the selectors now planned to go ahead with youngsters”.
Africa Cup of Nations champions Algeria arrived home Saturday to a hero's welcome from a huge crowd of joyful supporters and a "water salute" for their plane at Algiers airport.
Julian Alaphilippe hedged his bets when asked about his chances of winning the Tour de France, but together with Thibaut Pinot, he is leading a French renaissance that could deliver a first home title since 1985.
England's World Cup-winning coach Trevor Bayliss will take charge of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League next year, the team announced on Thursday. The 56-year-old Australian will take over a team captained by Kane Williamson, who led the New Zealand team beaten by Bayliss's England in the thrilling World Cup final last Sunday.
Britain's Simon Yates won stage 12 of the Tour de France on Thursday, beating two other survivors of a mass breakaway in the Pyrenees.
Twenty-four years after first climbing into a professional boxing ring, Manny Pacquiao will attempt to defy the march of time here Saturday when he battles undefeated American Keith Thurman for the WBA welterweight crown.
Arsenal manager Unai Emery said on Thursday that he was planning for the potential departure of club captain Laurent Koscielny while mulling a leadership role for young defender Rob Holding.