Tania, Divya, Harika deliver wins for India

Bengaluru: Four rounds into the Olympiad and things are now slowly hotting up. India ran into…

Chess Olympiad: India’s young chess stars bid to shine

Bengaluru: It was two years ago, in the Indian coastal temple town of Mamallapuram, that a…

Big money for each win, tiebreak tweaks for Ding-Gukesh WC match

Bengaluru: Win more games, take home a bigger prize money. The global chess body Fide has…

Chess: Change in approach does the trick for Karthik

Bengaluru: Karthik Venkataraman had a stranger walk up to him and ask him about his chess…

How a doctor treating war veterans ended up creating the Paralympics

Bengaluru: A flame was lit by two British Paralympians in the quiet village of Stoke Mandeville…

Neeraj targets Diamond League before call on surgery

Bengaluru: As newly minted Olympic medallists are whisked from one photo op to the next in…

Breaking is ready for the Olympic stage

Bengaluru: Arif Chaudhury, or B-Boy Flying Machine as he’s better known in breaking circles, came up…

Ding, Gukesh and their Singapore connection

Bengaluru: Grandmaster Kevin Goh Wei Ming has kicked a ball with Ding Liren, the reigning world…

Ziaur Rehman: An imaginative risk-taker who didn’t play for draws

Ziaur Rehman often showed up for tournaments with his wife and son in tow. Almost as…

From record Olympic ‘A’ cuts to Universality – why the ebb in Indian swimming

Bengaluru: Three years ago around this time, Sajan Prakash was riding a wave. He had made…