Commerce & Industry Minister  Piyush Goyal paid an official visit to Switzerland at the invitation of his Swiss counterpart Federal Councillor Mr. Guy Parmelin. During this highly successful and productive visit, Shri Goyal's engagements included bilateral...

A red-hot performance from Belgium’s men saw any Spanish hopes of clinching a first ever FIH Hockey Pro League title going up in flames as the final mini-tournament of the season got under way in Antwerp. The home side’s 7-2 victory saw the Olympic champions...

The Indian badminton pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty won the Swiss Open 2023 men's doubles title after beating China's Tan Qiang and Ren Xiang Yu in the final at the St Jakobshalle arena, here on Sunday.Satwik-Chirag, sixth in the badminton...

Indian badminton players PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and HS Prannoy advanced to the second round of Swiss Open 2023 but compatriot Lakshya Sen crashed out in the opening round of the tournament, here.Double Olympic medallist Sindhu, the reigning champion, defeated...

Saudi Arabia has been named the host of the FIFA Club World Cup 2023, scheduled to take place from December 12-22. "In relation to the FIFA Club World Cup 2023, which is due to be played under the current format with seven clubs, the FIFA Council unanimously...

Developed countries should walk the talk on transforming food systems by helping smallholder farmers in developing countries with cheaper access to irrigation, fertilisers and markets, said R.K. Singh, India's Minister for New and Renewable Energy, in a session...

With the said acquisition, the EMPL shall own 79.99 % shares in WEA Asia Limited Hong Kong and and 51 % in WEA GmbH Switzerland.The EXHICON Events Media Solutions Pvt Ltd, has signed definitive agreement to acquire majority shares in the WEA Worldwide Exhibitions...

India men's hockey team defender and vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh has been voted the FIH Player of the Year for the second year running.The 26-year-old, who has a knack for being at the right place at the right time, got the award for his goal-scoring ability,...

Roger Federer, a 20-time Grand Slam singles champion, on Thursday announced his retirement from top-level tennis, saying that next week's Laver cup will be his final ATP final tour-level event.The 41-year-old has not played since Wimbledon 2021, after which...

India's ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has said when he was forced to skip the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham due to a groin injury, he felt it was the end of his competitive season, but after the rehab in Germany he had the confidence to come back and...

Italy's Matteo Berrettini came back from the brink of defeat at the Swiss Open here on Friday, rallying past fifth seed Pedro Martinez 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-1 to reach the semifinals and extend his winning streak to 11 matches.He also set up a clash with Austrian Dominic...

Ivory Coast goalkeeper Sylvain Gbohouo has been banned for 18 months after testing positive for a prohibited substance, FIFA announced on Monday.The 33-year-old footballer from Bonoua returned a positive test for trimetazidine, a drug banned because it can...

The Indian men's hockey team registered a thrilling 6-4 win against Poland to clinch the inaugural FIH Hockey 5s title here on Sunday. Bobby Singh Dhami (11', 19') and Mohammed Raheel (13', 17'), who finished as the top goalscorer at FIH Hockey 5s, netted...

Indian men's hockey team captain Gurinder Singh has said ahead of the FIH Hockey5s opening match against hosts Switzerland on Saturday that the fast-paced nature of the game made quick adaptation to the situation an absolute necessity, adding that the training...

Calling for "maximum" sanctions against Russia, including an oil embargo, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in a live video address to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos-Klosters told the participants how he "wakes up every day to read the number...

India paddler Manika Batra achieved a career-best ranking of 38 in women's singles after she climbed 10 places in the latest ITTF Table Tennis World Rankings, released on Tuesday. The Olympian was ranked 48th in women's singles last week. Batra broke into...

The International Boxing Association (IBA) on Saturday announced that the 2008 AIBA World Boxing Light Flyweight Champion, Sarah Ourahmoune, will be the Ambassador for the upcoming IBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.Ourahmoune, who...

The 20-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer will play in his hometown of Basel, Switzerland, later this year after signing up for the Swiss Indoors tournament, organisers said in a statement on Tuesday.The 40-year-old has been out of action since making...

The FIH Hockey Women's Junior World Cup, which was initially scheduled to be played in December 2021 but was put on hold due to the Covid-19 Omicron variant outbreak, will be held at the same venue the North-West University of Potchefstroom in South Africa,...