MUMBAI: The 19th edition of the Mumbai Marathon, one of Asia’s top running events, will be held on January 21, 2024, and the registration process for the mega event started here on Thursday.

PARIS: With exactly one year to go before the start of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday officially invited the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and their best athletes to take part in the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.

COUNCIL BLUFFS (USA): Two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu and her Indian compatriot, Lakshya Sen made a winning start in their US Open campaign with comfortable wins in their respective opening matches.

ST LOUIS (USA): World No.1 Grandmaster (GM) Magnus Carlsen, reigning champion GM Hikaru Nakamura, and the young hotshot GM Alireza Firouzja, widely considered the strongest bullet players on the planet, will line up for the main competition of the online Bullet Chess Championship to be held from July 17-21.

MUMBAI: In what can be termed as a major upset so far in the event, 12-year-old Ishaan Tendolkar played the game of his life to hold the top-seed and International Master (IM) Vikramaditya Kulkarni to a draw in the third round of the SBI Life All India FIDE Rating Chess Tournament here on Sunday.

NEW DELHI : The general body meeting of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), scheduled to take place in Ayodhya on Sunday, has been cancelled after the Sports ministry suspended all the ongoing activities of the federation and appointed an Oversight Committee to take over the day-to day functioning.

NEW DELHI : Industry leaders on Tuesday hailed the government's decision to appoint the IT Ministry as the nodal agency for online gaming-related matters.In a notification, the Centre said that matters related to online gaming will now be taken care of by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).

NEW DELHI: West Bengal, a state with a flourishing lottery business, has been joined by Uttar Pradesh, where there is a lottery ban, to push for a 28 per cent GST for online skill gaming.

BENGALURU:The fight against Human trafficking, regarded as the second largest organised crime in the world, is getting a new weapon - mobile games. Mobile Premier League (MPL), the Bengaluru based tech start-up, has teamed up with the NGO Missing Links Trust, to launch a Role Play Game (RPG) called Missing to spread awareness about human trafficking among potential vicitms and general public.

NEW DELHI:After the two-day GST council meeting held on July 23-24 at Bengaluru, the GST Council's Group of Ministers (GoM) discussed the tax rates levied on the online gaming industry from 18 to 28 per cent.