F1 superstar Lewis Hamilton, 41, is reportedly ready to take the next step in his relationship with US reality TV star and model Kim Kardashian, 45, with latest reports suggesting the pair is looking to move in together. Reports about the same emerged after British tabloid The Sun revealed that the couple were spotted shopping for home furnishings in Los Angeles. Hamilton has been spending a lot of time with Kardashian, given the lengthy break between the Japanese GP (March 29) and the Miami GP (May 4).
18 April,2026 09:52 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentIt’s no secret that legendary sprinter Usain Bolt, 39, has been an avid cricket fan since his childhood, as he grew up watching the mighty West Indies. However, it now appears he has found a new team to cheer for — IPL’s Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The eight-time Olympic gold-medal winner Instagrammed a picture of himself sporting the RCB jersey and captioned the post: “Namaskara. Puma sent me the fit. So I had to represent.” His post received nearly six lakh ‘likes’. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Usain St.Leo Bolt 🇯🇲 (@usainbolt)
18 April,2026 09:50 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentIndian world No. 47 Veer Chotrani defeated German eighth seed Raphael Kandra 11-8, 11-7, 11-7 in the men's second round to move into the quarterfinals of the Hamburg Open squash. However, his compatriots, fifth seed Abhay Singh, seventh seed Ramit Tandon, and former women's world No. 10 Joshna Chinappa, bowed out in the second round of their matches of the PSA Bronze-level event on Thursday night. Abhay lost to Sam Todd (England) 9-11, 11-7, 4-11, 2-11, Tandon fell to Balazs Farkas (Hungary) 10-12, 11-4, 5-11, 9-11, and Joshna was beaten by eighth seed Joelle King of New Zealand 11-9, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
18 April,2026 09:47 AM IST | Hamburg | PTIIndian women's doubles pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand has withdrawn from the upcoming Uber Cup Finals after the former sustained an ankle injury, dealing a blow to India's campaign in Denmark. India will compete in the Thomas and Uber Cup Finals to be held in Horsens, Denmark, from April 24 to May 3. "Treesa sadly twisted her ankle just 2-3 days before leaving for the Badminton Asia Championships. It was an accident during training -- she stepped on her partner's foot," India's doubles coach B Sumeeth Reddy told PTI. "She is resting now and will undergo rehabilitation. It is not a major injury, and she should recover in about four weeks. She will look to return at the Singapore Open at the end of May," he added. The Indian pair had also withdrawn from the Swiss Open last month due to Treesa's shoulder issue. They were trailing Chinese Taipei's Hu Ling Fang and Jheng Yu Chieh in the opening game when they retired from their first-round match in Basel. "In doubles, such minor issues happen. She had a shoulder problem earlier but is fine now," Sumeeth said. In their absence, the Badminton Association of India (BAI) has named Shruti Mishra and Priya Konjengbam as replacements. Shruti and Priya, the 2023 Senior National champions, are currently ranked 48th in the world. They were part of the Indian team that won gold at the Badminton Asia Team Championships in 2024. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
18 April,2026 09:46 AM IST | New Delhi | PTIFormer international shuttlers Aparna Popat and Mangrish Palekar showcased their class in their respective categories to advance to the next round of the GD Birla Memorial Masters Inter-Club badminton tournament, promoted by Badminton Gurukul, at Bombay Gymkhana on Friday. In the 75+ women’s doubles quarters, Popat and partner Naheed Divecha beat Jaanvi Merani and Sonal Battad 15-11, 15-3. Meanwhile, the duo of Palekar and Deepak Jaitly comprehensively defeated Ankit Kabra and Tushar Mangal 30-11 to storm into the 85+ men’s doubles quarter-finals.
18 April,2026 09:45 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentCentral Railway beat Western Railway 4-2 in a women’s elite league match of the 45th Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana rink hockey tournament recently. H Lalruatfeli netted all four goals for CR while Anupa Barla and Lily Chanu scored for WR. Meanwhile, Sports Authority of India (SAI) beat Republicans Orange 6-2. PG Dechamma netted a hat-trick, while Kavita (two) and Dintei also scored for SAI. Kashish Shaikh and Manvi Jadhav netted for Republicans. In a men’s seniors tie, Savio Hockey beat India Rush 6-0. Neel Amin (three), Bhavik Chandane (two) and Mittansh Rane scored for Savio.
18 April,2026 09:43 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentMumbai-based Aamod Ghadge is the only boy from Maharashtra to be named in the 40-player shortlist for the sub-junior India U-18 men’s hockey camp and the boy is looking forward to doing well there with the hope of playing for India at the U-18 Asia Cup in Kakamigahara, Japan. (May 29 to June 6) Midfielder Ghadge, 15, who stays in Worli and studies at Dr Antonio Da Silva High School (Dadar), trains at the Republicans Sports Club after school hours. “It’s good to make the national camp but it’s a huge responsibility as I’m the only one representing my city and state. In the last 4-5 years, I’ve put in a lot of hard work to reach here. I want to give my best and achieve my dream of playing for India,” Ghadge, who took up hockey at the age of eight, told mid-day. The list was drawn up based on performances at the Sub-junior National C’ship at Rajgir, Bihar (April 1 to 12). The camp will be held at the SAI Centre in Bhopal (April 19 to May 25) where the list will be pruned down. Republicans coach and mentor Marzban ‘Bawa’ Patel, a Dronacharya awardee, praised Ghadge. “Aamod is a good, talented boy. His basics are very strong. He is young and skilful. He has a long way to go. This is just the beginning. I’m sure he will do well,” Patel told mid-day.
18 April,2026 09:40 AM IST | Mumbai | Karan ShankarHaving recently smashed Indian athletics' longest-standing national record, marathon runner Sawan Barwal has set another goal: winning the country's first medal in the Asian Games since 1982 in the gruelling distance. India's last Asian Games medal in marathon was won by Hosur Kukkappa Seetharan at the 1982 Games in New Delhi. Before that, Chota Singh won a gold in the inaugural 1951 Asian Games in the national capital. The legendary Shivnath Singh had held the national marathon record of 2:12:00 for 48 years. However, on Sunday, the 28-year-old Barwal broke that long-standing mark at the NN Rotterdam Marathon, finishing 20th with a new time of 2:11:58. "This year, my main target will be Asian Games and I want to win a medal there. I will not participate in too many events," Barwal told PTI in an interview facilitated by Reliance Foundation. "I feel I can further improve my national record. I could have run around 2:10:00 even in Rotterdam had there been no cold wind. So, I can run faster than my current national record. "Next year, there is Asian Marathon Championship. Then I would want to give my best in the 2028 Olympics." Barwal, who is getting married next month, broke the national record in his debut race but said he was confident of achieving the feat as he had been preparing for that race since January. He was to run in the Valencia Marathon on December last year but an injury led to him missing it. "I was undergoing high altitude training at Coonoor and I was preparing well. I was confident of breaking the national record. "The target was to run 2:10:00 and everything went according to the plan till the 40km mark. In the last two kilometers there were issues. I did not anticipate the cold wind and moreover, I had poured water on my body," he explained. He fell down twice â¿¿ at around the 100m mark from the finish line and again just 10â¿¿20m before it. "I had a blackout of may be 10 to 15 seconds but a volunteer came and helped me in standing up. Then I pulled through the finish line," he reminisced. "Rotterdam was a flat track except for little up and down at the end with a bridge in the middle. The climate was also good. The highest temperature was 12 degrees." His coach at Reliance Foundation, Ajith Markose said Barwal may run a couple of races -- either 5000m or 10000m -- later in the season but his main focus will be to win an Asian Games marathon medal. "He is a part of our (Reliance Foundation) Project 2:09 marathon programme. The target this year is the Asian Games marathon medal. Moreover, he is getting married next year," Markose said. "He will be chasing the medal in the Asian Games, he will not be chasing for (better) time in Japan." The coach said he knew that Barwal would do wonders as soon as he joined the programme in 2022. "When he joined our 2:09 programme in 2022, we did physiology test like VO2max test, and we found that his VO2max was very high, 78-79 ml per kg. That's the amount of oxygen that he can utilize. That time, without much training, he was able to reach that level. So we knew that he will be very good at long distance and marathon or half marathon "So last few years we have been preparing him for marathon only." A volunteer helped Barwal to stand up Markose said Barwal was running according to plan up to 40 km, but, after that, cold wind struck him and his head got numb. "I was following him in a metro because the route was little weird. Most of the marathon routes will be a loop, I can catch them again at 20km by just crossing the road. It was not like that so I had to follow them in a metro. I went to 20km then I got another metro to reach 30km mark. Then I came to the finish line. "I was 100m away from finish line and I was ready to take his pictures and videos. We were sure that he is going to break the national record. When the electronic time showed 2:10:00, I couldn't see him at the finish line. He was at that time just around 100m from the finish line. And when I saw him, I realised that he is going to fall down. "He fell down but he managed to stand up and run. And again, within 10-20m (of the finish line), he fell down. He was completely out. Luckily there was a volunteer who made him stand. And somehow he crossed the finish line just few seconds within the national record." This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
17 April,2026 10:33 AM IST | New Delhi | PTIVeteran Joshna Chinappa and Veer Chotrani advanced in the Hamburg Open squash, while compatriots Velavan Senthilkumar and Tanvi Khanna bowed out in the opening round here. Former women's world No 10 Joshna eased past local challenger Saskia Beinhard 11-4, 11-5, 11-4, while men's world No 47 Chotrani beat Spain's Ivan Perez 11-8, 11-9, 11-8 in the PSA Bronze-level event. Men's fifth seed Abhay Singh, who moved up to a career-best world ranking of 22 this week, and Ramit Tandon, the seventh seed, received first-round byes. Other Indian results - Men: R Tsukue (Jpn) bt V Senthilkumar 11-4, 11-9, 14-12; Women: Hannah Craig (Irl) bt Tanvi Khanna 11-5, 11-7, 13-11. This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever
17 April,2026 10:30 AM IST | Hamburg | PTISeeded players progressed in the women’s doubles 75+, and professional singles doubles matches at the GD Birla Memorial Masters inter-club badminton tournament, promoted by Badminton Gurukul, at the Bombay Gymkhana on Thursday. In the professional singles category, top seed Manoj Nachanekar beat Pranit Suryakant Bane 30-22. In the WD 75+ category, the pair of Jaanvi Merani and Sonal Battad beat Jhanvi Shah and Neha Parmar 30-23, while Ajita Ravindran and Namrata Ghole beat Manisha Phadnis and Rashmi Ladia Bisht 30-26. In the men’s doubles, Manoj Nachanekar and Rahul Bhuvad beat Rakesh Kanchawade and Santosh Pawar 30-14.
17 April,2026 10:28 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentWestern Railway edged out Republicans Orange 3-2 in a women’s elite league match of the 45th Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana rink hockey tournament at Santacruz recently. Mariana netted a fine brace for WR while Anupa Barla added the third goal. For Republicans, Manvi Jadhav and Kashish Shaikh scored a goal each. In another match, Sports Authority of India (SAI) beat Central Railway by the odd goal in three. Dechamma PG and Nikku Gurjar scored for SAI while H Lalruatfeli pulled one back for SAI. In a men’s veterans tie, Ave Maria beat Span FC 2-1. Prasad Shetty and Andre Buthello scored for Ave Maria while Gavin Vandrine scored for Span FC.
17 April,2026 10:28 AM IST | Mumbai | A CorrespondentADVERTISEMENT
