With five points from his last six games on the final day of the blitz section, Viswanathan Anand made a brilliant comeback to finish second in the third leg of Grand Chess Tour — the Paris Rapid and Blitz competition. Anand, who was tied third after nine rounds of rapid chess with 10 points, suffered some indifferent results on the second day of blitz competition in which 18 rounds of game’s shortest format were played over three days. Brilliant Viswanathan Anand finishes second in Grand Chess Tour
The Indian national anthem rang out for the first time at the award ceremony of the Junior Track Cycling World Championships as Esow Alben, L Ronaldo Singh, Y Rojit Singh and Jemsh Singh stepped on to the podium late on Wednesday evening. The Indian boys’ sprint team were making history—this was India’s first gold at a world cycling event, senior or junior. Esow Alben-led India bag historic cycling gold