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MANCHESTER: Abu Dhabi owned Manchester City FC are reportedly willing to break the world transfer record and cough up a mind boggling £100 million to prize away Lionel Messi from Barcelona, with negotiations said to have taken place at the end of 2016 to prove the Premier League club’s seriousness over a deal.

MUMBAI: Former Chief Justice of India RM Lodha, who recommended overhaul of the cricket governance in India, on Tuesday said things would move fast in the BCCI after the newly-appointed administrators take charge after 19 January.

"Just wait for 19th (January), I believe as soon as administrators are appointed by the Supreme…

LONDON: Minsk has emerged as the most likely host of a new Europe versus USA athletics event in 2019 after British Athletics turned down a request to stage it in the London Stadium.

The Ryder Cup-style competition is the brainchild of European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen and he had hoped to announce last year that…

NEW DELHI: Four affiliated state units of the BCCI - Hyderabad, Tamil Nadu, Goa and Madhya Pradesh - have filed separate pleas in the Supreme Court seeking revised directions on its January 3 verdict, which disqualifies any office-bearer who has completed nine years in state administration.

The state units have many of their…

AHMEDABAD: The foundation stone for the "world's biggest cricket stadium", coming up in Motera area here and estimated to cost in the region of Rs7 billion, was laid Monday. 

On the occasion, Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) vice president Parimal Nathwani announced that the construction of the new stadium, being built in…

NEW DELHI: After one aborted attempt and a second that died a quiet death after one season, it will hopefully be third time lucky for India as far as franchise presence in AIBA's World Series Boxing (WSB) is concerned.

According to the Tribune, India could soon have a franchise in the World Series of Boxing so as to…

KUALA LUMPUR: Leading Asian telecommunications group, Axiata Group Berhad (Axiata), has come on board as the naming right partner for the Putra Indoor Stadium - the indoor stadium of KL Sports City. The venue will be renamed Axiata Arena when it reopens in July. 

MUMBAI: At 246.8 million euros, Neymar is the most valuable player in Europe, according to a study by the CIES Football Observatory, a Switzerland-based research team. 

The Brazilian prodigy outranks Lionel Messi and Paul Pogba. Data presented is computed by means of the exclusive CIES Football Observatory transfer value…

BEIJING: Following up on concerns voiced in official quarters that clubs have been over-spending on foreign talent with a rapid growth in the huge fees being paid for high-profile imports, the Chinese authorities have set the limit on foreign players Chinese Super League (CSL) clubs can field to three, according to local media reports…

NEW DELHI: With the curtains drawn on the Vodafone Premier Badminton League 2017, Twenty First Century Media Pvt Ltd (TCM) has signed up Olympic Gold medallist Carolina Marina to write exclusive syndicated columns for the Indian market. 

The Spanish former world number 1 will be writing columns for TCM annually during Super…