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NEW DELHI: Indian skipper Virat Kohli has overtaken Bollywood star Salman Khan to become the second-most followed Indian personality on social media platform Facebook.  The 28-year-old has more than 35 million followers on Facebook, 600,000 more than the ‘Tubelight’ star. Kohli, who recently termed social media as distraction, boasts 16 million followers on Twitter and whopping 14 million fan following on Instagram.

AIZAWL: Union Sports Minister Vijay Goel Monday said that a football academy would be set up at the Mizoram Football Association's (MFA) football ground at Sairang village near Aizawl.  

MUMBAI: Great Britain's Red Bull athlete Shauna Coxsey and Korea's Jongwon Chon emerged champion in women's and men's sections respectively at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup of Climbing on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: After suddenly announcing his resignation from the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administators (CoA), renowned cricket historian Ramachandra Guha on Friday, wrote a letter to CoA head Vinod Rai, mentioning his reasons to quit from the post.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Cricket West Indies (CWI) began its 91st year Thursday, with a new name and website as part of a comprehensive rebranding programme. As part of the rebrand, the West Indies Cricket Board has been renamed Cricket West Indies and formally recognises all representative teams as the WINDIES.

NEW DELHI: Badminton Association of India president and Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been nominated as the chairperson of the Asian para-badminton committee.  Sarma was inducted into the committee during the BWF’s annual general meeting in Gold Coast, Australia on May 18 on the sidelines of the Sudirman Cup. 

JAIPUR: Senior Congress leader and former Member of Parliament CP Joshi on Friday won the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) presidential elections. Joshi, a past president of the state association, beat former RCA chairman Lalit Modi’s son Ruchir by a margin of five votes. Of 33 votes in total, Joshi secured 19 while 14 went in favour of Ruchir.

LONDON: The Premier League's new broadcast deals that came into force with the 2016/2017 season has given newly crowned champions Chelsea a record pay-out of more than £150 million ($190 million, 172 million euros), nearly £60 million more than their predecessors Leicester.

NEW DELHI: The Vivo Indian Premier League (IPL), which ended its tenth season on May 21, garnered 1.25 billion impressions for the 59 matches played between 5 April and 21 May, a 22.5% jump from a year-ago period, according to recently released BARC data. 

NEW DELHI: After suddenly announcing his resignation from the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administators (CoA), renowned cricket historian Ramachandra Guha on Friday, wrote a letter to CoA head Vinod Rai, mentioning his reasons to quit from the post.