MOTORSPORTS
Mahindra Racing decide to System E’s Gen4 period, to stay a part of sequence till 2030
Mahindra Racing on Wednesday dedicated to the Gen4 period of System E after years of deliberation, guaranteeing the presence of the Indian producer within the electrical racing sequence till 2030.
Mahindra Racing, a part of the FIA-sanctioned World Championship sequence for the reason that inaugural season in 2014–15, confirmed drastic enchancment within the earlier season to complete fourth within the standings.
Having dedicated to System E till 2030, the crew can now put all its energies into the upcoming season, marking the top of the Gen3 period. The quicker automobiles within the Gen4 section might be seen in motion from 2026-27 onwards, masking 4 seasons.
Mahindra Racing remaining within the championship can also be an enormous increase to the championship, which has witnessed main producers come and go.
“It was an extended working course of to judge professionals and cons and the best way to take part in the absolute best method to Gen 4 period for the championship.
“We’re persevering with with the long-term imaginative and prescient and the robust consistency of involvement of Mahindra Racing and the Mahindra group within the championship,” crew principal Frederic Bertrand informed PTI when requested in regards to the time taken in deciding its System E future.
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SQUASH
Aaradhana, Baitha make successful begin in squash meet
India’s Aaradhana Kasturiraj opened her marketing campaign on a powerful be aware within the girls’s draw of the eleventh Sunil Verma Memorial Squash, a PSA Challenger occasion, easing previous compatriot Shuvra Borah right here on Wednesday.
Kasturiraj registered an 11-6, 11-9, 11-7 win over Borah.
Within the males’s spherical of 32, Rahul Baitha eased previous Divit Poojary 11-7, 11-5, 11-8.
Amongst different matches, Reiva Nimbalkar defeated Rani Gupta 11-5, 11-3, 11-4, and Gurveer Singh put it previous Ayaan Vaziralli 11-9, 11-3, 11-6.
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KHELO INDIA UNIVERSITY GAMES
Entice shooter Neeru Dhanda wins fourth gold; Jain College stays atop medal tally
Entice shooters Neeru Dhanda and Aditya Bharadwaj powered Guru Nanak Dev College to a clear sweep of all 4 shotgun medals, whereas their cyclists clinched each particular person street race titles within the Khelo India College Video games right here on Wednesday.
Neeru, the reigning Asian Taking pictures Championships gold medallist, secured her fourth straight particular person gold with a closing rating of 47. Manisha Keer (39) and Nandika Singh (30) took the silver and bronze, respectively. The trio additionally mixed to win the crew gold with a rating of 344 on the Jagatpur Taking pictures Vary.
Neeru, who had completed second behind Manisha in qualifying, raised her efficiency within the closing.
“I used to be decided to win the gold at present. I had gained gold within the final three editions of the College Video games, and I wished to finish this with one other gold medal,” she informed SAI Media.
Bharadwaj additionally led GNDU’s males’s lure crew to a golden double, scoring 45 within the closing. Punjabi College’s Jungsher Singh Virk claimed the silver with 43, whereas Manav Rachna’s Bhaktiyaar Malik gained the bronze.
Earlier within the day, bike owner Meenakshi Rohilla added the person street race gold to her time trial victory, whereas teammate Akshar Tyagi topped the boys’s occasion, taking GNDU’s gold rely to 10.
Jain College continued to guide the general standings, including 4 extra swimming gold medals, together with each 4x100m freestyle relays. Nina Venkatesh (girls’s 50m butterfly) and Bhavya Sachdeva (girls’s 400m IM) additionally secured high podium finishes.
Chandigarh College’s Harsh Saroha edged Olympian Srihari Nataraj within the males’s 50m butterfly, clocking 24.90s. He later bagged the 200m butterfly gold with a time of two:06.88, whereas his teammate Ishan Rathi gained the 200m backstroke in 2:13.51.
In wrestling competitions, Chitkara College Punjab’s Jaspooran Singh upstaged Delhi College’s Ronak’s for the boys’s 125kg freestyle gold.
Hosts Rajasthan too had causes to rejoice as Sagar from the native Dr KN Modi College in Pakei bagged gold in males’s 97kg Greco-Roman class, beating Ritik of Guru Kashi College at Bharatpur’s Loragarh Indoor Stadium.
The fifth version of the KIUG is being held throughout seven cities in Rajasthan, that includes 4448 athletes from 222 universities competing in 23 medal disciplines.
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GOLF
Asian Tour returns to India with Bharath Basic
India’s high golfers, led by Aman Raj and Yuvraj Sandhu, will look to both safe or save a card when the Asian Tour returns to India with the inaugural Bharath Basic, a brand new occasion on the Indian Golf Premier League (IGPL) Tour.
Profitable the Bharath Basic will guarantee the champion Asian Tour taking part in privileges by means of 2026 and 2027 and open pathways to the extremely profitable Worldwide Sequence and the Liv Golf Tour.
Aman, the present chief on the IGPL Tour, will lead the house problem at Kensville Golf Resort in what’s the first Asian Tour occasion in India for the reason that final one in March 2023.
Aman, a two-time winner in Jaipur and Kolkata, leads the problem of the High-4 from the IGPL Cash Checklist. He’s adopted by the long-hitting Pukhraj Singh Gill, winner of the IGPL Jamshedpur and Sachin Baisoya and teenage prodigy Kartik Singh.
One other IGPL winner, Kapil Kumar, can also be within the area.
Baisoya and Kartik have delivered constant outcomes however are nonetheless searching for their maiden IGPL wins.
Ekpharit Wu from Thailand, who gained the Taiwan Glass Taifong Open two weeks in the past for his first Asian Tour title, Korean Wooyoung Cho, who has posted two top-10’s on the Asian Tour this yr, can even in fray.
Yuvraj, who has gained 5 occasions this season on the Skilled Golf Tour of India (PGTI), can also be hoping to maintain his Asian Tour card because the season comes in direction of the top.
“Enjoying an Asian Tour occasion at house is all the time an enormous factor and this being our dwelling it’s good,” stated Yuvraj, who has been prolific on the Indian Tour this season with 5 wins.
Amongst others, IGPL star Yashas Chandra of Mysore, Kartik Singh and Veer Ganapathy might be hoping to hit it huge early of their profession.
Amongst others in fray, Shaurya Bhattacharya and Arjun Prasad, additionally winners in India, can even characteristic within the half-a-million-dollar occasion.
Olympians Udayan Mane and SSP Chawrasia, are additionally within the area, as are a bunch of Asian Tour winners like Rashid Khan, Khalin Joshi, Viraj Madappa and former Indian Open champion C Muniyappa can even tee up this week.
Different notable names embody Nitithorn Thippong, former Hero Indian Open winner, Siddikur Rehman of Bangladesh, Steve Lewton of England, Austen Truslow, Justin Quiban, Korean Bio Kim, Kosuke Hamamoto of Thailand.
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Diksha, Pranavi amongst 5 Indians at season-ending occasion in Andalucia
Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs might be among the many 5 Indians within the area on the season-ending Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de Espana right here.
The opposite three are Aditi Ashok, who has acquired a particular invite as a former champion – she gained the occasion in 2023 – Avani Prashanth and Hitaashee Bakshi, who made the massive run with a third-place end in her dwelling occasion, the Hero Girls’s Indian Open final month.
Diksha is the highest Indian at twenty third whereas Pranavi is fortieth and Avani is forty first. Hitaashee is 58th.
The presence of so many Indians within the season’s closing occasion additionally signifies how far the nation’s girls’s golf has come on the energy of a powerful 15-event dwelling Tour, the Girls’s Professional Golf Tour, and a few nice present by the ladies golfers.
The LET’s season finale that includes a area of 75 gamers takes place at Actual Guadalhorce Membership de Golf from November 27-30.
Diksha will play alongside Laura Fuenstueck and Brianna Navarossa, whereas Aditi performs with beginner Paula Martin Sampedra and Azahara Munoz.
Pranavi, who made an amazing comeback and completed in top-10 at Girls’s Indian Open, performs with fellow Indian, Avani Prashanth, who had an amazing rookie season, and Hannah Display.
Hitaashee Bakshi performs with Celine Hebron and Chloe Williams.
After a year-long battle within the Order of Advantage, it has all come right down to the ultimate occasion of the 2025 Girls European Tour (LET) season.
Singapore’s Shannon Tan and England’s Mimi Rhodes go head-to-head within the season-ending match and can battle it out at Actual Guadalhorce Membership de Golf to earn the celebrated LET Order of Advantage crown.
It’s been a superb 2025 for the duo with loads of silverware between the pair. Tan leads the Order of Advantage by 219.26 factors forward of Rhodes heading into the ultimate occasion in Malaga.
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Revealed on Nov 26, 2025