KHO KHO
KKFI unveils trophy, mascots for inaugural Kho Kho World Cup 2025
The Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) marked on Friday unvieled the trophies for the first-ever Kho Kho World Cup, scheduled for January 13-19, 2025.
Beneath the aegis of the Sports activities Authority Of India (SAI), the match will showcase 21 males’s and 20 girls’s groups from 24 international locations throughout six continents on the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.
The World Cup will characteristic two trophies – a blue trophy for the lads’s championship and a inexperienced trophy for the ladies’s occasion.
The Federation additionally launched ‘Tejas’ and ‘Tara,’ a dynamic duo of gazelles serving because the official mascots for the match.
The match guarantees to be a landmark occasion within the historical past of this indigenous sport, bringing collectively world expertise and showcasing India’s sporting heritage on the world stage.
ICE HOCKEY
Second version of Royal Enfield Ice Hockey League to start in Ladakh on January 4
The Royal Enfield Ice Hockey League (REIHL) returns to Ladakh for its second season, scheduled to happen from January 4 to January 13 on the Nawang Dorjay Stobdan (NDS) Stadium, Leh.
This yr’s league goals to construct on the momentum of its inaugural version, which noticed a complete of 6000 spectators, as soon as once more bringing collectively native expertise from throughout the area.
This version will characteristic a complete of 30 matches – 23 within the males’s class and 7 within the girls’s, over a span of 10 days. The lads’s match is structured into two teams of 5 groups every, with the highest two groups advancing to the semi-finals. The ladies’s match may also comply with a two-group round-robin format, with three and two groups in every group, adopted by semi-finals after which finals on January 12. The lads’s championship ultimate is about for January 13.
The League, set to happen following the Losar festivities, goals to offer a way of group engagement whereas encouraging gamers to stay lively in the course of the winter months..
Groups
Males’s Groups:
• Changla Blasters
• Kangs Sing
• Zangskar Chadar Tamers
• Maryul Spawo
• Shakar Chiktan Royals
• Sham Wolves
• Purig Warriors
• Changthang Shans
• United Nubra
• Humas Warriors
Girls’s Groups:
• Maryul Spamo
• Sham Eagles
• Changla Lamo
• Skara Chiktan Queens
• Humas Queens
GOLF
Indo-British Aaron Rai lies Tied-Tenth as Bhatia, Theegala path
 Indian People Akshay Bhatia and Sahith Theegala had subdued begins at The Sentry however Indo-British Aaron Rai made a robust impression with a stable five-under 68, ending the primary spherical tied for Tenth on the PGA Tour season-opener.
Bhatia posted a two-under 71, inserting him tied-Thirtieth, whereas Theegala struggled with a triple bogey and completed with a three-over 76, leaving him tied-56th on the Par-73 Plantation Course.
USA’s Tom Hoge opened the 2025 PGA TOUR season with a nine-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over compatriot Will Zalatoris and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama.
-PTI