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Narayan Gopal Maharjan has bagged the title of the Second Mountain Bike Championship. Maharjan won the mountain bike race by completing a distance of 19.5 kilometers in one hour one minute and 15 seconds. The championship was organised by the Black Hawk Event Management. Similarly, Raj Kumar Shrestha came out second covering the distance in [...]
January 6th, 2013 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
For the past four months, Ndoe Mbarga Pierre Herve, 30, has been waking up to mildly chilly Kathmandu mornings, in a room on the top floor of a three-storey football club house. When he steps out of bed, he has to stoop to make sure his head does not hit the ceiling of the five [...]
December 27th, 2012 | Posted in Int'l Coverage on Nepal, LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar,has retired from ODI cricket. Tendulkar finishes an illustrious career in the 50-over format, having played 463 ODIs, scored 18,426 runs and made 49 centuries, each of them a world record. His last ODI was against Pakistan in Dhaka during the Asia Cup, where he made a half-century in India’s victory. “I [...]
December 23rd, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Nepal has been ranked in the top position in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) ranking for the second consecutive cycle following their triumph in ACC Trophy Elite 2012 and runners-up placing in ACC U-19 Elite 2011 and ACC U-16 Elite 2012. ACC published the ranking following the conclusion of the last tournament in the biennial [...]
December 19th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Nepali karate players hauled four silver medals in the 13th Asian Pacific Karate Championship underway in Hong Kong. As per the information provided by the National Sports Council, Roji Nagarkoti won a silver medal in the women’s 55-kg weight category, Sapana Lama in the women’s 61-kg weight category and Gangadevi Adhikari in the women’s 68-kg [...]
December 16th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Member of Nepalese women national team player Ashmita Khawas has been wounded due to elephant’s attack. Khawas was attacked at Dhulabari Campus while she was in her morning walk, reports Nagriknews. The tusker coming towards north and Khawas who was heading towards south were encountered at campus. The elephant has made injured at her face [...]
December 13th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Nepal lost against host India by 249 runs in the ongoing T20 Blind Cricket World Cup in Bangalore, India, on Saturday. This is the fifth straight defeat for the team, which earlier lost to England, Australia, Sri Lanka and South Africa in its previous matches. Nepal’s only win in the tournament so far came in [...]
December 9th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
Sport being what it is, commentators are always on the lookout for players who will take it to new heights. The book should be closed for quite some time, however, and not because of the efforts of Sachin Tendulkar, Roger Federer or Spain’s footballers. Three years ago, a collection of amateur cricketers with grand ideas [...]
November 26th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
The Second Thamel Tourism Cup Invitational International Karate and Kickboxing Tournament kicked off at the National Sports Council Covered Hall on Monday. The host, Nepal Shitoryo Karate Association, Thamel Dojo, said altogether 270 karate players — 170 from Nepal and 100 from India — are participating in the tournament. According to the organizers, top two [...]
November 20th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »
The school level Wai-Wai Indo-Nepal U-16 Cricket Tournament is set to start from November 20. Organising a press conference here in the capital on Sunday, Greenland Children Academy Higher Secondary School informed that altogether 12 teams will participate in the tournament including eight from Nepal and four teams from India. The 12 teams will be [...]
November 18th, 2012 | Posted in LATEST NEWS, SPORTS | Read More »