Mohammad Azharuddin voices concerns about the India-Pakistan Asia Cup match amidst heightened cross-border tensions, citing ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban recently suspended chess over concerns that it encourages gambling, which is banned in Islam, a move ...

India's rising chess star, IM Divya Deshmukh, continued her sensational run at the 2025 FIDE Women's World Cup, defeating China's GM Tan Zhongyi in their second game to seal her place in the final.

Veteran Afghanistan player Mohammad Nabi was welcomed in by his son Hassan Eisakhil with a six in the Mis-e-Ainak Knights vs ...

World Chess Day celebrates chess’s global benefits in education, peace, and inclusion, while the game remains banned in ...

The ICC has confirmed that displaced Afghan women cricketers will receive significant engagement opportunities at upcoming ...

Afghanistan said on Thursday Russia had become the first country to officially recognise its Taliban-led government, calling ...

HADID: Chess in Afghanistan is not madly followed like cricket or the national game - buzkashi. That's like polo, except jockeys have whips and they have to grab a goat's carcass with their hands.

The Taliban has banned many things since seizing Afghanistan nearly four years ago. There's no music, no videos of living creatures on most Afghan TV stations - that sounds like radio. Mostly no ...