With Britain currently in lockdown because of the coronavirus, a three-Test series against the West Indies scheduled for June has been postponed, with Pakistan due to visit later in a season whose start has now been delayed until July 1 at the earliest.

Residents of Belattur in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district heaved a sigh of relief as a constable attached to Begur police station, who had visited the village on Monday, tested negative for Covid-19.

Manpreet Singh, PR Sreejesh and Surender Kumar have been rested for the Olympic Test event in Tokyo next month, with Harmanpreet Singh being named the captain of the Indian men's hockey team.

The Indian women's hockey squad was announced by Hockey India for the Tokyo Olympics test event which will be held later next month.

Women's hockey team vice-captain Savita feels that the Indian team will need to defend as a unit in order to defeat teams like Australia and win the Olympic Test event.

Indian men's hockey team vice-captain Mandeep Singh is confident that they will perform well at the Olympic test event in Tokyo, where they will play three matches.

The Indian men's hockey team will take on Malaysia, whereas the women's team will go up agianst Japan. Both teams have booked their place in the FIH Olympic Qualifiers by winning their respective FIH Series Finals.

Indian women's hockey team defeated hosts Japan 2-1 as Gurjit Kaur scored a brace at the Olympic test event in Tokyo.

Vandana Katariya and Gurjit Kaur scored one goal each as the Indian women's hockey team held world number 2 Australia to a 2-2 draw.

India conceded two goals in the 15 minutes of the match as New Zealand beat them 2-1 in the Olympic Test event.

Mandeep Singh scored thrice while Nilakanta Sharma, Nilam Sanjeep Xess and Gurjant Singh registered one goal each as India beat Japan 6-3 in Olympic Test Event.

Indian women's hockey team drew 0-0 with China to reach the final of Olympic Test Event.

The Indian women's hockey team won the 2020 Tokyo Olympic test event with their 2-1 win over Japan.

The Indian men's hockey team will be making their debut in the FIH Pro League, where captain Manpreet Singh feels they will be tested ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Indian men's hockey team take on world champions Belgium in their second round of the FIH Pro League in Bhubaneswar.

The Indian men's hockey team will take on Australia in two matches in the FIH Hockey Pro League at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium in Bhubaneswar.

Ruskin Bond was invited at a school event in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, where he shared insights about his literary journey with his fans among the students as well as the teachers.

In this deeply passionate, and angry memoir, titled 'Caste Matters', writer and academic activist Suraj Yengde peels the layers of the deep-rooted caste system in India to show you how this impenetrable social divide has for centuries crushed human lives and is very similar to other forms of oppression, such as race, class and gender.

Paulo Dybala has reportedly undergone four coronavirus tests in the last six weeks and latest one was positive again.

Indian football mourned one of it's greatest heroes Subimal 'Chuni' Goswami, who passed away in Kolkata after suffering a cardiac arrest.

Bundesliga will still needs the go-ahead from Angela Merkel's government to resume.

La Liga is planning to carry out the tests next week, after which they would then be able to resume individual training within 48 hours

The Supreme Committee for the organisation of FIFA World Cup 2022 said in a statement that ex-Qatari midfielder Adel Khamis had tested positive for Covid-19.

Gary Neville said Cristiano Ronaldo always wanted to be the best player in the history of the game.

FC Cologne's three people were found with asymptomatic coronavirus amid Bundesliga's push for return to action in May.

Borussia Dortmund has said that there will be more tests done to ensure the largest possible degree of certainty.

FC Cologne's team doctor Paul Klein said nobody at the club lived or had closed contact with any of the three infected.

La Liga president Javier Tebas said the return of football is a sign that society is progressing towards the new normal.

Barcelona will test their players for coronavirus, with Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are also scheduled to carry out tests, as La Liga's clubs begin restricted training.

The testing is part of the La Liga's protocol to restart in the middle of June with all remaining matches are to be played behind closed doors.

Torino said in a statement that during the first medical tests on player, who is asymptomatic, tested positive of coronavirus.

Flamengo conducted coronavirus tests on 293 employees, including all players, their families and their helps at home.

Top clubs in Italy have begun testing players and staff as they prepare to return to training facilities this week for individual sessions.

Lyon men's and women's players were tested by club doctors at their training center and 'there were no positive cases'.

Pierre Gasly posted the fastest time in the first session of practice at British Grand Prix, as Romain Grosjean of Haas, Albon and Williams' British rookie George Russell had spins and off-track excursions on the newly-resurfaced circuit.

Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel posted two fastest times in the third and final free practice session of British GP at Silverstone.

Charles Leclerc set the pace for Ferrari at a crash-strewn first practice session at the Italian Grand Prix.

Formula One team McLaren are taking measure to counter the threat of the deadly coronavirus.

Lewis Hamilton clocked a best time of 1min 16.976sec off a total of 94 laps in Barcelona.

Valtteri Bottas recorded the fastest time in the opening session of pre-season F1 testing.

The fears around Formula One season due to coronavirus is growing with the virus killing 2,700 people and infecting over 80,000 in 34 countries.

Azerbaijan GP in Baku was originally scheduled for June 7 as the eighth round of the championship but all the earlier races have been cancelled or called off.

Germany has provided 3,000 coronavirus testing kits to Nepal to fight the pandemic. This is part of the bilateral cooperation between Germany and Nepal to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, said Embassy of Germany in Kathmandu. The 3,000 PCR-test kits arrived in Nepal on Saturday through a French repatriation flight, part of a total of 20K kits from Germany.

All lawmakers in Nepal are being tested for the novel coronavirus as a precautionary measure ahead of the Parliament's budget session beginning on Friday. The swab samples of the members of Lower House and Upper House were collected for testing through Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method, at the Parliament building on Thursday, according to officials.

State Bank of India has closed down a section of the Local Head Office (LHO) here after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, a senior official said on Friday.

Social stigma and low testing are the key reasons for the high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients in West Bengal, where the disease, like elsewhere in the country, is still an urban phenomenon, experts say.

Between April 23 and May 2, at least 17 employees tested positive for the COVID-19 virus at the CATS control room. In the last one week, 29 more tested positive.