{"id":572944,"date":"2026-03-29T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572944\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:32:08","slug":"praggnanandhaa-starts-by-beating-giri-in-candidates-as-vaishali-divya-draw-nikhat-lovlina-get-byes-in-asian-boxing-championship-indian-sports-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/572944\/","title":{"rendered":"Praggnanandhaa starts by beating Giri in Candidates as Vaishali, Divya draw; Nikhat, Lovlina get byes in Asian Boxing Championship: Indian Sports, March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it&#8217;s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That&#8217;s where we come in &#8212; ESPN&#8217;s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it.<\/p>\n<p>2026 is a big year, with the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, and two Chess World Championship. The month of March meanwhile, is similarly action packed &#8211; and you can go through the schedule in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/47468671\/calendar-2026-schedule-indian-sports-commonwealth-asian-games-chess-world-championships-cricket-football-hockey-world-cups-more#February\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN&#8217;s sports calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are all the updates from Indian sports on March 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on today?<\/p>\n<p>Chess: The FIDE Candidates 2026 begins today, with India&#8217;s R Praggnanandhaa, R Vaishali, and Divya Deshmukh in action. <\/p>\n<p>Boxing: The Asian Boxing Championships begin in Mongolia. <\/p>\n<p>What happened yesterday?<\/p>\n<p>Football: India drew 1-1 with Bangladesh in the SAFF U20 Championships. <\/p>\n<p>Athletics: Tejaswin Shankar began his season with a win in the Decathlon at the David Noble relays meet in Texas. <\/p>\n<p>Athletics: Four national teams stay on track for World Relays qualification<\/p>\n<p>Shooting: Indian Skeet shooters miss out on finals spot at ISSF World Cup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it&#8217;s quite easy to miss out on important news and results.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-572944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}