Sports

Cricket first, because that is honest about how India reads sport — then football, athletics, badminton, chess, kabaddi and the Olympic disciplines that surface every four years and deserve better. From the Indian Express, News18 and Firstpost.

Sport is the one section where the fastest report is often the least reliable: a team sheet changes at the toss, an injury is upgraded and downgraded, and transfer stories are frequently sourced to agents. Times on the cards here are publication times, which is the only honest way to show how fresh a claim is.