The England team has withdrawn from the World Badminton Championships in India because of "a specific terrorist threat" against the tournament. The eight-strong squad, which includes the Olympic ...

Badminton celebrates its diamond jubilee this week. I was 11 in 1949 and was one of some 5,000 wide-eyed locals – in equal measure gawpers, paupers, and hyphenated horsey types – who turned up from ...

Prakash Padukone, India’s most accomplished badminton player, is usually economical with words and is not given to sentimental outbursts. It was thus a surprise when, in a rare moment of candour with ...