A white slam in carrom is quite a feat: it is when a player pockets all the white counters on the board, in the very first turn. Needless to say, it gives the competitor an undeniable edge as soon as ...

Tribune News Service Chandigarh, August 22 Deepa Naik of Odisha, Kavya Shree from Jharkhand and Chandigarh’s Nidhi Gupta lead at first three positions, respectively, after the 1st round of league ...

The Mega Marathon Carrom, jointly organised by the Andhra State Carrom Association (ASCA) and Hyderabad Carrom Association, was held at Dandamudi Rajagopal Rao Municipal Corporation (DRRMC) Indoor ...

With the naming of carrom as a national sport by the Ministry of Sports and the Department of Sports Development, a workshop was held recently at the premises of Sports Ministry to make an awareness ...

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Carrom is a family of tabletop games sharing a similarity in their mechanics that lie somewhere between billiards and table . The game has various other names around the world, including carrum, ...

Players at a carrom tournament rotate their strikers. Whose striker is yellow?