Coaches being hand-in-gloves with athletes in usage of banned substances to win medals and later financial rewards from the government is well known in Indian sports but few have aired their views in public.
A livid Mary Kom asked her vanquished opponent Nikhat Zareen to prove herself in the ring instead of making irritating comments.
Prakash Bhandari salutes the spirit of Abebe Bikila who twice won the Olympic Marathon in record times.
After Aadukalam and Asuran, this is another film Dhanush is going to be proud of, says Divya Nair.
MC Mary Kom will never be able to forget the 26-year-old Azize, who dashed her 2016 Rio Olympic dreams by defeating her in the second round of the 2016 World Championships in Astana.
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'Awesome experiencing the glorious history of the Olympic Games.'
It is the most potent symbol of India's soft power -- more perhaps than the IT industry and our managerial skill, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
'I have defied critics who suggested that I should retire,' Magnificent Mary tells Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi.
Tottenham Hotspur secured a place in the Europa League next season as they closed out their Premier League campaign with a 1-1 draw at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Images from UEFA Europa League semi-finals played on Thursday.
A historic fifth successive World Championship gold medal under her belt but star Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom remains hungry for more and will not consider hanging up her gloves before finishing on podium at the 2012 London Olympics.
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, hailed Saikhom Mirabai Chanu's gold-medal winning effort at the Weightlifting World Championship in Anaheim, USA.
England expressed concern over the strength of the bio-secure environment after the positive result, while a South African team investigation has not yet shown how the unnamed player caught the virus.
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan launched the autobiography of tennis star Sania Mirza titled Ace Against Odds in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
PV Sindhu, Depika Padukone ensured Indian representation on the global front.
Kensington Palace published three pictures taken recently by his mother, the Duchess of Cambridge.
Leicester City recorded the biggest ever English top-flight away win by beating 10-man Southampton 9-0 at a rain-sodden St Mary's to move up to second place in the Premier League on Friday.
The Virat Kohl-led Indian cricket team shared a video message from the West Indies while other top sportspersons like MC Mary Kom, Sushil Kumar, Saina Nehwal and Sakshi Malik, as well as Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, greeted the fellow citizens through Twitter.
Ace tennis player Sania Mirza said India still needs to do a lot more to bring women at par with men in sports, though the country has come a long way in this aspect.
'I am actually quicker now than before,' Boxing legend Mary Kom tells Pavan Lall.
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom and Asian Games bronze-medallist L Sarita Devi failed to qualify for the Olympics after they went down in their respective second round bouts of the AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Saturday.
Pleasantly surprised after Barack Obama mentioned her name in his speech on Indian achievers, Indian woman boxer M C Mary Kom said she was happy to know that the US President acknowledged her performances.
'Proud to be part of the gender and religion equality speech of President Obama,' SRK tweeted.
It was Soni Somarajan's biggest dream -- to see himself as a proud member of the Indian Armed Forces. When Life brutally shattered that dream, he wove a new one.
The athlete who hails from a village near Tiruchirapalli, Tamil Nadu, finished on top in 800 the metres in Doha and has now set her eyes on doing well at the World Athletics Championships.
Late goals by Mohamed Salah and Jordan Henderson earned Liverpool a crucial 3-1 victory at Southampton to move them back to the top of the Premier League on Friday.
Mary Kom added another feather to her already crowded cap and became the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games. In the 2010 edition she had to settle with a bronze medal.
'Our boxers are mature and strong enough to withstand these kinds of shocks.'
Meet the heroes from the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Serena Williams rallied to avoid a stunning upset and secure a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 semi-final win over Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova at the Rogers Cup on Saturday, setting up a title showdown with local teenager Bianca Andreescu.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge emerged from the exclusive maternity unit at St Mary's Hospital after giving birth to a healthy son.
French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife Brigitte Marie-Claude Macron, besides senior ministers from his Cabinet, began their four-day visit to India by meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife. On Friday night, Macron was received at the airport Prime Minister Modi in a special gesture. Here are glimpses from Macron's visit.
Hollywood turned to jewels by Chokshi.
France captain Amandine Henry came to the rescue as the hosts scraped into the women's World Cup quarter-finals with a 2-1 win against Brazil after extra time.
'There is a joke that is cracked in hushed tones sometimes in Manipur, what would many of the insurgent outfits do if AFSPA is indeed taken away? What would they fight against?'
Boxing champ Mary's secret to success lies in her unwavering dedication to boxing, and her belief that sports other than cricket are gaining recognition, slowly but surely.
M C Mary Mom, who won a bronze medal at the London Olympics, has urged those sportspersons, who could not make a finish at the 2012 Games, to keep striving hard to win a medal at the Rio Games.
Having done the country proud with her bronze medal-winning feat at the London Olympics, M C Mary Kom declared that training under foreign coaches will be beneficial to the country's women boxers.
Manipur government would award Rs 50 lakh to boxer Mary Kom who won a bronze medal in the London Olympics.
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