To prevent India Open-like mess, Sports Ministry asks SAI to draw up SOP
Haven't seen anything bad: Srikanth defends India Open playing conditions
Haryana's Pardeep Joon and Delhi's Sahista won the gold medals in the men's and women's powerlifting competitions respectively at the Khelo India Para Games.
'India is now adopting and recognising para sports and our performances.'
Prateek Waikar will captain the India men's team, while Priyanka Ingle will lead the women's side in the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup
India is set to host the first-ever Kho Kho World Cup at the iconic Indira Gandhi Stadium in New Delhi from January 13 to 19 2025.
After a stunning dance performance celebrating India, and highlighting the vibrant and colourful culture of the country, the athletes of the participating nations paraded around the stadium.
The hosts for India's home leg against Kuwait on June 6 next year will be confirmed at a later date.
You don't prep for 2028 but for 2040, or even 2044. Sustained sporting excellence is based on mass support, grassroots development, and funding - and it is this trifecta India needs to work on, systematically, asserts Prem Panicker.
Nitu (48kg) and Jasmine (60kg) were the others boxers who sealed spots for the quadrennial event, in Birmingham from July 28 to August 8.
IOA's ad-hoc panel plans trials for Asian C'ships from May 17.
Elite wrestlers Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia, who are staging a sit-in protest at Jantar, will not be stopped from competing in the trials for this year's Asian Games.
Modi accused previous governments of not providing people with facilities that were available to people elsewhere in the world even in the 20th century and in Gujarat a few years back.
The Sports Authority of India on Friday formed a three-member inquiry committee to look into gymnast Aruna Budda Reddy's allegations of being video-graphed without consent during a physical fitness test conducted in March.
Sports Ministry asks IOA to allow Lovlina's coach into CWG Village: Sources
Besides Srikanth, the other players withdrawn are Ashwini Ponnappa, Ritika Rahul Thkar, Treesa Jolly, Mithun Manjunath, Simran Aman Singh and Khushi Gupta.
Defending champion Lakshya Sen looked in fine fettle as he registered a straight-game win over compatriot H S Prannoy to make a winning start to his title defence at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open Super 750 badminton tournament, in Delhi, on Tuesday.
The star Indian pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy will be the key attraction in the men's doubles category. However, they are set to face a stiff competition as the line-up includes the three-time world champion and world No. 2 Indonesian duo of Mohammad Ahsan and Hendra Setiawan alongside another Indonesian pair of Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto, who are currently ranked eighth in the world.
Two players withdrawn from India Open due to COVID-19
IDE, for the very first time has instituted the torch relay, which is part of the Olympic tradition but was never done in the Chess Olympiad.
Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu will spearhead the women's challenge in both the Commonwealth and Asian Games while London Olympics bronze winner Saina Nehwal did not expectedly feature in the squads.
An RTI reply has revealed that the cost of construction of five Commonwealth Games venues by Central Public Works Department (CPWD) escalated by over Rs 1,110 crore than the original sanctioned amount.
Top shuttler B Sai Praneeth and doubles player Dhruv Rawat have already pulled out after testing positive in the pre-departure testing.
Plagued by injury to two of their team, India finished sixth, even as Australia swelled their medal tally at the Commonwealth Games with a gold in the men's artistic gymnastics at Indira Gandhi stadium on Monday. Australia won the gold, with 259.050 points, in the men's artistic team subdivision two competition on the Vault, while England, who led into the final rotation, finished with the silver medal with 256.750 points.
The Indian Super League 2016 season will kick-off in Guwahati, Assam, with an opening ceremony and the season opening match.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate the sporting extravaganza in Guwahati this evening.
Video footage showed that Services' Somendro Singh, who finished first, had actually covered a lap less in the 50-lap event.
The UPA chairperson appealed to sportspersons to strengthen unity and amity and spread the message of peace.
Northeast United FC brightened their semi-final prospects with a 2-0 win over strugglers Mumbai City FC in the Indian Super League (ISL) match at Guwahati, helping the Highlanders move to fourth position in the pecking order.
Dipa Karmakar has been forced out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games owing to the career-threatening knee injury
His comment puts an end to speculation that Congress was having a rethink about going solo in Delhi.
English striker Chris Dagnall scored twice as Kerala Blasters exposed NorthEast United's defensive frailties to notch up a 4-1 thumping win in their Indian Super League football match, in Guwahati, on Sunday.
Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the third edition of the Khelo India Youth Games in a glittering opening show, which showcased the state's cultural diversity and the country's oneness, on Friday.
Among other things, the Golden Quadrilateral project will be extended from Silchar (Assam) to Kohima.
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom had an unlikely training partner on Thursday when Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore donned the punching mitts and sparred with her.
Jitender lost 1-3 to Kaisanov in the summit clash at the KD Jadhav Indoor Stadium.
One million schoolkids around the world build and light solar lamps.
Senior Congress leaders paid tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 75 birth anniversary on Tuesday
Spain will take on Asian surprise package Iran, who knocked out fancied Mexico by a similar margin in the day's one pre-quarterfinal clash at Margao, Goa.
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