The sports ministry has replaced the Dhyan Chand Award for lifetime achievement with the Arjuna Award Lifetime to rationalize sporting hono...

India's cricketer Mohammed Shami has been nominated for the Arjuna Award. Shami, who led India to a successful World Cup campaign, was the ...

The award would be conferred on August 20, the late Congress leader's birth anniversary, every year. But this year the recipient will be se...

India's highest sporting honour Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former PM Rajiv Gandhi, was on Friday rechristened in the honour of...

Dhyan Chand is widely regarded as the greatest player in hockey. In his career that spanned from 1926 to 1949, he clinched Olympic medals i...

"Respecting their sentiment, the Khel Ratna Award will hereby be called the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award! Major Dhyan Chand was among...

Producer and entrepreneur Joyeeta Roy and Prateek Kumar Mishra will work on the documentary.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday defended his government's decision to confer a record 74 National Sports Awards this year, includi...

The Committee, to be headed by Justice (retd) C K Thakkar, will meet on August 3 to select this year's awardees.

Dhyan Chand had won three Olympic gold medals in hockey for India between 1928 and 1936.

Milkha Singh said hockey wizard Dhyan Chand should have been the first sportsperson to be conferred with country's highest civilian award, ...

"Dhyan Chand should have got Bharat Ratna first. Dhyan Chand was the most deserving candidate," Milkha said.

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports today denied that it suggested the name of hockey legend Dhyan Chand for Bharat Ratna Award in 2013-14.

HI today announced the names of players and coaches recommended for the National Sports Awards 2014 which includes the prestigious Arjuna A...

Dhyan Chand's name has already been recommended by the Sports Ministry for the honour.

There has been a growing demand from various quarters for awarding Vajpayee and Dhyan Chand, after the Centre recently bestowed Bharat Ratn...

In India's bitterly divided polity that has parties torn down the middle, a debate has been triggered on who should have been awarded first.