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Kiren Rijiju defends govt's decision to confer Sports Awards to record 74 winnersSports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday defended his government's decision to confer a record 74 National Sports Awards this year, includi...
Prize money of National Sports Awards set to be hiked: Ministry sourceIt has been learnt that the ministry is busy giving final touches to the proposal after which Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju will make a form...
Sports Awards likely to be delayed, waiting for Rashtrapati Bhavan instructions: Ministry officialThe National Sports Awards include the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyanchand honours, conferred every year by the...
Amit Panghal, Vikas Krishan nominated for Khel Ratna by BFI; 3 names for ArjunaThe BFI has nominated world bronze-winning trio of Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Simranjit Kaur (64kg) and Manish Kaushik (63kg) for the Arjuna...
Deepa Malik joins Bajrang Punia for Khel Ratna, cricketer Ravindra Jadeja among 19 for Arjuna AwardThe panel also nominated three names for the Dronacharya Award, including former badminton star Vimal Kumar, and three for the Dronacharya ...
Virat Kohli, Mirabai Chanu to receive Khel Ratna on September 25: Sports MinistryKohli, the world's No.1 Test batsman as per the ICC rankings, has been in stupendous form in the past three years though he missed out of t...
Justice Mukul Mudgal to head selection committee for Dronacharya and Dhyanchand awardsThe selection committee features former Commonwealth Games gold-winning air pistol shooter Samresh Jung and shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa among...
Government removes one from Dronacharya nominees, keeps Arjuna list intactThe decision means that tennis player Rohan Bopanna and weightlifter Sanjita Chanu have not been added to the list of Arjuna awardees.
Virender Sehwag, PT Usha named in Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award committeeThe Committee, to be headed by Justice (retd) C K Thakkar, will meet on August 3 to select this year's awardees.
Ex-wrestling coach Vinod Kumar will have to wait for Dronacharya AwardA single-judge bench had directed the Centre to include Kumar in the list of awardees, saying it was "alarming" that the selection panel ha...
Award to ex-wrestling coach: HC sets aside single judge orderDelhi HC set aside an order of its single judge which had directed the Centre to confer Dronacharya Award 2015 on former chief national wre...
Anoop Singh, Naval Singh among 5 names approved by Sports Ministry for Dronacharya AwardsAnoop Singh, Naval Singh were among the five names officially approved by the Sports Ministry for the prestigious Dronacharya Awards this y...
National talent hunt for World junior boxingThe shortlisted boxers will undergo full training at the preparatory camp at the National Boxing Academy in Rohtak from July 25 to Septembe...
Government makes amendments in award schemes for sportspersonsAs per the amendments, not more than one sportsperson of eminence/coach from a particular sporting discipline shall be a member of the Sele...
Denying Arjuna award to boxer Manoj Kumar initially was mistake: Government"It was our mistake. It had happened due to mistaken identity," Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
Ministry issues norms for awarding Khel Ratna, DronacharyaWith an aim to avoid controversy on giving away sports awards, the government today decided to grant 90 per cent weightage to medal winners...
Vijay Kumar, Yogeshwar Dutt to get Khel Ratna; Arjuna award for 25Olympic heroes, shooter Vijay Kumar and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt were today jointly recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ...