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

It has been learnt that the ministry is busy giving final touches to the proposal after which Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju will make a form...

The National Sports Awards include the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the Arjuna, Dronacharya and Dhyanchand honours, conferred every year by the...

The BFI has nominated world bronze-winning trio of Lovlina Borgohain (69kg), Simranjit Kaur (64kg) and Manish Kaushik (63kg) for the Arjuna...

The panel also nominated three names for the Dronacharya Award, including former badminton star Vimal Kumar, and three for the Dronacharya ...

Kohli, 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...

The selection committee features former Commonwealth Games gold-winning air pistol shooter Samresh Jung and shuttler Ashwini Ponnappa among...

The decision means that tennis player Rohan Bopanna and weightlifter Sanjita Chanu have not been added to the list of Arjuna awardees.

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

A single-judge bench had directed the Centre to include Kumar in the list of awardees, saying it was "alarming" that the selection panel ha...

Delhi 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 were among the five names officially approved by the Sports Ministry for the prestigious Dronacharya Awards this y...

The shortlisted boxers will undergo full training at the preparatory camp at the National Boxing Academy in Rohtak from July 25 to Septembe...

As per the amendments, not more than one sportsperson of eminence/coach from a particular sporting discipline shall be a member of the Sele...

"It was our mistake. It had happened due to mistaken identity," Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal told Lok Sabha during Question Hour.

With an aim to avoid controversy on giving away sports awards, the government today decided to grant 90 per cent weightage to medal winners...

Olympic heroes, shooter Vijay Kumar and wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt were today jointly recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna ...