Rahul Gandhi becomes wrestler, enters Akhada to meet Bajrang Punia in JhajjarThis meeting comes a day after Vinesh Phogat, a medallist in the World Championship, returned her Khel Ratna and Arjuna Award in opposition...
J P Nadda meets Brij Bhushan Singh as BJP swings into action to contain fallout of wrestlers' protestBJP Chief J.P. Nadda summoned party MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh amid a crisis in the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), as leading wrest...
Gonda: Posters, hoarding declaring Brij Bhushan's 'dominance' removedPosters and hoardings reading "dabdaba toh hai dabdaba toh rahega (there is his dominance, there will be his dominance" were put up outside...
Sports Ministry requests IOA to constitute ad-hoc committee to manage WFI affairsThe Indian Sports Ministry has suspended the newly-elected Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) due to concerns about its governance and int...
Now Deaflympics gold medallist Virender Singh to return Padma Shri over WFI president's electionThrowing his weight behind Olympic bronze medallist grappler Sakshi Malik, who announced her retirement from the sport soon after Sanjay Si...
Bajrang, Sakshi meet Thakur requesting him to debar Sanjay Singh from contesting WFI pollsBajrang and Sakshi are among the wrestlers, who spearheaded the protest against Brij Bhushan for two months, on allegations of multiple cha...
WFI elections set to be held on December 21, results to be declared on same dayThe WFI elections were originally slated to be held on August 12. The Punjab and Haryana High Court, which is hearing a petition, in August...
SC paves way for WFI elections, sets aside stay imposed by Punjab and Haryana HC on wrestling body pollsThe Supreme Court overturned the stay imposed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections. Th...
SC refuses to interfere with Punjab and Haryana HC order staying WFI pollsThe Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Punjab and Haryana High Court order which had stayed Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) el...
United World Wrestling Federation suspends WFI for not holding elections on timeThe United World Wrestling Federation (UWW) has suspended the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for not holding elections as scheduled, w...
Brij Bhushan to convene meeting on July 30 ahead of WFI election nomination closing dateOutgoing WFI assistant secretary Vinod Tomar confirmed that a meeting had been scheduled by Brij Bhushan on July 30, though he did not spec...
Brij Bhushan, his son not part of electoral college for WFI polls but son-in-law to represent BiharBrij Bhushan Sharan Singh and his son Karan are not part of the electoral college for the upcoming Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elec...
WFI elections to be held on August 12; nominations filing on August 1The WFI elections were earlier scheduled to be conducted on July 11 but the Gauhati High Court had stayed the polls, following the Assam Wr...
WFI elections likely to be held on August 7: SourcesThe much-awaited Wrestling Federation of India (WFI)elections are likely to be held on August 7 following a series of postponements, source...
WFI elections delayed further with Gauhati High Court fixing July 28 as next date for hearing Assam association pleaThe WFI elections were to be conducted on July 11 but the Gauhati High Court had stayed the polls, following Assam Wrestling Association's ...
IOA ad-hoc panel reschedules WFI elections to July 11 after hearing into pleas of disbanded state units"The state units presented their case while the representatives of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) defended their decision to cancel af...
WFI elections to be held on July 6, result on same dayThe Wrestling Federation of India's much-awaited elections will take place on July 6, the returning officer announced in a notification iss...