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Six months on, National Sports Awards still await nodIndia's sporting community faces an unusual delay in the National Sports Awards. The Sports Ministry cites a re-evaluation of Arjuna awarde...
To prevent India Open-like mess, Sports Ministry asks SAI to draw up SOPFollowing embarrassing lapses at the India Open badminton, the Sports Ministry is directing SAI to create a Standard Operating Procedure. T...
E-sports, break-dancing made eligible but sports ministry ends cash prizes for junior athletesThe sports ministry has expanded cash rewards to medal winners in several non-Olympic sports including mallakhamb, e-sports, and break-danc...
India's star gymnast & Olympian Dipa Karmakar announces retirementThe gymnast scripted history in May this year when she became the first the first from the country to win a gold medal in the Asian Senior ...
Anand Mahindra's Monday Motivation is gymnast Dipa Karmakar's historic comeback storyAnand Mahindra inspired his vast following with some 'Monday Motivation'. He took to Twitter to share the uplifting tale of gymnast Dipa Ka...
Dipa Karmakar scripts history, becomes first Indian gymnast to win gold in Asian Senior C'shipsDipa, who had finished fourth in the vault final at the 2016 Rio Olympics, had won a bronze medal in the same event in the 2015 edition.
The Asian Games: Larger than the Olympics and with an array of regional and global sportsThe Asian Games, set to begin on Saturday in Hangzhou, China, will feature over 12,000 participants, more than the expected number for next...
Russians can qualify for Olympic spots in some sportsWith the 2024 Paris Olympics a year away, sports governing bodies are divided on how to treat Russian athletes. Some sports have lifted ban...
Tokyo Games: India's lone gymnast Pranati Nayak fails to qualify for All Round finalsThere are a total of five subdivisions, from which top 24 gymnasts (best score across all four apparatus) qualify to the All-Around final, ...
Rohit Sharma, Vinesh Phogat, Manika Batra, Mariappan Thangavelu up for Khel RatnaThe 33-year-old Rohit will only be the fourth cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar, just-retired Mahendra Singh Dhoni and current skipper Virat...
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.
2016 in review: Bold, unbending and electric year for Indian sportswomenThe Indian experience in the Rio Olympics was the 'Games of the Girls'. Here is a look back at how Indian sportswomen are proving that they...
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PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik and Dipa Karmakar conferred Khel Ratna along with Jitu RaiFor the first time in the history of National Sports Awards, four athletes were chosen for the Khel Ratna honour.
Sania Mirza gets Khel Ratna, 17 others get Arjuna awardSania Mirza's name was officially approved for the coveted Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, becoming only the second tennis player to be nomi...
Nine sports upgraded to 'high priority' category by Sports MinistryAthletics, badminton, hockey, shooting, tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, archery and boxing have been put in the high priority list by the...
Yogeshwar Dutt's semis bout at Asiad best ever I have seen: Sushil KumarSushil said his decision to not go to the Asiad was because he wanted to see how a youngster can perform in his category.
Good to share the limelight with Dipa Karmakar, says gymnast Ashish Kumar"Dipa getting a bronze in Glasgow has been a definite plus for gymnastics. It broke the notion that womens gymnastics is not that good."
- Gagan Narang receives Khel Ratna award
Gagan Narang, who notched up four gold medals at the Commonwealth Games 2010 was selected for the highest sports award.