India bags four gold at Commonwealth Youth, Junior weightlifting meetIndian weightlifters achieved significant success in Apia, Samoa. They clinched four gold medals at the Commonwealth Youth and Junior Weigh...
28 Apr, 2026, 02.51 PM IST
Delhi: MP chain snatcher nabbed; was a repeat offender out on bail, say policeIn Delhi, the police arrested Sohan Rawat, a 24-year-old, for allegedly snatching a gold chain from Tamil Nadu MP R Sudha. The incident occ...
06 Aug, 2025, 02.08 PM IST
Festive Alert: Odisha police detain 26 in Durga Puja snatching casesDuring the Durga Puja festival in Odisha, the police have detained 26 individuals, including five women, suspected of snatching gold chains...
24 Oct, 2023, 01.28 PM IST
India's Sanjana wins gold in clean and jerk, silver in snatch and total liftSanjana also won a silver in the snatch with an effort of 86kg in the youth competition. She lifted 112kg in clean and jerk to pick up a go...
02 Aug, 2023, 10.08 PM IST
Siddhanta Gogoi crowned 61kg junior Asian champion; Gyaneshwari, Koyel win silver medalsThe 19-year-old Siddhanta, who had upstaged senior Shubham Todkar earlier this month at the Commonwealth Championships, lifted 265kg (116kg...
30 Jul, 2023, 10.09 PM IST
Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi wins silver at Asian ChampionshipsIndian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi lifted 80kg and 83kg in her first two snatch attempts with relative ease but her 85kg try was deemed a ...
06 May, 2023, 02.44 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu clinches silver at World Championship despite wrist issueMirabai Chanu finished behind China's Jiang Huihua, who won the gold with a total effort of 206kg (93kg+113kg) while her compatriot and Tok...
07 Dec, 2022, 08.48 AM IST
CWG 2022: India end weightlifting campaign with 10 medals, Gurdeep Singh wins bronze in Men's 109+ kgIndia's total medal count from weightlifting stood at 10 -- three gold, three silver and four bronze -- marginally better than that at Gold...
04 Aug, 2022, 10.37 AM IST
Mirabai Chanu's success inspires Indians: PM ModiIn a remarkable performance, Chanu smashed the Commonwealth and CWG record in snatch.
01 Aug, 2022, 12.58 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu: Everything you need to know about the Indian Olympic silver medallistIndia have won their first medal at the Tokyo Olympics. And it's courtesy India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who has won the silver i...
24 Jul, 2021, 05.36 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu: Indian weightlifting's lone ranger at TokyoThe lone Indian weightlifter to qualify for the Tokyo Games, Chanu will be eager to make amends for the disappointing show at the 2016 Rio ...
18 Jul, 2021, 04.57 PM IST
Weightlifter Sathish Sivalingam claims second successive CWG goldAt the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Sathish won the gold medal with 149kg snatch and 179 kg clean and jerk lifts, totalling 328kg. His lift of ...
07 Apr, 2018, 09.01 AM IST
Pradeep Singh books CWG berth; 34 new records created by IndiansOn the final day of the competition, India bagged two yellow metals, one silver and two bronze to wrap up their successful campaign in styl...
09 Sep, 2017, 04.48 PM IST
South Asian Games: Saraswati Rout and Sambo Lapung give India two more gold medals in weightliftingSaraswati Rout (women's 58 kg) and Sambo Lapung (men's 69 kg) won a gold each to take India's medal tally from weightlifting to five gold s...
07 Feb, 2016, 03.54 PM IST
Rakhi Haldar, Kavita Devi finish on top in National Weightlifting ChampionshipsRakhi lifted 94kg in the snatch and 119kg in clean and jerk to come up with a total lift of 213kg in Women's 69kg to win the gold medal.
29 Dec, 2015, 03.47 PM IST
- Indians start Commonwealth weightlifting championship on a high
Indian women started with a bang, winning 12 gold medals in various weight categories of the 2015 Commonwealth Youth, Junior & Senior weigh...
12 Oct, 2015, 04.27 PM IST
- Ten suspected thieves lynched in Bihar
In yet another instance of people taking law into their hands, ten people were bludgeoned to death on suspicion of being thieves at a villa...
13 Sep, 2007, 08.52 PM IST