Let WFI work without interference, women wrestlers can get 4-5 medals in 2028: Sanjay SinghWFI President Sanjay Singh expressed confidence in India's potential to win multiple women's wrestling medals at the 2028 Olympics if inter...
26 Aug, 2024, 11.41 PM IST
Delhi HC restores mandate of IOA ad hoc panel on plea seeking stay on WFI's functioningThe Delhi High Court reinstated the Indian Olympic Association's ad hoc committee for the Wrestling Federation of India. Wrestlers Bajrang ...
16 Aug, 2024, 03.12 PM IST
WFI to withdraw circular on conducting trials for upcoming events, HC toldThe Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has agreed to withdraw its circular on conducting selection trials for the Senior Asian Wrestling C...
07 Mar, 2024, 10.29 PM IST
Delhi HC to hear wrestlers' plea against WFI elections todayWrestlers Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, Sakshi Malik, and her husband have filed a petition in the Delhi High Court challenging the Wrestli...
04 Mar, 2024, 12.41 AM IST
Bajrang Punia, others wrestlers move Delhi HC against WFI, challenge its circular to conduct selection trialsWrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshi Malik, Vinesh Phogat, and Satyawrat Kadiyan have filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against the Wrest...
01 Mar, 2024, 11.55 AM IST
Suspended WFI president invites Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat to appear for national trialsSuspended WFI president Sanjay Singh invited Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshi Malik for national trials in March. UWW lifted WFI's ...
27 Feb, 2024, 01.16 PM IST
Sports ministry refuses to recognize events held by suspended WFI bodySports Ministry has announced that the suspended WFI does not have the authority to conduct the Senior National Championships. Any events b...
08 Jan, 2024, 05.03 PM IST
Sports Ministry unlikely to go back on its decision to dismiss Sanjay Singh led WFI body, keeps wrestlers interest paramountThe ministry is firm that the ad-hoc committee will run the day-to-day affairs of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). As per sources, ...
01 Jan, 2024, 05.45 PM IST
Protesting wrestlers "past their prime, don't want juniors to progress", says suspended WFI President Sanjay SinghThe Union Sports Ministry on Sunday suspended the sport's premier governing body in the country along with all its office-bearers. At the s...
28 Dec, 2023, 09.16 PM IST
IOA forms 3-member panel to supervise functioning of scandal-hit WFIThe Indian Olympics Association (IOA) has formed a three-member panel to manage the operations of the suspended Wrestling Federation of Ind...
27 Dec, 2023, 04.18 PM IST
"Will continue our fight until our daughters get final justice": Deepender Singh Hooda on wrestlers' issues"This government betrayed the trust of our wrestlers and when they saw the rising anger of the public, they had to take this temporary deci...
27 Dec, 2023, 07.20 AM IST
Govt suspends newly formed Wrestling Federation of IndiaThe Union sports ministry has suspended the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) for disregarding legal and procedural norms and claiming th...
24 Dec, 2023, 11.33 PM IST
"Whoever elected as WFI chief, job of athletes is to practice": BJP MP Ramesh BidhuriAmidst the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections controversy, BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri emphasized athletes' independence while condemn...
24 Dec, 2023, 06.38 AM IST
"It is their personal matter": WFI president Sanjay Singh on Sakshi Malik quitting wrestlingSanjay Singh, the newly elected president of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), refrained from commenting on athletes' decisions to r...
23 Dec, 2023, 06.19 PM IST
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...
09 Dec, 2023, 05.37 PM IST
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...
21 Jul, 2023, 05.55 PM IST
Gauhati High Court order putting on hold WFI elections stayed by Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court has stayed an order by the Gauhati High Court which had postponed the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) elections. The ...
18 Jul, 2023, 04.45 PM IST