Indian shooters will do well in 2020 Tokyo Olympics: Kumar

Sports Minister Vijay Goel on Thursday stressed on the need for increased awareness about doping in the country and in ensuring clean nutritional supplements for the athletes. Goel said roping in Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will help ...

IMAGE: India’s Gaurav Bidhuri, left, celebrates. Photograph: Facebook The unheralded Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg) advanced to the quarterfinals with an upset win but Shiva Thapa's quest for a second World Boxing Championship medal ended without exchanging a single blow as he was forced to withdraw due to food poisoning and fever, in Hamburg on Monday. Shiva, seeded fifth in the lightweight 60kg category, was to take on Georgia's Otar Eranosyan in his second-round bout after being given a ...

The Sports Ministry has dropped para-sports coach Satyanarayana from the list of this year's Dronacharya awardees due to a criminal case pending against him, but made no changes to the names recommended for the Khel Ratna and Arjuna awards. The decision means ...

New Delhi: In-form opener Shikhar Dhawan will replace injured Murali Vijay for the three-Test series in the upcoming India tour of Sri Lanka, a BCCI release confirmed on Monday. Vijay hasn't fully recovered from the wrist injury he picked during the Test ...

I-League may have 4 new clubs from next season IMAGE: Aizawl FC celebrate winning the 2016-17 I-League title. Photograph: AIFF Media The All India Football Federation's bid evaluation committee will meet on August 18 to decide the fate of four new clubs from Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat and Rajasthan that are keen to participate in the 2017-18 I-League.Bengaluru's Ozone FC and Kerala's Gokulam FC are two of the four teams who have submitted the bid documents, a senior I-League official said."The ...

What did Sukanya Verma's super filmi week look like? A brief encounter between Akshay Kumar and a scientist fan. Lauded filmmakers, lame last films. And the worst Kapoor to hit the silver screen. All this and more in my super filmi week. Monday Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break -- Macbeth Last week was one of the saddest in my life. I lost a beloved family member to prolonged illness in front of my eyes. Within few hours, hopes ...

Akaash Ashok Kumar and Judy Alban will lead the challenge for Karnataka in their respective categories when the Wissen third Bangalore Open Tenpin Bowling championships, the biggest prize money event for the sport in the country, begins at the Ameoba Bowling ...

Chethan Kumar's well-timed 93 came to Elite Blues rescue as they beat IISc Gymkhana in the KSCA Group I, Division IV league cum knock-out tournament for Metro Shield here. Batting first, the Blues banked on Chethan's knock, with Rakesh TR (54) and Pradeep K ...

A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Saturday IMAGE: The Indian women's basketball team celebrate after winning the FIBA Women's Asia Cup in Bengaluru on Saturday. Photograph: AIR/Twitter The Indian women's basketball team defeated Kazakhstan 75-73 in a thrilling contest to climb to Division A of the FIBA Asia Cup 2017, in Bengaluru on Saturday. In the Division B final between two undefeated teams, India and Kazakhstan, it was the home team that came out victorious.