Jitendra Singh urges Armed Forces to promote sports among youth

Under the Scheme of Panchayat Yuva Krida aur Khel Abhiyan (PYKKA), introduced from 2008-09 with the objective of creating/developing basic playfields in all village Panchayats of the country in a phased manner over a period of 10 years. Under the ...

The Haryana Panchayat Department has been handed over the responsibility of 226 Rajiv Gandhi Rural sports complexes for ensuring their proper maintenance and optimum utilization. As many as 789 sports trainers would soon be recruited in the State ...

The lone stadium manager handpicked to run and maintain the Jaipal Singh Munda Mega Sports Complex in Hotwar is in exit mode, dealing a serious jolt to the jinxed world-class games infrastructure in Ranchi that hasnt hosted any worthy meet since ...

Ranchi, April 11: The state today loosened its purse strings to reward hundreds of players for keeping Jharkhands flag flying high in several events in the past one year. The move, aimed at boosting the morale of sportspersons and thus promote ...

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik seems to have lately been inspired by a song titled "Words" from the Irish boy band Boyzone. The chorus lyrics of the song are, "It's only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away." Naveen has been ...

The Punjab Congress on Saturday said that deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has "failed" to honour his commitments, as the sports as well as the home minister. "The man who goes about claiming mega success by organising politicised Kabbadi World Cup ...

A hike of Rs 214 crore was allocated to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports with Finance Minister P Chidambaram earmarking Rs 1219 crore for it in the 2013-14 budget presented in Parliament on Thursday. Chidambaram allocated Rs 1093 crore as plan outlay ...