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August 22, 2019 9:11 PM
Constable Monali Jadhav from Maharashtra won three medals, including two golds, at the recently concluded World Police and Fire Games International Championship held in Chengdu, China. Jadhav is attached to the Jalamb police station in Buldhana district of Maharashtra. Representing the Indian police...
August 22, 2019 8:03 PM
Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking the country's highest civilian honour the Bharat Ratna for hockey legend Balbir Singh senior. Mr Amarinder, in his letter to Modi yesterday called the 95-year-old legend, an outstanding sportspe...
August 22, 2019 8:00 PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to launch "Fit India Movement" on Thursday, next week. An official statement issued today says the nation-wide campaign aims to encourage people to inculcate physical activity and sports in their everyday lives. A 28 member committee headed by Sp...
August 22, 2019 5:07 PM
In Tennis, India's top women's singles player Ankita Raina crashed out of the women's singles US Open qualifying event at New York. She lost to Czech Republic's Denisa Allertova 7-6, 4-6, 2-6. Sumit Nagal is the only Indian left in the qualifiers. He is scheduled ...
August 22, 2019 8:40 AM
Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and former India football captain Baichung Bhutia flagged off the Delhi leg of Op-Blue Freedom yesterday. This is an initiative in which a group of armed forces veterans train sports enthusiasts in survival training and self-defence. Op-Blue Freedom is a nation-wide adap...
August 21, 2019 9:42 PM
Two-time silver medallist P V Sindhu outsmarted Chinese Taipei's Pai Yu Po 21-14 21-14 in her opening match at the BWF World Championships at Basel in Switzerland today. The fifth-seeded Indian, who received a bye in the opening round, is likely to face USA's Beiwen Zhang, seed...
August 21, 2019 9:38 PM
Rafat Habib of Railways defeated defending champion Alok Kumar of ONGC recording a stunning 4-2 victory in the best-of-7 frame quarter-final match of the Third Masters National Snooker Championship in Mumbai today. The Railway cueist was steady and compiled a break of 61 in third as he cruised to 31...
August 21, 2019 9:12 PM
Both the Indian Women's and Men's hockey teams have won the Olympic Test event in Tokyo today. Women's team defeated Japan 2-1 in the finals. Navjot Kaur hit a goal at the 11th minute while Lalremsiami struck winning goal at 33rd minute of the game for India. Indian men...
August 21, 2019 10:44 AM
Divyang Satendra Singh Lohia from Madhya Pradesh has become the first Asian swimmer to cross the Catalina Channel of America yesterday. Satendra holds the Asian record of crossing both the English and Catalina channels. Madhya Pradesh Sports Minister Jitu Patwari has congratulated Satendra on this a...
August 20, 2019 9:18 PM
The Ombudsman of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has ordered that Indian pacer S Sreesanth's ban for alleged spot-fixing will end in August next year. In his order passed on 7th of this month, Ombudsman D.K.Jain observed that the cricketer, who is now 36, is well past his...
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