Indian archers produced an impressive performance, grabbing three gold, four silver and two bronze medals at the Asian Championships in Dhaka yesterday. Two Indian boys and girls also booked quota places for the 2018 Youth Olympics. The tournament also serves as the precursor to 2018 Youth Olympics ...

Mirabai Chanu wins gold medal at IWFWWC; President, PM congratulate

Mirabai Chanu today became the first Indian in over two decades to claim a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championship in Anaheim, USA. Chanu lifted 85kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jerk to total an impressive 194kg in the women's 48kg, in the process setting a new national reco...

Mirabai Chanu wins gold medal at World Weightlifting Championship

Mirabai Chanu today became the first Indian in over two decades to claim a gold medal at the World Weightlifting Championship in Anaheim, USA. Chanu lifted 85kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jerk to total an impressive 194kg in the women's 48kg, in the process setting a new national reco...

Odisha CM unveils logo & mascot of Hockey World Cup 2018

Logo and mascot of Hockey World Cup 2018 have been unveiled at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar yesterday by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. On this occasion, Mr Patnaik said that Odisha is fast becoming a sporting destination of India. He said recently the state had successfully hosted the Asia...

IOA formally recognises Boxing Federation of India

The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) was today recognised as a national body by the Indian Olympic Association, which removed the terminated Indian Amateur Boxing Federation (IABF) as its affiliate after months of indecision.The BFI, already recognised by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) ...

Olympics: IOC bans five more Russians for life over Sochi doping<br/>

Five more Russian competitors from the 2014 Sochi Olympics were banned for life over anti-doping rule violations. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a press statement yesterday that the banned athletes include Dmitrii Trunenkov and Aleksei Negodailo, both in the gold-medal winning fou...

Indian Sports Honours: Srikanth, Sindhu win top awards

Ace shuttler Kidambi Srikanth, who won four Super Series titles this year, bagged the Sportsman of the Year award at the inaugural edition of Indian Sports Honours held in Mumbai.A release said, Olympic silver medallist PV Sindhu was the Sportswoman of the Year award in the individual sport category...

Nagpur Cricket Test: India defeat Sri Lanka by innings and 239 runs; take 1-0 lead in the three-match series<br/>

India trounced Sri Lanka by an innings and 239 runs to win the second cricket Test at Nagpur today. The visitors were bowled out for 166 runs in 49.3 overs in their second innings just after lunch on the fourth day today. Ravichandran Ashwin picked up four wickets for India, while Ravindra Jadeja, U...

Wrestling: Asian champion Bajrang Punia and Vinod Kumar settle for silver medals at U-23 Worlds<br/>

Asian champion Bajrang Punia and Vinod Kumar settled for silver medals at the Under-23 World Wrestling Championship in Poland after losing their respective finals. Bajrang lost the 65kg final 6-17 to Russian grappler Kuular while Vinod lost 1-3 to American Richard Lewis. India finished with three me...

Ravichandran Ashwin breaks Lillee's record of fastest 300 Test wickets<br/>