New Delhi: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has restored the accreditation of the National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL),...
Baku: Indian chess maestro Viswanathan Anand lost both his matches in the Rapid event to end his campaign with just one victory at the 7th Vugar...
New Delhi: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Tuesday said his ministry has released a sum of Rs 6,801.30 crore under various sports development schemes in the...
Viswanathan Anand defeated Shakriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan in Armageddon after the two-game mini-match ended in a draw for his first victory in the Rapid event of...
New Delhi: Ace cueist Pankaj Advani defended his national billiards title — his 11th in the tournament — after he defeated his PSPB teammate Dhruv Sitwala...
New Delhi: Simone Biles was named Time’s 2021 Athlete of the Year, the magazine announced. The world’s most decorated gymnast was hailed for putting her mental...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has advised the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) to reschedule its December 19 elections in view of a pending case in the...
New Delhi: The eighth season of Pro Kabaddi League will be held here from December 22 and will be a closed-door affair, the organisers announced on...
New Delhi: British and Irish golfers and rugby teams were scrambling to return home on Friday after the U.K. government announced it was banning flights from...
New Delhi: Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will miss the World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship slated to take place simultaneously between December 7...
New Delhi: Sports leaders appointed by the Taliban have promised Olympic officials that Afghanistan will continue to allow its athletes and teams to compete internationally. The...
New Delhi: The advantage teams have had batting second in the just-concluded T20 World Cup is something the ICC can look into to ensure a level-playing...
New Delhi: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur Monday physically handed over trophies to the winners of National Sports Awards 2020 after the award ceremony was held virtually...
New Delhi: Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, who at Tokyo 2020 became only the second Indian ever to win an individual Olympic gold medal, silver medal-winning wrestler...
New Delhi: After the high of the Tokyo Games, India’s Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has turned her focus on winning a second world championship...
New Delhi: Sports minister Anurag Thakur will virtually interact with sports ministers of all states and union territories on Monday to prepare a roadmap for the...
New Delhi: Olympic gold medallist Simone Biles told Congress through tears on Wednesday that the FBI and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics...
New Delhi: Brazilian football legend Pele remains in intensive care after surgery to remove a tumour from his colon, the medical team treating him said late on...
New Delhi: Two-time Olympic Games medallist in hockey Gurbux Singh has said that both the men’s and women’s teams should now prioritise winning the Asian Games...
New Delhi: Australia’s SBS TV has quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying that women’s sports — and women’s cricket specifically — will be banned by his...
New Delhi: The sports ministry has made dope-tainted athletes and coaches eligible for the National Sports Awards provided they have completed their ban periods, a decision...
New Delhi: India ended the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with 19 medals — five gold, eight silver, and six bronze, a dramatic and historic rise for the...
New Delhi: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday felicitated the just-returned Paralympic medallists of the country, including javelin throwers Sumit Antil and Devendra Jhajaria, hoping the...
New Delhi: Star table tennis player Manika Batra believes having a personal coach is a basic requirement for an athlete playing individual sport and if she...
New Delhi: Over 190 players were sold to 12 franchise teams with as many as 10 Final Bid Match (FBM) cards being used in the auction...
Mumbai: Sydney Olympics bronze medallist Karnam Malleswari believes Mirabai Chanu’s silver in the recent Tokyo Games is “like oxygen” for Indian weightlifting and it will inspire youngsters to...
New Delhi: The legendary Kapil Dev feels removing duty on sports equipments will help the country produce more champions as more children will be able to...
New Delhi: Players from Afghanistan women’s national football team had an “important victory” on Tuesday when they were among a group of more than 75 people evacuated...
New Delhi: A one-day series between Pakistan and Afghanistan, scheduled for next month in Sri Lanka, has been postponed until 2022 following the Taliban’s takeover of...
New Delhi: A group of Australian Olympic athletes were Wednesday facing 28 days in quarantine on return from Tokyo in a move slammed as “cruel” and...
New Delhi: Adidas and Manchester United presents the new 2021/22 season home jersey, inspired by the three pillars of the club’s philosophy: youth, courage, and success....
New Delhi: Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt told Reuters that racism has no place in football or in society after three England players faced online abuse following their...
Mumbai: Dilip Kumar, India’s enduring film legend through the decades, died at a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday after prolonged illness, his family and doctors treating him...
Chandigarh: Former Indian women volleyball team captain Nirmal Kaur, the wife of legendary Olympian Milkha Singh, died at a Mohali hospital on Sunday due to complications...
New Delhi: A three-member Indian women’s recurve archery team, including Olympian Deepika Kumari, reached Paris on Monday to compete in World Olympic qualification tournament beginning June 17....
New Delhi: Current Indian team’s back-to-back Test series wins in Australia has led to its comparison with world-conquering West Indian and Australian teams of past even though...
Tokyo: Study conducted by two University of Tokyo professors claims strict restrictions on the movement of people, including ceasing of economic activity, during Olympics and Paralympics...
