Indian women ace shuttlers, Saina Nehwal and P v Sindhu, showed their mettle as they stormed into the semifinals of World Badminton Championships at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. Their win in quarterfinals assured two bronze medals for India. This...
The sports ministry has decided to confer the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award to Para Athlete Devendra Jhajharia and celebrated former hockey captain Sardar Singh. The ministry also released the list of 7 Dronacharya awardees for coaches and 17...
“He may thwart our escape by land or sea, but the sky is surely open to us; we will go that way…….” thus Daedalus and his son Icarus escaped from the hands of King Minos far off from Crete with...
The pathetic condition of facilities in some of the centres of Sports Authority of India (SAI) was revealed when a noted newspaper publication reported about players taking ice bath in a broken plastic tank. The incident happened in the...
15-year old Shapath Bharadwaj won bronze in double trap shooting in ISSF Junior Shotgun World Cup at Porpetto in Italy. Shapath qualified in second place for the final round shooting 131 out of 150. In the bronze medal match , he...
SUMMER UNIVERSIADE 2017 (WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES)
Date: 19th August 2017-30th August 2017
Venue: Taipei, Taiwan
Description: The International University Sports Federation (FISU) organise the Universiade (World University Games) every two years. The Universiade is the largest multi-sport event in the world apart from the Olympic...
When Shapath Bharadwaj takes his guard tomorrow to defend his double trap title in the ISSF Junior World Cup Shotgun event in Porpetto , the whole shotgun fraternity will have a close eye on him.
Shapath has a meteoric rise...
Indian teen-age badminton sensation Lakshya Sen won the Bulgaria Open International Series title defeating Croatia's Zvonimir Durkinjak in the hard-fought men's singles final in Sofia, Bulgaria. 16-year old Lakhya, The defeated second seed Zvonimir 18-21 21-12 21-17 in a...
Samir Singh was destined to run. A run that had started at the age of 5, culminated at the age of 45. It was a run that stunned the world, a run that is and will remain as one...
Indian shooters commendably finished the 7th Asian Shotgun Championship with 8 medals. On the concluding day of the championship, the pair of Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Rashmi Rathore bagged a gold medal in the skeet mixed team event. The Indian duo...