Hyderabad, July 10 (IANS) In a significant boost to Telangana’s sports ecosystem, the Government of Telangana has officially thrown its weight behind the Archery Premier League (APL) ahead of its second season, deciding to build a robust sports ecosystem by hosting major events.Scheduled to be held in Hyderabad from October 8 to 18, the world’s only franchise-based archery league has been recognised among the state’s marquee sporting events, further strengthening Hyderabad’s emergence as a leadi…
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Sangrur, June 30 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister, Bhagwant Mann, on Tuesday inaugurated an Olympic-standard swimming pool built at a cost of Rs 9.50 crore in Sangrur and declared that the district is poised to emerge as a nursery for Asian, World and Olympic champions.Highlighting the Aam Aadmi Party government’s investment in sports infrastructure, CM Mann said Punjab has increased the sports budget from less than Rs 200 crore under previous governments to Rs 1,790 crore, secured the opportunity…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) Legendary sprinter and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural Indian Athletics Awards ceremony on Saturday.Apart from Usha, former Asian Games decathlon gold medallist Gurbachan Singh Randhawa, former national chief coach Bahadur Singh Chauhan, and World Championships bronze medallist long jumper Anju Bobby George were also presented with Lifetime Achievement Awards.Expressing her delight after re…
Ahmedabad, June 8 (IANS) What began as a quest for flexibility and artistic excellence has blossomed into a remarkable sporting success story for American mother-daughter duo Kemi and Kimani Blake, who returned home from the World Yogasana Championships in Ahmedabad with a gold and a bronze medal, respectively. Competing against some of the world’s finest yogasana athletes at the EKA Arena, 35-year-old Kemi clinched gold in the Back Bend Individual category, while her 16-year-old daughter Kimani…
Ahmedabad, June 7 (IANS) Twenty-year-old Ritu Mondal, the daughter of a mason from a small village in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, has made the country proud by winning two gold medals at the inaugural World Yogasana Championships in Ahmedabad. More importantly, the achievement has brought her a step closer to a dream she shares with her family, representing India on the biggest sporting stages and one day winning an Olympic medal. For Ritu, these medals are the result of years of hard work…
Gandhinagar, May 28 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will begin his two-day visit to Gujarat on Thursday, during which he is scheduled to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for multiple development projects across the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency and Ahmedabad, and to hold organisational and review meetings.Shah, who is also the Member of Parliament from the constituency, will begin his programmes on Thursday with a series of development-related events across differen…
Gandhinagar, May 26 (IANS) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will undertake a two-day visit to Gujarat on May 28-29, during which he is scheduled to inaugurate and lay foundation stones for multiple development projects across the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency and Ahmedabad, and to hold organisational and review meetings. Shah, who is also the Member of Parliament from the constituency, will begin his programmes on May 28 with a series of development-related events across differ…
Chandigarh, May 24 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday unveiled one of the biggest sports promotion drives by honouring 87 Maharaja Ranjit Singh awardees and 1,070 medal-winning athletes with prize money of Rs 32.05 crore. He also announced an expansion of the state’s sports ecosystem from villages to international arenas.The Chief Minister declared that Punjab would host the Asian Champions Trophy for the first time, with the high-voltage India-Pakistan clash set to be played…
New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) The pair of Neeru Dhanda and Vivaan Kapoor won bronze in the trap mixed team event on Sunday, helping India conclude the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on a high.Neeru and Vivaan shot 24 out of the first 30 targets in the final and, despite matching the top Italian pair of Silvana Stanco and Mauro De Filippis, had to miss out on a better medal, having finished second to the silver-winning Italians in qualification….
Mumbai, May 1 (IANS) As he is all set to showcase his jabs and crosses as a boxer in the show “Glory”, actor Pulkit Samrat has shared that he feels that he’ll know he’s achieved glory when people stop comparing him to others. In an industry driven by visibility and numbers, what does “glory” mean in his dictionary?“When people stop comparing me with others and start comparing others with me, I think that is where I will say that I have achieved glory,” Pulkit, who gained fame by …