Sports

Department of School Education and Literacy has launched an Integrated Scheme for School Education-Samagra Shiksha, subsuming three erstwhile Centrally Sponsored Schemes of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan(SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan(RMSA) and Teacher education (TE) with effect from 1 st April

Pranati Nayak went to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia for the Asian Gymnastics Championships, relieved in the knowledge that she had successfully accomplished two of her four targets for 2019: build a house for her family and take half the responsibility of her elder sister’s wedding. Her father, a state

Pravin Jadhav has spent half his life in a shanty near a drain, in a household where two full meals are a luxury. There’s no electricity and water is scarce. And the only reason he picked up a bow — about six years ago, against his family’s wish — was to escape poverty. Now, Jadhav is Olympics-bound

Expert guidance to scale up the performance of elite players at Olympics has been taken from time to time. In the recent past, three different expert committees namely, Expert Committee on Sports Sciences (2011), Olympic Task Force (2017) and Core Committee on Sports Sciences (2016), having sports

Under the November sun, 27 young women participated in what the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) calls the country’s first inter-state women’s blind cricket tournament. As the temperature rose through the day, so did the competition, with cheers on both sides getting louder. The

Surrounded by sugarcane fields, the new range -- also a Sports Authority of India centre for shooting sport in the region now -- sees an unending stream of youngsters coming straight from schools and colleges, lugging their school bags and shooting paraphernalia. With dedication, they stand for

Evenings in Sopore draw hundreds of young men and boys from across the region to a football field in the periphery of this town. They spend at least two hours at this field under floodlights, where Sopore, since early September, has hosted the 32-team ‘First Super Cup – under lights’. Sopore is

Following the successful conduct of the Khelo India School Games, Sports Authority of India took another significant step towards the development of sports earlier today, cleared 734 players for a scholarship programme under Khelo India Talent Identification Development scheme. The Minister of Youth

For three years, he lived with groundsmen in the Muslim United Club’s tent at the Azad Maidan ground in Mumbai. He had to, after he was thrown out of a dairy shop where he used to sleep. Yashasvi Jaiswal was just 11 years old then and the only thing that kept him going was a dream — to play cricket

Seeking to show the world that he is as capable as the next person, disabled swimmer Satendra Singh created history on Sunday by crossing the Englsih Channel on Sunday. He was the part of a swimming relay team which, for the first time saw four para swimmers from India cross the English Channel. He

Eleven-year-old Nathania John K from Tamil Nadu today became India’s first FIFA ball girl when she led Brazil on to the field in their game against Costa Rica at Arena St Petersburg. That is, Nathania, who hails from the Nilgiris and is a footballer herself, became the first Indian girl to be an

In a major step for the welfare of Sportspersons, Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore has approved the upward revision of pension to meritorious Sportspersons. Under the revision, the rate of pension has been doubled of the existing rate of pension on winning medals in