Sports

16-year-old Manu Bhaker perfected her aim in a manual shooting range in a small school in Haryana's Jhajjar. Manu has already contributed to two gold medals for India in the ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico. This urge to hit the big time is inspiring for children in Goria and surrounding

A modern day Ekalavya story looks to be taking shape, but unlike the legendary mythological archer, 17-year-old Gora Ho will not have to part with his thumb. Part of the gold-medal winning team at the Asia Cup Stage 1 archery meet at Bangkok, Gora partnered Akash and Gaurav Lambe to beat Mongolia to

Manu Bhaker, 16, etched her name in the history books by clinching women's 10m air pistol gold at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup in Guadalajara, Mexico, on Sunday. She became India's youngest and probably world's third youngest shooter to win a World Cup gold. Rifle

From walking the streets in Kerala, begging for alms with his sister as a seven-year-old, to now looking forward to his month-long stay in Spain alongside the stars of iconic La Liga club Real Madrid, life really took an unimaginable spin for R Manikandan, now aged 14. The six-foot lanky teenager is

The Khelo India pledge, launched by the Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sport, Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has now crossed the million mark. This follows the hugely successful launch of the Khelo India Anthem, which reached more than 200 million fans within two days of its launch. The

Nearly every district headquarters in Chhattisgarh has a “mini-stadium”, used for cricket and football. In May last year, the administration of Bijapur, among the districts worst affected by left-wing violence in the country, decided to build in one such mini-stadium the Bijapur Sports Academy

Rajasthan government is making special efforts for the development of sports in the state. Special training camps, even by foreign coaches, are being arranged; cash awards in the name of Maharana Pratap and Guru Visishta are being given, new sports facilities have been created - besides this many

The Union Cabinet chaired by PM Shri Narendra Modi has approved the revamped Khelo India programme at a cost of Rs.1,756 crore for the period 2017-18 to 2019-20. This marks a watershed moment in the history of Indian sports, as the programme aims at mainstreaming sport as a tool for individual

Seema Kumari couldn't have asked for a better birthday gift as she turns 15 today. The Class IX student from Jharkhand's Ormanjhi district, who held her first football at the age of 10, is among a select bunch (in picture) picked to join a training course for coaches by Real Sociedad's La Liga team

The Olympic Task Force has recommended that stipend of Rs 50,000 per month be paid to the elite athletes preparing for Tokyo Olympic, Asian Games or Common Wealth Games to meet pocket expenses. The Government, accepting the recommendation, today took the decision to give a stipend of Rs 50,000 per

Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) is coming up with another artificial wall to help athletes excel in speed climbing, an event which makes its debut at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The 50-feet fibre-based speed climbing wall with speed holds, being built by Pune-based Stepin Adventure at an

Football competition, which is one of the famous sports activity in the rural and tribal villages of Jharkhand was organised at Birsa Seva Sansthan by Ekal Gramothan Foundation. With a motive to reinforce the youth of our country with the power of sportsmanship, the sports program was designed to