Sports

Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Vijay Goel has announced that a new Youth Sports Centre will be built at Alipur, Delhi which will be at par with best facilities in the city, since no such facility exists in rural Delhi. He said, the project has been envisioned so that maximum

A 101-member Indian Police contingent has returned with a record breaking haul of 321 medals from the World Police & Fire Games held in USA earlier this month. The contingent bagged 151 Gold, 99 Silver and 71 Bronze medals in the seven events they participated in the Games held in Los Angeles

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is going to establish National Sports Museum, first of its kind, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi. The decision was taken three months back and after a series of meetings and his personal visits to several locations in the capital, the current venue for

At the National Institute for Visually handicapped school grounds in Dehradun a joyous roar erupts, mixing with the sound of the ball, which has a bell inside it, that jingles away. This would have been an ordinary sight at most stadiums, except that these boys are completely or partially blind

Under the revamped Khelo India proposal, there is an exclusive component called “Promotion of Rural, Indigenous and Tribal Games” for promotion and development of traditional sports. Sports Authority of India (SAI) also promotes Indigenous Games and Martial Arts (IGMA) in 09 disciplines under its

Twenty-one-year-old Bhumika Sharma from Dehradun has become the first Indian woman to win the Miss World Body Building Championship held in Italy on June 17-18. Bhumika is a second-year student at a private college in the city. Sharma got interested in bodybuilding after a trainer at a gym showed

Students after finishing their Class XII will soon have the facility to pursue hockey and archery in Jharkhand. Government has started work in establishing centres of excellence in Ranchi for hockey and archery. These centres will have state-of-the-art training facilities and will be a big boost for

The Delhi Gramin Khel Mahotsav 2017 is being organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports in association with Delhi Government from 25 th to 31 st March 2017, to invite the talent from rural areas of NCT of Delhi to come and participate in a multi-sport championship to promote the culture of

Union Minister of State (I/C) for Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Vijay Goel today inaugurated the first edition of the Akhil Bhartiya Kabaddi Championship at the Motilal Nehru School of Sports in Rai, Sonipat (Haryana). The competition aims at popularising the sport among youngsters and to promote it

Talented sports-persons in Jharkhand will now get a 2% quota in all jobs of the government. Earlier this quota prevailed in the Police department only. Chief Minister Raghubar Das made this announcement on Saturday while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the 23rd Senior National Indian Round

Para athletes had won 4 medals at RIO Olympics for India in 2016 and brought glory for the country in International Sports Arena. Prime Minister after meeting with Para Athlete Devender Jhajharia Gold Medalist of RIO Olympic Games 2016 desired that a World Class Para athletic Centre be opened in

For the first time a Task Force committee for preparing action plan for next three Olympic Games 2020, 2024 and 2028 has been constituted with experts in the sports fraternity as its members. Keeping with the promise made after the last Olympics, the government aims at improving its tally of medals