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CHANDIGARH: A portion of the frontal section of Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira's house in Bholath, Kapurthala, was demolished on Monday by the office of the Block Development and Panchayat Officer (BDPO). Khaira, a strong critic of Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, condemned the move, calling it the dangerous introduction of "bulldozer (Pila-Panja) politics" in Punjab by Mann under directions from AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, aimed at silencing criticism and democratic dissent. As the de ...Read More >
Gulmarg (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 23 (ANI): The journey of the Himachal Pradesh contingent through the first five editions of the Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) is a story of grit and an unforgiving love affair with snow. Over five editions of the Khelo India Winter Games, held annually since their launch in 2020, Himachal Pradesh has transformed from hopeful contender to medal magnet, challenging more established winter sports powers, according to a release. The Gulmarg leg of the ...Read More >
Gulmarg (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], February 23 (ANI): The journey of the Himachal Pradesh contingent through the first five editions of the Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) is a story of grit and an unforgiving love affair with snow. Over five editions of the Khelo India Winter Games, held annually since their launch in 2020, Himachal Pradesh has transformed from hopeful contender to medal magnet, challenging more established winter sports powers, according to a release. The Gulmarg leg of the ...Read More >
Gulmarg, Feb 23 (PTI) Army made an emphatic start to the Gulmarg leg of the Khelo India Winter Games, winning three of the five gold medals at stake here on Monday. CRPF and Himachal Pradesh also finished among the gold medals on the first day. It was not a day for the favourites as veterans like Bhavani Thekkada Nanjunda of Karnataka and Aanchal Thakur of Himachal Pradesh were usurped by skiers who have been doing well in the national circuit. Young Jiah Aryan, all of 17 and one of India's u ...Read More >
At the 68th National Shooting Championship Competitions (Shotgun) on Wednesday, Asian Champion shooters Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Darshna Rathore displayed consistent performance to claim the Senior Skeet Mixed Team gold medal. Representing Rajasthan, the duo triumphed over the Uttar Pradesh team of Mairaj Ahmad Khan and Areeba Khan with a score of 45-43 in a closely fought gold medal match at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. Anantjeet hit 21 targets while Darshna contributed 24, edging out ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) Rajasthan's team of Anantjeet Singh Naruka and Darshna Rathore delivered a steady performance to secure a gold medal in the Senior Skeet Mixed Team event at the 68th National Shooting Championship here at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range on Tuesday. They narrowly defeated Uttar Pradesh 45-43 in a tense gold medal showdown. Asian Champion Anantjeet and Darshna worked well together, with Anantjeet scoring 21 targets and Darshna 24, to beat the Uttar Pradesh te ...Read More >
IMAGE: Noah Lyles said the new approach will push him to reach those limits in training and beyond which he never has been through. Photograph: Noah Lyles/Instagram For Olympics 100m gold medallist and multiple-time world champion American sprinter Noah Lyles, 2026 season and beyond will be about having an "all-or-nothing" mentality. Lyles, who aims to beat the legendary Usain Bolt's records in 100m and 200m events, says his new approach would demand his body to produce something never happene ...Read More >
Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker and ISSF World Cup Final 2025 gold medallist Simranpreet Kaur Brar delivered outstanding performances to win gold medals in the senior and junior women's 25m sports pistol events, respectively, at the 68th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) held at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in Tughlakabad near New Delhi on Monday. Manu Bhaker scored 36 in the final to secure the gold, finishing four hits ahead of Divya T.S. from Karnataka, who claime ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Dec 15: Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker and ISSF World Cup Final 2025 gold medallist Simranpreet Kaur Brar delivered top-class performances to win gold medals in the senior and junior women's 25m sports pistol events, respectively, of the 68th National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range in Tughlakabad near New Delhi on Monday. Manu shot 36 in the final to secure the gold, finishing four hits clear of Divya T.S. of Karnataka, who bagge ...Read More >
Imphal (Manipur) [India], December 15 (ANI): Vijayi Bharat Foundation (VBF) judoka Irengbam Kalpana Devi bagged Gold in the Women's 63 kg category at the Senior National Judo Championships 2025-26 held in Imphal, as per a release from the Judo Federation of India and the VBF. Kalpana stunned the judo fraternity by defeating Himanshi Tokas, the former Junior World No 1 and current Jr World No 3, in the semifinals of the event. Also Read | India Defeat South Africa By 7 Wickets in 3rd T20I 2025; ...Read More >
Imphal (Manipur) [India], December 15 (ANI): Vijayi Bharat Foundation (VBF) judoka Irengbam Kalpana Devi bagged Gold in the Women's 63 kg category at the Senior National Judo Championships 2025-26 held in Imphal, as per a release from the Judo Federation of India and the VBF. Kalpana stunned the judo fraternity by defeating Himanshi Tokas, the former Junior World No 1 and current Jr World No 3, in the semifinals of the event. She carried that momentum into the final, where she overpowered Unna ...Read More >
Jaipur, Dec 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Olympian Sift Kaur Samra is confident that the shooting sport, which was discontinued as a medal event for both the 2022 Birmingham and 2026 Glasgow editions, will be included as a discipline when India hosts the Commonwealth Games at Ahmedabad in 2030. Sift Kaur said that as India are hosting the 2030 CWG, national shooters will get a big chance to showcase their talent and secure a bagful of medals in front of their home crowd. "I am thrilled that India is host ...Read More >
Mumbai, November 20: Rifle shooter Mahit Sandhu won silver in the 50m Prone event, her third medal in the ongoing 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo. Mahit also broke the World Deaf Record in qualification en route to the finals. She shot 246.1 in the finals to secure the silver medal while Eliska Svobodova of Czechia won the gold, with a score of 247.2. Hungary's Mira Zsuzsanna Biatovszki won bronze with a score of 225.0. The other Indian shooter in the finals, Natasha Joshi finished in eighth po ...Read More >
IMAGE: India's Pranjali Dhumal/Abhinav Deshwal atop the podium after taking gold in the 10m air pistol event at the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics with a 16-6 win over Chinese Taipei, who took the silver. Iran won the bronze. Photograph: NRAI/X Abhinav Deshwal and Pranjali Prashant Dhumal clinched the gold medal in the 10m Air Pistol event, while Kushagra Singh Rajawat won bronze in the 50m Rifle Prone competition as Indian shooters continued their fine run at the 25th Deaflympics in Tokyo on Wednesday ...Read More >
Kabaddi players Karthika and Abinesh being greeted by Velammal Medical College Hospital administration in Madurai on Saturday. Kabaddi players R. Karthika and M. Abinesh visited the injured kabaddi players undergoing treatment at Velammal Medical College Hospital here on Saturday. The players were part of the kabaddi teams that won gold medals in the 3rd Asian Youth Games Speaking there, Ms. Karthika said, "There is no gender discrimination in sports and everyone should be viewed equally irre ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Indian shooting contingent left for Tokyo, Japan, on Friday to participate in the 25th Summer Deaflympic Games, scheduled from November 15 to 26, 2025. The 15-member squad, including three coaches, will represent India across five individual events in the men's and women's categories, one event in the men's category, and two mixed-team shooting events at the Ajinomoto National Training Center (East). The squad will be led by Deaflympic double gold medallis ...Read More >
Tokyo [Japan], November 14 (ANI): The Indian shooting contingent left for Tokyo, Japan, on Friday to participate in the 25th Summer Deaflympic Games, scheduled from November 15 to November 26. The 15-member squad, comprising three coaches, will represent India in five individual events across the men's and women's categories, one event in the men's category, and two mixed team shooting events at the Ajinomoto National Training Centre (East). Also Read | IND vs SA 1st Test 2025 Day 1 Stumps: Ja ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 28 (ANI): India's star boxer Jaismine Lamboria expressed her team's motivation and excitement for the upcoming World Boxing Cup Finals in Noida. She highlighted their extensive preparation and eagerness to make their country proud again. The stage is set for a global boxing spectacle as the World Boxing Cup Finals 2025 come to Greater Noida's Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex from November 14 to 21, bringing together over 140 elite boxers from 18 nations, incl ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 28 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara said on Tuesday that there is nothing wrong with the demand for a Dalit Chief Minister. "What's wrong with holding a Dalit convention? Earlier, the high command had asked us to postpone it for certain reasons, and we had agreed. In the interest of the party, the Dalit community has always stood with the Congress," he said. The state Home Minister pointed out that to maintain this unity, the party needs to hold such conventions fr ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) Two-time gold medallist Nikhat Zareen has put behind the disappointment of missing out on a third World Championships medal, and is now focussed on collecting maximum ranking points by winning the top prize in the upcoming World Boxing Cup Finals. The event will be held in Greater Noida from November 14 to 21. Nikhat, who competes in flyweight and light flyweight categories, won World Championship gold medals in 2022 in Istanbul and 2023 in New Delhi. But she failed to ...Read More >
Only a few in the audience perhaps would have expected to witness something extraordinary when Delhi Police constable Sonika Yadav, 31, walked up to the platform at the All India Police Weightlifting Cluster 2025-26 in Andhra Pradesh on October 17. Most spectators assumed she had simply moved up from her regular 65-kg category to the 84-kg division, perhaps due to recent weight gain. But when Sonika crouched down and gripped the barbell for a 145-kg deadlift, murmurs filled the hall. Moments la ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Over the past six months, Shaina Manimuthu participated in various domestic tournaments across India to refine her skills and enhance her performance as a player. The rigorous schedule resulted in ankle pain for the Karnataka shuttler, which she carried into the Badminton Asia U-17 and U-15 Championships in Chengdu, China. Determined to improve upon her pre-quarterfinal exit last year, the teenager worked towards it.Shaina's perseverance paid off as the top-seeded player lost only one ...Read More >
New Delhi/Manama, Oct 27 (UNI) India's Priteesmita Bhoi made history at the Asian Youth Games 2025 by setting a new world youth record in weightlifting, clinching gold in the girls' 44kg clean and jerk category with a lift of 92 kg. According to the Olympics.com, the record mark earned her a gold medal in the clean and jerk section yesterday. She also clinched silver in the snatch section with a 66kg lift to finish with two medals. Bhoi began her clean jerk campaign with a successful 87 kg lif ...Read More >
Sri Lanka's Chamod Yodhasinghe clinched the men's 100m title at the South Asian Senior Athletics Championships in Ranchi. Indian athletes also secured multiple gold medals, including in the men's shot put and women's 5000m, with the hosts also winning the 4x400m mixed relay.India's Pranav Gurav did his best but couldn't cross the finish line ahead of Sri Lanka's Chamod Yodhasinghe as the latter bagged the men's 100m title on the opening day of South Asian Senior Athletics Championships being hel ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Preetismita Bhoi is making waves globally. The young weightlifter from Dhenkanal added another laurel to her kitty when she clinched the gold medal in 44 kg category at the 3rd Asian Youth Games in Bahrain on Sunday. She lifted a total of 158 kg, and in the process, set Asian and World records in clean & jerk with 92 kg. Preetismita, who will turn 17 in November and trains at the Weightlifting High Performance Centre in Bhubaneswar's Kalinga Stadium, had served notice of ...Read More >
Ranchi (Jharkhand), Oct 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) India continued their strong performance by adding 18 medals to their overall tally in the South Asian Athletics Championships 2025 at the Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium, Morabadi, Ranchi. The hosts won seven gold, eight silver, and three bronze on Saturday, taking their overall medal tally to 32. Sri Lanka maintained their competitive form with eight gold and a total of 23 medals, while Nepal is a distant third with three bronze so far in the champion ...Read More >
Ranchi (Jharkhand), Oct 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) Prince Kumar, Sanjana Singh, and Samardeep Gill struck gold medals as India made a rousing start to its campaign at the 4th South Asian Athletics Federation (SAAF) Senior Athletics Championships at the Birsa Munda Football Stadium, Ranchi, by clinching multiple medals, including three glittering gold on the opening day. In the Men's 5000m race, India's Prince Kumar produced a stunning performance, clocking 14:22.17 seconds to secure the first gold med ...Read More >
Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra will be conferred the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Indian Army. The pipping ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday at noon. This marks a significant milestone in his distinguished career. Chopra has previously received several accolades and promotions within the Army. His journey includes an Olympic gold medal and other prestigious awards. Two-time Olympic medallist Neeraj Chopra on Wednesday was given the honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel by th ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 22 (ANI): India's 2008 Beijing Olympics gold medalist shooter Abhinav Bindra has been selected as a torch-bearer for the 2026 Winter Olympics Torch Relay. India's first-ever individual gold medalist in its Olympic history, Bindra, shared the news with the fans on social media, being selected for the event to be held in Italy next year. "Truly humbled to be chosen as a torchbearer for the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Torch Relay. The Olympic flame has always held a spe ...Read More >
New Delhi: Olympic gold medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra was on Wednesday conferred with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh describing him as an "epitome" of perseverance, and national pride. Singh conferred the insignia of honorary rank of Lieutenant Colonel to the star javelin thrower, serving in the Territorial Army, at a pipping ceremony in New Delhi that was also graced by Army Chief Gen Upendra Dwivedi and many other senior officials of the force. C ...Read More >
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