Access to playfields and engagement of physical education instructor has been made a mandatory requirement for all schools under the Right to Education Act, government told the Lok Sabha.Union Sports Minister..
India's Devendra Jhajharia bettered his own world record to win gold in the men's javelin throw F46 event at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.Mr Jhajharia won gold in the javelin event at the 2004 Athens Paralympics..
Pv Sindhu became India’s first woman to win an Olympics silver medal on Friday, creating history and pulling an entire country out of its Games gloom with a stunning display of talent, power and grace.A..
Indian shooter Manavaditya Rathore won the trap bronze medal in the 'Champion of Champions' match at the ISSF (The International Shooting Sport Federation) Junior World Cup in Porpetto, Italy. While Manavaditya,..
The 73rd Senior National Squash Championship was held in Mumbai, Maharashtra from 12 July to 17 July 2016. Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal have won the National Squash Championship in men’s..
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has released the official ICC men’s Team Rankings from Test, One Day International (ODI) and T20I cricket in Dubai. Australia remains on top with rating 118 in..
France played well in Euro 2016 Semi Final match and beats Germany to enter Final. Germany coach Joachim Löw was forced to make a number of crucial changes due to injuries and suspensions. Liverpool's..
With an aim to look after the welfare of former and current athletes from across the country , the Olympians Association of India (OAI) has drawn a road map and has put emphasis on a few areas for the..
Indian 4x100m women's relay team on Monday set a new national record by clocking 43.42sec during the Kazakhstan National Athletics Championships.Interestingly, the relay team comprising Dutee Chand, Srabani..
Viswanathan Anand , the famous chess champion sworn out from India has been onferred the “Honoris Causa” Doctor of Science by Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) during its 49th convocation ceremony..
Lionel Messi announced that he retires from his national team. He put his penalty kick over the crossbar, grabbed his shirt, clenched his teeth and put both hands over his face. A few minutes later..
Roger Federer skipped the French Open due to a back problem and is working towards being fit for Wimbledon which starts on June 27. He began his bid for a ninth Gerry Weber Open title with a 6-4, 7-6(3)..
The most awaited football festival UEFA Euro 2016 starts today. The football fans are so much excited as the fifteenth edition of the competition is going to be held in France. There will be more matches..
Nita Ambani is the first Indian woman to be nominated to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and it came as a recognition of her passionate work in the area of education and sports.Hockey India,..
Throughout this season, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s death bowlers have rescued them to eke out wins on various occasions. Thus, it was only fair that their death specialists had a fairy tale ending themselves,..
Leicester City, a small club from central England thatstarted the season at 5,000-1 odds of winning the prestigious English PremierLeague title, has clinched the trophy. On Monday, with two games still..
India is going to host the 2018 Commonwealth JudoChampionships in Jaipur, Rajasthan. This will be the first time thatCommonwealth Judo Championships will be held in India. However the championshipsdates..
Indian rower Dattu Bhokanal on Monday qualified for the Rio Olympics after winning a silver in the finals of menâs single sculls at the 2016 FISA Asian and Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta at..
India produced an inspiring performance to outplay host Malaysia 6-1 in a must-win match, and secure its seventh appearance in the final of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament, in Ipoh on Friday.Needing..
The NBA champion Kobe Bryant retires with a great style. After devoting his entire NBA career of 20 years to the California team, many celebrities and Bryant's fellow athletes including Olympians, basketball..
Nico Rosberg has won the Australian Formula One Grand Prixfor the second time, the Mercedes driver emerging victorious in a dramatic raceat Albert Park. Rosberg's teammate andpole-sitter Lewis Hamilton..
Roger Federer, A 34-year-old Swiss, who knocked out Britain's Andy Murray in the semi-final, recorded a 7-6 (7-1) 6-3 win.Djokovic lost the first set on a tie break, and the 28-year-old Serb then double..
India’s badminton star Saina Nehwal has regained World Number 1 position, toppling Spain’s Carolina Martin, who defeated Nehwal in a final in World Badminton Championship last week.Despite losing to..
Union Minister Harsh Vardhan inaugurated a first-of-its-kind municipal physical education centre in Civil Lines area in north Delhi and exhorted children to take up at least two sports. The facility named..
Although Yuvraj Singh has smashed three consecutive tons in the ongoing Ranji Trophy recently, his return to form is unlikely to have any bearing on the national selectors when they meet today at the Board..
Barcelona: Barcelona star Lionel Messi, who was left on the bench during his side's 0-1 defeat to Real Sociedad, reportedly had a confrontation with the club's board of directors and coach Luis..
Auckland: Second seed Sara Errani crashed out of the opening round of the Auckland Classic WTA tournament yesterday, beaten in straight sets by Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova.It took Hantuchova just 75 minutes..
The closest New Zealand came to taking a huge first-innings lead - or, as it panned out, not conceding a huge one - in Wellington was off the first delivery of Trent Boult's first over of the day,..
New Delhi: Olympic bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal has been left disappointed after the Sports Ministry decided to reject her application for the prestigious Padma Bhushan award this year, citing norms.Badminton..
Ireland's David Simpson cleared a height of 2.20m (7ft 3in) on Richi Rich to win the puissance at the London International Horse Show at Olympia.Simpson beat Karline de Brabander of Belgium, riding..
Laura Massaro's title defence ended in the Women's World Squash Championship quarter-finals as she lost to Alison Waters in an all-English battle.Second seed Massaro, 31, won the first set 14-12,..
England and Wasps lock Joe Launchbury is to undergo surgery on a neck injury and will miss the 2015 Six Nations.The 23-year-old, who has been sidelined since the beginning of November, is now expected..
Defending champion Michael van Gerwen moved into the second round of the PDC World Championship, but former winner John Part was beaten on the first day.Dutchman Van Gerwen, top of the PDC Order of Merit,..
Sandeep
Singh was the top-scorer in the first two editions of the HILs,
scoring 11 goals in each tournament.
Struggling
star Sandeep Singh on Thursday vowed to score maximum number of goals
in the..
Court
of Arbitration for Sports has reportedly granted permission to Dutee
Chand to compete in national events after she challenged IAAF's
hyperandrogenism policy, which bars female athletes having..
Having
drawn the first four games of the six-player round-robin tournament,
Viswanathan Anand waged a brave war against a determined Michael
Adams.
London: Five-time
chess world champion Viswanathan..
Lewis
Hamilton won his second F1 world title this season by taking 11
races.
London: Formula
One world champion Lewis Hamilton has been voted as the BBC Sports
Personality of the Year 2014.
The..
Novak
Djokovic of Serbia and Serena Williams of the United States
dance Gangnam
Style during
the Kids Tennis Day at the Australian Open in Melbourne January 12,
2013. Damir Sagolj/Reuters
Novak
Djokovic and Serena..
Alberto Contador is not bitter about crashing out of this year's Tour de France because he knows it could have been worse: he might have died.The Spanish star broke his right tibia, or..
Boxer
Amir Khan will donate a pair of 30,000 pounds ($47,007) shorts to the
Peshawar school in Pakistan where 132 children were killed by
Taliban gunmen earlier this..
While
Saina Nehwal defeated South Korea's Sung Ji Hyun 21-12 21-18, Kidambi
Srikanth beat Tommy Sugiarto of Indonesia 21-18 21-13 in the second
round.
Dubai: India's
top badminton players..
Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli has been given a one-match ban by
the Football Association as punishment for his Super Mario post on
social media.
The Italian, whose suspension rules him out of..