Other favourites include Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins, F1 champion Sebastian Vettel and Olympic champion Mo Farah. ...
11:37 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The Sports Ministry has made it clear that it can only deal with the VK Malhotra-led Indian Olympic Association after the suspension of the IOA by the International Olympic Committee in December last. ...
08:33 PM, Mar 10, 2013
The names of boxers Vijender Singh and Ram Singh cropped up after an arrested drug dealer claimed that both the boxers were regular clients. ...
12:12 PM, Mar 09, 2013
The Cabinet has given in-principle approval to a bill providing for time-bound delivery of services. This effectively means that bureaucrats will now have to face the music for delay in dispensing services like pensions, passports, caste certificates, ration cards, tax refunds and police procedures. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 07, 2013
According to an Indian daily, the tests were conducted during the knock-out stages of the Vijay Hazare Trophy and will become a regular feature across all formats. ...
12:34 PM, Mar 04, 2013
The government seems to have major hopes attached to archery, boxing and shooting - increasing their budget by almost 100 percent. ...
04:48 PM, Mar 01, 2013
A hike of Rs 214 crore was allocated to the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports with Finance Minister P Chidambaram earmarking Rs 1219 crore for it in the 2013-14 budget presented in Parliament on Thursday. In his Budget presented in the Lok Sabha, Chidambaram allocated Rs 1093 crore as plan outlay while Rs 126 crore was set aside for non-plan. ...
05:28 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The sports ministry also sent out a stern warning to Hockey India not to overshoot its budget in future. ...
06:03 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The Indian men's hockey team has pulled out of the upcoming Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia, over a disagreement on the cost of airfare between the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Hockey India (HI). ...
05:21 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The Indian men's hockey team has pulled out of the upcoming Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia, over a disagreement on the cost of airfare between the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Hockey India (HI). ...
03:41 PM, Feb 26, 2013
The US accused Armstrong of defrauding the postal service by taking its sponsorship money at the same time he was doping and using performance-enhancing drugs. ...
08:18 AM, Feb 23, 2013
China will investigate claims that virtually all the raw materials used to produce illegal performance-enhancing drugs come from the country, even if they have serious reservations about their accuracy, state media said on Tuesday. ...
02:09 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Singh, who is popularly known as Bhajji, will appear in a cameo but it is not yet revealed if he will play his cricketing self or a new character. ...
12:48 PM, Feb 16, 2013
Sports ministry is yet to hear from the AIFF the specific assurances demanded by FIFA. ...
04:55 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Russian weightlifter Oleg Perepetchenov was stripped of his 2004 Olympic bronze medal after a retest of his sample from the Athens Games returned positive. ...
11:46 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Both Sunil and Rao are from the Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) as they are on the payroll of the Indian Army. ...
09:01 PM, Feb 12, 2013
Australia's Olympic athletes will be required to sign statutory declarations saying they have no history of doping. ...
07:03 PM, Feb 12, 2013
World number two Roger Federer has called for the introduction of biological passports in tennis similar to those used in cycling to detect possible doping. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 12, 2013
Nadal says testing for performance-enhancing drugs in sport should strike a balance between catching the cheats and respecting the athletes. ...
10:33 AM, Feb 09, 2013
Tatyana Kotova has been provisionally suspended after failing a drugs test at the Helsinki 2005 world championships. ...
08:50 PM, Feb 08, 2013
