New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitender Singh has said the ongoing spot-fixing controversy has not just given a bad name to cricket but also to sports as a whole.
Talking exclusively to CNN-IBN, the minister said, with greater money in cricket, it must be ensured that there should be more responsibility by all.
Singh also said there was no need to stop the IPL, but there should be checks and balances, so that the sport remain clean. "[I] don't think one should stop IPL, but certainly time has come to create checks and balances," he said.
The minister admitted that although it would be a tough task to do so, he was determined to try his best to draft a law to combat cheating in sports. He said he would work with the Law Minister, Kapil Sibal, to ensure there would be enough regulations to combat the menace. He also said, if needed, he would go to all cricket federations asking them to be included in sports code....
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06:46 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal in IPL, Law Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday proposed a law to tackle fixing and other illegal activities in sports in India. Sibal spoke to Sports Minister Jitendra Singh and proposed to plug the loopholes that help the accused to escape punishment. Sibal, who recently took charge of the Law Ministry, made the proposal to ensure strict punishment for the guilty....
06:24 PM, May 19, 2013
New Delhi: India's Sports Minister Jitender Singh on Thursday said that the roadmap for India's return to the Olympic fold has been chalked out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and it will take 30 to 60 days to complete the entire process. The Sports Minister, who met the IOC officials in Lausanne on Wednesday, said, "The roadmap has been decided by IOC to bring India back into the Olympic...
08:28 AM, May 16, 2013
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that the stand-off between the government and the IOA over the contentious Sports Code was nearing resolution, a development which could pave the way for India putting up a united front in the joint meeting with the IOC next month. Talking to reporters after a meeting with IOC member in India, Randhir Singh, Jitendra said he was confident of India returning...
06:14 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Gurgaon: Haryana Sports Minister Sukhbir Kataria on Friday appeared in a local court which granted him bail in a bogus voters case related to 2009 Assembly elections. Judge Ashok Mann granted bail to Kataria, who has been booked under various sections of IPC related to forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy along with six others, who did not appear despite summons against them. On the direction of Punjab and Haryana High...
05:25 PM, Apr 12, 2013
New Delhi: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh expressed disappointment over the Indian Olympic Association holding the Sports bill responsible for the country's suspension from the Olympic movement, terming it as "very, very unfortunate". "I am deeply shocked and upset after reading the contents of the letter. It is delayed tactics. As far as the Sports bill is concerned, priority of the government is to get the bill passed by both the...
10:12 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Can Mohun Bagan wriggle out of the mess they are in? They have got a short breather in the form of a court stay on the All India Football Federation's notice to suspend their I-League match against Pailan Arrows on Saturday. Can there be a compromise? Football commentator Novy Kapadia joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
04:12 PM, Dec 13, 2012
The sports minister Friday took the bold decision to de-recognise India's amateur boxing and archery federations because of their faulty electoral process. ...
11:48 PM, Dec 07, 2012
Jitendra said that there was no conflict between the government's Sports Code and the Olympic Charter. ...
12:23 AM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to ensure better health and promote sports culture among kids, Sports Minister Ajay Maken Wednesday came up with a proposal under which school children will get marks for their physical fitness. Currently marks and grades are linked to academic performance, but the new proposal seeks to give some weightage to physical fitness in schools all over the country. While unveiling the exposure draft on National...
04:26 PM, Aug 30, 2012
London: Sports minister Ajay Maken said the Government of India will offer coaching jobs to its athletes who win medals at the 30th Olympic Games starting Friday. "Government of India has decided to offer coaching jobs to all past and present medal winners at the Olympics," Maken said while speaking at a reception hosted at India House in honour of the Indian Olympic Team. Maken hoped the announcement would motivate...
12:50 PM, Jul 27, 2012
New Delhi: In a bid to prevent Suresh Kalmadi from attending the London Olympics, the Sports Ministry on Friday shot off a letter to IOA, requesting the sports body not to facilitate the tainted administrator's visit to UK on "ethical grounds". In a letter to Randhir Singh, Secretary General of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), the ministry argued that since Kalmadi is embroiled in corruption cases, IOA should not support...
09:00 PM, Jul 13, 2012
Ravi Sawani, who is heading the inquiry commission, met Shalabh Srivastava to hear his side of the story on the sting operation. ...
08:50 PM, May 16, 2012
The Sports Minister advised the BCCI to go to the root of the whole problem. ...
03:51 PM, May 16, 2012
New Delhi: The government is working with the Indian Olympic Association, Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) and Hockey India (HI) to facilitate a settlement that is acceptable to both the warring factions - IHF and HI, Sports Minister Ajay Maken informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. "The controversy/infighting in hockey, inter-alia, relates to recognition from the concerned International Federation and the Indian Olympic Association; merger of the two bodies; holding of...
10:00 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar slammed Sports Minister Ajay Maken as BA Pass from Hansraj college. ...
11:50 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Corporates need to come forward and promote the game feels Ajay Maken after the Indian hockey team rejected the cash award for their victory at the Asians Champions Trophy. ...
11:22 PM, Sep 14, 2011
Sports Minister Ajay Maken blamed NDA for appointing Suresh Kalmadi as CWG OC chief. ...
10:46 PM, Aug 02, 2011
New Delhi: Three Union Sports Ministers, who held charge since 2004, had repeatedly warned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against the structure and working of Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and its chief Suresh Kalmadi, letters accessed by an RTI activist reveal. While late Sunil Dutt had said that the Organising Committee should be headed by a "Government nominee" like Sports Minister, his successor Mani Shanker Aiyar had criticised it for "squandering"...
02:33 PM, Jul 03, 2011
New Delhi: Ugandan Sports Minister Charles Bakkabulindi on Thursday sought an apology from India over a freak accident at the Commonwealth Games Village that left three Ugandan officials injured. "We are disappointed at the turn of events. We want an apology from the Indian officials. The fact that they are ill-treating us and playing down the whole incident is shocking," Bakkabulindi told an English news channel. "The injured were not...
05:06 PM, Oct 07, 2010
