India's Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra says fame or publicity were never the motivation behind winning a gold medal.
The two-year-old Mittal Champions Trust, set up by the world's richest Indian Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, is not satisfied with the results at the Beijing Olympics that yielded just one medal from the 56-strong Indian squad.
India's cricket board hopes to keep offensive language and rude gestures out of the Indian Premier League by having the eight team captains take a pledge to abide by the "spirit of cricket".
Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, said he felt sort of empty as he stood atop the podium during the presentation ceremony for the 10 metre Air Rifle event at the Beijing Olympics.
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'It will take a minor miracle for the deal to beat the clock ticking away in the US Congress, but Abhinav Bindra just proved that the age of miracles isn't over yet.'
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends on Monday to keep alive the dream of an unprecedented eight Olympic golds.
He attended the meeting as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as CCI representative.
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Mat cameras would also be in place for leg before wicket decisions, however, its implementation would be subject to final clearance.
It was another golden day for India's shooters at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday as Samaresh Jung claimed a fourth gold medal.
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The shooters bagged three gold and one silver medal in five events that took India's tally to four gold and three silver after two days.
Hitting the target with monotonous regularity, Indian shooters' dominance in a phenomenal 2019, at times, made world events look like domestic tourneys. Indian shooting's best show at the Olympics remains the two medals won at London in 2012, but if the shooters' exploits in recent months are anything to go by, the country can easily emulate or better that in Tokyo.
Abhinav Bindra climbed 24 rungs to second position in the 10m Air Rifle rankings while Olympic silver medallist Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is fifth in the Double Trap event.
India's Prakash Nanjappa has earned a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics after finishing eighth in the finals of 50-metre men's pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Gabala, Azerbaijan.
With the hope that 2018 will be a prosperous and peaceful year, our favourite sports personalities took to their social media handles to wish their fans a very `Happy New Year`.
Images from Sunday's IPL match between Kings XI Punjab and Chennai Super Kings, in Mohali.
The state government is claiming damages for acquisition of the land on which the stadium in Mohali is built.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes was reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct after he was charged for making inappropriate comments during the opening day's play in the third cricket Test against India in Mohali on Saturday.
The unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar chief Aditya Verma, who has shaken the BCCI by dragging it to the Supreme Court over the IPL spot-fixing scandal, has demanded that the Board's former President Shashank Manohar head the probe panel against the scam.
Gagan Narang grabbed the spotlight on Friday, winning the men's 50m Rifle 3-position event, for his his fourth gold medal of the Games.
Even as the shooters continued to dominate the ranges, India's men's table tennis team shocked fancied Singapore to win the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Tejaswini Sawant and Avneet Kaur Sidhu scored 500.6 points and 500.2 respectively to equal the Commonwealth Games' record.
India's shooters struck it rich at the Commonwealth Games on Friday morning, winning three gold medals and a silver.
England's in-form bowler said it would not be necessary to adjust his line for left-hander Yuvraj Singh, who missed the drawn first Test.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang shot bronze medal in the men's 10m Air Rifle in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing even though compatriots Abhinav Bindra and PT Raghunath failed to make the finals of the event. Gagan fired 99, 99, 99, 100, 100, 100 and 100 to total 597 that earned him a ticket in the final of the event.
Sunrisers Hyderabad produced a solid batting performance to beat Kings XI Punjab by seven wickets and virtually secure their place in the play-offs of the ongoing Indian Premier League.
The IPL wouldn't have been the success it is had it not been for the fans in the stands.
Foreign banking major Standard Chartered Bank has invested $120 million thus far this year in its Indian operations, which is expected to contribute over 10 per cent of its global profits in 2005.
Yuvraj Singh said the row between skipper Ganguly and coach Chappell is disappointing but the team should move ahead.
While Sangakkara advises the under-fire keeper-batsman to keep things simple
Indian sportspersons will be in action in the following events at 28th Olympic Games in Athens on Monday.
