Truck driver's daughter Manisha creates history with relay gold!

IMAGE: The quartet of M R Poovamma, Manisha Kumari, Olimba Steffi and Neeru Pathak won the gold medal in the women's 4x400 relay at the South Asian Athletics Championships 2025 in Ranchi.......

Arjuna Awardee Poovamma gets 2-year ban for doping

MR Poovamma was a member of the gold-winning 4x400m women's and mixed relay teams in the 2018 Asian Games and also part of the 4x400m relay squad that won the gold at the 2014 Asian Games.  ......

Asiad medallist Poovamma gets 3-month ban for doping

IMAGE: Asian Games medallist MR Poovamma's dope sample collected during the Indian Grand Prix in Patiala in February last year had returned positive for stimulant methylhexaneamine. Photograph:......

Olympics: Check out India's schedule on August 9, 2024

With just two days to go before the curtains come down on the Paris Olympics, India will look to add to their medal tally, on Friday, when wrestler Aman Sehrawat goes up against Puerto Rico's......

Relay star wants to set an example for Indian athletes

'if my body is giving me company why should I stop the sport? Some foreign athletes run till 35 or 37. So I wanted to set an example for other athletes that age does not matter,' says MR......