Sources said the duo attackers -- Rohit Rathore of Jaipur and Nitin Fauji of Haryana's Mahendragarh -- had planned to flee the country and had been allegedly promised Rs 50,000 each to kill Gogamedi.
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Friday announced a cash award of Rs 6.70 lakh for all the gold medal winners at the recently concluded Youth Women's World Boxing Championships in Guwahati.
The ace Indian shooter lost his costly gun while travelling from Cairo to Delhi.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore clinched the fourth Olympic quota place for the country by winning gold at the ISSF World Cup in Cairo
The duo pipped hosts Australia and England to win the team gold in double trap in the Commonwealth Shooting Championship.
Administrators will have to become more receptive to the athletes' needs -- this was Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's message to officials during a surprise visit to check Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium's preparations for the upcoming Under-17 FIFA World Cup
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Sunday said the Board of Control for Cricket in India could have ensured dope testing of the Indian cricketers by NADA but put the onus on WADA to make the Indian Board compliant of its Code.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhanjanlal Sharma on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, met the Rajasthan Royals players and management and congratulated them on their unbeaten run in IPL 2024.
The Athens Olympics shooting silver medallist is among over 200 shooters vying for honours this week.
Stating that evidence was being collected on fresh charges filed against former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, the Panchkula police on Wednesday said any further action in the Ruchika molestation case would be taken only after a detailed investigation was completed.
A local court in Chandigarh on Wednesday adjourned till March 10 the hearing on the appeal of SPS Rathore against the six-month sentence in the Ruchika molestation case, taking into cognizance that the former Haryana director general of police was still recovering from the assault on him two days back.
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore again failed to get any relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which adjourned till July 1 his plea challenging his 18-month jail term in the Ruchika molestation case.
The complete list of players sold in the IPL 2025 Auction in Jeddah.
The CBI on Friday sought maximum punishment of two years for disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case before a court which adjourned the hearing on the plea till February 8.
On the recommendation of Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, former director general of police S P S Rathore on Monday lost his police medals.
The World Cup gold medallist took over the No. 1 spot in double trap shooting.
The Olympic silver medallist was honoured with the Ati Vishist Seva Medal.
From bitter fights to dope shame, Indian Olympic team's tryst with controversies
When they did not get any reply from their handlers, they made their own plan and hired a taxi for Didwana and further took a bus, a train and another taxi to move to Hisar, then Manali and finally reach Chandigarh, the official added.
An unidentified man attacked former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who has been accused in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, outside the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday.
Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore could battle it out with his coach, Australian Russel Mark, at next year's Commonwealth Shooting Championships.
Athens Olympics silver-medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Tuesday, clinched the double trap gold medal ahead of former world number one Ronjan Sodhi and Mohammad Asab at the 56th Shooting National Championship in New Delhi.
The former won the 50m rifle 3-position event while Rathore topped the men's double trap in the shooting competition at the Afro-Asian Games.
Four of seven Bharatiya Janata Party MPs who fought the Rajasthan assembly elections won their respective seats while three others lost the polls.
The chargesheet submitted in a Raipur court on July 8 claimed the trio, who was in a truck, was chased by five accused in cars for 53km before they jumped off the bridge, the police sources said on Wednesday.
A BSP functionary said it was a "planned murder" and claimed there was an "intelligence failure." Therefore, the central agency should probe the case.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was named the flag bearer of the Indian contingent for the Beijing Games starting August 8. Rathore was India's lone medallist in the Athens Games where he claimed silver in the double trap event.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) will be renamed and restructured to make it more "lean and professional" with the government aiming to bring down its strength by 50 per cent by 2022, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Friday.
Gagan Narang lauded the Indian shooting contingent for their fantastic performances
Eight years ago Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore was the cynosure of all eyes when he won the silver medal at the Athens Olympics; today he sits on the crossroad, says Harish Kotian.
In a move that has shocked the friends of Ruchika Girhotra, the Central Administrative Tribunal has restored the pension of former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who was convicted of molesting her. A division bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal headed by Justice S D Anand has ordered the restoration of the pension of Rathore, which was stopped by the Centre in June last year. Rathore, 69, was awarded six months' rigorous imprisonment.
It was double delight for Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore as the shooter clinched the individual double trap gold medal and then equalled the world record in team event at the Asian Shotgun Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
The cricket fraternity, including new T20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav and new head coach Gautam Gambhir, also joined in to congratulate the duo.
"My preparations are on. Whether I will win a gold or not cannot be said but I am confident and would try to give my best," Rathore told PTI in Jaipur.
Rathore shot 139 in the qualifying rounds, but it was not enough to figure among the finalists at the World Shooting Championships.
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