Ankita is now country's best-ranked singles (182) and doubles (95) player and is set to make her Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games next month.
The Indian Olympic Association presented cash rewards worth Rs 20 lakh, 10 lakh, and 7.5 lakh to the gold, silver and bronze medallists respectively.
Soccer's top flight Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) had already announced they were postponing their next round of fixtures.
V K Vismaya stunned her fancied opponents, M R Poovamma and Hima Das, to win the gold medal in the women's 400m race at the Indian Grand Prix-3, in Sangrur, on Saturday.
India women claim hockey CWG medal after 16 years
The Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Kapil Dev, Shantha Rangaswamy and Anshuman Gaekwad, who picked the current India coach have been to respond by October 10.
Former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin threw his weight behind WV Raman, saying there are very few sharper brains around in cricket than the recently-removed women's national team coach.
Ishan Kishan may have been labelled a 'hit-or-miss' player after his failure against New Zealand in the T20 World Cup, but the young wicketkeeper-batter's former coaches feel he can become a vital cog in India's white-ball cricket in the next few years.
'Ravi was very streetsmart, cricketsmart, so that made him more adaptable whenever situations changed or conditions changed.'
Yash Dhull set to open
Ten members of the Madhya Pradesh archery contingent escaped unhurt after their coach of the Dehradun-bound Shatabdi Express caught fire on Saturday.
Besides, the BAI also recommended renowned National Institute of Sports (NIS)-certified coaches -- S Murlidharan and Bhaskar Babu -- for the Dronacharya Award.
India will be represented by a record 15 shooters at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Indian Olympic Association President Narinder Batra today said that the country should aim to win 'double digit' medals at the Tokyo Olympics
Path-breaking tennis ace Sania Mirza takes pride in the fact that many of India's sporting stars, outside cricket, are women even though she believes that it will take a few more generations before being a sportswoman is seen as a natural career choice in the country. The winner of six Grand Slam titles, spoke on a range of issues including the role of parents and attitude of coaches towards women players during a webinar organised by the All India Tennis Association and the Sports Authority of India (SAI).
"The granting of the Freedom of the City of London recognises how they have added their voices to the growing global movement to stamp out racism."
Nikhat emerges as India's biggest star in a year filled with historic performances
The 42-year-old batsman played 31 Tests and scored 1,944 runs, at an average of 34.11. He has five hundreds and 11 fifties in the longest format, with 212 his highest score.
The Headlingley triumph marked the start of a new and important chapter in Indian cricket, with the Indians winning consistently away from home from that point onwards.
Sumit Nagal has been dropped from the five-member Indian Davis Cup team for the World Group 1 play-off tie against Denmark in New Delhi next month.
'My nature isn't such that I will harm anyone to the extent of ending someone's career. So on grounds of humanity looking at his/her family, I am not exposing the name for the time being.'
In para taekwondo, India will be solely represented by 21-year-old Aruna Tanwar. The Haryana-based athlete, who will participate in the women's under 49kg K44 category, will be in action on September 2 from the round-of-16 rounds.
India have a real shot at winning their first ever away series against South Africa,
Hong Kong skipper Nizakhat Khan was seen receiving an autographed jersey from his Indian counterpart Rohit Sharma
Former Australia Test batsman Justin Langer ruled himself out of the running for the India and England coaching jobs.
Taking a strict action, the International Boxing Association (AIBA) has provisionally suspended India's woman boxer Laishram Sarita Devi for refusing to accept the bronze medal at the Asian Games podium ceremony.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Working on the rigorous requirements of five-day cricket will the biggest challenge for his team over the next six weeks, feels Afghanistan coach Phil Simmons
Curator Daljit Singh has retired a happy man after 22 years of service to Indian cricket. The groundstaff are no longer seen as gardeners and are getting due respect, a change that pleases him the most.
Baseball is one of several sports seeking a slice of the huge Indian market and its similarity with cricket, often called a religion in the country of 1.4 billion, could give it a head start, Major League Baseball (MLB) officials hope. MLB spent a decade and half studying the market before opening a sixth international office in New Delhi last year and was encouraged by the throwing, hitting and catching techniques that link America's pastime and India's obsession.
The Indian squad comprises many openers like Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, apart from Dhawan and Shaw, but Raman felt that having played for India earlier would go into Shaw's favour.
The untimely Mumbai monsoon threatens to play spoilsport as there is a fair chance of first day's play being affected by rain during the second Test between India and New Zealand, starting on Friday.
Former India table tennis player Venugopal Chandrasekhar died at a private hospital in Chennai on Wednesday due to COVID-19 related complications.
Bangladesh gearing up for their biggest battle against defending champions India in the cricket World Cup quarter-finals.
News of all that tranpired on and off the football field.
Mumbai FC coach Khalid Jamil looks back on his playing days and the challenge of coaching.
Images from the second One-Day International between South Africa and India, in Paarl, on Friday.
Harbhajan Singh said he is not averse to joining politics but would like to put in a lot of thought
'To represent one's country at the biggest stage is what drives us.' 'My goal is to reach the Olympics. So, Beijing 2022 it is!'
Chess champion Koneru Humpy has been nominated for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award
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