Here are the Indian Super Moms' at the Hangzhou Asian Games beginning on September 23.
The Commonwealth Games Federation said the organisers need to address some 'slippages' immediately.
After a CAG report rapped the Delhi government for irregularities in CWG projects and dragged the prime minister's office in the 2G spectrum case, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday appeared all set to raise these issues in Parliament and even force adjournment of the two Houses.
A Delhi court on Monday allowed the Central Bureau of Investigation to quiz former Commonwealth Games Organising Committee officials T S Darbari and Sanjay Mahendroo for six days in its custody after the probe agency said it has recovered "voluminous incriminating" documents from their houses and CWG office revealing graft.
India held on to sixth place in the medals tally
Legal tangles might have caused some delay but more than half of the construction work at the 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) village in New Delhi is over and the facility would be ready in March next year, the Sports Ministry said on Tuesday. The Minister also assured that the Games' venues would be world class.
Since hockey's introduction at Commonwealth Games 24 years ago, World No.1 Australia have been the most dominant force, having won all six gold medals till date.
T S Darbari, a close associate of the CWG organising committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi, was granted bail by the Delhi High Court after the Central Bureau of Investigation failed to file the chargesheet against him for alleged bunglings in the Queen Baton's relay in London in 2009.
A summary of Indian athletes' performance on Wednesday, Day 6 of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Saikhom Mirabai Chanu will start as overwhelming favourite to clinch the top prize in women's 48kg category at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast next month.
Tejaswin overcomes world champion's challenge to win high jump gold
In the ongoing Women's World Championship, Jaismine Lamboria clinched her opening bout on Friday.
Pakistan-based Sikh militants, supported by the Inter Services Intelligence, might carry out bomb blasts in New Delhi before the Commonwealth Games, the Punjab police has alerted. An advisory circulated recently among all senior officers in the state by the intelligence department of the Punjab police has pointed out that Sikh militant leaders based in Pakistan are under 'tremendous pressure' from the ISI to carry out sabotage activities in India before the Games.
A Delhi court on Wednesday dismissed the bail plea of five people, arrested for their alleged roles in a Commonwealth Games-related corruption case and decided to hold day-to-day proceedings in the case.
Saina Nehwal's chances of defending her title at the Commonwealth Games looks bleak as she has decided to skip the selection trials for the upcoming multi-sport events.
Delhi Police chief Y S Dadwal has personally taken charge of the deployment of over 1 lakh personnel drawn from the city police, Central Reserve Police Force, Rashtriya Rifles and other paramilitary forces to ensure that all loopholes are plugged. =
To thwart possible corruption by its personnel during the upcoming Commonwealth Games, the Delhi police is planning to have special vigilance teams, which will keep a hawkish eye on its men during the sporting event.
The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Sheila Dikshit.
Recognition in their own country will be enough for the players who fund their trips for all international tournaments
''I want to send my parents for Umrah because Ramazan is going on.'
The Centre on Tuesday admitted in the Rajya Sabha that diversion of funds meant for the welfare of Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribes to Commonwealth Games projects by the Delhi government was 'wrong' and efforts would be made to bring them back to the SC/ST Fund. "In my view, using Rs 678.91 crore out of the Schedule Caste Sub Plan to contribute for CWG appears to be wrong," Home Minister P Chidambaram said.
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's promise of completing all Commonwealth Games projects being implemented by her government by the extended deadline of August 31 is appearing to fall flat.
That was a phase, this is also a phase -- was philosophical Sushil Kumar's first reaction as he celebrated his third successive gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the build-up to which was marred by a selection controversy and questions over his fitness.
The national capital on Wednesday recorded the highest single-day incidence of dengue this season with 54 more patients testing positive for the disease, taking the total number of cases to 550.
Wrestlers express disappointment with PT Usha's comments.
The Queen's Baton of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games was showcashed at the historic Qutub Minar as the QBR's India leg ended on the second day of its stop in New Delhi on Sunday.
The sources said the CBI raids started early in the morning and are focussed on four companies, which had acted as the Indian arm for the same number of international firms. The contracts were bagged by consortium of foreign and Indian firms.
As the possibility of a COVID-19 third wave escalates by the day, Indians continue their relentless battle against the virus.
Facing the wrestling fraternity's wrath for accepting exemption from the Asian Games trials, Vinesh Phogat and Bajrang Punia on Monday said they are hurt that young wresters dragged them to the court.
India has reversed its decision to pull out its hockey teams from next year's Birmingham Commonwealth Games and will compete in the multi-sport quadrennial event 'if they qualify', a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) official said on Saturday.
From the boxing ring to the shooting range to the athletics arena, it was India shining on the penultimate day of the 21st Commonwealth Games where the country claimed its biggest single-day haul of the ongoing edition, ensnaring eight gold medals across five disciplines.
Either Sanjay Kumar Singh or 2010 CWG champion Anita Sheoran will become the next WFI President.
India's Sports Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar participated in the anniversary celebrations of London winning its bid to host 2012 Olympics
The Chennai paddler feels that it's about time that he changes colour of the medal to gold during the upcoming edition in Gold Coast.
In the first phase, the company will sponsor 25 vehicles on five routes, including Chandni Chowk, Saket, IIT-SDA market area, GK-II and Delhi University-North Campus, Vodafone told reporters in New Delhi.
The Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) said Sunday's tourist shooting in New Delhi will not change its Commonwealth Games plans. New Zealand's Prime Minister, meanwhile, remained confident of his country's participation in next month's multi-sport event.
India's top shuttler P V Sindhu is targetting peak form during the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games this year to ensure that she clinches the two titles missing from her cabinet.
While the anti-corruption watchdogs smell a proverbial rat in the construction works, a veterinary team has been assigned the job of removing the actual rodents from the Commonwealth Games venues by mid-September.
97 people lost the battle to coronavirus in the last four days. Of them, seven were aged below 18, including three who had not even turned a year old. One of the babies was aged three months and the other seven months.
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