Twenty-one sportspersons, including cricketer Virender Sehwag, footballer I M Vijayan and hockey player Gagan Ajit Singh, have been named for the Arjuna awards 2002.
Ravinder Gosain, 60, was returning home after attending a morning drill at RSS shakha when he was attacked.
Defender Dilip Tirkey will lead the team for the four-Test series, starting on September 24.
Sanjeev Rajput was the highest placed Indian at the 13th position in the ISSF World Cup.
Gagan Narang and Samaresh Jung earned India two more gold medals at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne.
PM Modi proposed a USD one billion line of credit to promote projects that support physical and digital connectivity between India and ASEAN.
India beat Ireland 6-2 to win the third and last Test in Cologne, Germany.
Deepak Thakur and Kanwalpreet Singh scored two goals each as India registered their second victory in the four-nation hockey tournament in Dusseldorf.
Sher-e-Jalandhar beat a fighting Maratha Warriors 3-0 via tie-breaker in the Premier Hockey League.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored a brace in a 5-0 victory in the Premier Hockey League.
Gagan Ajit Singh, Jugraj Singh and Prabhjot Singh are shortlisted Young Player of the Year award, while Devesh Chauhan and Dilip Tirkey are in the running for the senior award.
The IHF president said he made the "mistake" of including the likes of Dhanraj Pillay in the team for the Olympics.
Olympic Association is yet to get an official confirmation about shooting being scrapped from the programme of 2022 Commonwealth Games but said it will ask the organisers to reconsider its decision.
Gagan Ajit Singh scored three minutes before the final whistle in a Super League match of the Nehru hockey tournament.
The 25-year-old GAIL employee was three shots ahead of his nearest competitor and elder brother Simarjeet Singh after round 3 in the Royal Challenge golf championship.
Social activist Anna Hazare has called upon his supporters to ignore the threat to his life and to continue working.
India scored twice in each half for a 4-1 win in the Hamburg Masters hockey tournament.
OGQ has launched a crowd funding campaign to assist training and preparation of their potential medal winning athletes -- Irfan KT (Race Walking), Vikas Gowda (Discus Throw), Ayonika Paul and Pooja Ghatkar (both Rifle Shooting).
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The duo enabled North Zone gain a 95-run first innings lead over Central in the Duleep Trophy match.
Central Zone were 532 for seven in the first innings on the second day of the Duleep Trophy league match
The opener was unbeaten on 145 as Central ended day one of the Duleep Trophy match against West on 227 for 2.
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday arrested the CEO of a defaulting firm on money laundering charge in connection with its probe in the National Spot Exchange Limited scam case.
India's hockey coach said the fine performance Down Under was possible due to the induction of several members of the junior World Cup-winning team.
Sometimes it is not meant to be, says legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar after the Indian team faced defeat by nine runs to England in the ICC Women's World Cup.
'The government has just scratched the tip of the surface with the recent announcement. They are not realising the gravity of the situation.'
The Kolkata pro extended his lead to eight strokes at the end of the penultimate round of the tournament.\n\n
Sharma scalped six for 18 as Rajasthan took a commanding first innings lead of 135 on the second day at the Manasarovar Stadium.
A 3-1 victory over Pakistan in the final gave India the gold medal.
World champion Olga Dovogun recorded the magical score to win the women's 50m sport rifle prone gold at the Afro Asian Games.
Prabhjot Singh and Gagan Ajit Singh scored a brace each in a 5-1 victory in the men's hockey tournament at the Afro Asian Games.
The star-studded shooting squad was expectedly on target, while the track-and-field athletes continued their golden run as India held on firmly to the top spot by remaining way ahead of competition on the sixth day of the 12th South Asian Games in Guwahati
Wazir has some good songs but they will not be memorable, feels Aelina Kapoor.
They avenged their narrow loss in the first leg of the Hockey Australia Men's Challenge.
A 22-year-old Sikh man broke religious protocol by removing his turban to help a profusely bleeding child following a road accident in New Zealand, garnering praise for his humanitarian effort, a media report said.
It remains to be seen whether veteran Gautam Gambhir can make a comeback to the Indian ODI team after being recently called up to the Test squad to replace the injured KL Rahul.
The Central Bureau of Investigation will be filing a fresh case in connection with alleged irregularities in connection with allocation of coal blocks by the end of this month in which it may name a corporate and certain former officials of the Union coal ministry.
Heena Sidhu gave India its third gold medal in shooting at the ongoing Commonwealth Games, leaving a host of seasoned campaigners in the shade in the women's 25 metres pistol event on Tuesday.
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