Team India will compete in 15 sporting disciplines as well as four disciplines in the para sports category.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
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The owner of a sugar factory in Bihar has alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rama Devi demanded Rs 5 lakh from him for BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's Hunkar rally in Patna on October 27.
Speculation is rife that Bihar's ruling Janata Dal-United is likely to support the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance's choice for the upcoming Presidential poll. This ties in with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's refusal to attend the meeting of non-BJP parties called by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on May 26. The meeting will discuss the presidential polls and the way ahead for the opposition to tackle the BJP.
A purported video of Lok Janshakti Party president Chirag Paswan rehearsing for a video message a day after the death of his father, one of the foremost Dalit leaders Bihar produced after Jagjivan Ram, has gone viral.
The cyber police of the Mumbai crime branch on Thursday arrested a 28-year-old man from Odisha in connection with the case of Bulli Bai app, which targeted Muslim women by putting up their images online for "auction", an official said.
At least five soldiers were trapped when a series of avalanches hit the Batalik sector in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir clamping down an army post on Thursday.
Former India captain Kapil Dev wants Shantakumaran Sreesanth, who was banned for life following allegations of spot-fixing, to cite enough examples to back his claims of facing a rough treatment from the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
The opposition hit the roof and likened rulers of the state to Hitler, Mussolini and Kim Jong Un, though the department came out with a clarification that the controversy was stemmed from 'wrong interpretation' of a paragraph in the missive that ran into many pages.
A day after Janata Dal-United and Bharatiya Janata Party clashed in the Upper House of the Bihar assembly peace was restored in the House today following the Chairman giving a clean chit to former Chief Minister Nitish Kumar accused of instigating the scuffle and the leader of opposition expressing regret about the episode.
the silver lining is that the men's 4x400m relay team is set to qualify for the World Championships as it is placed at 14th out of 16 to make the cut.
The arrest came barely a few hours after a Bhagalpur court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Shashwat against whom an arrest warrant was issued on March 24.
Despite being the MP from Lakhimpur, Teni is not actively involved in campaigning for the assembly polls as according to party insiders, the BJP does not want to risk its chances by using him.
Chaudhary sent his resignation immediately after assuming charge at 1 pm, informed sources said.
Katju who hit back at Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for his critical remarks and churned out more taunting posts.
RJD chief Lalu Prasad took out a march on the main roads in Bihar capital on Sunday to protest against the Modi government's failure to bring black money.
Swami Prasad Maurya, who recently stirred controversy over his remarks on Ramcharitmanas, and veteran leader Azam Khan are also among the 14 national general secretaries.
Jahan has alleged that Shami "took money from a Pakistani woman named Alishba at the insistence of an England-based businessman Mohammad Bhai".
A case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was registered on Friday against two members of the trust of the Indore temple where a floor cave-in a day earlier hurtled devotees into a stepwell, killing 36 persons, a police official said.
Unheralded Abha Khatua equalled the women's shot put national record of 18.06m while winning silver in a surprise performance.
Mahto and Yadav, who were reportedly charged with minor offences, were claimed to be serving Lalu as helper and cook.
All's fair in politics? The Bihar CM stroke a controversy by visiting a tantrik.
The CBI contended before the Delhi high court on Tuesday that there were glaring illegalities in the trial court judgment that acquitted former telecom minister A Raja and others in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case.
"The court of Additional Sessions Judge/First MP-MLA Court Durgesh also imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Mukhtar and Rs 1 lakh on Afzal," ADGC Criminal Neeraj Srivastava said.
Four suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba militants and two soldiers were on Sunday killed in two separate operations close to Line of Control in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Someone who confessed he would have been beating buffaloes with sticks had it not been for the javelin went on to win India's first Olympic gold medal in athletics.
Eldhose Paul led India's historic 1-2 finish in men's triple jump at the Commonwealth Games as he won a rare gold medal in track and field events and was followed by fellow Kerala athlete Abdulla Aboobacker in Birmingham on Sunday.
A hurt but 'relieved' Mohammed Shami, on Thursday, said that he was always confident about proving his innocence in the wake of corruption allegations levelled against him by his wife Hasin Jahan.
It's party time for Ayushmann Khurrana, at home and at work! A day after the actor celebrated his wife Tahira's birthday, he attended a 'success party' for his new trailer Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.
The accused has no political affiliation, initial probe suggests.
Union Minister Gen (Retd) V K Singh has said that the Indian Army is capable of executing daring operations to avenge 26/11-like attacks by eliminating offshore criminals but certain "considerations" preventing it from doing so.
Here's how lucky Akki has been at the box office so far!
A Delhi court on Friday convicted 17 Uttarakhand Police personnel, seven of them for murder and others for various offences including criminal conspiracy and kidnapping in a fake encounter case in which an MBA student was shot dead in Uttarakhand in 2009.
Omission of the name and photograph of former chief minister Nitish Kumar from the site of NTPC power plant at Barh, where a unit is being dedicated to the people on Saturday, triggered a war of words between rival parties.
Prashant Kishor's remarks have ruffled some feathers within his own party
Special CBI judge J P S Malik handed down the jail term to the 17 policemen after holding them guilty on June 6 of involvement in the conspiracy to kidnap and kill Ghaziabad resident Ranbir Singh, who went to Dehradun to take up a job on July 3, 2009.
According to sources, the eight people were arrested from Delhi and the numbers could go up as teams have been sent to make more arrests.
The Supreme Court appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) Chairman Vinod Rai on Wednesday defended the Board of Control for Cricket in India's anti-corruption unit, saying a three-member team can't be everywhere, after the board suspended MCA curator Pandurang Salgaoncar for allegedly claiming that he could tamper with the pitch ahead of the India-New Zealand ODI.
"Nyay ki jeet hui hain (truth has triumphed)," Kumar said soon after the apex court's verdict upholding a CBI probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide.
