The final bid for top Indian shooters Rajyavrdhan Singh Rathore and Anjali Bhagwat to qualify for London Olympics ended in disappointment as they failed to make it to the final round in their respective events in the Asian Shooting Championships.
Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Wednesday said the Khelo India initiative, which focussed on infrastructure development till now, will look to ensure all-round growth in its revamped form.
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.
Rathore kept his lead to muster 141 out of 150 in the initial rounds of the National Shooting Championship and then fired 45 in the final round to take his tally to 186 for the gold medal.
The country's enemies, like Dawood Ibrahim and LeT chief Hafiz Saeed, should not believe that India is not "thinking" anything about them, Union minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's teenager son Manavaditya Rathore won a silver medal in the Trap Event at the 5th Junior International Shotgun Competition being held at Orimatiila, Finland.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore joined the Sahara after receiving the nod from the government and the Indian Army
Former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back.
Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore will not part be a part of the Indian shooting team at the Commonwealth Games as he stands disqualified for selection after missing the trials.
68-year-old Rathore was convicted for molesting budding tennis player Ruchika who later committed suicide, but he got away with six months imprisonment.
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SPS Rathore's lawyer wife Abha, who has challenged his conviction in Ruchika molestation case, on Wednesday told the court that the prosecution had failed to hear certain key witnesses present at the scene of the alleged crime who could have unravelled the entire truth.
Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday agreed to grant adequate time to the counsel for disgraced former director general of police SPS Rathore to argue his petition seeking anticipatory bail in two fresh first investigation reports levelling serious criminal charges against him in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore says his damaged gun cost him a place in final of the double trap event at World Shooting Championships.
The Indian ace fired a total of 181 to win the gold in the men's double trap shooting event at the 18th Commonwealth Games.
Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's teenaged son Manavaditya clinched a bronze as Indian shooters dished out an impressive performance, winning seven medals, including two gold, at the ongoing third Asian Shotgun Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation is likely to quiz former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore on Friday in connection with the three fresh cases registered against him for molesting budding tennis player Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago.
A court in Panchkula on Thursday reserved an order on the anticipatory bail plea filed by disgraced former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, in connection with the two fresh FIRs files by the state police, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.Rathore, who molested 14-year-old Ruchika in 1990, was granted anticipatory bail by the sessions court in Panchkula on January 1.Ruchika had committed suicide a few years after the incident.
Copies of the fresh FIRs lodged by the Haryana Police against former Director General of Police S P S Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case were submitted on Thursdayin court by his lawyer-wife Abha.
Former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, who has been keeping a low profile following an uproar after he got away lightly in the Ruchika case, on Wednesday stepped out of his residence to meet his lawyer in the wake of fresh FIRs being filed against him.
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.
A sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore till February 8 in his case challenging a Central Bureau of Investigation special court's verdict sentencing him to six months imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1,000 for molesting Ruchika Girhotra in 1990.
Mahendra Singh, whose death has convulsed the Mewar royal family's succession issues, was himself excluded from the family trust by his father who gave control to the younger son, Arvind Singh. It is this decision that years later has cast a shadow on Vishvaraj Singh's coronation, reports Prakash Bhandari.
Actress Kaajal Vashisht talks about her big break in last week's big hit Rowdy Rathore.
The 34-year-old armyman, who won the country's first ever Olympic silver medal in the double trap shooting event, was received at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by the Union Sports Minister Sunil Dutt and top army officials.
Four of seven Bharatiya Janata Party MPs who fought the Rajasthan assembly elections won their respective seats while three others lost the polls.
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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.
Commencing final arguments on a batch of pleas against the verdict, the bench, heard senior lawyers including Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Salman Khursheed and Menaka Guruswamy for the petitioners.
Athens Olympics silver medallist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore failed to make it to the final of the double trap shooting event at the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday. He shot a series of 43,45,43,131 to finish 12th among 19 shooters. Samresh Jung's woeful form in the Olympics continued and he failed to make the 50m pistol final of the shooting competition, finishing a disappointing 42nd in the qualification round.
Allowing the plea of 2004 Olympics silver medallist shooter Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, the Delhi High Court today ordered the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) to hold elections within eight weeks for four members from the category of life members in Wide Life Association.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
National-award winning actor, producer, hotelier, ex-politician, cricket team owner, philanthropist, highest tax payer, reality show judge, animal lover and, above all, people's hero -- Mithun Chakraborty -- who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award -- is truly a force of nature, notes Sukanya Verma.
'We will do not deny merit... merit has to be the sole criteria in a measurable sport. Heena has been consistent and yesterday she shot 385 (at practice) which, in our opinion, is an Olympic final score,' NRAI president Raninder Singh told reporters in Delhi.
With the dissolution of former chief statistician Pronab Sen-led Standing Committee on Statistics (SCoS) by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), the National Statistical Commission (NSC) has regained prominence as the primary statistical body to address issues regarding results, methodology and questionnaire, among others. A MoSPI official in an email informed the 16-member SCoS about the decision to dissolve it, citing that its work was "overlapping" with that of the Steering Committee for National Sample Surveys (NSS), which was set up in June this year.
Athens Olympic silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Wednesday lashed out at the National Rifle Shooting Association of India (NRAI) for leaving him out of the Commonwealth Games squad on the basis of 'unfair selection policy'.
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A seven-member special investigation team has been constituted by the Haryana police to investigate two fresh FIRs registered against former director general of police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The two complaints were lodged by Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and brother Aashu, seeking filing of cases against Rathore and other police officials, for slapping false cases against the boy and for 'doctoring' Ruchika's post-mortem report.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till September 29 the hearing on two fresh FIRs filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder after the Central Bureau of Investigation again sought more time to file its reply.
