In a heartwarming gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sat on the floor to accept a gift from Paralympic gold medallist Navdeep Singh.
Images from Day 7 of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.
'I am going to represent India for the third time in the Olympics. I won a Silver medal in 2016 and in 2020, I won a Bronze medal. I hope to change the colour of the medal this year.'
Gagan Narang lauded the Indian shooting contingent for their fantastic performances
Olympic gold medalist Sheikh Ahmed al-Maktoum is confident that the Indian will win doubles trap gold at the Asian Games.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Olympic and World Championships gold medalist Neeraj Chopra following his silver medal win at the ongoing Paris Olympics
Jay Bhagwan won his opening bout in the 2011 Asian Confederation Boxing Championships, beating Zorigtbaatar Enkhzorig of Mongolia, in the 60 kg category, 19:12 on points.
Fuge earlier got the better of fellow Indian Priyansh 147-146 in the quarter-final.
Athens Olympics silver medalist Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore failed to find a place while rising talents Heena Sidhu and Joydeep Karmakar got the nod in the 11-member Indian shooting team, announced on Sunday for the London Olympics.
Images of the Padma Shri conferred on sports stars on Thursday
Vinesh demonstrated her dominance by defeating Jyoti in just two minutes.
Speaking exclusively to Aruneel Sadadekar/Rediff.com, the Haryana-based wrestler shed light on the latest reports of Asgarov testing positive and Sakshi Malik's bronze medal feat at the Rio Olympics.
London Olympics silver medalist shooter Vijay Kumar was honoured with the 'Services Best Sportsman' award for 2012 at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi on Friday.
'The Paris Olympics has once again blessed the Indian sports marketing landscape with fresh faces and promises.' 'Expect at least one biopic.'
Gold-medal favorites United States, Japan and Brazil won their matches on the first day of women's football on Wednesday, but all the talk was about an embarrassing mistake by organizers who displayed the South Korean flag instead of the North Korean one before a game in Glasgow.
The second sample of Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska, who has been provisionally suspended from the Beijing Games, tested positive for steroids, the IOC said on Thursday.
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'.
India's Asian Games silver medalist Dinesh Kumar (81kg) and compatriot Balwinder Beniwal (69kg) lost their opening round bouts to their respective opponents in the Giraldo Cordova Cardin Memorial Boxing tournament in Havana, Cuba on Saturday.
India finish with four medals in World Cup Stage 3.
Asian Youth silver medalist Devendro Singh sensationally out-classed his rival within the first three minutes of his bout while former Commonwealth champion Sunil Kumar toiled hard for his opening win in the 57th Senior Men's National Boxing Championships in New Delhi.
India clinched one gold and one bronze in the recurve section to finish second behind Korea with six medals in the Asian Archery Championship that concluded in Chinese Taipei on Saturday.
Tamanna (50kg) and Nivedita Karki (48kg), silver medalists in the previous edition, were among five Indian women boxers who won gold in the youth competition of the Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan on Monday.
India's Monica Devi win's bronze in 75 kg category in the weightlifting event of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
India put up a lion-hearted performance to beat South Africa 3-1 in their final Pool A match in New Delhi but it was not enough to guarantee the home team a place in the semi-finals as the reigning silver medalist crashed out of the women's hockey event of the Commonwealth Games on goal difference.
India's K Ravi Kumar created a new Commonwealth Games record with a total lift of 321kgs as he grabbed gold in the 69-kg category in the weightlifting competition in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Images from Day 1 of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games.
Reigning silver medalists India were held to a 1-1 draw by lowly Scotland in their opening Pool A match of the women's hockey event at the Commonwealth Games, at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on Monday. The Indians fought back from a 0-1 deficit and scored through Jasjeet Kaur Handa (45th minute) after Scotland took the lead in the third minute from a Holly Gram field goal.
In 2022, he raced past Usain Bolt, 'the world's fastest man', to become the world's most written-about athlete. The attention has followed a stream of medals: Asian Games gold twice, an Olympic gold, and silver and gold at the World Athletics Championships.
'I want to take Durga Maa's blessings and achieve a lot more'
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Wednesday showed his wrestling prowess as he defeated 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medalist Andrey Stadnik in a promotional bout of the 2017 Pro Wrestling League in New Delhi.
Rathore shot 139 in the qualifying rounds, but it was not enough to figure among the finalists at the World Shooting Championships.
Shooter Shweta Chaudhry gave India their first medal on the opening day action of the 17th Asian Games after the Faridabad girl clinched bronze in the Women 10m Air Pistol Finals, in Incheon on Saturday.
A look at how India's athletes fared on Day 4, Tuesday, July 30, 2024:
Jamaica's Elaine Thompson completed a memorable sprint double on Wednesday after storming to victory in the women's 200 metres final, blowing away the field with a season's best run of 21.78 seconds.
Sprinter Katerina Thanou was named on Monday in the Greek team for the Beijing Olympics opening next week setting up a potential confrontation with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Now that Sindhu has joined the revenue service in the AP government, there are chances of her being inducted into the Indian Administrative Service seven or eight years down the line.
Rahul Ramagude plays cricket from a wheelchair. Geeta Chauhan is a wheelchair racer with Olympic aspirations. Siddanth uses technology to enhance movement coordination of mentally challenged children. On the International Day of the Disabled, A Ganesh Nadar meets three youngsters making a difference.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga smashed two Games records on his way to a sensational gold medal win
Olusoji Fasuba of Nigeria defied doctors advice to skip the All Africa Games and is now on the threshold of another conquest.
India registered their first win in group A league of the 16th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament on Sunday.
