Kumar beat Kazakhstan's Leonid Spiridonov 3:1 in the 65 kg freestyle event at the Beijing Games on Wednesday.
Cash rewards to the tune of Rs 1.66 crore and other goodies were showered on India's first Olympic individual gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, whose historic feat at the shooting range in Beijing sparked street celebrations across the country. The Chandigarh marksman, who clinched the gold in 10m air rifle event, will be given Rs one crore by the Punjab government.
Sania Mirza opens her singles campaign against Czech Iveta Benesova at the Olympics Games on Monday.
Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra hopes his gold medal gives a boost to sports in a cricket-crazy India.
The Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) on Wednesday formally announced that the Champions Twenty20 League will be held in India in September-October but were still undecided on the fourth participating country in the event. IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi, Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland, Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola, IPL CEO Sunder Raman and ICC's principal advisor I S Bindra held parleys to decide on the event.
'I have grown up in an environment where the dominant narrative of Indian sporting achievement was -- We can't.' 'These achievers have fought hard, built on each other's body of work and knowledge, and have today changed the script to -- We can,' notes Rahul Dravid,cricketing legend.
Former batting ace Sunil Gavaskar says India will progress on the sports front if every Olympic discipline is turned into a viable career option. 'If you make every sport in our country a viable career option you will see the difference. I think India will blast through medals,' Gavaskar said, addressing a 400-odd audience at the 13th annual Wharton India Economic forum, in Philadelphia.
'A goal should be set to take our medal tally to ten at the London Olympics in 2012.'
With the hope that 2018 will be a prosperous and peaceful year, our favourite sports personalities took to their social media handles to wish their fans a very `Happy New Year`.
For the first time, Chevron Corp of the US, one of the largest global energy companies, will be recruiting from Indian institutes for its global operations.
India's Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra says fame or publicity were never the motivation behind winning a gold medal.
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The two-year-old Mittal Champions Trust, set up by the world's richest Indian Lakshmi Niwas Mittal, is not satisfied with the results at the Beijing Olympics that yielded just one medal from the 56-strong Indian squad.
Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic gold medallist, said he felt sort of empty as he stood atop the podium during the presentation ceremony for the 10 metre Air Rifle event at the Beijing Olympics.
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'It will take a minor miracle for the deal to beat the clock ticking away in the US Congress, but Abhinav Bindra just proved that the age of miracles isn't over yet.'
India's cricket board hopes to keep offensive language and rude gestures out of the Indian Premier League by having the eight team captains take a pledge to abide by the "spirit of cricket".
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends on Monday to keep alive the dream of an unprecedented eight Olympic golds.
They are small town boys who went on to make it big in global financial powerhouses.
He attended the meeting as a special invitee for being a former president of the BCCI but not as CCI representative.
Will the fans rush back to the stadium once sport resumes? Will training abroad be as hassle-free as it used to be? What about contact sports where social distancing can't really be practised? Some of India's biggest sportspersons -- current and former -- gave their views on future of sports once the action resumes.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes was reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct after he was charged for making inappropriate comments during the opening day's play in the third cricket Test against India in Mohali on Saturday.
Fat, in men, is stored in the lower abdominal region, which is why you develop a pot belly. Here's how you can get rid of it.
India's Prakash Nanjappa has earned a quota place for the 2016 Rio Olympics after finishing eighth in the finals of 50-metre men's pistol event at the ISSF World Cup in Gabala, Azerbaijan.
The IPL wouldn't have been the success it is had it not been for the fans in the stands.
Sunrisers Hyderabad produced a solid batting performance to beat Kings XI Punjab by seven wickets and virtually secure their place in the play-offs of the ongoing Indian Premier League.
Mat cameras would also be in place for leg before wicket decisions, however, its implementation would be subject to final clearance.
It was another golden day for India's shooters at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday as Samaresh Jung claimed a fourth gold medal.
The unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar chief Aditya Verma, who has shaken the BCCI by dragging it to the Supreme Court over the IPL spot-fixing scandal, has demanded that the Board's former President Shashank Manohar head the probe panel against the scam.
Young Indian shooter Lakshay claimed the silver medal in the men's trap event of the Asian Games, in Palembang, on Monday.
Seventy years after Independent India won its first Olympic gold in hockey in London defeating Britain, living legend Balbir Singh Sr. went down the memory lanes and said he was overwhelmed by a sense of patriotism after the triumph.
Focused on winning their first ever Olympic medal, the Indian archers will skip the much-awaited opening ceremony of the Rio Games on Friday.
The shooters bagged three gold and one silver medal in five events that took India's tally to four gold and three silver after two days.
Abhinav Bindra climbed 24 rungs to second position in the 10m Air Rifle rankings while Olympic silver medallist Lt Col Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore is fifth in the Double Trap event.
The state government is claiming damages for acquisition of the land on which the stadium in Mohali is built.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang shot bronze medal in the men's 10m Air Rifle in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing even though compatriots Abhinav Bindra and PT Raghunath failed to make the finals of the event. Gagan fired 99, 99, 99, 100, 100, 100 and 100 to total 597 that earned him a ticket in the final of the event.
Gagan Narang grabbed the spotlight on Friday, winning the men's 50m Rifle 3-position event, for his his fourth gold medal of the Games.
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