Soma Biswas and Sushmita Singha Roy won gold and silver respectively at the 16th Asian Athletics Championship in Incheon City, Korea.
She tested positive for the prohibited stimulant pemoline during competition at the championships in Helsinki which ended on Sunday.
The discus thrower is likely to be found guilty after testing positive for pemoline at the World Athletics Championships at Helsinki.
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All athletes in the Indian team for Athens Olympics are clean, a top Athletics Federation of India official said.
The panel to probe the doping charges against the discus thrower will present a report to the AFI by the end of October.
IIM-Lucknow is likely to raise its annual fee from the present Rs 1.69 lakh to Rs 1.84 lakh per annum.
Anju tops the list of women's long jumpers while the US-based Gowda is the top-ranked men's discus thrower.
Ace long jumper Anju Bobby George would lead India's challenge in the Asian Grand Prix series in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
Bach, IOC President, has been invited to visit India for a meeting with Prime Minister Modi.
Save that one-lap race, most of the events at the Open National Athletics Championships lack quality fields.
BJP's Colonel Rajyavardhan Rathore and Congress's Krishna Poonia face each other on Jaipur seat.
The meeting took place in the backdrop of drought-like conditions prevailing in some parts of the country.
The discus thrower made the grade after finishing third with a throw of 63.29 meters in an IAAF meeting, in Szombathely, Hungary, recently.
India continued their stranglehold in women's 4x400m relay event in the Asian Games as its quartet ran a brilliant race to win the gold for the fourth time on the trot in Games record time in the 17th edition in Incheon on Thursday.
The Indian team for the SAF Games in Islamabad will be chosen on the performance in the championships.
The Queen's Baton of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games was showcashed at the historic Qutub Minar as the QBR's India leg ended on the second day of its stop in New Delhi on Sunday.
They won the women's discuss throw and men's shot put respectively at the Afro-Asian Games.
Anju George, Anil Kumar and J J Sobha won gold medals as India scooped up nine medals from athletics.
The government on Monday asked the Indian Institutes of Management to come out with a common fee structure so that the issue could be resolved by the end of next month.
Eight track and field finals, including the women's 10,000 metres and men's triple jump, will be held during morning sessions at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, the International Association of Athletics Federation said on Monday.
A top official from the national federation of a prominent Olympic sport asked if Batra would deem the competition good enough if shooting is brought back into the CWG fold.
American Ashton Eaton retained the decathlon world title on Saturday and broke his own world record with a score of 9,045 points.
The Olympic silver medallist surpassed American Ashton Eaton's 9,045 total at the 2015 world championships in Beijing.
Promising sprinter Dutee Chand bagged her second gold medal, winning the women's 200 metres, in a clean sweep of medals by Indians at the Taiwan Open Athletics Championships, Taoyuan City, Taiwan, on Friday.
India's leading table tennis player Sharath Kamal, who was ignored for Padma Shri, feels the existing awards application system makes the athletes beg for the honour.
American Ashton Eaton won his second straight Olympic decathlon gold medal on Thursday, extending his reign in a sport whose champion earns the title of the world's greatest athlete.
National record holder Sudha Singh of Railways bettered her own meet mark while winning gold in the women's 3000m steeplechase on the third and penultimate day of the 53rd National Open Athletics Championships in Ranchi on Monday.
Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell was banned for 18 months by a Jamaican anti-doping disciplinary panel on Thursday after he tested positive for a banned substance last year.
It was disappointing for Jinson Johnson not to win the 800m but the 1500m Asiad champion was far from surprised that compatriot Manjit Singh pipped him for the top prize in his pet 800m event.
The spotlight will be on Neeraj Chopra and Hima Das while Dutee Chand would look to prove a point when India's track and field athletes begin their campaign in the Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday.
Track and field success at the Olympics has largely eluded India
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