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New Delhi, Sep 14 (ANI): Boxer Vijender Singh, who has won a bronze medal for the first time in the World Boxing Championship, returned to New Delhi on Sunday night.

Vijender made India proud at the World Boxing Championships in Milan on Wednesday by winning a bronze medal. He is the first Indian to win [...]

Milan (Italy), Sep 11 (ANI): Beijing Olympics bronze medallist boxer Vijender Singh will exchange punches with Abbos Atoev, in the semi-finals of the middle weight category of the World Boxing Championship, here on Friday night.

Singh is the first Indian to appear in the semi finals of [...]

Melbourne, Sep 11 (ANI): The International Association of Athletics Federations is likely to strip champion runner Caster Semenya of the gold medal she won in Berlin last month, as a test has shown that she is a hermaphrodite – a person with both female and male [...]

New Delhi, Sep 1 (ANI): Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, who is in charge of the development of missile and strategic systems in the country, today took charge as scientific adviser to Defence Minister AK Antony and will also serve as Director General of [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Saturday presented the National Sports awards to 25 sportspersons at an impressive ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhawan here.

In a unique departure from established tradition, the coveted Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award was [...]

London, Aug 29(ANI): Portsmouth striker Kanu, who has won two African Player of the Year awards, has said that Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor is a serious threat to his reign as King of Africa.

Kanu is the most valued African footballer [...]

Thoubal (Manipur), Aug 29 (NAI): Laishram Sarita Devi, a seven times gold medallist in various international women’s boxing tourneys has been bestowed with the Arjuna Award, India’s prime honour for sportspersons. arita Devi (24) hails from Thoubal in Manipur.

Inspired by the feats of Muhmmad Ali, she took up this manly sport in 2000 and literally [...]

New Delhi, Aug.29 (ANI): The President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil, will confer the national sports awards on 25 sportspersons on Saturday.

For the first time, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award will be presented to two boxers-woman boxer M C Marykom and Beijing bronze medalist boxer Vijender Singh, and wrestler Sushil Kumar.

The country’s best boxer and [...]

New Delhi, Aug 27 (ANI): Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat has been appointed as scientific adviser to Defence Minister AK Antony and will also serve as Director General of the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

Dr. Saraswat, who will replace the present incumbent M Natarajan on [...]

Berlin (Germany), Aug.21 (ANI): South Africa’s 18-year-old 800 m gold medallist Caster Semenya has caused a sensation of sorts at the World Championships being held here.

Not only has she recorded the fastest time of the year by a woman, but she is also being called a man.ow, [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Liverpool FC skipper Steven Ggerrard has agreed to continue with the club till 2013 for a contract fee of 26 million pounds.

According to The Sun, Gerrard has insisted this will be his last deal and is seriously considering quitting at 33. “I”ll be 33 at the end of my contract and [...]

Imphal, July 8 (ANI): Mayengbam Suranjoy Singh of Manipur who recently won first Asian Championship Gold medal in 15 years at the Asian Boxing Championship held in China has inspired many young people in the north-east.

Suranjoy was recently felicitated in a ceremony organised by Sports Authority of India (SAI) and Youth Affairs and Sports Department [...]

Imphal, July 1 (ANI): A grand welcome was recently accorded to gold medallist, Mayengbam Suranjoy Singh of Manipur who gave India its first Asian Championship gold in 15 years at the Asian Boxing Championship held in China.

A reception ceremony was also held at the Khuman [...]

London, May 28 (ANI): Barcelona’s forward Thierry Henry was doubly happy, as he clinched a Champions League winners’ medal on his daughter’s birthday.

The Barcelona ace’s little daughter Tea turned four on Wednesday. And Henry, who lost in the 2006 final with Arsenal against Barca, said: “It [...]

Melbourne, May 23 (ANI): In the wake of several high-profile flare-ups involving the wives and girlfriends of Australian cricketers, Cricket Australia has invited partners of its players to a pre-England camp at Hyatt Coolum on the Sunshine Coast, in a bid to short-circuit the fractious relationships that hurt the 2005 series campaign.

The WAGs issue was [...]

Chandigarh, May 22 (ANI): Sarabjit Singh, who has been former Director General of Police from Punjab, has developed a special interest in collecting war medals.

The fascination to collect war medals started in 2001, when one day he happened to juggle through some medals at an antique shop. [...]

London, May 15 (ANI): Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard has vowed to turn 2010 into the greatest season of his life by winning the World Cup with England and title with Anfield.

The Anfield skipper’s Premier League hopes are all but over as he looks ahead to two crucial World Cup qualifiers for England next month. [...]

New Delhi, May 12 (ANI): Former Navy Chief Admiral Sardari Mathradas Nanda, who made the country realise the full potential of the Indian Navy during the Indo-Pak war of 1971, died in the capital after a prolonged illness.

Admiral Nanda was 94 and died at about 11 p.m. on Monday in Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj. [...]

Washington, May 12 (ANI): It looks like U.S. president Barack Obama has en eye for tall women. Ace basketball star Lisa Leslie has revealed Obama’s first words to her when the two met at his Inauguration, which were “You know I love tall women, right?”

The four-time Olympic gold medal winner, who is set to [...]

London, May 4 (ANI): Former Arsenal favourite Kanu is of the view that coach Arsene Wenger’s whole managerial reputation rests on whether he can guide his team to Champions League success this season.

The pressure is firmly on Wenger to beat Manchester United in tomorrow night’s semi-final return, and then go on to overcome either [...]