Lausanne, Dec 9 (IANS) A special system with a personalised approach to sporting disciplines and athletes defining the exact number of doping samples to be collected is necessary to fight the use of performance enhancing…
Lausanne, Dec 9 (IANS) Los Angeles, Budapest and Paris have successfully passed the second round of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Candidature Process for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the IOC has said. During the IOC…
By Tridib Baparnash Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) Birthday boy and local favourite Shiva Thapa’s thumping 5-0 win over Arunachal Pradesh’s Gumin Gara in the opening bout of the senior men’s National Championship was the lone…
Tehran, Dec 8 (IANS) India’s Ruchita Vinerkar claimed the bronze in the women’s 10m Air Pistol, the last event of the 9th Asian Championship 10m (Rifle/Pistol), which concluded here on Thursday. Ruchita shot 175.5 points…
Tehran, Dec 8 (IANS) Indias Ruchita Vinerkar claimed bronze in the womens 10m Air Pistol, the last event of the 9th Asian Championship 10m (Rifle/Pistol) which concluded here on Thursday. Ruchita shot 175.5 points in…
Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) Ending almost four years of uncertainty, Boxing Federation of India (BFI) President Ajay Singh said on Thursday that the country’s boxers will get an opportunity to test themselves when the Australian…
Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) Ending almost four years of uncertainty, Boxing Federation of India (BFI) President Ajay Singh said on Thursday that the country’s boxers will get an opportunity to test themselves when the Australian…
Guwahati, Dec 8 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Thursday reiterated his aim of turning Guwahati into India’s sporting capital during his tenure. Sonowal, who declared the 1st Elite (Senior) Men’s National Boxing Championship…
Lausanne, Dec 8 (IANS) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has decided to extend for an indefinite period the provisional measures against Russia over the recent doping scandals. After a conference call by its board on…
Moscow, Dec 7 (IANS) Russia proposes that the United Nations should discuss the double standards exercised by international anti-doping agency, which secretly issued permissions for athletes to consume banned performance enhancing drugs, Russia’s UN envoy…
Moscow, Dec 7 (IANS) The operations of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory may be restored by the end of 2017, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko has said. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) revoked its accreditation…
Siliguri, Dec 6 (IANS) H. Jeho of PSPBA beat fellow academy player Chinmaya Somaiya 4-1 to list his maiden sub-junior boys’ crown, while Maharahtra’s Dia Chitale downed Delhi’s Vanshika Bhargava 4-3 for the sub-junior girls…
Windhoek (Namibia), Dec 6 (IANS) Namibian Julius ‘Blue Machine’ Indongo moved up to second in the world boxing ranking after knocking out former IBF world champion Eduard Tryoyanovsky of Russia in 40 seconds in the…
Siliguri, Dec 5 (IANS) Vidhi Ameet Shah defeated Anusha Kutumbale in the Sub-Junior girls singles pre-quarterfinals to advance at the ongoing 78th Cadet and Sub-Junior Table Tennis Nationals at the SMC Stadium here on Monday….
London, Dec 5 (IANS) World No.1 Mark Selby won his second UK Championship snooker title after beating Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-7 in a thrilling final. The 33-year-old becomes only the sixth player to win the World…
Tehran, Dec 5 (IANS) The northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz has been chosen to host the 2017 ParaVolley World Club Cup on May 1-6, according to media reports. “The World Para Volley organisers and the…
Siliguri (West Bengal), Dec 4 (IANS) Payas Jain and Anusha Kutamble were named the top seeds respectively of the sub-junior boys and sub-junior girls section at the 78th Cadet and Sub-Junior Nationals here on Sunday….
New Delhi, Dec 4 (IANS) In a bid to promote sporting culture in the country, Air India here on Sunday organised a Chess-O-Mania tournament. The tournament provided a unique platform to participants, where they competed…
London, Dec 4 (IANS) Ronnie O’Sullivan reached the United Kingdom (UK) Championship final for the sixth time after edging Marco Fu of Hong Kong 6-5 at the Barbican Centre. The “Rocket” will take on World…
Moscow, Dec 4 (IANS) Russian boxer Murat Gassiev beat fellow countryman cruiserweight champion Denis Lebedev to win the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title. Gassiev overpowered Lebedev, knocking him out in round five here on Saturday,…