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World Kabaddi League players may be bann...

World Kabaddi League players may be banned

PUNE: The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) is going the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) way. Apart from starting an IPL-style league for the sport (Pro Kabaddi) the apex body for sport in India said they will not allow players participating in ‘unrecognised’... read more »

Rugby returns to Olympic programme at Na...

Rugby returns to Olympic programme at Nanjing

Rugby will make its return to the Olympic programme after 92 years at the second Youth Olympic Games scheduled to open in Nanjing on Saturday in the form of rugby sevens ahead of its reappearance at the Olympic Games in Rio De Janeiro in 2016. In 2009, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)... read more »

No suitable candidate for Khel Ratna

No suitable candidate for Khel Ratna

The Awards Committee, under the chairmanship of former India cricket skipper Kapil Dev, has not found any of the six players, who had applied for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, suitable for the country’s highest sporting honour.  This is only the second time since the inception of the award in... read more »

Stuart Broad tweets picture of Batman an...

Stuart Broad tweets picture of Batman and Bane masks ahead of Oval Test as ...

Broad will follow the example of footballers such as Paul Gascoigne and wear a protective face mask to ensure that he can play in the final Test at The Oval. The nasty blow Broad took when he top-edged a bouncer from Varun Aaron into the gap between the peak of his helmet and grille during... read more »

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Finally, there was an effort to change the poor image the India team had cultivated of late, by leaving for the Asia Cup, World T20 and last week’s brief tour to Bangladesh without... read more »

British Formula 4: Arjun Maini takes maiden win at Snetterton

Arjun Maini won his first race in the British Formula 4 Championship at Snetterton, leading from lights to flag. The Indian driver started the race on pole and led every one of the nine laps of the... read more »