Golf set to make a quiet debut at the National Games on Thursday

[ad_1] Some of the top professional and amateur golfers will be seen in action at the Kensville Golf and Country Club over the next four days as the discipline makes a quiet debut in the National Games on Thursday. Altogether, 71 players, including 38 men and 33 women, will try their best to ensure a […]

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National Games: Ram Baboo breaks national record in men’s 35km race walk

[ad_1] This is the fifth national record set at the Games, and the third in track and field events This is the fifth national record set at the Games, and the third in track and field events Uttar Pradesh’s Ram Baboo shattered the national record in the men’s 35km race walk event en route winning […]

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Morning Digest: October 4, 2022

[ad_1] AFSPA retained in parts of Assam, Arunachal, Nagaland, and Manipur for another six months The uncertainty around the culmination of the Naga peace process is one of the reasons that led to the Armed Forces (Special) Powers Act (AFSPA) being retained in some parts of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal Pradesh for another six months, according […]

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Players appeal to National Games authorities to conduct handball

[ad_1] A group of handball players have appealed to the authorities concerned to consider their case and give them an opportunity to compete in the ongoing National Games here. A group of handball players have appealed to the authorities concerned to consider their case and give them an opportunity to compete in the ongoing National […]

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Sambo Lapung breaks Vikas Thakur’s three-year-old clean and jerk record

[ad_1] Claim the men’s 96kg gold medal at the weightlifting arena of the National Games here on Monday Claim the men’s 96kg gold medal at the weightlifting arena of the National Games here on Monday Arunachal Pradesh’s Sambo Lapung conquered his love for fast food to break Services’ lifter Vikas Thakur’s three-year-old clean and jerk […]

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Morning Digest: October 3, 2022

[ad_1] Brazil presidential race goes to Lula-Bolsonaro runoff Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright Sunday in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office. Poverty, […]

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Fancied archers fall by the wayside

[ad_1] Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and V. Jyothi Surekha fail in individual competitions Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and V. Jyothi Surekha fail in individual competitions On a day of upsets, seasoned compound archers Abhishek Verma, Rajat Chauhan and V. Jyothi Surekha bit the dust in the individual elimination competitions at the Sanskardham archery ground here […]

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Antim underlines her class in the women’s 53kg

[ad_1] World under-20 champion Antim Panghal displayed her class to bag the women’s 53kg gold medal in the wrestling arena of the National Games here on Sunday. Giving a series of dominating performances, Antim lived up to her reputation and warmed herself up for the World under-23 championships in Spain later this month. Antim outclassed […]

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Lather upsets Ajay to take the 81kg gold

[ad_1] Jasvir and Arokiya take the bragging rights in the women’s 64kg and 76kg categories  Jasvir and Arokiya take the bragging rights in the women’s 64kg and 76kg categories  Deepak Lather beat two-time Commonwealth championships gold medallist and fellow Services lifter Ajay Singh to claim his first gold medal in the men’s 81kg weight category […]

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