Governance

A Delhi court on Friday ordered framing of charges in the sexual harassment case filed by female wrestlers against powerful politician Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, whose writ continues to hold sway over the Wrestling Federation of India.

The former WFI president has also been charged with the offence of outraging the modesty of women. 

The court had earlier dismissed an application filed by Brij Bhushan, seeking time for making further submissions on the charges and for further investigation.

Nov 21, 2017 10:11
GUWAHATI: The Boxing Federation of India (BFI) plans to set up of one of the BFI's eight residential satellite academies at Guwahati.
Nov 20, 2017 16:11
LAUSANNE: The  bitter power struggle that has has wracked the International Boxing Association has ended with AIBA president Ching-Kuo Wu agreeing to step down after 11 years at the helm.  The Swiss-based organisation has been riven with in-fighting for months, with Wu pitted against most of the executive committee who failed to remove him through a vote of no confidence tabled in July.
Nov 20, 2017 15:11
NEW DELHI: Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who served as president of the All India Football Federation for almost 20 years before a severe heart attack and stroke he suffered in 2008 put him in a coma, passed way Tuesday at around noon.  Dasmunsi, who was also the first Indian to serve as a match commissioner in a FIFA World Cup game, died at the capital's Indraprastha Apollo Hospital at 12.10pm.
Nov 20, 2017 12:11
NEW DELHI: Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Sunday said that the government had no problem if “Indian cricketers were tested by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)” and not the national body. 
Nov 20, 2017 12:11
NEW DELHI: Shaji Prabhakaran, former FIFA South Central Asia Development Officer, was Sunday elected president of the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA) for a four-year tenure. Besides Prabhakaran, veteran football administrator NK Bhatia was elected treasurer in the DSA’a annual general body held here Sunday.
Nov 20, 2017 11:11
MUMBAI: Bangladesh has initiated a crackdown on illegal betting during the ongoing Bangladesh Premier League. Police raids have been carried out at cricket stadia across the country, and at least 77 people have been 'thrown out of two cricket grounds in Dhaka and Sylhet in the past few days on allegations of betting during the BPL.
Nov 18, 2017 18:11
NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry will soon launch a Request for Proposal (RfP) to hire international consultants for recruiting professionals to execute the flagship Target Olympic Podium (TOP) and Khelo India programmes, Indian Express reports.
Nov 18, 2017 17:11
NEW DELHI: The World Anti-Doping Agency has categorically rejected arguments put forth by the BCCI claiming that WADA's national equivalent NADA has no locus standi in the matter of testing cricketers since the Indian cricket board is an autonomous body affiliated with the ICC. 
Nov 18, 2017 15:11
MUMBAI: They came. They touched his feet. They forfeited. That sums up the farce that was enacted by the contestants at the National Wrestling Championship in Indore when facing two-time Olympic Bronze medallist Sushil Kumar, who incidentally last competed in the nationals in 2008, when he was at the top of his game. 
Nov 17, 2017 17:11
MUMBAI: Madhya Pradesh minister for sports and youth welfare Yashodhara Raje Scindia has said that "developed countries take sport seriously because it is an expression of status, developed and a progressive society, stemming from the essential building block of self worth.”