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Meet Shweta Chandaliya Avadh- the national fencer who turned to become a coach to produce future champions in a comparatively newer sport; keeping pace with India’s notion of emerging as a ‘Sporting Nation’. From where it all started…. Shweta Avadh: Initially I played Handball, Throwball, Kho Kho but I was …

India needs more stories like Divesh Rana’s, where a wide-eyed youngster took to Golf because his school in Faridabad, Haryana, offered it as part of the curriculum. Looking back to his early days in school, Divesh Rana, a pro in his second season on the Professional Golf Tour of India …

Rambai from Haryana, won gold in 100m at the age of 105 in 45.40 seconds by breaking the record of Late Man Kaur. She also won 200m gold in 1:52.17 seconds. In 1917, it was somewhat a different world. India was heavily in the grip of the British, Mahatma Gandhi …

Hari Chand, India’s finest long-distance runner, was two-time Olympian and won double gold at 1978 Bangkok Asian Games. Born in rural Punjab, Hari Chand’s father Jaggu Ram wanted him to become a wrestler. But Hari, who as a boy loved to chase rabbit across the village fields, turned out to …

India returned from Brazil with the best-ever result at Deaflympics. A look back to the eventful tournament through the eyes of Stalin Nagarajan, the coach of India’s Tennis team at the 24th Deaflympics. Stalin Nagarajan, the man behind the growth of many talented young Indian Tennis player including Sania Mirza, …

Nikhat Zareen won gold in 52kg category at the Women’s World Boxing Championship held in Istanbul, thus, becoming the 5th woman from India to clinch the world crown.  25-year-old Nikhat Zareen is a former World junior champion and an Asian bronze medallist. In the final of the Women’s World Boxing …

Harshada Garud fulfilled her father’s dream by becoming the first Indian to win a gold at World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Heraklion in Greece. Harshada Garud, who hails from Vadgaon Maval near Pune, took up the sport at the age of 12 after one day her father saw her lifting …

Ukraine’s Football team, Shakhtar which was displaced from its original home of Donetsk in 2014, has started their peace-themed tour to bring attention to the plight of war victims and to raise money for the war effort. Shakhtar Donetsk opened a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour …

Sabahat Afreen is an international Martial Artist; Jameela Bano is a young Ice Hockey player. Likewise there are other Kashmiri girls who are constantly fighting challenges to emerge as leaders in a society where sports generally belong to men. In 2013, when Sabahat Afreen began doing Martial Arts, she was …

Former India midfielder and East Bengal legend Surajit Sengupta who was an integral part of the Indian football in the 1970s died at the age of 70 in Kolkata. Born on August 30, 1951 at Bengal’s Hoogly district, young Surajit started playing Football while he was studying in Hooghly Branch …