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UK New Year's Honours List 2022 Out: Tony Blair, Covid experts and Olympia
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
London [UK], January 1(ANI): Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair will be knighted with the highest possible rank in the list, Buckingham Palace announced on Friday.
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CM Patnaik felicitates para-Olympians for their Performance in Tokyo Para
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 25 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has felicitated the Para badminton players who won the medals at the recent Tokyo Paralympics and congratulated them on their spectacular performance in Tokyo.
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Sports Ministry approves Rs 8.16 Lakh for fencer Bhavani Devi to compete i
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Tokyo Olympian and the first-ever Indian fencer to represent the country at the Olympics, Bhavani Devi is set for participation in four international competitions this 2022.
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Olympian Renjith Maheshwary approaches Kerala HC against withholding Arjun
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], December 4 (ANI): Olympian Renjith Maheshwary has approached the Kerala High Court challenging a press release issued by the Secretary, Department of Sports withholding the Arjuna Award conferred to him in 2013 for athletics. After considering the plea, Single Bench o
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Bhutia, Anju Bobby, Viren Rasquinha added to Mission Olympics Cell to boos
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Indian football legend Bhaichung Bhutia, Olympian Anju Bobby George and former hockey captain Viren Rasquinha were among the athletes included in the Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) on Thursday.
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Neeraj Chopra, other Olympians and Paralympians join unique school visit c
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 1 (ANI): Responding to the clarion call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' earlier this year, India's Olympians and Paralympians are set to interact with school children.
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Chinese tennis star's disappearance is warning for Olympics, says rights g
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New York [US], November 21 (ANI): The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised concern about the disappearance of three-time Olympian Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai.
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Harpic Mission Paani launches India's first-ever preamble for sustainable
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi (Delhi) [India], November 19 (ANI/NewsVoir): Harpic Mission Paani launched India's first-ever 'Sanitation for All Pledge and Preamble: Clean Water, Sustainable Sanitation' with Minister of Jal Shakti - Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and five prominent women leaders - Kausar Munir (Lyrici
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Olympian fencer CA Bhavani Devi conferred with Arjuna Award by Anurag Thak
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 15 (ANI): Tokyo Olympian C.A. Bhavani Devi, who became the first Indian to represent the country in fencing at the Games, has been conferred the Arjuna Award on Monday for the year 2020 for her exemplary contribution to fencing.
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Olympian Lalremsiami to lead India women's hockey team in Junior WC
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 15 (ANI): Hockey India on Monday named the 18-member junior women's team who will vie for honours at the FIH Hockey Women's Junior World Cup South Africa 2021. The event slated to begin on December 5 will witness 16 top teams from across the globe battle for the t
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Punjab Sports Minister launches biography of Olympian Gurbachan Singh Rand
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], November 14 (ANI): Punjab Sports Minister Pargat Singh launched the biography of Olympic athlete Gurbachan Singh Randhawa titled 'Uddna Baaz' penned by eminent sports writer Navdeep Singh Gill on Sunday.
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Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu awarded Padma Bhushan
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 8 (ANI): Olympian badminton player PV Sindhu was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third-highest civilian award.
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