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Protesting wrestlers to hold press conference at 4 pm today
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Wrestlers Bajrang Punia, Sakshee Malikkh, Vinesh Phogat and others protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), alleging "harassment of wrestler by WFI through its arbitrary rules and regulations."
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Ace Indian wrestlers stage protest against WFI at Jantar Mantar
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Punia took to Twitter and wrote, "The federation's job is to support the players, take care of their sporting needs. If there is a problem, it has to be solved. But what to do if the federation itself creates the problem? Now we have to fight, we will not back down."
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India's rank in global perception indices declined due to shallow, opaque
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The working paper 'Why India does poorly on global perception indices: Case study of three opinion-based indices' written by economists Sanjeev Sanyal and Aakanksha Arora, looked at three indices - Freedom in the World Index, Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index and Variety of D
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Highly unfortunate: WFI chairman Brijbhushan on denial of visas to Indian
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
India suffered a major blow in the U-23 World Wrestling Championships after 21 members of the 30-member squad were denied visas to Spain by the Spanish Embassy.
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Researchers investigate drug used to treat botulism disease
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Botulism is a rare but deadly disease, and researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) are looking into a drug that is used to treat neuromuscular weakness as a potential treatment.
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Facing lifetime ban, wrestler Satender Malik seeks retrial to decide CWG s
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Rohtak (Haryana) [India], May 28 (ANI): Banned for life by the Wrestling Federation of India for hitting referee Jagbir Singh, wrestler Satender Malik has refuted allegations against him and has sought a retrial for selection for the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham.
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Banned wrestler Satender Malik accuses referee of putting hands on him fir
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Wrestler Satender Malik from Services said on Wednesday that it was the referee Jagbir Singh who put his hands on him first and started the fight and is completely wrong in making accusations against him.
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Wrestler Satender Malik punches referee at CWG 2022 trials, gets life ban
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 17 (ANI): India wrestler Satender Malik from Services has been banned for lifetime by Wrestling Federation of India for hitting referee Jagbir Singh inside the KD Jadhav Hall at the IGI stadium.
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WFI refutes Bajrang Punia's claim of non-availability of physio
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 26 (ANI): The Wrestling Federation of India on Friday refuted the claim of Bajrang Punia about the non-availability of a physiotherapist for training and competition after his pre-Olympic injury.
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WFI to introduce ranking system in sub-junior category wrestling: Vinod To
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 18 (ANI): Apart from the senior category, the Wrestling Federation of India is all set to introduce ranking culture in the junior category, to strengthen the bench of the sport in the country.
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Inspire Institute of Sport signs High Performance partnership with Wrestli
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Ayodhya (Uttar Pradesh) [India], January 14 (ANI): The Inspire Institute of Sport (IIS) and the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) on Friday announced the signing of an agreement that would see the institute become a High-Performance Partner to the WFI for an initial period of three years.
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WFI President defends slapping young boy, says it was 'case of age fraud'
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): BJP MP and Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has become a major talking point after a video went viral on social media in which he can be seen slapping a young wrestler.
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