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Ace cueist Pankaj Advani tests positive for COVID-19
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka)[India], January 10 (ANI): Pankaj Advani, who has won multiple world championships in billiards and snooker, has tested positive for COVID-19.
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Viswanathan Anand lauds Bharath Subramaniyam as teenager becomes India's 7
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI): Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand on Monday congratulated fourteen-year-old Bharath Subramaniyam as the teenager became the 73rd Grandmaster of India.
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World Champion Malika Handa continues her fight for 'equal rights'
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 4 (ANI): Malika Handa, a specially-abled Chess player on Tuesday reiterated her call for having equal rights after she was denied a job and cash reward by the Punjab sports minister because the state doesn't have a policy for deaf sports.
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World champion Malika Handa's mother slams Punjab government for not fulfi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Jalandhar (Punjab) [India], January 3 (ANI): Malika Handa's mother Renu Handa has slammed the Punjab government and its Sports Minister Pargat Singh for not giving her daughter a job and cash reward promised to her by the earlier Amarinder Singh led government.
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World Champion Malika Handa 'hurt' after being denied job, cash reward by
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 2 (ANI): Malika Handa, a specially-abled Chess player on Sunday said that Punjab Sports Minister Pargat Singh informed her that the state government can't give her a job and cash reward as the government does not have any such policy for deaf sports.
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Andhra Pradesh CM felicitates Kidambi Srikanth, announces 5 acres of land
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], December 29 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday felicitated badminton player Kidambi Srikanth for becoming the first Indian male shuttler to win a silver medal at the World Championships.
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Para-Badminton National C'ship gold will give me lot of confidence for Asi
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 27 (ANI): World No 7 Nitesh Kumar, who won two gold medals in the recently concluded fourth Para-Badminton National Championship, feels the victories against Tokyo Paralympic medallist will give a lot of confidence for next year's Asian Games and Wor
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Uttrakhand CM awards shuttler Lakshya Sen with Rs 15 lakh
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], December 26 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami felicitated Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen for his breakthrough performance at the recently concluded BWF World Championship 2021 in Huelva in Spain.
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Introduction of new medal events in Paris 2024, 1st step towards gender eq
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], December 26 (ANI): Reigning para-badminton world champion Manasi Joshi feels the introduction of women's singles SL3, women's singles SH6 category in the Paris Paralympics is a first step towards establishing gender equality in the Games.
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Srikanth-Kean Yew face-off on card as India Open 2022 draws announced
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 23 (ANI): Fresh from their heroics at the recent 2021 World Championships, newly-crowned champion Loh Kean Yew and silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth are likely to meet each other once again at the India Open 2022, organised by the Badminton Association of India (B
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Always a dream to win a World Championship medal: Kidambi Srikanth
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 22 (ANI): Kidambi Srikanth became the first Indian badminton player to win a silver medal in the men's singles event at the recently BWF World Championship 2021 in Huelva in Spain. The 28-year-old shuttler from Guntur missed out on gold but is still happy to make
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BWF Rankings: Kidambi Srikanth re-enters top-10, Lakshya Sen moves to 17
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], December 22 (ANI): India's Kidambi Srikanth has jumped four places to re-enter the world's top 10 in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.
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