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Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju to launch unique Fit India Freedom Run on Aug
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 13 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju will launch the largest country-wide run, the Fit India Freedom Run, on August 14.
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Sports Ministry sets Aug 13 deadline for NSFs to respond to sports code qu
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 11 (ANI): The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on Tuesday asked the National Sports Federations (NSFs) to submit a set of Sports Code questionnaire by August 13.
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Kiren Rijiju expresses grief over demise of former footballer Manitombi Si
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 9 (ANI): Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju on Sunday expressed grief over the demise of former footballer Manitombi Singh.
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1 crore youth to engage in cleaning rivers in India: Kiren Rijiju
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju has said that the number of youth who are engaged in cleaning the rivers in India will be increased to one crore from 75 lakhs under National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG).
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Kiren Rijiju urges states to host annual Khelo India Games to strengthen g
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday urged the states to organise State-level Khelo India Games annually with an effort to identify a larger number of grassroot-level talents.
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Scouting committees to be set up to identify U-12 sports talent: Kiren Rij
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 3 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Kiren Rijiju, has said that he will be setting up zonal-level scouting committees to identify U-12 sporting talent from all across the country.
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Virender Sehwag, Sardar Singh in Selection Committee for National Sports A
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on Friday constituted a Selection Committee for selecting awardees for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Dronacharya Awards, Arjuna Awards, Dhyan Chand Awards, Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar Award and Maulana Abul Kalam
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Sports Minister sanctions Rs 5 lakhs to financially distressed Wushu playe
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Kiren Rijiju, has sanctioned a sum of Rs 5 lakhs to Shiksha, a national Wushu champion from Haryana, who came under severe financial distress due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
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J-K students association urges Kiren Rijiju to shift synthetic athletic tr
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], July 26 (ANI): Jammu and Kashmir Students Association on Sunday wrote a letter to Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and urged him to direct J-K Sports Council to shift proposed synthetic athletic track from Shere-Kashmir Sports Stadium to so
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Haryana to host the 4th edition of Khelo India Youth Games
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday announced Haryana as the host state for the fourth edition of Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), which is currently scheduled to take place after
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Fitness awareness helped Indians build immunity during coronavirus pandemi
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): The Fit India Movement launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year has been useful in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic by building fitness and immunity, said Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju. He was addressing the Ministerial Foru
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Sports Ministry partners with UNICEF to promote volunteerism among Indian
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 20 (ANI): The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) signed a Statement of Intent with YuWaah, a multi-stakeholder platform formed by the UNICEF, to work in partnership to promote volunteerism among the youth as well as to help them transition from education and
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