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Kiren Rijiju, Anurag Thakur express grief over demise of Chetan Chauhan
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 16 (ANI): Union Youth Affairs and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and Union Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur expressed grief over the demise of former cricketer Chetan Chauhan, who passed away in Gurugram on Sunday. He was 73.
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Railways to fully support implementation of 'Fit India Freedom Run'
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 14 (ANI): Indian Railways has decided to fully support 'Fit India Freedom Run', an initiative introduced by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, which will commence from August 15 and will continue till October 2.
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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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Babita Phogat, Kavita Devi appointed as deputy directors by Haryana govt
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 31 (ANI): The Haryana government has appointed Indian wrestler Babita Phogat and Kabaddi player Kavita Devi as deputy directors in the Sports and Youth Affairs Department.
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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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