After being dealt a bad hand for long, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Manipur finally got the opportunity to debut in first-class cricket.
Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore speaks to Outlook about Indian athletes’ preparations for the Asian Games, Indian coaches and their salaries and National Sports Code.
A trickle of precious gold at the Asiad could herald a gush of metal. Remarkably, our athletes are backed by self-serving official apathy, callousness and greed.
Along with the six Northeast states—Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Sikkim—Uttarakhand and the Union territory of Puducherry will also debut in the Ranji Trophy, which starts on November 1.
Sports Authority of India Director General Neelam Kapur says it’s working on a public private partnership proposal so that the stadia space could be used in an imaginative manner.
Former India hockey captain Ashok Kumar, who filed the petition in SC in 2016, says the judgment encourages him to push for implementation of Lodha panel provisions in all national sports federations.
Ex-Chief Justice says he is disappointed with Thursday’s judgement that diluted some of the Lodha Committee recommendations for reforms in BCCI and its affiliated associations
Scraps one of the two three-year breaks in a max of nine-year tenure proposed by Lodha Committee. Railways & Services retained as full BCCI members but only players to represent them, not govt officials.
After losing the race for the president’s post to TV personality Rajat Sharma by 517 votes, he said that the machinery used for election was the government’s and hinted that someone might have tinkered with it.
